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097 | The Malloy brothers.

The Malloy brothers' love of adventure has brought them to remote beaches all over the globe, earned them spots at the top of the competitive surfing world, and fueled their endless exploration. Click here to read the full Story.

095 | Sea us now.

This short brought to view by the African American female surf collective Textured Waves made in collaboration with swimwear brand The Seea. Seen through the lens of African American filmmaker Bethany Mollenkof. This film serves as an inspirational piece to future generations, that despite history we can create pathways for what we want to see for our selves, now and in the future.

094 | Submariner.

Todd Glasers love for underwater photography. Todd is a San Diego-born photographer, surfer, and waterman. A SURFER Staff Photographer for over a decade, Glaser is prolific for his young age, earning more than a dozen covers during his tenure at the magazine. Equally talented shooting land, water, and lifestyle photography from another generation.

090 | The midnight hour.

Neither man set out to be a songwriter. Jack could have made it in surfing, and Ryan as a bull rider. In this 1st episode, they find a likeness and a naturalness in one another’s music and the identity searching that lead to their sound. YETI Presents the first episode 1 of The Midnight Hour, featuring Jack Johnson.

Featuring – Jack Johnson, Ryan Bingham.

088 | Nü Rythmo.

Michael February finds the rhythms and pacing of a sand-bottom point wave. With the rhythm of hypnotic music from West Africa, this will give you a great 12min watch. Amazing! By writer and filmmaker Sam Smith, photographer Alan Van Gysen, cinematographer Wade Carroll and of course Mr. February himself.

084 | Morning glory.

With my morning drink in my left hand, which is most of the time / always coffee, I peeked through the thick palm tree forest that's almost annoyingly blocking what I want to be looking at. It's 6 am and I see a rastaman smiling while maneuvering his 9'4" longboard over little waves. Not complaining, just smiling and just loving it all, and why not? There is so much beauty out here in Sri Lanka, pelicans, warm water and waves and even palm trees decorated with bright colored male peacocks. After my coffee, I decided to swim out with my camera to meet the rastaman.

081 | September session.

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Growing up in a time without the internet it was rare to see things you actually wanted to see on the TV. Sometimes MTV would give you 18 minutes of snowboarding or surfing, back when MTV was the best thing in the world. My friends and I always tried to record it on one of my mums VR taps which would usually be taped over with one of her favorite shows. Sometimes I got my hands on a copy of a surf magazine from the US (surfing didn't exist in the NL) a thing you wouldn't find often. I would read it from front to back and then again followed by me cutting out pages to hang in my room. Inspiration was not everywhere like it is nowadays. So as a young version of myself I would keep changing channels to hopefully find something that would satisfy me, something I could visualize for weeks and discuss with my friends. A couple of years later Dvd's became a thing and based on the cover I bought this 16mm documentary surf film 2002 and it was called The September Sessions by Jack Johnson. It happened to be the best 30 Euro I had ever spent and I used to watch it over and over again. I still love it, the images, stories, voices, and music, I hope you do too.

075 | Space .

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Fullscreen and headphones. A short featuring John John Florence, titled “Space.” Shot on location between Western Australia and Hawaii. Surfing by John John Florence, cinematography by Erik Knutson, edited by Blake Vincent Kueny, produced by Spencer Klein.

073 | Storm, sharks, camera and waves.

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From the top deck of the boat, we could see the double overhead waves started rolling in, the forecast was right. A perfect moment to test out my brand new custom water housing for my Canon 1D m2 made by Salty Surf Housing in Australia. Together with a bunch of good friends we had been floating around, sleeping on a boat in the warm Indian Ocean chasing the good wave in the Maldives. This evening was the moment to leave my surfboard behind and capture the surf session. Never an easy decision to make; surf or swim and take photos, a struggle only a ‘water photographer’ that loves surfing knows. It turned out to be a heavy swim battling the current and diving under the four meter faces of water. Lots of wipeouts, holding on the volcanic reef helped to do the most powerful part of the wave. The waves weren’t breaking in one spot which allowed me to play around with framing the images. After two hours of using my flippers witnessing beautiful clouds closing in during sunset with lots of rain, it was too dark to keep using my ISO and we slowly swam back to the boat. All smiles, we told each other what we had seen and felt that session with Mother Nature and then Hugo and I saw the same thing, “did you see that too?” I quickly took a photo underwater to see what swam one foot next to me. A reef shark having a sniff and telling us it was time to go.

072 | Water.

#inspiration
”An ode to the sea, which I revere most.” Morgen Maassen. Watch Morgen’s first Water movie by clicking here.

070 | Land of the rising sun.

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Peter Sahlberg and Jens Holmer surfing small waves. 2min surf lifestyle video created by talented Maceo Frost. Lost in translation amongst the sky scrapers of Tokyo, embraced by the zen-like peelers of Kamakura. Then touching down with the roots of the Japanese heritage on the island of Amami. Eclectic & harmonious. Three brothers on a quest. Maceo documenting Jens and Peter's foot steps. Maceo // a master of catching the essence of passing moments. With no further due: feel in our sweet little short film for Surfakaemin. Arigato.

066 | Wajung.

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I could watch this for hours.... a dance with dolphins and waves featuring whale man Dave Rastovich surfing a beautiful Flex fish by Gary McNeill surfboards. Filmed by Nathan Oldfield and the music by Nick Wales. 'Wajung' is a short film by Nathan Oldfield commissioned by The Surfer’s Journal. It features the surfing of Dave Rastovich and the music of Nick Wales. 'Wajung' is the name given to the bottlenose dolphin by the Arakwal People, the traditional custodians of this region of Bundjalung Country on the Far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Wajung can live for over fifty years and they typically live as a community as residents along a particular stretch of coast.

064 | Quieter.

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Craig Anderson is 30 years old; surprisingly young for someone who's been at the forefront of non-competitive, progressive surfing for over a decade. Quieter was filmed over an 18 month period, featuring everywhere from Iceland, to Indo, and South Oz. You can watch that below. Another clip by Kai Neville.

061 | Jeep.

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Professional surfer Yannick de Jager signed a contract with a new sponsor Jeep. He asked me to come along to create content for the master of the 4x4 and so I did. We decided to drive to Zeeland which is in the South of the Netherlands and play on the beach while the sun was slowly setting. Yannick had a ball racing around me. And I, I had a great time snapping these gorgeous moments, using a ladder and my Canon camera with 24mm and a 50mm lens.