The Interlift

Back in '79 (until maybe '83? and before the internet), NY and SF had these hydraulic Interlift access points around town. You'd go up there with a floppy, transfer your LMail, then go back to your Wang Office workstation or whatever you had at the office. I had a summer job checking the floppies before they were walked over to the Interlift ... making sure everything was properly formatted, etc ... The big thing was sending an LMail and having it show up on someone's Telex 45 minutes later. I saw this rusting hulk at a tech flea market last weekend.

Coming Soon: Mid-Simmons Board ...

Hot on the heels of my 11'6" wave eater, is this 8'10" mid-length Simmons longboard thing. A little more fussing, art, then glass (with glass-on keels). Like my last two boards, the lam will be epoxy (C3D), the hot & gloss will be Resin-X (also C3D). The foam is XPS, built from a recylced source (http://www.conigliaro.com/). The stringer is plywood, selected from a dumpster in Cambridge.

For those who haven't tried Resin-X (and that's almost all of you), it's worth experience. For the artist, garage or low volume builder, it is clean and easy to work with. Most of the learning curve is in deciding how much to thin out a particular layer.

For those who have been kind enough to ask, this one is also not for sale.

New giant surfboard sucking up all the waves around Boston ...

11'6" x 25" x 3.75"

Single fin

EPS foam from a re-used source

Epoxy Lam, Resin-X hot & gloss

2 x 6oz, s-glass, top & bottom, nose and tail caps

It started out as a Frye-style cross-country board. It ended up a lot like the SurfTech Munoz I used to own (but without that Surftech rattle). I've surfed it once. It took off early, didn't sink and turned with surprising ease.

The composition is heavily influenced by Japanese stories and art about various kinds of Majin, especially ones imprisoned in mountain faces. On the first afternoon out, my friend John took a few pictures. More pictures coming soon ...

Surf Report: Dissapointing short period windswell, onshore everywhere the swell is showing. Hopefully some NW for tomorrow AM. I need to get this one back in the water.

Minimalist Fighting Style

"... with practice and stealth, the opponent is quickly disarmed and rendered harmless. This two-step, minimalist, approach requires only a cowardly choking attack from the rear (Step 1), followed by a firm poke to the sole of the right foot (Step 2). Practitioners be warned, this technique will fail if either step is omitted or the order of steps reversed. Similarly, poking the wrong foot in the second step (Step 2) will provide unexpected results. This is also true of jabbing or pointing (see Chapter 3). The advanced student, with a vigorous application of the first step (Step 1), may forgo the second step (Step 2)."

From "New American Guide to Wu-Shu Style," Raymond J. Candle, Xanadu Press, 1979.

Three of my surfboards in the BHCC gallery this month ...

REUSED REPURPOSED REINVENTED

Works in various media that address this theme are assembled in this exhibit by:

Jessica Burko Bobby Busnack Ian Churchill Rebecca Davidson Catherine Evans Virginia Fitzgerald Melissa Hanes Mark Hartshorn Anne Kirchheimer Peter Madden Charles Mathis Veronica Morgan Marianne Ramos Ken Reker A.E. Ryan David Sholl Ed Tekeian Ann Torke Martin Ulman Michael Ulman Molly Van Nice

An exhibit that explores the art of recyclingSeptember 29 through November 8, 2008

Artists’ Reception: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Gallery Talk: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 1:00 – 2:30pm250

New Rutherford Avenue • Boston, Massachusetts617-228-2093 • www.bhcc.mass.eduGallery

Hours: M/W/F: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., T/Th: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sa: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., S: closed

The Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery is free and open to the public.

We are located at the Community College stop on the MBTA Orange Line.