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Rob Machado, is easy to watch…

By my surfing essentials | June 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Rob Machado, is easy to watch…

If in the Desert from chase burns on Vimeo. Looted from Surfysurfy again! Couldn’t help it on this one, just had to share…

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Fridge door – Shark progress

By my surfing essentials | June 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Fridge door – Shark progress

A little progress update on the shark fridge.

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The Fridge Door

By my surfing essentials | June 3, 2009 | Comments Off on The Fridge Door

A Sharky Fridge door I started painting on the weekend, more soon.

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clark little

By my surfing essentials | May 27, 2009 | Comments Off on clark little

Amazing photos of waves, sounds like a cliché but they’re actually fairly remarkable: www.clarklittlephotography.com

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more fin art

By my surfing essentials | May 27, 2009 | Comments Off on more fin art

Playing with Posca pens on the same set of fins that where once smokey… A pretty time consuming process, but an interesting result?

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I need to become prolific…

By my surfing essentials | May 21, 2009 | Comments Off on I need to become prolific…

…with my art making prolific… producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive: a prolific writer. profusely productive or fruitful (often fol. by in or of): a bequest prolific of litigations. characterized by abundant production: a prolific year for tomatoes. Hard to achieve in a busy life but something I must do.

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CG Art? I think this is…

By my surfing essentials | May 13, 2009 | Comments Off on CG Art? I think this is…

As a general rule I don’t get a lot out of computer generated art. Some of it is amazing but a lot of Photoshop airbrushing brings the whole scene down, it sure as hell isn’t accepted by the art world as ‘art’ but that’s not saying a great deal… Give it 10, maybe 20 years […]

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Surfboard chair

By my surfing essentials | May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

Interesting concept – a real talking point if nothing else “what happened to your board man?” The repurposing of waste materials can’t be knocked. Surfboards are a consumable product in the most part. With a varied life expectancy, anything that keeps waste out of land fill and provides a second life for a product is […]

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Mushburgers at 13th Beach

By my surfing essentials | May 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Mushburgers at 13th Beach

Had a radical paddle at 13th yesterday arvo, a couple of reforms on the inside were pealing through ok but the odd clean up set kept things interesting… Good for surf fitness if nothing else.

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Gallery added

By my surfing essentials | May 8, 2009 | Comments Off on Gallery added

I have added a little gallery of my artwork to the site, check it out here.

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Autumn is good

By my surfing essentials | May 8, 2009 | Comments Off on Autumn is good

Nice clean waves around over the last couple of weeks as mentioned. The run has come to a bit of an end but hopefully not for long.

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bag of tricks…

By my surfing essentials | May 4, 2009 | Comments Off on bag of tricks…

Didn’t think retro boards went this well, maybe they do when you really rip? Shamelessly pinched from Surfy Surfy! It was too good not to. Pro surfer Eli Mirandon breaks down his air he did on his retro fish that he shaped himself.

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Autumn is here, with some waves

By my surfing essentials | May 3, 2009 | Comments Off on Autumn is here, with some waves

In general a good time for waves, Rippy pro and all. We are right into the thick of it now and conditions have been fun, light wind and a little swell, not epic by any proprtion but good fun. Nice to say good bye to summer surf and hello to some quality. Hope it keeps […]

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Is this winter?

By my surfing essentials | March 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Is this winter?

Crazy winter like weather this weekend, it seems like we might have skipped a season! Gota love Victoria… Got some reasonable waves though, down @ Spout, with the odd 3 foot set and a little left wedge running off. Water temp seems to be dropping alredy, lucky for us, we are heading North in a […]

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broken promises

By my surfing essentials | February 10, 2009 | Comments Off on broken promises

Day: Saterday 7th Feb 2009 Time: 8am Location: Eastern View Wind: Strong to Light SW on shore Swell: 2 foot Something else: Surfed with Mr Outtram before he went off to photograph a wedding in 45ºC temps, nice day for it, ouch! Conditions: well it was supposed to be firing but it wasn’t, the swell […]

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swell check turns into a quick paddle

By my surfing essentials | February 6, 2009 | Comments Off on swell check turns into a quick paddle

Day: Friday 6th Feb 2009 Time: 7pm Location: Eastern View Wind: Light ENE cross shore Swell: 1-2 foot building swell Something else: love those moments when you score a little peace when you don’t expect it. Conditions: we have had zero waves all week, to be expected in this neck of the woods at this […]

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POV footage from the tube

By my surfing essentials | February 5, 2009 | Comments Off on POV footage from the tube

Pretty amazing footage, it had me in right away. I am sure this is what George Greenough was looking for way back when… Brian Conley also has a wave submited in the Billabong XXL ride of the year, from 2 angles so you can check the POV and how it looked from the beach, very […]

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light streaks

By my surfing essentials | February 4, 2009 | Comments Off on light streaks

The power was out for 6 hours so we had candles and torches out, add into the mix a digital SLR and some boredom…

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warm splash in boardies

By my surfing essentials | February 4, 2009 | Comments Off on warm splash in boardies

Day: Friday 30th Jan 2009 Time: 4.30pm Location: Fairhaven Wind: Light sea breeze Swell: 1-2 foot wobbles Something else: first boardshort session for the year, down the beach with the girls cooling off as the power had gone out at home (ended up being out for 6+ hours) Something else plus: the shark spotter plane […]

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Daydream feature

By my surfing essentials | January 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Daydream feature

I got a little feature on the Daydream Network blog, thanks guys! For some background on this, check out my previous entry.

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not a largo

By my surfing essentials | January 28, 2009 | Comments Off on not a largo

Day: Sunday 25th Jan 2009 Time: 4pm-ish Location: The Flume, Warrnambool Vic Wind: Moderate sea breeze Swell: 2 -3 foot wobbles Something else: surfing with old man Johns (again) Conditions: a little bit “Ground-hog Day” onshore mush, with a lucky section here and there. The call of “Beer’o’clock” came pretty early today, if only we […]

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Clean and fast

By my surfing essentials | January 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Clean and fast

Day: Sunday 25th Jan 2009 Time: 9am-ish Location: The Flume, Warrnambool Vic Wind: Clean offshore conditions – moving to a light sea breeze later in the morning Swell: 2 foot clean swell, the odd 3 foot set and surf-able section Something else: Australia Day long weekend camping trip to Warrnambool, surfing with old man Johns […]

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Radical paddle

By my surfing essentials | January 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Radical paddle

Day: Saturday 24th Jan 2009 Time: 4pm-ish Location: The Flume, Warrnambool Vic Wind: Strong sea breeze Swell: 2 foot washing machine with the odd section Something else: Australia Day long weekend camping trip to Warrnambool Conditions: Old memories come rushing back, lots of things have changed in this town since our Uni days but not […]

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Smokey fins

By my surfing essentials | January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment

Wanted to have a crack at airbrushing some smoke for a while now, such a cool “fluid” element, although often a bit obnoxious in real life. What better format than on some fins? Nice and small, reducing the project timeline to an evening in the garage, perfect for my current state of mind – having […]

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Clean, not mean

By my surfing essentials | January 22, 2009 | Comments Off on Clean, not mean

Day: Thursday 22nd Jan 2009 Time: 6.45am Location: Fairhaven Vic Wind: Light offshore under Swell: 2 foot – then washing machine Conditions: Nice clean morning, tide a little too high making for some fatness. Banks are not ‘high tide’ friendly either, with sections quickly running into the easterly summer time trench. Nice to have some […]

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No worm today

By my surfing essentials | January 20, 2009 | Comments Off on No worm today

I caught 2 waves before the change hit.

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OME – lineup airbrush artwork

By my surfing essentials | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off on OME – lineup airbrush artwork

A really good friend of mine has a little surf brand OME, after seeing some of my airbrush work he said to me that I had to spray a display board for him. He said I could paint anything I wanted on it, I went for something classic and I think timeless, a perfect point […]

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Clean-up sets

By my surfing essentials | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off on Clean-up sets

A little raw and with a couple rouge closeouts hooking in and cleaning everyone up.

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Skull Phones

By my surfing essentials | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off on Skull Phones

I don’t use headphones a lot so they were just collecting dust.

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Clean, warm, a little weak

By my surfing essentials | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off on Clean, warm, a little weak

A weak and dying swell, with a light sea breeze.

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Onshore washing machine

By my surfing essentials | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off on Onshore washing machine

Onshore washing machine as the title suggests, moderate onshore wind with a tight wind-swell mixed in with some leftover ground swell.

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Daydream Network – DD05

By my surfing essentials | January 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Daydream Network – DD05

Pretty happy about my inclusion in this publication! I have an airbrush piece in this edition, check these guys out for some modern art, here and now inspiration. The 5th Edition of Daydream represents a truly global lineup, featuring indivduals and collectives from cities including New York, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Newcastle, Buenos Airies, Santiago, Manilla, […]

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Sometimes I surf, sometimes a lot, usually not as much as I would like…

By my surfing essentials | January 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Sometimes I surf, sometimes a lot, usually not as much as I would like…

Well, talking to myself here no doubt, first post on a new blog and all that! Might as well get it out of the way and not crap on too much about nothing then. What am I doing here? Well I started to post some stuff over on our business site and it sort of […]

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