Extended Family Show at Corduroy

Fun new show at Corduroy starts tonight! I love all of the artists in the show and I love the people at Corduroy. Wish I could be there. Someday, Portland, Maine...someday.

More info on their blog.

Surf Fridays!

Hwy 166

Board collection at Pancho's in Pismo

Tour of Moonlight Glassing

Peter's Paint

My new board

Swami's

Heavenly water temp

Sano surfer

Sunset at Sano

Sano camper

Road trip. Hope to see you again soon, San Diego. You were good to us.

My Local Lineup features the Mattson Family Art Benefit

We're back from San Diego and man, what a special event the Mattson Family Art Benefit turned out to be. The art and the music was fantastic - and there were 600 people that showed up throughout the night!

We have a wonderful community - all of the artists will be thrilled to know that they made the night a big success for the Mattson Family and the Mattsons are so happy. Also Chris Rule and Masa Rogers at the Surfindian rock!

This weekend, we'll be downloading a bunch of photos from the event and create a Flickr link to share with you, but you can get a great idea of how the show went from My Local Lineup's video here. Enjoy!

p.s. I'll post a pic of my new surfboard this weekend! Got a little tour of Moonlight Glassing and surfed Sano on the way home. So much to catch up on. xo

Surf Fridays!

In the latest issue of The Surfer's Journal, there's a compelling article written by Jaimal Yogis about Carol Schuldt, a.k.a. The Queen of Ocean Beach.

Carol is 75 years old and has surfed Ocean Beach since she was a child - always without a wetsuit. Carol passed along some very meaningful words to the author...



"Get close to the earth".


"It was like a family," says Carol. "Your generation has such a hard time understanding because you're so into technology. But people didn't just drive to the beach, call their friends on their cell phones, surf, and drive away. We lived on the beach and lived with the beach.

There was a community around the fire. We needed the fire. We couldn't just change in our cars and head back to our cars and turn on the heat. We had to live with the elements. We had to feel."


"Just feel the earth" she says as we head down to her secret spot, "that's the secret. That's it. People want to talk about chakras and energy and all this. But you want to know how I have so much energy, just get close to the earth. That's it."

She pauses and keeps walking. "Oh, and keep surfing," she chuckles, giddy that we're getting closer to the waves.




All photos taken by Loomis Dean in 1950 in California, for Life magazine. The series was called, "Beach Bums".

LONG LIVE BEACH BUMS!

Mattson Family Art Benefit - June 26

Poster art by Julie Goldstein, designed by Mark Tesi

Featuring artists:

Alberto Cuadros : Andrew Paynter : Andy Davis : Candace Anderson : Cher Pendarvis : Chivo : Ciro Bicudo : Christine Brailsford : Danny Hess : 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 : Jonathan Mattson : Joseph Conway : Julie Goldstein : Justin Furniss : Kassia Meador : Katrine Hildebrandt : Keiron 'Seamouse' Lewis : Kim Nguyen : Kyle Lightner : Lindsay Preston : Liz Cockrum : Luke Taaffe : Maggie Marsek : Meegan Feori : Michael Singman-Aste : Morgan Maassen : Nat Russell : Peter Jackson Hussey : Peter McBride : Ray Barbee : 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

Mattson Family Art Benefit

Friday, June 26 - one night only!

Surfindian
4658 Mission Blvd., Pacific Beach, California
858.412.5334

Music by the Mattson 2

 with special guest Ray Barbee!

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





Surfindian is a constantly evolving art project and retail store focused on the art of surfing. Surfindian features surf-themed art, apparel, film, books, and jewelry, as well as fine hand-shaped surfboards, fins and other surfing accessories. Surfindian is located at 4658 Mission Boulevard, in the heart of Pacific Beach, California. The store phone number is 858.412.5334. For directions and other information, please visit www.surfindian.com, and follow the link to the blog.

Industrial Road

The ultimate state catch the 10:45 to San Carlos on the pro line sticks n stones glass houses Kuhlman's men like a good sandwich.

Devo just got a bath and he's headed to Mom's while we catch the 6am for a little trip to Baltimore see Jay's family, including a cousin's wedding and a dinner that involves crabs.

Pine Haven Collective builds a shack

The ever wonderful Pine Haven Collective had a show tonight in New Hampshire. Here is the shack they built for it. I like how Joe & Jenny's dog Reyes takes a little nap inside.



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Surf Fridays!

This is from the film Longer, by J. Brother featuring Joel Tudor. The tune is Misty.

Surf Fridays!

Happy Surf Fridays! This is a pretty exciting day for me because I get to share the news about my new surfboard!! But first, I have to show you something pretty darn amazing.

Clayfin, otherwise known as Ted Gallup - what an awesome guy. You may know him from Six Foot and Perfect. I have long been admiring Ted's clay fins and own 3 of them. They make our house look so much cooler. Well, Ted and I did a little trade last year and along with my San Ono print, I sent him this print below. He really liked it and decided to put it on his board, so he took it to the geniuses at Moonlight and...behold the Maui Dreams Noserider!



That was like a dream come true that I didn't even ask for - pretty amazing! Now, here is the dream that I did ask for. I put it out to the universe (via Twitter) that I wanted a 9'0 board. Clayfin comes right back and says he has a 9'0 blank. And off we went...

Below is the beautiful board Ted shaped for me. You can check out the early stages under Project Dole (get it?) on his blog. It is now off to Moonlight for some special treatment, which I will happily show you when it's all finished. This is going to rock my summer and many years to come. Don't worry Jay, I'll let you use it sometimes.



I hope you all get some good surf this weekend, and for everyone some good R&R, good music, good food and good lovin'.

Pluv

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Good golly, more closeup photos of the Maui Dreams board at Surfy Surfy.

Twist

"There's a lot of talk of how damaging graffiti is and the destruction that happens with graffiti, but there's actually no damage. It all can be removed or painted over with a roller. So there's the media's idea of damage and destruction, this thing that's slightly askew. To me, if there's commercial jingles from the '70s or '80s that I remember and that are stuck in my head, that's damage to me." Barry McGee

Twist - freight train
Photo by All Seeing

Twist - SoMa, 1998

Twist - Dogpatch, 1998

Twist - Dogpatch, 1999
bottom 3 photos from The Transit Project

Interview with Lydia Fong (aka Twist, aka Barry McGee) at Ratio 3 Gallery, SF

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Bonus: Next in the Netflix queue is Piece by Piece, a documentary about San Francisco graffiti - "The film puts you alongside the graffiti writers, police and local San Franciscans affected by this misunderstood art form."

Surf Fridays!

I couldn't wait to tell you guys about the winners and my surf story.

OK, so I don't love surfing in Pacifica. Everyone is super nice there though and that is worth a lot. I think I don't love it because that's where I learned to surf and I'd go there a lot and just get worked. But I am so glad we went today and here's why.

After suiting up, I was waxing my board on the bed of the truck. All kinds of old, dirty wax started easily coming off and I grabbed a comb and started removing it all. It was long overdue. I ended up with a huge ball of grey wax, as big as a softball. I walked over to the garbage can at the wall near the beach, and there was a group of guys there who'd just gotten out of the water and were standing next to a white van, chatting.

One of them said, "Whoa is that wax?" I said "Yes", and the guy said, "Can I have it?" I said, "Sure" and my heart skipped a beat because I handed my dirty ball of wax to none other than one of my art heroes, Mr. Barry McGee. In my mind, I was running and skipping back to the truck to tell Jay, but I'm pretty sure I walked. Check out this great article about the man also known as Twist...

Other than that, the water was extra cold and it was pretty windy, but how do you do it, ocean? It cleansed my soul. Seriously, that feeling like if you have any kinds of irritation inside of you - poof, gone. Gone and then you eat tacos and pick up some farm fresh strawberries, and maybe take a little nap.





Devo was taking a nap too, but I woke him up and gave him a dog biscuit and he was ready to pick the winners of Saltwater Buddha. Big congratulations to Ashley Moffat of Southern California and Kate Banazi of Sydney, Australia! Ashley is a surfer who rocks it on a Michael Junod pumpkin seed and Kate is an amazing artist who specializes in bold, graphic silkscreens. Please send your mailing address to pineappleluv @ gmail dot com.

Time to reward Devo with a walk. Happy weekend to you! I hope you smile a lot.

Gone Surfin'

I am happy to say that I took the day off work to go surfing with Jay. I was kinda bummed to discover that Santa Cruz is flat, so we are going to Pacifica and Jay is packing up the truck right now. I will report back early this evening with the winners of the books and if I caught any waves.

Aloha!