Greetings, Shredderz! I suspect that many of you feel the same way I do about social media: it is an invaluable tool, a source of inspiration and at times even beauty…and it’s also the fastest way to kill brain cells that doesn’t involve huffing paint. Well, let’s focus on the good, I guess:…
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Greetings, Shredderz! As summer comes to close (for us Northern Hemisphere residents, anyway), here are some hits from IG over the past 30 days or so. First, we gotta start with the classics. Gerry Lopez. Pipeline. Photo by Jeff Divine, whose talent I cannot possibly describe in a single sentence. I am not…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Everyone else wants to talk about Elon Musk buying Twitter; I’m just here to share some rad content I’ve seen on my feed over the past month. If you’re looking for a surfboard themed respite from people arguing about billionaires, well, you’ve come to the right place. Keep scrolling for more….
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the latest Social Media Roundup, which features some Instagram highlights from over the past month or so. I’ve really been enjoying photographer John Bilderback’s recent posts. Here’s a sequence of Dane Kealoha. There’s something hypnotic about these shots from photographer Shawn Parkin. To quote one of the comments, “that…
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Greetings, Shredderz! How do I say this delicately…is this the least intimidating that famed Hawaiian power surfer Dane Kealoha has ever looked? This O’Neill ad originally ran in the June 1980 issue of Surfer Magazine (Vol 21, No 6). I’m used to seeing Kealoha scowling and/or laying into massive turns, so this is…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the latest edition of the Social Media Roundup. Below you’ll find a hand picked selection of some of my favorite Instagram posts from over the past month. Gordinho, AKA Paul Cohen, is a photographer who has been based in Hawaii since the 70s. He has been posting some incredible…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the April 2021 installment of the Social Media Roundup. See below for my favorite posts from the past month. God knows I am all too familiar with that awful feeling of having wasted a perfectly good day glued to the phone. More often than not, Instagram is the culprit….
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Greetings, Shredderz! It’s Thursday evening here in California and we came prepared with some fresh vintage surf ads for our weekly Sagas of Shred series. Dane Kealoha was a staple of various T&C Surf Designs campaigns over the years, particularly during the Eighties, when he was widely regarded as one of the best…
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Greetings, Shredderz! We’ve got another installment of our Clipz series, showcasing some favorite edits. Without any further ado, here are some videos for your viewing pleasure: Chris Ward from 5’5″ x 19 1/4″ Redux Here’s some insane mid-2000s footage of Chris Ward on a MR 1980 Retro Twin model. I don’t know shit…
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Greetings, Shredderz! It’s Thursday evening here in California, and by now readers will hopefully know that means a heaping helping of vintage surf advertising goodness is about to be served up, courtesy of Sagas of Shred. If I do say so myself, the blog has been on a bit of a tear lately…
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