Patrick Trefz is an award-winning art, documentary, and action photographer and filmmaker. He has been recognized for three critically acclaimed feature-length documentaries
Thread (2007),
Idiosyncrasies (2010) and
Surfers’ Blood (2016), and has directed multiple music videos, commercials, and shorts. Trefz’ work is known nationally and internationally for work in publications including
Surfer,
Big,
Geo, and
The New York Times, and is the author of the photography books
Thread (2009), and
Surfers’ Blood (2012), both published by powerHouse Books. His commercial clients include Nike, Jansport, Quiksilver, Red Bull, Patagonia, Vans, and Krammer & Stoudt. Trefz lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
Jim Denevan is an American artist who creates temporary land art. He is also the founder of the massive site-specific food events
Outstanding in the Field, a global traveling farm dinner series hosting between 130-200 people over a five-hour time span. His main gig is land art and sand drawings, a passion which came to Denevan when surfing; viewing beaches as empty canvases, he envisioned creating earth art right on the beach. His creations usually last a few hours before being washed away by the tides. In March 2010, Denevan was commissioned by
The Anthropologist to create a large-scale drawing on Lake Baikal, Siberia, and is the world's largest single artwork. A documentary of the journey and artwork called
Art Hard was released in 2011.
David Kinch is an American chef and restaurateur. He owns and operates
Manresa, a restaurant with strong French, Catalan, and Japanese influences, in Los Gatos, California, which was awarded three Michelin stars in 2016, and named one of the
World's 50 Best Restaurants by
Restaurant Magazine, in addition to America's Top 50 Restaurants by
Gourmet. Kinch’s culinary philosophy is fostered by the terroir, and the ingredient-driven cooking and modern technique he has studied around the world.
Christian Beamish, former Associate Editor at
The Surfer’s Journal in the aughts, built an 18-foot Shetland Isle beach boat, the maiden voyage of which down the coast of Baja California resulted in his book
Voyage of the Cormorant (Patagonia Books, 2012). Beamish currently lives in Carpinteria, California with his wife and two children, and shapes surfboards for his company Surfboards California.
ISBN: 9781648230134
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Published: February 13, 2024