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Old Chum

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People Moving in Context of Pop Song (movement is good)

Today's Thought

Art. Tonight.

Cameron Martin is well know around these parts. His show opening tonight at the Greenberg Van Doran Gallery has a certain amount of buzz. Beautiful stuff.

More friends doing great things....

Hi Stella! Hi Cristina!

Well, this is happening.

Quality Peoples, an outfit outta a different country, in a different time zone, knows more about things around here than we do.  Which is pretty normal. We rarely know anything until someone tells us.  Or we notice it.  By accident.  From across the way.  Are you alright ma'am?

When it gets cold out, windy, blown out, attentions obviously turn to any number of places. Right now it's squarely on music.

What people are reading around here... (apparently)

From the "Found on Crosby" files.

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More Frozen Perfection

The Surfer Mag Spread

FROZEN PERFECTION IN NEW YORK

Yuri!

A wonderful artist and a lovely person. Hi Yuri!

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I love the whole idea of surfing in Italy. It touches a deep, American nerve in me. Not sure why it's deep American nerve, but somehow that just sounds right.

The Reluctant Troubadore

Little known to many, praised by few, but extant nonetheless, The Reluctant Troubadore 1s an intermittent pastime for some in the EBNY family. Here is but a snippet of the wide array of musical offerings there...

The quality imagery coming out of Montauk so far this winter has been phenomenal. Especially in light of how little we've been able to get in the water nearer the city. It is a reminder of how much happens when one is not looking, not suspecting, wrapped up in one's own world of this's and that's, do's and dont's. Here is Tin of the Drug Money Art cartel, making the cold and empty look very, very appealing.

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If I was a Graffiti Artist 2

YES.

This is Rad.

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Reminiscent, stylistically to the Vevant piece we put together last year.

SMASHORIFIC

SMASH presents “The Surfers Studio: An evening with Jamie Brisick” , Saturday February 26th 8PM at the legendary Anthology Film Archives in the heart of the East Village, NYC. The Surfers Studio is a series of in depth conversations documenting the lives, careers and contributions of surfers who have made impacts on surf culture and the surf community.
The first subject in a series of live interviews is Jamie Brisick, a writer, photographer, and director. He surfed on the ASP world tour from 1986 to 1991. He has since documented surf culture extensively. His books include We Approach Our Martinis With Such High Expectations and Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow. His writings and photographs have appeared in The Surfer’s Journal, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He was the editor of Surfing magazine from 1998-2000. In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his wife and 5’10” Channel Islands Pod.


Follow Jamie Brisick at Wrestling Elephants www.jamiebrisick.com

Tickets are available on Eventbrite by clicking here

The Surfers Studio with Jamie Brisick will take place Saturday February 26th, 8PM @ Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 On the corner of East 2nd Street & 2nd Ave.

About SMASH: Surf-Movies-Art-Shaping-History
Founded by Tyler (China Ty) Breuer, Adam (Camaro) Cannizzaro & Michael (Macchiato) Machemer.
About Anthology Film Archives: An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.

Happy V-Day

If I was a graffiti artist

 

Salty Stache

Today's Thought

YES.

Hooray Social Media

I am just as conspiratorial as the next guy. Just as reflexively prone to hating the "it thing," "following the crowd" and avoiding "T.M.I." But it seems to be anti anti anti all the time ignores a lot of good out there. I've kept up with my Egyptian friends for the last few weeks quite well, thanks... and that's straight amazing. And then, there's this. Those Groupon ads had it pretty much right as far as I'm concerned, at least know your avarice, gluttony and moral squalor before sinking your teeth in, and I am not about to hate on skate.

(The above pseudo-politico-socio-commentario may or may not be shared by all EBNY contributors...)

The Wonders Never Cease (1)

 

 Forward Thinking & Earpiece Accompaniment via this guy

The Wonders Never Cease (2)

 

Stephen Mallon & Artificial Reefdom via these guysos

For Those Of You Who Like This Sort Of Thing

Stop-Action has been a key word in the DIY cultural heyday of the early 21st Century. The burgeoning resurgence of animated gifdom being only the latest re-incarnation while the use of children's toys to adult-effect has been a popular genre as well. (There's my wiki recap...)

My own dalliance with these sorts of activities has been intermittent and has generally skewed photographically. This one dates back to good 'ol pre-digital camera 2000

Chris Gentile shows you my client's-eye-view.

Chris "Molluskguy" Gentile's show opening is tonight.  Lotsa local back-of-the-head flavor on visual tap.  EBNY representing front and way-off-center on the promo site (image above)... greasy hair, fishy sweater... see you there.

Escape From New York

The Haves and the Haves-not

Sunday,on my first visit to the beach in a month and on one of the warmest days of late, I allowed myself to be talked out of surfing by those who live by the beach full time and recently don't go out unless it's "really good". It really pained me to drive away on such a warm sunny day within sight of clean, waist high peeling rights. I thought about all the times Todd and I drove an hr and just got in the water no matter what the conditions because that's what we drove out to do. In fact I don't think there was ever a time we didn't get in the water. In all fairness, it looked best when we drove up on the beach and not as good when we drove off. The water was 37º. And while we were driving on the beach we clocked the waves at 29mph on the speedometer but really those aren't good enough excuses.

Quality Peoples posted this up, and it is a jaw turner and a neck dropper.

There area number of exquisite little session films on GotSurf.ca's vimeo site...



Worth the lookaround.

Brooklyn Industry, Surfing the Stratosphere...

GRANNIS.

Delicious or Disgusting

The latest from The Fresh Aspect

Paul Opperman was in here today and we were shooting the shit about surfing, life, surfing, not surfing, life and surfing. He hasn't wrapped his head around the joys of winter ice-water paddling yet and I wish I'd seen these before he took off. It would have blown his mind.

L'hiver, cela va passer

Grant Cornett sent through some more startling images, this time shot not by himself. Hengki Koentjoro is an Indonesian with some sort of crazy eye. Check out his oeuvre here.

Winter Whine Countup Umpteen

via Ok Oh

It is the season for heavy petting.  Whatever you can get your hand to.  Dogs, cats, progeny, significant others, surfboards, whatever.  The wave count is down, the snow drifts, icy spills and post-winter wonderland sludge is up.  As far as the mind wanders, it still only gets withing a few hundred yards of a surfable wave.  That's how desperate things have become.  There was a time that I stopped dreaming about surfing.  I mean the sort of "stopped dreaming about surfing" that lasts more than a few nights, or even a few weeks.  I remember it as a slow descent.  First, the surf dreams become less physical, less gutturally similar in feel to the actual action.  Once these visceral nuances go, your brain starts to treat surfing like a film. No weight in your soles, no magical tug of energy, only those camera angles. Then, only one camera angle.  And it isn't even a telephoto.  And just like that, you know it's bad.
Perilously close I am, to the abyss that was.
Antonio and I have been able to hold on, just hold on, by tapping into the resources on the other coast, begging surf footage off friends at a big surf company and making visual explorations for the conglomerate.  And while watching the girls rip the shit out of warm-looking tropically blue waves isn't nearly near enough, it adds a touch of solace to our dreary, increasingly gray outlook.  So pretty soon we are hoping an explosion of EBNY-crafted surf material will be materializing before your eyes.  You won't be able escape us and our craftiness.  But as with all commercial endeavors, there's this long waiting period: "Advert should be live with in 4-6 weeks."  
But we want people to see our handiwork now...
And so the wait continues.

Well, this is fun...

via Mick