About a month or two ago I was emailed by Ari Lurie of the High Line Surf Film Festival regarding a dinner he was putting on for filmmakers and photographers.  It sounded very cool, and I was all in.   The only thing I knew at the time was that it would be covered by The Surfer’s Journal.  Recently he’s been revealing who the other attendees are, and I’m floored by the lineup.  Taylor Steele?  Art Brewer?  Chris Burkard?  Jeff Divine?  These are people I’ve looked up to since I started surfing.  Taylor Steele’s videos got me into the idea of making surf films in the first place.  I remember going to a screening of The Drifter at La Paloma when I first moved to California and I waited until the end so he could sign my copy of the DVD.  I was star struck.

I’m so honored to be a part of this event, and I’m even starting to feel nervous about it!

I’ll write about the event here after it happens.  In the meantime, check out the High Line Festival Of Surfing

Headed to the desert with a bunch of friends this past Friday.  Manny brought his tent setup and we drank beer, shot BB guns, and danced.  The moon rise that night in the desert was absolutely unreal – the dust cast a ghostly haze across the horizon and gave everything a dream-like twilight quality.  It didn’t feel like earth.  Definitely blessed to have been able to do something like this.

The DJ Both before the party got going