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WEST COAST
Best Videographers Under 30 in California
Highlighting the Golden State's finest shooters
WORDS BY MARCUS SANDERS
Presented by
The surf movie started in California.
IN THE '50S AND '60S, IN DARKENED HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUMS ACROSS THE SOUTHLAND, STOKED SURFERS GATHERED TO WATCH FOOTAGE (SHOT MOSTLY THE PREVIOUS YEAR), DRINK BEER AND YELL AT THE SCREEN. IT WAS THE ONLY CHANCE TO FIND OUT WHAT THE HELL WAS HAPPENING IN THE SURF WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR HOMEBREAK, AND GAVE LOCALS A CHANCE TO TALK STORY WITHOUT COMPETING FOR WAVES. This continued for decades. Films got better and more highly-produced each year - until the advent of the home VCR and camcorders in the '90s, which democratized the whole process, and shrunk the screen size. Guys like Taylor Steele realized that you could film your buddies ripping down the street all day, and then watch the same footage that night and heckle each other. Many raw, under-produced, hour-long punk edits ensued. Then came web edits for computer screens in the 2000s. The length of film slowly shrank to five minutes or less - and the turnaround time shrank to near-realtime. And while some bemoan the disposable nature of web clips (now consumed on even smaller screens) the one ironic thing is that as screens have shrunk from big to medium to small to your phone, equipment has gotten better and more accessible and the actual quality of the edits is off the charts. Which brings us to the 13 guys profiled here. All these guys grew up alongside the internet. They never had to wait a year to sit in a dusty auditorium to see the latest in hot-surfing action. Since high school, anything they've ever wanted to know has never been farther away than a couple swipes. But before they were legally allowed to drink, they'd probably seen hundreds of hours of surf video - all of which helped inform their varied aesthetics. Which, as you'll see from their reels, are as varied and beautiful as the state itself.
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