If you’re like me, you may well have spent hours of your youth lovingly recreating the iconic designs of pioneering Santa Cruz artist Jim Phillips. My first deck was a Roskopp 6, and I covered countless notebook covers, a leg cast, my bedroom door, and other surfaces with my humble recreations of his work.
That work is showcased in the documentary “Art And Life,” screening on Thursday in Santa Cruz. I hope to be there, and maybe to see you there as well. (To this day I can’t quite get over the fact that “Santa Cruz” is a real place, and that I can actually visit it. Growing up it was like “Timbuktu” or “Shangri-La.” Funny ol’ world.)