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GENERAL VENEER
How a timber processing facility in Los Angeles became the nexus between surfing’s balsa revolution and the U.S. aerospace industry.
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There’s a certain patch of reef that stretches for hundreds of miles, and it has a reputation for a lot of activity. People lose fish as they’re reeling them in. We saw feeding frenzies from the ski, and even got circled.
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LANDSCAPE PAINTERS
In the bone-blasted outback of Western Australia, the desert becomes you.
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ACTION HERO
John Millei drags the surfing experience—still dripping—back to the studio killing floor.
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COCKTAIL HOUR
Photographer John Hook shoots the lights out in Waikiki.
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THE BACK-FORTY OF THE RIVIERA
At Home With Jeff Johnson.
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EVERY DESERT HIDES A WELL
In the late 1970s, a crew of California surf-skaters got wind of the Central Arizona Project, bringing the concept of a surf trip to the Sonoran Desert.
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THE EYES OF RA’IVAVAE
Described as “Bora-Bora with wind,” a French Polynesian waypoint in the Austral Islands offers raw-boned nature, zero luxury, and decent odds of reef pass solitude.
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PORTFOLIO: NOLAN HALL
Spooning surfing’s decisive moments from the soup of our rebel origins.