From what babel fish has pieced together for me … “The Balaklave Submarine Base in the USSR — Constructed between 1957 and 1961 — it is also a high-level atomic shelter for 3000 people / 30 days — the thickness of rock is 126 meters at the highest point — Opened as a museum in [...]

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Jesse posted some of photos from last years trip to PEI. He’s made the pilgrimage quite a few times to meet up with family. Everytime but one there have been no waves.. except this one time when Jesse also happened to bring his board by lucky circumstance. “You never know” — as a good friend [...]

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Seems the anniversary of my first year of having fun with WordPress has passed. 400 posts in one year — I wouldn’t have bet on myself to ever publish that much. Let me know what you think.
400 image from Movito

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An awesome set of books to own … Great page layout - great design - and inspiration for years !
“A three-volume set containing the ultimate selection of design classics, featuring the most innovative, beautiful and influential products in the last 200 years. 999 objects selected by a panel of experts that includes designers, architects, auctioneers, [...]

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Very nice idea, although lacking a bit of gracefulness a tree branch contains.
“Electrici-Tree is a three-branch daisy-chainable rubber extension lead. Cast from real tree branches. Magnets in the back of each socket hold it to specially designed metal plates or any metal furnishings. It can be plugged in, chained up, strung along the wall, taking [...]

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A lovely re-assembly of an object — How to create a mini motorcycle out of a lighter. I know one or two people who will be working on this for a couple days. Don’t hurt your fingers !
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Sad that the cops still want to bust this guy…
“A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels — sometimes for money when the images are used as advertising. But some authorities call it vandalism.”
NPR : Artist Draws ‘Clean’ Graffiti from Dirty Walls

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Jesse catching a great fast right on Saturday afternoon.
Our first weekend back down to New Hampshire. Overall it rocked - a bit rainy but — we found a new campground -scored some awesome waves - ate some birthday cake and met up with friends. Photos are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevey/sets/72157594163569923/.

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Something that I’ll return to one day, hopefully along the lines of hand-fired Raku…
“Ceramics began for me as a distraction to the tedious aspects of typeface design work. The making of objects is something I enjoy, and which I greatly miss about the digital medium. Over the years, I’ve discovered that pottery and type design [...]

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Woke up this AM ready to go for our first weekend down in NH/ME. Checked The Wall Cam to see how today looks as Jes and Steph are already down after a long night of driving. Found this little gem as I pulled up the latest photo. Should be a fun — but chilly — [...]

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A podcast that has grown on me..
“In The Lineup” is SurferMag.com’s LIVE talk radio show hosted by Online Editorial Director Scott Bass and co-hosted by a smattering of SURFER editorial folks, most notably Global Editor Sam George and Editor Chris Mauro. Providing a forum for the SURFER readers and SurferMag.com community members to let loose [...]

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One of the more interesting slideshows from the NYTimes…
“In Tokyo, where land can be prohibitively expensive and plots unbelievably small, flexible space and multipurpose rooms are not just design preferences but also survival techniques. In designing Cell Brick, a house for a woman in her 50’s, the architect Yasuhiro Yamashita pushed this idea to a [...]

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“As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples—water taken [...]

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There’s a new Coast Guard Beach Cam up that’s a good angle and pretty good quality. Now I need driving directions right to that spot.
Coast Guard Beach Cam

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Gerry Lopez recounting his first trip to Banzai Pipeline …
“On a clear and still Saturday morning in 1963, we drove by fun-looking waves at Hale‘iwa, Laniakea and Chun’s Reef. We stopped and checked each spot, but kept heading north. Tommy had Pipeline on his mind. I was 15 years old. Tommy was older and had [...]

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