{"id":2511,"date":"2008-11-17T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T23:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2008-11-17T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T04:23:25","slug":"surfboards-wins-noba-award-for-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"Surfboards Wins NOBA Award For Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/surfboards.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/surfboards.jpg','popup','width=181,height=239,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/surfboards-tm.jpg\" height=\"264\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfboards\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=sacklunch&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0762746211\" target=\"_blank\">Surfboards<\/a><\/strong>, by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longboardmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Longboard Magazine<\/a><\/strong> publisher <strong>Guy Motil<\/strong> was recently awarded a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noba-web.org\/books08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2008 National Outdoor Book Award<\/a><\/strong> for &#8220;Design &#38; Artistic Merit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This consummately designed and photographed book is about those sleek and simple contrivances that allow surfers to harness the natural power of an ocean wave.  Much of Guy Motil&#8217;s life has been entwined with the sport, and the text clearly bears out his intimate understanding of boards and their myriad permutations.  Whether you&#8217;re a surfing dabbler or a serious devotee, it won&#8217;t disappoint.  One look at this sumptuous book and you&#8217;ll agree.  It&#8217;s a must-have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is great news in an otherwise bad month for <em>Longboard Magazine<\/em>. On Friday October 31, 2008 the magazine&#8217;s staff was reportedly &#8220;sent home&#8221; and publication of the magazine has been temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Guy Motil is currently at work on eight more book projects: four on the sport of surfing (both shortboard and longboard) as well as a history of aviation and a book on motor sports. Anyone interested in contributing to these projects is encouraged to contact us at <strong><a href=\"mailto:Publications@voyagerstudios.us?Boardistan%20Post\" target=\"_blank\">Publications@voyagerstudios.us<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noba-web.org\/books08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">National Outdoor Book Awards<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfboards, by Longboard Magazine publisher Guy Motil was recently awarded a 2008 National Outdoor Book Award for &#8220;Design &#38; Artistic Merit.&#8221; This consummately designed and photographed book is about those sleek and simple contrivances that allow surfers to harness the natural power of an ocean wave. Much of Guy Motil&#8217;s life has been entwined with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}