Floral Collage

Floral Collage

By RM Lewis 

These photos where taken by my dad who is a huge inspiration to me. He's not only a model for a loving father but also as a creative soul. When he retired he fell back in love with photography, a passion he had while growing up. When he goes out to shoot he always looks for the absolute beauty in everything, a quality that I admire. When I look at his images I just feel good. Enjoy.

Rodney Showing at Quail Botanical Gardens Sat and Sun

My favorite eco-artist and all around good guy, Rodney McCoubrey, will be showing his work this weekend. Go check it out and support your local artists and eco-warriors.

San Diego (Quail) Botanical Garden's event:  

Garden Expressions 

August 21-22, 2010

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

www.SDBGarden.org

Eco-Parents Rejoice.

My friend and local surf mom Alyssa Rodas has come up with a brilliant locally made product line for all you eco-friendly parents out there. They are called Semilla Snack Bags and they are reusable/washable bags you use for your kids snacks.

Anyone who cares about sustainability and ecology thinks about what they throw in the trash. They also can't help but cringe at the amount of waste that goes on in the single pack snack industry.

As parents and consumers we have an important role in shaping the future of how our society produces it's products and how our kids are taught about the right way to treat our planet. How we buy and use our products teaches both the companies and our children about what is right and wrong.

Luckily we are all getting wiser to the need to balance convenience with ecology and our choices at the markets are now shaping what companies are producing. It's only a matter of time before an all waste society blossoms into a no waste one.

Until then use your power as the family shopper to make your own home as waste free as possible. While doing that support your local businesses and surf moms (and dads) by supporting them in their efforts to produce eco-friendly products.

Learn more about Semilla Snack Bags and get a Lecuadia Project discount of 15% off by entering "amigos" in the coupon code at checkout. Good until September 6th.

Thank you Alyssa for giving us parents an alternative to plastic bags and waste!

Lauren Tolford

My friend Lauren at work.  Check out Surf Du' Jour for more on her.

California Daze Art show Friday night! Featuring Skye Walker

Come on out to the Green Flash Gallery in Cardiff (111 Chesterfield) this Friday, August 20th for the 

"California Daze" group art show. Show goes from 5-10pm and is sure to be a fun event!!

Artists include:

Matt Beard

Julie Goldstein

Liz Lantz

Skye Walker

Ash Francomb

Heather Brown

Kris Degrazio

Susan Wickstrand

Kevin Roche

Ashton Howard

Poetry Ruckus 2 @ The Duck

Please join us for our next POETRY RUCKUS @ The Duck, Wednesday, Aug. 

18, doors open at 7:00 pm. We are very excited about this month's 

Special Guest, Jane Mushinsky. Originally from New England, (Always will 

be a New Englander), a twenty year resident of our area, Jane is a 

professor of English at Mira Costa and has also taught creative writing. 

Jane practices and studies Zen Buddhism, is a member of Hotei Ji Zen 

Center and tells us that Buddhism has influenced her poetry. She is a 

member of the American Poetry Society. Please join us on Wednesday 

evening and come early to guarantee a seat. Our past events have been SRO.

The POETRY RUCKUS @ The Duck is a monthly poetry event that features 

local poets reading their work and always features a Special Guest Poet. 

If you would like to participate and be added to our performance 

roster,  email Michael,  ruthlesshippies@gmail.com

There is no admission charge but we ask for a small donation to help 

offset our expenses.

Ducky Waddle's Emporium

Book Store, Art Gallery, Center for Cultural Studies

414 N. Coast Hwy. 101

Encinitas, (Leucadia), CA 92024

760-632-0488

www.duckywaddles.com

Sacred Craft Highlights

The Cooperfish booth was amazing. I'm not sure how long that board is but it was a show stopper.

Simmon's Simmon's and more Simmon's. We are partnering up with the Surfing Heritage Foundation to help recycle broken boards and raise some money for the foundation by donating a board for auction so we got to set up our table smack dab in the middle of the Simmon's exhibit. Below was my view, I was in heaven.

Ryan Burch Foam Thingy

The handplanes were a hit. Kipp was holding court with the Groms explaining the glass jobs.

And the winner of the handplane is... Eric from Cardiff. He looks calm here but he just ran a few blocks and up the convention center stairs from hell to pick up his handplane. He was sweating like crazy. He was so stoked though. Could not have happened to a nicer and more deserving guy.  Erik, who has been eyeing the handplanes at Surfy Surfy got entered to win by signing up to be a member of the Surfing Heritage Foundation after hearing he could win an Enjoy handplane. He also turned to me and claimed the win right there at about 11 am. He said, I WILL WIN THIS THING. By 6 pm he was taking it home. We were all so stoked for him.

Ok, the guys from GoPro are amazing. I got to visit their booth downstairs at ASR. This handplane is going to travel with their booth and will also be used by the staff for "R&D" aka barrel time.  I have a lot of respect for these guys and the company itself, which has been grown from a garage operation by sweat and tears to the most wanted waterproof digital camera out there. This stemmed from the founder wanting to take better surf photos. How cool is that?

Here's our friend and Tahitian artist Philippe. He is making this for us and for our fin project. When it's complete we'll show it off.

Shawd at Rainbow Fins is amazing. Their booth is always a highlight. He has created over 1000 original art fins. Unbelievable. He is also one of the nicest guys you will meet. 

Korduroy.tv booth was, as always, amazing. Cyrus is seriously a genius. I'm forever inspired.

Blue Tarp Barrels. The original. You saw it on Korduroy.tv first!

Love it. Flops out of recycled tires.

Recycled resin art. So beautiful. 

My favorite tee from the show.

Love these two paintings by Pedersen

Amazing work by Spencer Reynolds.

Really liked this piece by Meegan Feori. 

Legends. Kevin Naughton (left) , Ira Opper (center) , Craig Peterson (Right). I was so stoked I got to hang out with these guys. I grew up watching Ira's films and Surfer Mag's TV show in the 80's. On the other end I grew up reading and drooling over the surf travel adventures of Craig and Kevin in Surfer Mag proper. Recognize that photo? If you were surfing in the 80's you do.

Craig took the time to go through his photos one at a time telling the back story of each.

Craig and Kevin's latest book. I want that!

Win an Enjoy Handplane or GoPro Camera at Sacred Craft This Weekend

We are teaming up with the Surfing Heritage Foundation and GoPro at Sacred Craft this weekend. Look for us at the Surfing Heritage Booth. 

On Saturday they will raffling off the Charcoal and Lime Green beauty above for becoming a member of Surfing Heritage that day. On Sunday they will be raffling off a GoPro Camera to people who join that day. We will be there both days. Stop by, say hi and check out some of the boards we will have on display.

Sacred Craft Show Aug 14th/15th San Diego Convention Center

www.surfboardshow.com

www.surfingheritage.org 

Punt

Photo David Gray

Ryan Burch

I'm a huge fan of Ryan's. The guy can ride anything. This is a while back when he wasn't surfing 4 foot finless foam thingies on double overhead days. 

photo David Gray

John Mann's Mexi Blanket

Our friend John Mann in Washington ordered this custom Mexi Blanket for his quiver. He sent us this photo of his Austin kneeboard to match the color work. It turned out so beautiful, I seriously didn't want to send it to him.

John has been bodysurfing with handplanes since the late 60's early seventies. He told us this story...

Read the rest of the story  over at the new Enjoy Handplanes blog.

Our New Site/Blog/Store - EnjoyHandplanes.com

People have been asking for more info on the handplanes so we built a brand new site to do just that at EnjoyHandplanes.com.  It will have photos, it's own blog and a shop to buy handplanes. All you resin tint love'n, bodysurfing crazies go check it out. You now have a place to go that understands you.

Candy

Kipp made this one as an experiment in color and texture. It looks like a piece of candy. There is a lot going on but I have to admit it turned out really cool.

The process of making these handplanes takes awhile and is a labor of love. Each board we make is like a little friend to us. The process is interesting. You start off with a little white ghost and then when you add color it becomes alive, it takes on a personality of it's own that makes you want to see it take life into it's final form.

This little guy grew on us, as it had such a unique personality. I certainly didn't want to see it go, but it didn't stick around long. It was for sale for a day and it got snatched up by my friends and local water couple Rich and Allie. It made me feel better though that it was still in the neighborhood. Go have fun little candy board. You have good owners now and will spend many days slotted in barrels.

Tad

Photo by David Gray

Mick Waters

Here's a shot of our good friend and Aussie filmmaker Mick Waters having some fun on the other end of the lens. Enjoy.

Glasser Needed

Paul Belitz needs help glassing his wood fish. He built this one himself and wants to glass it himself. Anyone who has some glassing skills with wood boards and would like to get paid to walk him through the process please contact Paul .

Vote Korduroy TV

If you love homemade, homegrown, surf stoke then show your love for Cyrus' contribution to the blog world and vote Korduroy TV in the finials going on right now on Surfer.com.  

Vote for Korduroy TV in the Finals of Surfer Mag's Battle of the Blogs.