interview with Dear & Yonder filmmaker / surfer Tiffany Campbell on Liquid Salt mag

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Inspirational renaissance woman/filmmaker/surfer/photographer Tiffany Campbell has an insightful interview over on Liquid Salt - chatting about Villa Villa Cola Productions, Dear & Yonder, life with artist husband Thomas, her quiver, longboard style and more.

A beautiful new online magazine which 'profiles the people who make the culture & lifestyle of surfing,' read an extract from Tiffany's Q&A with writer Glen Sakamoto after the jump...

What was life like grow ing up?

I wanted to live out side when I was a kid and I got pretty close. We had a large over grown field in our back yard beyond the man i cured lawn (we called it "the way back") and my sis ter and I would build elaborate villages out of bamboo fashioned into tipi structures that we would layer thick with the stocks of over grown weeds.

We even had a fire pit where we experimented with out door cooking. This almost always ended in disaster - don't cook Jiffy Pop over an open flame! If we weren't in our field-village, we were riding bikes and play ing with the neighborhood kids whose back yards were linked to ours through a series of kid trails. I had a lot of freedom to roam.

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Above: Kassia Meador in Dear & Yonder

Who did you look up to and admire when you were younger?
When I was young I loved Pippi Long stocking, she was my ideal. She is the main character in a book series created by Swedish author, Astrid Lindgren, which was later adapted into a series of awesome films.

Pippi is about ten and her Dad is a pirate who is at sea most of the time, so she lives on her own in a house she named Villa Villekulla with a monkey, a horse and a pile of gold coins.

She out smarts cops, avoids school and wraps up all the dirty dishes in the table cloth after a meal and throws the bundle away - just to name a few of her more charming traits. I also wanted to be like the Swiss Family Robinson (also a book and movie).

They are a family who are ship wrecked on an island and learn to sur vive in a strange land, but the point is that they build the best tree house ever, which fueled my imagination for years. I had a bit of an obsession with self-sufficiency and adven ture. Still do.