Leaving tomorrow AM for Austin/SXSWi 2010. This will be 3rd time attending and the excitement is still just the same. Looking forward to some inspiration, conversation, beer and great tex-mex food !!

Should be amazing — if you’re there find me via:

twitter/stevey | sitby.us/stevey | or leave me a msg here.

Nice piece of work by Mr. Chase Burns. Then & now @ Bells Beach. History.

“Kye riding the board Bobby was riding on BIG SATURDAY at bells. The Board revisits the famous surf spot to ride the same break but a future swell.”

Nothing says crazy like body surfing a place like Shipsterns Bluff. Pounded straight to Davies locker.

Wow.

This bad boy inspires my imagination. Canadian ta’ boot.

(via SissyFish)

BIRTHRIGHT from Sean Mullens on Vimeo.

Everyone once and a while I try and imagine — life without legs / eyes / ears. It often scares me and puts me in reverence of those that overcome and don’t even let it slow them down.

“Something to think about on a Friday…. — TSJ”

All the power to you whatever your situation. Be what you were meant to be.

Endless amber crystal tubes into shallow water. Soooo fun. Want this looping as my desktop video/picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgnFOxK6ft4

1st goal set and reached — 60km in 4 weeks.

Rinse and repeat. Next goal will be 70km in 4 weeks.

http://my.nike.com/stevebissonnette

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/02/22/mavericks-surf-the-surfers/

Too bad it’s now in TSJ and will be blown up/crowded …. kidding ;-).

This has gotta be one of the NE’s busiest and most crowded surf spots.

Michael Bierut is one of the partners @ Pentagram in NYC. If you work in the creative client services industry — this is worth your time to watch.

“Our speaker at the January 2010 CreativeMornings ( creativemornings.com ) was Michael Bierut of Pentagram hosted at the fabulous Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. It was our biggest CreativeMornings audience yet with 300 (!) NYC creatives attending.”

Fun little short clip from Jason Baffa…

“Keith (Malloy) bagged this tube while we were shooting some 2nd unit stuff for a feature. tyler made us a few nose riders and this 9’4” - craftsman, it wasn’t a lot different than the nose rider outline but no spoon - maybe a bit narrower. we knew we were going to surf puerto escondito and we wanted something that would be pretty fast. this stuff has been sitting in a drawer so i thought i’d share it.”

Here’s another one

Did my first 7km+ run this morning and felt strong at the end. Short term goals include getting closer to a 5’/km pace, regularly running 7km+ with longer 10km runs once a week, and keeping up a minimum of 3 runs per week.

A good motivator for me is running to old rock/punk plus some new stuff — here’s the latest “RUN” playlist..

RUN MIX 1

• Animal - Miike Snow
• Waiting Room - Fugazi
• Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
• The Sweat Descends - Les Savy Fav
• Punkrocker (Feat. Iggy Pop) - Teddybears
• The Passenger - Iggy Pop
• The Hard Way - The Kinks
• Young Adult Fiction - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
• Dominos - The Big Pink
• 23 - Blonde Redhead
• Weakness - McRad
• 1901 - Phoenix
• Dreaming - Blondie
• Spendin’ Days - Japanese Motors
• Teen Angst - M83
• Lovesick Teenagers - Bear In Heaven
• Back On The Streets Again - Tower Of Power
• How I Got Over - The Roots
• Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
• Hard Sun - Eddie Vedder

Today’s run details

Nat Young Airdrop to some very limber looking rag dolling at Sunset Beach, HI.

http://vimeo.com/7975332

Lovely short video of barrel fest at a beach very close to where we hang out.

“Mid-Atlantic snow storm brings fun waves to New England.
Video : Michael Sander”

http://vimeo.com/9434250

There’s a ton of things to love about this video — skate, dawn patrol, redondo beach brea barrels, dolphins and being stoked!!

“Wake up at 5:30, coffee and internet, as the sky lightens just enough, hop on the Sector9 to skate down to the beach for a look. Looks good, i’m out there. Skate home and run up the stairs. Run back down in wetsuit, climb under the fence, paddle out in the cold, appreciate the sunrise from the water, the dolphins swimming by, and a few awesome views from inside the waves.” — Holly Beck

Some links for February 1st through February 9th…

• Surfindian
  “To visit”
• 43 Folders - Interview with "Linchpin" author, Seth Godin | 43 Folders
  “To listen to — "Merlin's Interview with "Linchpin" author, Seth Godin"”
• RunKeeper | GPS Fitness Tracking Using 3G iPhone for Running, Cycling, Hiking, Walking
  “Looks good”
• Lifestream for Wordpress
  “"Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog."”
• How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site
  “Useful for mods on the fly”
• Mamapedia™ - The wisdom of moms™
  “Bookmarked for Linda”
• ITA Software: Trip Planner
  “A great way to find flights”
• Bertelli • NYC • Biciclette Assemblate • New York City
  “Very smooth designs”

Great POV from beginning to end — I would highly suggest clicking this link and then choosing 720p/HD from the options and viewing full screen.

“Bart Willems went for a session in 15ft surf at Mavericks on 2010-01-10 and documented a session on GoPro HD camera. A 3 hour session is condensed into 5 minutes of highlights.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ry__IN3CcU

How can you not love this.. Gerry and Herbie touring the Pipe house then sitting back to watch the show.

“And to back up Justin’s words here’s Gerry Lopez and Herbie Fletcher on Jan 29th, walking talking and reminiscing around their previous residence - the Pipe House.

Surfing, one of the world’s earliest sports, is lucky to have been defined again so recently in historical terms.

It’s easy to spout on about commercialism ruining a sport. So so make a cup of tea and sit down and spend 10 minutes watching these gentlemen tell you how it was to a backdrop of perfect Pipe. ”

http://magicseaweed.com/JOB-Done-Content/2227/12/

Loving this video by Michael Sander. Familiar spots I hope to see more of this coming spring/summer.

We bought our plane tickets ridiculously cheap through Delta (800$ for Both Linda and I / return / 1 stop / taxes in) and sent off our deposit $ for the condo we’ve rented (lawn is onto the sand).

Already contacted some buddies and internet peeps to show me around during a couple dawn patrols. Also have a great list of resto’s and cool spots to hit. And it’s Devyn’s birthday (Chris and Ralu’s daughter) the first weekend we’re there. We’re excited.

Now I have to get my arms back into paddling shape.

(Lovely photo by nathalie booth)

This is my buddy Mackenzie @ Lakey Peak, Indo (Photo by Mamat)

His words.. “A little off season swell at Lakey Peak” —— My words ” Are you shitting me — WOW !!!”

(click photo for larger version)

Premiere of Season 6 of LOST is now weeks away. These posters just reminded me — one of the things I love about the show is that can inspire such creativity.

http://mattsoncreative.com/blog/2010/01/18/lost-posters/

Video is too good not to post here. She is.

Ha — wonder how many times this has happened before ?! Surely a couple in the “Sue-Happy-USA”? Surfing etiquette’s up in court after a drop-in priority collision.

Also — from what I’ve heard about some of the NS breaks — I wouldn’t call these rules “courtesy” as doing this at many of those breaks will end with you having 4 flat tires quick.

(Here’s some rules about the etiquette and the video above isn’t NS)

“When two surfers collided off Nova Scotia last year, it set off a lawsuit that turned a small claims court into a class on surfing etiquette.

And this week, it became a $839.68 lesson for one of them.

Donald Crowe and Jeffrey Adams ran in to each other while surfing along the Eastern Shore, near Halifax. The two were on good terms, but Crowe was less than impressed when Adams told him to “suck it” and refused to pay for his damaged surfboard, according to a court document released Thursday.

Instead of fighting — the way Crowe said disputes are normally settled — he decided to sue. He demanded $750 US for a replacement board, claiming Adams broke an unwritten rule in surfing circles by paddling into the breaking point of the wave while he was riding it.

Adams argued that that rule was simply a courtesy. He said Crowe could have got out of the way but didn’t, and took a risk anyway by participating in a dangerous sport.

Crowe, who goes by the name Buck when surfing, called himself an “expert experienced” surfer. He said he even gave Adams helpful tips over the years.

Several witnesses were called to testify about surfing rules during the one-day hearing in November. They said that Adams, the less experienced surfer, should not have paddled into the breaking part of a two-metre wave when Crowe was in it.

The small claims court adjudicator, David Parker, agreed that the rules of surfing etiquette aren’t binding in law, but he concluded that Adams failed to act properly.

“If he had done or taken other action this may have been avoided,” Parker wrote.

He ordered Adams to pay $750 Cdn to replace Crowe’s board, along with $89.68 in court costs.”

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/01/22/ns-surfing-sue.html?ref=rss

Some links for January 6th through January 18th…

• Simple Desktops
  “Just lovely.”
• MotionX News » MotionX-GPS
  “Interesting tracker for iPhone”
• Revision Behavior - Revision control made easy (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP
  “Versioning for CakePHP”
• desire to inspire - desiretoinspire.net - Anson Smart
  “Living space inspiration”
• Gmail: Tips
  “Become a GMAIL Ninja”
• pachube.apps | Data Logger | connecting environments, patching the planet
  “Track data yourself”
• Nicholas Zambetti
  “Cool projects i wish i understood better”
• California Surf Museum Home Page
  “To visit in April”
• Special J: Image transfer technique
  “Great technique !!”

Cali is getting some waves this week from what I’m told. This photo of Blacks is stunning (click it to view larger)

http://magicseaweed.com/Pulled-Back-Blacks-Content/2190/4/