The Virginia Longboard Federation (VLF) is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Steel Pier Classic Surfing Contest and Surf Art Expo to take place Memorial Day Weekend (May 29-31, 2010) at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, First Street Jetty and will be presented by Freedom Surf Shop and Quiksilver.
This annual charity event will raise money for The Virginia Beach Noblemen. This year there will be a special guest, California’s living surfing legend, Bing Copeland, founder of “Bing Surfboards.” He will be attending the contest and signing his new book on Saturday May 29. The three day event celebrates the roots of surfing and will feature Professional Longboard and Shortboard divisions with a cash purse, amateur divisions, Stand Up Paddle surfing competition, SUP distance race, Shortboard and Longboard Club Challenges, Noseriding, Retro Longboard and Shortboard, and Tandem Surfing … Details
To a skateboarder, a broken skateboard is a bad thing. But to the artist featured in the 1st Annual Broken Skateboard Art Show, a broken skateboard is a raw material just waiting to be cut, shaped, and sanded into something new. And that is just what Victor Perez, Jason Podlaski and Lynn Weiler have done for this show. They will be showcasing skateboards that have been transformed into lamps, jewelry and stools. It’s all about upcycling, making better things out of trash.
Victor Perez, a Philadelphia native who skated for Santa Cruz Skateboard Company, combines his passion for skateboarding with his love for art to create … Details
The California Heritage Museum is hosting “Skateboard: Evolution and Art in California,” an exhibit showcasing 60 years of boards, riders, designers and manufacturers.
Artist Raymond Pettibon swathed the blank canvas with a black-and-white image of a woman’s face. The vintage beauty, whose mouth pops with a shade of red lipstick, has four bars — the signature logo for his brother’s punk rock band Black Flag … Details & Pictures
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A new art show entitled, “I am snowboarding,” will be in town for a one-night engagement next week. You can check it out on Dec. 10 at Club Six, on Sixth Street between Mission and Market … Details
Two of Northern California’s most famous institutions –- big wave surfing and the wine country -– will merge this month at a unique event in Sonoma County.
The Longboard Vineyards Tasting Room in Healdsburg will reveal its latest surfing-themed wine while hosting the acclaimed photography exhibition “Maverick’s: Everest of the Seas,” featuring the award-winning images of some of action sports’ best lensmen. The festivities take place during the weekend of October 23-25, 2009.
If you’re an entrepreneur (or ever had daydreams during death-by-boredom conference meetings of becoming one) you’re familiar with the process of trying to come up with “the big idea.” It ain’t easy, to say the least: researching, brainstorming, sleepless nights, feeling like your banging your head against a brick wall, headaches (from actually banging your head against a brick wall), more sleepless nights (from uncomfortable bandages wrapped around now bruised head). Then, finally, at 4:23am as you lay in bed ready to strangle the 1,099th sheep you’ve counted – the idea finally comes!
Understanding this crazy, difficult process, I’m ever more appreciative of creative, original, inspired new business and product ideas. Thus, the moment I heard about ARTCRANK, the bike-themed poster art show … Details
Maybe it’s the hardwood floors. Or the wood-framed photographs of surf images from around the world, blown up large, stretched and framed in driftwood, hung neatly for display.
Maybe it’s the low-tempo surf videos that sometimes play in the corner, or maybe it’s Rob Gilley himself – intelligent, calm Rob Gilley in his button-down shirt and bare feet, the kind of guy who reminds you what’s good about surfing.
Whatever it is, the Pacific Surf Gallery in Cardiff is seriously peaceful, exuding a kind of refined beach ease that makes a surfer want to stay a bit.
Ostensibly, the gallery is a small rectangular retail space, wedged between a Starbucks and a gym, a place that Gilley started in 2002 with his wife, then sold in 2005, then bought back, redesigned and reopened last month, selling fine, arresting surf photographs and paintings.
More than that, though, the gallery’s iteration will see… Details
