Pretty sick Canadian surf site.

http://beta.gotsurf.ca/en or on Twitter

William Gibsons OP-ED contribution in the NYT’s is great — a must read.

“Google’s Earth — By WILLIAM GIBSON

… We never imagined that artificial intelligence would be like this. We imagined discrete entities. Genies. We also seldom imagined (in spite of ample evidence) that emergent technologies would leave legislation in the dust, yet they do. In a world characterized by technologically driven change, we necessarily legislate after the fact, perpetually scrambling to catch up, while the core architectures of the future, increasingly, are erected by entities like Google.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01gibson.html?_r=1&hp

It’s been a great 3 years with TIVO. Easily one of the best media consumption services ever. They couldn’t make enough inroads in Canada/HD/Online services for us — plus our lack of watching “traditional TV”.

I even tweeted them a couple times pleading !! http://twitter.com/stevey/status/20346197703

We’ve now cancelled our Videotron Illico TV service and will be gracefully retiring our TIVO 2 series. Maybe it’ll go live up in the country at a nice home where it can run around and get fresh air.

Tivo is dead / Long live Tivo.

(Bring on a new giant NAS drive and a Boxee in 2011)

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

Click here for unscaled JPG

Great update: Words from the man behind @BPGlobalPR himself — http://streetgiant.com/2010/06/02/leroy-stick-the-man-behind-bpglobalpr/

One of my favourite current pieces of satire/commentary is from @BPGlobalPR discussing the recent oil spill. It’s so good they now have almost 60,000 followers and BP is trying to have it shut down.

“After oil started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil rig explosion almost a month ago, a Twitter account launched purporting to be BP’s public relations group, @BPGlobalPR. The account, which offers dark, satirical commentary about the spill and cleanup efforts, is run by an anonymous person” — Mashable article

https://twitter.com/BPGlobalPR

Proudly have some photos up on the Tiger Distribution Site.

http://www.tigerdistribution.com/new/2010/04/22/iroam-stevey-x-california/

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

Taking off from IAD on the way home for Austin, TX.

As Anile said…

“@stevey my ears were fighting the urge to pop just by watching!” — http://twitter.com/anile/status/10685809345

Another post from Austin, TX — SXSW 2010.

During a panel today, a new buzzword (to me at least) popped up…

"Data Exhaust"

This is the by-product of you interacting with the internet. When you search Google, when you create content, when you tweet, when you update your favourite app, you leave behind a trail of bits that slowly dissipate. These include logs & caches, content that references your content, metrics and date time/stamps and other sorts of tailings.

That "exhaust" from your interaction is valuable, it can be mined for info even if that data has been anonymized. It can make other people quite a bit of money. Some people disagree that this should be the de facto way everything works.

I’m no expert in any of this, but when the term came up my first immediate reaction was, how does this relate to driving a gas guzzling car that creates the fumes the buzzword references?

Should we be concerned about reducing this emission? Is there such a thing as ZERO emissions interaction with the net? Should it be your right to have that? Or would a complete anonymization remove all useful functionality? Will we see a movement towards a "clean" internet, where you at least have control of that emission or can choose how much is spewing out behind you, without slowing you down?

http://www.plankdesign.com/en/blog/posts/sxsw_day_3_2010

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/

Hard to believe this is CG. Beautiful.

Kelly Slater scoring a 98 in the 2009 Eddie Aikau in absolute macking 20ft+ Waimea Bay surf. It’s live right now (Tuesday Dec 8th, 2009)

The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau has been run 7 times in 25 years.

http://live.quiksilver.com/2009/bigwave/live.php?btn_live=_over

“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

Happy no-meat day (“I’ll go celebrate by eating a large steak stuffed up a chickens butt then slow roasted in bacon fat” — har har — that joke was for @warrenwilansky). I’m a vegetarian (20 years in) and I find this a bit obnoxious — but I still support it.

To celebrate go make this dish from Mark Bitten (NYT’s) who’s an advocate of eating less meat and eating smarter …

Roasted Vegetables, Thai Style
 http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/featured-recipe-roasted-vegetables-thai-style/

http://www.worldvegetarianday.org

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

Epic internet meme has started. How one stupid thing can spawn a ton of great jokes always fascinates me. Follow @LetYouFinish on Twitter.

The one I got couldn’t have been more perfect — but so many others are even funnier.

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

Look Mom! I’m filming myself surfing, with a camera phone… from jarrod Tallman on Vimeo.

“Sterling Spencer was chatting on his waterproof cell phone while sitting on his board and waiting for waves in Mexico, when a set came in. He had the phone in his hand, so he went ahead and filmed himself on the wave.”

http://vimeo.com/5835424

Korduroy/Patagonia Alaia Shaping Tutorial from Cyrus Sutton on Vimeo.

Fun stuff coming out of California as always — plus I’m really looking forward to what Korduroy.tv has to offer when it launches in the coming weeks.

The “Makers/DIY” culture has always drawn me in — I was fantasizing about our next house/apt having a dedicated “shop” area of some kind — a tinkering spot to break stuff and put it back together, etc.

“In a petroleum-addicted, pre-packaged culture a fire has been sparked that will transform surfing forever. From his Australian country shed, Tom Wegener has opened the door to surfing’s future by reintroducing the Alaia, an ancient wooden surf craft devoid of fins, foam or rocker. Welcome to a new age where a single surfer with simple tools and natural materials can push the limits of modern surfing.

Join Patagonia Cardiff, Korduroy.tv and Jon Wegener this Saturday, August 8th for an alaia shaping tutorial. Also check out Thalia St. Surf Shop Friday, August 14th for the Korduroy.tv website launch party. Both events are free and feature sneak screenings and limited, home-made dvd/books of “Tom’s Creation Plantation.”

korduroy.tv
wegenersurfboards.com
 patagonia.com

Korduroy.TV Preview from Cyrus Sutton on Vimeo.

Nice looking site/video.

“From ocean swells to mountains and to their valleys, we live in a gravitational playground of free fun. Forget plastic packaged, shrink wrapped satisfaction, happiness is making your own crap…”

On the facebook | http://www.korduroy.tv

Attending WordCamp Montreal 2000. Follow along on Twitter at #wcmtl

You Scratched My Anchor - Trailer from RVCA on Vimeo.

Nice looking trailer for their new flick — from the folks at RVCA.

“The trailer for the film You Scratched My Anchor. Featuring - Alex Knost, Ratboy, Scotty Stopnik, Kassia Meador, Jared Mell, Tyler Warren, James Reed, Brian Bent, Jai Lee and Mitch Abshere.”

http://vimeo.com/5311042

HI SHREDABILITY — North from New York (part 1 of 14).

This excellent series gets an upgrade — better looking video, longer shows, higher production value. Let’s hope they find some swell in EP 2!

“Brad Gerlach and Chris Christensen take their bikes up the craggy New England coast on a hunt for surf and partake in the Northeastern tradition of making a crackhead rap for the camera.”

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/hi-shredability/north-from-new-york

I’m no fixie fanatic — but these are beautiful. Supreme attention to detail straight outta Japan.

http://xn — eckwa2a1dxbv.jp/gallery (link corrected)

How big is a Blue Whale? Now you know. Great banner ad to draw attention to this animal’s plight.

http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html

Endless banter presented in a nice format. What’s not to love. My most used words on Twitter.

Courtesy of www.wordle.net | tweetstats.com/a>

Wilson chilling with us during our Tiger Distro Web meeting — “Lemme tell you something about the tweeter-net man.”

https://twitter.com/jesse_the_tiger/status/1570154120