If Wyland can build an empire on painting whales, there’s no reason to believe that photographer Aaron Chang can’t do the same with his images even in this economy. On Saturday February 28, 2009 at 7 PM Aaron will host an event to celebrate the opening of his gallery in the Cedros Design District in Solana Beach, California.
Aaron Chang Gallery, 124 East Cliff St. @ corner of N. Cedros and Cliff
[Link: Aaron Chang Gallery via Global Surf News]
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Three years ago Jeff Seymour, of Carlsbad, California wanted to help out the troops. So he started a program called “Magazines and Movies for the Troops.” With donated magazines and movies from Transworld Media and many other Southern California souces Seymour hoped to spread a little love from home, according to a story in the San Diego City Beat.
Now it looks like most of those donations ended up getting dumped straight into a San Diego landfill. According to the paper a supervisor at the Miramar landfill witnessed “a group of Marines dump as many as six pallets full of the donations—magazines, books, DVDs and hygiene products, packed in boxes plainly marked “For Our Troops in Iraq”—into the landfill last summer.”
“Transworld Media donated thousands of magazines, most of them so new they still hadn’t hit the stands yet,” he says. “They donated cases of beanies—like those skullcaps that kids wear—worth about $20 apiece. I asked them, ‘Do you think the troops will wear these?’ And they replied, ‘Hey, do you know how cold it gets over there?’
Guess, we’ll never know. For the rest of the Marine Corp FUBAR follow the jump.
[Link: San Diego City Beat]
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After seeing video footage of guide Stephen Koch using a snowmobile in an area where they are not allowed for skiers and snowboarders, Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s Exum Mountain Guides fired the extreme snowboarding pioneer after 15 years of service, according to a story in the Jackson Hole Guide.
The action by the prestigious guide service came as park officials cited Koch twice for a Feb. 7 excursion that was videotaped and displayed on several Web sites, including Koch’s own. The world-famous alpinist was sacked even as he offered a public apology, printed as this week’s Jackson Hole News & Guide guest editorial, saying he suffered “a lapse of my good judgment,” in making and publicizing his trip.
Sadly, the kind of snowmobile that Koch used (a four-stroke) is legal for fisherman, but not for skiers and snowboarders. Apparently, they forgot to stop and do some ice fishing on the way to the Skillet Glacier.
[Link: Jackson Hole Guide]
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Those Mono County Sheriff’s officers sure are clever. Recently they placed an ad on Craigslist offering Mammoth Mountain lift tickets in exchange for narcotics and ended up nailing six people, according to a story in the OC Register:
Sheriff’s deputies advertised their sting operation on Craigslist.org, offering to sell Mammoth Mountain lift vouchers in exchange for narcotics. . . . The six people from Orange County, San Luis Obispo and Los Angeles came to Mammoth Lakes, gave the agents the drugs and were arrested Friday, officials said. . . . Deputies seized about a pound of marijuana, a fourth of an ounce of cocaine, Ecstasy tablets and prescription medications.
Nice way to drum up some out-of-town revenue for the county. It almost seems too easy.
[Link: OC Register]
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We often find ourselves confused while trying to figure out what many eco-groups and events actually do.
The most recent is snowboarding’s TTR Series founder Drew Stevenson’s Breathe Foundation. After leaving TTR last year Stevenson apparently moved to Costa Rica and set up a eco-foundation. What is Breathe? Well, according to their website:
Breathe is an organic concept born in the jungles of Costa Rica fusing music, activities, discourse, and inclusive participation aimed at sharpening focus on many social and ecological issues facing our future. . . .Time is short to address the enormity of different challenges facing the globe’s biosphere, natural resources and us as species. They are as big as they are diverse. The solutions are as clever as they are wide ranging. The first step in addressing a problem, is accepting there is a one
Ah, wow. Okay. . . what was that again? Those who understand this should be in Costa Rica right now because the Breathe gathering began February 22 and it ends on March 1. In the meantime, Breathe is holding an online auction “benefiting underserved youth of Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica.” Autographed items from Axel Pauporte, Manoa Drollet, Ingemar Backman, Hannah Teter, Nicolas Mueller, Mads Johnsson, Wolle Nyvelt, Marc Andre Tarte and more are being auctioned off.
[Link: Breathe via Snowbroader.com]
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We’ve been fans of Felt Bicycles for a short time and of cruisers in general forever, so this new collab with Hurley looks pretty good for a Nike bikie.
Hurley’s world-class design team partnered with Felt Bicycles to create a limited-edition cruiser capturing the essence of Hurley surf style and culture. Hurley’s most recognized and sought-after “Puerto Rico” plaid, popularized on surf trunks worn by the likes of pro surfer Rob Machado, has inspired the new Hurley “PR” cruiser.
[Link: Felt Bikes via Mesurf]
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On February 23, 2009 the City of Malibu, California voted to outlaw downhill skateboarding a.k.a. “speedboarding” according to a story in the LA Times.
Malibu, with its many winding canyon roads, voted to prohibit skateboarding on some of its most twisted streets and passes. . . . “The intent is not to ban skateboarding in the city of Malibu,” said Reva Feldman, the town’s administrative services director. “The intent is to protect the public and also the city.” The city will post signs prohibiting skateboarding on 10 public streets, Feldman said. Violators would be fined between $25 and $100.
When fun is outlawed, only outlaws will have fun.
[Link: LA Times]
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Waialua, Hawaii resident Clinton Patterson fell from his electric skateboard in July 2008 and died five days later from his injuries. Now his wife Jennifer is suing the “California-based motorized skateboard manufacturer and its Hawai’i distributor,” according to a story in the Honolulu Advertiser.
The lawsuit alleges that the wheels of the board came in contact with Patterson’s feet or the board, causing an abrupt change in speed and direction, effectively throwing him off the skateboard. The suit claims that the board was poorly designed and built. . . .The electric skateboards are manufactured and sold by Chase Boards LLC in Orange County, Calif. The lawsuit also named Bionic Wheels LLC, a Honolulu-based distributor of the product, as a defendant.
Sad story all the way around.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
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