guru steve, PA redux

i miss surfing

it's been too long

(i think this is Monk from OCNJ, sometime this fall)

take 2

jingle bland

my friend, the talented jim mchugh(mcillustrator), used my image for drawing to go with a philadelphia weekly article about holiday wine. it was my christmas card a few years ago. how cool is this?

costa quiver 2008

costa rica was bueno.  lots of waves. lots of tritz.  time to throw the trunks into the back of the closet and pull out the 5 mil.  not muy bueno.

shawn says Si! to costa on thursday

costa quiver 2007

6'4 billboards bonzer "aka the billzer"

6'2 rusty 1989 model

5'10 channel islands fish

*costa quiver '08 TBD

muchas gracias

a big thanks to my wife heather for being cool with me catching some good waves on her birthday last sunday.  so fresh and so clean.

aww yeah phillies!!

i'm not telling you who i'm voting for

drinks with dana morris (or it's a small world after all)

in  southern new jersey, at an old movie theater that was converted into a sound stage, nowhere near a beach or california, shooting a commercial for nutrisystem, i ran into surf filmmaker dana morris(above center).  he made two super surf flicks, way of life and beneath the surface.  we went out the other night in philly for drinks and laughs.  good guy.  good times.

guru steve, PA

in every surfer's beginning years there is one standout individual that guides that surfer down the path to where, years later, one  emerges.  for me, steve was that individual.  we work together.  He does props. i do lighting.  he has been surfing a long time and is still stoked.  his 2 key gifts of surf enlightenment:  thomas campbell's The Seedling, and a super sweet mexico surf spot that i have journeyed to every year for the last 7 years.  these two things changed everything for me.  thanks steve.

morning glory

beach blankets?

weapons of choice

i brought 5'9 mandala stubbie and my 8'4 cooperfish mellow yellow modelo to ride fading kyle swells.  it was a waist high + wave pool with luscious logging lefts.  monday surfs are the best. 

it's time we start listening to dump trucks

gone green

while surfing the wonderful hannah swells last sunday, i caught a case of the greens.

a new/used addition to the family

i traded kevin from long island my tudor good karma for this 5'9 mandala stubbie.  trading is the new sharing.

fart out with your art out

some photos of my photos @ black-n-brew cafe

when doves cry

just another day at the office

bringing the darkness and rain to a sunny day

h-mo on the dl list

heather tore some ligaments in her hand while healing the sick.  now she is one of the sick that is healing. rockin' the rocket red cast, designed by the pantone professors,  to speed the process.  feel the heal baby!

blandoland @ black n brew

for the month of september, i will be showing assorted photos and such at black n brew cafe on 1523 e. passyunk ave. in south philadelphia.  check out the photos on blandolandphoto.blogspot.com.

not so secret spot

i think if you click on the pic you might figure it out.  fun friday am warm water sesh.

Jingle bells and small south swells..

small pre-christmas surf session.  it really went off christmas eve and day but i couldn't get down.

bah humbug!

malloy lego action figures

i saw shelter years ago and was blown away.  this was a project i did while trying to teach myself illustrator.  i think i peaked with this and have been  sliding downhill ever since.

she got a ring, i got a bing

when i got engaged to my wife, the deal was that i get her a ring and she gets me a board.  nothing like a surfboard to show how much you care.   

                                                     thanks heather.

Go Pop, Go!

after 6 weeks of daily radiation treatments for throat cancer, pop had his final treatment this morning. he rang the bell to celebrate.

billboards new shirt logo?

so i know thomas campbell and any davis have done logos for you, bill, but check this out.  i've  already ordered 6,000 shirts and 4,000 stickers for you.

aww yeah

front

back

oops..i did it again!

i was trying to thin the quiver and recently unloaded my 6'2 bonzer egg and my 6'4 campbell brothers thruster(pictured below).  but when dan (pictured below) said he was getting rid of this 6'6 beauty (pictured above),  what's a guy like me(pictured right) supposed to do?

buy it, that's what (pictured in my house).

south philly beach chairs

when a striped, fold-up chair just won't due

intergalactic last supper

i wonder if the local think tanks will object to these illegal aliens

...and Memo was his name-o

bill pressly, aka bp hang low, aka memo, aka billboards burning up an inside sexxtion,  wayyy down the line from the point.  Mexcellent!!!!

glacier con carne

no red  meat or pork products for 14 years. next thing you know i'm eating ham sandwiches on glaciers in patagonia

topside

quivering

I heart robots!