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G40: THE SUMMIT

March 3rd, 2010

We’re very proud to announce that our founder and creative director, Joe Hodnicki, was asked to showcase his linoprint art at the G:40 Summit, as one of the 500 featured artists from around the world!
This event will feature 75,000 sq ft of exhibition space with 4 floors of art! Each floor will represent different hot [...]

WE ARE THE WORLD

February 13th, 2010

There are few things in this world that I find more beautiful than a collaboration of talent. To see people from different walks of life, each with a story of their own, channeling their energy to create something as a whole just moves me. No limits, no boundries, just love.
Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie’s “We [...]

THEY ARE BRAINSTORM

November 24th, 2009

and they are awesome.
seriously … probably one of the most down to earth, nicest and creative couples you’ll ever come across. we were stoked when we first met them at a a mutual art show and have been admiring their work ever since.
they kind of seem to do it all when it comes to design, [...]

FALL ‘09 RECAP

October 22nd, 2009

NEW YORK SURF FILM FESTIVAL

Joe and Amy with Andrew Judge, COO of Surfaid International, Christian Driggs of Driggs Bros Pro, Jason and Elizabeth Ritter of Surfaid in NYC.

morgan berk, co-founder of the New York Surf Film Festival, interviewing with the Driggs Bros.

Beau Young setting up to perform at the Film Festival.

The crowd partying in [...]

DID WE MENTION??

September 19th, 2009

The 2009 New York Surf Film Festival tee has been designed and printed by
OKOTO. Twenty percent of proceeds from the sales of this t-shirt will
benefit SurfAid International via the OKOTO+relief program.
OKOTO is a grass root clothing brand from the East Coast, with a strong
focus on non-profit and community support.
SurfAid International is a humanitarian aid organization [...]

NYSFF COMMERCIALS

September 19th, 2009

The second annual New York Film Festival is next week!! If you haven’t picked up your tickets already, make sure you do, soon, since a lot of them are selling out. You can get your tickets here.
Check out the commericals for the film festival below, shot by our good friends, the Driggs Bros.

2009 NYSFF Subway [...]

OKOTO ALAIA Coming Soon …

September 11th, 2009

The Alaia, an ancient Hawaiian board, is a piece of art in and of itself. Wooden and finless, it seperates itself from the modern board in every way, especially in it’s ride as it requires much more skill and provides an experience unlike anything else.
We owe the revivial of the Alaia to Tom Wegener, an [...]

BELMAR PRO & ART SHOW

September 9th, 2009

Since we had such a great time last year at the Belmar Pro, we’ll be down again this weekend to hang with the Eastern Lines crew, nearly 30 other sponsors and 150 competitors.  Stop by our booth for ridiculously priced threads and some sweet giveaways. If you can’t make it, you can still follow everything [...]

So we received an email today, with one of the greatest photographs attached to it that we might have ever gotten from a friend. Sent straight from Tonga … yes, Tonga, the “Friendly Islands” settled right between New Zealand and Hawaii. With it, Erik’s email explained that unfortunately, there wasn’t a beautiful native nearby to [...]

180° SOUTH

July 14th, 2009

leave it to woodshed films and patagonia to document one of the greatest road trips of all time.
in 1968 yvon chouinard and doug tompkins went on a 10,000 mile adventure. Forty years later, an inspired jeff johnson decided to take the trip himself and document the experience - a journey and inspiration all it’s own.
we’re [...]

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