If you know Mollusk Surf Shop NYC, you know that they throw down a few really chill street bbq’s a few times a month when it’s warm enough. Well April 27th is going to be the first one and it’s sure to be an impressive one at that. Don’t miss it!
[as per mollusknyc.com]
Please join us for a pre-screening party for Thomas Campbell’s new surf film “The Present”. Music by The Mattson 2. Limited edition prints and Art will be exhibited and for sale. Cookout and extras projections weather permitting..
Matthew Clark interviews accomplished photog Vincent Laforet on his recent work with Jamie O’Brien, the new Red Camera Technology, and surf photography.
[Clark’s work is insane, what Laforet does with a camera is mind-blowing, and we all know that there isn’t much Jamie O’Brien can’t do with a board and some water. The Red Camera is the brainchild of the Oakley mastermind, Jim Jannard, hence the site looking a little like Oakley’s. It is a relatively new camera outfit that captures insane visuals. I wouldn’t expect anything less from Jannard.]
“Bombora has been approved by Apple! It goes on sale tomorrow evening at an introductory price of $9.99 …
Bombora is an elegant, informative, and comprehensive ocean data application — built specially for surfers, boaters, and everyone else that loves the ocean.
Bombora contains a wide selection of tools that provide an arsenal of information for the amateur forecasting tool-belt. Take surf forecasting and buoy data to a new level, with Bombora for iPhone and iPod Touch!”
Check the app store for reviews after it’s release on Friday …
Novel idea that I’m sure is entertaining but when these guys came to New York the surf was actually good, or at least it was the night before I saw them on the news playing in a Manhattan fountain or surfing some museum steps or some shit. Did they know that New York even had ocean-facing shoreline? Didn’t seem like it. They could have hopped on the subway and surfed in Queens (and I think they even spent some time in Brooklyn which isn’t so far from the beach) … A shame b/c it would have probably been some of the best surf they got on the eastern half of their trip. I see they managed to get in the water in Jersey and in South Carolina … We’ll at least they saw the Atlantic Ocean [not that NY is some surfing epicenter but there is a swell or two that will hit when it’s right and I remember saying to myself while watching them on The Today Show, “how could they not of timed what just came through?”].
A nifty little app not yet released to the public is Bombora. I think basically it displays real-time buoy feeds and tide predictions and though it will be a little while before the reviews are out telling us whether or not it’s worth the $9.99 introductory iPhone app price (where most apps seem to be 2 bux or less), it’s sure to be more accurate than Surfline’s Oakley Surf Report, that seems to only work about 25% of the time. Which means in surf-starved NY that if by chance we are getting a swell, the Oakley Surf Report probably won’t be giving an accurate real-time description of tide, wind, swell direction, and wave height stats (but Surf Report is free and I guess free misinformation in techniculture is par for the course these days, so I probably shouldn’t complain).
