Sunburned Featuring the Unheard Rippers
Cowboy Surfers / Nikonos Project / John Olvey / Righteous Reviews / Up & Coming
Contents Staff . . . . . 4 Author’s Remark . . . . . 5 Cowboy Surfers . . . . . 6 Nikonos Project . . . . . 10 Up and Coming . . . . . 11 Creative Vision . . . . . 12 Righteous Reviews . . . . . 14
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On the cover: Shawn Cooksey_Isla Blanca Park, Texas
Da Boys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Duke Kahanamoku Publisher
Rob Machado Creative Director
David Carson Photo Editor
Dane Reynolds Contributing Writers: Taj Burrow, Mick Fanning, Jerry Lopez, Dion Agius, Craig Anderson Contributing Photographers: Andy Irons, Josh Kerr, Jamie O’Brien, Dusty Payne,
The Gore’s enjoying some family time.
Author’s Remark Sunburned Issue 1 We all have a connection with the ocean. It is a place where you can escape the turmoil and stress of the city. Where you can clear your head from all life’s struggles. We all need to escape once in a while. The mission of this magazine is to inspire the uninspired. To assure those under stress that there are beautiful and tranquil places in this chaotic world. I hope you enjoy this magazine and remember that there always is a place for you by the sea.
Cowboy Surfers Interviewer Duke Kahanamoku Photography Eddie Aikau
People who think of Texas automatically have a stereotype implanted in their minds. “Nothing but cowboys, cattle, guns, and barbecue in Texas.” Yeah we got all those things, definitely the barbecue, but what most people don’t know is that we have some pretty kickass surf too. Surfing and Texas just doesn’t mix with most people’s minds but that is good for us Texans so we can have it all to ourselves.
Shawn galloping down the line.
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Top left Rachel Gore cruising down on a perfect Texas wave. Top right Shawn with a clean frontside cutback. Reason why they call it Cooksey’s Corner.
eah we don’t have a point break wave like at Rincon in Santa Barbara, California or a badass reef break like in Tahiti, but us Texans are humble to what we are given and surf whatever conditions are out there. If there is a ripple, you will most likely find someone out there surfing. If there is a class 5 hurricane you will definitely have people attempting to surf with death. We just love to be outside and in the ocean. Even if we do not catch a wave we will paddle out to the end of the jetties for a little workout. We always find a way to make the most of our days and that is what it is
“Us Texans are humble to we are given and surf whatever conditions are out there. If there is a ripple, you will most likely find someone out there surfing.”
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all about. Our surf spots are spread out all along our gulf coast. From the top we have Galveston, Texas, I have never surfed there before but from what I have heard it is in the bottom for surf performance. One thing they are known for is that they began the Tanker surfing movement. Tanker surfing is where surfers will drive their boats offshore to surf the wake of the oil tankers. They will get insanely long chill rides for as long as 15 minutes. Like I said us Texans are die-hard surfers, and we will find a way to make it worth it. In the middle we have Corpus Christi, Texas this place probably has the most crowded surf lineups in Texas. You will be fighting with locals on each wave trying to figure out which side you can take. You have to earn it here and prove your not some kook. This place is no joke and they take surfing serious here. The local spots here are Bob Hall Pier, which is this 1,240 foot-long pier that produces some good rights that form off the pillars. Just watch out with fishermen lines here who some are fishing for sharks. Yes sharks, most piers do attract sharks but don’t worry you are more likely to be killed from your toilet seat than getting attacked by a shark. Another popular spot in Corpus Christi is JP Luby Surf Park. This spot is a popular summer
spot that produces some good rights that form off the jetties. This gets packed on a knee high day and surprisingly those days are still fun. In the winter the other side of the jetties gets good with north swells. As we head farther down south we get to a little hidden piece of heaven called South Padre Island, Texas. South Padre is widely known for Spring Break and the crazy parties it brings. People here definitely know how to have a good time, and there is a good reason for that. If you never been here you are missing out, our waters are nothing like any other Texas beach. You will think that you are in the Bahamas for a second with its blue-green clear warm water. Another thing about here is that we get the cleanest surf swells in Texas. The popular spot in South Padre Island is Isla Blanca State Park that has long jetties which helps produce the long clean swells from the powerful south winds from Mexico. One other popular spots to surf is the hotels, but one thing about here is that you drift dramatically down the beach. So the best thing to do is get two cars and one-person parks down the beach and the other car
goes the other way. This is the place to get tubed in Texas as it hits the sandbar with amazing power. When winter comes around most people don’t even bother to surf because of the condtions and cold water. But for the die hard ones most go to Boca Chica Beach, which is on the north side of the jetties. There are two ways to get there, either you paddle across the channel or drive. If you choose driving you better have a 4x4 because you will get stuck on the soft sand with no one to pull you out. So that is pretty much it for Texas Surfing that I can say. I am happy to be from Texas and wouldn’t pick any other beach in the world (not really). We have to be modest to what we are given and make the best of what we have.
“Another thing about here is that we get the cleanest surf swells in texas. The popular spot in South Padre Island is Isla Blanca State Park that has long jetties which helps produce the long clean swells from the powerful south winds from Mexico.”
Nikonos Project a communi t y of P hot og rap h e r s w h o lov e to sh o o t w ith a n iko no s
This months winner: John John Florence / Nikonos V with Kodak Tri-X Film 400 / South Padre Island, Texas
Gabriel Medina / Nikonos V with Kodak Tri-X Film Waikiki, Hawaii
Dion Agius / Nikonos II with Ilford dELTA 400 Film lA jOLLA, cALIFORNIA
fORD aRCHBOLD / Nikonos IV with Ilford HP-5 400 Film Outerbanks, North Carolina
OZZY WRONG / Nikonos V with Ilford dELTA 400 Film SEBASTIAN INLET, FLORIDA
JOEL TUDOR / Nikonos III with Kodak Tri-x 400 Film SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
Alex knost / Nikonos V with Kodak T-MAX 400 Film Montauk, New york
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U p & C om i n g Deidre Chaisson & Yessika Iracheta
Creative Vision
John Olvey
Interviewer Duke Kahanamoku Photography Eddie Aikau
Their are a few people in the world that create sculptures out of surfboards and Texas native John Olvey is one of them. We sat down and talked with John Olvey about his passion for surf art.
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What type of artwork do you do? I do all surfed related art, everything I do is inspirational for me on anything to do with the water. A lot of the things I do are from places that I have been before but in essence it is all going to be in surf art, but I necessarily don’t paint people riding waves. How long have you been doing this type of art form? As a kid that is all we had to draw was surf art because that is what you would see in the magazines and the first doodles we drew were the waves, palm trees, and all that. When I got back into doing art professionally was about 12 years ago. So that was right about, I think I did a painting from either 1999 or 2000 that I did for my wife, and she got me back into painting again after she bought me all the art supplies.
thing of surfing, business or artwork, you are going to come up with something wonderful with everything you know and everything you learned and watching other people. You listen and take advice it should work out fine. What has been the highlight of your art career? I have gotten several awards but lets see the highlight was really the people I met. One of
What has been your favorite wave that you have surfed? I am a regular footer, which means I surf with my left foot forward so I like a righthand wave. A place called Chun’s Reef it is in Hawaii’s North Shore and it is what they call a hotdoggers wave, a very good wave. I surfed some places in Mexico equally good if not better but just something about being in Hawaii that was pretty special.
Where do you find inspiration for this type of artwork? I am doing a lot of surfboard sculptures and the inspiration for those was because everybody was painting surfboards so I had to break out of the pack and do something that no one else was doing. So in order to do that I went back on everything that I have learned which was how to shape, repair and build surfboards. Therefore I know how to take them apart and retool them into a sculpture. I have really gotten more variety in the board sculptures but my bread and butter is still painting surfboards but there nearly not as expensive so that is probably why. Do you look up to any artist? I look up to everybody’s art I love watching anything. As a surfer when I want to get better I will watch the best people in the water. If you do the same thing I don’t care what profession you are in. If you want to make money you get advice from people who are rich not poor. If you want to learn how to surf you get somebody who is an expert and knows how to teach. If you want to get better in your arts just start looking at the results in other artists work. You don’t know their process but you can at least see the finish and so you kind of have to experiment a little bit and try what they tried. You’ll fail but that’s fine, you’ll fail everything a couple of times but after awhile you will acclimate and all of sudden you will find your own path. He inspired me and I liked that and when I do it I come out with something equally wonderful but it is different. I think that is the whole
John creating in his workshop
“Everybody was painting surfboards so I had to break out of the pack and do something that no one else was doing.” the highlights that I did was I got to do seven surfboards for Bethany Hamilton when she came to Texas a couple of years ago. I had two boards done for one group where she was visiting and did another 5 surfboards for the church I go to but I got to spend time with her and she alone is an inspiration. That was a pretty big highlight and it has gotten better ever since then but it has to more with the people that you meet. 13
When is your next upcoming show? I don’t have a show planned right now. Wintertime is when I build up my inventory, I will certainly be at the Rockport Art Fest next summer, and I am always attending there. I will come up with something this winter and it will either be impromptu or I am going to work with some organization and have an exhibit. Never really quite know, I am not really into the art festival game and I do not do a lot of shows. I am so busy doing commission work right now and really don’t have to do a show because I am low on inventory. That is the thing about being a working artist, the next job comes up and you take it. Right now I got 3 commissions so I am jammed into the end of October.
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