beef buger

Aston Martin Vantage

O Seu Engenheiro

Decimation

"Thinking...is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas".

Rudolph Steiner.

ascension

12.01.09

between the warp and the weft

david o'brien.

blue mazes

Six Days_DJ Shadow

the possession of anything begins in the mind.
- Bruce Lee
426
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQIzjbnDKXg

Tangerine Dreams

and marmalade smiles.

005

ok,

so the hull-type rails didn't work out as well as hoped. definately loose, but i can't really put my finger on it. it was almost as if i didn't have enough driving rail coming off the bottom and always felt tentative. even leaning hard into roundhouses, it just didn't feel like i was getting much momentum out of the turns. also you could really feel the thinness of the tail. on one turn, i actually caught myself hanging my heel off the side of the tail trying to bury the rail. odd. going to try moving the fin block back to within 4" of the tail this time. going to expand on the single channel, but ditch the bump squash in lieu of a sharp swallow tail. encountered that same strange high speed humming with the quad set up. i've been told that it's to do with the sharpness of the trailing edges of the foil, but i wonder if it isn't also somehow related to the forward placement of the fin group and the turbulence created by the tightness of the fins. weird feeling too when at that certain high speed, humming, the board seemed to lock into a line almost as if it were hydroplaning. didn't do so well in over head high surf, but shoulder to head high the size seemed good. going to take an inch off of 005 though, make it a straight 6'0".

somehow, in imagining the flow of water across the bottom and out the back, the squash always seemed so unresolved. i think water interprets its path with the same misunderstanding and somehow the drive just gets lost. it's interesting to imagine and direct the hydrodynamic course of water across surfaces, and determine how it will then be projected off of those surfaces.

Winter in California

sometimes it's not that bad...

SARA

RAFA

Happy black Friday everyone!

A classic from home

I remember growing up watching my dad and uncle drinking cold primos.
I think my dad even had a primo t-shirt he used to wear...
So good, but the best t-shirt was the one with the shark named Ernest.
This cold one's for you dad!

Friendly fires_21nov09_Henry Fonda Theater-Hollywood

Excursions in Lego

004 is up

kind of ambivalent about how these rails will work.

wasn't paying close enough attention to what i was doing and ended up with hull type rails for the upper half of the board before an edge takes hold. should be an interesting session.

channel too shallow to be of any consequence. need to double the depth next time.

thanks again to javier for the great glassing.

I seem to be a verb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=RI_wiTPaXMQ&feature=related

"I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe".

Buckminster Fuller

Dr. Seuss Tower

vtol fighter

smoldering.

6'1" single wing/channel bump squash

6'1"x20"x2 1/4"

single wing to single channel

first try at the channel so it's pretty minimal.

i like how bottom contour can wrap up to relate to rail designs.

My structural engineer

004 progress

6'1"x20"x2.25" single wing bump squash.
this one's going to be another quad with a single barrel channel when all is said and done.

The yellow Hollywood signs

one of the ephemeral yellow secret film location signs.
i was told that film crews around the city create these code words for their set locations.
everyone else just sees these yellow signs with random words directing someone someplace.
LA.