Palos Verdes Cove_31jan10

Every arrow points up

Be careful what you wish for

USA, USA, USA

scattered marbling across the great plains, the northwest, and central florida.

compact culture

fig standout

Reich_clapping music

Steve Reich clapping music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChacDrtLGU

shadow mapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qguk21a5qvs

knowing

the curator of the schaulager museum said something interesting about their collection:
"each painting in the collection 'knows' why it hangs here".
an interesting thought..

http://studiobanana.tv/2009/08/17/sbtv-interviews-theodora-vischer/

006_progress

006 progress.

pretty subtle yet, but trying a concave deck.

Canard Cutaway Quads

can't wait to try these out!

nitida

Snow cactus

Leo carillo-24jan10

Dawn patrol at Leo Carillo state beach_24jan10.
One of those mysterious and magical days when you manage to get a spot all to yourself, with good waves, offshore wind, and sunny skies.
It really doesn't happen very often (almost never actually) especially in and around LA of all places, but occasionally the planets align temporarily and you get caught in a parallel universe where time seems to stand still...but the waves keep rolling.

architectural conspiracy

"good architecture is limited to autonomous moments..
to make good architecture is not natural, it's an exception.
it needs real collaboration.
it is a conspiracy".

david chipperfield

el duende

El duende is the spirit of evocation.
it comes from inside as physical/emotional response to music.
it is what gives you chills, makes you smile, or cry as a bodily reaction to an artistic performance that is particularly expressive. Folk music, especially Flamenco, tends to embody an authenticity that comes from a people whose culture is enriched by diaspora and hardship; vox populi, the human condition of joys and sorrows. It is thus as universal in its meaning as it is immensely personal and culturally contextual by its nature.
Federico Garcia Lorca wrote "the duende, then, is a power, not a work. It is a struggle, not a thought. The duende is not in the throat; the duende climbs up inside you, from the soles of the feet. It is not a question of ability, but of true, living style, of blood, of the most ancient culture, of spontaneous creation. Everything that has black sounds in it, has duende. All arts are capable of duende, but where it finds greatest range, naturally, is in music, dance, and spoken poetry, for these arts require a living body to interpret them, being forms that are born, die, and open their contours against an exact present."

harmonically connecting points of clarity.

self-organizing lego infill

The perfect storm

C-street_16jan10

cidade dos anjos_2

i don't believe in global warming

pidgin to da max

01.14.10_topanga

006_fuzzy foam

006 on deck.

this will be a 6'4" x 18 3/4" x 2 1/4" thumb tail.

going to experiment with bottom concave and vee on this one i think..

some great shots

by someone else of course..

waimea

peahi

nude

nude by esther de groot

01.09.10_topanga point 2

01.09.10_topanga point

tokoro surfboards

http://vimeo.com/3969886

whisper into the thunder.

whisper into the thunder.

intensely human

today i heard a phrase on the radio that made me think:

something had been described as 'intensely human'.

i found it strange, but filled with curious intention, passion, and patience.

if buildings or spaces could speak, these deep and hidden corners would share a complexity shaped/woven by the lives of each of its users.

http://www.archdaily.com/45742/ad-photograhers-fernando-guerra/

Topanga Point from Revello Drive

can you believe this is the view from the living room of one of our client's homes?
the near point is the chart house, and just beyond is topanga point. a couple points further is first point malibu. so unfair...at least the guy surfs..

Haleiwa colors

The quality of light at the end of the day at Haleiwa beach park always amazes me. So vibrant, saturated, calm...but just around the point guys are taking off on 6 foot toilet bowl drainers. :)