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Pushing Boundaries

Pushing Boundaries.
Personal boundaries.
Communal boundaries.
Human boundaries.

Peeking into the expansive unknown.
Fresh tracks in milky white virginity.
Self-expression laid bare.
Nuanced, refined, delicate mastery.

Chance-taking, danger and risk.
Tumbles, spazzes and burns.
Launching right past common sense.
Soon you'll encounter the churn.

Tickle illogical rhythms.
Flaunt primordial moons.
Pickle space-age conundrums.
Daunting, meticulous blooms.

Coltrane, Satie and Debussy
Heisenberg, Husserl, Derrida.
Zappa, Medeski and Ponty
None were afraid to break out.

Abstract advanced mathematics.
Elegant, spiritual prose.
Innovation through risk and disorder.
New ground through the knowledge of old.

Godel

Euclid

Duchamp

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Check out grommetsurfstyle.com if you need that last-minute holiday gift for your little nephew. (Lerm's site)

Nice E. I find myself moving away from the boundries these days rather than trying to cross them. Complacency?

It seems we react more strongly to bad news than to good. Something for the whiners to meditate over as we stoked folks continue to enjoy...

Several psychological studies have shown that the performance of a national team in the World Cup can dramatically impact an entire country's mood. It turns out that a country's attitude is not the only thing that is affected. World Cup performance can also alter stock returns. An original study by Diego Garcia and Oyvind Norli from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and Alex Edmans from MIT's Sloan School of Management which looked at 42 countries showed that stock returns are 39 basis points lower than average on the day after the national team loses a World Cup elimination match.

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 10:10 AM

Lots of pics from Saturday that I took here;

Ocean Beach 12-10-2005

Not the best quality but you get the picture.

Posted by: dmc at December 14, 2005 10:15 AM

run dmc ...is that you?

Posted by: mig at December 14, 2005 10:22 AM

e, thought i saw your car closer to my neighborhood this am. i also saw a nice left out there on my way in here..

Posted by: bagel at December 14, 2005 10:33 AM

Thanks for the photos dmc. that was a fun day.

Welcome back e. Um, pickle? G&S had a bizarre board around '69 called The Pickle. It had a skeg (as it was called at the time) box on both sides of the board so you could choose which side you want to be the nose or the tail.

Tough to push surfing boundaries at this point. Just keeping with the old boundaries takes some effort.

This morning...extreeeemely fun on the south side. Don't know if I was in the zone or what but I was getting amazingly long and speedy lefts pretty much non-stop. One very late drop seemed to push the boundaries for me. I was sure I was getting pitched but somehow landed it and zipped down the line.

Question for the crew. sbcglobal is effing up big time so I'm looking for a new ISP. Recommendations?

Posted by: kdalle at December 14, 2005 10:41 AM

I switched from PacBell (SBC) to Comcast a while back. Comcast is more expensive, but it is faster and generally more reliable.

Posted by: steve at December 14, 2005 10:48 AM

Cheers.

This is the pic that did it for me. I like the foam and the ominous shadow on the wave face;

Posted by: dmc at December 14, 2005 10:49 AM

Damn, Sat. looked EPIC out there. Oh well, time to upgrade the wetsuit.

Posted by: MSG at December 14, 2005 10:56 AM

Hey kdalle- I'm guessin' it was you I was talking to / parked by this morning. I had my suspisions with the big bonzer shortboard. Stoked and not so stoked out there on the log. Nice morning a ton of dolphins- saw one catch a sweet ride!

Posted by: art-ifact at December 14, 2005 10:58 AM

Pushing boundries keeps you young!

Posted by: high school teacher at December 14, 2005 11:13 AM

Or kills you!

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 11:14 AM

Thanks for the link dmc. I'm embarrassed to admit that I think the kook flailing on the longboard was me. I had not one second of control on that wave. Not sure what happened, not a proud moment for me. But that was a FUN day! BTW e somethings wierd with the comments box every time I hit the space bar my message disapears (?)

Posted by: Jimmie at December 14, 2005 11:14 AM

e, thanks for posting my site!

yeah. the dolphins were going crazy out there. had one jump out of the water 2 feet in front of me. fun little workable shoulders out there.

Posted by: lerm at December 14, 2005 11:16 AM

weird Jimmie.. anybody else having problems with the comment box?

Posted by: e at December 14, 2005 11:32 AM

Top Jimmie, he's the king.

Posted by: EVH at December 14, 2005 11:36 AM

big glasses are sexy

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 11:39 AM

pigdogging

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 11:40 AM

occy style

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 11:42 AM

Email from a friend regarding the Farallons:

Yesterday I spoke inaccurately about the Farallon Islands Radioactive Waste Dump Site.

The US Geological Survey's Coastal and Marine Geology Group released a big report on the area around the Farallones when I worked at the Survey, but I guess I've been out of the game too long and gotten my facts mixed up. CMG was looking at how material dredged from the Bay Area's harbors and waterways could be disposed of on the Farallon Slope (where the continental shelf ramps downward), and in the process devised a potential method for identifying drums of radioactive waste.


There are about 47,500 55-gallon radioactive waste drums scattered over 350 nautical square miles around the Farallon Islands. The radiation is low-level according to the Navy, but it declines to specifically describe what they contain. One seaman who accompanied the disposal barges from the nuclear laboratories at Hunter's Point admitted to SF Weekly that he was ordered to shoot those barrels that did not sink right away. Below is a map from USGS showing the dump sites and areas that may contain waste in relation to the Bay Area. It is unfortunate that these happen to coincide geographically with some of our local fisheries. The inset photo is of a crab crawling on one of the drums.

When I mentioned a sunken ship in the area, it is believed to be the USS Independence. Remember those photos and films of huge mushroom clouds in the South Pacific? If you look closely, near the base of those cloud are sometimes dozens of ships. The Navy anchored them nearby to see how they'd be affected by the explosion. The Independence was one of those ships, located about 560 yards from the Bikini Atoll atomic test explosion (image from US Navy below). It was mangled by the blast and dosed with intense radiation and was later used in radiation experiments at Hunters Point before the Navy decided to get rid of it. It is supposed to have been packed with radioactive materials before being scuttled. The Navy says it sunk the ship 200 miles from the coast, but surveys show no shipwreck at the avowed location and a large shipwreck near the Farallones.

Posted by: e at December 14, 2005 11:49 AM

Beautiful article about a whale rescue off The Farallon Islands:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/14/MNGNKG7Q0V1.DTL

Good post today e. Taking the chances that matter, exploring the void, that calling, it makes us. As Rainer Maria Rilke said:

"Ah, the ball that we dared,
that we threw into infinite space,
doesn't it fill our hands differently
upon its return
heavier by the weight of where it has been"


Posted by: Dem at December 14, 2005 11:51 AM

artifact-That was (is) me. Good to meet you. Hope you got a few. FYI, it's a Twinzer. Kaiser, Doof and friend #1 are the Bonzer guys around here. Why not stoked?

Thanks for the Comcast recommendattion steve. I checked them alread and it's a bit spendy for how much I'm online at home.

Posted by: kdalle at December 14, 2005 11:52 AM

It's crazy that I simultaneously post a nice Farallones story just below a absolutely terrible one. God, that waste story is awful.

Posted by: Dem at December 14, 2005 11:55 AM

Skoooooooooooooot!

Posted by: MxRxHx at December 14, 2005 12:02 PM

e - The problem w/the comment box was on my end. It was resolved on reboot - gotta remember to always try that first!

Posted by: Jimmie at December 14, 2005 12:09 PM

wasnt Godel a Nazi?

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 12:09 PM

Nice e "Fresh tracks in milky white virginity"
Bring it! Where's our snow!

Right on Kdalle- yeah where I was it started getting hollower and just didn't get as many waves as I expected to when riding the log, but still caught some fun ones. Saw a buddy out there who said some guy on a big board was ripping every left non-stop, nice!

4 fin twinzers, bonzers, and fishes are all sort of the same to me, obviously I still don't know the difference- tail/ nose right?

Posted by: artifact at December 14, 2005 12:25 PM

Quick Hello to everyone out there in E-Land. Haven't posted in ages, but been thinkin' about you. Hard not to on days like today...

Posted by: robme at December 14, 2005 12:43 PM

Um, yeah, that is Slater with Gisele. That fucker!

Posted by: Hb at December 14, 2005 01:03 PM

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 01:06 PM

Posted by: Blublu Art at December 14, 2005 01:13 PM

Brilliant!

Posted by: Mexi at December 14, 2005 01:15 PM


I don't know if this is the place but...
I have really wanted to redo my photography site. I want it to be easier to navigate and have more graphics. I also want to create a gallery of my published work. I don't have much cash but I can pay some, give prints or shoot pics of your surfing. let me know if your interested. I don't expect you do all the work but show me how to do it and maybe get me started, my site is totally basic now and all from html code..
contact me through..
http//:www.paulferraris.com

Posted by: Mexi at December 14, 2005 01:27 PM

mexi you should check out slideshowpro.net, it's an easy flash app for displaying and organizing photos. if you've got a mac there's a plugin for iphoto that makes it super easy. i could probably help you set it up after the holidays.

Posted by: bbr at December 14, 2005 01:38 PM

That's be sweet BBR, I know I can do it myself, I just need a little help getting started and little direction and your work is awesome.

Posted by: Mexi at December 14, 2005 01:51 PM

No, Gödel was not a Nazi. He was not very political, but left Austria for the U.S. during WWII so as not to get drafted. He spent the rest of his life here.

Posted by: kloo at December 14, 2005 02:02 PM

Posted by: It's afternoon! at December 14, 2005 02:04 PM

I think this is a great photo site
http://www.santacruzlineup.com/

This one is sweet too
http://www.jimmychinphotography.com

Maybe next year I'll join the non-pbase ranks

Posted by: artifact at December 14, 2005 02:11 PM

Artifact that last photo is sick!

The girl above is so hot its hard to look at her.

Posted by: tucker at December 14, 2005 02:16 PM

'Don't Let it end this way. Tell them I said something.'

- last words of Poncho Villa (1877-1923)

Posted by: Dennis at December 14, 2005 02:27 PM

look at the photos on that www.jimmychinphotography.com website while listening to the beastie boys in sound from way out, highly recommended.
on mexi's coattails, can anyone recommend someplace to take cheap programming classes. i'm starting to think i might be interested in applying to SIMS one of these years, but don't know the high end high tech stuff. figured you boys might have some recs. thanks.

Posted by: steamwand at December 14, 2005 02:28 PM

Steamwand - I think junior colleges are great for that stuff. Best prices 4 sure. I've taking several computer courses at CCSF. Forgot most of it though.

Posted by: Dennis at December 14, 2005 02:47 PM

artifact that shot is really sick... that dudes got style (and speed) to burn

Posted by: bbr at December 14, 2005 03:05 PM

Yeah. You photogs are coming up with the goods. That's a great shot artifact.

Posted by: Dennis at December 14, 2005 03:19 PM

that girl. wow.

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 03:21 PM

http://www.oxfamunwrapped.com

Posted by: j at December 14, 2005 03:46 PM

In artifact's shot the board looks a little shorter than most around here ride in double overhead ob

Posted by: eric at December 14, 2005 03:52 PM

Well, thats what we try to do. Thats what we're looking for. Billy's really into and is really great at breaking a lot of different rhythms - dance rhythms from all over the world - down to their essense, you know. He's actually working on a book that shows once again all the cross relations between African, Carribean, New Orleans, R & B. How there's certain claves (regionally indigenous rhythms) that are parallel throughout all this music and you can see how they parallel and then you can work with some of these basic clave structures and maybe alter them a little but keeping the basic essense of them. And I guess thats what we try to do to keep it grooving, and then we work out stuff on top of it...find colors...and thats what we're about: trying to find creative ways to deal with groove music...with grooves and not grooves ..but just trying to find ways of creative ways to deal with that stuff.

Posted by: John Medeski at December 14, 2005 04:06 PM

Yay for really short boards!! Looks like not much rocker too.

Amazing, amazing shot Artifact. Holy shit.

Posted by: Hb at December 14, 2005 04:09 PM

fun out there right now.

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 04:13 PM

is that christy turlington?

i would drink her bathwater.

Posted by: nona at December 14, 2005 04:15 PM

Thanks guys- I zoomed in and it looked like a CI black beauty 6'6"??? The guy was killing it- like 3 epic waves in 10-15 minutes.

http://www.pbase.com/artifact/image/53424684
This is like the middle 3rd of that same wave

Jimmie I have a bunch of shots of a longboarder too, maybe around 12-1230 before I headed out.

Posted by: artifact at December 14, 2005 04:19 PM

Artifact, that is SWEET! That is a Black Beauty that dude is riding. Sweet wave, sweet ride, nice shot.

That girl is nice. Anything I post won't compare.

Posted by: Kaiser at December 14, 2005 04:35 PM

There's a story on surfermag about a guy who is taking off on a surfari sailing expedition across the Pacific with three other people. He's only got one year of sailing experience, so I'm not sure how far they'll get.

http://surfermag.com/features/onlineexclusives/drudecruise/

Posted by: steve at December 14, 2005 04:39 PM

I dont know Lerm, $22 for a toddler t-shirt? sounds kinda "high end" to me...

Posted by: Kmart at December 14, 2005 04:47 PM

i agree its a great photo. maybe its the angle but the board looks like a freaking skim board. compare to the board fanning is riding in the photo below it.

Posted by: eric at December 14, 2005 05:33 PM

Art, that was my favorite too, but the whole second half of your folder is insane.

Posted by: Mexi at December 14, 2005 05:40 PM

all those artifact photos are photoshoped - OB doesn't look like that. He just scaled the wave up behind the guy.

supply and demand KMart. plenty people out there with disposable income - glad to hear some of it coming to some surfers.

Posted by: obro at December 14, 2005 05:43 PM

i stand by my award giving to artifact. sweet shot of the guy in the black beauty im going to now look at the rest on pbase. while were at it anyone have a black beauty they want to sell? i want to surf like that guy. (seriously though if you have one for less than off the rack prices thats not totally ruined id be stoked)

king kong: ill give that shit a 10

Posted by: bagel at December 14, 2005 05:44 PM

Obro - it's all about good karma.

Posted by: Dennis at December 14, 2005 05:48 PM


sweet. same guy i bet..

Posted by: bagel at December 14, 2005 05:52 PM

wo try da link

http://www.pbase.com/artifact/image/53424610

Posted by: bagel at December 14, 2005 05:53 PM

what did I say that was so bad? I like the photos and I like the shirts. Good job both of you - maybe I've been misunderstood.

Now I'm afraid I'll step off the curb and get hit by a bus.

I'm all about good karma. Thanks for all the posts everybody - they get me through my day here at the job from hell.

On another vein - I like the Fall/Winter but the short days suck. No surf during the week.

Posted by: obro at December 14, 2005 06:01 PM

would you rather sleep with the girl or surf last Sat, on the board of your choice with as many or as few of your friends/randoms as desired (you could include her but you just couldn't sleep with her).

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 06:30 PM

would she surf naked?

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 06:41 PM

I would choose SURF on a magic board. The girl? Well, yeah, she is hot, but I think I'd remember the surf more than I'd remember her. So many ladies in my life, you see. ha ha.

Posted by: egg-non at December 14, 2005 06:59 PM

I'd bag the girl last weekend and wait for this Sat!

Posted by: obro at December 14, 2005 07:06 PM

I would surf all day then do her at nite. Is that allowed??

Posted by: sd rider at December 14, 2005 07:09 PM

yeah

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 07:25 PM

no

Posted by: at December 14, 2005 07:59 PM

I'd nail her, and then i'd go surf, then i'd come home and nail her again. OB is good enough days of the year that i'd skip a good day of surf to plow her field.

Posted by: nona at December 14, 2005 11:07 PM

Once it turns clear I need no more beer!

Posted by: I think I forget to remember, I think... at December 14, 2005 11:29 PM

Grommetsurfstyle mission statement:

To serve and to pass on a tradition. The sport of surfing is evolving from an alternative activity into a noticeable trend in modern days. Those who have led us to such an exciting phenomenon are passing on their skill and love for selling out the sport. Grommet, a newly formed clothing line was simply designed to hand down the laid back, casual style to the next generation of sheep. Once a tool, always a tool. It is not only a sport, but a mentality, a lifestyle, and a persistent passion; those of us who embraced it late in life know best, and we also know those are the values we wish to exploit.

Nice Lerm! I predict we'll be seeing grommet clothing all over the Marina district beaches and Seadrift in no time.


Posted by: keepin' it surreal at December 15, 2005 10:23 AM
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