Feliz Friday
09Jul
Have a curious weekend everyone!
{photo via here}
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surfy christmas
11Nov
Saw this Christmas card from byvikINK and it became one of my favorite cards I’ve seen in a long time. A letterpressed surfer girl! Love it.
Speaking of Christmas and surfing, what I’d love in my stocking this year would be a wooden surfboard from Grain Surfboards in Maine.
Unfortunately, it’d have to be displayed as wall art until I get me some lessons.
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Wave of the future
22Oct
At the SMART Art Competition of 2009, a competition on turning trash into works of art and/or functional everyday things, this plastic wave caught my attention.
The Plastic Wave from Mark Lukach on Vimeo.
This is what won which is also pretty fabulous:
Grass’gras by Harriete Estel Berman
Over 32,400 individual blades of grass cut from recycled, pre-printed steel. 36 steel base panels (18” square).
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Surf confession
09Oct
Fact: I love surfboards.
Confession: I’ve never really been on one.
Conclusion: Get. me. on. one!
Rick Malwitz is not only a brilliant designer, he also designs and creates some of the most beautiful surfboards I’ve seen.
All of the colors and finishes he uses are so calming and “match” the ocean. Don’t you just love this eggplant color one?
If I owned one of these, I don’t know if I’d be able to use it! I’d just want to display it as a beautiful art piece!
I really cannot wait to get a lesson and try this sport out. Unfortunately winter is approaching and I’m a big wuss and wear sweaters in 70 degree weather. So… I either gotta get tough (!) or wait until spring. ( I know, I know what the surfers say — the surf on the east coast is during the winter… guess I gotta get tough..)
Have a surfy weekend!
(photo from Drift)
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Postcard love
21Sep
Went to a flea market this weekend and found some wonderful vintage postcards. I couldn’t resist and bought these two:
The surfing one is postmarked from 1933 — when Hawaii was still a territory!
I think the most entertaining part of rifling through the cards was reading what people wrote on the back. On the back of the surfing postcard, it’s written, “It is quite a sport if you know how to perform it.”
Or this postcard with a scene of the Cliff House at the San Francisco beach on the front:
11/14/30
Dear S. –
Yesterday I saw several seals on these rocks.
Love Father
This one written on a Dearborn, Michigan postcard from 1943 is amazing:
Dear Phoebe,
Just a bit to tell you Mark(?) called on the phone this morning. He is on a diet now. They hope to taper him down to around 190lbs and he is quite happy about it. He isn’t confined to bed, so if he just relaxes he can enjoy it to some degree.
As ever,
Anna
Also, these cards printed from the early first half of the 20th century can sometimes have excerpts on the backs that aren’t meaning to be funny but they are. For example, one of the postcards from Baltimore is described as, “…a city charmingly picturesque in its ugliness, yet seething with activity and opportunity.”
Or this one that has the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco on the cover: “In cozy nooks about the grounds visitors are served tea and delicious rice cakes by dainty Japanese maidens.”
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