Friday, November 28, 2008

Recent DVD Acquisitions

Several months ago I bought the "Life Like Liquid" DVD and highly recommend it. I've also recently purchased "The Alaia Story" and "Believe" DVDs - both excellent.

LIFE LIKE LIQUID



BELIEVE

New Pine Hand Board

I built this hand planing board this week from a spare THULE display shelf we had at our shop. I discovered several of these shelves just gathering dust in our storage shed and immediately thought "hmmmmm..." I'll be making a few more in different shapes.







Monday, November 3, 2008

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Looking Down the Barrel

First of a planned series of wave paintings on shaped fibre-board panels.

"Looking Down the Barrel"
Acrylic on MDF
1180mm x 380mm x 12mm

Monday, September 29, 2008

Full Circle on The Surfer's Path


There's a new article by Tom Pohaku Stone on the Surfer's Path site called Full Circle about the return to wooden boards

Read it here.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Vintage Bellyboards


Here are two vintage bellyboards from the 1940s or 50s that are part of the collection of vintage surfboards at Exit Surf Products here in Christchurch. I forgot to measure them but they are approx 120cm long.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Two Alaia Vids

Chad Marshall riding and talking about his alaia






Jacob Stuth riding an alaia at Noosa Heads