| Fletcher Chouinard Designs Launches New Website
Fletcher Chouinard Designs, the maker of hand-crafted and environmentally sane surfboards, announced today the launch of its new website: www.fcdsurfboards.com. The much anticipated site redesign fulfills the company's desire to speak directly to its customers about what differentiates FCD boards from the industry's standard. The relaunched site features new board information including board descriptions, available sizes, glassing schedules and fin options. The site also includes a used board listing section that allows surfers to buy previously ridden boards directly from FCD Surfboards. An interactive customer feedback section, unseen photos and videos, and detailed information about FCD surfboard's unique technologies and materials rounds out the site's features.
"This new site is designed to be clean and simple - and it illustrates what makes an FCD surfboard different from others.
Surfers protest wave cams
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - Ever since Jimmy Minardi mounted his $8,500 video camera last summer and aimed it at the Atlantic Ocean, the surfers here have been complaining. The camera streamed video straight to Minardi's website, letting surfers check the waves without having to pack up their boards and wet suits and heading to the beach with fingers crossed. These surf cams, or wave cams, which have gained in popularity in recent years, help advertise lesser-known beaches to outsiders who are looking for new surfing spots. But the cameras have also caused problems in the territorial world of hard-core surfers, many of whom blame them for leading crowds to once-secluded beaches. Today, there are perhaps a dozen cameras along the South Shore of Long Island and another dozen along the Jersey Shore, surfers said.
Fish Bums trying to reel in moviegoers
BEND, Ore. -- The Fly Fishing Film Tour is trying to hook a larger audience in Central Oregon. The tour, put on by the Angling Exploration Group, includes seven fly-fishing movies ranging from 10 minutes to 20 minutes in length, and a portion of "Fish Bums I: Mongolia." Thad Robison, 39, the tour manager and one of the Fish Bums, said the Fish Bum film and the seven others are quite different from the matter-of-fact instructional videos standard in the sport. "We're trying to be more progressive in film style. It's kind of like an Endless Summer-type feeling -- like a video journal of crazy stuff that happens," he said, referring to the influential surfing movie. "The video is more about the whole experience.
Webcams enrage laid-back surfers
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. -- Ever since Jimmy Minardi mounted his $8,500 video camera last summer and aimed it at the Atlantic Ocean, the surfers here have been complaining. The camera streamed video straight to Minardi's Web site, letting surfers check the waves without having to pack up their boards and wet suits and head to the beach with fingers crossed. The surf cams, or wave cams, which have gained in popularity in recent years, help advertise lesser-known beaches to outsiders who are looking for new surfing spots. But the cameras also have caused problems in the territorial world of hard-core surfers, many of whom blame them for leading crowds to once-secluded beaches. Today, there are perhaps a dozen cameras along the South Shore of Long Island and another dozen along the Jersey Shore, surfers said.
Corey Worthington Will Smash Britney, American Economy
Australian media prodigy Corey Worthington planned and executed a Braveheart-style melee, and was smart enough to have friend video it, a worrying sign he's becoming media-savvy enough to ruin us all. America doesn't really make anything anymore, like computers or a decent car or working levies; we borrow all our money from the Chinese and deposit it in banks we're now selling off to various oil emirates. But we do have The Wire, reality television and a world-beating collection of media-whoring celebrities, chief among them Britney Spears, and now Worthington is about to destroy everything, because he's more clever and powerful than we ever imagined. The willfully doltish teenaged surf bum rocketed to fame by refusing to apologize for a terrifying party he staged when his parents were away, then he refused to take off his sunglasses, and no one could believe it, and then he was tracked down on a beach and said he was planning another party.
Contact Lenses Brings out the Terminator in Anyone
The world just keeps getting further and further in to the advanced technical age we were promised (ok, not me, but my parents) when we (they) were kids. This time, it's the futuristic idea of being able to see images or data on your glasses, or in this case, in your contact lenses. The project at the University of Washington, and led by one electrical engineer Babak Parviz, has built a bionic lens that will essentially enable maps and videos to be beamed right in front of the viewers eyes. Built of microscopic circuits fixed to a flexible plastic, this technology is naturally being likened to that of the Terminator's vision from the hit movies. The prototype that has been built has LED's embedded in it that flash up the information. With a built-in antenna for wireless transfer, this technology could very well allow for people to surf the internet without taking their eyes off the world around them; though what control interface they are predicting for this I'm not sure.
Santa Cruz's Smith brothers overcome hardships to reach top of the big ...
Spectators can flock to the beach near Pillar Point, where the competition will be shown on big-screen TVs. Because the Maverick's area is located in an environmentally sensitive national marine sanctuary, organizers ask spectators to stay off cliffs and out of the water. Parking is $15 per car. Locations include: Half Moon Bay Airport, 9850 Cabrillo Highway North. Opens at 6 a.m. Pillar Point Harbor, 1 Johnson Pier, Half Moon Bay. Opens at 7 a.m. For information, call 415-462-6200 or visit www.mavericksurf.com. San Francisco: There will be a jumbo screen at AT&T Park. The contest will air from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the park's Club Level. Tickets are $25. Online: A live webcast of the contest will be broadcast at www.myspace.com/maverickssurf. Video of the event will be posted at www.santacruzsentinel.com.
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