There’s just nothing like a $49.99 O’Neill Costco spring suit to keep that morning chill off the bones.
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Surfing
Apparently, Surfline.com has a new Claire Bevilacqua up on their site, but after seeing this photo we kind of forgot what we were doing. . . .
[Link: Surfline.com via Nixon]
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Brown Cannon is a professional photographer who likes to put his water photos on surfboards an then show them in galleries, according to a story in the Marin Journal.
Cannon’s images of whales and waves and water, of sea life and coastal environments – “the full scope of a person’s relationship to the ocean” – adorn classic surfboards that are both fine art and functional – sculpture that you can actually surf on. . . He has been creating these custom boards for two years now in collaboration with GP Surfboards, a company in Capitola near the rideable waves of Santa Cruz.
Currently Browns work appears to be on display at two locations (Richardson Bay Audubon Cetner in Tiburon, CA and Casa Romantica in San Clemente, CA) with a third at The Bolinas Museum going up on May 20, 2009.
[Link: Marin Journal and Brown Cannon 3]
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The Chicago Park District is apparently opening four Lake Michigan beaches to surfing according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Vince Deur, who founded the Surfrider Foundation’s Lake Michigan chapter in 2007, said Wednesday that supporters met Tuesday with Park District Supt. Timothy Mitchell, who agreed the district would begin taking steps to allow surfing at four beaches between this Labor Day and Memorial Day. . . The surfing group and the Park District are also looking into allowing surfing at the 41st Street Beach all year, beginning perhaps as early as Memorial Day weekend, Deur said.
That’s so fresh.
[Link: Chicago Sun-Times via USA Today]
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Last night, while perusing the most watched YouTube videos of the day on our iPhone we clicked on an interview with former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura on the Larry King Show. We’ll listen to pretty much anything Ventura says for three reasons: one, he a former pro wrestler, two, his Minnesota accent is one of the best on record, and three, he’s insane in a what that makes him seem perfectly sensible.
During the interview Larry asked Governor Ventura if he would “ever want to run for office again.” Ventura replied:
I’m enjoying attempting to become the best surfer that I can be in Baja Mexico. Always remember this. Surfing is a dedication and it’s a life dedication toi do it. If someone were that dedicated to religion would they call him a religious bum?
Larry then pointed out that Ventura is a “very big man” and asked if surfing was difficult?
“It’s harder,” he said. “But I want to get my weight down another 30 pounds, but let’s remember the greatest surfer in the world is Laird Hamilton and he is 6’3″ and a half and weights 230 pounds.”
This is the second time Ventura has mention surfing vs. public office. In July 2008 Ventura said that he “found surfing to be much more honorable than the Senate.”
Watch his latest surf comments for yourself. It starts at about the 8:50 mark.
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As we don’t read print magazines all that much it took a while before we were able to check out the recent Sports Illustrated story on Kelly Slater by writer Gary Smith. Here is a piece:
Well, then … why did he ride the ocean? What was his purpose? The more he stared at the question, the more jumbled the answers grew, his whys like old clothes crammed in a drawer. They’d seemed to fit once, but the longer he looked at them now, the more holes and wrinkles he saw, the more whys he didn’t even recognize. Where the hell to begin?
It’s one of those stories where the writer tries a little too hard and ends up getting in the way. But it’s worth reading because it’s long and it’s about Kelly.
Scott Bass’ interview of Gary Smith on Surfer.com is also worth reading, though he obviously seemed to enjoy Smith’s writing stylings a little more than we did.
[Link: Sports Illustrated via valerotti]
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It’s difficult for us to talk any smack about any of this because some of these guys (way back in the day) helped make us think surfing was cool. Lewis Samuels, not surprisingly, has a little different take on the new autobiographical documentary Echo Beach.
The Echo Beach crew taught the brands that they didn’t need to sponsor and support the best surfers on earth. Instead, they could simply sponsor and support the best groms in Newport. Or, more specifically, the “most influential” groms within a 100-yard stretch of Newport. . . So without the Echo Beach Crew, I suppose Alex Knost would not be a surf star. Case closed.
Sure, but the best part for us was to finally place The Skateboard Mag’s Preston Murray in proper context.
[Link: PostSurf]
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Maverick’s founder Jeff Clark is reportedly on the mend after having his hip resurfaced with Titanium, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.
Fresh out of surgery, Clark is on the mend, taking it easy at his house overlooking the break at Maverick’s in Half Moon Bay. To keep himself occupied and focused on recovery, Clark has created a blog to document his healing process. The site, rebuildjeffclark.blogspot.com, contains up-to-date journal entries, photos, as well as a link to an animated depiction of his surgery, which takes viewers through the entire procedure step by step.
Not only that, the blog gives groms a sneak peak into their own futures and the reality that getting old sucks.
[Link: San Jose Mercury News]
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