MUSICAL INTERMISSION
DAFT PUNK GET LUCKY Ft PHARRELL WILLIAMS (Live Performance )
Happy Summer feeling song, perfect for this Sunny Friday in London! Pharrell is feeling it too!
Farewell Baroness Thatcher
Baroness Thatcher in 1974 by Terry O’Neill
October 13 1925 – 8 April 2013
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” 1979, the year she became prime minister.
SURFING ON ART
Into the Waves, found via Pinterest.
Border Lines in Collaboration with Stephen Bowers
Trio Back
Matthew McConaughey’s Airstream via Architectual Digest Photo by Jim McHugh
Paulownia Planing Hull in Collaboration with Gerry Wedd
Paulownia Planing Hull Detail in Collaboration with Gerry Wedd
California Surf Mobile via Pinterest
Paisley in Collaboration with Quentin Gore
Paisley Detail in Collaboration with Quentin Gore
1969, LeRoy Grannis surfing Hermosa Beach . Photograph © LeRoy Grannis. All rights reserved. via The Selvedge Yard
Swastika
Floral Fish, One True Religion & Gun
Vintage Surf Shop Via Tumblr
Burnt Fish
Burnt Fish Detail
Paddle back to your boat and spot the little shark, sadly no credit. Found on Pinterest via Roxy Europe.
Finless Double Ender
Finless Double Ender Detail
1966 Iconic Documentary Surfing film by Bruce Brown
Smoker
Antipodean Willow Mini Simmons in Collaboration with Stephen Bowers
Magic Sunset Ride, makes me think of Dreamland.
“Out of The Water, I am Nothing” Duke Kahanamoku
One day I was walking on the street and I saw poster with the most vibrant colours with silhouettes of men carrying surf boards and written across were the words “The Endless Summer “. I have such a passion when it comes to anything to do with the water, beach or sun that I got the poster to put on my bedroom wall at school and then rented the film. I was mesmerised and that was how my love for surfing began. The very funny thing is I do not know how to surf ( I did a little windsurfing) but that does not matter to me, I love the culture of it, the life, being in tune with the ocean riding those waves. It is so beautiful to watch, my favourite place to go and take it all in used to be a spectacular beach in Bali called Dreamland, as it was perfectly named by the surfers. Sadly this magnificent beach was destroyed by the Indonesian Government but that is another story.
Back to present day I stumbled across the most beautiful image of a surf board. I was not sure if it was a board or a piece of art, but had to find out who made this beauty.
Walker Surfboards designed and handmade by Artist Peter Walker in Adelaide Australia. He began his impressive career at The Tasmanian School of Art and worked in his own studio in Tasmania for 14 years . Then moved to Adelaide to head the Furniture Design Studio at the JamFactory Craft & Design Centre. In between and after he headed so many departments that I cant keep track, including 10 years as Associate Professor of Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA. The list is endless, obviously a very talented man. Combining his other real passion of surfing with his artistic talents he produced this beautiful line of unique surfboards and collaborating on some with renowned artists Stephen Bowers,Quentin Gore and Gerry Wedd.
I love them, one day I will get one , need to find a place to put it maybe its time to move to the beach or walk around London with one, now that would be a funny sight.
I have included some links to articles about Peter and there is also more technical information, board designs & how to order on the site. You must buy one now!
All Walker Boards Photographs by Grant Hancock, courtesy of Peter Walker,
Other images sadly were on the internet without credit.
Further Reading ,
