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  PHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHY  Nope. We haven’t opened a photography lab. We’ve simply borrowed the nomenclature for BOTE’s latest endeavor, The DarkRoom. The DarkRoom isn’t just a space; it’s a project with a purpose. From inception to completion, the DarkRoom will...

STORY: MACKENZIE AMOS & ROB MCABEEPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHY The first day I met Tim Bluhm the rain was falling in buckets. Tim is a musician, surfer, traveler and an old California soul. He is the lead singer in the band, The...

STORY: BOB BROWNPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHY It's not too often that people can escape reality via a 15 minute pontoon boat ride. Call it a fantasy, a dream or whatever...we at BOTE call it a weekend trip to Black's Island. Black's Island...

STORY: COREY COOPERPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO BY: LIVE WILD STUDIOS It's a challenge. Balancing work and leisure, raising your kids, focusing on the simple things that really matter. For the majority of us, myself included, the struggle to do so is very real....

STORY: ROB MCABEEPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO BY: LIVE WILD STUDIOS This five-year relationship between BOTE and Sean Murphy all started with one image. An image of an attractive blond girl standing on top of a blacked-out postal truck, pouring gasoline down onto the...

STORY: WIL BEAUCHERPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO BY: LIVE WILD STUDIOS It's not every day that you meet a person who knows how to live as primitively as possible, none the less, someone who dedicates their life to teaching others how to do so...

STORY: JESSICA PEREZPHOTOGRAPHY: NICK CAHILL Nick Cahill and Jessica Perez are a couple who recently moved from Lake Tahoe, Nevada into their tiny home on wheels, a converted 1988 Thomas school bus. Initially they didn’t have plans to live full-time...

STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO: COLORBLIND MEDIA As brothers, Eric and Evan Geiselman grew up doing pretty much everything together. Having parents that fostered a life on the water from a very young age, a father who shapes surf boards and...

STORY: ROB MCABEEPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO BY: LIVE WILD STUDIOS To many, there is a clearly defined separation between living an urban lifestyle or living in nature. Living in a city can expose one to many different cultures and experiences. Living in nature...

STORY: AMBER SCHEELPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO: LIVE WILD STUDIOS   If you went looking for a gritty community with a hardcore love for the ocean, even in the bleakest of winters, you’d probably end up in New England. If you stuck around long...

  STORY BY: AMBER SCHEELPHOTOGRAPHY BY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO BY: COLORBLIND MEDIA From growing up surfing daily to becoming a Hollywood artist turned family man - Chris Taloa's deep appreciation for his homeland of Hawaii and mentality of always remaining pure of heart...

   PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO FOOTAGE: SEAN MURPHYDRONE FOOTAGE: ROB MCABEEDIRECTION & SCRIPT: WIL BEAUCHERVIDEO EDITING: 101 EXIT  My buddy Dan said “Let’s park at Ron’s house.” We were surfing at Silver Strand in Oxnard, California a few years ago. It's a...

STORY: COREY COOPERPHOTOGRAPHY: SEAN MURPHYVIDEO: 101 EXIT MEDIA  Motorcycles have always been a passion of mine. I starting trail riding as a teenager and spent countless hours in my garage turning nuts and bolts and rebuilding engines without any real guide for...