all images from various sources
Quality Peoples
Sven Hoffman
a selection of photos from the various travels of Sven Hoffman. beautiful black and whites. from personal work to street photography to commercial work, Hoffman’s aesthetic is the unbroken thread. great stuff.
Following this inner passion, Sven has spent a large part of the past years on the road – always combining work with personal travel – catching bottom-up views of various cultures in a snap-shot. For his latest project “On the Road Journal”, he travelled the world photographing “little stories about great people and places” celebrating the strength of nations with ethnic diversity. Based in Hamburg and Venice, CA, Sven has worked for an eclectic list of clients. His photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Stern View, Blue, and Surfers. His work has been exhibited in Hamburg, Munich and L.A.
Obsessives: Soda
John Nese is the proprietor of Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lover’s destination. About 500 pops line the shelves, sourced lovingly by John from around the world. John has made it his mission to keep small soda-makers afloat and help them find their consumers. Galco’s also acts as a distributor for restaurants and bars along the West Coast, spreading the gospel of soda made with cane sugar (no high-fructose corn syrup if John can avoid it). – Chow
I posted this video last week in an image pile up, but this guy’s message has been playing through my head all week. it deserves it’s own post. It goes beyond ‘soda pop’. something about his attention to craftsmanship, his small business ethic, definitely anti-establishment, anti high fructose corn syrup. I’d love to sit around and talk politics with this guy. inspirational.
DEUS – THE HOUSE OF SIMPLE PLEASURES
DEUS – THE HOUSE OF SIMPLE PLEASURES 300 pages of hardbacked, laminated, dust jacketed, internally combusted, gravity fed, hand crafted, word smithed goodness ready to jet into your sweaty mits. A visual history of the first 5 years of Deus Ex Machina and the bikes, boards, beats, broads and beefhearts that have passed this way. 300x300x30mm, 2.3kg
Dustjacket: matt laminated artpaper double folded into a poster – Cover: Uncoated 250gsm black paper over board, white foil stamped – Contents: 128gsm artpaper
Rubi in the Rough: San Sebastian, Spain
Rubi in the Rough: San Sebastian, Spain
Danielle Rubi (the other half of Rubi-Dentzel) has been tapped by Opening Ceremony to write for their blog:
DANIELLE RUBI is a photographer and EPICURE based in Paris, who has agreed to share her travels and adventures with OC readers. Get ready for some truly awe-inspiring and mouth-watering reading…. San Sebastian is considered one of the most respected gastronomic towns in the world. It has the highest concentration of Michelin starred restaurants (16) and yet it’s super mellow and unpretentious. It’s a small surf town with an INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, incredible food culture and a ton of pride.
to the crazy ones
This is just a small list of some of the many surfyish blogs we’ve been following recently (in no particular order). so many viewpoints on surfing and surfy lifestyles, so many different geo-locations, so much good, bad, awesome, punk, indifferent writing and wicked photography, videos, artwork, shapes, tints, experiments, etc…
thank you all, please don’t stop
surfbox, eye sea everything, the endless bummer, Harmless Neighborhood Eccentric, coágulo, the goons are dead, the magic bus, ryan field, kameron brown, jason baffa, dis•place•men•tia, salty eyes, on the loose, thomas stockwell, first point malibu, lo tech hi joy, simple machine, the boda surfamily , admwlkr, el nieto de greg noll, look and sea, surfbird, surf a pig, wave slide, the black and white life, jaidivision, swallowtail society, born to lose, almond surfboards, .tv/dion, hye tyde, runamuk, lost stolen or ripped, a hull new world, breaks selection, salt stained eyes, wildering, critical slide, surfy surfy, surf knot, oceans, waves and beaches, the oh sea, hydrodynamica, daily bread, inkawaves, warbles, bogus worm’s town, surfbird and many many more.
James Raitliff
a selection of black + white and color illustrations/paintings from James Raitliff. His abstract works are particularly emotive and raw.
