I recently spent a couple days with Carl Ekstrom at his home in San Diego. I wrote about my time with him and my experiences making surfboards for the latest issue of @acidsurfing - Thank you to @miloclaytonkim for the introduction. Carl scrounged around a filing cabinet and pulled out an old picture of Woody on a stormy day with no one out - he looked like a caveman riding some fallen over tree, more like a plank than a board. Brawlic shoulders slumped down, big mitts, gliding - it made me think of the monkeys and the monolith from 2001 Space Odyssey - a herald of progress. Carl recounted Bob Simmons tragic death at Windansea - another friend threatening suicide and driving his car off the cliff and plunging it staight into the lineup. He talked about glassing boards for Pat Curren and getting ripped off by Hansen, talking to Andy Warhol about surfboards in the movies. Andy said the bigger they are the more they look like art. He told me these stories twice, once per trip, and I listened twice, with intention.

Earlier this year I got to travel to La Clusaz in the French Alps and spend a couple days with @manon_loschi for a cover story for @hardpackmagazine - Spent some time with Manon’s crew digging around in the back country and exploring the small alpine village. Editor: @zachseely Creative Directors: @bdunne_ @_ktokunaga Designer: @_chrissant

A few more of Kyle MacLachlan for @cultured_mag Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson Fashion Editor-at-Large: @alipew Styling: @rebeccarams Grooming: @livio19 Executive Production: @nicoleprokes On-Set Production: @blairez Production Company: @blondprodn

Very honored to have spent the day with Kyle MacLachlan for @cultured_mag Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson Fashion Editor-at-Large: @alipew Styling: @rebeccarams Grooming: @livio19 Executive Production: @nicoleprokes On-Set Production: @blairez Production Company: @blondprodn

The North Face Red Box FW25 Creative Direction: @studio.saunders Art Direction: @hugochristianslane Producer: @ellieeloise Director: @jeroendankers Director of Photography: @louislustermann Styling: @zoeyradfordscott Production Company: Open Range

Images and spreads to visually illustrate the moving image: the place of sounds in cinema for @presentspacemag - words by Eve Rogers. “Sound in cinema carries a distinct narrative charge, capable of expressing nuance, memory, and emotional undercurrents that image and dialogue may only gesture toward. Composers and sound designers create an aural language that shapes experience from within the frame. In this liminal space between hearing and feeling, sound becomes narrative in its own right.” Thank you @duque.j and @nimahabibzadeh

I recently had the chance to travel to Mexico City to spend a day with Graciela Iturbide at her home for @apartamentomagazine - thank you as always @robbiewhitehead and @laurafradep

Last couple images of Preston and Devon for @another_man Pre Prom Styling: @bellakavanagh Hair: @hikaruhirano Make-up: @zaheersyn Set design: @codycr Casting: @erikaangel_ and @jadesworldonline Production: @cheynacarr and @konrad_mirko at @servicio.represents Editor-in-chief: @elliegracecumming Art director: @linakutsovskaya Editor: @jackstuartmills Group editorial director: @jeffersonhack Models: Luke Frohoff, Edgar Menendez, Michael Bernard, @devonknopp @prestonnmann @shanegoldsmithh and @ulius__

Edgar for @another_man Pre Prom Styling: @bellakavanagh Hair: @hikaruhirano Make-up: @zaheersyn Set design: @codycr Casting: @erikaangel_ and @jadesworldonline Production: @cheynacarr and @konrad_mirko at @servicio.represents Editor-in-chief: @elliegracecumming Art director: @linakutsovskaya Editor: @jackstuartmills Group editorial director: @jeffersonhack Models: Luke Frohoff, Edgar Menendez, Michael Bernard, @devonknopp @prestonnmann @shanegoldsmithh and @ulius__

Pre Prom @another_man Volume ll, Issue lV Styling: @bellakavanagh Hair: @hikaruhirano Make-up: @zaheersyn Set design: @codycr Casting: @erikaangel_ and @jadesworldonline Production: @cheynacarr and @konrad_mirko at @servicio.represents Editor-in-chief: @elliegracecumming Art director: @linakutsovskaya Editor: @jackstuartmills Group editorial director: @jeffersonhack Models: @maximusrogerss @prestonnmann @shanegoldsmithh @ulius__ @devonknopp , Edgar Menendez, Michael Bernard and Luke Frohoff

Bodie and Luke for @another_man Volume II, Issue IV. I snapped my ankle in half when I jumped down some stairs on my bike and landed funny. A few days before prom I had surgery - they opened up my ankle and drilled in a few screws to keep everything in place. I had a big cast up to my knee, I was on crutches and had a bad haircut. I wore a suit - the pants grabbed my ass in a way that made me self conscious. I asked my friend Star to be my date. She had red hair and was taller than me - she was still getting used to having grown a couple feet the year before. Mac Dre was big then - he preached about the nation of Thizzlam and the like - the kids from Marin city wore XXL pro club tall tees and Girbuad jeans with the MF + G straps along the legs. Some of the white kids did the same. I had my moment. Everyone I knew took ecstasy - it was so big that Carlos the security guard checked everyone’s pupils before school dances. Our prom was on a boat that floated in the bay. On the way to the dock we all got on a party bus - I had taken a few extra percocet that I had been prescribed after the surgery. People were drinking Carlo Rossi wine straight from big glass jugs - we all thought it was cool because E-40 rapped about it. For a moment on the party bus I forgot about my ankle with the pins and the plates and the big scar - I forgot about the crutches and the cast. I had some orange mickey mouse pills stuffed down my cast. I got through security no problem and split the pills with my buddy Will. When they hit us we were sitting on the bow of the boat, under the bay bridge. Styling: @bellakavanagh Hair: @hikaruhirano Make-up: @zaheersyn Set design: @codycr Casting: @erikaangel_ and @jadesworldonline Production: @cheynacarr and @konrad_mirko at @servicio.represents Editor-in-chief: @elliegracecumming Art director: @linakutsovskaya Editor: @jackstuartmills Group editorial director: @jeffersonhack Models: @maximusrogerss @prestonnmann @shanegoldsmithh @ulius__ @devonknopp , Edgar Menendez, Michael Bernard and Luke Frohoff

Paul McCarthy contact prints for the cover of @flashartmagazine Thank you @avventuroso