Vintage Pacific

"The name is Watts - 

Parrish Watts."

The brand is 

Vintage Pacific Surfcraft

The vehicles are wooden.

Sometimes hollow.

Never ugly.

Too Much Acid

In the spirit of partying responsibly, 

remember that

"too much acid is a bad bad thing"**

**So said the underground Aussie band, Pineapples from Beyond the Dawn of Time. One guitarist used to wear a monk's outfit and the other was Clem Lukey, former resident of Coolum and slider of places like First Point (below) during the Single Fin Era.

Oil and Enamel on Paper

when this image

decides to impede its ratio

the light takes the lens as a microphone

specifically to sing one word

you never thought you'd hear

(     )

An exerpt from Nathan Shepherdson's poem Out There published in his anthology "what marian drew never told me about light - a collaboration with Aussie photo-artist Marian Drew.

Nathan's father Gordon doesn't surf, but his huge oil and enamel paintings imply many happy moments beside the brine.

"Afternoon sky on dark ocean of dark eyes"

94x105 cm

by

Gordon Shepherdson

at

Philip Bacon Galleries

Oil and enamel on paper