From the mouth of Ryan Burch

My favorite quote right now is from Ryan Burch in Tom's Creation Plantation. (And you can apply this quote to making anything). Ryan is a young, insanely talented surfer, who started shaping his own boards and makes Alaia riding look like a piece of cake.

"We come from a generation where we can go to Wal-Mart and buy anything we need usually. Or, Costco is selling surfboards - let's learn how to surf.

It's not like the old days...people became craftsmen because when they were kids, they got tools to make their own toys.

(At this moment in the film, Ryan is smiling while making an Alaia).

We're trying to do it now. We're falling rather short, compared to what people have done in the past, but we're having fun doing it. And by having fun doing it, we're gonna get better at it eventually."