Everything could be technically perfect but if it doesn’t have that style, in my mind it’s useless.Surf's Up is a film by Sony Pictures Animation. Even when he designs surf boards, he says, “it needs the right lines and shapes. He says he has a sort of uniform that consists of several basic pieces all in blue, tan, khaki or cream. Maybe I’ll walk around and not really shoot a photo until I really see something that I like.”Īt the bottom of everything DeTemple does is an unwavering commitment to a certain aesthetic. “And I can be the same way when I shoot photos. “In the water I can sit and just wait and wait and catch one wave every half hour or something like that,” he explains. I really dig into the small things and I like to pay attention to them whether it’s shooting a photo or surfing or even sailing.” “So you really start to pick things apart and I think that translates to everything. “The majority of the time when you’re surfing you’re just sitting out in the ocean waiting for a wave and that gives you all the time to dissect those little things, you start to really pay attention to all the intricacies of it, like water texture and the way it looks and feels.” “I like the Woolworths building in particular, it was one of the first skyscrapers and changed the skyline of the city. You can go out to some incredible restaurant or walk to a museum or walk over one of the bridges.” “Any day you’re there you can pick anything you wanna do and do it. “I love how much there is going on in New York,” he says. These days, a typical day off sees him popping out for a coffee and breakfast a few blocks from his Brooklyn apartment, strolling around his neighbourhood to do some people watching, and then hopping on the subway into Manhattan to meet friends for lunch. I need the balance, the crazy and the quiet. I couldn’t do New York without getting to the ocean and surfing, and I couldn’t just do surfing without New York.
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He spent more than a decade competing in international surf contests, his camera never far from his side, before making the full switch over to media. His parents met while surfing in the ‘70s and his father was a commercial clam digger, so the beach has always been a huge part of his life. It’s kind of the way I operate.” So that’s exactly how the 34-year-old filmmaker, photographer and surfer lives: with one foot in the chaos and “gritty charm” of NYC and the other out in the calm and solitude of the ocean. Now, he explains, both worlds are integral to his daily life. After more than a decade competing in international surf contests, his camera never far from his side, the 34-year-old made the move into filmmaking and photography and embraced city life. His parents met while surfing in the ’70s and his father was a commercial clam digger, so he all but grew up on the beaches of Long Island, New York. Mikey DeTemple is reluctant to describe himself as a city guy.
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