—You pull into the Malibu parking lot and from out of an exiting car comes a hand passing you a parking pass. That’s become the unspoken code at Malibu. We...

Eight musicians, sixteen surfers, three oceans—“Self-Discovery for Social Survival” is a collaborative surf and music film directed by Chris Gentile and produced by Brooklyn-based record label Mexican Summer. Gentile owns...

Photographer Jimmy Metyko was born and raised in Texas. But in his childhood and teens he traveled often, thanks to his globetrotting parents.           “My father...

Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. Chances are you’ve already seen...

45-year-old Devon Howard’s cross-stepping, side-slipping, hard-carving, and elegant nose-riding is a joy to watch. I first encountered it a couple decades ago at Cardiff Reef in North County San Diego....

  We customize our lives and the environment that surrounds us every day — from things as big as shaping our own boards to the smallest ones, like adding that...

I was introduced to the dream of Indo even before I started surfing. In a mid-‘70s issue of Skateboarder magazine I saw pictures of Uluwatu, a concrete ditch where stringy...

On March 16, Dick Dale, king of the surf guitar, passed away. He was 81. “I try to get the feeling of coming off a 10-foot wave combined with the...

On the afternoon of Friday, March 8th, I got word that Jan-Michael Vincent had died. Or rather, I saw it on Instagram, a shot of tan, chiseled, square-jawed Matt Johnson...

Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. This go-round we’re keeping time...

There is a Jungian theory that posits that the first half of our lives is about establishing identity and ego, and the second half is about spirituality, going deeper into...

Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. This time out we’re getting...

“The title, Marie, Is That You?, refers to the benchmark of Hurricane Marie,” said the artist and surfer Keegan Gibbs. “Every time a swell comes it’s like, Is this going...

A few years ago I stayed with my friend Derek Hynd at his home near Byron Bay. A former top 10-ranked pro, Derek was several years into his FFFFing (aka...

Michele Lockwood is a hyphenated girl—she paints, draws, sews, writes, shoots pics, shapes boards, and is now on her way to becoming a scientist. I met her in the late...