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LONGLIFE EXHIBITION

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“GOING, GOING…” -carve

Ten leading artists, designer and musicians have joined forces to put on an exhibition of surfboard art to raise money for SAS.
They ‘ve each painted a full-size longboard, and the resulting artworks will go on show around the country in an exhibition called ‘longlife’, in collaboration with Oxbow UK.
The ten contributors include contemporary artist Damien Hirst, cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (who created Tank Girl and Gorillaz), graffitti artist Banksy, big-wave legend Laird Hamilton, comedian and actor Paul Kaye (aka Dennis Pennis), rock bands A and The Aphex Twin, and graphic designer David Carson (who helped create Raygun and Beach Culture, and revamped Surfer Magazine in the early ’90s).
At the end of the tour the boards will be auctioned, with all the proceeds going to the SAS campaign for clean seas. Some of the artworks are expected to fetch phenomenal prices; a painting by Damien Hirst on canvas, similar to board design he’s contributed, recently fetched £84,000.
The board were shaped by Chops Lascelles at the Laminations factoly in Cornwall and they’re all fully functional mals…although their eventual owners are unlikely to be jetting off to Hawaii with them.
The launch party of the exhibition was held at the Spitz Gallery in London in April, and the tour will visit six other galleries before winding up the closing party in Newquay in August. -SB
 
LONGLIFE EXHIBITION SHOWS
1-12 May   Spitz Gallery, London Spitalfields Market,109 Commercial Street, London
15-22 May   The Department Store Gallery, Manchester, 61 Thomas Street, Manchester
27-30 may   The Workstation, Sheffield, Paternoster Rows, Sheffields
4-12 June   Roadmender Gallery, Northampton, 1 Lady’s Lane, Northampton
18-25 June   Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street, Plymouth
11-15 July   BAG Gallery, Brighton, 108a Dyke Road, Seven Dials Junction, Brighton
26 July-2 Aug   Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 45 Preston Street, Exeter
16 Aug   Closing party, Newquay The Koola Bar, Beach Road, Newquay
 
* to bid on David’s Surf Board go to: http://www.oxbow-longlife.com/ AUCTION section


BIG magazine: review from TRANSWORLD SURF

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BIG magazine, SURF: review from TRANSWORLD SURF

Big Surf
Big magazine has a pretty unique formula. Each issue is made in a different country utilizing a different set of contributors. This month, they’ve come to the shores of the U.S. and hired ex-Surfing magazine Editor In Chief Jamie Brisick and art-direction guru David Carson to do an issue titled simply “Surf.”
Slightly oversized and printed on paper stock that would make most book publishers green with envy, the surf issue of Big gives its readers a kind of grassrootsy view of surfing through the eyes of such contributors as Drew Kampion, Nick Carroll, Derek Hynd, and C.R. Stecyk. With an eclectic mix-ture of articles that cover territory as diverse as interviews with Malia Jones and Steve Pezman; photos from SeaGaia Ocean Dome’s wave pool in Miyazaki, Japan; and collages of photos and paintings; this issue of Big is a must-have for collectors of surf history.
 
Good newsstands should carry it, but if you’re having trouble locating a copy, you can get more into at bigmagazine.com –Joel Patterson


TYPE EXPERIMENT – TALKING TYPE FROM MUSIC VIDEO,

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TYPE EXPERIMENT – TALKING TYPE FROM MUSIC VIDEO, AND “STOPPING IT”, INTERESTING RESULTS WHEN STOPPING, AND ‘PRINTING’ TYPE THAT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE STOPPED OR PRINTED