If a trailer’s job is to tease you into wanting to see the movie, this one does it’s job. Impeccable nose riding, a few underwater shots from the sesh with Christianson Christenson and the boys in Typhoon lagoon, and way too short. Just one thing though… what’s the band and name of the song?

UPDATE: Mikey says the song is “Osaka Loop Line” by Discovery and points to a version of the Trailer in HD. Also, I just noticed, the guy getting pitted in the middle of the trailer, is riding an alia.

Sometimes an artist combines form and material so perfectly that the normally subjective nature of art flies right out the window. Such is the case with Mark Saracusa’s wooden waves… most everyone, waverider and non-waverider alike can appreciate their beauty.

Photo By Maggie Marsek

There is something mesmerizing about looking at the wave from any angle you want. Its almost as if that hucking A-Frame you always hope to find at your local beachy is sitting there in front of you. This is largely due to the unique, slightly exaggerated form Mark imparts in each wave. Lip lines are tweaked to just beyond gaping, and the roofs of the cylinders sag as if they are being pulled downward by invisible force that carries spit from the tube. The natural grain at times hints at the maze of reflections found in a wave’s surface and the carving marks on some of his waves can imitate a slight offshore breeze. Not since the olo has wood and water gone so well together.

I wrote about these carvings after seeing them outside Seaside market in Cardiff a few weeks ago. Since then, Mark and I have made a little trade for the first wave pictured here. My end of the deal is to show these gems off to you, which I’m happy to do as I think I got the better end of the deal here. ;D

A 12″ wave is $95.00 with the 30″ waves at $225.00… more than fair pricing in my opinion and he includes shipping. I can’t recommend one size over another, as both impart the same feeling when looking at them.

There are more pics of Mark’s process and waves after the jump…

You can get a wave at one of the stores below, or through Mark at his website, mysurfart.com

Pacific Surf Gallery
2081 San Elijo Ave
Cardiff by the Sea, Ca. 92007

WetSand SurfShop
446 East Main Street
Ventura, CA 93001

HOMELoft
127 N. Hwy 101
Solana Beach, CA 92075

Thanks Mark, keep carving.

Saturday March 29th, Shelter Surf Shop will be celebrating their spiffy new location on 4th St in Long Beach. Kim and Graham really know how to put on an event, as their last gig, the Ether book tour was full of creative and in-trim surfers.

The re-opening will serve double duty as the opening night for the art of Estibahn Bojorquez. I’m bummed I’m going to miss it due to a last minute trip to the east coast, but if you are anywhere nearby, do yourself a favor and stop by.

There was some drama at this year’s anything but three. It seems some athoritiiii just can’t believe that a bunch of people could organize a gathering that large without commercial interests involved. Read the captions in the slide show for the whole story, with embellishment where required.

Maggie is hosting 70 or so photos of sick boards, rad shapers and surfers on her site, but she thought you might want to be able to comment and such on these here.

Photos by Maggie Marsek.

It was great to see lots of you, and even better to ride your boards. Please send ding repair bills for the boards I broke to :

Surfy Surfy
Leucadia, CA 92024

Found in a thread on MetaFilter about the Central California Salmon collapse.

“[once upon a time there were] cod shoals “so thick by the shore that we hardly have been able to row a boat through them.” There were six- and seven-foot-long codfish weighing as much as 200 pounds. There were great banks of oysters as large as shoes. At low tide, children were sent to the shore to collect 10-, 15-, even 20-pound lobsters with hand rakes for use as bait or pig feed. Eight- to 12-foot sturgeon choked New England rivers, and salmon packed streams from the Hudson River to Hudson’s Bay. Herring, squid and capelin (a small open-water fish seven inches long) spawning runs were so gigantic they astonished observers for more than four centuries”

It’s been a while since we had a shit storm here on 70. That’s a good thing, but it can get a little boring right? So to alleviate the midweek blues, I’d like you all to blast away at this statement:

Despite the propaganda-ish tone of the slideshow, it looks like Surfline’s goodwill tour to Barra really paid off for the locals. The cash it generated paved a road to the local church and finished up the town clinic. Having a clinic allowed the Mexican government to start sending a doctor to the town and it looks like they even got the new doc a spiffy typewriter.

Maybe if all the people on the internet who are bitching and doing nothing to help would have donated some funds, the town could have gotten all that good stuff without the drama! Alas, the internet is full of haters.

Tell everyone what you think with this totally unbiased poll!

Heh.

A few weeks back a fellow surfblogger, Clayfin invited me to check out the surf film Musica Surfica. (Check out Clayfin’s review of the finless flick.) As stoked as a I was to get a private screening of a soon to be released film, I was even more stoked to pick up these ceramic works of surf art. A tribe grows as a culture through it’s art, and Clayfin is furthering our culture.

Photos by Maggie Marsek. Click for larger view.

I’m always blown away how much difference fins can make in a board. The ability to swap fins is hands down the best thing about fin systems, but I meet people all the time who’ve only ridden one set of fins in their board. If this is you, beg, borrow or steal as many sets as you can. You might find the fins you were riding only realized half of your boards drive, speed or turnability.

I’ve blogged about 101 Fin Co’s bamboo fins tons of times and it’s because they’ve unlocked unbelievable performance in my fish. My set of 101 bamboo CI template are easily the best fins I’ve ridden in my LoxBox-ed twin Gary Hanel.

Sick Photos by Maggie Marsek. Click for larger image.

Here’s a breakdown of the fins I’ve ridden and their characteristics.

GH Lowboys (fiberglass): These are a low profile keel like template. For a tall guy like me, these fins lack drive. Lots of guys lovem though. It’s all relative. Not light, not as heavy as the CI Turbos.

CI Turbos (fiberglass): Big deep profile, with little rake. Turbo foil and I believe an exaggerated cant. Fast fins, good feel through turns as well. Heavyiest set of fins I tried.

CI 101s (bamboo): Same template as my Turbos, but without the super exagerated foil. They seem to have all the drive and speed of the turbos though. These fins have a special twang and deliver a squirt of energy 2/3rds of the way through every turn. Super lightweight. I can’t recommend these fins enough.

I’m always looking for more fins to try, so if you want to have a surf and swap for a ride on these, drop me an email. Be warned though, they don’t leave my sight. HA.

What do you get when you give parko a 16mm film camera and a open barrel? The smoothest virtual barrels ever:

Update: Ok, so these might not be the smoothest barrels ever, but it definitely provides a view from the barrel you don’t see often and seems to build on the stills shot by Skindog in last month’s Surfing mag.

Thanks JP.