My wife dragged me up to the LA Art Show this weekend at the Convention Center.
Saw these “Steam Punk” Surfboard wall hanglers there.
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Hi Atom,
Those are pretty friggin ugly. To each his own. Did you ever get a chance to see the shell inlaid Yaters? Beautiful to look at, but kind of a shame because they were not for riding. My wife threatens to drag me up to San Francisco to see stuff. Even bought me tickets for some thing up there for Christmas. It’s alright, though. I’ll suffer through the traffic, crowds and bums because I like hanging out with her and it makes her happy. The ‘people watching’ is always pretty good in SF. Mike
Looks like something out of “waterworld”.
“Did you ever get a chance to see the shell inlaid Yaters?”
I was still working at Channins when Rennie brought the first of those down to get glassed. I remember somebody moved the things into the hotcoat room to seal them and put them on floor racks that where taped sticky side up.
When he flipped the boards over to seal the opposite side, the mother of pearl inlays got pulled off the boards and stayed stuck to the tape. Whoops!!
Randy, who ran the shop, spent some time carefully removing the chips off the tape and gluing them back in place on the boards.
The L A Art Show wasn’t all bad actually.
It ran the whole gamut from schlocky Thomas Kincaid like giclees, to some really interesting and original stuff that blew me away.
Wild paint jobs.
Maybe the way of the future, the guy who bought my factory won an art prize with this wild board he made, fins in wrong places, a channel here, some flyers, just out there art. I have a few ideas of things I want to do this year, here is Tiger's eyes I did a few years ago, I snapped it hanging at Cabarita pub yesterday, the eyes are carved right in, can't really see it that well in this pic, H.
Harris, That is one cool looking board. That is one of the better graphics that I've ever seen. Strictly a wallhanger or was it ever ridden?
Thanks Tblank, it was only ever made as a sculpture, I was going to put lcd lights behind the eyes and a sound of growling when you clapped your hands, got close, had the lights organised and the other wouldn't be too high tech, thought it would be cool for some rich guys private bar, walks in with his mates, claps his hands and the tiger's eyes light up and she growls. I did it about 5 years ago and I have some ideas to do this year, cheers H.
