Creators Gathering 2023

This year, we brought our Creators & Innovators together at Sage Mountain in San Simeon, California for another rendition of our annual Creators Gathering. Tucked away in a lush, wet, canyon just off the Central California coast, Sage Mountain provided for a quiet, removed setting for creative collaboration, board building, artwork, and good times. For a few days in the canyon, the craftsman came together to riff on board design theories, bringing creative concepts to life and of course surfing.
Film & Edit by Brian Elliott
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Special Thanks
Tim Radecki
Chad Jackson
Guayaki
Taxa
805 Beer
US Blanks
Polyola
Nautilus Surf Co.
Creators & Innovators: Alex Lopez, Alex 'Superwolf' Villalobos, Chad Jackson, Danny Hess, Derrick Disney, Donald Brink, Jack Coleman, Jason Woodside, Jeff, McCallum, Jeremiah Klein, John Simon, Brian Elliott, Nick Melanson, Travis Reynolds, and Thomas Campbell.

[@jonahhex9620]

Happy Thanksgiving, enjoy the holiday season

[@Optable]

This was a fun visual collection. Moments, steady progress, and history. Gives a perspective record into Vissla that I never knew about this brand.
Rad stuff all around. Props to creative here: Thoughtfully well edited 🤙
Random idea to throw into the works for a cool brand piece: Combine the craft and materials of an acoustic guitar maker with a board maker + pair of sunglasses from same batch of wood for a limited /2 run or something. If just for the workshop, the brand, media, or storytelling opportunity itself, think this would be an awesome collection to see come together and finished out in some sort of cohesive mini collection.
I do these sort of custom limited runs for brands as a senior digital packaging designer, and some feel gimmicky; some are off the deep end; and some thoughtfully come together for an awesome set of showcased hard work and creativity. Stay true and gives those ideas runway, and sometimes you end up with stellar collections to further build on down the line.

[@Steve-vz3ud]

Cool As.....Dudes

[@surfersofsiargao3714]

love this

[@tannergud]

That was an epic video!!!

[@caseyhansen4567]

That was really cool to watch .i love that san Simeon area .so many interesting characters

[@thosk4450]

Dope flick

[@andrewspage]

Love from Idaho. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

[@Singlefinsurfingforlife]

You guys always put out killer content

[@ridingrobi]

sooo good! That's true surf contest. + makes me wanna go back to the shed and finish that 7'2

[@erikhancock98569]

Some very hip eyewear in this video 😂

[@Bido11561]

How do you not give a look of the finished boards?!