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 to support divers and submarines. Watch the video and learn more here.
“You don’t have to act serious to be serious” –Ken Price
One of my favorite shows of the year. On view at LACMA until January 6!
Dan Malloy on the lessons learned from biking, rather than driving, the California coast:
We have been on the road for five weeks now and we are thoroughly convinced that we have found the fabled confluence of old California and new California.
The bummer is, it’s not a physical place and the only way we seem to be able to track it down is by bike.
For more, and many pictures, click here.
Lucy Dodd, Oceanic Carnage, 2012, cotton and pigment on Breuer chair frame, 33 x 22 x 22"
NYC-based artist Lucy Indiana Dodd explores the performative, kinetic and the found dimensions to the genres of installation, textiles and painting. She took part in the Cirrus Gallery group show, All Human Actions (September 2007) with Dawn Kasper and Mimi Lauter and featured in May Day Performance Event at Human Resources in LA’s Chinatown (May 2010). Dodd had her first solo show at ProChoice in Vienna in April 2010, and activated her textile pieces and sculpture with a musical performance in collaboration with Sergei Tcherepnin. –FordProject
View of John M Armleder, Selected Furniture Sculptures 1979 - 2012.
The show is on view until October 28.
Supposedly this wave is “actual size.” Chasing Mavericks opens on October 26.
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 big waves. Space is limited. For more info: surfsurvival@harmonynosara.com.
Bonnie Tsui at Surf Simply School
Writer Bonnie Tsui reports on her recent trip to Nosara in the “Next Stop” column of the New York Times‘s Travel section. The article mostly focuses on the surf schools, and her experiences:
During a week in Nosara surfing with Mr. Hill and his crew, I became a bit of a surf nerd, learning the finer points of angled takeoffs and riding the rails of my surfboard more effectively, and sat in on theory classes on meteorology and how to judge a surf contest. Thanks to twice-daily surf sessions that were followed by video feedback, I could watch myself ride a double-overhead bomb of a wave to its finish, and analyze what I had done right to make it possible. (I also saw, in painful slow motion, the spectacular wipeouts that came along with attempting such waves.)
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