Mystery Juice

Richard Kenvin's a pretty interesting guy. What makes him interesting is his research into Bob Simmons and exploring Simmons work. While probably not a lot of people are familiar with Simmons, his life, death and experiments make him one of surfing's most fascinating individuals. Kenvin has been studying and documenting his findings with Simmons' designs and turning it into Hydrodynamica. Kenvin's had an article on him in Surfer and is in the latest journal, mostly talking about his research of the mysterious Simmons and his designs and his work. Looking forward to the film, but the blog will tide me over until it's ready. Here's some pretty impressive footage with alaias.

As usual, if you're not into War's "Lowrider", mute the first video and hit play on Botch's "Man the Ramparts" for a good video/music combination.

Gothic Dolphins

If you haven't checked out the Gothic Dolphins site yet, it is awesome, nothing more to be said:

http://gothicdolphins.blogspot.com/

The site is in conjunction with Alex Kopps' film Displacement that he is working on (hopefully it will be done soon). It focuses on what started as the cult following of the hull or stubby board and now has become a full bown trend in surfing right now. I can't say a hull would be the best choice unless I was able to find a consistently well line-up wave, but I really dig Kopps' art and style that he has used in crafting the subculture. Here is the site and trailer:

http://www.displacementfilm.com/