The book can be purchased here on Amazon, or you can get an even better price ($15, or $12.50 each for 5+ copies) direct from the author who will be adjacent to the Christmas dioramas at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park this Sunday, December 6, from 12:00-2:00 PM.
I'll wait until it hits the 99c store.
ReplyDeleteEncinitas featured recently on The Profit. The city finances and process could use the same help as the local pie shop.
ReplyDeleteBill Swank is a great baseball writer, lol!
ReplyDeleteNo one is this community cares a damn about that stupid kook, move one WC, it's a waste of every ones time.
ReplyDeleteNew transplants and recent "locals" love the kook. They think it's cute can't wait until someone goes straight on Chesterfield and takes out the overpriced abomination. Next time find someone that lives in the area, can actually surf, and knows what style looks like.
DeleteOn point 2:11.
Delete2:11,
DeleteIt's a pretty solid pedestal. You might need a decent-sized truck for that.
Hillcrest surfer.
DeleteThe artist once demonstrated how, if the statue was oriented as he'd meant it, the surfer looked completely different and exactly as a surfer does look. He also said the city wouldn't install it correctly for some dumb reason. "Staff" struck again, don't you know.
Delete"Hillcrest" comment = redneck.
What does Hillcrest mean to you? Innocent comment, but you have some unresolved issues.
DeleteNo, I don't care how you orient the statue. You find me a picture of arm positioning like that and you've found a novice surfer and/or a kook. You can blame the city for a lot of things but an artist who can't surf or even knows what style looks like can not be blamed on the city.
ReplyDeleteDid the city commission the artist?
DeleteI'm telling you there was an audible gasp from the crowd, the statue looked that different. But you can pretend that you saw the demo and know what you're talking about.
DeleteNo, the Cardiff botanical society did. The city paid the 30k for the install.
ReplyDeleteProof that botanists don't surf!
DeleteLove the Kook, and yes, I surf.
ReplyDeleteArt isn't always meant to depict the ideal form.
Look out at the local breaks any summer weekend, and you'll find people of all ages and abilities laughing and grinning in the waves.
Some of them are just learning. Do you remember that first time you were able to get up on your feet and stay up for 10 seconds on a knee-high wave?
I'll bet you looked awkward as hell, and I'll bet it was one of the best moments of your life.
It was for me anyway.
Long live the Kook!
Well, ya know, I can't think of another statue or monument that depicts a beginner or novice. Aren't they intended to honor prowess, expertise, high achievement?
Delete10:07, not always.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2015/apr/07/scourge-bronze-zombies-terrible-statues-ruining-art
"The scourge of the bronze zombies: how terrible statues are ruining art"
DeleteWhy, yes, the Kook would fit that category as would the fence a sculptor did for Carlsbad and then called art.
Our neighbor city eventually took that "sculpture" down. The Kook could join the fence, then we could put up an authentic surfing sculpture.