Happy Halloween
At the annual Blackie’s Halloween Costume Surf contest in Newport Beach, CA surfers are judged on their technique and costumes. For more great photos—and last-minute costume ideas—check out SolSpot Surf and the Guardian slideshow.
Buenos Dias
Sometimes surf shops come with a certain cliqueish ‘tude that can feel unwelcoming for non-tribe members. When I visited Buenos Dias—a new surf, art and vintage clothing store—in Montauk this summer, I was ready for some Ditch Plains ‘tude but instead met the sweetest people. Yaan Pessino, the surfer, photographer and vintage clothing collector who […]
Fiction & Non-Fiction (People who live in glass house build another house in brick to sleep in.)
New York has been delivering of late. The service laden city has been providing narrative(s)—the best of which hover over fiction, but in fact are real. A well occupied truism, that is in fact, true. People can be classified in this manner as well. Practitioners or objects themselves that maintain a position along this precipice […]
Nautilus News
“A horrendous slaughter is going on out here,†said Peter D. Ward, a biologist from the University of Washington, during a recent census of the marine creature in the Philippines. “They’re nearly wiped out. The culprit? Growing sales of jewelry and ornaments derived from the lustrous shell. To satisfy the worldwide demand, fishermen have been […]
Waiting for Waves
EndlessBummerNyDotCom from Todd Stewart on Vimeo. I love this moody short by the NYC crew at Endless Bummer.
Gail Potocki
“I know of no other artist who wields insight, emotion, and intellectual heft—not to mention gorgeous technique—to examine the environmental ills besetting us today. Gail Potocki‘s landscapes are catastrophes unfolding before our eyes—in the sea, in the air, and on the land. Yet her human subjects, shattered and vulnerable, are creatures of exquisite hope… precisely […]
Bright Lights
Started in 2008 by two young architects in Seattle, Graypants design studio creates elegant lights from discarded cardboard. They also make chic chairs, lamps and other objects from scrap materials. This company succeeds in living up to their product’s description: “Graypants scrap lights: creating a brighter now.”
DOLE
In most times, and conversations for that matter, if a bit of excavation is done, one can expose many historical strata of exercises in contrast. Geologic time is intentionally being invoked—as it has to do with flow and expectations, and a certain vigilance in the examination and questioning of not only of who we are, […]
The Man in Black
The Johnny Cash Project is a global community art project crowdsourced by Google Chrome. It’s a fan-made music video for Cash’s posthumously released song, “Ain’t No Grave” illustrated by individual frames that were created by fans worldwide. See the video or contribute to it here.
Bottled Up
I’ve always been charmed when recycled bottles are used as eco-friendly design details, but I was blown away by the school in the Philippines constructed earlier this year using bottles. How cool! According to Good Magazine, “The bottles are filled with adobe, made from local mud which sets like concrete, and layered within a steel […]
Surf Dog Contest
Can’t get enough of these surfing dogs images from the Surf City Surf Dog Contest that took place last month in Huntington Beach.
Sand Dollar!
Walking down the beach in Guiones you can still find sand dollars at the waterline. These little critters are beautiful and fascinating but because they are typically pretty motionless, some tourists pick them up thinking of them like “seashells” and leave on the beach to dry out and inadvertently kill them. Here’s a short clip […]
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.
Wolfgang Bloch
The ocean is the inspiration and essence to my work. Its size, its constant physical and visual movement, fascinates me. It’s beautiful, powerful, quiet, mesmerizing and grand. Rather than recreating something I’ve witnessed, in my paintings emotion dictates the pace. —Wolfgang Bloch in interview with Project Be Bold
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 […]
Design for The Other 90%
Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement […]
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 […]
