[Link: Spectacular Adventures]
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Surfing
Surfindian in Pacific Beach, California will be hosing a one-night only art benefit for the Mattson Family on Friday, June 26, 2009. Music will be provided by Mattson 2.
And the following artists are participating:
Alberto Cuadros : Andrew Paynter : Andy Davis : Candace Anderson : Chivo : Ciro Bicudo : David Hanson : Droog79 : Dustin Ortiz : Ed Fladung : Frank Cubillos : Heather Brown : Jair Bortoleto : Jamie Watson : Jay Watson : Jenny McGee Dougherty : Jessica Nichols : John Zane Zappas : Joseph Conway : Julie Goldstein : Justin Furniss : Kassia Meador : Katrine Hildebrandt : Kieron ‘Seamouse’ Lewis : Kim Nguyen : Kyle Lightner : Lindsay Preston : Liz Cockrum : Luke Taaffe : Maggie Marsek : Meegan Feori : Michael Singman-Aste : Peter Jackson Hussey : Peter McBride : Renata Morrone : Rick Albano : Ryan Tatar : Serena Mitnik-Miller : Scott Massey : Scott Szegeski : Ted ‘Clayfin’ Gallup : Theo Hetherington : Thomas Campbell : Tiffany Campbell : Todd Stewart : Troy Dockins : Ty Williams : Yusuke Hanai
Silent Auction 7pm – 9pm Art to be “in hand” to winning bidder by 9:30pm 100% of the proceeds will go to the Mattson family. $5 suggested donation at the door
[Link: Surfindian via Club Mumble]
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Congrats to Marty Thomas for leaving the Action Sports Group and getting back to Hawaii to work with Randy Rarick on The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. Seems like a perfect fit.
“We’ve come a long way in 27 years and Marty is the latest testament to that fact,” says Rarick. “The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is pretty much a year-round operation these days, from planning to execution, and Marty will be an important addition to the executive team as we continue to grow the series for future generations of surfers and surf enthusiasts around the world.”
Mr. Thomas will be the Managing Director of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing and be responsible for directing ” aspects of the series: pre-promotion, execution of events, and liaison between the North Shore community, contest surfers and ASP staff.”
[Link: Surfline.com]
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We used to think there was really no good place for stand up paddlers to practice their art. That was until we saw this story in the Salt Lake City Tribune about SUPing on the Great Salt Lake.
Stone and fellow trainer, Greg Gbrow, offer clinics for $10 from noon to 2 p.m. every Saturday at the Great Salt Lake Marina State Park. Boards can be rented for $20 an hour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Private lessons are available for $40 an hour on Saturday and on Sunday. Rentals or lessons for other days are arranged by appointment. The company occasionally holds lessons at Saltair.
Truth is, we can’t think of a better place in the world for all the SUP’ers to go and paddle, aside from maybe The Salton Sea. . .
[Link: Salt Lake City Tribune]
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This new “Eco-Supreme Suede” joint between Washington DC retailer Commonwealth and Billabong looks pretty sweeco. Here’s what Slamxhype had to say about them:
Made using approximately 10 recycled 12 oz. plastic bottles per board-short the term “eco friendly” could not get much more advanced. While the branding is well represented in the Custom sublimated tiger stripe “CMONFLAUGE” creating a great effect. Available only at Commonwealth & Cmonwealth.com.
Just think how many pairs of trunks they could make if they rounded up all that plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
[Link: Cmonwealth via slamxhype]
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Billabong needed a little cash to hold them over so what did they do? They went to the market in a “rights issue,” according to a story in The West Australian.
The oversubscribed retail rights issue raised $61 million, and the company raised around $230 million from institutions.
. . The proceeds from the entitlement offer will improve the company’s balance sheet and give it more flexibility, chairman Ted Kunkel said in a statement. . . Under the entitlement offer, eligible shareholders could subscribe for two new Billabong ordinary shares for every eleven existing ordinary shares they owned at a price of $7.50 per new share.
The new shares will begin trading on the Australian Securities Exchange on June 22.
[Link: The West Australian]
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We have to admit that few things in life are more unsettling than watching Kenny G blowing his saxophone out of the side of his mouth. Well, thanks to TMZ.com’s photo of the musician “hanging tenor” at Malibu, we are now even more unsettled by the man.
[Link: TMZ.com via @vans_66 via @marksperl]
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A group of teens from “the New South Wales far south coast” are going to keep surfing even though they spotted a big white pointer shark in the surf zone, according to a story on ABC News.
“The young surfers came within a metre of the 5m to 6m shark that has been sighted between Merimbula’s bar and Pambula Beach over the past week,” the story said. . . “As the boys said, if it’d wanted to eat them, they couldn’t have done anything about it”, he said. . . “So it was obvious that the shark saw them and didn’t realise it was dinner time, I suppose, which is obviously a great thing.”
Yeah, damn great logic, we reckon.
[Link: ABC News]
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Photographer Michael Halsband shoots up all the hot little surfer girls we know and love in the July issue of Vanity Fair with a story titled Tubular Girls. The first line is really about all you need to read to know where this story is headed:
Fifty years after Gidget stirred up waves in the male-dominated surfing world, a new set of young women in their teens and 20s are revolutionizing the sport, from the beaches of Montauk to Australia. The best will be stoked to flaunt their tailslides and aerial maneuvers at this month’s U.S. Open of Surfing, in Huntington Beach, California—the Kentucky Derby of the ocean.
The what? Oh well. The story features Sierra Partridge, Sofia Mulanovich, Leila Hurst, Alana Blanchard, Malia Manuel, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Laura Enever, Sage Erickson, Quincy Davis, Courtney Conlogue, and Hailey Partridge.
[Link: Vanity Fair via Post Surf]
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SIMA’s fundraiser for a fundraiser held June 5, 2009 at the Cyprus Shore Community Park apparently raised $50,000 to help fund the Waterman’s Ball fundraiser. Yeah, apparently that’s how these things work.
“The SIMA Environmental Fund is excited to be going into our 20th year for Waterman’s Ball,” said Paul Naudé, SIMA Environmental Fund president. “This year’s economic climate has presented many challenges, but through a combined industry effort we are determined to maintain our support of 18 proven ocean-related environmental organizations, and look forward to achieving our fundraising goal of more than $400,000 raised at Waterman’s Weekend this year. The success of this Underwriting Party was a tremendous step toward meeting this goal. We know the very deserving event beneficiaries much appreciate the support of all the event underwriters.”
Spending $50,000 to raise $400,000 is pretty good margins when you think about it.
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