Christopher "Crib" Butler is a surfer, skateboarder, and snowboarder living in Northern California. He was born and raised in Southwest Ohio (Colerain Township) near the Indiana and Kentucky borders and started skateboarding street-style in the mid-1980s. As a child, he always dreamed of one day learning to surf and snowboard, but there were no mountains or ocean within a thousand miles. All hi ...
Ron grew up in Southern California, surfing Huntington Beach Pier, swimming competitively and playing water polo. At Cypress High, Ron won a national award for his photography. So, after high school, Ron following his dreams, went to the New Port School of Photography. After graduation, Ron continued his education with college art classes like life drawing, oil painting, watercolors, and acrylics. Ron loves learning and exploring his artistic side.
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I was born in Los Angeles in the early 50's. My father is a jazz musician and my mother was an opera singer, so from the moment I was brought home from the hospital, all I heard was music all day long, which I think led me into becoming a creative person. We moved to Woodland Hills, California around 1959. ...
Bonnie Preziosi lives near the beach to enjoy her life long passion of surfing. Expressing herself with her artist talents enables others to share her keen perspective of the sea. After graduating from The Maryland Institute College of Art ( MICA) in 1981 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree she moved to the beach full time. ...
I started shooting pictures when I was just 15 years old, with an old Kodak Instamatic 126 camera. I very quickly developed a passion for photography and it has pretty much ruled or had some effect on just about every aspect of my lifestyle, today.
I'd typically see a strikingly different image in a magazine and would sit there and work out how the photographer had created that image and then remember that technique somewhere later on.
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[After I gave Cheyne Horan’s Speech, for winning the QuikSilver ASP Masters (under 40) in France; because Cheyne asked me to and he couldn’t be there. I started my Save Sunset Beach speech, that I couldn’t finish at the 1999 ASP Party in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. It was my fault they cut me off, because Rabbit Bartholomew said, I could say something short for Surfrider (but he stressed that it had to be short). Ever since I knew Rabbit (for over 15 years) he was Always into Helping Surfrider. John Shimooka also said it had to be short. I should of said, this speech aint that short, but it aint that long, but I think it’s Very Important and Worth Hearing. ...