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MONTAUK: OUR FAVORITE COORDINATES IN THE WORLD
MONTAUK COMMUNITY CHURCH RUMMAGE SALE: Dress like a fisherman for half the price: every month, clothes, furniture, and household items donated by town locals for ridiculously low prices. 850 Montauk Highway
DURYEA'S LOBSTER DECK: Bring your own bottle of wine and serve yourself at home to one of Montauk's best sunset views and lobster bisques (or pack a picnic and sit just off the deck for a lot less). CAMP HERO: Truly the best mind-control experiment by the government in town! (Don't let anyone tell you different.)
65 Tuthill Road
1898 Old Montauk Highway
THE SURF LODGE: We have a strict 'No Kardashians policy.' You're welcome. 183 Edgemere Street
SOLE EAST: Drive all the way out to Montauk to stay at a place that feels like Vermont (screaming kids in the pool: seasonal). 90 Second House Road
THE SHAGWONG: The ultimate "locals bar" and right downtown. Go for the second-rate burger and electronic poker, but stay for up-to-the-minute horse racing results! 774 Main Street
MEMORY MOTEL: If you never went to the off-strip bars in Daytona, FL during Spring Break in the 80's, now is your chance. 692 Main Street
MONTAUK MOVIE: Have you ever wanted to see what going to the movies was like in rural America in the 50s? Presto!
MELET MERCANTILE: Hidden in an unmarked warehouse on Industrial Road is perhaps the largest collection of worn out t-shirts, vintage Interview magazines, and other great pieces of nostalgia. It's what John Waters imagines Farrah Fawcett's attic to look like.
3 Edgemere Street
102 Industrial Road
THE MONTAUK BEACH HOUSE: The old Ronjo is now Montauk's newest, most modern hotel/bar/backyard. (Sitting in the Giant Buddha's mouth: required.) 55 South Elmwood Avenue
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Welcome to the fifth edition of The Usual, our love letter to Montauk; our way of repaying our little village for the trouble we cause year round, and certainly in the water. By all accounts, this summer is shaping up to be phenomenal: our head wound and our pride are on the mend after that flying surfboard incident, and they're still serving us at The Surf Lodge. And we can finally relax this season after spending the deserted winter months getting to know the area's most memorable residents, so we can introduce them to you. On the following pages we'll meet 5-time ASP world champion surfer Stephanie Gilmore; artist Raphael Mazzucco, whose career credits include scouring the world for the most beautiful butts; the man behind the rose-colored glasses, art enthusiast Bill Powers; and
musicians Edward Sharpe, whose 10-person band rocked Montauk. We spend 48 hours behind Forest Woodward's lens checking out beaches and babes; in polaroids, Glenn Glasser familiarizes us with the area's most colorful locals; and we'll learn about the sexy subject of sun safety and the even sexier subject of black market rum. We hope you love the issue. If not, it makes excellent beach bonfire kindling, but remember, you'll need a permit for that. For year-round entertainment, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @theusualmontauk and check out theusualmontauk.com for interviews and images, new and old.
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Equipped with a polaroid camera and a pair of flip-flops, photographer Glenn Glasser captures the area's most interesting personalities, out and about at Ditch, the dock, and everywhere else in between. Here, we asked Glenn to tell us a bit about Montauk's most memorable locals. A compilation of his candid shots can be found in Montauk Summer, out now.
I was too enamored with this woman's pet raccoon to even ask her name.
Dana Termini is the mother of Montauk.
It took three men to properly pose with this shark.
Shelby Meade's motto: My way or the threeway.
I'm obviously not a leg man.
This is Greg, he's a surfer. Never trust a surfer.
ANCHOR HITCH OR FISHERMAN’S HITCH
ROPE KNOTS: A few of our favorite nautical knots, and how to tie them.
The Anchor Hitch, or Bend, is also known as the Fisherman's Hitch. Logically, as a knot to attach rope to an object, it should always be called a Hitch. However, the name Bend derives from a time when it covered "tied to" and was not restricted to joining two ropes.
PHOTOS: Glenn Glasser. Get your copy by stauking him at Glenn@Glennglasser.com.
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FEATURE INTERVIEW
Nicknamed "Happy Gilmore" for a reason, no one looks more psyched during a contest than 5-time ASP world champion surfer Stephanie Gilmore. Her creativity on a wave, which she describes as "drawing with her feet," is matched only by her passion for competition. This spirit is captured in Stephanie in the Water, a documentary about her life, her enthusiasm for the sport, and the random physical attack she endured outside her home in Australia just after winning her 4th ASP trophy. Ever the fighter, she comes back stronger and more resolute. She shares that journey with us here. Stephanie in the Water is not only a story about your life and career, but it’s also inspiring to anyone passionate about what they do. Did you and director Ava Warback have a set idea of what you wanted to depict when you started the project? Ava grew up around surfing, but had been detached from it for like 10 years living in New York City. I was at a point in my career where I’d already won a few world titles, and I was like “Okay, I want to explore the rest of the world.” So Ava and I started filming adventures in different parts of the world. She was filming me running around Paris and New York, doing things that took me out of my usual world. As time went on, my actual story evolved and got better, and Ava started to see a deeper transformation in myself. Everyone tries to figure themselves out at some point, so there was this story inside of a story. There was drama, there were world titles, there was a ‘hero moment.’ And I was able to let the camera in because I was so trustworthy of Ava.
It’s a performing art. The fact that we’re in the ocean, we’re riding waves, you have traveled so far out to sea, and then we share a moment with that wave before it crashes and disappears into nothing—the last dying moment of that wave’s life. It’s quite spiritual and a deeper kind of thing. It reminds me of how you’ve said when you first started getting in the water on a boogie board—you wanted to be close to shore so everyone on the beach could see you. It’s almost like you’re a performance artist. I still love that. That’s one of my favorite parts about being a competitor on the ASP world tour. I love to actually surf and have the crowd on the beach, and everyone cheering for you or booing for you, whatever it is. It magnifies the whole competitive experience. And when you win, getting
The drama comes when you were attacked outside of your home in 2010. You’re still very emotional talking about it in the film. Now that you have some distance, do you have a different perspective on what happened to you? The year I did that interview it was really fresh. It was 2011, probably the most important year of my life. I learned so much about myself, about the way I compete, about the world. It was a real defining moment and time in my life. I wanted to figure things out. For some reason I was able to do that early, even if I was emotional about it. When I look back to it, I surprise myself how quickly I was able to heal. Other people have the luxury of healing without being in the public eye, but you were in it the whole time. Was that challenging? When you go and see a counselor or a psychologist, what you do is you talk about it with them. When you’re in the media, those are the hot questions. “Tell us about the attack. What happened?” I felt like I was explaining it and talking about it on a pretty regular basis, it helped me to understand it better. You’re like “Yeah it happened. But I’m still here, and I can talk about it. And let’s just move on.” Your sister plays a prominent role in your career as your manager, and must have been a great support at the time. Does that help keep you grounded? Definitely. I have an incredible family. A lot of the values that we’ve grown up with have been from our parents, who are super chill. My dad, he still surfs more than anyone that I know. Our mom’s a school teacher, and she’s super relaxed. So yeah, it’s great to have my sister on tour, it makes traveling a lot of fun. A lot of people on the road have their significant other with them, and your sister has said she was there for you in that way. But you must meet so many hot dudes on tour? Yeah! Traveling is hard when it’s nonstop on the road. When you’re competing, you really want to focus on yourself, and as I said before, surfing can be quite selfish, so you have to sacrifice things. I like to travel and be independent, and not have to worry about any attachments anywhere else around the world. I like to be present where I am. You’ve said something to the affect of when you take off on a wave, you’re drawing with your feet. In a way do you feel like an artist when you’re surfing? Totally. Surfing is one of the most creative outlets for any human being. It’s like dancing.
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brought out on the beach through a crowd of people, you feel like a rock star for a couple of minutes. You look so happy during contests. Do you actually love competing? Definitely. From such a young age I loved being at events, the atmosphere. I get nervous, and I have to buckle down and focus on things, and strategize and figure out ways to win the events; but at the same time, I enjoy it. There are a lot of people who get too serious. I owe a lot of my success to the fact that I’m just having fun. You go on trips with a lot of girls on your team, but you’ve said that you don’t want to get too close to them because you know that you’re going to compete with them. I think that’s [the same] for any kind of
From left to right: PHOTO: Morgan Maassen; PHOTO: Lauren Ross; PHOTO: Morgan Maassen; Screengrabs from Stephanie in the Water.
athlete. On the women’s tour there are only 17 of us there, so we’re all pretty close friends. We all know each other really well, and we’re all traveling from the same destinations with our boards, meeting up around the world. At the end of the day, it’s an incredible lifestyle that we get to experience together. But yeah, we’re not confiding in each other. There’s definitely a line you have to draw to really be able to find that assertiveness when you’re competing against someone. What about with Carissa Moore, who took the 2011 ASP title. How is it outside of the water with the two of you? It’s a real rivalry, and it’s healthy. Both of us have such a respect for each other, and I think Carissa is the most talented female surfer on tour at the moment. But yeah, I don’t exactly go and hang out with her. When you’re winning all these contests are you doing it for anyone other than yourself? Are you representing women? Or your country? Surfing can be selfish because it’s a very individual sport. At the start of my career there wasn’t really much else to it. It still is that way, but at the same time now, I definitely have more of a role model position. Women’s surfing is in such a great place right now, and all of us are representing women’s surfing, but I feel like we’re also representing female athletes around the world, no matter what sport you come from. That’s always playing in my mind—doing it right and doing it classy and representing everyone the best way I can, including my own brand. Have you faced more challenges as a woman in the industry trying to get recognized? Or is gender less of an issue these days than it used to be? Surfing was very male dominated for so long. Now it’s come to a great place and we have a lot of respect from the guys for what we do. There’s definitely parts here
and there that we’re still fighting to get our space, but at the same time, we’re doing such a good job at what we do, so we’re heading in the right direction. When we ask female athletes about their position as a female athlete, it’s like, “Can we not even address the fact that I’m a female, just that I’m a great athlete?” It’s this fine line of raising awareness around it, or just letting it progress on its own. Female surfers are trying to do exactly that. We’re trying to let the surfing do the talking, more than anything—that is going to gain us that respect or that extra media attention, if we really knuckle down and work hard as athletes. To evolve as great surfers will do more talking than anything else.
towards Roxy. In my eyes, I’ve always looked up to Roxy, the way they sort of market women’s surfing has always been the most iconic and authentic to female surfing. They just make it look fun. I think almost every young girl is obsessed with Roxy at some point in their life. So yeah, it’s been fun to come on board with them and surf with Monyca, Kelia, Bruna, and Lisa Anderson. I get to hang out with Lisa. She’s one of my hugest inspirations. Do you have a favorite place to surf? There are so many favorite places. I really love Australia because it’s where I live. We
In the film, Jessi Miley-Dyer, who was pro at the time, and now retired, talked about how she was going to school as a backup plan to her surf career. Is having a backup plan something that has crossed your mind? I don’t really think about it, and I never really did. As soon as I finished high school, I was ready to go on tour. I was so confident in my abilities to be successful on the surfing world tour that I didn’t think twice. I’m sure if something happened, and I had to change, then I’d figure out a way to adjust. But it is true. A lot of surfers I’ve met have really struggled because they’ve been on tour without sponsors. They spend a lot of money traveling, trying to do events, not doing that great, and then getting a little lost because they come to the end of their career and don’t really have qualifications or real work experience. But in my eyes, traveling the world is the best working experience. It opens your mind, and these [are the kind of people] who can adjust and fit into any situation quite easily.
have world-class waves, and the water’s clear there. Then I’d have to say Indonesia, West Sumatra, the Mentawais. The waves out there are mind-blowingly perfect, and warm. Then Mainland Mexico. I love all those right hand point breaks.
You’ve been working with Roxy since 2013, how has that experience been? It’s been great. Obviously I started with Quiksilver Women’s, and then I moved
You’re from Australia. Do you fit into the stereotype of Aussies being pretty wild? Party animals? They love beer, that’s for sure. I’m proud to be Australian. Growing
up in Australia has given myself and my sisters such a healthy upbringing. Our countryside, our beaches are absolutely stunning, our landscape is incredible, and to have the waves that we have, the weather that we have. We’re really quite isolated from the rest of the world, but we’re spoiled with opportunities to get into surfing, to lead a really active, healthy lifestyle. Although we live in probably one of the best countries in the world, everyone makes enough money to pack their bags and start traveling. I love that about Australians— they want to get out and see the world. As soon as you say you’re Australian, no matter where you are people accept you, and they’re curious about Australia because they’ve never been, it’s so far away. “Do you guys ride around on kangaroos? Are there koalas hanging out in the streets and stuff?” They ask. So that’s not all true? I mean it kind of is. But it’s probably a little more like America than most people think. You’ve spent a lot of time in Montauk and were there for the Roxy Classic last year. What do you love about the area? It’s such a cool little community, and everyone knows each other, which reminds me of my hometown called Murwillumbah, or Kingscliff. I love any little beach surf town because there’s good vibes there. What’s surprising to me was how many girls get into surfing [in Montauk]. The cold water would be the biggest deterrent, but it doesn’t seem to phase them. It’s so cool to see such a big group of girls laughing together, and there’s a lot of moms teaching their daughters how to surf. Do you have any advice for young water women that want to follow in your footsteps? My best advice would be surf as much as you can. If you can get someone to film you so you can watch yourself, that’s going to improve your surfing out of sight. Never underestimate yourself. And have fun.
CLEAT HITCH
FOR A HALYARD TYING
The Cleat Hitch is the best way to tie a boat to a dock. It is deceptively simple, and an unwary skipper who invites visitors to secure a halyard (the rope used to hoist a sail) may be astonished and dismayed by the unsatisfactory results.
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MY SURF TOWN IS BETTER THAN YOUR SURF TOWN
The East Coast West Coast rivalry is as old as Tupac and Biggie. But as NY’s residents increasingly flee to the US's sunnier side, and vice versa, it’s time to revisit this age-old debate with a twist—looking at the surf towns of Montauk vs. Venice. We asked our own Tupac and Biggie to weigh in: Jonathan Paskowitz, surf legend, Lightning Bolt president, and Venice staple vs. Joe Termini, whose family is as synonymous with Montauk as lobster rolls, and who got his start here early, surfing for the first time in front of Gurney’s on a borrowed board.
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VIBE: Good, hard-working town with a wild-at-heart spirit.
Big population of artists, musicians, models, actors.
WELCOMING TO NEWCOMERS: Welcoming to those coming with love and respect. Give off a different vibe, you'll be asked to leave IMMEDIATELY!
Absolutely welcoming to newcomers.
LOCAL WAVES: Big waves, small waves, choppy waves, bumpy waves.
Notoriously crap waves of the first order.
WATER QUALITY: It's the fishing capital of the world for a reason. We'll let the fish do the talking.
Saddam Hussein’s last toilet water after he forgot to flush, a group of prostitutes regurgitated into it, then you drank it.
AMENITIES: We have a 7-11*, what the hell else do you need? *highest grossing 7-11 in the entire US!
Muscle Beach.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: Three hours from the most influential city on the planet. MONTAUK
VENICE
Drive an hour south to the incredible surf breaks of San Onofre, Old Man’s, Trestles. Go north to Sunset Beach (don’t eat there, diarrhea capital). Topanga Beach. (But, “It’s a massive superstructure of assholes.”) Then, Malibu.
SAFETY: Good luck with that in Venice.
I will never lock the door of my car…EVER.
LOCAL LEGENDS: Home to Dogtown photographer Craig Stecyk, Christian Hosoi, Jay Adams, Perry Farrel, Rick Rubin, Tracey Feith, Jimmy Ganzer (Jimmy Z).
Home to Bruce Weber, Andy Warhol, Peter Beard, Tony Caramanico, the Foleys. Every local is a legend.
WEATHER: Except for June gloom, it’s always sunny, but Jonathan wears a wetsuit year-round because he “was raised in Hawaii and is basically a vag.”
Not as populated in the winter and water is freezing (which also means it’s not so bro’d out).
FOOD: Acai bowls.
Clams out of East Lake: put in a bucket of water, let the sand spit out, squeeze in lemon and Tabasco, eat out of the shell.
SLANG: Silence. That’s the biggest vibe you’ll get.
Dudes, bro, what up, chill, cray cray.
LADIES: New York has the most beautiful women in the world.
Lots of games and lots of girls in Venice. Actors, models, producers, and grifters all selling flesh for food.
BOTH AGREE: The world is a beautiful place and any surf town that you can catch good vibes, waves, and women is the place to be. ASHLEY’S STOPPER KNOT OR OYSTERMAN'S STOPPER
The bulky, secure stopper knot deserves to be more widely known. It is far less prone to shake loose than the figure 8 knot and is the bulkiest of the simple stoppers.
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INTERVIEW
Few people can say they've traveled the globe for two years photographing amazing butts. There are also few people that can say they've landed the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, three times. Few people, of course, are Raphael Mazzucco, one of the world's most celebrated fashion photographers and one of the area's most creative residents. In between adventures—which include a Surf Lodge exhibition and a show in London of resin and paint-layered collages, aptly titled "Montauk"—we tracked Mazzucco down at home to ask a few questions. Interview by The Usual and Pete Maiden
Where are you from? Vancouver, Canada. What drew you to Montauk initially? I lived in New York City for 12 years. I came out [to Montauk] for a holiday. We were going to rent this house and we ended up buying it the day we came. It wasn't planned, I never thought I'd live in Montauk. But now, it’s home. The house here plays a huge role for me. I love the idea of being in the house and working and going outside and hosing prints down and starting over. I'm working out of the house I love. So your house is also your art studio. Tell me what you’re working on here. We're doing tabletops (points) and this one's with a gannet bird, it's like seven inches thick. Everything around the house we use in the collages and we'll put different elements of nature in the pieces. I think we used 75 gallons of resin for this. I started working with resin 15 years ago, and it came very natural. I wanted to work with it so I could make the photography look more like sculpture. It's also cool that we're in a surf town and there’s that connection with the resin and surfboards. It's a subconscious thing. Do you get in the ocean much? I love to go swimming. When I first moved here, I'd go swimming in the bay, but I learned later there were sharks in there. I'd be swimming around and all the locals are like, “What is he on?” You’ve been here for over a decade now, how do you find the changes in Montauk? Even back in 2008, there were like 3,000 people living here. I actually like it more now. I like how busy it is. There’s a lot of energy. Historically, Montauk has had an amazing artist community. It's the nature of the place. If you're living in Montauk, the way the light is always changing is super incredible. You go from one sunset to the other.
Who are some artists you’re influenced by? There's so many artists that I really love. I love Francis Bacon. I love the photographer Irving Penn. I would say my favorite artist is Robert Rauschenberg. I love how raw and simple his work is. Miró and Picasso, of course. You've photographed so many beautiful women in your life. What makes a woman beautiful? It’s absolutely [what’s on] the inside. The spirit. People often ask me who the most beautiful girl I've photographed is. I could never answer that, because everyone's got a different spirit. They give different things. You’ve also traveled to some amazing locations for photo shoots. What's the most memorable location you’ve been to? It’s the same answer as with the girls. They're always so different. To go from Vietnam to Iceland, to Iceland to Africa, from Africa to China, it provides such a different sort of inspiration. But I think it's about where you are in life, what you're doing and what inspires you. All these wonderful places give inspiration. Can you talk about how you approach photography that you do for a client versus the work that you're doing for yourself? I think somebody gets hired because of what the client loves about their work. The shooting is always preordained. The client knows exactly what I'm going to deliver, and they know what they want. So it's about being able to work really well together with people. With the art, it’s you, yourself, you just go for it. Which I also love. Your project Culo, a series of photographs and collages of women’s butts from around the world, seemed like a coupling of this commercial and artistic work. How did that come together? Actually, will.i.am did a video for Jimmy Iovine in Brazil, and he came back with all these shots that were just from the waist down. It was really Jimmy’s idea to do a coffee table book. We worked on a butt book for, like, two years.
Raphael Mazzucco at home in Montauk, June 2014. PHOTOS: Nick Hudson.
So two years circling the world looking for great butts. Yeah, circling the globe, taking photos of butts. It was a really fun project. Incorporating the art with the book was super enjoyable. We shot in Vietnam, we went to Milan, Brazil, Iceland, all over the place. I thought I knew what a great butt was. But after two years, I really learned a lot! They really vary so much, you know? When somebody takes their clothes off you don't expect stuff like that. Were any butts shot in Montauk? Actually there are a lot of butts shot here in Montauk. I would just spontaneously do it, whenever there was a great girl around. I would just bring her to nature and shoot. Some proceeds of Culo went to a fund that helps Afghani and Iraqi vets. Do you have any other causes you champion? I just did a really great charity with Samuel Eto, the soccer player. And I did a lot with One by One with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's charity. Being able to give is a blessing. So whenever I can, I love to be involved.
You were a professional soccer player before you got into photography. Have you been watching the World Cup? Absolutely. Actually, in the studio where I’ll be working in London, they have a big TV for me, to watch and be able to work. What do you think of the current state of fashion photography, and about the industry using Instagram more often to get their work out? I'm a big fan of all that stuff. For a long time I wasn't a believer in it, but, it's fun. It's really great that people can see things so quickly. I've got to learn those hashtags. The industry must be quite different today than when you got started. What would you tell an aspiring photographer, or even your son, about starting now in 2014? Whatever you do in life, you just have to really love and have a passion for. Then everything else will happen in a natural way. I believe in doing things with what you love. It doesn't matter how difficult it is, just hang in there and be blessed that you love something. SEVEN
anticipation 48 HOURS OF SUN AND SWELL
The Usual J.Crew’s Guide to Being Smart in the Sun DID YOU KNOW THAT JULY IS UV SAFETY MONTH? We spend a lot of time in the sun, and are especially keen to protect ourselves since we're of the age (don’t ask specifics, a lady never tells her age!) where the risk of melanoma cancer has increased the most. In an effort to be more aware, and recognize this important month, we’ve compiled some key facts about staying safe in the sun this summer. We’ve also asked our friends at J.Crew to test out some of their awesome UV protective rash guards and swimwear, which keep us even more defended against any harmful rays.
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PHOTOS: Forest Woodward
Between 10 am and 4 pm, UV light is strongest.
If you are unsure how strong the sun’s rays are, use the shadow test: if your shadow is shorter than you are, the sun’s rays are the strongest, and it’s important to protect yourself.
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When we invited Forest Woodward, one of our favorite photographers, to Montauk for the weekend, we had no idea we’d be graced with the best waves we’ve seen in years. Over the course of 48 hours, we ran around in Montauk’s waves, woods, and watering holes. As with any weekend of great surf and great company, there were the moments of anticipation, motivation, exploration, and reflection, as you see captured here, through Forest’s lens.
A: Asymmetry Chances of getting struck by lightning (1 in 79,746) vs. developing skin cancer (1 in 33).
More than 90 percent of the visible changes commonly attributed to skin aging are caused by the sun.
MELANOMA The sun’s core is around 13,600,000 degrees Celsius.
B: Border irregularity C: Color changes
(pay attention to your skin, if you spot any of these, consult your doctor)
D: Diameter larger than a pencil eraser E: Evolving in appearance
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exploration
If you can see light through a fabric, UV rays can get through. Your best option: tightly woven fabrics, like these J.Crew rash guards Recommended by the Skin Cancer Foundation as an effective UV protectant
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Back zip Perfect for surfing, running on the beach, basking in the sun Quick-drying J.Crew nylon/spandex
“You can have fun outside while being smart. Cover up, reapply your sunscreen and pass the message along to your loved ones.” - Melanoma Research Alliance President & CEO, Wendy Selig
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If used correctly, sunscreen with an SPF of 15 prevents sunburn 15x longer than if products weren’t used.
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For the month of July J.Crew is donating $1 to The Skin Cancer Foundation and the Melanoma Research Alliance for every picture Instagrammed showing how you cover up and have fun in the sun.
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CURATING CULTURE
Of the hundreds of art spaces in New York City, Bill Powers and his Half Gallery stand out. Behind signature rose-colored glasses, Powers has a keen eye for exceptional talent, who he lets run wild in his recently relocated uptown space. Along with his wife, designer Cynthia Rowley—whom he met while interviewing her for BlackBook magazine—he also runs Exhibition A, curating and selling affordable prints by some of the city's best artists. The native New Yorker and Montauk local has also dabbled in reality TV—as judge of Bravo's Work of Art. But that's just the half (no pun intended) of it: he's also a published author, master networker, and still finds time for family, surfing, and talking to us about all of the above.
On Montauk: My grandparents had a fishing boat at the Montauk Marine Basin and we used to stay on the boat when I was a little kid. In a lot of ways it remains the same [as it was back then], in that there are no traffic lights, and all the touristy t-shirt shops you could ever want. And I think that John’s ice cream shop opened the year I was born in '67. I love Montauk. It’s the least Hamponized out of any of the towns out here still. I know people have the “no fedora” stickers and complain about too many nightclubs. But if you don’t seek that stuff out and just go to the beach and go surfing and grill at your house you can be immune to a lot of those invasion complaints. On meeting Cynthia: I was a little nervous. The one funny thing is I stepped out of the room for a minute. I don’t remember if I left the tape recorder on, or if she turned it on, but she goes to her assistant, “I mean, he’s cute but these questions are really boring.” Then later when I was transcribing the tape and I got to that point, my ego demanded that it had to be a joke. That was either 1996 or 1997. Then we both married other people. When we got divorced, years later, we got together. His wife’s creativity: I always think it's amazing that she got her creative/commercial spark from her grandfather on her mom’s side, who had gone to Pratt and was an illustrator. In her office, she has the Pabst Blue Ribbon logo that he designed with his name on the bottom and a Patent Pending stamp. I think it’s an interesting clue to her wanting to do something creative that has that immediate commercial application.
It’s nice to walk some new floors and get some new ideas. On the business side it’s been amazing. We get less foot traffic at the openings, but more buyers. Since we moved up here we’ve been written up in the New Yorker twice and that never happened downtown. I don’t mean to be a geographic snob because I know the New Yorker will also write about shows downtown, but it never happened for us. Montauk’s artist history: I appreciate that there’s art out here. I like that it’s where Warhol had his house, and Peter Beard is still out here. And Julian Schnabel’s in the Seven Sister’s houses as well as Bruce Weber. Surfing slip-ups: I once made the mistake of excitedly asking Kelly Slater, “Have you ever been surfing out in Montauk?” and he’s like “Yeah, it sucks, why do you ask?” And I was like, “Oh, never mind.” On reality TV: I think it’s one and done on that. I had a lot of fun and it would have been cool if it kept on going just because there’s so little art on television. His summer reading list: There’s the catalog for the Raymond Pettibon “Surfers” show. Cynthia has a few copies for sale in the store in Montauk [696 Montauk Hwy]. The last book I read was Rachel Kushner’s Flame Throwers.
Prepping for interviews: Now I pretty much only interview artists. Last year Gagosian put out a book of my artist interviews. Most of the time it’s someone whose work I know or have admired. What’s nice about doing an interview like that is it's like looking for an apartment in New York: you just have to ask everyone you know that you think might have information. I can’t remember who told me that Ed Ruscha used to live in Swifty Lazar's old house; or I remembered seeing Dan Colen collecting trash in a Louis Vuitton bag and thought, “What the hell is this?” It turned out to be the beginning of his collecting stuff for his Trash paintings. Sometimes proximity is information too. Getting into the gallery business: In 2008 I was helping the guys from the nonprofit RxArt find a space on the Lower East Side. They only needed half the space and they were looking for someone to rent out the front half of their office. I ran it by Andy Spade, and he said let’s do something together and we’ll call it Half Gallery. Artist discovery: There’s not really a formula to it. We opened this Eddie Martinez show on Thursday. And we’re doing a Rene Ricard tribute show. Then we’re showing an Irish painter that Richard Prince discovered on Twitter last year. So there’s not really a clear path. Uptown vs. Downtown: After being downtown for 5 years we were ready for a change. At the time it seemed unexpected to move to the Upper East Side, but we’re a block from where Calder and Picasso used to show. We’re a block away from the old Castelli Gallery. There are more and more galleries opening up here. It’s funny to see Harmony Korine open up here at Gagosian.
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Bill and Julian Schnabel, Montauk, Summer 2012. Half Gallery installation view.
Raymond Pettibon, No title (are your motives), 1987, ink on paper, 24 x 17 7/8 in.
HISTORY LESSON
MONTAUK LANDMARK
Boozy Bandits Off the Shores of Montauk Kept Spirits High during Prohibition
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We're at Jimmy's —the best, and only, ding repair in Montauk —more often then we're actually in the water. It was no surprise, then, that in the hours we spent watching our boards get bandaged back to life, that Jimmy —whose life experience could be measured by how many ships he's had to sink with the coast guard on his trail —became our default therapist. In this ongoing column, Jimmy waxes poetic on love, life, and surf etiquette while we furiously take notes.
Montauk—our favorite drinking village with a fishing problem—has had a long love affair with the bottle. So when that romance was threatened during Prohibition from 1920 to 1933, Long Island's alcohol aficionados took matters into their own hands, spawning one of the most creative black-market rumrunning operations this side of the Atlantic. The booze ban officially went into effect on January 16, 1920, and literally the following day Montauk's waters were populated with trafficking ships from Nova Scotia, England, and Cuba, smuggling everything from Canadian whisky to Jamaican rum. The boats would lurk 12 miles offshore, just past US territorial waters, in a line-up that became known as Rum Row. Because of its harbors, bays, and inlets, along with its proximity to New York City, the East End was the perfect location for this kind of illegal activity. Each night, a flotilla or small craft would sneak out of Fort Pond Bay, head straight for the Rum Line, and bring boat-loads of bottles back to the shores of Gin Beach, Shagwong, and Oyster Pond. The cargo was then either transported to the many speakeasies that had popped up in the city, in the North Fork, and in Montauk, or was stashed in the sand dunes for safekeeping. Long Island's most glamorous speakeasy was the Island Club, on Star Island, where the Montauk Yacht Club sits today. Built by Carl Fisher—a friend of Al Capone's—the club became a haven for those rich and parched, like John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Ernest Hemingway, and then-mayor of New York, Jimmy Walker. The nightclub and casino thrived openly until a raid by the Feds in 1930. Fishermen were the pioneers of this black-market business, and to keep their operation going, dodging the Coast Guard and customs boats was key. But the law wasn’t the smugglers’ greatest threat (if caught, chances were they could reclaim their booty after posting bail): it was pirates and mobsters like the 19-year-old Capone who got his start bootlegging. The one man who could be trusted was Captain William McCoy, who is credited for establishing Rum Row. His schooner, Arethusa, was open for business 24 hours a day, for anyone with the balls to paddle out to her. While other rum runners would water down their goods, McCoy was known for his fair prices, selling real, quality goods like Johnny Walker Red and Bacardi brought from two small French-owned islands off the coast of Newfoundland. His product, so the legend goes, became known as “The Real McCoy.” Fortunately for this thirsty town, Prohibition only lasted for 13 years. Today, rum runners are part of the area’s legacy; but if you look hard enough—and enjoy enough of these now-legal spirits— you can still make out the faint silhouette of Captain McCoy’s vessel somewhere along the ocean’s horizon.
What’s our problem, why do we keep hitting on groms? Oh, I thought you were going for older guys, that’s why you keep hanging around here. What’s the best way to pick up a surfer? Stand right next to him. Say, “Hello, how was surfing?” That’s it, done deal. That seems too easy. Yeah, it never happened to me. Montauk back when I was single; there were two women around. It was a horror show. It was just a bunch of drunken, ugly, goddamn stinking fishermen. You’ve been married for a long time, how do you keep it exciting? My whole goddamn life is exciting. There’s never a dull moment. I’m either sitting on the couch or robbing banks. My life revolves around surfing, and I’m rugged, and I’m a nice guy. So let’s review: rugged, do exciting things, nice. And I take care of my wife and I love her. Even though she can beat me in ping-pong and foosball. What’s the weirdest request you’ve gotten from a customer? A guy goes the other day, “If I buy a 9’6” board, can you cut the nose off and make it 8’?” Why are people mean about our surfing skills? They’re jealous. Most people are mean to women about surfing because unfortunately they still think women are inferior. Men think they control the world, but women do. Personally, I’d rather see a cute tush than an ugly butt on someone’s board. If you’re super passionate about surfing, how much money do you need to get by? Money isn’t everything. I read a quote the other week: “I’d rather surf and not work, than work and not surf.” I work to surf. I work about 100 days a year and the rest of the time I’m either in a hammock or surfing. Tell me a millionaire that can do that. How long do you have to surf to be able to call yourself a surfer? It’s called one wave. It’s not the ability or how long you surf, it’s how you feel about it. I was a surfer before I was a surfer. When I was a kid watching Wild World of Sports with my dad, I saw tandem surfing on Waikiki Beach. It’s like someone hit me over the head with a baseball bat. I said to my dad, “That’s what I want to do.” From then on I never stopped running to the ocean.
CARRICK BEND
Because the Carrick Bend has the advantage of being easy to undo, it probably deserves to be used more often. However, it is slightly awkward to assemble and it is easy to make a mistake: you can have both tails on the same side of the knot; or one of the crossings may be incorrect.
Rum runner sloop "Kirk and Sweeney" with contraband stacked on deck in 1924. PHOTO: US Coast Guard.
Jimmy in the shaping room, Summer 2012. PHOTO: Glenn Glasser.
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HOW TO CURE YOUR HANGOVER
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Stephen Cheuk has trained a lot of drunk people in his life. As a native of Perth, and now in charge of the wellness program at Surf Lodge (let’s be honest, Aussies are about as sober as we Long Islanders), many of Cheuk’s clients show up to a session a little worse for the wear. So who better than this expert with 10% body fat to ask about how to nurse our (daily) hangovers? Here, he shares his 10 best tried and true secrets.
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Replenish with good fruits, proteins, and healthy fats. Baked eggs with avocado, tomato, and a bowl of fresh berries always hits the spot.
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SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
Editorial Director: Yasha Wallin Creative Director / Designer: Emily Anderson Superstar Designer: Stefan Knecht
places to me for the past seven years. OM: A lot of us in the band have folding bicycles and that's a huge element of being on the road for us. A lot of the time, you have the bus parked somewhere and you don't have the freedom to move around much, so that gives you that freedom and to get the exercise.
Getting 10 band members in synch on a rhythm is one thing; fitting 10 band members on a stage is another. Both are challenges the extended family of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros—led by vocalist Alex Ebert—embrace with enthusiasm. The traveling troupe exudes a 70s beach town vibe, which we saw at their Surf Lodge show earlier this summer, where they played all the hits like "Home." Here, we chat with band members Christian Letts and Orpheo McCord, in between sets. Interview by The Usual and Pete Maiden How many people are you with on tour right now? Orpheo McCord: Ten in the band plus crew. How did you guys first get involved with Edward Sharpe, and Alex? Christian Letts: I met Alex when I was 3. We went to preschool together. I moved from London; he was the first guy I met when I was a kid. Then him and Jade met a while back and we met Orpheo in a teepee! The rest of us are just a collection of old friends getting together to make a bigger group. How does your process work? Did you guys play and write music together growing up as well? CL: We were always creating together. Messing around with music since we were kids. Now it varies. Alex is the most prolific dude in the world. He writes so many songs. OM: Dude, so many songs. Do you guys write while you're on the road? CL: A lot of that happens by yourself, first. Writing a song is a really vulnerable thing. The most naked you'll feel sometimes when it goes wrong. But you grow from it.
OM: A lot of times, we're in the back lounge, and ideas will start to come into play. Other times it'll just kind of come out of nowhere, when we're in the studio. The last record, Alex had a couple demos that weren't even intended to be actual final recordings, and then we just built on top of those. CL: They were so vibey, we were like, “Man!” What's it like being on the road with you? OM: We've been doing this together for seven years, and pretty consistently. We spend a lot of time together. It's pretty much a family. Like any family you get the different dynamics and people go through different things at different times. But for the most part, it's just a really strong support system.
Edward Sharpe started as a kind of messianic fictional character. How much has this persona changed as you've grown and morphed yourselves as a band? OM: It's never been a part of the band. It was just a character in a fictitious story that Alex came up with, and it was more like it had a good ring to it for a band name. But there was never any intention of this character we were going to personify in some way. Even though people have projected this messianic thing onto Alex, it's just been a part of his process and growth. This is your first time in Montauk—what’s your first impression? CL: I just woke up. And I saw you guys. You guys are my first impression of Montauk. OM: I'm not really used to East Coast beach towns. I grew up in California on the coast, so I'm used to that vibe. The landscape's different. The style is different, everybody dresses a little more like, the New York vibe. A lot more brimmed hats, I guess. Who has the better beach bums? New York or LA? CL: LA, definitely. There's not even a comparison. You can't be a beach bum here in December! You'd freeze your balls off. In LA, it's a year-round experience.
How do you create a home on the bus or a home on tour, when you guys are away a lot? CL: It kind of feels like home being on the bus! I was tripping out of, like, moving out of my place, and I was like, man, I have nowhere to go after that. I don't know where I'm going yet, you know? And then I got on the bus. It's almost one of the most familiar
Contributors: Forest Woodward, Stephen Cheuk, Glenn Glasser, Nick Hudson, Pete Maiden, Jimmy Goldberg, Morgan Maassen, Seth Herzog - Many thanks guys! Extra Special Thanks: Jayma Cardoso Special Thanks: Jonathan Paskowitz, Joe Termini, Jim Lind, Cynthia Cervantes, Carolina Gonzalez, Travis Gumbs, Justine Goode, DL Tashijian, Molly McCorkle, Meagan ZieglerHaynes, Naomi Azuma, Macarena Sagarminaga, Jeanine Pesce, Brittany Pearce, Amani Olu, Sedi Sithebe, the Wallins, the Andersons Copy Editor/Proofreader: Rachel Sampson Front-cover image: Kelia Moniz, San Clemente, CA, 2013. Photo: Morgan Maassen Back-cover image: Cynthia and Emily, Montauk, 2014. Photo: Forest Woodward The Usual Issue #5 Summer 2014 Montauk, NY 11954 info@theusualmontauk.com Proudly printed locally in New York © 2014 The Usual The entire contents of The Usual are © copyrighted and may not be reproduced, either in whole or in part, without written permission from the publisher. For year-round entertainment, follow us on Twitter / Instagram/ Facebook: @theusualmontauk and check out our site for interviews and images, new and old: theusualmontauk.com
CONTRIBUTORS
EMILY ANDERSON is the creative director of The Usual, based in New York City and Montauk. She makes smart, irreverent branded content and spends her free time working at OgilvyEntertainment, having fun with her friends, watercoloring, and surfing. Twitter @english_emily Instagram @theusualmontauk
YASHA WALLIN is a New York City and Berlinbased writer and editorial director of The Usual. She writes about art, travel, culture, and the environment for various international publications like GOOD, Interview, and Art in America. When not at a desk, she's most happy on a bike, at the beach, or traveling to the next adventure. Twitter @ywallin
FOREST WOODWARD is a Brooklyn-based, worldbouncing adventure and lifestyle photographer. He's a hunter-gatherer of natural light and candid moments which can be seen in the work he's done for Patagonia, National Geographic Adventure, Surfer Mag, Forbes, The Inertia, the list goes on. Instagram @forestwoodward forestwoodward.com
GLENN GLASSER is that guy you may see wandering the beach with a Polaroid camera slung on his shoulder. Do not be threatened and please pose for him...willingly: he's a professional photographer who calls Montauk home. Instagram@glennglasser Glennglasser.com
STEFAN KNECHT is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer, illustrator, and wood working enthusiast. When not on the clock, he enjoys skateboarding and sketching out new tattoos. Instagram @knechtwith
MORGAN MAASSEN is an LA-based photographer who’s worked for Apple, Nike, Roxy and others. In 2010 his Follow The Light Foundation Award led to a position at Surfer Magazine. He’s also been featured in Harper's Bazaar, Outside Magazine, Monster Children, to name a few. Instagram @morganmaassen morganmaassen.com
NICK HUDSON is an Australian-born, New York City-based photographer drawn to art and imagery with aminimalist bent. His subtle approach creates an aesthetic that is decidedly raw, strippedback and understated. As an assistant he worked with Matthias VriensMcGrath, Todd Cole, and KT Auleta. Instagram @hudsonphoto
PETE MAIDEN is a music documentary director and producer. He was formerly Head of Production for Rolling Stone Magazine and has directed and produced for Spin, CAA, Live Nation, MTV, and Vogue. In 2012, Maiden opened B_SPACE in New York, as a media studio, a platform for events, and concerts, and a showroom showcasing iconic nickhudsonphotography.com Australian brands.
ASHLEY’S BEND Ashley's bend is a knot used to securely join the ends of two ropes together. It is a reliable knot with very little tendency to slip. It can be hard to untie after being heavily loaded.
Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros playing at The Surf Lodge, June 2014. PHOTO: Nick Hudson. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros in concert. PHOTO: Forest Woodward.
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