Wave Lines by Nomad Editions

Cardiff local Jon Cohen has helped start an innovative online and smart phone enabled biweekly surf magazine called Wave Lines.  In this issue we got interviewed and written up by local freelance writer, surfer, traveler Keil Miller for Enjoy Handplanes. If you're interested in reading what Keil had to say you can get a free eval subscription at http://nomadeditions.com/.

Thank you Keil and Jon for the opportunity to be a part of such a great project!

Roller Derby #10 Skate Board Circa 1950

She's a beauty. Complete with metal wheels and grip tape free deck. Anyone up to take her in the vert ramp at the Y or bomb the 3rd street hill by Moonlight?!

Enjoy Leftover Resin for Christmas

In the spirit of Enjoy we have made some cool ornaments out of the leftover resin from the bottom of Kipp's resin cups. For those of you not familiar with the glassing process there is always a little resin leftover after you glass a surfboard (or handplane in our situation). Historically these leftovers have been seen as trash and were thrown away. But not anymore! We think these little beauties are just too cool to throw out. Now they can live a happy life on your Christmas Tree each year and avoid the smelly dump!

If you'd like one of these festive little resin wonders, stop by Surfy Surfy Surf Shop to pick one up. JP will be handing them out like candy to good little surfboard loving boys and girls. Hurry though kids, we dropped off a batch last night and they are already gone as they are free and will go fast! We'll drop off more today in time for the Surfy Surfy Jaz night so get one while you listen to the smooth sounds of Surfy Jaz.

Stay tuned for more fun things we are doing with our leftovers in 2011!

Eat no Evil

I have to give some love to Chris Angell of Angell Bars. I love what he is doing. I met him at Sacred Craft a while back and we reconnected and he sent me some of his organic and certified fair trade candy bars to try out. So far I have had the coconut white chocolate one and it is really good!! Right after I post this the dark chocolate and almond is a goner.

Chris you are doing good in this world my friend. Keep it up.

If you want them for some stocking stuffers you can get them at the Pannikin here in town or at Lockwood table (Solana Beach), Boney's in Oceanside, and Pangea in Del Mar.

If you're a shop owner give Chris a ring. He can always use another vender to help spread the organic fair trade love.

Seriously though, if you're going to eat candy bars why not eat one that's not evil? I'm just say'n, evil sucks.

www.angellbars.com

Merry Christmas from John Culqui

 www.jsculquiart.com

Happy Holidays from Cheryl Sorg

Made from cut up photos of Christmas Tree Lights. Cool!

www.cherylsorg.com

Christine Brailsford

My friend Justin turned me on to local artist Christine Brailsford. She uses found wood and carving in a lot of her work. I really like her style. 

That last piece is available at his shop Falcon's.

Check out more of her work at: sunfishart.blogspot.com  and christinebrailsford.tumblr.com

Photos are from her site.

Summery Loggery - by Nathan Oldfield

Here is a new short by Nathan Oldfield called Summery Loggery. Nathan is one of my favorite Aussie filmmakers. As I watched this I was suddenly hit by the reality that it is currently summer in Australia. A thought that vibrated to my core after freezing my arse off in my 3/2 in 56°F water today. I can't wait for Santa to get me a new 4/3!

Sing it now...

Santa baby, slip a 4/3 under the tree, for me

I've been an awful good boy indeed

Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, a Steve Lis Fish shaped just for me, light blue

I'll wait up for you

Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Think of all the rights I've missed

Think of all the lips that I haven't kissed

Next year I could be oh so good

If you'd check off my Christmas list

Boo doo bee doo

A few from Santa's Workshop

Will be up at  Wetsandsurfshop.com in the next few days. 

Merry Christmas From Falcon's Body Board Shop

Justin at Falcon's is a great guy and a valuable participant in our package recycling program. Every set of fins he sells he asks the customer if they would like the box and if not he saves them for us to reuse and ship handplanes with. If you live in Leucadia and are looking for a new set of fins please support our local businesses as well as our recycling program. Thank you!  

falconsbodyboardshop.com

Support your neighbors and buy some art and tees Saturday Dec 11th

Rodrigo’s Holiday Open Studio Sale December 11th 10 am. til 4pm. 

Go on by his home studio at 

844 Del Rio Ave in good ol’ leucadia 

Black Beans and “BRO DEALS” will be a flowin’ 

Also for the first time ever 2nds will be available for purchase ridiculously cheap… 

(I got to see the seconds. They are really amazing and many will be dirt cheep. $20!) This is an opportunity for all who want Rodney's art and want it at a steal.)

Also there will be Lecuadia's own tiktak apparel line. 1 day discount only.

Dear Super Cool Girlfriends and Wives

Dear Super Cool Girlfriends and Wives,

Thank you so much for ordering before the 11th, just in time for us to make a handplane for you to put under the tree. You are amazing. You spend your days working hard at work or with the kids (or both!) and barely have enough time to get your own needs met, and yet, you found the time to go to the enjoyhandplanes.com website and place an order for something that will not benefit you directly but you know will bring a tear to your man's eye Christmas Morning.  We respect that about you. You are so thoughtful like that. 

You are amazing,

*Enjoy Handplanes

Save the Yoga Swami Yurt

Save the Yogic Yurt from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

For those of you who don't know the Yoga Swami Yurt is in jeopardy of being taken down. 

Here is a video explaining the situation and a link to learn more on how to help.

www.yogaswami.com

Envirosurfer

Jared Moore(left) and Brandon Moyles (right) are the co-founders of Cardiff based online eco friendly surf shop store called Envirosurfer.

Envirosurfer pushed Avila to create a more eco-friendly surfboard, utilizing resources that were already currently available.

Foam - Marko Envirofoam is the world's first 100% recycled EPS foam core. The Content consists of EPS blank scraps collected from post consumer and post industrial EPS sources. The reformulation process accepts a variety of materials such as packaging material for computers, electronic equipment stereos, toys, etc. Instead of going to waste at a landfill, it can all be recycled into Envirofoam and reused.

Glass - It’s a low viscosity, ambient cure bio‐based liquid epoxy system that’s 55% derived
from natural, renewable resources such as industrial waste pine and vegetable oils.

Hemp Tail Patch - Sustainable resource with practically bullet proof strength.

Fins - Rainbow Bamboo fins. One of nature's most sustainable natural resources.

Pretty cool I must say. Good jobs guys!!!

North County Cowboys

My new tee.  I couldn't resists.  I got it at a concert by North County musician Cowboy Jack. Jack is famous for his Johnny Cash and Hank Williams covers and has a few cover bands including the North County Cowboys, Band in Black and the Hank Show.  The name of the design is "Longboard Cowboy" and the artist's name is Robert Pace Kidd. See more art by Robert at http://www.robertpacekidd.com/.

Jack will be playing at Robbie's Roadhouse tomorrow Dec. 7th from 6:30 to 9:30pm. If you are into Johnny Cash and Hank William's songs he is a must see. He has a great energy. Thanks Jack for the tee! I'll wear it with pride.

J Werb

These where shot on a classic day. It was small, hollow, super clean and no one out because the stairs where closed at Grandview. I bodysurfed and had tons of clean little barrels. Jason took his longboard out with the GoPro to play around.

Since the stairs where closed off, the only way down was to jump the wall.  On our way back we hopped over the wall and I attempted to spiderman down facing forward. As I was half way down I got hung up on the vine and I ended up having to jump down. I had my backpack on with fins and my handplane stuffed inside. The extra weight made me roll forward and I did a full-on ninja front roll (minus the grace and style) and landed face down in the parking lot. Smooth. Last time I jumped a wall to surf was when I was 15. I realized at that moment that I'm too old for that stuff. No more. Jason had a good laugh. 

Sneak Peak: Enjoy "Leftovers" Art Project

"Frank" by Rodney McCoubrey: Made from the tail of Bob Roger's first surfboard, Camper Shell Skin, Muffin Tin for Candleholder, Leftover Resin form Glassing and Paint Can Lid: Size 43"x25

"Wart" by Rodney McCoubrey: Made from Enjoy practice piece and the nose of a Stewart longboard, Rusted Cans and Love: Size 19"x17

"Zack" Thurster Tail, Old Broom, Resin Circles, Rusted Nails and Stomp Pad: Size 38"x17"

Here are a few samples from a little program we started called Leftovers. We have teamed up with our good friend Rodney "Rodrigo" McCoubrey to do an art project with the leftover scraps from the broken boards we make handplanes out of. For those of you who make The Leucadia Project a place you call home, you know Rodney's work. Rodney is world renowned for his work in eco folk art and we are so proud to be working with him. 

After salvaging the broken boards we use to make the handplanes we were adamant about using all that we could so that as little as possible goes into the trash. Since the leftovers where not useable by us we handed them over to Rodney to do his thing and were blown away by what he came up with. These are just a few of what came out of his studio. There are more pieces to come!

Since Rodney, Kipp and I are passionate about art education we are also donating a portion of the proceeds to support our local elementary art programs. The first school we will sponsor is Paul Ecke Central. More on that later.

Stay tuned for more works by Rodney. If you would like one of these please feel free to contact us.

For more photos go to www.enjoyhandplanes.com

Tak's New Single Fin

Our friend and local artist Tak Aoyama had a board shaped for him by fellow Leucadian, Seth Cutter of Cutter Surfboards. Tak did the artwork for the board. It's beautiful. Great job guys.

What I'm watching: Stoked and Broke

Ok, just finished up my second viewing and have to say that I am actually stoked! First off I really want to go surf. Seeing all that local footage made be want a really good northwest swell.  I also learned a lot from the film in terms of some practical knowledge as well as a bit about myself.

I'm actually in a better mood and there are moments when I laughed out loud. (The part about how to dress to go on a hobo staycation was classic.) In full disclosure I have been a part of helping get the word out online so I am not really impartial. I am biased to a degree. But with that said it was actually better than I was expecting it to be. Since I had never seen it I thought it was going to be a basic documentary about their trip but I was really surprised by the social commentary of it all. It really left me thinking about the lives of the people in the film and left me with questions about my own beliefs and priorities. Good job Cyrus.

Here are some stills...

Part of the fun in this film is how they do the trip. The rigs they built are pretty impressive and there is some practical knowledge on how to pull off a trip like this.

One lesson taught, look for families from Colorado in campgrounds. They are nice and will hook you up with food.

 Lot's of classic San Diego surfing. Made me so hungry for surfing.

Cyrus, his bluetooth head gear and his tips on getting dressed for the trip if you look indigenous. This part made me laugh out-loud.

A favorite scene was Cyrus and Ryan at Blacks. Cyrus takes out an old beat up single fin and kills it.

  Two parts in the film of pure raw honesty where Kneeboarder Steve above and Richard Kenvin below. They tell a bit about their lives and it is very interesting. Makes you think about your life and what you think is important.

Richard rips.

Cyrus and his handplane footage was cool. This movie was like when Sprout and Glass Love came out with segments on Fish boards and you finally got to see some footage of something that was more of an underground thing.  

Glen Horn and his wife are pretty amazing. They are inspiring. Saving up enough money to head off into Baja to spend their time surfing, camping and living life as they wish.