Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic. Also, learn how ocean waves can power our future.

For everyone who is outraged and depressed by the wave of greed in the 21st century, there is one name that inspires hope - Yvon Chouinard, the founder and owner of PATAGONIA - the antibusinessman who is a businessman to the bone.

"Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing." - Yvon Chouinard

MOUNTAIN OF STORMS was a film made in 1968 featuring YC, Doug Tompkins, and Dick Dorworth which documents a 6 month odyssey that took them from from California to the Patagonia region of South America. This film was the inspiration for 180 South. Included in this clip are the intro and a little soul surfing from Peru.