walter blair tom

Friday, August 3, 2012

Surfdome Lifestyle Interview

Check out this interview of me by Tom O'Toole on Surfdome's Lifestyle blog. Dave Klein get's the photo credits.
Thanks!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

My good friend, fellow surf instructor and general tradesman in all things gnar has a new website up for his recycled, reused, repurposed woodworkings. Desks, tables and wood crafts that look amazing!
Check out his stuff here:

Urb's Woodshop

Friday, June 8, 2012

Surf, Sex, and Romance: a Transnational Community

The Inertia has just published another article I wrote...check it out here.

And don't forget about the art show tomorrow nite!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Cardinal Directions Art Show

Just hung a new show at the Phantom IV gallery in Windsor. Come check it out, it will be up for the whole month of June and the reception is this coming Saturday June 9th, 5-8pm!!!

Should be a good time with some other stellar artists.

Phantom IV Gallery 9077 Windsor Rd Windsor Town Green, CA 95492

Surf Totems at 2 Mile Surf Shop

A while back chatting with my friend Molly and Drew, the owner of 2 Mile Surf shop in Bolinas and Sonoma Coast Surf shop in Petaluma, the whole totem idea manifested. Molly had been really stoked on my pacific northwest inspired art on my skateplanes, she started encouraging me to do some totems, and then Drew and I discussed it, eventually...after quite a bit of hemming and hawing, this thing got started and finished in about a week or so.
So here are some photos to check out the process.

spreading wings

day two

Drew saying a surf prayer

sea squirrel and crystal

The two totems stand tall, pray for surf.

Keep your eye's open for more surf totems coming soon...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Skateplanes to San Diego and Japan with Waves Forever

These hot little babies are off to Yuichi at Waves Forever, you can read about it on his blog...if you read Japanese.

A good friend of mine, Molly over at Deeper Visions, and I were talking and she happened to mention some possible opportunities to sell my skateplanes in other stores. She was kind of to get a dialogue going between a friend of hers, Yuichi at the online surf store, Waves Forever.

Now skateplanes can be ordered on my website and at Yuichi's at Waves Forever, based out of San Diego. His online shop caters largely to shipping surf goods to Japan. Check him out, he's got a sweet blog and store, with cool merch!

Friday, April 6, 2012

Xtracycle Customs...

I met Cemil Hope a while back while I was working in Petaluma. We hit it off pretty quick, talking about building stuff and the general wackiness that creative types spout. Not really sure how everything happened, but we were checking out some of the wood surfboards by Danny Hess, and looked at some of my artwork, and some of Cemil's handiwork, carpentry and bikes, and things started rolling from there. I had coffee with Cemil and his wife Jen shortly after, and it seems like every time we get together, ideas just foment like the frothy espresso drinks that emanate from the sweet little coffee house near our mutual works, ACRE coffee.

So Cemil has been heading up the Customs department of Xtracycle, and man, he's been coming up with some pretty amazing stuff. I can't talk about too much of it, don't want to let the cat out of the bag, but I would keep my eyes on him. Anyway, when I found out he was working with Xtracycle I immediately thought about a bunch of my homies that rocked those bikes all the way from Alaska to Chile, check out their journey here at Riding the Spine. Cemil makes the sweet running boards, snapdecks and footsies for Xtracycle. We started spitballing ideas about art on these sweet little customizable components...and things have been stirring.

You can check out Cemil's work on the Xtracycle site and also keep your eyes peeled at the Sea Otter Classic where two of the prototype custom bikes built by Cemil will be sporting some sweet wooden accessories and artwork brought to you by yours truly.