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A new exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History brings back a popular show from 2015 about the three Hawaiian ...
With the Gulf Coast of Texas five hours away, Dallas is hardly an obvious site for a surf brand with a summery slant. But then, Picnic Surf Shapes founders Alden Pinnell and Gregory Ruppe are not ...
Travis Bible rides a wave on a 9’2 "Local Wizard" by Picnic Surf Shapes on May 3 in Galveston. With the Gulf Coast of Texas five hours away, Dallas is hardly an obvious site for a surf brand ...
Surf artisan Mike Whisnant has been making meteorologist Mark Collins' boards for over 20 years, but he’s been pushing design boundaries for decades before that.
Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) is a robust and useful feature detector for various vision-based applications but it is unable to detect symmetrical objects. This paper proposes a new symmetrical ...
Chris Birch, center, won 2nd place in the shape-off with Ricky Carroll, left, and Pete Dooley at the 2025 Surf Expo in Orlando. Allen White won the competition.
When it comes to the art of surfboard shaping — there is no such thing as “too old” to continue your craft. That statement proved to be fact at this year's Florida Shape Off held at the ...
Dropping a new, 30-minute film by Kelly Foote on his YouTube channel, Aliotti goes deep on his quest to build the perfect surfboard with master craftsman Ryan Lovelace. From South America, Africa ...
The long-awaited West Coast premiere of "The Shape of Things: The Dick Brewer Story" feature documentary will premiere October 18 - 20, 2024 at the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas, CA, and ...
Adobe’s latest Firefly Vector model powers new Illustrator features like Generative Shape Fill, which allows users to add detailed vectors to shapes via descriptive text prompts. The updated ...
Parents who surf, either secretly or blatantly, pray their kids will surf, too. Whether it’s in a competitive sense, and the parents live vicariously through their offspring, screaming at NSSA ...
Going as far back as the 1960s, jet-propelled surfboards that don’t require a wave to ride have long been a pipe dream, but when the team from ESurf recently landed in Maui and let Lenny have a ...