Surfrider Images Benefit
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CEO Jim Moriarty to show 125 iPhone prints at San Pedro, CA gallery as benefit for Surfrider.

Jim Moriarty: iPhone photos by a real American Surfrider

(SAN PEDRO) - Surfrider Foundation CEO Jim Moriarty is showing 125 8x8 Giclee prints at Gallery Neuartig at 366 W. 7th St. in San Pedro, CA on Saturday, 9 July 2011, from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

This very unique show benefits the Surfrider Foundation. Each of the 125 prints will be sold through a silent auction format starting $100. The Surfrider Foundation is a grassroots non-profit environmental organization that works to protect and preserve the world's oceans, waves, and beaches.

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.182751815114810.47911.105244419532217]

"At Surfrider we're about using the best tools possible to maximize our mission of coastal protection. We want people pushing out pictures, videos and podcasts...anything that helps connect people to our vision of healthy coasts. Part of this process is having them use tools like iPhones as much as possible and explore those tools capabilities. All these photos were taken on my iPhone." said Moriarty. "In some cases I've also used phone apps to tweak or mashup the imagery. I thing of these photos as something in-between real-time loose sketches and an ongoing photographic journal."

Moriarty has been sharing his photographic journal with his Facebook friends for several years. "I knew this would be the eventual outcome of so many great moments," said friend Ian Padraig O'Roarty

Jim Moriarty is the CEO of the Surfrider Foundation an an innovative leader in the environmental and action sports communities. From a a skateboarding punk-rock kid to an architect of the early days of e-commerce, Moriarty is obsessed with building companies and organizations around notable and world-altering ideas. Jim's job as CEO of the Surfrider Foundation melds his passions for environmental awareness, action sports and big ideas. His vision is clear: Create a global movement of coastal environmental awareness and action. Jim resides in Solana Beach, and when he's not working, he can be found riding waves at his home break in Cardiff Reef.

Gallery Neuartig in San Pedro, CA strives to create meaningful and stimulating surroundings through contemporary art and maintains an eclectic program of carefully selected artists based on mastery of their craft, creative process and the depth of their vision and ideas.

We invite all media, members of the surf community community and art lovers to this special opening. We invite everyone to bid on the pieces. Early bidding on some pieces has started on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.182751815114810.47911.105244419532217

Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210569392313868