Surf SurvivalCosta Rica
Just over a week until our second annual Surf Survival Camp at the Harmony Hotel. Another beat down story that happened near our own back yard. I was in Costa Rica for the first time, having traveled there alone. I was staying in Tamarindo and caught a boat ride over to Playa Grande. From the […]
Surf SurvivalNicaragua
Still time to sign up for the Harmony Hotel’s Surf Survival Camp that begins August 3. Another great beat down story from the contest. This past October in Nicaragua I had an experience that will stay with me forever, literally! It was early morning & the surface was already choppy with menacing clouds overhead. Even […]
Surf Survival: Winner!
Reading through the entries for our Surf Survival Contest is reassuring reading for anyone who’s ever gotten an ass kicking in the ocean. We received so many great beat down stories from Australia to Chicago (yes, people do surf Lake Michigan!). Though our contest ended this week (meet the winner we pulled out of a […]
Surfing Madonna
Founded by Surfing Madonna creator Mark Patterson, agents of change (i.e. you can help reverse the serious degradation currently impacting the world’s oceans). Now the organization is challenging artists located near the world’s 10 deadliest waves—Banzai Pipeline, Ghost Trees, Mavericks, Teahupoo, Waimea, Shipstern Bluff, Dungeons, Cyclops, ours and New Smyrna—to create mosaics in their locations.
Architect for Birds
Nice story in the NYT today about an artist who describes himself as an “architect for the contemporary bird”. XAM is the name he uses to preserve his anonymity (he agreed to be interviewed only on the condition that we use it, too). He has been hanging street art for three years now in the […]
Surf SurvivalLake Michigan
Send in your best surfing beat down story here for a chance to win a free spot at the Surf Survival Camp and a 7-night stay at the Harmony Hotel. Here’s another great entry from the contest: Have you ever heard of a beat down on a lake? There I was watching perfect overhead lines […]
Surf SurvivalSan Diego
A great entry in our Surf Survival Camp Contest: Recently in San Diego, two dolphins appeared through a glass walled wave heading straight for me. No way to duck dive the six foot wave in fear of colliding with the dolphins who had just dove a little deeper to just grazing level I had to […]
Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites
Informed by the sociopolitical contexts of Latin America, Abraham Cruzvillegas has garnered much attention for his dynamic assemblage sculptures made of found objects. Interested in improvised building materials and techniques, he roots his sculptural practice within the urban landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, a district in the south of Mexico City. Over the […]
John Bailly tonight at ClampArt
John Bailly, talented painter and friend of the Harmony, has his first NYC show tonight. Come out to see his mixed media works in the “Place of Mind” series, a collaboration with critically acclaimed Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco (whom President Barack Obama recently named inaugural poet). Artist’s reception TONIGHT: ClampArt 531 W 25th St New York, […]
Gravity and Grace
Don’t miss the first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui. This show features over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions […]
Here’s To Keeping Your Resolutions
If your New Year’s resolutions involve healthier living, wander on over to the Harmony Juice Bar’s fantastic Banana Nut Butter Smoothie. Turns out I’m not the only one who returns home missing the Juice Bar so much that I try to imitate their delicious offerings.
Here & Now: A Day in the Life of Surfing
This teaser for Taylor Steele’s Here & Now: A Day in the Life of Surfing, makes this wannabe surfer want to surf even more. It was shot in one day by more than 25 filmmakers and surfers who worked in unison to document the world of surfing in a single 24 hour period, May 2nd […]
BrrrrrrrSurf City Winter Jam 2012
Earlier this week, while many of us were dreaming of Nosara’s water temperature, some crazy surfers participated in Surf City Winter Jam 2012, a freezing-ass cold competition in Sweden. Despite the icy waters, Tico Derek Gutierrez won. Drift Surfing‘s report: This years was held on the 9th of December in Sweden’s surf city near Varberg. Local […]
BlueSphere
Bluesphere, “a unique photographic bookâ??a collection of wave forms and ocean moments that beautifully illustrate the essence of the sea”â??by Gold Coast-based photographer Shelli Bankier, is out today. Just in time for the holidays. Beautiful images of surfing and the ocean. More here.
Support Nosara’s New Recycling Center
Nosara’s new Recycling Center got off to a good start in summer 2012. Now the students hope to return to Costa Rica to complete it. Architect Tobias Holler explains how you can help on their new Kickstarter campaign: This past summer my absolute favorite building project, the Nosara Recycling and Education Center, made a huge […]
WAX Surf Film Sandy Benefit
Please join us for an evening of surf films for hurricane relief! Hosted by Mikey DeTemple and Jon Rose All proceeds will go to Waves for Water INFO Monday, November 26, 7:30pm Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY Tickets: nysurfstories.eventbrite.com NEW YORK SURF STORIES Produced by SMASH, WAX Magazine, NYC Surfrider Foundation […]
Climate Change & Sandy
The latest natural disaster presents an opportunity to better understand climate change. The Huffington Post ran an interesting piece about the relationship between natural disasters and climate change. Has anyone seen other good articles on the topic?
Occupy Sandy
I continue to be amazed by the Occupy Sandy movement. From the NYT: After its encampment in Zuccotti Park, which changed the public discourse about economic inequality and introduced the nation to the trope of the 1 percent, the Occupy movement has wandered in a desert of more intellectual, less visible projects, like farming, fighting […]
Rockaway After Sandy
While we at the Harmony Blog lost only our server for a few days (because of power outages), other areas of New York were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Our friends at WAX magazine went out immediately and wrote the following about one of the hardest hit areas: Thirty-six hours after Superstorm Sandy hit, we went […]
Salted
One week left to see Thom Gilbert’s show in the East Village at Dorian Grey Gallery. The exhibit will feature his most recent body of photographic portraits from his forth-coming book: S A L T E D. “On display will be a vast collection of intimate portraits of current and iconic surfing legends and an […]
Sea Orbiter
The Jetsons-esque Sea Orbiter is an ocean going research vessel rumored to launch in 2013. Similar to a space ship, the Sea Orbiter will allow scientists and others a residential (for weeks at time) yet mobile research station positioned under the oceans’ surface. The station will have laboratories, workshops, living quarters and a pressurized deck […]
Surf Survival Camp
Yesterday Lauren blogged about the great waves you’ll find in Nosara. Today, we’re telling you how to survive them no matter how big: go to the Harmony Hotel‘s first Surf Survival Camp with the Dr. Andrew Nathanson, author of last year’s best selling book, Surf Survival! You’ll learn how to handle a lot more than […]
Outeast Gallery
If you’re visiting Montuak to take advantage of the September swells, don’t miss the show at Outeast Gallery, a beautiful space with lovely photos by MTK local James Katsipis and San Diego photographer Luiza de Moraes.
NYC Surf Film Festival
The fifth annual New York Surf Film Festival starts next week at Nitehawk in Williamsburg. Check out this year’s lineup and get your tickets while you can.
