Kook Paradise is Funny

Yep.  There's a shorter version that's on Nowness.  And it's a funny, non-destructo, petulant-in-the-ok-way little commentary.  Worth the chuckle. Click on the fot for a little bit of it.

And Now For Some Blake

Oh, and Smash is back up after a slight hiatus.
A nice interview on there as you read this... get going.

Things Left Unsaid

Something from recent archives posted up on that great archive in the sky, Facebook, by a couple collectives, Modern and Driftwood. Funny how things can sit around and sit around. I'm not sure if I've even posted it here previously. Entirely possible. But it is a nice lo-fi reminder on a morning such as this.

Happening: Halloween Surf Contest

B&B Board Storage  and Rockaway Beach Surf Club

Present

NIGHTMARE ON 90TH

Costume Surf Contest

Saturday, October 27, 2012

12:00 – 3:00 pm: Expression Session in Costume

Beach 90th Street and the Boardwalk, Rockaway Beach, NYC

Prizes for: Best Wave in a Costume and Best Costume

(male and female)

4:00 pm: After-Party at THE SPOT

302 Beach 87th Street, Rockaway Beach, NYC

Outdoor Screening of KOOK PARADISE

Live Performance by THE DEAD EXS

http://thedeadexs.com/

Complimentary Beverages from

Dundee Ales & Lagers

Food available from 666 Burger

Online ticket buyers will be entered to win a Brand New Stewart Hydro Hull Surfboard from Global Surf Industries

Tickets: $10 in Advance, $20 Day of Event

Includes Contest Registration and After-Party with Open Bar

FREE for RBSC Members

http://nightmareon90th.eventbrite.com/

**Space to Shower and Change after the contest at The Spot**

We've Got Derek Hynd in the Basement

Mr. Hynd downstairs after the talk, talking.

The Derek Hynd Q&A with Jamie Brisick at Pilgrim last night. Story, opinion and design forum. Surprise guest Nick Carroll. We filmed the thing best we could, and we'll see what kind of mess we made of it and what kind of mess we can make of it to get it out there for you to see too. Suffice to say that whole hashtag of the NewYorkSurfingLife never gets dull.

 Nick, Tommy and I

Justin Jay at Gallery 151

As pure dumb luck would have it, the candy yellow, vaguely surfy shape stuck to the corner of my eye at just the moment my New York walking fog had uncharacteristically cleared. I didn't know where Gallery 151 was, and frankly I'd forgotten about the photo show, but there I was hustling past the the whole thing last week. I popped in, shot some camera phone photos and went on my way, all without breaking stride. And I guess that's the problem of the Justin Jay show. Not the images themselves, as the larger-printed photos are beautiful and the access on display interesting enough, rather it was the scope, or lack of scope that sent me on my way so quickly. There are three walls at the 151 Gallery. Two of them with a few of the larger, more delicate photos each, and then the a back wall with a grid of more snap-shot style pics. I could have spent quite a long time in a room with three walls full of the smaller photos in a grid. I would have soaked up the scenes and emotions, ranging from luaua shots to water shots, beach activity of all stripes. Or maybe it could have been a smaller grid of the large prints on one wall and the other two walls covered in a wider display of the photographer's archive. Or maybe the show needed to have the larger prints even larger. Huge so we can see every particle of water, every hair on the snout of that pig. Either way, anyway, the only the thing the show lacks is the right format. It all comes down October 27th. Go see for yourself.

Yes.

This is so great for so many reasons. Via.

Today's Thought

Holy Cow, Are You Kidding Me and Any Other Number of Disbelieving, Wide-Eyed Exclamations

I thought for a second I might not post this, hoping with some vague and ill-conceived greed that at least a few people get their NY surfy news only from EBNY, thereby cutting down the inevitable hordes that will descend on Pilgrim Saturday night.  Of course that premise is ridiculous from the start but what's the likelihood of any self-respecting literary-minded surfer purposefully deciding to miss out on this rare moment? Whiff of a chance.

Hand plane camouflage

Happening: Women's Surf Workshop

Josh Hall Speaks

I missed this, and I was not super happy to. But duty called.
Via SMASH and uploaded by Conatus Surf Academy.

Today's Thought

Happenings Happenings Happenings

New York has sooooo much going on.  There is soooo much to do here.  Every night! Parties! Art happenings! Drinking! Dancing! Nightlife! This is the grand true myth.  The legend that exists.  Cus it's true.  There is stuff happening all the time here.  It really is an adult playground.

If you're the type of adult that doesn't work 80 hours, have a kids or need to commute a couple hours. Or the the type of adult that's just too lazy to take part.

I'm a little bit of all those things.  And as I pointed out, sometimes I just do stupid things like choose a presidential debate instead of see a surf film.  Sometimes I'd rather stay at home and make scientific experiments with my son with his scientific experiment kit.  Sometimes I just forget.  Any way I slice it, there are about a thousand great things that have been happening but blocks from my domicile and I've been skirting them. Last night was probably great. Really really great.  The Kookbox film premiere was probably great.  Saturday will probably be great. I wouldn't know.  But you still can!

The Wrong Right Decision

Last night I watched the presidential debate rather than going to see the Kookbox film.
Boy was that a dumb idea.