http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfbaja/

Vans — loved them what I was young. Gave up on them while skating as the uppers didn’t last. Back to them cause I love them.

Read the history of Vans

The man who designed the original Range Rover has passed away and the NYT’s has an article about him.

I’ve always loved this design — there’s something about the glass size, body shape, panel fit, and ‘utility with finish’ that’s attractive to my country upbringing and my design sense. Too bad it’s now synonymous with gas waste and excess $ (maybe it always was to some degree).

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04king.html?_r=2&src=busln

Repeating pattern from http://mooonriver.blogspot.com/2010/06/plastic-eden.html.

Click here for unscaled JPG

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelgravel/

At some point I want either this (or something very close to it) on my wall framed, on a longboard (maybe as a band or swath) — or even as wallpaper on a whole wall.

http://www.fromsthlm.com/featured-designers/maria-holmer-dahlgren

Very interesting. Some great looking stuff from Ed — love the photo/line on the cover. Maybe we’ll find out more soon !!

“And the waves will wash it all away.”

http://www.qualitypeoples.com/new-things

Some stunning wallpaper. When I own a house I will seriously revisit this site. The one above is called “Flower Pedal”. Some of their florals are mind melting crazy.

http://www.flavorleague.com/wallpaper/new

Absolutely lovely movie by Branden Aroyan from Santa Barbara

“Here’s a little film for the Sacred Craft gathering in Ventura this year. It was an honor to be included. It is the first film I shot and edited to be publicly displayed on the web. It became one of the Audience 5 favorite original shorts. Thanks to Cyrus Sutton for instigating.”

Visit Branden’s site here

Checking out my site on Plank’s iPad. Looks pretty nice. But then again almost every site does look nice on this thing!!

I think every skater who’s looked at sequences, cut and pasted stuff into books, DIY-ers, and artists will understand why I love this.

Skateboard shreds

“A ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music.”

Leaving tomorrow AM for Austin/SXSWi 2010. This will be 3rd time attending and the excitement is still just the same. Looking forward to some inspiration, conversation, beer and great tex-mex food !!

Should be amazing — if you’re there find me via:

twitter/stevey | sitby.us/stevey | or leave me a msg here.

Michael Bierut is one of the partners @ Pentagram in NYC. If you work in the creative client services industry — this is worth your time to watch.

“Our speaker at the January 2010 CreativeMornings ( creativemornings.com ) was Michael Bierut of Pentagram hosted at the fabulous Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. It was our biggest CreativeMornings audience yet with 300 (!) NYC creatives attending.”

Premiere of Season 6 of LOST is now weeks away. These posters just reminded me — one of the things I love about the show is that can inspire such creativity.

http://mattsoncreative.com/blog/2010/01/18/lost-posters/

So great. Brigitte loved them and I think she sold them on parenthood ;-)

Nancy took a couple shots while she was over — this one is beautiful.

Hard to believe this is CG. Beautiful.

“The Italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.”

Just great. View large

Photos from Simon Perini that make me want to go surfing. Beautiful. Love the Ed Fladung inspired shot above ;-)

http://simonperini.blogspot.com/

Amazing art for a great cause.

“Kind Lines is an art show and auction to benefit Surfaid International. The event, to take place in September of 2009 in NYC, was created by Rick Malwitz, of the Brooklyn-based Malwitz Custom Surfboards. Malwitz wanted to raise money for Surfaid in a creative, fun way that would celebrate surf culture and art. When he started asking artists within the surf community if they would be interested in donating a painting for the event, the response was overwhelming. In the end, 24 artists were selected to participate. Malwitz hand-shaped and bamboo glassed canvases, each resembling a cross-section of a surfboard, and distributed these to the participants. The rules were simple: any medium, any style, any surf-related theme. In September, these 24 original works of art will be featured at gallery in NYC, and an online auction will follow. The auction will be open to anyone, and is a great way to collect original art from some of the most brilliant surf artists. 100% of the proceeds go to Surfaid. Thanks to the sponsorship by Greenlight Surf Supply, Surf Source, and Swaylocks.”

Online Auction is between September 26 - October 4th , 2009

All the details/artwork here www.kindlines.com | Put together by Mr. Rick Malwitz

Love the style, colours, movement, and story.

“Directed by Clément Soulmagnon, Yann Benedi, Sébastien Eballard & Quentin Chaillet”

View on Vimeo

Great blog to keep an eye on — Jim’s son has been posting some of his Dad’s photos and he’s already got some great shots up.

“During the early 60’s, surfing took off around the world. It was during these days that my father, Jim Driver, started getting interested in photography. During the day, Jim caught rides to the beach and photographed many of Southern California’s surfing inovators. At night, in his darkroom, he carefully developed his photos into classic images that captured the 60’s style.”

http://www.surfersrule.blogspot.com/

Crazy when you think about it — right now it’s neck and neck with the far superior Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi. View large version of graph above.

Apple didn’t just win the Smart phone wars — they won the Point and Shoot wars (at least on flickr).

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ | More on Mashable

With the retro craze @ full speed — how long ‘til this comes back?

Full sized image here

Long exposure photo taken from the Plateau looking at Mt Royal on a hazy hot night.