Oceans, Waves and Beaches

A Day In The Life Of Mister O. from Kristijan Kolak on Vimeo.

A friend popped this video up on his Facebook wall. I love this concept… the film maker needs funds to finish the film so what does he do? He pops a teaser and a request out to the world.
He needs money to finish the film. So he packages the ask for a general consumer viewing… [...]

As you may probably know California State Parks are at risk. Proposition 21 has been created to supply a stable funding source to preserve them.
San Onofre State Beach is one of my personal favorites but this issue is connected to ALL California State Parks.
The following is one of the many entries submitted in the contest [...]

I have two favorite games that I take with me everywhere, Tetris and Scrabble.
Thus I’m pretty stoked that the ever-innovative crew at Surfrider Europe popped out an ocean-trash version of Tetris.
It’s on itunes here (free).
The goal is the same as it is in regular Tetris… except you’re playing with trash. It’s like a virtual beach [...]

The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water from Surfrider Foundation on Vimeo.

At last count I’ve written a dozen plus posts on social networks, another dozen posts focused on Surfrider’s network and another ten on our chapter network. One of the umbrella points to all of these is that they are all interrelated. They overlap, they feed one another. They amplify one another’s actions.
The (year old) video [...]

These three images made me laugh out loud. This first one is a typical on-beach awareness program. In this case, it’s Surfrider Europe (Spain) who has reached out to local beach goers with their messaging regarding the issues of single-use plastics and ocean pollution.

But we’re Surfrider Foundation, and we go past what typical organizations would [...]

I love the first few pages of this book. It tells the story of a Colombian in 2008 who was sitting on the beach with family and friends. They were talking about FARC, a drug-trafficking / regional terrorist organization. FARC had oppressed the entire country for years. What follows is a notable story of how [...]

I was an artist.  A writer.  Am still both.
In my late twenties, I became disillusioned with art because too much of it was about broadcasting one’s own condition.  One’s ego upon the world.
I started surfing– which was a long time dream and a natural extension of skateboarding and snowboarding.
But unlike those two other sideways activities, [...]

A while ago we had a meeting where everyone was asked to “come with a list of organizations that are killing it and be prepared to share why you think they are doing so well.” There were no other parameters, but I strongly encouraged people NOT to share the obvious list (Google, Apple, etc).
I thought [...]