Really great look behind the scenes, and at the history of the famous Nixon Jibfest. I remember seeing the video of the original one back in 2002, had that on repeat for a long time. The energy in gatherings like this is truly immense.
In between storms the other day, we had about 5 minutes of these amazing colours on the clouds.
With the days starting to get shorter, and while it’s still hot out here is a fun project to get you going and your ski’s ready for the first day this winter. Anyone who has waxed their own ski’s before know what’s going on here, but might not have added these couple steps. With the point of waxing to get the wax deep in the pores of the ski base, hot boxing gets you that much further. A Hot Box is an expensive piece of equipment that is a staple of any high end wax house. Its purpose is after you finish ironing on your wax, you put the ski’s in the hotbox which heats the entire ski, opening up the pores even more so more wax penetrates.
Enough technical stuff, heres how to do it at your house without the expensive equipment; you just need a sunny day:
1. Unless you’ve been lucky enough to head to a summer camp, or the souther hemisphere this summer your ski’s have probably been sitting around since your final day out last winter. If you got it, the best thing to do first is to get a few passes with a Nylon Brush. This will clear out the grooves of any debris or old wax that is still in there. Next if you have a Bronze Brush that will clean them up even more.
2. Now take a paper towel and wipe off any of the stuff that you just cleaned out of the bases.
3. What we like to do before we take the iron to the base is to grab the bar of wax and crayon it onto the base. You won’t get a lot on, but you will be able to see when you get the whole surface covered.
4. Here’s the pretty standard steps for waxing after this: 4.1: Heat the iron up. 4.2: Drip the wax onto the base. 4.3: Iron the wax into the base.
5. Now heres the fun part. Instead of letting the wax cool and going straight to scraping the excess wax off take your skis outside and lay them down in the sun. The heat from the sun, and the atmospheric pressure is enough to emulate the same thing that happens inside a hotbox. It will take a little longer, but leave them out for an hour or so and they will be all set. You’ll even be able to see it happening, a little like watching paint dry, but after 15 or 20 minutes the wax will become liquid once again on the base and will begin seeping deeper into the base of the ski.
6. After an hour your ski’s should be good. However I noticed that a lighter base will take a bit longer as they reflect light rather than absorb it. Now if we were going skiing in the next day or so we would let the wax cool off and now scrape. But since instead of a couple days, we have a couple months to wait; we’ll just leave the excess wax on the base of the ski and scrape the wax off before we go out for the first time this season.
Hope everyone likes this, and has the time to try it out.
We finally got in all the stuff to start printing our own shirts. This is good for us, because it means that we can dream up and create designs all in-house. Same as we do with our wax. Now whenever we get inspiration for a new shirt we can take it from just an idea straight into production in a matter of hours.
Sometimes though, and idea comes through and it’s hard to decide just which one to pick (problem of too many options). Each one has its own merits to us, but we wanted to know what you guys thought and would want to see on our latest shirt. Let us know in the comments below, on our Facebook, or Twitter.
Ocean Shirt 1
Ocean Shirt 1.2
Ocean Shirt 1.3
Thanks for taking a look, and let us know what you think.
After a couple busy months I finally had the opportunity to get away for the weekend. Here’s a couple of photo’s from one of the days fly fishing. Thanks to my brother for getting in front of the lens.
While we liked the way our old site looked, we thought it was about time for a change of pace. The new one comes with a cleaner, more minimal aesthetic that we feel better captures what we’re about. Along with this, we have a couple things in the works that will allows us to expand the brand making it more wholesome and inclusive. Expect these things to start coming around in the next few weeks.
Here was the sketch for how we wanted the new site to turn out. I think we followed through pretty nicely.
Movement, or as it was formerly and probably still better known as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival is held every year over the three day Memorial Day weekend. The line up is always something to look forward to, and with 5 stages going non-stop for 12 hours each day everyone is able to find something they like. Saturday for us was spent at the Beatport stage which was all but taken over by the M_NUS label who put together seamless sets from the likes of Hearttrhob, Gaiser, Marc Houle, and finally closing the night the man Richie Hawtin. Sunday was at its best with three energetic sets from Richardo Villalobos, the godfather Sven Väth, closing with Carl Craig one of the pioneers of Detroit Techno. As always by the end of it all you want to do is hang out and do nothing for probably a week after, but at the same time the countdown begins for one of the greatest festivals to kick off the summer next year.
Heartthrob
Marc Houle
Richie Hawtin
As summer continues to get ever closer I’ve been finding myself watching/searching for a lot more surf related stuff than ever before. I’ve never had the chance to go surfing yet, but I wouldn’t have to think twice when the opportunity comes along. Heres some of the things I’ve been watching, and I hope that they do some more live feeds of the tour like they did for the Quik Pro a few weeks ago.
Make sure to check out more on Way of The Ocean, real excited for it to be released on iTunes in June. Also, the sophomore film from Sipping Jetstreams – Castles in The Sky. These guys have been taking the idea behind filming movies in a whole new direction, and its something that really resonates with us and is definitely worth checking out.
Last weekend we had the amazing opportunity to see Cirque Du Soleil. Real happy that it worked out, because they were only here for four days. Without one dull moment the best way to describe it was mesmerizing. The things people are able to do strength and balance wise are absolutely amazing. The ushers were fairly adamant about not taking any pictures as they didn’t hesitate to yell out to whoever was blatantly doing it, however I was able to snag a few without being noticed but they didn’t come out as good as I would have hoped.
Missing the action, but with those tramps they would do this wall walking set getting to the top and then dropping back in.
The set on the ring was probably my favourite, but thats hard to say when everything was so good.
Art or just missing the shot?
This is probably all over the media channels by now, but it needs to be showcased one more time. If you haven’t seen it take the time to watch it, its bound to make an impression.
