The Stan-Hope Conspiracy

Spring Break means getting the Shack in shape for the summer. The official Shack season runs from around April to as late as November, depending on how well the weather holds out in the fall. It spends most of the winter closed up and idle, packed to the gills with outdoor furniture and toys. Other than a storage unit for my boards in between sessions, it doesn't serve much of a purpose. It usually takes a day to get it cleaned out and arranged for artwork, attempted board repair or whatever else its used for in the summer. The initial horror show:

Things aren't getting much better:

The finished product, cleaned up and ready to go:

Now that you can actually walk inside, it's really nice in there.

Instead of just listening to Stern this summer, I hooked up an old VCR and TV for added enjoyment. That afternoon I watched the Ten Yard Fight and Strife documentaries, both of which I hadn't watched in years. Here is TYF doing "Back on Track", I think:
The top shelf is mostly pieces done last year with the lower shelf being random paint, nails, tools etc.
Already have a few things in mind project-wise. If the rain lightens up, I can hopefully get out there today for a bit.

Iron Cross

Another collections of summer scraps sitting in my garage. Pretty random assortment of surfboards, skulls, faces, waves...you get the idea. The center piece of the surfer with his arms in a cross position was drawn off of the photo of Alex Knost that Nolan Hall did and graced the cover of Surfrider's Making Waves magazine. Everything was done once again with spray paint and paint pens this summer with the exception of the piece behind the skulls, which I did about six years ago.

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

Here's a piece I did over the summer that I like to call "The Red Ryder". There hasn't been much going on in the garage as of late, but the recent warm weather has made me want to get back out and work on some stuff. The piece with the rasta hearts on the left is separate as is the longboard "career suicide" mini-plaque. More fourth grade artwork pics to come...