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Surf culture has long produced its own aesthetic, along with a tradition of surfer-artists. On the visual vanguard at the moment are Alex Kopps and Tin Ojeda. Kopps’s films, graffiti and collage-like prints (alexkopps.com) give an urban edge to what is usually a beachy domain. “The content and events that have influenced my artwork were not discovered at the beach,” says Kopps, who lives in the Bay Area and sells some of his T-shirts and posters (right) at Mollusk Surf Shop. His film “Displacement,” about “displacement hull” surfboards, uses 1970s Super-8 footage with abstract effects. Ojeda, the Argentinian-born painter and surfer behind the Drug Money Art clothing line (drugmoneyart.com), is bringing the beach to the city. His tees, on which he hand-prints phrases (“Beauty Is Boring,” says one), first gained a following in his home base of Montauk, N.Y. Now they’re at Barneys and in stores in Tokyo, Berlin and London.