Le Blorr at Ship in the Woods

 Pre party beers

Fully anchored the Ship in the Woods was the place to be on this Saturday night.

Artwork was featured by several artists including: El Gran Tocayo, Brandon Lomax, Colin Whitebread and Dave Persue. All of the pieces were mind blowing, here are just a few.

a glimpse from above

 and below

Time to take a look inside...

 trippy no doubt

Note to self: Don't let life pass you by with your phone in your face.

 Persue.

The abominable snowman was in the house making sure nobody messed with the art. El Gran Tocayo featured above the fireplace and far left corner.

 Its a nice setup, but the party is where the music is at...

 Le Blorr took the stage and stole the show via musical shreddage

 shortly after this "One more song! One more song!" rang out very loudly

Go check out the Ship in the Woods, its magical.

Rally Rules

(this is not my photo, but when ... i already prefer dos equis)

GO SEND IT!

The Open + Trestles

We survived! The US Open Of Surfing is finally over after 9 long days of impressive surfing. Making it through the weekend was a battle of all sorts, from finding places to sleep to winning heats with 11 time world championships in them... no matter what the latter is always difficult. It all figured itself out in the end of course. Julian Wilson is $100,000 dollars richer, I've got a few photos, a sore neck and a new swell just arrived (for orange county anyways).

With all the sponsors and people in town for the event the battles continued on into the night by way of partying. Since there was a party too good to miss each night you had no choice but to keep fighting. By fighting I mean drink more Red Bull, possibly some Jack Daniels, don't go to sleep till you find some nice floor space and do it all over again the next day. All this who-ha aside, I think the highlight of the evenings events for me was getting to meet Eric Koston, a living skate legend whose shoes I used to rock as a kid growing up and learning how to skate.

 The women's champion Lakey Peterson stoked to come out on top.

 The champ Julian Wilson stoked to make it all the way through to the bitter SWEET end.

 After the event and before the final night of partying I made a brief escape down to Trestles. I decided to switch things up a bit; I brought it down from 500mm to 17mm and made my way into the water for glass off at sunset highlighted by some aerial events.

Until next time... keep sending it!

Retouching party!

Once the fun part (shooting) is over its painstakingly followed by something like the second half of this video. Best done with loud dub step and lots of red bull in the late hours of the night.

Mark Matthews pushing the limits

photo by: Russel Ord

Here's Mark sending it just moments before he had one of the worst wipeouts of the year.  This is the best shot I've seen of this wave yet. Read the whole story HERE Check out the video highlights here too:

El Dorado blows its lid!

The Short Eyes

 The Sanders brothers

The Mattson Two

 Ray Barbee might play better than he skates. Is that even possible?

 Those Feeling Hands

Last Tuesday night the El Dorado got taken over by some of San Diego's best musicians, The Short Eyes and The Mattson Two featuring Ray Barbee. Although the two bands differ in music genres the two complimented each other due to their surf influences and classic styles. Keep your ear to the ground and I'm sure you'll be hearing more from these two amazing bands soon. Stay up to date with their shows by clicking on their band names above.

Le Blorr @ Saloon in Encinitas

 SalOON

 ^instagram me :P @ CEND_IT

 Killing

 it.

 Full house.

This was the kind of night I'm always looking for and go out more than I probably should in search of. I got to meet the legendary photographer Steve Sherman, got my audio senses satisfied by a good mix of music from Chris Cote who was on DJ duty for the night, all(those are only two things but Sherm is a legend, come on!)  before Le Blorr took the stage.  Le Blorr put on an epic performance needless to say. It wasn't too long ago I saw them play with The Short Eyes at La Cave in Costa Mesa where they killed it as well. Currently on tour from Florida they're making quite the impression on the west coast. Take a listen here: http://blorrmusic.com/

Heaven on Earth

Like a dream come true.

HA! This is rad!