New Year's Resolutions

So I told my friend the other day that my New Years Resolution this year was not to give up soda or eat better or go to the gym. But instead it was to SURF more! I want to get 150 days in this year. That means that I have to surf about 3 times a week or go on a 2 week surf trip then I have to only surf 2 days a week. Now here is the funny part everyone I tells this to laughs at me and says thats not a resolution. But I say to them you try to do it. like today the water is 53 degrees and the surf is only 1 foot that means you cant surf. And its going to be like that all week so now I have to surf more later this year. But here is the funny part of this post. Today on surfline was this post.

So I ask you is my resolution real or not.

By the way I already have 4 days in this year. Only a 146 more to go.

Just Follow Your Nose

Back in the day you use to have to hope for surf, but now with charts and forecasting you know of a good swell coming days in advance. So all you have to do is pick the best place its going to hit. So on Monday I got wind of this new big swell coming in today.

So I took a vacation day today and did a little swell hunting. I knew it was going to hit in San Diego best so I headed down at 5 am to look around. But something in the back of my mind kept telling me go to Wind "N" Sea.

Now I have not been to Wind "N" Sea for almost 10 years. But I followed my nose and it took me to perfect 7 foot surf. Wind "N" Sea is a reef break that is super fast and doesn't break that much. I almost forgot where it was but with cross streets like this it's kind of hard to.

I surfed for about 3 hours then the tide came up and it got really fat.

So I called it a day and took some photos. ENJOY

First Post Of The New Year

I want my first post of 2011 to be a funny one so here you go.

Merry Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house. I was all alone, there wasn't even a mouse. So if you know or not this is my first Christmas alone after my family moved back east. So Im doing it my way. Every year I like to watch Christmas movies leading up to Christmas day where I watch a Christmas Story all day. The movie list is something like this,

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Miracle On 34th Street

It's A Wonderful Life

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Elf

Nightmare Before Christmas

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Scrooged

and Die Hard.

But this I saved a certain one just for tonight.

HOME ALONE seeing that I am home alone I find it a perfect fit. So I went and got myself a cheese all to myself.

And settled down for a nice night all alone.

And since I am posting this I decided to share a little bit more. First off is what my Christmas tree and gifts look like.

Next is my two Christmas cards I designed this year. I design one every year but I couldn't pick just one idea this year so here they are.

(a little side note about this one.

I really met Santa he was just walking around Disneyland no joke)

So all I have left to do is make sure the house is ready incase some guys show up trying to rob the house. After all this is my house I have to defend it.

Skateboarding and TRON

I said a long time ago that TRON was going to be amazing but I didnt see this coming. Each rider has a iPod on them with an app running that locates them and measures air time and then sends graphics to the ramp. Its AMAZING what we can do these days.

Tron Legacy Premiere - A Light Session from ENESS on Vimeo.

Two More Reason Surfing Is the Best Sport

Fact 1: Surfing helps prolong the lifes of people with Cystic Fibrosis. The Salty Air and Salt Water help break down the mucus that makes it difficult for the CF patients to breathe. So While it's not a cure, surfing is still and amazing therapy for both the lungs of CF patients. Here is a video of a foundation that takes CF patients surfing. They have 21 stops around the US each year.

Fact 2: Surfing has be proven to help respite people with autism. Case in point Clay Marzo has Asperger's. And yet it helps him to be one of the top surfers. But it also has been proven to calm people who have autism.

Pipe Masters 2010

Once a year I get to design the Billabong Pipe Masters contest site. Its a big thing to me seeing that 1000's of people will see my work. When I first started graphic design I never thought it would lead to this. Its really cool to be able to say I design the contest site for the biggest surfing event in the world. So with that I just wanted to share with you some of the work.

The Tower from the water

Camera Tower side

In Hawaii if you can't make it down to the beach you can watch the contest on HD cable TV.

Camera Tower other side

Main Entrance to the event

Sunset Side of the Tower

I also wanted to show you what you get if you win the contest. This is a hand shaped Bolt board by Mr Pipeline Gerry Lopez and hand painted by Phil Roberts. It has this 24 gold leaf bottom. I wish I had the talent to win this beauty.

Well Enjoy and check out the webcast of the event and see some of my work

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