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Review from 'THE SURFER'S JOURNAL'
Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing By
Bolton Colburn,
Ben Finney,
Tyler Stallings,
C.R. Stecyk,
Deanne Stillman,
and Tom Wolfe
Designed by David Carson LAM/Gingko Press; softbound:
260 pages: $ 39.95
www.lagunaartmuseum.org
My review hopper runneth over. Suffering through a mini-boom in surf-book publishing, the wire rack I nicked from the dumpster is exploding with camp, kitsch, funk, and dross. I could return most to the Slush Pile Gods and do us all a favor. Exaggerating? You're denying the existence of a 32-page saddle-stitched pamphlet on the deodorization of wetsuit booties? A 340-page coffee-table book on the history of Newport's Echo Beach era? Permanent Wave: Surfer Hairstyles? The unexpurgated Filosa?
Welcome to my world.
But there was a diamond in the slag; Bolton Colburn had forwarded a copy of the catalog for that smoking Laguna show ("Mana Overboard"TSJ 11.5) and it's over the top. We're talking way better than it needed to be. Rather than a laundry list of items in the show, it's a deeply vigorous look at the art history and pop interface of surfing. Like the show itself, you don't want to miss a drop of it. Carson is all up in this thing, so it's a vibrating eye feast of bent graphics. What, you aren't running to the phone yet? -S.H.
from THE SURFER'S JOURNAL
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"He changed the public face of Graphic Design" -Newsweek,
"The art director of the era" -Creative review London,
The AIGA ,in the dec 03 issue of STEP magazine, calls carson "our biggest
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THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
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