First Birthday.

I spaced and forgot about svrf&destroy's 1st birthday, August 17.

This date marks our blog's first year in existence.

Read our first post here: Anticipation

If we were to have a birthday cake, I would hope the candle would look like this:

Fly Fat Ass Fly!

My pals and I ventured up to Hollywood last night to try and meet director Kevin Smith aka "Silent Bob" and producer Scott Mosier. As you can tell by the picture it was a success, excuse me and Michael here for looking like a couple of size queens.

We met them at the Crazy for Cult art show at Gallery 1988. We packed in there with a bunch of other fans and checked out some awesome paintings reinterpreting classic cult films. Last night was the opening night hosted by Kevin and Scott but the exhibit runs until September 12th.

Once again here is the website and some directions, it was pretty cool so if you are bored and feel like doin a day in Hollywood by all means go check it out.

http://www.crazy4cult.com/

August 22nd - September 12th
Gallery1988
7020 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
(South East corner of Melrose & LaBrea)

For all you record nerds...if there are any?

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

Paul Mawhinney has the largest record collection in the world. It is estimated to be worth $5 millon. Enjoy.

svrfandestroy tee shirts have landed

They're here. 2 dozen.


















I gotta hook up the whole posse, then we'll see how many I can give away. I guess get in line with a comment...

Thanks for printing these things Ari. I know you're busy with the new baby, so thanks for squeezing these in.

Baja '08, #5

me w/ a knost inspired flail, deep in baja

:L

I wanna do Svrf&Destroy cause it's fun, it's fun to do bad things.

If you haven't seen this... well fuuuck get with it.

MurderCity_photo blog...

So my friend Kory and Drew told me about this ramp they built... I was very excited to shred it and I brought my camera along.

This is what we got (more to come)

BIKEAGE

Holy shit I love the Descendents...



An older video would have been cooler but this one from 97' still rules hard.
Person filming is obviously too busy being rocked by Milo to have kept the band in the frame but the sound quality is great nonetheless. I'm not a loser!

Under the Sun @ The Lido

Our buddy Cyrus is showing his film, "Under the Sun," at the Lido, in Newport on August 28th at 8pm.

Here is the trailer.



We will definitely be going down there to check it out.

Take a gander at the flyer.

Svrf & Destroy Bolsa 8.9.08

A clip from last weekend.

I stumbled upon this today:



Call +4790369389 to have your voice blasted into the luscious lands of Norway. Open for business August 02 - September 06, 2008!Telemegaphone Dale is a 23-foot-tall wind-powered loudspeaker sculpture that picks up incoming calls and projects them into the nearby surroundings. This Telemegaphone, created by the Swedish designers at Unsworn Industries, is located on a mountain overlooking the village of Dalsfjord in Western Norway.

heres a link to the full story: http://oddstrument.com/2008/08/06/call-this-number/

fucking cool huh? So call in and tell them to free varg!

For the Lennon fans

Peace!!!

Ricky Blake

I heard about this guy's art from a friend at work. Pretty rad stuff.

This one is partial to me and the boys.

SUP'ers and disgruntled HB Brosephs need not apply.

I thought his style looked familiar, then I saw that he is the dude who does the art for the Surfside Seventies Contest each year.

Check out his blog. Ricky Blake Fine Art

yesterday was fun.
the quality is poor since the images were all so big, maybe i'll make them smaller and do them again. probably not.

Kicks

Stumbled across these custom painted slip ons on the web today.

Scummer Time and the Living's Easy...

Picked up where eagles dare, capt mouth, and Masa Tom. Shred sesh ensued.

We filmed yesterday, hopefully we'll have some footy up soon.

The Evolution of Black Flag

I found this pretty amusing

Last Summer

Hopefully captmouth will take some more pictures tomorrow.

2nd Homebrew

So my first issue to Beer Advocate finally arrived in the mail today along with the new Surfer's Journal.

Needless to say, whilst reading the Advocate and sipping a pint of my hombrewed Pale Ale, I decided to brew up another one. This time I went for an American Wheat Beer. Hopefully it turns out as well as the Pale Ale did!

Sorry my photos always suck. Thats why we have Tightgnar on the blog. His photography is actually photography. Mine is just, shitty amateur photos that get the point across.

Beer Advocate Volume II Issue VII

















Mt. Hood Hop Pellets













My set up while the beer brews. Reading, writing, drinking, and watching the Dodger game.

New Harbour Surfboards Website Up

We were giving TJ shit about the Harbour website not being updated with new boards and team riders. Well, it is finally here.

Harbour Surfboards

It's lookin' good.

So is TJ...

First Homebrew and Dodger Game

I had the first sip of my homebrewed Pale Ale on Friday. Bitchin'! I seriously cannot believe it doesn't taste like ass. The first of many to come. I went to the homebrew supply store and picked up the recipe for an American Wheat Beer, so we have that to look forward to.




































Sunday 12 of us ventured to Chavez Ravine to see Manny Ramirez don some Dodger Blue. We were treated to him going 4 for 5 with 3 RBIs and a home run. He is hitting .615 in his 3 games with the Dodgers. Here is Manny finishing up his trot around the bags.














While I was in line to buy 2 $10 beers, I met some kid in line with a sweet ass tattoo.

Lame

I saw this gem in LA today.

i finally had enough time to go through some of my pictures from the 7,400+ mile road trip myself, where eagles dare plus a few others took. one of my favorites is this one from FDR park in philadelphia. more pictures to come soon, in the mean time go skatan!

Not to get all sentimental but...

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Found this little essay on the web this morning:

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html


"The American Apparel V-neck shirt, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Parliament cigarettes are symbols and icons of working or revolutionary classes that have been appropriated by hipsterdom and drained of meaning. Ten years ago, a man wearing a plain V-neck tee and drinking a Pabst would never be accused of being a trend-follower. But in 2008, such things have become shameless clichés of a class of individuals that seek to escape their own wealth and privilege by immersing themselves in the aesthetic of the working class."

I thought it was pretty on point towards the end. I realize there is a bit of bloggin talk in it but this blog is about surfing and destroying, so stuff it.