Curren at Hammonds

I snipped this clip out of the 1995 movie Good ‘N Plenty II.

I surfed this day at Hammonds – it was a big, epic winter day – and was on the beach when Curren showed up. He borrowed a board from a guy I went to high school with (Arrow). Check out the Black Flag sticker on it! He paddled out and caught just two waves. Thankfully, someone was filming!

Tom Curren grew up surfing Hammonds. I did, too. It was amazing to see him surf the spot. We were seriously in awe watching him out there. We had spent countless hours watching him in movies. Seeing him whip a tight cutback in person (at his/our home spot!) was a real highlight of my youth.

In recent surfing news, last weekend I surfed at Rincon, and my girlfriend filmed me on a wave! It’s a very small wave – not much to work with – but I got a few little turns in.

iScab

scabjar My collaborator in pinballmap.com, Scott, and our trusty graphic designer, Drew, recently put out an iOS app, iScab.

Pretty funny idea. You grow scabs, pick them, and place them in your scab jar. Picking scabs is a pretty satisfying activity. But I’m definitely more into the idea of possessing a virtual scab jar than a real one. Plus, I haven’t had a real scab in a while – probably because I don’t skateboard much these days.

Update! HuffPo reviewed it.

My surf videos are all gone

Ack! All of those surf videos that I’ve posted to megavideo.com are gone. megavideo.com is no more. That sucks (well, they kind of sucked, too – half of the videos I’d uploaded were permanently “temporarily unavailable”). I’ll try to figure out another way to host/stream them. I have another one to add, too (Above and Beyond).

New comic about bullies

I have a new comic up today on Tiny Mix Tapes. It’s called Bullies, and you can see it here.

My characters for the last couple years have for the most part been very standard-looking. So lately I’ve been trying to draw characters that are a little more cartoony. I took a look at the characters in this Phantom Truck comic (note: that was one of the very first comics I ever made). The man looks like a matroishka doll, and the woman is comprised of giant hair, legs, and some face. I think over the years I’ve kept up, to a degree, the “giant hair” motif. But not the matroishka body. So for this bullies comic, I again made the bodies look like bowling pins. And I colored their hair in the same way as the old man from my Svelte comic.

Surfing in Cayucos

We used the Thanksgiving time off to take a trip up to Central California. We stayed on the beach; the weather was perfect, and we had a fun time. I picked up a 6’8” single fin in San Luis Obispo. Here’s me on a couple waves at Cayucos Pier (leashless). My girlfriend shot this from the pier. Small waves, but it was still pretty fun.