Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
We’re not always trying to catch only waves in the surf zone, the ordered chaos of tumbling rollers rushing toward shore. It is a cauldron of energy, boiling with nutrients and marine life. Here, the work of throwing the cast net becomes Art. For the net to elegantly “spread” when thrown, it must first be […]
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Drawing clean lines, the back leg is the crucial pivot point when going “off the lip”. Here, we also see the value of the paddle blade as secondary fulcrum when SUP-ing… Same physics, different tool ! photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
There’s nothing quite like having paddled into a “maybe” wave, only to have it pitch on the inside for a curtain call. Nice reward for keeping the faith! This inside zipper qualifies as “the worth it wave” of the session… photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Launching just to break free from gravity has its merits. But, as with most things in Life, Function is Beauty. Feet, Body and Board all focused on re-engaging with the momentum of a continuing wave peeling to the inside… Functional Air at its best. photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Louis Ducoudray
Louis Ducoudray is the author of the short story collection El agua secreto, for which he won the Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría in 1976. The author is also one of the founders of modern architecture in Costa Rica. His story “Here” is a strange, Orwellian-like science fiction in which “the wings”–“two wings joined together […]
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
The visual was so striking… please pardon the pun : HairSpray ! Talk about being”In Synch”… photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Fabián Dobles
Fabián Dobles is featured twice in Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, and both stories show how disagreements can divide family or close friends. His first story, “The Targuá Tree,” begins at the hearth of a dying fire as an old man arrives to make amends with his brother, whom he has not seen in […]
Alfredo Aguilar
Alfredo Aguilar is the author of Morir dos veces, a collection of stories for which he won the Primer Certamen de Literatura Joven Centroamericana in 1988. “Mint Flowers,” a short story found in this collection, follows the character Manuela as she moves about her town to settle all her affairs before dying. Manuela knows to […]
Exploring Costa Rican Literature
Photo Credit: Abee5 / CC BY 2.0 In addition to travel guides, maps, history lessons, and exploration, you can learn much about a country by diving into its literature. When packing your bags, consider Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, edited by Barbara Ras, to enjoy the colorful and rich stories of Costa Rica’s authors. […]
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Serena Mitnik-Miller has new work that’s showing in San Francisco this month. More about the shows after the jump. If you can’t make it to the shows, see more here.
Guinoes Surf Photo of the Week
In a nod to the sister sport of skateboarding, throwing out the tail in a power slide. You can almost hear the wheels screeching across the concrete in a parking lot, under a bridge, through a garage, in a drainage ditch, or just on the plain old sidewalk… Softer landing here, but when the wind […]
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Developmental psychologists assert that we remember little before the age of 5 or 6, but it’s hard to believe that a moment like this won’t make a life-long impression… photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Where you’re going to starts with where you’re coming from. Out on the flat, using a surplus of critical section speed to bring it back to the source. Connecting the energy dots. photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
While physics explains the phenomena with angle, spectrum and prism, we simply call it magic. Early sailors called them horses’ manes… Whatever term a person uses for offshore winds, it means one thing to us: Time to Paddle Out ! photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Set up nicely to lean hard on her inside rail, backhand, and project through the looming section ahead. Some summer size, soft light, and a paddler to negotiate- intangibles preceding the moment suddenly coalesce. photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Board Envy
Take a look at these boards designed by Ammunition—the firm launched by Robert Brunner, ex-Apple industrial designer and the founding designer of Beats—in collaboration with Jason Tilley, a surfboard builder from Oregon. Made for the travel brand Octovo, the series features five individual board shapes, each made from Port Orford cedar sourced locally near Tilley’s […]
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Pre-paddle-out pride! Soccer and Surfing, only two of Costa Rica’s many passions… We are all thrilled by the National Team’s World Cup tenacity and achievement… See you Saturday for peak swell and futbol! photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Outer Seed Shadow #01
This past January I had the opportunity to speak with artist Juanli Carrión about his recent project, Outer Seed Shadow #01. (Check out our interview here.) He described to me that Outer Seed Shadow #01 was to be a Manhattan-shaped community garden, where native plants from various countries could represent the rich diversity of the New […]
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
The World’s Children will hold the future of the Earth and her Oceans in their hands. Beyond the thrill and the majesty of Surfing must lie a deep respect for, and a responsibility to, the Ecosystem that continually accommodates it. Surfing Stewardship. Suddenly, clean water, abundant marine life, coastal habitat, and human impact acquire greater […]
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Grey on Gray summer morning. Except for the white jagged lightning line of this speed surfer’s round house cutback. Even in the mist and the light rain, it shines. Precision turn and tight radius in a limited space. photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
The Stall: Some will run for the shoulder, but the accomplished might linger, waiting for the wave to do its thing. Putting on the brakes and knowing when to wait often yields greatly coveted tube time. Put yourself there when the time is right and it can all come together… photo by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Wet Season: The hammer and anvil of nimbocumulus cotton balls mushrooming into the heights. Onshore wind. Air thick and heavy, but bringing everything to Life. Glassy rarely, but fleeting moments do occur. Summer and its constantly changing moods… photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Wet Sand Tableau: Remains of incoming shore break meet an outgoing tide, leaving mirrored patterns of the waves themselves…Only to be erased by the next high tide…Cyclical, fleeting and beautiful. photo provided by Surfing Nosara
Agua4Change, Recycle Water Bottles into Roof Tiles
Donald Thomson, a Canadian designer and entrepreneur who has been living in Costa Rica since 1990, has created a company that recycles its water bottles into housing materials for low-income families. Having lived in Costa Rica since 1990, he and his wife were so struck by the amount of plastic waste rolling up onto the […]
