Fools Gold

After a shabby night's sleep, it's good to have something like the Grooverider Remix of the Stone Roses' "Fools Gold"track punching out of the headphones into my brain fog to get the synapses firing.

Then again, you might prefer The Stooges' "Down on the Street" or something from surfer - musos like Neale Purchase Jnr or Andrew Kidman, below.

BIG thanks to the folks who invented the app Shazam. It's helped me discover so much new music. Win. And no more bored shop assistants rolling  their eyes when I inquire what's playing and giving me their "I don't know it's just aCD the manager brought in" response.

Lightness

Life is a wave

"Life is a wave.

Your attitude

is your surfboard.

Stay stoked and

aim for the light."

Katharina Ziesmann - Instagram June 2012

Forgetting Ben

Hi Ben, if you read this post, sorry about forgetting to email those pics of you. Life has been madder than usual lately. I WILL get to them. In the meantime, here's another one. cheers

Low tech joy

Sometimes

all you need

is a

smart phone.

 

Sneaker graff

by legend artist

Keith Haring (RIP)

TGIF (More Shelf)

Top Shelf

One of my 

favourite

rock shelfs.

Snaring the tail

end of a

big swell.

MonoXquad

Tale of Two Winters

Last winter above.

Last weekend, below.

Monochrome Monday (Almost Back)

Still not 100% well, so apologies to the regular visitors who have been greeted with nothing new.
here's a couple of favourite monos from better days.

Phone Apps

Couple of screen shots 

from my 

Instagram collection.

Recycling

Haven't been real well lately.

So am recycling a few old images.

Worth a revisit. I hope.

Too Finless

Don't know

who he is,

but this little grommet

was tearing it up

on his old skool

finless.

Below

finless

bellyboard aRt.

Two Up

Two pics that give new meaning to the old Aussie gambling game called "Two Up".

TGIF

Thank God It's Friday

And thank The Queen for holiday on Monday.

Hayden Winter Classic

Hayden surfboards will be hosting their annual Winter Surf Classic in partnership with the Alexandra Headland Mal Club this weekend on the Sunshine Coast.

Unca Bazza, below, will be on the starting grid. Go Champ!

Photo left is Tim from Noosa's Big Shell with a classic and very collectible Hayden board from the 1960's.

Surf Camp

Every 12 Seconds

It's funny what sticks in your brain decades later. For example, when I was first learning to drive a car, the instructor must have said a thousand instructions, especially "keep over" and "look out for that pedestrian!!!!".

But the only instruction that sticks with me after all this time is "look in the rear view mirror every 12 seconds". Why 12? Why not 10? And who's counting? I'm too busy keeping an eye on the traffic, the speedometer, listening to music, texting. Well no, not texting. Just thought I'd throw that in there.

So in the grand tradition of looking back every 12 seconds, here's a couple of old 35mm Kodachromes from last century, when film was king and when you could camp in the Noosa Woods beside the river (below).

Mates with stoke

Rainy Sunday Dreaming