post number 267
flew over my home break on the way to shooting the band Angels and Airwaves in Seattle last week. I think I can see Pascal getting a wave from Mystos to Gully all the way from here…
Leaving for Indonesia in a few days and can’t wait to completely check out for a little while. Until then, lots of work to do.
recap
Now that the show is completely done and the fat lady has sung, i finally got around to doing a little recap. Also, we just released a limited edition shirt. CLICK HERE to check it.
Thanks to Sage Vaughn and Brendan Lynch for doing the best pieces ever, Known Gallery, the Seventh Letter, Casey Eklips, RVCA, Pat Tenore, Punker Pat, and Casey Holland. LA Weekly and Shelley Leopold, Matt Rapf for the ipod, Amoeba for gift cards and bags, M Cafe for gift cards. J-Hurt, Laura, Stacey, Willy Wonka, and Lee/Push for helping out with getting the show up and presentable and Kohshin Finley for shooting photos of the prep and opening.
Thanks to my family, friends and everyone that came out. The following photos were taken by me, casey from RVCA, Kohshin Finley, Pascal and the Cobra Snake. Click for (more…)
OPEN SPACE
This weekend, on January 15th from 8-11, I will have the opening of my first solo photo exhibition at the beautiful Known Gallery on Fairfax in Los Angeles.
I have been working tirelessly on this collection of images and installations, and my friends Brendan Lynch and Sage Vaughn will also be showing work in the Project room. I got a good look at the final prints the other day before they were sent off to the framer and I can’t begin to say how excited I was to see the body of work all together in its final stages. It was a mix of pure joy and excitement as tears almost filled my eyes as we rolled open the images, one by one, my face grinning ear to ear as each passed by. The gallery is beautiful and the installation is going to be amazing. Please come out and hang, have a drink, find me, say hi, and enjoy the night with a bunch of us.
Thanks to EVERYONE for all the support, including everyone who checks this site out. Below are some words describing the motivation for this collection of images.
“The ocean is and always has been the epicenter of my existence on this planet. I am an aquanaut on a thruster in this ever amazing and boundless liquid energy. I have optimized and streamlined my life to ensure maximum time gliding across water. Every choice and relationship, all decisions and waking thoughts (and most dreams) are influenced and infused by the pull of the tides, the whiff of an offshore breeze, and the lucid corduroy lines gracefully stampeding
towards the coast.
I go to the sea to surf, to bond with friends or to be alone, to let out aggression or to find inner peace. The moving ocean is my solid ground. The moment one stands up on a board, propelled by a wave racing across the sea, one is only aware of the present – nothing else. I have never found any other way to achieve that absolutely pure and meditative mindstate.
Open Space is my expression of the state one falls into while floating weightless off shore, looking out to sea, hoping and waiting for the next set. Troubles are isolated far away on the unreality of land, while you are free in the truest reality of water. It is a timeless unspoilable state that cannot be ruined, not even by the angry local that may be slashing your tires and waxing your windows simply because he doesn’t want to share some waves. To a surfer it’s an understandable
act of necessary evil to keep an ungoverned subculture in form, and from it breaking into full bore beachblanket-bingo havoc.
Open Space is a collection of images, collages, and installations that evoke the balance in my life.”
Cheers,Keegan
all aboard
I spent the second half of September aboard the Indies Trader 4 with some friends for a surf trip in the Indian Ocean. I love Indonesia.
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out here
Undisclosed location in the Indian Ocean. Halfway through this trip, and paradise has never tasted so good.
FAT
Teamed up with my friends at Freedom Artists and did a t-shirt design. The photograph is from one of the first days of my first trip to Indonesia 3 years ago. Check out Freedom Artists HERE! and hit them up about getting one for yourself.
What would be a better place to be the first shop to sell the shirt other than, Drifter Surf Shop in Bali, Indonesia. I brought over a dozen shirts to them in the spring, and they flew off the shelves in the first week or two! Best surf shop in Bali with really cool product, and run by even cooler people Tim Russo and Jake Mackenzie. So if you are ever in the area, definitely check it out. Click for some more photos of the T-shirt and Drifter surf shop. (more…)
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