Saturday, February 26, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Andy Nieblas x Kookumber

We surprised Andy by making him a 5'2 kookumber last Summer.

Here are some photos Oden snapped of Andy recently; hanging out at Sano and surfing at Creek.



Tuesday, February 22, 2011

South Pacific

Our friend, Jimmy, is on a little excursion through the South Pacific right now.

Here's a photo he sent over. Anxious to see more from you adventure!

Friday, February 18, 2011

7'9 Stepdeck

I've been inspired by some of the midlengths that I've seen in the water recently. Cyrus has been making himself some fun looking 2+1 boards. I traded boards in the water with Knost a few weeks ago, and really enjoyed the midlength he shaped for himself, and I haven't been able to shake these boards out of my head.

With that in mind, Griffin and I put our heads together the other day to come up with something new and interesting. We started with the original log rhythm template as our foundation (21 1/2" wide log) We narrowed it to 20 3/4"

I really wanted to keep plenty of volume and rail through the middle of the board (50/50), but then transition to a modern edge in the tail. I don't really like displacement hulls, personally, but I do like boards that glide and trim effortlessly, so the extra volume is intended to make this board glide like a log, but turn and respond like a midlength.

We ended up pulling in the nose, because we agreed we didn't need so much foam up there for what we wanted this board to do. So we actually used the tail template of the Pinwheel model (longboard we did for Japan) for the new nose. In order to further eliminate foam in the nose of the board, we gave it a step. A nice heart-shaped step.



Thursday, February 17, 2011

Quiksilver Limited 2011

Quiksilver borrowed a Sandia Fish and a Kookumber for a recent Quiksilver Limited Collection shoot with Craig Anderson




Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Andy Nieblas via Dane Peterson

Andy Nieblas, unconcerned about the score of the Super Bowl, enjoying empty San Onofre.

Photos: Dane Peterson

Thanks for passing them along, Dylan!


Moci's Art

Greg Mocilnikar "Moci" (Mochi) is secretly an incredible artist.

Come to his Opening Reception on Saturday at the Walter Maciel Gallery!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

New Midlength Development

Dave and Griffin designing a new midlength model, and template tweaking.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

New Online Store

We just re-did our online store a bit. Oden shot a bunch of fancy new product shots.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Tyler Warren via Kyle Lightner

Love this frame of TW that Lightner shot at Middles last week.

California Life is Good

New film by Itoi



If you're wondering, that is Dave in the sombrero.

SURFERS:
ALEX KNOST
BRIAN BENT
BUCKY BURRY
CHRIS CHRISTENSON
CHRIS DEL MORO
CHRISTIAN WACH
DAVE ALLEE
JEN SMITH
JJ WESSELS
NATALIE WESSELS
KAMERON BROWN
KASSIA MEADOR
MITCH ABSHERE
NATHAN ADAMS
NOAH SHIMABUKURO
SCOTTY STOPNIK
TURKEY STOPNIK
TANNER PRAIRIE
TOMMY WITT
TRACE MARSHALL
TYLER WARREN

Monday, February 7, 2011

Fine Surfing Boards | Jeremy Searcy

Just found this rad illustration that Jeremy Searcy did for us a while back.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Jazzy Way To End A Day

Jazzy Way to End a Day from OutroEstilo on Vimeo.

A collaborative project between brazilian photographer, Jair Bortoleto and a bunch of artists from all around the world. Eighteen different photos were sent to each one of the artists for their personal interpretation. Jazzy Way To End A Day.


Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Andy x Vans

See you tonight at Thalia.

Spain & California

Jake Z at Blackies recently; courtesy of our new friends from the Basque Country of Spain, Xabi and Mikel.

Check out their blog: here.

Look for more great video stuff from these guys soon.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Bondi via Seamouse

Wanna go to the beach?

Barrel for your birthday...

What did you do on your 18th Birthday?

Aaron will never forget what he did on his....

(Scored a 10 on this barrel in Huntington)

Seems fitting after posting the video about the Log Rhythm model yesterday.

It's an 18 frame sequence, but I tried to pull the most important ones.

Photos: Hunter Votolato