Archive for April, 2010

Glueing wood planks together can be a stressful job. Each plank is about 1/4″ thick and at least 8ft long. You have to apply glue on the 1/4″ sides of each plank, and sometimes for more than 15 of them, as quickly as you can so that the glue won’t set or run off. The following method might help you get the job done without much hassle.

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Andy Anderson must be from another dimension or something. He can obviously freeze time, like so, in these photographs, and he seems to be able to see every spectrum of light and captures the only needed.

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In the movie, Sprout, the wooden board builder Tom Wegener talks about mulching trees with his wood shavings. To produce less waste is one thing, but what he really enjoys, I think, is to know that the boards he builds eventually go back to where they come from – Trees.

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SHAUN FENN

Check out his fabulous works on his website. The board used here is 6′4″ Merlin.

メキシコ。

アメリカから一番近いパラダイスといったらやはりここメキシコだろう。映画エンドレス・サマーの「最高の波を見つける旅」を発端に、６０年代から多くのカリフォルニアサーファーが最高の波、つまりはパラダイスを目指してメキシコに向かった。バハ半島の南端を境に海は年中暖かく、波はと言えばポイントブレイクがそこら中にある。春から秋にかけてサウススウェルがメキシコ南部の海岸にやってくるとどのポイントに行こうか決めるのが難しい程だ。

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Both of the two endangered species from our dunes are blooming right now. They are federally listed under the Endangered Species Act as Endangered and listed as Endangered by the State of California. They are not necessarily rare in Humboldt dunes, but they are endemic, meaning they can be found only in our dunes.

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