
Woodshed Films doc delves deep into the roots of climbing, surfing, and the environmental movement.
In 1968 Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins set out to surf, ski and climb their way to Patagonia. The wild places they found later motivated them to protect the environment. Inspired by this journey, Jeff Johnson and Woodshed Films set sail on a voyage to South America to climb a mythical peak called Corcovado with Chouinard and Tompkins.
London photographer Tom Robinson and his girlfriend were sitting on Brighton Beach, England, when they realized the view of their feet pointing out to sea would make a nice photo. So began "Feet First," a heartwarming series of photos shot in the same composition, documenting the couple's travels around the world. After five years, the duo became a trio with their......read more
At her studio in Hamilton, Ontario, Jenna Fenwick creates handmade, sustainable textile products under the Jenna Rose banner. After drawing illustrations by hand, she screen prints the drawings using non-toxic water-based pigments on natural and organic materials. From the Jenna Rose collection comes this Ships Large Zipper Tote, featuring her original illustration of ships and waves printed......read more
We closed down this year's Sundance Film Fest with a bang, at a SHFT dinner held at Fiore in Park City. Presented with Ford and W Hollywood, the event was hosted by Adrian and Peter, who uncorked (more than) a few bottles of our newly launched House Red, an organic Rhone Blend from Paso Robles, California. The dinner itself was a smash, with phenomenal food plated by the culinary......read more
Adrian and Peter brought SHFT House Wine to this year's International Gourmet Festival, featuring Michelin-starred chefs from around the world, was held at the Vila Joya resort in Portugal's spectacular Algarve region. In other words, the perfect place to launch the first of our sustainable House Wines, a big, bold red crafted at an organic vineyard in Paso Robles,......read more
For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Tomio Seike has divided time between Japan and Europe. In 2010 he lived in a holiday apartment on Marine Parade in Brighton, England, where he took these photos of the beachscape below. The series, titled "Overlook," show tiny human figures at the edge of an endless sea, harkening Romantic landscape paintings. In fact, on first glance, they......read more
Derek Vincent Smith, aka Colorado-based electronic musician Pretty Lights, recently dropped this rolling, uplifting new track, "We Must Go On." To mark the release, Smith and his girlfriend, visual artist Krystle Blackburn, put out this video chronicling their travels through 2011. Shot on a pair of Canon 7Ds with about six lenses, the clip documents their ramblings through London,......read more
"I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness." - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness The Congo, Africa's volatile beating heart, has for centuries represented a vast unknown to the Western imagination. Irish......read more
At SHFT, we're not shy about admitting our love for aerial photography. For most of us, however, the closest we'll come to capturing images of the earth from above is snapping camera phone pictures out of an airplane window. Sadly, these always miss the extraordinary feeling one gets when looking down from the sky. With his "On the Plane" series, Phillip Kalantzis-Cope hits the mark we......read more