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The artist who spent nine years illustrating a Qu’ran set in modern America

Art and understanding in the face of rising Islamophobia — Los Angeles-based artist Sandow Birk reimagines historical paintings with a contemporary political critique. His latest project is a Qu’ran illustrated with images from today’s America.

  • Art
  • Alex King

Surfer Léa Brassy on her Icelandic surf and ski odyssey

Breaking the ice — Inspiring short film 'Being There’ documents surfer Léa Brassy and her polar explorer boyfriend Vincent Colliard’s joint adventure in search of far-flung, icy swell.

  • Surf
  • Alex King

The Basque surfers who took on the industry by founding a festival of their own

World's first surf film festival — Sancho Rodriguez, founder of the San Sebastián Surf Film Festival, shares how they brought together art, activism and audacious stunts to shake up surf culture.

  • Surf
  • Alex King

Artist Wolfgang Bloch on channelling the unconscious

Lost in the flow — Costa Mesa-based artist Wolfgang Bloch explains how he taps into a meditative state to create his sublime abstract paintings.

  • Art
  • Alex King

Ephemeral Space of Time: RVCA’s longboarding muse

Surf, art, garms — French artist and surfer Marqaux Arramon-Tucoo takes us on a journey of her creative inspirations in this ethereal video from RVCA.

  • Art
  • Saoirse O'Leary

Surf legend Rusty Miller on the rise of Donald Trump

Could surfing help make America great again? — Surfer, activist and elder statesman of surf culture, Rusty Miller, on how America has lost its way - and how surfing could help it find itself once again.

  • Surf
  • Alex King

An Irish surf odyssey that ventures into the dream world

Friends, fins, and folklore — Easkey Britton and Fergal Smith feature in Finisterre’s dreamy new surf short Féileacán (And The Lost Weekend).

  • Surf
  • HUCK HQ

Mollusk take us Summer Dreamin with Corey Colapinto

One for the beach bums — California’s art/surf mecca Mollusk Surf Shop shares a sun-bleached surf short, directed by filmmaker Jack Coleman.

  • Surf
  • HUCK HQ

Filmmaker Andrew Kidman on the magic of surf cinema

Surf filmmaking with soul — Artist, photographer and filmmaker Andrew Kidman steps back and takes a look at where surf filmmaking is at today.

  • Surf
  • Alex King

Exclusive: Quiet Life’s hazy summer video that'll take you to surf and sun

Super 8 never felt so great — Desperate for surf, sand and sunshine? Transport yourself to summer '16 with with this exclusive Quiet Life video, shot entirely on an old Super 8.

  • Music
  • James Joiner

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