California Surf Museum Presents BIG Wednesdays on Jan. 31st

It’s still the first Big Wednesday of 2024 but we have a date change to January 31
Shaping Surf History – Tom Curren and Al Merrick, California 1980-1983

Presentation and Book Signing with author and photographer Jimmy Metyko and special guest Jamie Brisick
Wednesday, January 31
Doors open at 6pm
Presentation begins about 6:30
General admission: $10
CSM Members: $5
Seating is limited. Call to purchase a ticket or RSVP to 760-721-6876

Jimmy Metyko was a cool Texas kid from Houston who came out to Santa Barbara in the 80s, made friends with Tommy Curren, and for a few years documented the scene in the Santa Barbara/Rincon region. His book is full of wonderful photos from the era.
Special guest Jamie Brisick will join Jimmy in the slide show presentation. After the slide show, Jimmy will talk about his book and do a book signing.

Jimmy Metyko
Photographer Jimmy Metyko has had a profound influence on the evolution of surf photography, with his unique perspective and distinctive visual style. His tightly cropped, action shots, combined with intimate lifestyle vignettes, reflect his immersion in the culture and showcase an insider point of view. Metyko puts the viewer on the waves with some of the most influential surfers of the last 50 years.

Jimmy developed a passion for surfing along the Galveston’s Gulf Coast beaches. He turned this passion into a profession, becoming, while at the same time attending Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, one of the sport’s most influential surf photographers. While chronicling the nascent pro surfing scene in the early 1980s he was the first to focus on the move to develop aerial maneuvers, publishing the very first sequence of a completed ‘aerial’, an innovation that changed the way surfers looked at waves.

Jamie Brisick
Thoughtful, well-traveled and cosmopolitan surf writer and photographer, originally from the San Fernando Valley, California; the only professional surfer to win a Fulbright Scholarship which took him to Japan where spent four months in Japan doing research on how that country did and did not assimilate Western-style surf culture. (Extracted from Encyclopedia of Surfing, eos.surf)

Shaping Surf History will be available for purchase at the book signing.
$55
304 pages

Can’t make to the book signing? Call in to order a book with your preferred inscription by 4pm Wednesday, January 24. Shipping will be charged if you are unable to pick up in person.

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