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oh tommy

tommy lives in oceanside. well he's from ventura but he's been living in oceanside. i remember going surfing when i was a kid and tommy and adam virs would paddle out being all loud and crazy and i'd paddle up the beach. well last night we all drank beer at a bar. lots of us. we got a ride home and tommy had nowhere to go so he stayed at my house and we drank a little more and i went to bed and tommy drank some more and went down stairs and got to work. in some sort of a blacked out state he proceeded to decorate every surfboard in my house beautifully with a can of black spray paint. numbers; letters; pentograms; skulls; mythical indian symbols; words of wisdom such as: 'no good board' and 'ur mom.' tommy felt really bad this morning when he woke up and saw the boards and then saw that he was the only one with paint on his shirt. of course your initial reaction is to be upset about this but it's not that upsetting. shit happens. a funny sunday morning.

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5 pictures from 5 decidedly dull days

Andrew Doheny; Orange County breakers

AFewSlays with DROID from Victor Pakpour on Vimeo.

MINI (in green)

currently the only marine layer contributer, i think it's time for a proper introduction. mini's name is jason, but i don't know anyone that calls him that. maybe his parents, but i'm not sure. filmer and director of the cult classic 'Seasick' and groundbreaking 'Damage Inc.' he's been filming the waters of california since i was a kid. i remember going surfing and seeing him filming the malloys and tim curran when i was like 14 years old. I thought they were rad. i wanted to put stickers on my board and do airs. then when i did that he started filming me. now he works for marine layer making web videos. mini boogieboards. in fact he used to be a semi-pro. when he did a boogieboard contest last october he was super nervous. he was eggy for like a week. then he went out and won the thing and i was there with a handycam to capture it.

west indies pt. 1. the races

briefly joining the alaia craze

this was 2 years ago while filming with Thomas Campbell for The Present. Small day and he was filming some guys on alaias. extra boards were laying around so i joined. it's a very different sensation from any other surfboard i've ridden. i've yet to ride one again. well, i tried to at the Rincon Classic this year but devil wind and several beers inhibited my riding capabilities.

an afternoon with adam

never thought i'd see this again so soon

but here we go. the tropics for the holidays. yaaaaaah. see ya next year. mini keep em updated.

Sun Ra and the Arkestra