Like vintage pictures of L.A.? Want a glimpse at life in Southern California before the urban sprawl? Then check out the online exhibition at the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West, a web-based digital exhibition with more than a dozen authors, critics, and scholars curating photographs from the 70,000-strong Southern California Edison archive at The Huntington. “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990″ is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents : Modern Architecture in L.A., an initiative of the Getty celebrating the city’s modern architectural heritage through exhibitions and programs at arts institutions in and around Los Angeles.
With nearly twenty photo essays to explore, the exhibition does a remarkably good job at highlighting the scale, pace, and impact of infrastructural change within the landscapes of modern Los Angeles and, at the same time, offer tantalizing hints at the range, depth, and breadth of the stunning visual archive: http://pstp-edison.com/

Tickets are now available for “Life Is A Wave”, a yearly celebration of coastal environmentalism through music, art,
film, and community – June 14, 2013. Get your tickets today - before the event sells out!

For more information visit: http://www.savethewaves.org/events

Support our friends at: Save The Waves

The Rusty Del Mar Surf Classic is set to take place Saturday May 18, 2013 at 15th Street in Del Mar, CA. The lineup includes four divisions – open, masters, high school, and middle school – competing for the win and first place spot!

The contest starts at 8:00 am and runs all day long through to the finals. The Rusty crew will be on hand with prizes, instagram scavenger hunts, and gear for those who come down to root for their local rippers!

For more information, call (858) 382-5945 or visit: www.rustydelmar.com

For more information visit: http://www.sandiegosurffilmfestival.com/

Congratulations to the winner of our FIRST Instagram weekly photo challenge for California’s Hidden Beaches: @victoriafletcher7 with the image “Wind and Sea”. 

Follow us to participate in our weekly photo challenge: #calnatives

California Native’s – show us your hidden beaches!

Our FIRST weekly instagram photo challenge is on! The theme “Hidden Beaches” is set by this image of Table Rock Beach (Laguna Beach) by California Native Louie Lecap (aka @laughingoctopus). The winner will be featured on our facebook page, and on www.californianative.com

Please tag #calnatives_hiddenbeaches and #calnatives to be the featured artist for this challenge. The challenge ends April 20, 2013.

Nate Young: I never search for waves when I’m at home in San Clemente. I usually paddle out at the first spot I check, be it Riviera, Trestles or T-Street, because I can’t be bothered driving 20 minutes to Salt Creek or Oceanside. How much better could it be? I convince myself the answer is not much, and I surf out front. It’s convenient. It’s fun enough. And I’ve gotta get to work in a couple of hours.

This is a problem. Embarrassing, even. Our daily sessions should be dictated by wave quality, not convenience. Because convenience leads to routine and routine is the Alcatraz of life — you can see life’s potential out your window, but there’s no escape.

But in late December one of the guards fell asleep and I broke out. Ten days of sweet, sweet freedom. I drive north in the dark and surf somewhere really, really good in Ventura County. It isn’t a new wave, but it’s new to me. I don’t know where to park. Don’t know any locals. But the barrel is very familiar. I eat lunch with the Coffins in Santa Barbara and then keep driving in the pouring rain. Up to Santa Cruz, my hometown, where I surf the beach breaks in the south about as good as they get. Nostalgia top turns and ice-cream headaches. Old friends. Hugs. Holidays. I unwrap presents and leave the pie half-eaten as I run out the door. Up to Squaw Valley for two days of snowboarding. A spirit quest through the powder, a night out in Tahoe City. Check the forecast and see blood-red stains swirling in the North Pacific. Back to the coast. Nat Young’s qualifying party: three beers, two tacos and one water and then straight to a Half Moon Bay hotel room. Maverick’s at first light. Overcast and howling offshore. I bag a few and break for lunch. Chew. Swallow…breathe. Back out there. Sunny and offshore. Get a couple more and then back to Santa Cruz. I kiss a beautiful girl on West Cliff. Sleep. Family breakfast. Drive to 8-foot Ocean Beach for my final session of the year. I feel tired. I feel fit. I eat a burrito and watch the last sunset of 2012, salt crystallizing on my eyelashes. Then New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.

With my year’s first hangover comes the drive back to Alcatraz. Back to routine. Back to work in a few hours. But shit. Hold on. Uppers actually looks really good right now.

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