Enjoy Da View

A little pencil on foam with resin tints. First one we ever did! It's titled "Enjoy Da View". My favorite thing about bodysurfing is this view! Go to the light... It's at Surfy Surfy so stop in and take a look if you are in the hood.
*Enjoy

*Enjoy the Great Lakes

Barry Thompson just posted this photo on his facebook page. It's of him bodysurfing the Great Lakes with one of our Mexi Blanket's and a GoPro. This put a huge smile on my face. I honestly never imagined anyone would every take one of our handplane out in the Great Lakes.  To think that a broken board from California is now getting water time in the midwest instead of sitting in a landfill blows me away. Yewww!!! Thanks for sharing Barry.

Taped Off - One of my new favorite blogs

www.tapedoff.com

Peter St Pierre is a legend in Leucadia but more importantly the world of surfing. We are lucky to have him on our planet. He of course is the one that paints those trippy universe scenes on surfboards for his company Moonlight Glassing. I think it's been around for 30 or 40 years. Kipp and I have always looked up to him and somehow I just found his own blog called Taped Off. I love the about...

ABOUT

I really like making surfboards. Shots from our shop Moonlight Glassing. Plus anything else I think is cool. think of this blog as a spinoff of Surfy Surfy but with crappier photos and more typos. --Peter St Pierre

A while back JP passed off one of our handplanes to him at the shop and months later he handed this off to JP. The writing on the bottom said "Enjoy The Universe". We were so stoked he did this I couldn't get the smile off my face for months. I still get a warm fuzzy every-time I look at this. THANK YOU PETER!!!!

At any rate his new blog is a few months old now and filled with tons for great posts from Moonlight Glassing. It is worth a daily click for sure.  Enjoy!

Surf Indian - Wild Ones - Show Photos

The opening for The Wild Ones featuring Susan Wickstrand and Kevin Roche at the Surf Indian was unreal. What a night. The energy at the event was amazing and the artwork and photography was utterly inspiring to say the least. This was the second time one of our handplanes has made it into a show but the first time Kipp and I were at the event to see it hung.  Seeing someone buy a Susan / Enjoy original lit me up. I could barley contain myself.

Susan and Kevin are some of the nicest and most talented people I have ever had the pleasure to get to know. The joy they were feeling while in a room filled with loved ones and strangers alike enjoying their passion was contagious. I seriously couldn't have been more stoked that night then if all my own work was on the walls.

The thing that I like about Kevin and Susan is there ability to collaborate. Kipp and I are huge fans of working together with others but these two take it to a whole other level. The work by Susan mixes her own talents with the works of legend photogs and Kevin finds his way into the lives of some of our most beloved surf figures to bare their souls in all his glory.

The Surf Indian was a star in itself. A show there just contains an energy that is hard to find anywhere else. I don't know if it is the location or the energy it attracts but events there are well worth the trip if need be.

All and all I give the show a huge double shaka and wish all to see it before it goes down.

Tangerine & Cream

It makes me hungry just llooking at it. This one is at WetSand.

Focused

When you glass with epoxy ambient temperature is very important. When you have an 80 degree room you can start to sweat. To combat the drips Kipp went through a headband phase for a while which was pretty entertaining. Each day he had a new color of head band. (Note the lack of mask. That's the benefit to epoxy. No VOC's! We use Entropy Bio Epoxy which is made from leftovers from the diesel industry and pine oil. Cool stuff.)

This is a classic shot of how Kipp works. He is a very focused individual. The reason your handplane is so meticulous is because of him. After I shape one it is like shop class and I have to go through a review process before it hits the stand. He keeps me on my game.

Unfortunately his beard is trimmed now and the headbands have been put aside. He's growing it out again though so soon I hope the headbands will come back!

Susan Wickstrand Collector Handplanes

Our friend amazing artist Susan Wickstrand hand-painted two handplanes for her and Kevin Roche's art show The Wild Ones tonight at the Surf Indian. Doors open at 7PM and it goes till 10pm. Music by the Mattson 2!  Come and stop by and check out these beauties.  See you there.

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The New Greener Blue

Now made with Entropy Bio Epoxy. 

Supports Save the Waves

Inspired by our friends at TheGreenerBlue.com

Wild Ones Art Show - Saturday 7pm Surf Indian - Mattson 2 Live

Our friends Susan Wickstrand and Kevin Roche are having an art show this Saturday night at the Surf Indian. Kipp and I will be there. Susan even painted up two handplanes for the show! If you have seen the list of legends she’s worked with you will understand how stoked and honored we are to have her do some handplanes. See everyone there! http://www.surfindian.com

Burnt Orange Beauty

One of my new favorite colors on a new shape I have been enjoying. This one was a custom that I wished I had kept.