Weekend Activities: Continued

To piggy-back on Danimal's post, I have a supplementary image to share. The goal of the trip was video, but i did manage to snag a couple hot shots. Cyrus lives in a rad-ass old house full of wild shit. Dan and I ended up sleeping in what we lovingly referred to as "The Vagina Room." The walls were covered with abstract renderings of girls showing off their stuff. This pic will put it all into perspective. It's a little graphic, but it's art. Right? Thanks for the elk meat, CY!

VIDEOGRASS

The new trailer is out hurry up september...

BON VOYAGE TEASER from VIDEOGRASS on Vimeo.

Weekend Activities

Saturday morning we posse'd up and rolled down to San-O despite the prevailing south wind and gloominess, a good time was had by all.  Massa Tom and I ended up cruising down to Cy's place where we ate, drank, and conversed. Good times. 

Here is a top secret map Cy drew us for maximum shredability. Betcha can't guess where this gem is.

After a slash, we stopped by Surfy Surfy to visit J.P., who has to be one of the nicest dudes around. I give that shop the megashaka of approval. I want a Mini-Merk sooooo bad.

Beat it, kooks!

Damnit! I like Animal Collective a lot. They are one of the best modern bands out there at the moment. Unfortunately they have been churning out sub-par music videos since the beginning. I dug the "My Girls" video but thats it. While I was perusing bitchfork i stumbled upon the new video for "Guys Eyes." "Shit!' Thats what I said and thats what I saw. The video consists of lame ass, 16mm, b-roll bullshit of east coast surf hipsters fucking around. Mollusk surf shop in Brooklyn manages to make an appearance also. The Animal Collective dudes are not surfers. They are kooks who happen to make high quality music. Stay away from surfing you indie dorks! Or, if you do want to work together then please try a little harder. The video looks like it was thrown together in a couple hours. You can tell by the shots that were chosen that this was not made by a surfer. There are a couple cool tube shots toward the end and thats it. All the other beach/surf/retard related indie, lo-fi junk coming out almost makes sense. Shit on shit. But Animal Collective? I expected more from them. I guess I should lower my expectations while maintaining hope. We must stop perpetuating worthlessness. Call a spade a spade.

Posted by bitchfork.com

all black everything, everything tailored

You can wear whatever you damn well please. Stripes, zebra, neon, X-man suit, stripey neon zebra X-man speedos. . . Whatever puts wind in your sails and floats your boat, but for me personally. . .
"If it ain't black, It's whack"


Big thanks to YO at reunion for the perfect fit, and low key hits.

Help Save The Sun Tanned Surfer Boys

How about another sweep!

"it's all right better luck next year"

HB

My buddy Chris snapped this shot on Father's Day down by the pier. He saw this guy and just straight up asked him for a photo op. Kindly, "Honky" obliged.

Europe was pretty okay.

5 countries in about 20 days. I'll do some installments as time goes on. This was our second stop in Ibiza Spain.

15 minutes within Ibiza and this is what our weary bodies stumbled upon.


Tired and disinterested from hours and hours of traveling, I didn't feel much like going out. We found the most quiet hole in the wall to grab a quick drink and the bartender was so pickled she somehow fell in love with us and fed us 15 shots of vodka (not all in the picture) and two red bulls for a whopping 5 Euros to get the two of us going. We were ready to join the rest of the Islands minds destroyed by madness after this round.



Passed out dudes everywhere. Me and some new friends made the photo op happen. Fell in love for 30 minutes with the blonde to my left. We chatted on the beach for quite some time and she told me I came 4 days too late and missed a live Pete Doherty performance that he was 4 hours late to show up to and people were chucking full Euro coins at him. For some inebriated reason I left her company thinking the grass would be greener further into the night. Fuck, was I wrong.


.My friend I travel with is THAT guy who fucks around 24/7. He's got a bachelors degree, masters, and is now pursuing a PHD. How terrifying the future leaders of America are seeing how he NEVER misses an opportunity to fuck with someone. Here he decided to make another uber passed out dude a fort to sleep in.


Eventually homeboy woke up out of his MDMA/alcohol coma, exploded out of his fort, and chased us 6 blocks until we lost him.


That's it for now. More later...
- pfrog

Ben Fisher

Every time I see footy of this kid he blows my mind...He deserves to be more then just a flow kid, I feel who ever gets this kid to AM they will be super pumped Ben is only getting better!!!

Congrats dude

The More You Know

Billy Bragg

11:45 on a Friday night and there's nothing I'd rather be doing more than listening to my entire Billy Bragg collection. Holy shit this guy can write a song. Nothing tops his early stripped down shit, if your not familiar he is seriously worth submerging yourself into for a while. There isn't the best selection to choose from on youtube but here are some classics that I was able to find. I was supposed to see him 3 or 4 years ago when he came around and for some reason (I really don"t remember) I passed it up, talk about foolishness. Oh well, please enjoy...




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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RunXQq6cf3U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMd-JH4QNno&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5heTJ65bdhU&feature=related (choice rant on guitar solos at the end of this one if you can get through the tear jerker)

also...if your going to take the time to listen to any, if not all of these videos put in headphones and turn it up, way up, trust me he's best enjoyed that way).

Go Lakers!!!

ray allen missed 18 consecutive 3 pointers on tuesday. kobe bryant grew wings and flew. over some snakes.

Really???

hahahaha

Chasing Sunsets

My boys at Forum came out with the trailer for their new movie...looks kinda awesome!

F' It Teaser from Forum Snowboards on Vimeo.

Saltwater Enema

Been doing alot of body surfing the past week or so to get summer started off properly. We took a disposable out there one of the days and here are the 4 pictures out of the 30 that for lack of a better phrase "came out."


On this particular day, I overheard a 9 year old boogie boarder refer to his friend as the "Hunch Back of Notre Faggot" after he wimped out on a wave...nice!

Licorice pizza and more...

Cuh-stom?

Apolis Activism: Katin USA from Dave Christenson on Vimeo.

Stumbled upon this video the other day, I've never heard of this "Apolis Activism" thing before but they made a little montage about Katin/Katin USA. And speaking of which I just picked up some trunks from Sato today...

DANNOWAR

I "met" Danny through the erBB and interweb blogging. Snoogins "knows" him through the erBB. He shapes his own boards and hates stuff as much as we do. Hopefully we will cross paths in real life one day.

He just sent me this:

Quiver

Taken from SS's Joint.

Damn. I'm a sucker for quiver shots.

They are more than just boards. Each one is full of memories, dings that tell stories, and future tubes.

A Few from the Big Apple

If you can't tell, I pretty much just ate, drank, and walked around. It ruled.

Snowandestroy

There have been many posts about Surfers(Joel Tudor, H and N Fletch) that have influenced us on our styles and our overall way of life. Coming from both a surf background and snow background I decided to post about a snowboarder who influenced me in many ways.

Mikey Leblanc is, no doubt, the most influential human I have come across for me and my snowboarding.
He started a company called HOLDEN before that style of Snowboarding was even thought of yet. He is the one who took away the mainstream rep. that the sport was getting and developed it into an art and a creative way of freedom with little boundaries, very similar to what Skateboarding and Surfing have always kind of had.

This dude likes to scream!!! reps the short guy style, snowboards like he is skateboarding, enjoys listening to Charles Manson, and rips at guitar!

This part your about to watch really changed my outlook on snowboarding when I was in a rut of lame ass sponsors and to many contests.

Thanks Mikey!!!!

Slacker

You may or may not have noticed my complete lack of posting as of late.

I got hitched, been workin', went to Kauai and Maui, camped in Catalina, turned 25, and went to New York. All in the last 6 weeks.

Needless to say the blog has been on the back burner.

Anyways, the most surf-related thing I have done lately was get some custom-made boardshorts for my Groomsmen.

D&J for Me (my wife and I's initials)

BM for Best Man (Peacefrog)

GM for my Groomsmen (Snoogins and more)

Anyways, here they are. Solid royal blue with white back pocket with snap closure. Made with lots of love by Sato down at Katin Surf Shop. I've known Sato since I got my first job at Katin when I was 15. She said she still thought I was a little boy, she couldn't believe it. Super psyched she was able to sew these up for me. Pretty special.

Custom merrowed edge embroidered patches to boot!

Smell ya later.

"This is Skateboarding"

Re-watch the Police Academy movies... some good stuff resides!

the Svrfside Graveyard

There is a bridge connecting Seal Beach and Surfside. It's a great place to check the surfside jetty and it gives you an overall view of the weapons station. However, don't let this bridge fool you. It is an angry bridge. I personally have lost 3 surfboards off the top of my car while passing over it. One of them happened to be a vintage Bing David Nuuhiwa Noserider. I cried like a baby after that one. Literally. I have spoken with many others who have also felt the wrath of the surfside graveyard. Up and coming ripper Josh Hessley felt the pain a few days ago. In these shots you can see the damage. He told me a lady plowed right through it. If you look closely at shot #1 you can see the outline of the woman's license plate. Pretty bad ass. Also a bummer. Especially for Robert down at Harbour. Turns out, Josh was just borrowing it. Whoops.

Puberty

Herb

just got Free & Easy by MacGillivray Freeman. this flick is the shit man. all the best longboarders from around 1966. it highlights surf heros like david nuuhiwa, nat young, billy hamilton, and herbie fletcher. i have been psyching on the hamilton and fletcher footage. herb was soooo good. his style translated really well on the big heavy logs. he does epic drop knee turns at honolua. i used to hate him and his longboard movies that came out in the 90's. funny thing is i owned every single one of them. there was always like 8 sections of him doing the side slip boogy over and over. Rhythm was my favorite. lots of joel and bikini clad butts. i have recently done a complete 180 with herb and his whole deal. those movies definitly were not pretty, but they always had fresh footage. still don't like the lame ass, old guy, surf music though. This video clip has bookends with more recent footage and a sweet little section from Free & Easy in the middle. the 60's footage starts at 3:55. enjoy.

I'm out

Bailing for Europe for awhile.



Piss and Vinegar
- Peacefrog

Dumbo Drop-in

Boom. Elephants, the Kinks, and surfing. Nuff said. This commercial doesn't bother me as a surfer. In fact, it makes me happy. Accenture was able to use surfing as a marketing tool without exploiting the shit out of it. Love that song. Thanks to Mark L. for making me aware of this ad.