RETO | Hollow Wood Surfboard by Bjorn Holm

Bjorn Holm sent me by email this teaser photo of his 6'4" Fish Wood Surfboard made of old broken skateboards.

The photo is from Bjorn's exhibition, last friday.

Bjorn sent to me via: tiago.reis78@gmail.com

"My name is Björn Holm and I live in Finland. For the last 4 months I have been shaping a hollow woodsurfboard.

The surfboard that I have been making is a 6'4 fish, and its made from old broken skateboards that i have collected from all around Finland. The fins are made from a nose and tail from a skateboard. I started making the board from my own skateboards, but I realized that I needed more boards. My friends have given me their old boards so thats been really sweet! I have also collected boards from all around Finland.

It has taken me 4 months to make this, and its my examwork in my school where I study furniture and graphic design. The board is hollow, weights 10 Kg and its made 100% from old broken skateboards, there is no other material in it.

I got my first skateboard when I was a kid, and snowboarding and surfing came after, I have also been riding Freestyle motocross as a "pro" the last 10 years, which means I have been travelling all around scandinavia and europe. So the last 10 years my time mostly went to riding my motocrossbike, but the board has always been with me!

The name "RETO" is short for "REcycle for TOmorrow" and in our language here in the swedish part of finland, it means "something thats broken"

You can see more on Bjorn's website: http://www.boboholm.com

Photos by Sami Vaskivuo

Skip Frye always moving

in, Ten Piggies Over

Magic Quiver | New Store

"Magic Quiver has moved.

Now you can find all the surfboards, clothes, wetsuits, fins, boardbags, etc, in the shop located in the center of Ericeira, Portugal.

But you can keep buying online and have everything shipped directly to your home, and with better prices now!"

Find out about the "new" Magic Quiver Surfshop at: www.magicquiver.com

Strange Fin PIG

Surf a Pig - "I'm super stoked to have the boards I do. I'm sure everyone is stoked to own the boards they do. when I started this blog , I never thought I'd have the boards and the experiences I have today. I feel like everything has come together so nicely. every pig I have owned, or still own pushes my understanding that much further. this years luau should be great. I hope to see some new faces and a variety of pig boards!!!"

in, Surf a Pig

Japanese Mini Simmons

Japanese wooden board builder, Takashi Watanabe.
For more details check it out on his site :
wavexing.a.la9.jp/m_simmons.html

Takashi with his new board

Hand foiled fins





Material: Japanese Akita Cedar (rail: add to cork) and white color of nose block is Balsa.

in, Wooden Surfboards

HAND MADE

" Look what the tide dragged in, one Mr. Jeff McCallum. After getting his fair share of waves during the first major swell of the season, Jeff went on the hunt. He was looking for Deus, curious to emerge himself in this Narnia type spot settled amongst the paddy fields in Canggu. And,we’re lucky he did. Jeff hails from the San Diego area where he shapes surfboards under his own label “McCallum”, hence one of his interests in finding “The Temple”. It just so happened that we had two blanks laying around with his name on them, well… now they do. When new shapers come to Deus there is always a bit of a buzz rolling around “The Temple”, a) … View More"


in, Deus X Machina

Recycling a Surfboard by The Driftwood Collective

Recycling a Surfboard from pedro vieira on Vimeo.
Drawing inspiration from Tyler Warren's Bar of Soap, DwC hit the shaping room to make some dust!

Apart from resins and fiber clothes all material came from the trash bin:a broken and long forgotten longboard provided the foam and a wooden wine box turned into a couple of sexy fins.

The result is a green awkward looking little board... but make no mistake! this board is a supersonic joy machine set to make up for each minute we spent on its recovering.

Love draws Love!!!

Deus Bali x The Greaser

Matt Chonoski










in, The Waxhead Diaries

VANS Longboard Festival SALINAS 2012 | Promo by Jan Latussek

VANS Longboard Festival SALINAS 2012_promo from Jan Latussek on Vimeo.
Promotional video made ​​for the 11th VANS Salinas Longboard Festival that will be held on the 26, 27, 28 and 29th of July in the town of SALINAS, Asturias.

The team:
Producer and original idea - Pepe Hevia
Production - Fernandez Cesar
Aux. Production - Lorena Presedo

Hairdressing - Ana Iglesias García
Makeup - Luisa Rodríguez
Wardrobe - Eduardo Quintana from VANS
                   Monica Louzao and Juan from EWAN

Special thanks to Sergi Poveda for the Brainstorming session.

Thanks,

To Marcos couple, Raul Delgado and Curro Moral from LA SONRISA DE JULIA for the music and the great weekend!!!

To Ainhoa Cortado for giving life to "Virginia".

To Ewan for the "girl" wardrobe.
To Vans for the "boy" wardrobe.

To Tablas Surf Shop for the superb board from Bing....

To Red Bull, Autoavisa Ford, Bicicletas Mmr and to Espartal Sports Club of Salinas.

The Terry Martin Project

The Terry Martin Project: A Body of Work from Wood to Foam
Sunday May 20, 2012 5-9 pm at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California.
Only 400 tickets available.
www.terrymartinproject.com
in, Surfy Surfy

Surf DMC

Surf DMC is a Travel, Leisure & Lifestyle communication channel exclusively focused on Surfing.

To know more click here

Portuguese Cork Handplane

Prototype - Sketching World Tour

This is a single model, handmade from orange cork and it will be tested in a five-year voyage around the world by his creator Luís Simões.

Follow Luís here:
www.worldsketchingtour.com

Ahua - H1 WST
           

Check out for more models in, Ahua Surf

11.0' Fish Simmons by Josh Hall

11.0 DT Fish Simmons for Ryuichi art work by Tyler Warren
in, Length of Line

John Wesley | Europe Trip

If you're in the area of either of the two shops in Portugal or France at the end of May!
http://allshewantsisdiamonds.blogspot.pt/

Logging Days are here to Stay!

Logging Days are here to Stay ! from Gypsykid Media House on Vimeo.
The faces behind lazyboxmagazine.com Oliver & Dougal Shaw cooled off after the release of the second issue of lazyboxmagazine.com by jumping on the Logs and shredding some waves out Rainbow Bay. Dougal decided to jam out with an original track while we watched the clips and we threw it all together to make this fun little clip enjoy it, and don't forget to check out the magazine it's worth it.

www.lazyboxmagazine.com

The Cheeze Board | Handplane Prototype

Handmade prototype shaped on a plank of pinewood - 17,72 x 8,07 x 0,79"
Shape and photography by Tiago Reis

Special Requests for Special Friends...

Shaped by Gustavo S. Costa - GURU Surfboards

Dane Petersons New Site

Mr. Dane Petersons new site is up an running!
Check em www.danepetersonphotography.com

in, Captain Fin

The Road Less Travelled

The Road Less Travelled from Andrew Gough on Vimeo.
A Road Less Travelled…

If I could really write you would be able to feel the slight chill of the dawn offshore and see the fluttering crest of the opposing swell as their rival paths collide. You would know it was the north coast of NSW as you could see the barren points extend from sweeping fields and thick bushland, tapering those swells into the ruler lines that we oh so adore. If I could really write, you would see a man. A werewolf of a man, riding tall and proud, riding fast and sleek, riding low and deep, swerving at will. Whatever the wave asks, this man responds accordingly. We got to jam on Chris Del Moro's rhythm for the weekend up in Byron and it was one sweet groove.

Words by Stu McKerihan


Film and Edit - Andrew Gough

www.andrewgough.blogspot.com

Salinas Festival 2012 | Poster

Loser Surfer - "The next April 28 at 8:30, there will be a premiere party with a short promotional film of the Salinas Festival 2012 poster. The film was produced by Jan Latusse poster by Gomez Bueno, two classics of our festival and renowned artists in their fields both closely linked to the classic surf and logs in general. The program will consist of projecting multiple videos that Jan has made our festival to premiere the end of this year. Continue with a concert by the Kings of Makaha.The course entrance will be free, everyone is invited."

in, Loser Surfer