I've been surfing since my early teenage years. My love for the sport grew while the surfing lifestyle naturally became an essential element of my soul. I live on the "wave-scarce" west coast of Florida which fuels my surf-hungry cravings. Consequently, traveling was the only gratifying alternative during the wave famines associated with the Gulf of Mexico. I've traveled for surf extensively throughout Costa Rica, California, Caribbean and Florida scoring some incredible sessions along the way. I've dreamed of combining my life of surfing together with the passion for story telling.
I was born in Poland in 1973 and escaped communist rule with my parents when I was about five years old. Moving through Austria in search of a political asylum camp, we sought refuge under the country’s amnesty. The United States awarded my family and I political asylum and we then moved to New York City in 1977. After two trying years my parents moved us to Florida's Tampa Bay area where I reside today.
My formal studies in Commercial Art brought me to establish Green Dot Design, a creative firm, to provide an outlet for my talents allowing businesses to benefit from my style of designing classic advertising and marketing tools. My love for graphic design has led me to produce some remarkable projects for such world class clients as Motorola, Disney, Esso Oil, Burger King, just to name a few. Traveling the road of graphic art has brought me to my most impassioned pursuit yet - film making.
I've studied art in it's many forms all through my life. Recent creative journeys have taken me deep into the remote jungles of Costa Rica's Southern Zone to document a group of friends and my family traveling and surfing together while experiencing an extraordinary adventure. This was featured in my debut film "Jungle Juice: Surfing Adventure In Costa Rica's Southern Zone". "Going With The Flow: Classic California Soul Surfing" is my second film and takes you along an incredible journey into the rich surfing heritage of Southern California with Jesse Timm and Kevin Connelly as well as Legends Linda Benson, Lance Carson, LJ Richards, Henry Ford, Hank Warner as well as Dewey Weber's son, Cory. "Going With The Flow: Surfing Costa Rica's Breaks", my third film and second in the Going With The Flow series takes you on an adventure featuring some of the most stylish longboarding ever captured in a surf film. Both Kevin and Jesse meet and surf with Author/Screenwritter/Surfer, Allan Weisbecker and experience all the adventure and misadventure one would expect on such an epic surf trip. "Going With The Flow: Surfing Costa Rica's Breaks" is currently in post production and I'm hoping to have it available on DVD by the end of 2008.
I've spent my life searching for a creative outlet which would allow all of my talents to be utilized. My passion for the art of story telling has driven me to produce – Jungle Juice and the Going With The Flow series. My continual research into surfing’s history and experience with surf cultures from around the world combined with love for adventure helps me identify the universal elements unique to both surfers and travelers in search of substance and soul.
I have future film projects in development which will allow me to create more surf films that go below the surface and show the surfing lifestyle as it really is; good times, fun waves, heritage and infinite adventure.
I invite everyone to check out my other film/surfing WebSite.
goingwiththeflowfilms.com
arsenpro.com
longboardtheworld.com
