Surfing The Tombstone

Lad in the line up: Are your spreading the word of god or something?
Me: (Laughs) No. I'm building a graveyard...

Snapped Surfboard From Fatal Shark Attack

Worst nightmare...

Full Article: ABC

Contemporary 'Surf' Artist: Scott Redford

I came across Australian artist Scott Redford. I really liked his large scale approach to sculpture/installation and the mixture of surf culture with commercial signage + the broken boards!

"Scott Redford is a leading Australian artist who has firmly placed his home town, Queensland's Gold Coast, on the contemporary art map. This major solo exhibition showcases his development of the fictitious character Reinhardt Dammn in dialogue with key works from the last decade. 'Scott Redford: Introducing Reinhardt Dammn' includes surfboard sculptures, videos and paintings, suites of fibreglass objects and canvases with shiny, highly coloured acrylic surfaces"
Source: Queensland Art Gallery

Toxicity: The Unintented Consequences of Stoke

This information-graphic was created by Environsurfer, an online surf store based in the US. The 1000SG project focuses on the environmental impact of surfboards but as you can see here it is not the only surfing product that needs improvement.

Read more
http://www.american.edu/sis/gep/upload/Leon-Mach.pdf
http://www.treehuggerwax.com/surfinggreen.php
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/resurf-first-group-to-recycle-surfboards-and-wetsuits.php
http://www.onearth.org/blog/whats-happening-on-earth/sunscreen-causes-coral-bleaching
http://earth911.com/news/2009/02/02/surfboard-recycling-gets-a-boost-in-ca/
http://sustainablesurf.org/ecoboard/guide-to-eco-surfboards/
http://sustainablesurfcoalition.org/?p=106
http://www.balsasurfboardsriley.com.au/blanks_EPS.html
http://www.phoresia.org/?p=203
http://www.thecleanestline.com/2008/05/green-neoprene.html
http://chej.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PVC/bad_news_comes_in_threes.pdf
http://www.surfing-waves.com/howto/make_surf_wax.htm
http://www.treehuggerwax.com/surfinggreen.php
http://www.earthshare.org/2009/05/sunscreen-risks.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080129-sunscreen-coral.html

250 Halves = Quarter of the way...

The collecting continues...

Now storing 250 surfboard halves which means I am quarter of the way of reaching 1000!

Tune into the ongoing collection, like this project @:
www.facebook.com/1000SG