The internets are full of random things

This is kind of nuts and amazing and weird and perfect

No need to fear the sharks that much I guess. More time to be angry at the SUP folks

Fucking love the idea of 10 things I hate.

So now you know that when seaweeds get stressed, it smells.

A real life never too small episode. I love it.

Weird over boring Ugly over boring

noserides after noserides

Another great one! Drop neoprene!

Self care is important, don’t forget to disconnect and get out of here.

That kind of place to stay

I basically do the same thing using raindrop as a backend for this

It is quite a hard dilemma to me recently about where to put my newsletter

The silhouettes of people came, passed and vanished like they were never there. Only their footprints and welcome greetings a sign that the beach was comparatively busy

You should own your data as much as possible

Always good to remember and focus on what matters. Baby steps

I wanted to find a way to take away the permission I felt I needed from the online world ie. Instagram to create art and express myself without having to fit into one of the prescribed parameters.

If there is a message here then I would say do whatever the fuck you want and try and do it well. I think as a creative who doesn’t want to make stupid videos to post on social media or make things that don’t align with who I am it’s difficult to get recognition and become somewhat of a name in this field.

Trying to analyse moves and stuff… Love those videos. Add the cool music and you get something nice

A French documentary for all the land locked surfers

Loved to hear the little stories behind each song. Or just where it came to Ed

Jazzy music, longboard and super 8

Looking at this road trip for our future adventures in California

DIY and surf, that is the kind of house I do love

A letter to fun freedom

Part historical, part fun surfing

A good chat with Chris Gentile, in French

You’ll spend your whole life trying to solve problems with cleverness when what you really need is wisdom. And you’ll wonder why it never really seems to work.

Amazing critic of modern biking. Should we just slow down?

Almost considering it… Had the Q3 in my hands earlier today and I take back what I said about that big lense

Apprendre à ralentir, se reposer et faire moins

Des doigts de métal dans le ciel

Funny how some brands make a better impression

Love how he explains Latte Art

Japanese surf scene seems so welcoming

What a treat!

creative use of every space in this is crazy And Australian have crazy good cabins

I love the vibe you have in a skate shop. It will never be the same online… Online shopping sucks so much, compared to a good small shop with the right vibe

You can find a community for whatever type of board you ride and whatever kind of surfer you want to be.

Love the art Jeff Canham is doing

I think some brands are doing better. I think they’re understanding that their clients aren’t just 20-year-old super-cute fit girls. There are other women in the world who shop and surf and buy clothes, and we all look different

be less shit be less shit be less shit

Once our Colosseum, Embarcadero is still a pilgrimage site whose poignant beauty rests in a reverie of what once was.

This definitely resonates with me and the few stuff I read about Imsouane recently. Make sure that your tourism money gets to the locals

Tele Novelas but surfing

Tent, triple coffin bag, shameful budget, no plans. This time with a folder full of national curriculum reading books and worksheets too.

Amazing read on how creative makes money. Real people interviews, full of inspiration

Score by score, Raygun’s dancing isn’t actually that bad. Really.

I love this article showing a lot about how easily we judge. And in the end… It was mostly a fun test she did

I do love mono fonts

Road tripping across Baja. Definitely has a feel of old Kerouac and friends

Having less doesn’t mean being less

Let me play it and I will tell you what it is

Always good to see Mike noseriding!

Amazing interviews about how creative folks wear tons of hats and are always on multiple things. Great to hear also that they also need to work for food and so it is not all that glamorous and sometimes a basic day job is needed

There is something about film, it is sharp but it is soft. It has a life in it

Make some zines they said

what if I took a movie like Stand By Me and set it in a place that I know and have it star kids who look and talk and felt like me and my friends,

Patience and knowing your gear. Zen mode like

We need more woman shaper center stage!

Accountability and openness!!

Plywood appartments are the best

They destroyed the village, not the wave

I really hope that Imsouane will be a leading example of how Moroccans could keep the hand on the local spot and move forward. Support local people over gentrification there.

Always carry gummy bears

Fuck yeah, chicken and songs

Documenting people work place, artists and artisans. It is soooo beautiful

Fantastic Acid talking about their craft is quite powerful to listen to. With a cool soundtrack

The yellow submarine and the guide book to how to keep it alive

That band is amazing and good to hear that special performance of the blue album.

Mixing Skateboarding and Ben Harper, this is magical. I wanna see him again and hit the skatepark with him

I would love a trailer like this for days like surf

“Perfection is a direction.” To me, this highlights the importance of not being too precious with individual creations and instead focusing on making improvements along the way.

Great to see the story mostly told by his mom! It is such a powerful video

A really nice success story that breaks some of the classical codes

Espresso and film… I am here for this

There is something about Displacement hulls…

Apprendre le surf et l’eau aux enfants. Chouette écoute! Hate de lire les livres!

Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.5 II

An electoral period is when we have the most power and the biggest voice in politics

All of this with a 8x10 … such dedication to complex street photography

I just watched this surf movie and loved the vibe. The quotes in it are quite beautiful too and just the 16mm film !

All is Impermanent!

I wished I knew this show years ago. Such a great thing to listen to

Tiare is one of those photographers that prefers emotion to perfection. I just love her work!

Being real also means risking to feel really sad. And that is one reason why, so often, we prefer iPads over guitars.

We can just say “no thanks” to technology if it doesn’t make sense to us. New is not inevitable. New doesn’t mean need.

We can say no thanks to AI phone bots but still use ChatGPT to help us understand Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the original. We can be both critical and appreciative of new technology without categorically accepting or rejecting it.

We just stupid but we’ve got soul

Surf, food and Japan… Need nothing else I guess.

Texas has something unique and US houses too. A lot of minimalism just took us to soulless places…

Anything can be done on your own, you just need to watch the right Youtube videos

Collecting books and bins. As long as my toothbrush doesn’t touch the one from my kids,. I should be fine continuing to collect books.

Barbara Bosworth: The Sea

Goofy foot, Imsouane and a few good waves.

Small space and soooo creative. Low how it accomodates a non square place

Hearing people be skeptical is always good. Do not trust and share by default. Inform yourself. It is too easy to fall for the confirmation bias. And even think people agree with you without even reading.

So crazy to see all the little edits made to those analog shots.

Edits are everywhere… And I am still on the side of less of them than more

This is just too beautiful! I love the record collection and all the art everywhere.

Du Beurre Han han han

Colors, then rails, then size, then what ? I forgot but I love that it all starts by how good does it look.

The fat has begun to break down and there’s nothing you can do to make that steam any better.

One quick thing about fat that’s also worth noting is that fat affects flavor release in a drink

generally, milk foams better the further it is from its use by date because it’s the sort of breakdown of these fats that reduce its foam ability. And milk that foams badly or milk that has this issue, you’ll hear it almost fizz in the pitcher afterwards.

No one ever regrets a surf, even in terrible conditions.  Some of the most fun comes when expectations are low and the surf surprises us.

I’d rather use fewer things, create some of my own things, and pay for the rest of the things I decide I need to use.

When something’s free, that just means the cost is hidden.

I am all in for those weird vintage fonts from old gaming devices.

I always admire such minimalist small japanese inspired homes. I feel like this is where I would live without my second half of me that is the messy one.

Self compassion, mindfulness & other topics. Made me smile, made me want to cry. Qui aurait cru que je regarderais un podcast par une ancienne miss France.

Des images de surf, de l’amour de soi, cela marche bien sur moi.

Art is complicated and doing it right is even harder. In our consumerist civilisation, it is complex to do something for the sake of something. But I feel like we should be able to.

Doing instead of having

Such a great mantra. Love the way they talk about raising Billy and opening him on the world.

Testing one made me wanna see more about it.
This little marvel is like a Leica to me… it feels right in my hands.
I ain’t an expert but I feel like one when I use it.

When buddies are making a surf movie, I am all in.
I especially love the boards in that video. Would love to try them.

Gimme a band that sounds right and has great cover songs. I can listen to that for ours.

Be at the border of stupidity

“People are so good at what skateboarding is, I wanna be good at what skateboarding is not "

That part about drag, regular and goofy is so clear once you get it described that way

Funny to listen to Joel chatting about all and nothing

surfing as the journey, not always the destination

If we surf to connect, to attempt to decode nature, to be open to the transfer of energy from the sea to ourselves, to carve ourselves out some personal time then surfing is a form of therapy, of meditation, medicine

This is funny to check. I am always amazed by the progress made in image processing and how a computer can understand an image. Turning that to poetry is probably an amazing idea

That kind of game I could spend hours in trying to get all the elements. It is simple, no crazy UI but a crazy good simple UX. And lord I got the surfer. Time to get them all.

You often wonders when the term goofy comes from in surfing and skateboarding? Search no more. It is right here in front of you.

Sometimes, it is freaking cold but you still cannot avoid the ocean’s call

If I was sure of one thing. It is this. iA writer would do the best notebook ever. If they entered the physical world, it would be an object I would love. They proved me right, once again.

I like you better without the Internet

Do a kick flip tenacious D edition

These sites are hidden from our everyday experiences because they are invisible to our internet navigators. Instead, our defaults are hyper-SEOified links where there is no clear person behind the content. When we encounter the kind of content created for a computer-first internet, alarm bells should sound in our heads.

boring as art

elevating the mundane

I downloaded the apps for five minutes each and then I deleted them one by one. I have done this on a number of occasions. Download, swipe swipe swipe, delete. I am left feeling more alone and less inspired.

“Sometimes Live goes where it need to goes”

“The pleasure of the POW” 360 flip

Detach from the expectations of the internet. Take your time with projects because you owe it to yourself to make something original to you. There is no rush.

To desire to keep up with what is going on is nearly impossible in the world we live in. Whether that be the standards set by social media, tricks being done or the temporary styles that come and go. I advise anyone to develop their own relationship with whatever craft they take on.

“I am not where I want to be but I am not where I was”

“I am not different from you, I just learned how to do some tricks”

In real life, skating is an art form that requires constant sacrifice, physical pain and public embarrassment for the sake of an ephemeral few seconds of pure beauty. You have to fall a thousand times before you succeed. The Tony Hawk games aren’t concerned with that. They recreate the iterative satisfaction of skating — the feeling that, with enough practice, you can do something miraculous — without all the concussions, bloody knees and shattered wrists.

I shoot analog for a lot of reasons, but I always jokingly say the main reason is I can’t print a jpeg in my darkroom. I shoot for the print.

SURF FOR LOVE, NOT FOR BUSINESS

I assume most people don’t binge-read my logs, so I have no pressure to perform or narrow my scope like an entrepreneur would.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

That is what the observer-participant dilemma is. We get to a swimming hole and I’m sitting there like, “Do I want to document this or do I want to have fun and swim?” Sometimes you can’t do both. I can’t just leave my camera out in the dirt somewhere while I’m swimming. It’s an either-or situation sometimes. So that’s what I mean, there were times I just ended up participating and not photographing stuff.

Video has been the currency for skateboarding for so long, teams would build up clips to make a video and that was the main goal. And now, everything is just shared on Instagram immediately. It has ruined the whole framework of how skate videos were made, how a lot of companies made money. But that’s really hard to do now because there’s just so much you can see online. People do save up video parts, but then they drop on the Thrasher site for free and people watch, and it feels like it has about a two-week shelf life. I think that’s why people look back to some of those older videos with nostalgia.

The best things to splurge on are the things you use the most. If you sit on a chair eight hours a day, then a nice chair is probably a good investment.

Ultimately, a thought is just a thought – it’s not reality. And we might do well to extend a healthy skepticism toward ones that show up within, especially those gnarly ones that tell us stories about ourselves that are negative or harmful

once you loosen up your brain by coming up with ten bad ideas, some good ideas may follow.

But here’s another thing: we’re not great at judging if an idea is good or bad. So write all of your ideas down. Go back and read through your bad ideas occasionally. Something might surprise you.

Many aspects of our lives are intentionally slow. We have rejected the traditional path, the daily grind, the rat-race and instead opted to try and make a living doing things we love. We do not strive for material wealth, we strive for time in Nature. We live in a world of beauty and wonder, shaped by forces of unfathomable magnitude and we refuse to let society blind us to that fact.

“Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!” ~ Henry David Thoreau

Les mots de Deleuze…

Amazing pastel colors

Talking to my neighbor about poop felt so much better than being addicted to my phone

Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).

Nice podcast in French with Naje

Restez en colère, les enfants, c’est votre seule chance.

I’m fine right here is the response from the edge of the room, and that contentment is downright subversive.

Portugal and words about community in a beautiful house, yeah!