Last week David Macomber painted a 8' x 20' mural on a local Jersey Shore boardwalk. The title of the piece is STRENGTH IN UNITY - to commemorate the power of people coming together after Hurricane Sandy.
Once the mural was completed he cut it into smaller 2' x 3' pieces and is now auctioning them off. 100% of the money raised will go to Waves For Water via eBay charitable auctions. ...
Two weeks in Russia’s Far East, a region known to have weather worse than Siberia. We were fortunate to have warm air, clear skies, and offshore wind most of the time. The sea on the other hand stayed in the low 40s.
By Jacob Tillman
In the early morning hours of July 5th of last year my sister was awoken by an intruder who followed her home from the fireworks show in Ft. Collins, CO. She was raped, severely beaten, and her apartment was set on fire in an attempt to destroy all evidence of the crime. Fortunately, Lydia Tillman wasn't ready to die and she escaped her would be murderer carrying...
Looking to put a swing in your backyard? Here's a simple upcycing project that anyone with a big tree and an old skateboard lying around can do. So dig out that old skateboard that you aren't using anymore and give it a new life...
Reposted from Make Magazine
I got the idea for the retractable fin set up while I was on a sailing trip. I joined a boat that was doing the Baja Haha sailing race, which is a race that starts in San Diego and ends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We caught a tuna fish, and our captain, a photographer, was taking close up shots of the fish while inspecting it. As he was taking photos he said, “Wow, look at how...
Surfboard shaper and writer, Bryan Knowles, was featured a while back in our interview series where he discussed, Where Albatross Soar, a children's book he wrote about waves and where they come from. His goal in writing this book was to share his love for surfing and the ocean in a way that gets children excited about some of the awesome natural forces of the world around them. And after...
Maker Ryan Lovelace is currently doing a Kickstarter project to help him make the transition towards creating more environmentally friendly surfboards. Ryan is a talented shaper/glasser who makes all kinds of surfboards. Although he makes everything from spoons to kneeboards to asymmetrical finless stubs, his specialty is the creation of mid-length vee-bottomed hulls for his local glassy point...
Check out Massenger, a new project featuring myself and some mates. Rock-N-Roll will never die.
ITS HAPPENING! FREAK OUT!
It's taken me a whole lot of time to put this project together and it means the world to me; if you can do it, please take the time to help support what I think are two things that are definitely worth your time.If you've got the ability and the heart, please consider making a donation and spread the message. This is a 30 day project so I'm going to be doing...
Daniel May of 2erskate.de, an indie skate blog in Germany put this video together depicting the creation of a skate bowl in an abandoned industrial park in Hannover, Germany. Daniel and his friends have transformed their community with their after work exploits. Learn more in Daniel's behind the scenes account of making the video below.
Skateboarding in Hannover has not always been too...
