There was a great post Friday in "The Moment" (fashion & design blog for the New York Times' style magazine, T) about NRDC's new oceans film by Ari Marcopoulos, Seventy-One Percent of Earth.

The film stars a handful of well-known big wave surfers and calls for the creation of Marine Protected Areas, like national parks of the sea, to revive our oceans. In an excerpt from the post, here's how writer Aimee Walleston describes it:

"Ahh, the surf film. Endless, hypnotic iterations of tanned gods riding the crest, shooting the curl and hanging ten. Think Bud Browne's "The Big Surf" or Bruce Brown's "The Endless Summer," both classics of the sunny life. But leave it to the art photographer and T contributor Ari Marcopoulos to add a splash of avant garde to the genre and a topical political imperative...

"...The film mixes up de rigueur sweet action footage of inimitable surf talents - including Grant "Twiggy" Baker, the Long Brothers, Brian Conley, Frank Solomon and Anthony Tashnick - with lingering shots of the Pacific, many as seen through Marcopoulos' beloved fisheye lens. Such imagery recalls the artist's own realist photographs of athletes and nature, and offer a take on surf culture that is meditative without venturing into the depths of cliché..."

The post goes on to include a Q&A with the filmmaker on why he chose to work with surfers, how working on the film affected him, and what it was like working with actor Peter Coyote on the narration - check it out!

And if you haven't yet seen the film, you can watch it here.

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