In the early 1930s, New Zealand-born artist Eric Askew found himself unable to get work as a commercial artist because of the depression. So, he took up sign painting and pictorial art painting in New Zealand. Around this time, he began surfing and became a member of the Piha Surf Life Saving Club. Askew...

Palm Springs has received a lot of attention lately for its wealth of modern and post-modern architecture. One architecture firm was largely responsible for a changing the face of Palm Springs from a sleepy desert town into a jet-setting community of the future. The firm was the Alexander Construction...