One of the nicest “wave cams” on the eastern seaboard got an upgrade. It’s the cam that sits looking down towards the break at “Coast Guard Beach” (here’s an approximate location link).
They’re now displaying images at 1296 x 976 pixels and the overall picture quality is amazing.
This is not where we surf; but it’s [...]

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Left alone on a Saturday after a cancelled trip; I find myself looking for diversions and fun stuff. Just ordered;

All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life of Legendary Surfer Miki (book) by David Rensin as DORA is the man. More about Miki.
Little Brother by Cory Doctrow (book) cause Cory rocks. More about LB.
Big [...]

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NYT’s has quite the archive of surfing articles. Some are the typical fluff/cliché but others are written with the trademark NYT’s quality you’d expect; offering insight into some unique themes and places going back to 1989.
But it still doesn’t hold a candle to The Surfer’s Journal — if they offered full online archives; I would [...]

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We finally got a sign for the company.
My pop ran some nice wood through the CNC machine at his work to “cut out” our logo. We then stained and mounted it up with plexiglass, hardware and chains. Just in time for our 10th anniversary!
Matches the website fairly well all things considered.

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I’ve always been curious how Kaiser_1 from the Daily Bread gets all his water shots — while surfing. We’ve tried with limited success, mostly with the person shooting opting just to be floating in the impact zone.
I know what kind of camera he uses - an Olympus 770sw (we’ve used almost the same one in [...]

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We just swung by the iStore in Westmount to pick up an iBook we had in for service (bad luck for the old iBook - fried logic board).
Surprised to see they had 10 or so boxes of WESC earphones on display for sale. Asked how they’d been doing and the guys who run the [...]

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Menger and Rubik in Disco Valley, blind drunk
This just hurts my head — but I can’t stop looking.

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Excellent design work from Jean Julien. This re-imagining of the JAWS poster really struck a chord…
“horror movie posters
create three type-based posters to promote a horror film festival. the posters promote either three different films or the festival as a whole.”
Site here

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A client of ours in NYC, Ultrabland, produces some amazing spots/trailers and teasers for some of the cables networks. They have always impressed me with there “ultra-editing” chops — but this takes the cake.
Watch the award winning Cinemax “Sounds Good” Spot.

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What do you see in this GOOGLE map of Peru?.
.. More long lefts than you could shake a stick at. Zoom in to see more glory.

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I’m not planning on buying an Iphone yet; maybe in the fall — but this is the type of cheap application that would push me ever closer to giving Rogers/Apple more of my money. And this isn’t even the official one from Flickr.
Flickr by XK72 @ Apple itunes app store

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Great blog post from “The Man In Blue” with thoughts and comparison on some great typographers; their fonts and their handwriting.
There’s a couple in here which I love; and would use as fonts themselves!
“The handwriting of typographers intrigues me because it raises so many questions, big and small: Do typographers exert some extraordinary control of [...]

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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

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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

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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 [...]

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