Happy Halloween Leucadia

Enjoy Handplane art by Erik Baldwin.

Some New Eco Art by Rodney McCoubrey

Photos and artwork By Rodney McCoubrey

http://www.rodrigosrecycledart.com

As part of our Enjoy Handplane project we team up with local Eco Artist Rodney "Rodrigo" McCounbrey in a "Leftovers' program to use our left over parts to make art. He is amazing. Thanks to all who support our handplane project and donate boards as this is part of the love that comes from your gift. If anyone wants one let us know. We'll connect you with Rodrigo.

Tak + enjoy = Artist Collaboration #9

Our friend and local Leucadia artist Tak Aoyama just dropped off a handplane he painted up for us for our artist collaboration project. He's the 9th artist we have worked with to date  and he came back with a handplane that blew us away. It is so unique, beautiful and subliminal. 

I love Tak's work because he thinks everything through. You will never hear out of Tak's mouth that there is something like a color  in his painting just because he likes that color. If something is in the painting it is because it has deep meaning to him and it conveys a message related to the overall piece. You can look at his work multiple times and find new things you missed the first few times around. 

All and all we are so stoked that Tak is on board to paint up some handplanes with us. This artist collaboration project is turning out to be so much fun.  If you'd like one like this (I think this one is going to hang on our wall!) then let us know and we'll connect you with Tak to do one special for you. Thank you Tak!!! Great job.

Bodysurf Art by Iomal

Our friend and Italian surf artist Iomal sent us in one of his amazing drawings. He is such a gifted illustrator and generous guy. Thank you Iomal for all the inspiration and generosity. For those of you who haven't seen his blog yet check it out. Thanks Iomal!!!

http://bodasurf.blogspot.com/

"Wart" is Sold

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

Our #1 right coast supporter Mike Brown acquired one of my favorite pieces from the Enjoy Leftover Art Project. Mike has been a huge supporter of our efforts and is now the proud owner of "Wart", a McCoubrey original. Rodney and I spoke about it this evening and it is so special for us to collaborate on this project. Not just as friends but as individuals who share a common passion for reuse and giving life to that once thought of as trash. Rodney's work is so special and it is truely an honor for Kipp and me to work with him on this. And it is great because a portion of the proceeds will be going to buy art supplies for Pual Ecke Central classrooms. Thank you everyone for supporting the art project. If you see one you'd like please feel free to contact us.

More Leftovers by Rodney McCoubrey

"Da Bird" by Rodney McCoubrey. Old Plywood, Lobster Buoy, Tool, Resin Leftovers from Enjoy Handplanes, Water Facet Knob, Wire. One of my favorites. More to come.... Enjoy.

If you are interested in this one please contact us. A portion of the proceeds will go to Paul Ecke Central art programs.

www.rodrigosrecycledart.com

photos: Ed Lewis

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

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

Stoked and Broke Virtual Premiere This Friday, Saturday and Sunday ONLY

It feels like I have been waiting an eternity to see this movie. Cyrus made it last winter or spring and it took a while to get released. Then I missed the La Paloma premiere and was bummed. When I heard that he was doing the tour I hooked him up with my friends at thesurfnetwork.com and now they are doing an online virtual premiere. Basically it's like being able to watch it NetFlix/On Demand style from your computer for 3 days in HD. So cool. I can't wait. Finally I get to see it!

To make it even better, Kipp and I donated one of our handplanes to be given away, GoPro HD donated a camera and Cyrus is giving away a Korduroy Tee and signed DVD. So not only do you get to see the movie but you get a chance to win an amazing giveaway package just like a real premiere.

To buy your ticket go HERE and you will be automatically entered to win.

Enjoy the movie! 

P.S. Anne, Kirk, Kipp, David are we having a laptop party at my place? Who's bring the tarp to do a little tarp surfing?? Kirk stop by Home Depot on Black Friday. I heard that they will be on sale!

Stoked!!!

Good moments come in the form of emails from friends

I just posted this shot and back ground story of Rasta up on the Enjoy Blog and had to take a moment here to verbalize how cool this is. As a guy who grew up with surf posters on my wall and lived his life as a consumer of surf products it has been a surreal and wonderful shift to be on the other side of the counter. When one is a creator and makes things they come from a place of putting ones' self out into the world. For good or for bad we take a piece of ourselves and put them into our work for others to see, judge and hopefully enjoy. When I received this shot from Mick Waters I was so stoked because it was a moment in time when I saw something that I had co-created with Kipp in the world and in the hands of an individual who I admire. To see the joy in his face as he looked at  the work we did makes me very happy and excited to do more. Thank you Mick for sending this. It made Kipp's and my day.

Thank you Rip Curl!

Here is an email I got from Rip Curl. These guys are great...

Good afternoon gentleman

My name is Mark and I work for Ripcurl, in the service dept. We handle all repairs and warranty issues for all of our products including wetsuits. The reason for my email is to see if you would have an interest in the extra material that is left over from repaired suits or suits that have been replaced due to a defect. We do have a recycle center that we generally donate to, however in being a handplane fan myself I would prefer to bring new life to an item that will bring more joy to those that enjoy our oceans. So if you would like first discuss this further please feel free to contact me at the number I have provided.

Regards

Mark Tierheimer

I was so stoked to get this email from Mark. As soon as I needed rubber he sent me a box full of old wetties down to the PB shop where Steve Stout hooked me up with even more material! These guys get what we are doing and are super supportive. 

Thank you much Rip Curl! They are going to good use.

For all you other companies out there. If you are into what we are doing, contact us. We'd love to see if we could reuse your old materials. *Enjoy

The Greener Blue Collaboration Benefits SaveTheWaves.org

Our friends over at thegreenerblue.com are all about sustainable and eco-friendly products in the surf industry and are huge handplane fans. So it was a no brainer to do a collaboration with them to support their cause. The Greener Blue also chose one of our favorite organizations, Save The Waves as their charity.  From the sale of each Greener Blue model $10 will be donated to them t keep them fighting for our waves.

If you want one of these let us know. Here are 3 we just finished up and shipped out and are off getting some barrels as I type.

Thanks to Mark Marovich from The Greener Blue and Josh Berry from Save the waves for the collaboration. It's one of our favorites! Enjoy.

Reception for "The Big Group Show" tonight Sat. Nov 6th 5-8pm

Opening Reception

This Saturday, Nov 6 · 5-8pm

featuring work by: Jay Alders, Meredith Ambruso, Matt Beard, Big Toe, Esteban Bojorquez, Drew Brophy, Candy, Ron Croci, John Culqui, Norm Daniels, Danica Elbertse, James Finch, Damian Fulton, Roy Gonzalez, John Holm, JP St. Pierre, Calvin Knott, Wade Koniakowsky, Rick Rietveld, Heather Ritts, Phil Roberts, Kevin Roche, Blakeney Sanford, Joshua Serafin, Kevin Short, Tyler Warren, Alex Weinstein, Susan Wickstrand, Jeff Yeomans

Surfy Surfy's JP St. Pierre was asked to display his Mr. Squidy handplane collaboration we did together at The Group Show put on by the Surfing Heritage Foundation. This is JP's first art show and technically mine and Kipp's as well! Congratulations JP and Kipp good jobs guys! Barry at Surfing Heritage is a huge fan of our handplanes and we will be doing more with them later. You'll also be seeing more of JP's art on our handplanes. If you want your own Mr. Squidy contact us and we'll hook you up.

South Coast Plaza West (formerly Crystal Court)

Mon-Fri 10AM-9PM · Sat 10AM-8PM · Sun 11AM-6:30PM 

3333 Bear St., ste 303, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

714.800.1654

www.surfingheritage.org

Dumpster Dive'n

Last night while at Surfy Surfy JP told me that he got word that a dumpster at a storage unit in Solana Beach was filled with busted boards. Apparently the owner of these boards was moving and had to do something with them fast. With only the information of it being somewhere in Solana I took off last night to locate them only to be skunked. This morning I did a bit more poking around and stumbled upon the score!  4.5 boards of old foam goodness. Life is good my friends. Life is good. 

Next time, before you throw your broken boards in the trash and make me search all over town and rummage through the trash, please, contact me. I'll gladly take them off your hands. 

Thanks JP for the tip. We will make some mighty fine handplanes out them.

The Scuttle Fish @ Revolver

Our friend Brian Lam from the blog TheScuttleFish.com is having a Pop Up Shop at the famous Revolver shop in San Francisco. Brian is a big supporter of our Enjoy Handplane project and will be displaying a group of them with board bags next to handplanes by Danny Hes, Photography by Ryan Tatar, drawings and sculpture by Jay Nelson and tons more cool stuff.  If you are up in the SF area the opening is this Friday and the shop will last for 6 weeks.

All proceeds from the venture will go to Save our Waves.

For more info go to: www.thescuttlefish.com/revolver/

Skye Walker - Paints another Handplane

Our friend Skye got commission to paint another handplane. This one is really cool. Check out the time-lapse!.

Enjoy The Ride - by David Gray and Ed Lewis

David Gray and I went to shoot Chris Del Moro last Friday and we ended up missing him. As we drove back home we saw this left and David spun around and he told me to suit up. It was pretty good sized and throwing. I was a little hesitant at first and then decided what the heck. I had all my gear, why not?

This was the second wave of the session. I got this, hit the bottom and went right in. I was sort of freaked. You can see it in my face. David has a way of getting you to do things you normally wouldn't. He is like surfing viagra. He showed me some shots and got me back out again. It was a blast! Best tube I've ever had. It looked like it was 20 foot from the inside laying down. The GoPro footage was cool but the stills I have in my mind are priceless.

Thanks David for hooking me up with the shots. Seriously if you ever need someone to nail a session with great shots go to him. He has the magic touch for sure. Again thanks to Rick at GoPro for the camera!!!!

"Gordo, Starbuck & Dicky Mo" by John Culqui

Latest artist version by John Culqui came out beautifully! John has become a big fan of our handpanes and wanted his own to paint up. He did this one as a tribute to Moby Dick. Pretty classic.

If you'd like your own blank canvas let us know. Enjoy!

Ryan Mcbride's New Plane

Ryan is an avid body surfer. He and his buddies use paulownia wood planes back in Florida. He found our site and sent us a picture of a Christenson fish that he loved. It looked just like this but a Quad. He asked us if we could make a handplane that would be a mini me of that board. We took one look at the photo and said SURE!  It took a bit to get this together but we are super stoked on it. I wish it was mine! The fins where a fun touch and Ryan is going to give us some feedback as to how they work. 

Ryan is also the first one to own one of our new board bags we are making out of our friend Lisa Hetmin's left over fabric from her Cinch Sack product.  A wetsuit changing mat and bag in one. Which is really cool. Lisa owns the local Swell Stuff shop that specializes in wetsuit repair and sews all of our handles for us. You rock Lisa!!!  

All and all we are so happy with how this project turned out. Thanks to Ryan for supporting us and Lisa for her never ending generosity.

Thanks to everyone who follows us and all who have supported us along the way. We couldn't do this with out you! 

Enjoy. 

For More handplanes and fun check out www.enjoyhandplanes.com

The Greener Blue

We are making a new model for our friends over at The Greener Blue.   They are a website devoted to surf culture and ocean related environmental issues as well as a showcase for sustainable and eco-friendly surf products. You'll be able to buy them from their site and the Enjoy site once their shop is up and running. Their new site will be launching soon. We can't wait.  

The Greener Blue logo was designed by our friend and fellow blog master Glenn Sakamoto, creator of www.liquidsaltmag.com. Enjoy.