some photos

Happy new year! I just downloaded my camera memory card for the first time in like 9 months. These are a couple photos from last summer in barcelona and last week in amsterdam.

Design Project!!!!

Hey guys.

So over thanksgiving break I'm going to go up to gloucester and meet with this local surfboard shaper and talk to him about getting a custom board made. I'm thinking about maybe doing something artistic with it as opposed to just getting a plain white board. I'M WONDERING IF ANYONE WANTS TO HELP THINK OF A DESIGN. Nothing to crazy probably, just a cool color with a little design. Although if you have a complex idea i'm not totally against it. the board is going to be about 5'6'' and pretty wide for a surfboard. 

check out the links on the blog, sea surfboards and almond surfboards for some ideas if you want.

thanks. make cool things!

update: just found this website, go to the boards link (by clicking on navigation) and look at the photos of the fish boards. 1. they're beautiful. and 2. that's the kind of board it's going to be. i really really like the one that's baby blue and white with the red stripe in between.

At the moment, I've having trouble uploading the rest, but you can veiw it all at http://cart214julia.blogspot.com/

some of my latest work

I realized I haven't posted much on this blog in a while, so I thought I'd share some of the stuff I've been doing.

This week, we had to create a series of symbols to represent everyday activities. Here are mine:

a sahweet adventure

So i was perusing the online information of Dustin Humphrey, a really really good photographer and originator of a company like the one we want to do (reelsessions.com), cause I want to send him the college essay i wrote about him; and tell him i love him, obviously. 

The adventure:

Humphrey and 2 friends got very classic looking motorcycles and went for a road trip in australia. They documented the trip on the blog loverslandblog.com 

All the photos are by Humphrey and there are some AMAZING photos. They posted a lot so it takes some commitment to get all the way through, but it is totally worth it. 

It definitely gets the adventurous juices flowing.

-AJ

new surfboard!

                             

So, here's the new board I'm getting. It's another gem off craigslist. It's rull short and stubby (only 5'4''!) and it is what I've been looking for for a while. Since it's really wide and thick it catches little waves easily (which abound in new england) yet it's designed to do turns and even airs, so the small wave design doesn't stunt me if I ever actually get any good at surfing. Anyways, I'm real excited. Boards from this company usually cost $600-$700 dollars but because of the glories of craiglist, I'm only paying $350. Maybe I'll post some sweet shots of me using it when I finally get to the ocean again. 

that's all. (please remember I'm not actually very good at surfing)

Website

So my first website is up. It's ultra simple as it was a class project just to learn HTML. I will be adding more and beefing it up quite a bit over the coming weeks, so check it out sometime:

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