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Jim Heimann: Leroy Grannis : Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
Thanks to Woolard blog. I discovered a brand in his posts. NAU. Look nice. And they say "not just another outdoor company"
Probably true, and good to see that such ideas are growing, in the same kind of spirit than Patagonia 30 years ago.
Good luck Nau.
The famous brand "kailloux" is launching its new organic coton t-shirts !!!
As Romu says in its email, it is not a "marketing" move but something obvious to save the planet :-)
Hey, Romu, and if it helps selling more t-shirts, it's good too :-))
So go on the WEB 2.0 e-commerce website of Kailloux, and (if you need one), buy a nice T-shirt to go climbing
(made by climbers, for climbers)
When it's cold, when you want to avoid this hard cold strike on your forehead when the set is on you, when you are afraid of the wipeout because the water is too cold ... Then you have one solution :
FOUS TA CAGOULE ! !!!
When looking at the statistics on this blog, I see that a lot of people are finding this blog using Google, and making queries on the Patagonia Wetsuit.
Ali posted a comment where he says :
"Thanks so much for this PDF with details of Patagonia's new wetsuit. I ended up buying the suit [...]"
Well, you are welcome Ali, and thank you for the link to the Unofficial website about the Patagonia wetsuit. This is a really good initiative.
Nice pictures, and very good guide to show the product in details, with its efficiency.
After the patagonia wetsuit, we have the patagonia websuit :-))
"c'est une histoire d'amour dont les episodes ont ete melanges par un fou"
(
"it is a love story, chapters of which has been messed up by a madman")
The new Amelie Nothomb book
I liked many of her books, always a pleasure to read them, quick, intense. I really liked the sentence I quote in this post, that's what made me bought it.
I'll tell you more once I've finished to read it.
(ps : picture extracted from a "Flou artistique" period of my new artist life. I let my camera drives me among the different kinds of "artistic moments" the technology dictates me :-))
2 new books for surfers. 2 new books for Christmas. 
Bend to Baja, THE BOOK, is now available. I mentionned the Bend To Baja trip there. And now the book is available. You can preorder it there.
Then you have The Surfers Journal Shop which proposes a book from Ron Church.
Here is what is mentionned on TSJ web site.
Ron Church - California and Hawaii 1960/1965
Ron Church
brought a trained photographer’s eye to the sport of surfing, which in
itself was unusual. With his background in sport diving and underwater
research photography combined with his La Jolla, California roots, he
turned his attention to surfing just as the sport was beginning to
morph from a sleepy but evocative pastime into a commercialized
lifestyle. From 1960 into 1965 he captured its last moments of
innocence, first in California, moving to Oahu’s big-wave fields, and
then back to California. Graphic designer/bookmaker Tom Adler has been
producing an acclaimed series of art books featuring surf photography
(ie. “Don James, San Onofre to Point Dume, 1936-1941”, “SURFING
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SEVENTIES TAKEN BY JEFF DIVINE), utilizing his own
unique design sense to select offbeat images that seem to make magic by
the time he arranges them on the pages. This, his second book from the
files of Ron Church (The first being SURF CONTEST, published in early
2006) is a joint effort between The Journal and T. Adler Books.
Thanks again to Tex (and Marion) for the info :
You remember Claire, a Patagoniac ..., well here she is again :
Claire Karabatsos during the prizegiving at the EuroSima Awards,
receiving the "Special Award for Ecological Innovation" for the Patagonia Regulator Wetsuit!
(Look here all the champagne bottles, I am quite sure Tex was there on purpose)
plus Claire in the wetsuit - fitting perfectly... 
Here it is !!!
The new E-commerce website of Patagonia is available in Europe !
You can now order your prefered clothes online, wherever you are in Europe.
I just hope that we will also benefit from the nice sales seasons as we can see in the US :-))
Well done Patagonia team !
You may remember this post about Yvon's latest book ? Well, now, the book is available in French and there will be a press conference on the 6th of November in Paris about this book.
The translation of the title in French sounds a bit less funny I think, but still, it translates the spirit of Yvon.
Here are the french docs about this book :
Download homme d'affaire malgre moi presentation
Download the french first page and presentation
In France, this french version of the book is not available yet on Amazon and other internet websites, but you can order it directly to Patagonia or buy it in a Nature et Decouvertes shop.
Today is a new day. The kind of day you get up and say : I will never do mistakes again !
So here are some "never do it again" ...
- In tahiti (or anywhere else where you'll find sun, waves, monoi), do not forget to clean up the monoi on your body before going surfing. Your board will be a soap ...
- Do not try to go down a nice skate sloap very fast, in SLAPS. You'll loose your toes !
- Do not run the Courmayeur - Champex - Chamonix race again (to be checked in 10 months).
- do not run hard just after a good lunch ! really to hard for your belly !
- do not forget your surf boots when you go surfing on the coral and urchins ! you look like a rookie, but your feet will thank you ...
- never forget your warm jacket when you leave Paris in October and land in Moscow !
- ...
More to come later for sure ...
You may have heard about CHANGE THIS. This is a very interesting website, with many manifestos.
I strongly recommend this one :Never the same !
What does it take to change the world? To change people? To make a difference, every day? Charles Halton presents 18 characteristics to help you create transformational experiences.
Nice reading during your holidays ...
TERRE PAPILLON proposes now nice models of T Shirt.
Hand made, quality, unique !
The pictures are not showing really the beauty of the colors, but, believe me, it is really nice ! !
Do not hesitate to go there and buy some for the summer time !
Emmanuel launched his new website : "TERRE PAPILLON" to propose his nice T-shirts hand crafted by him.
Really nice colors, paintings, and good products. 
If you cannot by a painting from Picasso, I am quite sure you can buy a Terre Papillon t-shirt, and wear it or hang it on your wall :-)
Good luck Manu ...
Thanks to THE PITON where I found the adress of this site.
On Pocket-lint I found an interesting article about Rip Curl.
Rip Curl Goes Green ! Rip Curl created the RipCurl Planet Label and shows its implication in environment. The products of this label are made of natural fabrics such as linen and bamboo.
After Patagonia and the choice of Organic Cotton, other brands are making the choice of ecology for their products.
Rip Curl presents a 100 per cent organic cotton T-shirt range. Organic cotton is a real alternative to conventional cotton, which is far from being as ecological as it seems.
The real question is : Do they do that to increase their sales and be more fashionable, or do they really believe the choice of organic coton and natural fibers will help the planet ? It looks like they really take care and take concrete actions
But the only way to really know is to wait 10 years and see if they 'll increase their use of organic cotton and if they engaged their company in a true ecological strategy.
But, I find that interesting and nice that such brands look concerned by our planet.
Here it is ! the new Kailloux Web Site !
Brand new, in its own style with its beautiful Tshirts ! Hey, Iam wondering if Patagonia can provide him with Organic Ts and help him a little bit !
If you come to climb some boulders in Fontainebleau, contact Kailloux and go climb with him !
Good Luck for your nice T shirts !
