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companies prepare for massive 2nd and 3rd quarter growth this year.
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Larry Crow and glassing by Michael Miller
New Interview was just posted today by Liquid Salt Magazine
Out of Place
Cleveland Surf Documentary Coming to SBIFF
BY STAFF

Don't forget your booties!
SANTA BARBARA CA FEBRUARY 1, 2010. Vince Labbe loves surfing. Twice he left for Hawaii for the allure of perfect waves and twice he's ended up back in Ohio. But any time the storms across Lake Erie he is still surfing. And if you look past the small waves and arctic weather he may be on to something.
Despite the lack of the postcard perfect weather and waves that make the surfing image a billion dollar industry, there exists a kind of welcoming, throwback culture in Cleveland. "The common bond is the passion for life on the water," says Vince. "In many ways, it's a lot like how California must have been in the 1940's and 50's where everyone knew each other, and you were just glad to see cars pull up to the beach with boards on the roof."
The filmmakers are honored to be bringing Out of Place to California. "We're overwhelmed…extremely glad to be showing for California audiences" said Co-Director Scott Ditzenberger. "Being invited to Santa Barbara and realizing the history of surfing culture here, it's once in a lifetime…it all means so much to us."
About the film: Out of Place is an insider's perspective of the small underground community of surfers in Cleveland, Ohio. Theirs is a life of shared dedication for the water and to waves that rarely come. In the backdrop is a Great Lakes city trying to recover from a legacy of lost industry, lost jobs and a river polluted enough to catch fire. Still they persist despite harsh weather and gray skies. For them, the golden era of surfing is right now. And it's happening on Lake Erie, five hundred miles from the nearest ocean.
Award Winner: Out of Place recently premiered at the New York Surf Film Festival, Tribeca Cinemas. There it won the Audience Award for Best Feature presented by Jet Blue and the Dominican Republic. The film has been a nine year project of Co-Directors Scott Ditzenberger and Darrin McDonald, Writer Tom Heinrich, Chris McIntosh and Editor/Producer Kurt Vincent.
This is the 25th anniversary of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Please visit www.sbiff.org for ticket information and the film site atwww.outofplacemovie.com.
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Below is the og jr comp model also 10 6.
Heading south anyone?
Hello

Just checking in, man have we had a run of surf, so many left and right secret spots to get to just not enough time. Just letting everyone know that I've add a "My Blogs List" which are just a few of my favorites to support and follow. Hope you guys are having a good holiday season and gonna have a great new year. Im looking forward to it! See you at Doho next weekend!
9'6 Fish Simmons Quad designed by Tyler Warren available for purchase


Trip Update
Josh in Portugal Part 1
Part 2
the real update and trip story is being transcribed.....coming soon
Pizza Box Diaries

Present left behind by JT for the boys from the Salinas Surf Festival in August

Tombstone Pizza Box Style

Joel this ones for you! Look closely


Final preparations for mean northern Spain Beach assualt
Stardate: November 8th 2009
things are going great over here: just finished my work up for the french connection pat of the tour and im heading south to santander to the film festival next week fitting that the poster is a stoner shot of skip at the ranch, so ill be there representing sd in full force all the newest and neatest films are gonna be there, even j smarts tralier to TTWE prettty stoked about that
France has been awesome got a few days od surf right in the beginning and its has been 30 feet and storming ever since, which is good becuase that means the work i had got done
side note: i`m typing on a french mac keyboard whiwh is difficult so please forgive the errors
france ctd/ been staying here with an amaznig family who has been gracious to host me while im here, as if part of the family! i cant thank them enough the factory and the quality of work there is on par with the finest in sd, so you can make sure the boards are going to come out sweet built a lot of fish, eagles and big fish simmons....i hope they are ready for sanding those bottoms!!! hahaha thanks guys! feedback seems tp be good and I cant wait to get back here and do it again, maybe next summer? its a ghost town here now but ive heard in the summer its quite the opposite
after the film fest ill be haeding out to portugal to meet up with rui and the boys out there to build a few more boards then on to salamanca spain where i lived for a year in college, to visit friends and relive a bit of that time in my life...look out!!!!
the sevilla then off to barcelobna where i fly out
hope to check in soon again ciao ciao
































