This is actually my last post on this blog so I’m gonna go out in style with one of my favorite artists, James Turrell. I’m not going to tell you why, just watch this video.
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Photo and fins from Tim Orr, Pure Life Surfboards
For all you fin fanatics, surf on over to the I Heart Fins blog. Their mission: “We love a good foil under our rear foot. Fins drive your board and thus your surfing experience. The design and placement of a board’s fins are such an important aspect of how it rides. This site is an effort to raise awareness on some of the more interesting fin designs that are out there and, when possible, make them accessible for people to expand their surfing into new dimensions.”
Anonymous, Shiva Linga, 2002
I have noticed in the Tantric works how the simplicity of their conventional, geometric forms is complemented by the infinite complexity of their particular execution: water stains, flaws in the handmade paper, fragments of unrelated text combine to make each work not only unique but somehow perfect. These images would clearly not have the same power if they were drawn on a computer and digitally printed. It’s not just a desire for the antique or a nostalgic patina that makes the incidental marks so important, it’s precisely that ideal forms—forms plumbed from the depths of the mind, of the soul—need to co-exist with randomness and the emptiness of chance. How is it that a symbol of god alone is so dull, but when juxtaposed with a smudge or a smear it comes alive? Ever since I moved to the country I’ve fantasized about sleeping at night in the woods, with a blanket maybe but nothing else to separate me from the world and the life around me. I haven’t done it, but I see in these Tantric images what such exposure might feel like and what awareness it might lead to. —Lawrence Rinder from Tantra Song. If in NYC, you can check out these paintings at Feature Inc.
Minimalistic photographs by the Chinese artist Ann Woo. See more of her work at annwoo.com
In honor of Valentine’s Day, a cool card from Byvik Ink studio in California. Illustrator Cristina Martinez Byvik has created several surf-themed cards for many occasions; they are hand-printed on an 1890’s Chandler & Price platen press.
Michael Krebber, astrorock, 2008
It seems Michael Krebber has been on a raw foods diet, or maybe some plan of specific separation, Kosher or macrobiotic-style. Here he took a group of mainly German-made (who knew?) windsurfing boards, and made a group photo, seven boards lined up like brahs. Then he made a poster, folded it up, and hid it with the other gallery info. Then he collected a few additional boards and dissected them for the world to see, pawned them, basically, almost like how Mystery did on The Pick-Up Artist, but those were boys, and here Krebber is schooling artistic machismo. So the poster made a funny little “before” shot to the show’s “after.” Speaking of amuses bouche, one problem with the drawings in the show: Justus Köhncke is extremely attractive; one shouldn’t be remiss in depicting that type of thing.
––Jessica Slaven in Paper Monument
The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis that shows temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline. Watch the NASA video here.
If you live in New York or are thinking of going, don’t miss this little gem called Surfbar. It’s a nice place to hang out when you miss summer and Imperial. (more…)
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