Had another warm sunny surf session at Canoes today. Since I wrecked my Superfish the day before I had to surf on my back-up board. The board is awesome, however, it’s meant for someone the size of Emily. I’ve never really felt stable on this board which is why I bought the Superfish. On the North Shore you can get a board repaired in 24 hours, but on the South Shore it was going to take 5 days to a week to fix it. So, I went out on my back-up board.

I didn’t catch any waves all day, but I got in a lot of paddling practice. The outside break is a long paddle from the beach and I did that several times. Definitely getting stronger every day.

The big event of the day was that I bought a new board. …

Surfed Canoes again today with Emily and had another awesome session. Today was the first time we surfed two sessions in one day. The waves were bigger and more consistent which made catching rides much easier. Caught several waves in the first session and then chilled out and re-fueled on the beach which was bonus. Also, saw Santa Claus surfing with his big white beard and santa hat. Turns out santa’s a pretty good surfer.

Today I had an awesome surf session with Emily on Oahu’s South Shore. It was much less crowded, and the waves were a bit bigger. While they were not much bigger the extra size and consistency made all the difference. I also used my 8.0 Superfish which seemed much more stable than my 9.1 performance longboard. The 9.1 is more narrow and thinner than the Superfish. The extra stability really helped on the small waves.

As far as the surfing goes – I caught 5 waves total with one being a really long one. This was much better than an average day in Linda Mar where if I catch 1 or 2 waves I consider it a good day. This day really put the stoke smile back on my face, and 5 hours later I’m still smiling.

Going to try for 2 …

Had a great first day surfing in Oahu with Emily today. The break was jammed packed with beginners, and the swell was only a little over a foot in height, but the water was warm! This was the first time I haven’t surfed with a wetsuit in months, and it gave me a great cense of freedom.

We finally got to see our first NorCal winter swell this past weekend. The buoy readings were going crazy, rising from 14.4′ at 20 seconds at 8pm to 27.6′ at 16.7 seconds by midnight. We couldn’t surf waves of this size so we went to Linda Mar to photograph the largest waves Emily and I had ever seen. Because the storm was so crazy there was no experienced surfers in the water on a sunny weekend day. A very strange feeling at Linda Mar. Glad we got to see it.

In my opinion the web open font format could be one of the biggest additions to web design in many years. Imagine being able to design for the web with hundreds of new fonts. Mozilla and several type foundries are already onboard. For now we’ll just have to wait and see how many other browsers adopt this wonderful new standard.
Efforts to bring advanced typography to the Web have reached an important milestone. Type designers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, who had been working to developing the .webfont format, combined forces with Mozilla’s Jonathan Kew, who had been working independently on a similar format. The result of the collaboration is called Web Open Font Format (WOFF), and it has the backing of a wide array of type designers and type foundries. Mozilla will also include support for it in …

This is one of the best creative quotes I’ve ever read, and directly relates to my own creative process.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photos, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery‚ celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: It’s not where you take things from it’s where you take them to. – Jim Jarmusch

If you love great design do yourself a favor and visit the Luxirare website.
“Luxirare is a weekly webzine dedicated to clothing and cuisine. At Luxirare, the typical notion of a seasonal fashion show or seasonal does not exist. Styles and recipes are presented as individual pieces that do not follow a strict theme but rather a flow of ideas. The Luxirare principle is to use the unique mobility of the internet to develop an enticing, unorthodox presentation”.

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A post by Emily Chang.
“I’ve heard about QR codes for years and Googled for them long ago before they were readily available for consumers, but for some reason tonight, they popped into my mind again and I decided to look them up. I was excited to see that you can make your own QR code easily online. In simple terms, a QR code is a graphic 2D barcode that stores information, such as addresses, URLs, business card info, or anything else.”

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Maybe this post should be titled “Surviving Linda Mar” as we had a rough day out on the break. The day started off awesome with sunny weather and the start of a nice WNW/NW swell mix with a swell period of 13.5 sec. Lots of surfers were showing up for the predicted afternoon swell so it was starting to get fairly crowded by the time we hit the water.