Aloha State High School Surfing
Kids used to cut school to go surfing, but now that Hawaii has made surfing an official high school sport they may not have to. Earlier this week Governor Neil Abercrombie said surfing will become a state-sanctioned sport in public schools starting as early as spring 2013.
London Surf Film Festival
I don’t typically think of this soggy city and surfing together, but after watching the teaser for next week’s London Surf/Film Festival, maybe I should. The festival, 13-15 October, is “a three day celebration of contemporary surf culture showcasing international surfing’s hottest releases, award winning documentaries, independent features and UK Premieres alongside the best short […]
Baby on Board
Saw this custom board on Two Birds Fly and loved the story behind it: “Alex gets a custom every time he and his wife Talia have a baby. This is his second custom from us, the first was a Nat Russell / Michele Junod custom to commemorate the birth of his first daughter Sophie. This […]
Mollusk Surf Shop
Here’s a cool profile on a nice little surf shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a window into the work of artist/owner, Chris Gentile, as well as his perspective on the NYC surf scene.
Surfing in the Scottish Borders
One afternoon, we drove to the beach at Coldingham Bay, a beautifully preserved stretch of the Berwickshire coastline. Everyone managed to find a wet suit that fit, and David went out and caught a wave. Walking back to the car, he turned to me and said: “We’re so lucky, aren’t we?†–From a nice article in […]
Perhaps more fun than surfboarding, and more democratic?
George Greenough is a pioneer in surf photography. Always against existing conventions, he invented and developed other forms of surfing—kneeboarding and surf-matting, in the long-board reining 60’s.
“Goodbye to Summer”?
Big ups to my friend Eva who made it into The Sartorialist last week in a post titled “Goodbye to Summer.” Of course, Scott Schuman has no idea that the surf season has only just begun in New York. Eva and I caught a few good ones in Rockaway this morning! Welcome to the Endless Summer.
Surfing in Bundoran, Ireland
“Even its biggest fans admit that Bundoran might not seem like an obvious place to surf. “We live on the Atlantic coast; the winters are harsh and the weather is brutal,†Mr. Fitzgerald said. “Some guys go: ‘You surf in Ireland? What the hell’s that about?’ †I still love this NYT article.
Tomorrows Tulips
Just saw a show by Tomorrows Tulips at Piano’s. The band’s lead singer turns out to be pro surfer Alex Knost.
Quiksilver Pro Hits Long Beach
Surfers from all over the world descend on Long Beach, LI for the Quiksilver Pro New York tournament starting today (September 1-15). The Big Apple’s surfing community has mixed feelings about the event. Check out one surfer’s opinion, Urban Aloha, that appeared in the NYT last month.
Michael Miller
I make surf paintings. My pictures are inspired by the act of surfing. The feeling of the wave, the ride between solid ground and sea, Hawaiian wave rituals, surfers, surf magazines, explorers, flecks of history, personal writings, physical feats of endurance, and liquid cinematography. —Michael Miller, a Brooklyn-based painter who’s transforming five paintings into faceted […]
Come on Irene
While some of us on the East Coast are running from the storm, surfers from Miami to Montauk are heading for the beach this weekend for what’s promised to be an epic swell.
Drug Money Art
Argentinean-born Tin Ojeda, a Montauk-based painter and surfer who created the Drug Money Art clothing line started by spray painting boards. Now he designs and prints hand-crafted t-shirts, scarves, books and boards that are sold around the world.
Serena Mitnik Miller
San Francisco based artist Serena Mitnik Miller watercolor on paper (above) and custom painting on a board (below). See more of her work here: twobirdsfly.blogspot.com.
Catherine Opie, Untitled #10 (Surfers)
“I’m a multidimensional person—I don’t have a singular identity. I’m not just Cathy Opie the leather-dyke artist. I’m Cathy Opie the person who’s interested in cities, architecture, landscape, my family. People say, ‘Your work is so diverse,’ but it’s actually not that diverse when you take a broad look or when you walk through this […]
Surf Book Review
There are only a handful of non-fiction surf books that I’m excited about and Surf Survival, the Surfer’s Health Handbook by Andrew Nathanson, Clayton Everline and Mark Renneker is one of them. The canon of essential surf books has long been missing a comprehensive resource to cover the myriad of potential threats surfers deal with […]
Mark Wyse, Surfers
“Sentimental†is a word I don’t feel comfortable acknowledging. I prefer “naïve,†“absorbed,†“impressionistic,†anything except “sentimental.†I tend to defend against it by intellectualizing my desires. When making a mix-tape for someone you don’t have to deal with your conscience beating down on you. What better gift is there than what two lovers might […]
Mary Heilmann, Surfing on Acid
“I came to New York expecting to align myself with the sculptors, like Smithson. . . . I thought I would be part of that gang. Of course, that doesn’t happen so easily. I wasn’t invited into the Smithson/Serra gang. So I switched my practice rather vocally to painting, because they all hated painting.†—Mary […]
Raymond Pettibon, No Title (Some things…)
“I don’t think I’ve ever done an image that was meant to be reoccurring in the beginning. What happens is that after drawing one you can’t leave them. They have more to say to you. In a way it can take on a life of its own. I guess people probably think that these are […]
A Short Review of Jeff Divine’s New Book
A short review of Jeff Divine’s Surfing Photographs from the Eighties Taken by Jeff Devine in the summer issue of Bookforum.
Vija Celmins, Untitled (Big Sea #1)
“It is about the huge, lonely patience that is fundamental to art that is not based upon the parading of self. Miss Celmins does not wish to present herself as  ‘amusing’ or ‘brilliant’ or ‘inventive.’ ” She can do all those things, and she did them to great effect when she first came to notice […]
Walking on Water
The Harmony Blog sits down with Spencer Klein, paddleboarder, surfer and founder of adventure outfitter Experience Nosara.
Timothy Geithner Surfs
Various newspapers have been atwitter over the US’s latest high-profile surfer: Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. Geithner and his daughter were spotted learning to surf at Half Moon Bay, CA. Now that we have Geithner hanging ten, and Obama as the first president to ever be photographed wearing flip-flops, America might currently be witnessing […]
Surfrider Gets Artists to Paint Epic Waves
From the LA Times “In celebration of the Surfrider Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Gala, held in fall 2009 in downtown L.A., the organization asked 25 contemporary artists to interpret 25 of the world’s most legendary surf breaks. The artworks were a part of the third installment of the nonprofit’s “Art for the Oceans†auction series.
