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Bookmarks for July 1st

By Ed Fladung | July 1, 2009
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Bookmarks for May 20th

By Ed Fladung | May 20, 2009
  • Photojournalism – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
    The NY TImes' new "Lens" blog has the dopest interface for a photo blog ever. Really nicely designed and perfect for viewing several different series of images. This is now one of my daily visits. Check out the Jacob Holdt series, on racism in America. mindblowing. His "American Pictures" book looks sick.
  • YouTube – Gerry Lopez Shaping Demo
    video of Gerry Lopez in the shaping booth from Sacred Craft Surf Expo 09. amazing! I really wish he took the time to explain, more, exactly what he was doing. and I could do without the music, this is school here folks. pay attention.
  • Dan Baum: The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets
    The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets on May 8, 11, and 12, 2009* "People often ask why I left the New Yorker. After all, I had a staff writer job. Isn’t that the best job in journalism? Yes. Nobody leaves a New Yorker job voluntarily. I was fired. And over the next few days, I’ll tell that story here, in 140 " – great story told in 140 chunks.
  • Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft – WSJ.com
    utterly retarded article on how writers, composers, designers and other content creators whose work is easily copied/duplicated need to fight back with copyright against the faceless masses of copyright breakers. Let's get this straight people: COPYRIGHT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. Copyright is the domain of crumbling, antiquated civilizations. end of story.
  • 007: Daniel Craig | Icon_ology
    some behind the scenes photos of Daniel Craig on the 007 film sets. amazing. dude is classy. definitely Steve McQueen bad-ass style. I think He's easily the best Bond since Connery, maybe better than the original.
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Meyerhoffer Surfboards

By Ed Fladung | March 28, 2009

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photo by Nick Allen

The Surfer’s Journal did an article on Thomas Meyerhoffer back in ‘07. I was a non-subscribing kook back then, but who can blame me. I live on the edge of nowhere. I was checking out Rider Shack today when I came across his new surfboards. The board’s form interested me, but it’s lack of conventionality made it appear somewhat whimsical. And then I read the board description and immediately went to Sway Locks to check out what the shapers are saying. That lead me to the video below, which has Meyerhoffer describing the board and his design process. Very interesting.

I’d love to see one of these in person and here’s video of the board in action (turn down the volume). I can appreciate his modern approach to solving old problems, but I still can’t quite wrap my mind around just how different this thing looks. It definitely adds a performance edge to the traditional longboard, but in a way, one of the endearing traits of the longboard is its direct, dialed-in connection to mid-century modernism. The longboard outline has essentially stayed the same since the 50s. It’s gotten a fair share of nips and tucks, but never a wholesale reinvention. I could be wrong. And for my money, I think the boards look waaaay better with the resin tints and cigar bands. The radical departure of the form, mixed with the old familiarity of retro tints helps pull the board back into a familiar context, kinda makes me wanna lick them. And that’s a good thing.

Meyerhoffer | Meyerhoffer Surfboards | The Surfer’s Journal article (PDF)

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Bookmarks for February 20th

By Ed Fladung | February 20, 2009
  • Santa Barbara Edhat | Shaping Bay
    great article on up-and-coming Santa Barbara shaper Ryan Lovelace. Ryan is making some really nice hulls. me wants to buy. me wants it now.
  • UNEARTHED 2006
    "Graham Bury and Danielle Rubi’s exquisitely rendered photographic portraits combine a style that is more 1906 than 2006 with a large-scale format that is innovative and contemporary. Employing the antique Van Dyke process Bury and Rubi unearth regional notables and elevate them to the status of cultural icons. At once a photographic exhibit and a site-specific installation, the seventeen images of Unearthed hang in an idyllic garden setting, each piece suspended from its own freestanding armature." – looks like a beautiful project.
  • Sweet sweet sugared Pepsi Throwback
    "PEPSI WITH REAL SUGAR COMING TO USA!!!" this is awesome news. I f*cking hate high fructose corn syrup. i've been dying to try red bull cola, which is also made with sugar and has cardamon and ginger much like India's Thumbs Up which for my money is the best cola available.
  • The Art of M. S. Corley
    diverse, amazing illustration styles on display. especially like the "alternate universe" book cover series. so nice.
  • NewerTech miniStack v2
    I had one of those Lacie Big Disks, the 1 Terabyte version that has two 500gb drives in it. and then thing went on the fritz, so i salvaged the drives, the data was mostly all backup data. The rub is that I couldn't find hard drive enclosures for the two IDE uATA drives that has FireWire. most enclosures either don't have a fan (bad) or are USB2.0 (worse). I spent about 4 hours combing the internet and came up with nothing. Until this. This enclosure from Newer Tech fits IDE drives, has FireWire and is shaped like a Mac Mini. and it's $50!
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In the shaping bay with Marco Ortiz

By Ed Fladung | February 18, 2009

In the shaping bay with Marco Ortiz from ATL Surfboards

This is a series of photos I took last November (and just got around to editing). Babies’ll do that to a brotha. Marco and his wife Amy run a surfboard shaping company called ATL Surfboards. ATL means “water” in Nahuatl and they live in Guadalajara. I’ve written about them before. He also contract shapes the Squalo team rider boards. He’s an up and coming shaper in Mexico and his boards are really starting to get noticed by the potato-chip shredders. But in addition he’s been shaping fish, longboards and eggs for years. He makes a hell of a nose rider, one of which I got a picture of, yesterday – on film, along with its owner Ysreal – a local sayulita hotdoggr.

In this series, Marco is shaping a bat tail quad that he’s been perfecting. Supposedly it’s similar to the board Nathan Fletcher has been riding down at Pascuales. In the glassing room, I also show a glimpse of one Marco’s stealth carbon-fiber shorties. totally sick.

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