My piece is up on the Kind Lines site. I’m super stoked. Truth be told, Rick Malwitz glassed in the photos and added the blue tint. It’s as much Rick’s effort as mine.
If you don’t know by now Kind Lines is a surfy art auction created by Rick Malwitz to benefit Surf Aid International. All 23 art works are on display at the Quicksilver store in Soho, Manhattan today through Oct.2nd. and the online auction starts tomorrow.
Go bid on my piece or one of the other beautiful artworks. Support the good cause, homie. Spread some chedda.
Tonight is the opening of Liz Cockrum’s Sirens photography show, at Eric Phleger Gallery in Leucadia, CA. 6-8pm.
Los Angeles peeps: once again, please support dope artists. This show is definitely worth the trip down from Lost Angels. If you hi-jacked a pterodactyl you could get there in 20 minutes flat, maybe sooner. hook it.
Hey folks, just a quick reminder that the Mattson Family Art Benefit is tonight! Please go and support a good cause! A ton of awesometacular people are going to be there and it’s the perfect opportunity to get away from the tv on a nice summer night. Hop a train, car pool, ride your bike, paddle, standup paddle, fly your ultra-light, grab on to the back of your friendly neighborhood yeti, but please use any mode of transportation possible to get yourself there, it’s in Pacific Beach in San Diego. Go, it will be so worth it.
oh and help my ¡Bocho! piece find a nice home. puleaze.
California surfing and art collecting and surf-art collecting peeps and general all-round quality peeps: the Mattson Family Art Benefit is next Friday, June 26th. It’s a silent auction to help The Mattsons recover from some gnarly medical troubles. The auction will be held at Surfindian in Pacific Beach, San Diego. Jamie Watson, mizz Pineapple Luv is the benefit curator and she has more info on her blogarooney.
A bunch of rad folks donated their art to the benefit, there’s even a ¡VW Bocho! piece in there by yours truly. So go support a good cause.
L.A peeps this is reason enough to get down to SD, make a day of it and hit up all the area breaks before the show. Do it!
Last Friday was our show Tropico de Cancer – Four Photographers in the Hot Zones. We hung the show the day before in typical break-neck fashion. Most of Jonathan’s photos had to go back to the framer as the frames had markings from the bubble wrap that was used to protect them, a few of mine as well, for black marks on the mattes. But all in all, the framer did an excellent job and the price was just right: each 16×14 print was framed for $25. nice.
The opening on Friday was a whirl wind of conversations, big smiles and bigger hugs. All the local homies came out for the show, it’s always nice to see everyone get all gussied up for a posh art opening. The wine was flowing. Luca kept a harem of women amused in the back unused gallery and behaved far better than I could have possibly imagined. My mom was the queen of the ball, literally, as she invited everyone she knows (which is half of Vallarta). She was so proud of her family and it showed. My sister, father and I all tried to be as informative about our work as we could and listened to a million and one stories from people whose memories had been jogged by seeing our photographs. And for a night, we were rockstars.
The show is up for the month of May, so in the next few days I’ll be going back to the gallery to properly document the show. On a sour note, the whole ’swine flu’ thing couldn’t have hit at a worse time for art shows. Anyone wanna buy some art?
I’d like to give a big shout-out to io labs who printed my pieces. Each of the photographs is printed with pigment ink on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Satin paper. The prints have a definite style, unlike c-prints or normal photo paper. The tactile quality of the paper feels almost like soft watercolor paper. And the printing job was the unsung hero of the night. It’s one thing to see your photos on the computer and on photo sharing sites, it’s a whole other thing to see them blown up to 16×24, printed beautifully and to see them hold up under close scrutiny. I couldn’t be happier.
I’d like to thank my family and the Auch family. And lastly, I’d like to give a big shout-out to all of my friends both online and off for the all the support and luv, couldn’t have done it without yall. so thanks.
I politely appropriated the above photo from Ryan Tatar. It’s the first photo back from Jair Bartoleto’s SANTOS SURF ART II festival and it features work by Ryan, Danielle, Jamie, myself and a few other artists’ pieces that I don’t recognize. Really awesome presentation job by Jair and Theo. Can’t wait to see more photos from the show. So Cool!
Maggie’s photography is definitely inspirational to me. I hope we see a lot more work from this talented lens(wo)men in the near future. Surf mag photo editors: I’m nodding in your direction. I’m calling it now: Maggie Marsek pwns baja.
Hi, my name is Ed. I’m a graphic designer who lived in L.A. I quit my job, sold my car, rented out my house and moved to Mexico. Along the way, I learned how to surf and fell in love. This blog is my story. In these pages I write about and photograph my daily experience. I also post about things I find interesting: art, design, photography, music, tech, etc...
