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"\"&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m honored to have met Ben Brough. I&amp;#8217;m happy to know I&amp;#8217;ve personally met a genius. He&amp;#8217;s like a renaissance man traveling the world making art, surfing, and living the life he&amp;#8217;s always wanted to live. Ben&amp;#8217;s always been an amazing surfer, but he has so much more to offer this world than just airs and barrels. He&amp;#8217;s on the forefront of his own little nich\\u00e9 in the art world, his own world\\u00bfBen&amp;#8217;s world. To put it simple, he&amp;#8217;s an artist.\\u00bfC.C.&lt;P&gt;Up Close Ben Broughby Blair Marlin&lt;P&gt;How long have you been doing art, Ben?&lt;P&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve been drawing since I was really young, but I got into painting five years ago. &lt;P&gt;What do you get out of it? Is it the same kind of satisfaction as surfing?&lt;P&gt;Yeah, definitely. It&amp;#8217;s on the same level, but it&amp;#8217;s different because with surfing, nothing can compare to it because it&amp;#8217;s so fun. Painting gives you the ability to create something. With a wave, it&amp;#8217;s more like you play on it and have fun, kind of like your inner child. Painting is a sense of accomplishment. I guess you can get that in surfing, too.&lt;P&gt;Do you have anything you like to paint the most?&lt;P&gt;I like to paint whatever comes to mind, sometimes just a bunch of scribbles. It&amp;#8217;s more connected to my energy and feelings.&lt;P&gt;And what&amp;#8217;s going on that day.&lt;P&gt;Yeah, some days I won&amp;#8217;t even do it. And some days I&amp;#8217;ll do it all day. If I want to think about surfing, then I&amp;#8217;ll paint surfing. It&amp;#8217;s more of a pastime\\u00bfcreating things and having something to show for yourself when you get older. You look back at what you were thinking at that time.&lt;P&gt;Your brother Jordy seems to be on the right track now.&lt;P&gt;I&amp;#8217;m stoked for my brother.&lt;P&gt;Are you living vicariously through him?&lt;P&gt;Yeah, he&amp;#8217;s going to carry on the professional name for Brough. He&amp;#8217;s under a good thing with Volcom, Dave Riddell, and all those guys.&lt;P&gt;Are you still taking photos as well?&lt;P&gt;Once in a while, but it&amp;#8217;s so expensive. I like shooting photos because you capture the truth so quick. It&amp;#8217;s fun, but there&amp;#8217;s so much to learn and it costs so much money to get film developed. I shoot Polaroids, and when I go on a trip somewhere, I take as many rolls as I can\\u00bfeat less and buy more film, so that you can document it all. That&amp;#8217;s what it&amp;#8217;s all about\\u00bfmapping out the future. &lt;P&gt;Do you have your journals here? Your books?&lt;P&gt;Yeah, I have one that I started on. I got rid of everything because I just moved in here Laguna Beach, California. &lt;P&gt;Do you have it all in storage?&lt;P&gt;I sent it back home when I was back in Hawai&amp;#8217;i. Looking through stuff I did these portraits of my girlfriend. This picture\\u00bfI did three different versions. There&amp;#8217;s one when me, Ozzie Wright, and Cowboy went up to San Francisco.&lt;P&gt;What did you guys do up there?&lt;P&gt;Just walked around Haight Street and shot some film. &lt;P&gt;You and Ozzie have a similar kind of art.&lt;P&gt;His stuff is amazing. I can&amp;#8217;t compete with Ozzie. He does all realistic things. He pretty much busts out anything he wants at any time and it&amp;#8217;s all good. It&amp;#8217;s cool that he&amp;#8217;s from a totally different country\\u00bfwe have a lot to talk about. When we&amp;#8217;re together I feel some pretty heavy creativity\\u00bfhe&amp;#8217;s such good inspiration. &lt;P&gt;Are you still doing the air shows?&lt;P&gt;I&amp;#8217;m still super into that.&lt;P&gt;Do you get inspired when you go to different places?&lt;P&gt;I get overloaded. I went to the Guggenheim Art Museum in Spain, and all these things were going through my head. I walked upstairs and saw these Picasso paintings and I didn&amp;#8217;t even know they were there\\u00bfI got all numb for a second. Seeing them live was pretty crazy. Where do you see yourself in five years with your art, surfing, and life?&lt;P&gt;I&amp;#8217;d say that I&amp;#8217;ll still be surfing, doing more art, as well as getting a chance to live in different places like San Francisco, London, and France\\u00bfexperiencing different things. Surfing is more of an exercise, it just doesn&amp;#8217;t grasp who I really am and where I came from. Painting is kind of the same way, but I can take it places. You can take it ddifferent places than you can with just riding waves. &lt;P&gt;Do you have anything else you would like to have people know about you?&lt;P&gt;I&amp;#8217;m just out there to have fun, I&amp;#8217;m not trying to prove anything to anyone. I&amp;#8217;m just doing what makes my soul happy. I&amp;#8217;d just like to thank everyone who&amp;#8217;s helped me out. Being able to travel and see the world off of surfing, it&amp;#8217;s pretty crazy how far my surfing has gotten me. I hope art takes me in the same way.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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