Current Issue:

33.5

On the Cover: J Riddle, on location in El Salvador, earning stunt rates via period-correct positioning and equipage during the filming of John Milius’ Big Wednesday. For more on the writer/director’s filmography and impact on wider pop culture, read “Child of the Bomb” on page 70. Photograph by Merkel/Lost & Found.

In this issue, we also open a South Oz shooter’s catalog, dive for bluewater gold in the California Bight, glean wisdom from a revered surfing elder, conduct recon in the Eastern Mediterranean, and more. For the full 140-page experience, pick up a copy of TSJ 33.5.



Features

Page 16

ESSAY: RELIGIOUS NONE

Soul surfing, from the Hawaiian kahunas to Ram Dass.

Words by Ellie Duke

Page 24

INTERVIEW: BY THE HORNS

Joey Cabell on his impromptu bull fight, speed sailing, skiing, the power of commitment, and shaping and riding the White Ghost.

Interview by Beau Flemister

Page 32

THE LAST URCHIN DIVER

Surfer and bottom-scratcher Conner Rhoads is one of the youngest holdouts in a shrinking old-world trade. Join him for a dive through the tides of change.

Words by Tony John Andrews | Photos by Corban Campbell

Page 42

KANGAROOS, SNOW LEOPARDS & STEEL-CUT LINES

Wayne Lynch to Kelly Slater. Bells to the backcountry. Seventies soul trim to aughts slabs. Aussie photographer Steve Ryan full-frames Victoria.

Words by Luke Kennedy

Page 62

DRIP DRY

Artist Dan McCarthy and the lightness of process.

Words by Jamie Brisick

Page 70

CHILD OF THE BOMB

Screenwriter and director John Milius’ Cold War–era films captivated and confounded audiences, infuriated critics, and were defined by his brilliant dialogue, his violent worldview, and his fascination with loners, lost worlds, and long pointbreaks.

Words by Peter Maguire

Page 96

PORTFOLIO: Isaac Zoller

Stills and movement from Laguna Beach and wider Pacific environs.

Introduction by David Zimmerle

Page 114

SEARCHING FOR ARCADIA

Kepa Acero and photographer Marc Durà trace a path of antiquity through Lebanon, Tunisia, and Egypt, where the wind, the swell, the landscape, and the bodies politic can flip on a dime.

Page 126

UNDERCURRENTS

Laura Enever at Shipstern Bluff, remembering writer Bryan di Salvatore, the Baja Sur experience, various ephemera from John Milius’ filmography, and more.

Purist surf energy from Page One to close-of-book, delivered directly to your door.

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