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1000SG has had some great media attention in the last week!

These sites have many great design ideas and articles posted on them - well worth looking at!

Things Better With Age

Classics will never die!

Donovan's collection, via Singlefin.com & Liquad Salt

Headstone for a pet.

I remember being really young when my budgee died, I was so devo I cried. I think a shoebox was used as a coffin which sounds pretty povo looking back on it... anyway!

I found this board half had been used an actual headstone for a pet bunny - R.I.P Snuffy

1 tenth of what's to come!

The collection is tallying up everyday...

almost 100 here - for realllllll!

If you're not following the project get behind the cause; LIKE IT HERE

Surfboards moo-ving on...

Artist: Anthony Pelto
Inspired by connection between the land and the sea, Pelto has given the outback a new and unique perspective by taking 30 surfboards, covering them in cowhide and photographing them in the Red Centre of Australia, including Uluru, Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon.


http://pelto.com.au/home


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The ability of creativity to make old things unique - awesome work!

Surfboard Menorah & Rabbi G Stomping the Yard

 

A 9 stick Surfboard Menorah adaptation for the Jewish Hanukah festival.
A more interesting and exciting use that 1000SG has seen - brilliant none the less!

How is the hand-stand action at 1:50!? and then the shuffle at 2:49!?

Perfect monument for a dance showdown! Watch @
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDVyi_Bm9uY&NR=1

1000 Chairs?

Benches & Chairs made from old surfboards!
Awesome! It's a quick solution for re-using surfboards and the best bit is you have a chair - with a drink holder too!

www.karlsgoodwood.com

Herbie Fletcher

In the rather niche area of broken surfboard art history there is one prominent name.

Herbie Fletcher, here is a pretty rad piece he did in Hawaii.

www.herbiefletcher.com

Surfboard Letterbox?

Alan, 94, walked every street in 287 suburbs of Sydney, Australia

This is only 1 of his 2400 bizarre photos that document his 'surprises' or interesting sights of art and design as he strolled nonstop around Sydney.

He has received so much media attention its not funny... Check it:
Walk Sydney Streets

Back to the point, a potential 'up-cycle' for broken boards that's for sure!

Surfboard or Bodyboard?

What the?
Surfboard / Bodyboard?


= Sodyboard?

I called upon my local boardriders (Jones Beach) to bring in any of their old boards. Glen brought in this homemade crossbred mongrel that his son Corey made between an old foam finned bodyboard and a shortboard. I took it for a spin... it's meant to be ridden like a bodyboard for just pulling into shorey's

I thought the cables tied fins was pretty damn clever.

More boards here

Cardboard Surfboard Kits

Crazy stuff!

Order your own kit to build at home: http://sheldrake.net/cardboards/

1000SG on Exhibit

When exhibiting in a sustainable design exhibition it's all about re-using hence the decision to rock cardboard box plinths, opening night photos - coming soon!

SYDNEY DESIGN 2011: SRD Change11 Sustainable Design Exhibition

Exhibition Set Up
The progress of 1000SG will be on exhibition as a part of Sydney Design Festival 2011, presented by the Powerhouse Museum

National Graduate Sustainable Design Exhibition
SRD Change 11: www.srdchange.org

OPENING NIGHT THIS WEDNESDAY!
6:30pm - 40 Mount Street, North Sydney

Sydney Design
www.sydneydesign.com.au

TheInertia.com

It is an awesome website that has really interesting stuff on all aspects of surfing.

www.theinertia.com

It is a web-based media publication that features "insightful commentary from the global surf community’s most prominent and thoughtful figures. It addresses topics ranging from surfing to politics to music and art with the intention of sharing a diversity of perspectives in an online environment".

Pt.1 Resurrection

So a snap is costly to repair, perhaps $140 - 200.

Not always worth it... but perhaps creating a brand new board from the same foam is...

*note I have never shaped a board, if I can anyone can...

STEPS
1. Remove grip with heat, keep in tact it for later...
2. Cut the tail just after the side fins with a saw (keep leash plug)
3. Peel off glass, use gloves and any sharp thin tool
4. Use a pencil and ruler to mark up a shape
5. Shape it up with sander and a planer for the stringer
6. Add in rails and a single concave, just have a crack
7. Get it all smooth with a fine sandpaper

the rest... and the whole lot in a vimeo vid - coming soon!

Beer Can Surfboard

Making house party clean-ups that much better!

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*Source: Transworld Surf - Californian Rich Morrison and TWS' Chris Coté and the recycled beer can surfboard.

Kiama Independent

...hot off the press,  pg 8.

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*Surfrider Foundation

✎ PLAN

The boards will be installed as halves in the style of a military cemetery

John's Tale (excuse the pun)

That light blue tail saved John's life.

John was surfing Bombo when a massive set came. He bailed his board which then snapped leaving him only with that small tail to cling onto. He reckons without it he would have been the one put in a graveyard...

This project is not just about collecting the boards but also collecting the stories that go with them.

Martin

I met up with Martin this sarvo. We had a good chat about life, his veggie garden, and surfing on the South Coast.

He directed me to LETS www.auslets.org/sydney it's a community exchange program.

For example you mow someones lawn you earn 25 points
These points mean you can get something for yourself like a haircut.

Ha, no need for money...