The Dolphin Board of Awesome is the world’s first 3D-printed, compostable, recyclable surfboard. It is cheaper and more durable already than most conventional surfboards. It’s made from algae from eutrophic lakes in Mississippi where the algae is invasive and killing life, as well as a little sugarcane and corn, which a company called Algix makes into material called PLA that works in our 3D printers. We also have a friend at Imperial College London who helped us use recycled plastic bottles for portions of the board as well, to demonstrate how easily you can make surfboards out of nearly any material with additive manufacturing. For this first prototype, we also used a thin layer of plant-based resin from Entropy Resins to coat the exterior of the board, but within the next year, we won’t need to use any resin. We’ll start using fully hydrophobic printing materials.

Through the Dolphin Board of Awesome, we hope other players from all the performance sports industries will see our process and our tribe as a pathway to the future. Initial Thinkers: Zachary Ostroff, Nate Petre, Jeff Hamaoui, Greg Ostroff, Jimmy Lewis, Marlon Lewis, Rey Banatao, Michael Stewart, Alex Thompson, and Martijn Stiphout was the core tribe that brought this first prototype into existence. Special thanks to filmmakers Jeff den Broeder and Beth O’Rourke (SeaLevelTV) for joining us on this journey and capturing so many magic moments.

My role: Director of Photography, Editor, Title Cards (stop motion created from plastic I found on local beaches)

Press: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/meet-the-dolphin-board-of-awesome_b_58b9f3c5e4b02b8b584dfb9f