"42 Ways to Kill Hitler" on Nov 30th!

Los Angeles, California. On November 30th, the National Geographic Channel will premiere 42 Ways to Kill Hitler at 9pm. This documentary explores the various assassination attempts on Adolph Hitler’s life, including the famous attempt by Colonel Claus von Staffenberg, a high ranking official serving under Hitler. In “42 Ways” Arlo Hemphill portrays Adolph Hitler in various historical re-enactments. Check out this trailer for a small sample of the program. The pictures included here are courtesy National Geographic.




Also, watch for me in these other small, upcoming spots:

Grey’s Anatomy
Season 5, Episode 10
December 4th, 9pm on ABC
Dr. Yang (Sandro Oh) is charged with choosing one of her peers to be the first in their class of residents to perform a solo surgery. You’ll catch me running alongside Katie Heigl, Ellen Pompeo and Justin Chambers as one of the residents competing for this honor. Look for me in any of the various scenes that follow this storyline. Additionally, watch me for in surgical mask, working as an observer at a surgery performed by Dr. Mark Sloan (Eric Dane).

Dollhouse
Season 1, Episode 6 “True Believer”
March 20, 2009 on Fox
This is a really quick spot where I appear briefly (one scene) as an ATF commando at the base of operations for an attack against a dangerous cult. It's such a small spot I wouldn’t usually mention it, but it's where I earned my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) eligibility – so it’s kind of special! Also watch for Rick Schimmelpfenneg in this one - he is highly featured!

24
Season 7, Episode 17
April 13th, 8pm/7 Central on Fox - Date Subject to Change
I’m a Navy Seal in a stand-off between the armed forces and the Starkwood ops. Also look for me early in the season (within first the first few episodes) as a DC cop in an intersection action sequence.


Headed to the movies this holiday season? Watch for me among the frustrated airport travelers in Four Christmases and riding a red beach cruiser around Adam Sandler on the Santa Monica boardwalk in Bedtime Stories!

Thanks for watching!

Surfing as Exploration

Marina del Rey, California. Surfing as exploration began in my life in 1992, when a group of college buddies and I joined a work trip to Antigua, WI in order to check out the surf in this far flung corner of the Caribbean. We eventually spent three spring breaks and two complete summers on the island, hosting sports camps for local youth, conducting botanical surveys in local forests and, of course, doing a lot of snorkeling, diving and surfing.

In 1995, Boca, Rabbit and I made our first of many trips to Costa Rica, exploring the Pacific coast of that country and developing a relationship with this region that would prove to span into the next decade of our lives. The trip was destined to become an annual, and somes multi-annual, tradition that has since been joined by a brotherhood of surfers.

But the draw of exotic waves couldn't keep us in Costa Rica alone. Our wave expeditions have since taken us to El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Australia. And the list will continue to grow. The hunt for good surf is one of the rawest, most sensory-immersed forms of exploration I know. The landscape is not seen from tour buses or hotel windows, but rather felt, smelled, heard and tasted through every pore in one's body as you run barefoot through the muck of coastal swamplands, swim through untamed river mouths, get caught nearly naked in torrential tropical downpours, come into intimate contact with local people and wildlife and, more often than not, venture to remote, underdeveloped corners of our host nations, far off the beaten track of the typical tourist.

Through surfing exploration, I have experienced some of my fondest moments in life and have faced challenges in remote settings that surpass even my work in the sciences. I have also made and nurtured the best friendships of my life. A brotherhood of surfing explorers who are closer to me than any genetic blood ties I know. This has been my greatest gift in this life.