Here are handful of images from a recent trip to Japan. These are from Yokohama, Kamakura, and the Shibuya district of Tokyo. This beautiful country and it’s people live where ancient meets modern, creating a fusion of culture which is unique to the land of the rising sun.
I’m showing some work this Thursday evening, May 3rd, at Aloha Sunday Supply Company along with two other talented photographers, Eric Warner and James Tull. Aloha Sunday is located at 3118 University Ave. North Park, CA 92104. Show starts at 7, come check us out!
Created in 1979, Moonlight Glassing is a special sort of place where surfboards have been decorated, glassed, polished, and sanded for over 30 years. Understated and unpretentious, the factory has put the finishing touches on thousands of surfboards for pros such as Rob Machado and Taylor Knox and labels such as Channel Islands and the Campbell Brothers. They specialize in custom color, airbrush, pinlines, resin tint, channels and fin set-ups for seasoned veterans and backyard shapers alike. Gary Stuber is Moonlight’s laminator and is responsible for  applying the fiberglass to the shapers creation giving it both function and fashion. Gary is a master craftsman and has probably glassed more surfboards than anyone, which is no minor accomplishment.
many surfboards have passed though these doors...
if these walls could talk...
surfboard blanks
getting started
map of dreams...
garys ratios
at work on a red beauty
trimming cured fiberglass
resin, fiberglass, and craftsmanship
Moonlight laminate
Gary Stuber, laminator and master craftsman
Chris Christenson is a California based surfboard shaper who apprenticed under the legendary Dick Brewer and now shapes under his own label building boards for big wave chargers like Greg Long. Greg won the most prestigious big-wave invitational, the 2009 Eddie Aikau, at Wiamea Bay on one of Chris’s boards. Chris also shapes longboards and shortboards with fine craftmenship and attention to detail.
board rack
glasser Ninoa Speier’s mixing buckets
blanks
vintage logo
orders
still life on shaping bay wall with picture of San O
cc at work
mavericks gun
just liked this one
shaka
Recently I spent part of the day hanging out in the studio with artist Alex Weinstein. Alex is a painter and sculptor residing in Manhattan Beach, California whose work has shown in galleries worldwide.  His work has also been featured in publications such as the LA Times, Surfer’s Journal, and Elle Decor. Alex’s work could best be described as atmospheric and ethereal. It seems to hover and float in this mysterious “space”  between the concrete and the abstract. However, there is one thing that is clear, Alex and his work are deeply infused with the ocean.
alex
weinstein
vague
bunny
swell
work
Formerly of New York, artist Julie Goldstein, makes her home in Cardiff by the Sea, California where she takes inspiration from the ocean and her life experiences. Her work is characterized by a physical, almost masculine, dynamic in terms of materials and process, yet remains uniquely feminine in it’s subjects, colors, and aesthetic. This wonderful contradiction collides with her narratives, which are  infused by a colorful cast of characters such as heroines and villains, teamriders on surfboards, and pirates on the high seas. She has exhibited globally and her most recent show is on display at the Pacific Surf Gallery in Cardiff. Check out Julie’s work, where adventurous heroines swim and play in the sea while others escape on motorbikes…
new batch of prints line drying
detail
Julie at her Cardiff by the Sea studio
freshly inked woodcut
le femme
smaller works for "sea songs" show
color palette
anchored
rollers and paint
studio still life with knife
fresh paint
section of studio wall
glide redux
Local lineup one winter’s day… a nod to some of my favorite artists fused with a hint of nostalgia
Lifestyle shot in January 2011 Surfer Magazine of Cyrus Sutton and Ryan Burch at Cardiff reef filming for “Stoked and Broke”.
Andy Irons tribute cover by Jason Reposar
Cyrus and Ryan filming for Stoked and Broke
Here’s a portrait from a shoot with Cal, AKA Kid Creature, featured in Australia’s Stab magazine.
Kid Creature
Kevin Roche Photography now on Dripbook.com! Portraits of legends such as Renny Yater, Gerry Lopez, Rusty Preisendorfer and young guns such as Cyrus Sutton, Kid Creature, and Chris Del Moro. Other portfolios include lifestyle, street photography, and iphone captures. The collection also features images from Brazil, Hawaii, and Southern California. Check it out!
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