Excellent graffiti that caught my eye. The artist’s name also is the key to this one: “D*FACE”.

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B and the face
Wow - big news for our favourite mountain.

Billy (the pres of Jay) had purchased Jay Peak back from MSSI (who own a number of small ski mountains in Quebec). I hope this is good news for Jay (least the burgers will be cheaper).

“Jay Peak Resort Sold to Long Time Resort President Bill Stenger and Group of Private Investors.
Immediate plans call for new lifts, improved snowmaking and evolution of Resort infrastructure totaling more than $100 million in capital improvements over the next several years”

PR | Gazette article

Defacement of Canadian money is a crime — but if you’re going to do it - at least do it well. The zombie bills are great.

More at DE-NOTED — Why let good money go to waste

Great skateboarding photos from California in the 70’s…

“In 1975, when Hugh Holland first began photographing the skateboarders in southern California, he had already been living in Los Angeles for nine years. His interest in photography had developed in the mid-sixties as a 20-year-old living in his native state of Oklahoma. Except for a college job working in a photo lab, Holland had no formal art education. He spent years training his eye by shooting photographs and working with the images.”

http://www.mbfala.com/artists/_Hugh%20Holland/_other%20works/

I’ve watched a bit of Brian Conley’s first two movies and they’re pretty fun — the format, although absolutley amazing does get a tad repetitive — but then I saw the trailer for this new flickr “My Eye Won’t Dry 3″ and forgot all about that.

“Brian Conley scores epic south swells on a recent excursion to the uncharted south pacific. Doing what he does best Brian charges big, deep, thick tubes and captures it from the tail of his surfboard, revealing the magic experienced while tube riding. This clip features scenes from his new project “My Eyes Won’t Dry 3″ Coming 2009.” — Surfline

Wow. Trailer here.

Apt with friends circa 1994/95
Posted a ton of old photos today. Some friends had been asking where the archives where at — so now they can be happy and laugh it up at all the embarrassing shots.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevey/sets/72157605872139447/ — or tags contextually on Facebook

New wetsuit
Got a new wetsuit care of of XCEL hookup.

4/3 Infiniti Interlock. It’s replacing my 2 year old summer 4/3 which is still useable but getting crusty. The best part if I forgot to put in a colour preference when choosing so I get to be the “red baron” all summer. Hah.

I can’t recommend these suits enough - excellent products.

http://www.xcelwetsuits.com/surf/index.php?area=products

oh yeah
Made me laugh in this hectic week I’m having.

Clouds Over Mt. Washington from stevey on Vimeo.

Cleaning off that longboard
Some fun log rolling over the weekend down around NH and Southern Maine.

We fought off rain and lightning to make a good time outta a meek swell window — well actually we cowered from the lightning as it struck right overhead — no time to be sitting in the lineup.

Finally found some okay waves in Southern Maine on Monday afternoon — nothing to write home about but better than siting on my couch watching my boards collect dust.

More photos here

You can now purchase a limited number of “Beautiful Losers” posters online. Thankfully Nancy snagged mine in Austin, Texas - love it.

http://www.storebeautifullosers.com/beautiful-losers-festival-poster.html

Some links for June 12th through June 18th…

• Fonts of the Week: Brothers and Council
  “"I love yummy, thick and interesting slab serifs that remind me of another era. That is probably why I love Brother and Council both by John Downer. Typofabulous Emigre offers both fonts for reasonable prices."”
• gladwell dot com - big and bad
  “How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety.”
• Seed: Carnivores Like Us
  “Humanity's rapidly increasing appetite for meat is fast becoming a matter of global consequence. Paul Roberts on the science, and morality, of our planet's modern palate.”
• Free Worldwide Travel Guides - Wikitravel
  “Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide.”
• Bustin’ Down the Door Trailer | Surfers path
  “The Aussies's big push on Hawaii in the mid 70's has been made into a film… "Bustin' Down the Door is the true story of a group of young surfers, a dream, and a revolution no one was ready for. Narrated by Edward Norton."”
• Airline policies and guides to flying with surf equipment - Oceansource.net
  “Finally a comprehensive site.”
• Gecko Car rental in Bucerias, Mexico
  “Excellent small car rental in Bucerias owned by an expat Canadian who's pretty stoked.”

Crosswalk Countdown - GuerilLA from Kelly Herrington on Vimeo.

Make you smile video of the day. Very funny.

Flying anywhere in the world with a surfboard can be a pain.

Finally a decent resource on the net that lists almost all of the worlds airlines; and how they handle travelers with surfboards (and other ocean equipment). Funny thing is - they same day Surfline.com seems to have updated their lists — kinda fishy if you ask me? O’ well - least the info is out there.

Try to contribute to either site if you can.

http://oceansource.net/airlines/

Some very smooth surfing going on here. They have a blog for the movie but not much up yet.

http://thetylerwarrenexperiments.blogspot.com/ | Link via TubeGuide