The second annual Irving Fish Festival sponsored by Hook Fish, Yoga Beach, Mollusk Surf Shop, and 3 Fish Studios, is primed once again to go off. With art, food, music, beer, a beach clean-up, nearby film screening, and solid waves forecast for the event, this is one ocean-based block party that truly has it all. […]
Live Grateful Dead jam from the 70s, animation, and ocean based storytelling combine in Whale Tail for a mesmerizing few minutes of cartoon surf trippyness. Created and distributed by San Francisco based film teacher, Paul Ferraris, this short might pair well with a lava lamp, black lighting, and a fine strain of cannabis. But to […]
Thomas Cambell has been inspiring minds within the surf and skate world with a diverse array of mediums for decades. Surf films, photography, ceramics, textiles, and board graphics are a few of the modes he’s used while expanding his ever evolving repertoire of expression. His upcoming show at Mollusk, SF offers a glimpse at some […]
There’s never been a point in time when photography was as ubiquitous as it is right now. Seemingly everyone has a smartphone nearby at all times. We’re snapping photos of everything, at all hours, and posting it everywhere, immersing ourselves in a sea of imagery. So what makes a photograph stand out? What makes it […]
The cosmos is all encompassing. According to Merrium-Webster it is “an orderly harmonious systematic universe” or “a complex orderly self-inclusive system.” By titling his new show We Are The Cosmos, Thomas Campbell appears to be reaching for an expression of universal connectivity. This theme manifests in the show through an exhibition of a diversity of mediums and […]
The description for OSMO THROMBO – The Lo-Fi B-Movie Of Hi-Fi Shredding on the Volcom Youtube page can’t be outdone so we’ll just quote it here. OSMO THROMBO is a “lo-fi, cult, surf action, adventure, dramatic, sci-fi, fantasy, bro-mantic, comedy, feel good, B-movie of outer limits hi-fi shredding, and interstellar tube time with Ozzie Wright, Mitch Coleborn & […]
As if it wasn’t radical enough that Courtney Conlogue has been winning events and vying for a world title on the Women’s WSL Championship Tour since she qualified in 2011, she’s also a talented artist. With a painting on exhibition in Women of Surfing: Art & History and the onset of the 2017 Vans US Open of […]
Flyers for events that don’t exist, fake books with intriguing titles, posters, record covers, skateboard graphics, murals, and music are a handful of the mediums Nathaniel Russell is known for. Let Me Be It, the upcoming show opening in July at Mollusk Surf Shop in San Francisco, will mainly feature prints and wood cut-outs. The […]
“In this crowded world the surfer can still seek and find the perfect day, the perfect wave, and be alone with the surf and his thoughts” – John Severson Surfing lost a culture shaping legend this week. John Severson was the original influencer, founding SURFER Magazine in the early 1960s as a follow-up to a photo based booklet […]
Andy Davis is known for creating stylish surf-steeped animation based imagery that hones in on the essence of wave riding and its surrounding culture. Powerful lines swoop through his work, culminating in seemingly simple abstract compositions that flow through vibrant colors straight off the canvas. His subject matter includes figures crouched in styled out tube stance, rail […]