Recycled Surfer

Here is some really cool art from my friend and neighbor Cheryl Sorg. She is known in the art world for dismantling entire books word for word and then reassembling them into huge spiralled panels that read from the center out. Check out her site. What she does is amazing and beautiful what she does.

The pictures above are of two pieces she did for her husband, an avid Beacons surfer. The first one is called "Kinds of Blue". It's made of magazine paper, 1 1/2-inch squares cut from images of waves and water from surf magazines and stuck together with clear tape. This one is approx. four feet by nine feet!

The second one is Untitled. It too is out of magazine paper, the same 1 1/2-inch squares cut from images, this time of the ocean at sunset from surf magazines and clear tape. This one is 20" x 20".

When I started to do The Leucadia Project I asked her to share these. I've had the pleasure of seeing them in person and they are amazing. I love the fact that they are created from surf magazines.

Avo Street Painting

Here is an email I received from Mary Fleener, Avo Street local and renowned cartoonist/artist/musician.

Hi Ed- thought you'd like this....in the 90s', during the comic con, my friends Kevin and Kathi Altierie used to stay here for a day of surfing and dinner downtown before they had to go back to LA. Both worked in the animation business and Kathi is a well known background painter who has worked for Disney and Dreamworks. She got into plein air oil painting, so one day she took her kit down to Avos and this is the result. This year was 1994. Nice, eh? It's also only 6 by 8 inches!

-Mary

Oceanographer Steve

Here is a guy we owe a lot to as ocean lovers.  Steve Reilly is a Grandview local and was one of the head guys at NOAA.  He worked for them for about 30 years. First as a kid out of college who had a dream of being able to work with the ocean for a living. Then as the guy who sat in meetings with world leaders fighting for our ocean's rights.  While he was employed he had an office that overlooked Black's and a board that sat in his office with a thick coat of dust on it. Steve had become so good at his job that he never had time to surf anymore.

About a year ago that changed.  Steve retired. He did his part to save our oceans and now it is his time to enjoy them.  Here is my tribute to Steve.  He gets my respect as well as set waves for sacrificing so much for something that means so much to us all.

Photo David Gray