L is for La Jolla

Seaside California neighborhood and the location of Andy Warhol’s 1968 San Diego Surf film.

San Diego Surf, 1968/1996, by Andy Warhol

S is for Stoked

Surfer parlance for wave excitement — and the name of the rad board book by Claudia Lebenthal and Daniel H. Stark.

Greg Noll Surf Shop, Hermosa Beach, 1963. Photo by Leroy Grannis

C is for California

Land of sun, surf, skateboards and…hour-long traffic.

Photo from the Stay Cool series by RJ Shaughnessy in Milk and Honey

C is for Collage

A graphic cut-and-paste hybrid of elements, as seen in artist Tony Caramanico’s surf journals.

Teddy by Tony Caramanico

M is for Martin Parr and Miyazaki, Japan

Home to the world’s largest indoor watermark, as photographed here by Martin Parr.

The Ocean Dome, Miyazaki, Japan, 1996. © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

S is for Sun-Kissed

And surf and sand and the Sixties — the ingredients to Ron Church: California to Hawaii 1960 to 1965, a book of vintage surfing photographs by the legendary lensman.

N is for New Music

Best Coast — an American surf band we are listening to now.