Most of you by now have either seen or heard of MTV’s ridiculous show, Jersey Shore. Like all of us here at OKOTO, we’re pretty bummed at the way this reality show is depicting our coast. For those of us who live, work, hang and surf here, it’s not at all how we’d like our [...]
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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 [...]
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Big THANK YOU to Laura Vorps and our the founders of the New York Surf Film Festival, for including OKOTO in the fall surf fashion show that ran on the local NY news station last Friday. Check it out below …
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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