Cover design for the book @ode_to_travel_ by the incomparable @patricktrefz
Excitement and pride to see the book on a new journey in a unique place like the @ofrparis bookstore.
@patricktrefz writes how early cooking lessons from his mother and a missive of exploration from his father led to 30+ years of travel, a tenure at @surfer_magazine , analysis of his friends through documentary, and the idea that food might leave the most indelible imprint of a culture. It’s all chronicled in his latest book @ode_to_travel_
Creative direction by @pensandoenblanco #creativedirection #artdirection #graphicdesign #diseñografico #pensandoenblanco #totaldesign
From the Aether: Early 90ies Video still from our Santa Cruz Surf TV show on Channel 71 @satellitevideo_sc public access with Robert. The broadcast was a DIY, local surf program titled ‘Sandbar’. Uncle Euy made us a killer logo @eugenedovy …we filmed mainly in town as both Robert and I only had bicycles for transportation. Robert a 10 speed, mine was a rusty old Schwinn. From the Wharf to the Ave was our territory. I lost sight of Robert wonder where he went ... Interestingly enough, out of all of this came a decade and a half later ‘Bicycle Trip’ (2005). A 16mm short film starring @petergaraway riding his bike around Santa Cruz County. It is based on a dream I had, reflecting on my riding days. beautiful camera 🎥 work via @romanbellisario on his Arriflex. Edit by the Diamond Brothers @jasondiamond & @joshdiamond 🎬💥— ——- Speaking of which: Bicycle Trip will be projected on the big screen during the @bicyclefilmfestival coming to the @tanneryartscenter town next month.
Looking forward to the kickoff event for the 25th anniversary of Outstanding in the Field on June 6th. I have been documenting Jim’s work for over two decades, and it never gets old! From his brother’s apple farm in Happy Valley to metropolitan rooftop dinners in San Francisco, environmental awareness projects highlighting the potential destruction of the Mundaka rivermouth @manin_y_sus_muchachos to art installations in Berlin @langbrett.berlin and NYC @mayslesdocumentarycenter — the journey has been endlessly inspiring. @out_inthefield
I think of my early mentor, Lindé B. Martin, a German-born artist who worked from her home studio in Santa Cruz, California. She shaped my practice as an artist, photographer, and filmmaker in lasting ways.
Linde worked with a large palette knife, pushing with force, direct and physical—the heavy easel would jump back to the booming sounds of Wagner as she pressed her large palette knife against the canvas with uberstrength .
Born in Germany in 1930, she left her country on her own for Paris, where she studied art and modeled for painters at the Sorbonne University. In Biarritz, she continued both and became a long-distance ocean swimmer— pre wetsuit that was - coating her body in tar and remaining in the cold Atlantic for hours.
She came to the United States in 1953 and settled by the sea in Santa Cruz. The water stayed with her. Her paintings and glass works entered collections around the world.
From her, I learned color, composition, and the discipline of paint, along with a sensibility for food and living. She gave equal weight to small and large things—a meal, a garden, a room. Clear-eyed, unsentimental, exact. What she made mattered. How she lived did, too.
Peter Cole, math professor, at his Sunset Beach home. The Duke, Tom Blake, Bob Simmons—all friends and acquaintances of his. He has ridden some of the biggest waves ever surfed. @christianbeamish scribed the article for @surfersjournal - I had the honor to take these photographs of him. Shot on Pentax 67, 120 Ilford HP5. Handmade prints via my mentor @r._r._jones_photography
Dog Days of Summer- with the hot weather and tiny waves it seems like winter has come to an end. An ode to better years: rushing the peak like it’s three-foot Weasel Reef, @peter_mel attempts to backdoor Mav’s. An integral part of the first wave of Santa Cruz hellmen to surf Mavericks, Mel is still a well-established presence
there on every significant swell
@shawnbarneybarronart living the art life. Barney made sure to care for the town’s old Pepe the turtle, as much as he cared for us. He’d feed Pepe a banana each day, and the giant tortoise, like the kind Darwin once marveled at in a sparsely vegetated lava field, simply cruised the white sand beaches, teaching us a lesson to not take life so seriously. Some days, as the sun melted below, I remember Barney stooped over tables outdoors, or stretched across his bed, painting vibrant curvatures of abstract bodies, or vivid, other-worldly landscapes and star patterns—something he was born to do.
Upper Pliocene siltstone and sandstone bodies in Monterey Canyon correlate with the Pomponio Member of the Purisima Formation in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
December 4th, 2007, Ghost Trees, looming ominous on the day Carmel charger Peter Davi died paddle surfing here.
