A Dan With Dan Merkel 3.8.12 by Doug Walker

About this video:

"March 8 2012 Dan Merkel came over the night before the film is shared with San Francisco at the Ocean Film Fest. Dan came across an image with a great story from the film "Big Wednesday" and therefore I had to turn the camera on..

enjoy.

this is "Lost & Found"

 www.thelostandfoundcollection.com

Pillage & Plunder

More soul by Nathan Oldfield www.lookandsea.blogspot.com/

Swell Stuff Wetsuit Sale: March 2nd and 3rd 10-6:30.

20% off all wetsuits and beanies. 

Hand Made in Leucadia - Swell Stuff

I love people who make things with their hands. Here is a shoot out to the very talented Lisa Hetman at swell-stuff.com The lovely ladies at Swell Stuff are responsible for the sewing of our handles for *enjoy handplanes and keeping the rest of our community in leakless wetsuits. They also make some amazing handmade beenies and pillows. Go Lisa! Thank you for supporting us and making swell stuff!

GLYDER apparel

There's a new Women's Yoga Wear brand in town! Glyder Apparel http://work-sweat-play.com/ is designed my Leucadia artist/ Beacons local : Lauren Tolford. Lauren leads the design department, while her fellow FIDM alumni and Carlsbad local, Amanda Thomashow handles the business management of the brand. Lauren's Fiancé, Erik Baldwin stepped in to shoot all the product shots for the website as well!

The yoga and women's athletic market is on fire right now and some of the big name brands are selling their basic Yoga Pants and Tanks for unbelievably high prices!

Glyder Apparel is using the IDENTICAL durable Nylon Spandex fabric as the leading yoga brands, but at a much more friendly price!  Pants, Crops, Tanks and Tee's with appealing feminine styling, made with flat seam construction, and a beautiful color pallet make this collection a must have for all you active moms and "yoganistas" out there. 

Their products are only available online currently. The website is decked out with some great lifestyle photos of some very recognizable locations of the Grandview and Swamis coastline. Yoga Tropics Instructor, Tracey Stockapler is featured in many of photos on the site performing some amazing yoga postures.

Please go check them out!

Joe Hodniki Vimeo Time-lapse of Vimeo xgames booth

Go Joe Go! http://www.sharingthestoke.com

Salt Creek Sessions-2012 by John Culqui

The Sea Is My Brother

New piece by local artist Cheryl Sorg titled The Sea, 29" x 24", paper with acid-free adhesive on engineering vellum.

Cheryl uses clipping from magazines and books to make her work.

This original collaged piece is an homage to her two loves - literature and the sea - and the connection between the two. There is much beautiful blue ocean imagery, as well as snippets of poetry and literary titles from works whose themes revolve around the sea.

You can buy it at:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/92056692/the-sea-the-sea-original-one-of-a-kind

14 Year Old Surfer Saves a Life

This is my friend Logan Foster. I lived next door to him when he was born. One of the coolest kids I had every known right from the get go. I know his dad well and I know he is one proud man right now. Good on you Logan. From grom to super hero! 

Turquoise Sequence

Photos by David Gray

Peahi Paddle In's.

I got this email with commentary from my friend Eric Wells on Maui.

Here are a few shots his buddy Brian Parris took...

   

Hey!  My Wave! 

    

Actually, Nobody's Wave 

    

What?!   No Customers? 

    

Yeah Baby!...All Mine! 

    

Ooops! 

    

DUDE!  OVER HERE!!!!! 

    

Downwash Anyone? 

    

Massive! 

    

Shit!  I Got It 

    

Shit!  It's Got Me! 

    

Feed Me!  I'm Hungry!

Another Souly One by DG

Photo by David Gray

The Salute

Photo by David Gray

Artist - Designer - Typographer - Inspiration - Katherine Hall

I'm a big fan of Katherine Hall's work. Check her out.

"DRAWING LINES WITH PENS AND PINTAILS

This is a space where Katherine Hall's collection of surf-inspired line drawings and hand type is collected, sorted and published for your viewing pleasure."

http://drawn-lines.blogspot.com

Sexy blue green backlit sweetness!

Photo by David Gray

Shackalaca

Photo by David Gray

Blacks Hack

Photos by David Gray

Say Hello to Your Local Sustainable Surfboard Material

There is something about the Agave plant that intrigues me. It has a simple beauty and design. It is also an organic example of how surfboards get there strength. If you cut the Agave stalk up you would see how it has a super soft center and a super hard shell. That design is exactly how the modern surfboard is constructed. It is pretty cool how shapers like Gary Linden and Eli Mirandon have picked up on that and started to make functional high performance boards out of them. Not just wall hanging art, although they are worthy.

In terms of sustainability, it seems to be a pretty good material seeing that only when the plant has died is when it's wood is good to use. That and it grows wild just about everywhere in SoCal.

Hey, Mr. or Ms. Agave plant, live your life to the fullest and when you are done we'll take you out and get barreled on you. Are you cool with that? Shaka!

Here is such example, Eli riding an Agave board that he made with his own two hands and, well, took it out one day to get a few. (Leashless, no wetsuit on a winter day no less. I'm still blown away by this)

Happy New Year!

Hoots and Shakas to you all.

LOST & FOUND SCREENING SATURDAY JANUARY 14 7PM

If you are at X-dance don't miss out of the Lost and Found Screening.

Mick Waters + Rasta + Seth Pettersen = Stoke

One of my favorite scenes in Little Black Wheels was the Rasta section. Yes Dave surfs his brains out but one of the true stars of that section was the song Baby Buddha by Seth Pettersen. The whole scene just makes me want to sing and go surf. Well done Mick, Seth and Dave!

"That's fantastic."

One of my favorite lines in the whole movie....

"It's amazing to me, in this day and age you can get a piece of professional equipment that is is still handmade. They don't make handmade tennis rackets, they don't hand make footballs. Right? So, but you can get a handmade surfboard. That's fantastic."

Glenn Henning Surfer/Activist founder of the Surfrider Foundation

from Manufacturing Stoke

Win An *enjoy handplane and water filming session - Hurry time is running out.

The crew at misfit pictures can think of no other place to celebrate the holidays except deep inside the barrel and we couldn't agree more. So we teamed up with misfit to create a limited pressing of 100 MANUFACTURING STOKE DVDs and inside one of these somebody will find THE GOLDEN TICKET. 

One lucky ticket holder will receive an *enjoy handplane and a complimentary water filming session to record the stoke on your face...forever.

Probably be easiest to film in San Diego but misfits like to travel.

DVDs ARE ONLY $15 and are available at www.manufacturingstoke.com
FREE SHIPPING

Last time we checked there are only 42 left... Pierce will update the count daily on his facebook page.

Good luck!

Mexico needs your help!

Our friends at Quality Peoples are working on a very cool project in collaboration with Hand Me Ups (http://handmeups.org/) and PEACE (http://peacemexico.org). Hand Me Ups is raising $7500 to go down to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (where Ed Fladung of QualityPeoples.com lives) to help rehabilitate PEACE's community center, which sorely needs it. You might recognize PEACE, as Quality Peoples donate a portion of their profits to them. They are a non-profit organization that provides all kinds of education and services to the communities in the Puerto Vallarta area.

Hand Me Ups' fundraiser project is set up with a bunch of awesome pledge levels (similar to Kickstarter). Quality Peoples is donating a limited edition collaboration tshirt they created with Hand Me Ups and they are also donating two designs from their Spring Summer 12 collection which isn’t out in stores yet. Cast of Vices (http://castofvices.com) and Fresh Words (http://freshwordsmarket.com) are also donating items and the higher pledge levels have some great items as well.

Check out a video about introducing the project here:
http://www.handmeups.org/rehabilitate-a-community-center

Check it out. If you would like to help they would greatly appreciate.

It's out! Download Come Hell or High Water from TSN!

Oh my, I have been waiting for this one. Starting today you can download Come Hell Or High Water from The Surf Network! Download, watch, enjoy, and enjoy and enjoy...