Photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos has works in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Detroit Institute of the Arts (the Berkeley Museum of Arts is doing a survey exhibition of his work in opening in September). Over the years he has worked with a motley crew of other artists - from Andy Warhol to the Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Fab 5 Freddy, Adam Kimmel and Josh Brolin.

Soon, the Natural Resources Defense Council will be on the list. Here he is in our office last week when he came by to give us a first peek at a near-final cut of his next work, "Seventy-One Percent of Earth":

Ari's film is narrated by Emmy Award-winner Peter Coyote and stars a handful of surfers in the water and helping NRDC get the word out about reviving our oceans through Marine Protected Areas, including Rusty & Greg Long, Grant " Twiggy" Baker, Brian Conley, Frank Solomon and Anthony Tashnick. Three of these guys were nominated in the big wave awards (2 won their category).

Here's a preview of what to expect - more to come soon!:

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