6'1" for Heady Bud finished

  

6'1" for Heady Bud

round tail hull shaped...

4'11" fish

finished 4'11" fish with wood glass on fins.  shaped from half a long board blank.  very flat rocker round bottom to v out the tail.  Also, bottom has inlaid Balinese batik fabric...  got a little crazy doodleing with paint pens, too.

some late photos

  

6'0" hull

the best board I ever shaped: 6'8" hull

"Some believers accuse skeptics of having nothing left but a dull, cold scientific world.  I am left with only art, music, literature, theater, the magnificence of nature, mathematics, the human spirit, sex, the cosmos, friendship, history, science, imagination, dreams, oceans, mountains, love and the wonder of birth.  That'll do me."

- Lynne Kelly

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring"

- Carl Sagan

think about it

"The concept of 'God' invented as a counter-concept of life -- everything harmful, poisonous, slanderous, the whole hostility unto death against life synthesized in this concept in a gruesome unity! The concept of the 'beyond,' the 'true world' invented in order to devaluate the only world there is -- in order to retain no goal, no reason, no task for our earthly reality! The concept of the 'soul,' the 'spirit,' finally even 'immortal soul,' invented in order to despise the body, to make it sick - 'holy'; to oppose with a ghastly levity everything that deserves to be taken seriously in life, the questions of nourishment, abode, spiritual diet, treatment of the sick, cleanliness, and weather! In place of health, the 'salvation of the soul' -- that is, a folie circulaire [manic-depressive insanity] between penitential convulsions and hysteria about redemption! The concept of 'sin' invented along with the torture instrument that belongs with it, the concept of 'free will,' in order to confuse the instincts, to make mistrust of the instincts second nature!"

Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

completed egg!

shots from the water

photographs taken with Nikonos V camera

After shooting the roll which the following shots came from, I opened up the back of the camera before rewinding the film.  Although I lost the last few shots or so, the other images ended up getting a really cool effect.