Mid-Pacific Overdose

Beamer Wilkins, this'd be the guy responsible for turning me on to the work of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno...and subsequently naming the Evening Star.

I thought this was a cool snap of him and his wee 4'11 velosim in

Hawaii, shot by Mollie McDowell.

While We're...

...At it, here's Kew's new 5'3 t.rev, also heading for a remote corner of the India Ocean in the next handful of days...Good luck campers, may the tube god's be with you...

(Tank the cat, shortly after sniffing and deeming worthy, pissed all over the tail of the board, claiming it for his own. We were humbled and I was beyond honored. Thanks Tank.)

post-bottom-color-jobber, pre-deck-lamination, at the White Owl shop with Gregg Tally and m.Kew:

photo: Beamer Wilkins

Iterations of Splinter Nations

A little test/sample of the live footage shown during Tycho's live shows via Beamer at iso50:

Tycho live visuals test footage from ISO50 on Vimeo.

Capitol Hill

Beamer's 4'6" t.Rev, dubbed Mrs.Featherbottom:

Original art by Willian Bryant ( you REALLY should check his stuff out), a good friend of Beamer's who let our old timey buddy Kent Keystone do a little reproduction on the bottom of B's nugget. There are a few more photos and other cool stuffs at Semi-Radical.com

Beaming

Beamer and I have been planning a board for him for a couple months now and after switching back and forth a few times on shape and general desires, I decided to have him come down for a weekend from the bay area and hang out while I built his board start to finish in the 24 hr window of time we both had to work with...

I shaped it in the evening (4'11" x 21" x 2 1/2" velosim), then woke up bright and early the next morning to meet him and Jason out at the boatyard; It was a solid task but not impossible; the board being full tint top and bottom with glass-on fins made the challenge even more tempting. A clear sanded board is no problem for that kind of time frame if you've got nothing else going on but this made me feel pretty accomplished by the end of the day, PLUS, we ate some dank pizza.

Cosmic or ?

I received two disturbingly similar, and totally random text messages...They were too good not to share...

First from Connor as I was running errands in ventura, he was watching over Ben M's new Gull...

And second, Beamer spotted the spoon that I sent down to Mollusk Venice and sent his approval!

I wonder what tomorrow has in store........