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## Cyrus Sutton: From Surf films to the Gorge Onsen
“I had never really picked up a camera until I decided to make my first surf movie *Riding waves*, featuring a 16-year-old Dane Reynolds, Rob Machado, Donavon Frankenreiter, and yogi and Pipeline pioneer John Peck. I cleaned pools in the summer of 2002 to buy my first camcorder and computer to make the film. My hands reeked of chlorine while I learned the hot keys on Apple’s Final Cut Pro.”
That first film opened the floodgates to a range of media projects,from personal work like *Stoked and Broke* with Ryan Burch in 2012,to professional roles that led to his time as Creative Director for Guayakí Yerba Mate,which,before COVID,brought together creatives like Gigi Douglas.
“By the time instagram came out, I had already been making hundreds of edits through my blog, Korduroy, and that’s part of what made me attractive to sponsors. Within a few years, I was going non-stop, always traveling and always working, but I started saving every penny, and that’s how I bought the land. That was eleven years ago. The house and property had good bones and a lot of potential, so I hired friends and learned a variety of trades through osmosis and online research.Since then,I’ve been steadily working to get it to where it is today.”
