T-Moe's Liquidation Sale

Thomas Campbell recently dropped off a bunch of his personal wave sleds over at Mollusk Surf Shop. Check out whats left over at Mollusk Surf Shop. Rasta’s Rich Pavel from his latest film the Present is even for sale. Great stuff!

Free Life Center

Free Life Center from seth neefus on Vimeo.

From Portland Oregon, Needles & Pens (of SF) will be hosting, Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus’ FREE LIFE CENTER. Way stoked! Free Life Center is a large scale freestanding installation crafted from salvaged building materials. The one-room structure emanates the artists’ homespun aesthetic and their commitment to a high level of DIY craftsmanship. The construction is modular ( built in sections) and can be adapted to suit a variety of configurations along their journey, whether it is a traditional gallery space or a site-specific event outdoors. Free life center just had a great show at Gallery Hijinks on the 23rd and 24th, here is a peak at what you missed! Get to Needles & Pens pronto, before you miss another stellar show!

Free Life Center at Gallery Hijinks from Gallery Hijinks on Vimeo.

Mark Cunningham Belly Sliding

Mark Cunningham Belly Sliding from Mollusk Surf Shop on Vimeo.

'Nuff said!

Meet Your Shaper: Fletcher Chouinard

Meet Your Shaper: Fletcher Chouinard from Mollusk Surf Shop on Vimeo.

Mollusk Shaper Series stops by to reveal the greatness that comes from Mr. Chouinard. Enjoy.

Gary Hanel on his Egg

Gary Hanel on his Egg from Mollusk Surf Shop on Vimeo.

Patagonia Cardiff's Castles In The Sky

Patagonia Cardiff Event- Castles in the Sky from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

Cyrus Sutton put this short video together for an upcoming Patagonia Cardiff screening of Taylor Steele’s new surf film, Castles in the Sky. Looks like some killer footage from Iceland… be sure to stop by and watch it if you’re in the area.

Grey Whale Sessions by Tyler Manson

Grey Whale Sessions - Trailer from Tyler Manson on Vimeo.

Music Profile: Wolf People

Wolf People are an English psychedelic rock band based in London, Bedford and North Yorkshire. They formed in 2006 around the release of a very limited CD EP on Sea Records as part of the Lifeboat Series. The EP was Stuart Maconie’s record of the week on his BBC6 show. They have since released two 7” singles on Battered Ornaments Records, they quickly sold out and are now becoming quite sought after. The band have been embraced by the psych community receiving great praise in Shindig magazine and Terrascope.com amongst others. Influenced by Captain Beefheart, Can, Pentangle, Dungen, Amon Duul II and television, the music is largely blues rock based but incorporates elements of folk, jazz, kraut, and country.

Idiosyncrasies by Pat Trefz

Andreini Shreds Foam

Nuff said...

Shredders from Mollusk on Vimeo.

Habitat at Park Life

Be there, I will!

Mike Black Hi-Shred

Gnar Gnar Gnar!

Kopps at Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz

Korduroy Sea Movies - Subsistence Shredding

Sea Movies- Subsistence Shredding from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

Captured during a boat trip on a remote island in the Indonesian archipelago, these kids were using old pieces of their homes to ride the inside waves in front of their small village. When we arrived twenty or so of the kids ran out to the reef and held out their boards. Some waved them in the air and while others held them to their chest and played air guitar on them. All of their boards were similar; some were made with doors, some with parts of walls and others with pieces of wood that looked to be sculpted just for the purpose of surfing. From shore it looked like they had no electricity or running water, just simple huts with wood sidings and thatched-roofs. The break in front was a flawless right-hand barrel peeling nearshore on a smooth reef. According to the crew the wave had only been discovered a couple months prior and the kids were watching on shore and cheering in amazement at surfers riding across their waves. Who knows where these guys will be at in a few years...

Surf Gallery Re-Reopens

Great to see these doors open again! Great show currently showing too, check it.

T-Moe Art Junk

Photos by Ryan Tatar of work being done. Excitement!

Nat Russell at Home Gallery

NOWS: Nathaniel Russell at Home Gallery from Andrew Nord on Vimeo.

On The Road To "Ummmm"

A short film via Alex Kopps about the Thomas Campbell exhibition at the v1 Gallery in Denmark.

Mollusk Minutes

Mollusk Minutes from Mollusk on Vimeo.

Solid Gold! The End.

David Wilson at Mollusk

“The Great Beach and Father Sky”

David Wilson shares drawings and watercolors of recent experiences with the dunes, the ocean, the moon, shells, and the sun’s setting.

As a guest to Ocean Beach, I took watch of the land’s last sandy exhale and the sun leaving each day. Nightly I painted the moon, following its full movement.

In course with my own experience of loss, I sat with these emblems of everness and began to clarify a feeling; that wishing something to wait is a hollow prayer. The best we can attempt is to move at the speed of the world and find what we thought was gone in its new place.

Bio:

David Wilson makes drawigs and works on projects around the bay area. He has shown at Eleanor Harwood, Hatch Gallery, Triple Base, Tartine, and at Baer-Ridgway as part of Hot and Cold Issue 0. He organizes gatherings and performances of a more adventurous and spirited nature under the name Ribbons. He recently was awarded a 2009 GOLDIE award from the SF Bay Guardian and a 2009 Alternative Exposure grant from Southern Exposure. He has big plans.

February 13th – April 15th 2010

Mollusk Surf Shop Gallery

4500 Irving Street

San Francisco, CA

www.mollusksurfshop.com

T-Moe in Cardiff

Thomas Campbell will have his art on display in Patagonia's Cardiff shop next week (Feb 27), along with Serena Mitnik-Miller, Kassia Meador & Tiffany Campbell. Should be ill! Head over!

Wild Surf!

Alex Kopps - Greatest Surf Movie from RVCA on Vimeo.

Jack Johnson Doing Good Things

Jack and his band, Adam Topol, Merlo Podlewski, and Zach Gill, have been putting countless hours in at the Mango Tree Studio to record their 6th studio album. The album, currently untitled, is being recorded on 100% solar energy in Hawaii and will be released worldwide the week of June 1st on Johnson’s own Brushfire Records label. Stay tuned, we’ll have more news for you on the album front in March and a new single out in April.

Following the June 1st release of his new album, Johnson will embark on his first world tour since 2008, kicking off in Europe on June 16th. The tour will be a mix of headline shows London, Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam and festivals including Glastonbury (UK), and Roskilde (Denmark). Stay posted, the US Tour dates will be announced in March. And to top it off he is doing great things to benefit those struck by tragedy in Haiti, donating proceeds to the efforts! Good things Jack, good things! Check his website for more details on everything.

It's Happening Again!

The HAPPENING 2010 -- Art / Film / Music Festival

After an overwhelming response to the inaugural Bondi Beach event in 2008, The Happening finally returns to Australia this March!

A celebration of surf culture and community and its reach beyond the waves into the world of music, art and film - The Happening 2010 will be held in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, bringing together under one roof: Brushfire Records musicians Matt Costa, Zee Avi, Neil Halstead and Will Conner; film-makers George Greenough, Chris and Emmett Malloy – previews of 180° South and The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights – plus the exhibited works of contemporary artists from The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.

SYDNEY - BONDI PAVILION - FRIDAY MARCH 26

BRISBANE - THE ZOO - SUNDAY MARCH 28

MELBOURNE - THE ESPY - WEDNESDAY MARCH 31

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MUSIC
Heading up The Happening 2010 is MATT COSTA. Growing up in Huntington Beach, California, Costa began songwriting during an 18-month rehabilitation period following a serious leg injury that put pay to a promising skateboarding career.

On the strength of his debut release, the folky, beautiful Songs We Sing, Costa earned a rep as an L.A. buzz act, crisscrossed the U.S. in a van, and performed at all the major North American music festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and Austin City Limits among others. In 2007 Costa recorded the follow-up Unfamiliar Faces, again on Brushfire Records. He is currently working on new material.

Next up is NEIL HALSTEAD. Based in the English coastal town of Newquay, Halstead is one of Britain’s most respected songwriters. The singer and guitarist cut three albums fronting Slowdive, before forming 4AD favourites Mojave 3 in ‘95. Halstead made his solo debut in 2002 with Sleeping On Roads and a follow-up on Brushfire in 2008, Oh! Mighty Engine.

ZEE AVI was born on the island of Borneo, later moving to Kuala Lumpur, Avi learnt to play guitar at 17. Beginning to write and perform, she posted her songs on YouTube for a friend to hear. The viral buzz around her postings eventually resulting in the release of her 2009 self-titled debut album on Brushfire/Monotone Records.

Picking up the opening slot is local Byron talent WILL CONNER. With a reputation for making music with a pure and unwavering sound, CONNER along with special guest 21st century soul surfer DAVE "RASTA" RASTOVICH, will open proceedings performing tracks from his new album Sailing, Love & Food.

FILM
Woodshed Films will tour special extended previews of 180º SOUTH the latest film by CHRIS AND EMMETT MALLOY - and, THE WHITE STRIPES UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS directed solely by EMMETT MALLOY, as well as short films by legendary surf cinematographer George Greenough.

180º SOUTH: In 2005 filmmaker Chris Malloy took a trip to Patagonia with Yvon Chouinard - one of the most unique and prolific environmentalists - and writer/filmmaker/producer Rick Ridgeway. It was then the idea for what would be come the film 180° South was officially hatched.

The film follows young American adventurer Jeff Johnson’s journey, following in the footsteps of Chouinard and best friend Doug Tompkins’ 1968 exploration of untouched mountain ranges and un-surfed coastline, on a 5000-mile expedition from California to deep Patagonia.

The history of The Happening harks back to 2002 when professional surfer and filmmaker Chris Malloy, his cousin, filmmaker and owner of Brushfire Records Emmett Malloy, and Will Pennartz of The Surf Gallery brought together three disconnected elements of beach culture – art, film and music – into a single event.

In 2008, the event extended its reach traveling to Sydney’s Bondi Beach Pavilion, Tokyo, London, Cornwall and Paris - spreading surf culture around the world.

ART
At each of the Happening shows will be a gallery space exhibiting works from the following artists and photographers.

Artists: Jeff Canham, Harry Daily, Andy Davis, Ned Evans, Julie Goldstein, Yusuke Hanai, Alex Kopps, Greg Lamarche, Michael Leon, David Lloyd, Geoff McFetridge, Randy Noborikawa, Scott Richards, Mark Tesi, Pablo Ugartetxea, Tyler Warren, Alex Weinstein and more.

Photographers: Lorene Carpentier, Joe Curren, Herbie Fletcher, Laura Flippen, Michael Halsband, Ryan Heywood, Kassia Meador, Serena Mitnik-Miller, Jason Murray, Dane Peterson, Steve Sherman, Scott Soens, Patrick Trefz and more.


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Skip School

Great new series of videos by Tyler Manson and the boys at Mollusk; “Skip School: Life Lessons With Mr. Frye”... Enjoy!

Skip School: Life Lessons With Mr. Frye #2 from Mollusk on Vimeo.

Skip School: Life Lessons With Mr. Frye #3 from Mollusk on Vimeo.