hola from slovenska obala..:)

Cool photography project with a surfer cleverly placed in the urban environment titled "L’Horizon" by French photographer Romain Laurent. as surfers often escape the pressures and frustrations of the urban environment to the serenity of the ocean, and this flips the whole thing on it’s head… 

It’s easy to forget now, but in the 1960s surfing had a much more symbolic role than it does today, as a repudiation of the stuffy, conformist world of the post war generation – the idea of throwing off social norms and hitting the beach instead had a real countercultural caché. 

Romain Laurent’s latest series L’Horizon could be making a real point by plonking a sunkissed surf dude in the middle of "real life".

See the full series here: www.romain-laurent.com/work/lhorizon/,   see more of Romain’s work on his blog: http://romainlaurent.tumblr.com.

doing surf&sup :-)

& Rusty Long (yellow) :

“Have you ever been kissed by god?”

A 5 minute video remembering Andy, courtesy of ASPWorldTour.  An amazing video with some nice shots of him surfing, and an interview discussing why he got disenchanted with the Tour and the repetition — and how he believed he won over more fans after he chose to step and make surfing what he wanted it to be.  RIP Andy, forever.

[video:http://www.dailystoke.com/video/andy-irons-forever-remembering-vide/ 100x100]

Večina nas je vsaj kdaj furala Burtona, zelo verjetno so vsi surfarji dežele brez valov vsaj poskusili bordat, in ni ga našega, ki še ni slišal za Jakea Burtona. 

Burton (Jake Burton Carpenter, 1954), ki je enako močno kot od bordanja, odvisen od surfanja ali skejtanja, je ustanovitelj Burton Snowboards in idejni oče deskanja po snežnih strminah. Splet naključij (beri: prometna nesreča je preprečila nadaljevanje vseh treningov smučanja, a pobeljeni hribi ga niso pustili ravnodušnega) ga je pripeljal do prvih užitkov na »eni smučki«, od snurferja do snowboarda. Navdušeno so mu sledili surferji, ki niso vedeli, kaj bi počeli v zimskem času, in so se raje kot študirali z ogromno dilo furali po hribu navzdol.

A tudi Burton je le človek in tudi njega je obiskal rak, na srečo tisti bolj (ali manj) ozdravljiv. 

In the span of just four months, snowboard industry giant Jake Burton and a team of oncologists have evidently turned the tables on a disease that threatened to take his life.

Back in September, the pioneering snowboarder released a memo to his worldwide employee base that started off, “The bad news is that I have cancer.” But that ton-of-bricks opener was immediately followed by some relatively good news: “[It's] as curable as it gets.”

What Burton faced was testicular cancer — medically known as seminoma — the same disease that cyclist Lance Armstrong battled and overcame. With early detection, the survival rate of affected men is greater than 95 percent. The average age of diagnosis is 40 years.

Burton, 57, began a three-month regimen of chemotherapy, a cellular-level treatment that often comes with severely debilitating side-effects. Earlier this month, he released an update stating, “It appears that my cancer is toast.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that Burton is in the clear and back on the mountain, approaching his typical 100-days-per-year snowboarding season. According to his memo, he’s still facing possible radiation treatment and surgery down the road — the removal of one or both testes is not uncommon — and must stay on-point with periodic scans and observation. Still, he remains upbeat.

“As I transition from being a patient to being a survivor,” Burton said, “I move on with enormous respect for both cancer … and chemotherapy (how something so beneficial [can] be so simultaneously harmful). I am pretty much broken … I have a lot of healing to do. But when I look at role models like Lance Armstrong, I know I have no excuses.”

The badass name of a Count. The braves of an Irishman. The small wave game of a Cali jibber. 

Nico Von Rupp is German and Portuguese, but he surfs with worldly diversity. And style. This clip's about as rounded as you'll likely see, so dive on in.

Poglej video ali beri blog . 

The badass name of a Count. The braves of an Irishman. The small wave game of a Cali jibber. 

Nico Von Rupp is German and Portuguese, but he surfs with worldly diversity. And style. This clip's about as rounded as you'll likely see, so dive on in.

Poglej video ali beri blog .