When the city of Cardiff-by-th-Sea decided they wanted a statue of a surfer to adorn their city, they hired Matthew Antichevich an artist from Hemet (an inland city 45 miles from The Coast). The statue he delivered has received nothing but heckling since it was unveiled.
Critics say the figure is too spindly, his feet are positioned wrong and his hands are absolutely goofy. Rather than an embodiment of the athletic artistry that is integral to the sport’s mystique, the figure looks like a beginner about to fall off his board. “Surfing is a dance,” said Pezman. “This figure just offends the surf culture. If you did a statue of a ballet dancer, you wouldn’t have the dancer in a position that is all wrong.”
Local surfers have been dressing the statue up. It’s had a bikini top on, a pink shirt, a Mexican wrestling mask and most recently a black hood to make it look like the “the infamous Abu Ghraib photo” of a prisoner standing on a box. We’ll see how long the statue survives. . . it may not be long.
Even though Billabong has reported a net profit of $167.25 million (up 14.6 percent) for 2006/07, and sales revenue that grew 20.1 per cent to $1.22 billion, shares in the company still fell five percent after the announcement today.
Sales in the Americas, the group’s biggest region, rose in the double digits, while EBITDA rose by 12.3 per cent to $US111.9 million ($A136.03 million). Mr O’Neill said the Americas region was backed by strong performances in Canada and South America.
Oddly, an analyst “who did not wish to be named” said the Americas were “disappointing” because of the Aussie dollar. Can you be a quoted stock analyst and not wish to be named? We’re all for anonymous comments, but still that seems shady.
We missed it, but yesterday was Mickey Muñoz’s 70th birthday party at Doheny State Beach. According to the OC Register the party was the work of the Doheny Longboard Association, the San Onofre Surf Club and the Hawaiian Surf Association.
Guests [weren’t] supposed to bring gifts for Muñoz. Instead, Muñoz said a donation to the Doheny fundraiser will suffice.
We hope the day went well for everyone of the 1,000 guests.
From the celebrity blog What Would Tyler Durden Do comes these wonderful photos of Jennifer Aniston on vacation with the Arquettes in Hawaii. Here what they had to say:
These pictures, showing Jennifer Aniston on vacation yesterday in Hawaii with Courtney Cox and David Arquette, are boring, but at least no one is electrocuting dogs. I don’t get what she’s even doing. It looks like it has disaster written all over it, like the odds of falling in are the previously uninvented 140 percent. I guess I’m sort of impressed. I couldn’t do this any more than I could run down some rolling barrels on stilts.
She does look pretty comfortable with that paddle in her hands. Dry even. And we know it’s not exactly easy.
Investors Business Daily is big on Zumiez the day before they announce their quarterly earnings:
But when Zumiez reports fiscal 2007 second-quarter results Wednesday, watchers expect it to shine. July’s strong same-store sales followed a 13.7% gain in June’s same-store sales and an 11.2% rise in May. Total July sales were up 42.4% from the prior year. June’s rose 48.8%, and May’s gained 51.6%
Dorian Paskowitz the 86-year-old patriarch of the surfing Paskowitz clan has donated 12 surfboards to a small surfing community in Israel’s Gaza Strip.
He said he was inspired after reading a story about two Gaza surfers who could not enjoy the wild waves off the coastal strip because they had only one board to share between them. . . So I said to my son, ‘Come, we’ll go to Israel and get them some boards,'” Paskowitz told AP Television News. . . . He described his mission as a “mitzvah,” Hebrew for a “good deed.”
While Paskowitz hoped to surf with the Palestinian surfers, security concerns prohibited him for getting in the water.
Burton has planted it’s first major flag in the retain landscape of Southern California as a further reminder that Jake is coming after the action sports industry with all guns blazing.
“Bringing our snow, surf and skate brands under one roof is challenging, but at the same time it feels right,” says Jake Burton, Founder and Chairman of Burton Snowboards. “Our family of brands have different messages, but their roots are all connected through the spirit of boardsports. Our intention is to capture that spirit and invite riders, skaters and surfers to come experience it.”
And we agree. No one will ever handle their brands better than they do. Apple is a prime example. Follow the link for the full release.
Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala went to Alaska to surf the waves that are created when huge chunks of glaciers fall off into the ocean. It’s a little like nature’s own wavepool, however, some of the waves they rode were reportedly up to 25 feet tall. Here’s some video.
Since Paris Hilton got out of jail it seems like she’s living the wild life by spending time in the water learning to surf. Surfermag.com’s Scott Bass questioned people about what they think of Paris becoming a surfer girl. As usual, the guys don’t mind and girls think she’s going to ruin the sport. Us, we don’t think it’s a problem at all. . . especially if she keeps having wardrobe misshaps.
It’s a good day for Volcom’s Vice President of Sales Tom Ruiz. As part of a prearranged 10b5-1 trading plan Tom exercised 5,000 options of Volcom at $19 today and then immediately sold them off at approximately $49 netting himself a healthy profit of $150,000. Congrats, Tom.
When the city of Cardiff-by-th-Sea decided they wanted a statue of a surfer to adorn their city, they hired Matthew Antichevich an artist from Hemet (an inland city 45 miles from The Coast). The statue he delivered has received nothing but heckling since it was unveiled.
