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HeadHighGlassy : December 2014
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Thursday, December 25, 2014. The Executive at Rest. Winter rains be damned, Spencer split from his mountain hideout and headed Down South in search of shreddables. What'd he pack? A lighter gauge of neoprene, a fresh bar of wax, and brand-spankin new Executive. Well, I say lots of stuff, people. Exhibit A: in 1991 I claimed I would never tire of the Spin Doctors' Pocket Full of Kryptonite. Album Need I say more? Spencer's Executive is 9'3ish. All shined up and ocean ready.
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HeadHighGlassy : Of Zeus, NPR, and New-Model Shredding
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Of Zeus, NPR, and New-Model Shredding. Zeus was a tricky, horny trickster. One time he appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, snuck into her bed, and did some stuff so that later she laid some eggs. Interestingly, her husband was also. In bed doing stuff that particular evening, so when the twin boys hatched from their eggs, they were considered part divine, part mortal. What does this have to do with surfing? However, sometimes the skies clear a...
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HeadHighGlassy : Pit Boss: know when to hold 'em
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Pit Boss: know when to hold 'em. Much like its namesake in the casino, the Pit Boss keeps things in check when the dealing gets rough. This one's loaded: five fins, red cedar stringer, and handsome coke-bottle resin tint with matching resin pinline by Leslie Anderson. Stands a proud 6'10". Clive Owen, who attempts to pull a fast one on his pit boss in the excellent Croupier. Stands seven-and-a-half inches shorter. Labels: 101 fin co. All of my boards ar...
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HeadHighGlassy : April 2015
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Saturday, April 11, 2015. Is my beachbreak-tuned longboard model. This Mini Beard its smaller, skinnier, scrappier little brother. Can I use the word 'skinny' to describe a 6'0 that's 21" wide? You're damn right I can- I made it, so I can use whatever words I want. Here are some more: shred, rip, stab, punch, Claritin, zinfandel, Adventure Time, sriracha. Black-and-white photos because art. If you have to buy stuff, go local. Labels: 2 1 fin setup. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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HeadHighGlassy : March 2015
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Thanks for checking out HeadHighGlassy, home of Jamie Murray Custom Surfboards. Surfboards are sexy- in shape and design, as works of functional art, as platforms for our feet and imaginations- and I look forward to sharing some of my work here. All of my boards are hand built, and all of my glassing is by Michel Junod's Almar Glass Works in Santa Cruz. Their work is outstanding. View my complete profile. For Humans by Humans.
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HeadHighGlassy : January 2015
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Sunday, January 18, 2015. In his poem Axe Handles,. California poet Gary Snyder (whose intimate 70th birthday party I crashed and got loaded on sake because he was in love with my at-the-time girlfriend) helps his son make a new handle for an axe head that was lying around. The tool to do this? The complete axe shapes the new handle, and also serves as a model for the tool he's making. He recalls Ezra Pound, who wrote, "when making an axe handle/the pattern is not far off.".
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HeadHighGlassy : August 2014
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Good Lord, the shit's been busy lately. Trips in all compass directions and altitudes. Earthquakes. Two-wheeler-and-ice-cream adventures. Storm tracks and hurricanes and back-to-school sweats and shorter days and the first hints of the miraculous golden light of fall. And people want to ride on these waves on surfboards, and those boards have to be shaped. And the great, watery world keeps on spinning. GET TO S N RIGHT NOW AND BLAST IT! Its standard...
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HeadHighGlassy : May 2015
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Spring's a season of vexation. On one hand, things warm up outside and we can all stop wearing socks. On the other hand, there's the itching. Oh, the itching! Surf-wise, we're also on the opposite end of the shred stick from Fall. The wave period drops lower than a limbo bar at a gymnasts bat mitzvah party, and the onshore wind speed climbs higher than my grandpa's WWII khakis. In his poem The Enkindled. Subtleperv D.H. Lawrence writes of spring,. 9'5", 2...
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HeadHighGlassy : November 2014
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Of Jamestown, Noseriders, and Beaujolais Nouveau. The word itself inspires a Pavlovian response. And why not? It’s about food, for chrissakes. The true story of Thanksgiving isn’t rooted in family, or sharing, or even celebrating the bounty of America (whatever the hell that means). It’s about not starving, and it goes like this:. During the mad scramble for ‘New World’ wealth and resources in the early 17. It did provide an excellent outpost to pro...
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HeadHighGlassy : September 2014
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Scribbles on Foam and Form. Monday, September 29, 2014. Of MiniSims, William Butler Yeats, and Fruta. Early fall is the best of times, and it is the worst of times. The best of times because it’s amazing. The worst because the pool is going to close soon- where the hell am I supposed to get $2 MGD drafts and $1 microwaved hottogs between now and May 1st? Also, a house on my street burned down. Not good. Also, we got hammered with an early season winter swell. Good. In his oft-quoted poem The Second Coming.