Wanna get close to a Mav's set without losing your head?
A Santa Cruz surfer and skate park builder wants to promote “ocean awareness” by building a life-sized replica of dirty ol Mavs and sticking it on the benchlands above Half Moon Bay airport.
Zach Wormhoudt, who is 49 and finished fifteenth on the WSL’s Pretty Big Wave Tour in 2013, taking a ninth in that year’s Mavericks Invitational, knows the joint.
“Constructed of concrete panels this interactive sculpture will include portals that can be accessed deep in the wave to provide a first-hand view of what it’s like to ride a wave at Mavs,” writes Wormhoudt, who has been building skate parks for twenty years and, therefore, has the skill and tools to realise his fantastic dream.
“These are some quick sketch ideas for this. Most people will laugh and say why this is not possible, but for anyone who is interested, hit me up.”
Wild, yes?
Tell me you wouldn’t get a kick from walking around and examining a frozen twenty-five foot wave without the spectre of getting your head blown from your shoulders or your air bags filled with Pacific Ocean.
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Sounds like a closet cyclist, denying his passion.
i like to wash my car windows when i’m near cyclist.
Art imitating the WSL.
Sounds like you would get a job though FP.
Also.. Imagine whirled peas
Thanks SSD
Arent there holgrams for that sort of thing? Run ads on it too.
surely the only worthy story is that bicko is back. I expect a feature about how he escaped his captors and then crawled 700 miles through hostile territory.
Might be skatable too
suggest it to the chinese. they will pour it tomorrow.
Only if you tell them there’s an original famous one elsewhere.
I don’t think it’s very a realistic / believable image; that cop isn’t in the midst of killing a random person with dark skin.
Partial lyrics for ‘The Tenth Sock’
For LemonNextToPie (and Will Smith)
Based on an original concept by Mariano Landa
Screenplay by Walt Disney
——————-
Wanksock terminator
Tougher than an elevator
Cum-stain Bio-resin
Blowin’ up the deviators
New technology
Bionic sex-weewee
Slap yo Açai
Shits on epox-ee! {done in a children’s teasing way a la Beasties}
The tenth sock is comin’
So are you
In fact that’s how it came about:
Stuck like glue
To wall to the ceiling
Now to four ounce and six
Pearly laminating eco-resin
old dogs new tricks
Business or sports
You know it’s all barrel
It’s in your own hands
Says the guru Nick Carroll
{musical stuff in here. eventually breaking it down-tempo}
{rhyme now slows/stretches out.
Imperious lazy delivery like Roots Manoeuvre.}
Born from humble beginnings,
Off the bedroom floor
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)
Now im-preg-nated,
With surfing’s fyu-chor
{future mispronounced to rhyme}
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)
Mosta my league never passed the test,
But I did more.
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)
Swaylocks all blowin up
glassing socks behind closed doors
(Chorus: Ya’got me?)
———
Sorry can’t think of anything else.
Brain mush. Tough week.
Hahaha, the Swaylocks reference is classic…God knows mosta those mad-hatters only know the intimacy of cotton-poly blends.
‘Pearly laminating eco-resin’
Brilliant, just brilliant. I’ll work on giving this a early Beastie’s feel.
Thank you, will get to work post haste.
Please upload some audio once finished!
Oh sure. Given how kind the commentariot are to first time publishers of art.
I think its rad! I’d drive up and stair at it while fighting the urge to run up and down it like a kid and imagine that I’m on a 9’0 rhino chaser .
I’d drive up it and do a flip off the lip in my car
Kelly to announce
Scale replica of Lemoore
Made from Purps bottles!
Fucking love the idea. Brilliant.
“These are some quick sketch ideas for this. Most people will laugh and say why
this is not possible, but for anyone who is interested, hit me up.”That wall’s only 8 feet Hawaiian. Would be rad though on a Segway. On meth….Santa Cruz style
Meth(O.D.) Air ?
Good to have you back (side).
Er…
Maybe that doesn’t sound right.
Uh…
Sounds right to me
As a fan of surfing play on words I won’t take it as an affront (side ).
I think you all need to cutback on surfing puns.
Zach build it over the hill in the Silicone Valley and just turn it up to max and level the worthless computer economy….. Good riddance!
Let’s promote “ocean awareness” by pouring a load of concrete unnecessarily….
Shhhhh…the fucking surf industry is just loaded with Hippocrates!
What? Doctors?
first, do no SUPs
Let’s be unfunny and state the obvious poindexter
Why not make it out of snapped WaveStorms?
I’d get a kick out of that 25ft wave obliterating that Fat Cop
Well, if you’d get a kick out of that, you might get a kick out of this.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…