Visual Bliss on Wednesday 4/24/13

Please join us on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 for an A-Frame Photography slideshow, print sales, live music from the Cholulas and industry giveaways from Filtrate eyewear and more. Special thanks to our good friends at Nomads Canteen for hosting the event!

MR and Quiksilver

We're very stoked that Quiksilver is using Dan Merkel's classic shot of Mark Richards aka MR aka The Wounded Gull in it's latest advertising campaign. There's no mistaking MR's style and Merkel captured this straight legged bottom turn at Off the Wall on the North Shore of Oahu in the heyday of the Bustin' Down the Door era.

Lost and Found

Filmmaker and editor extraordinaire Doug Walker found time after his "Lost and Found" premiere in New York to put this incredible piece together on Dan Merkel.

Well worth the watch. Check it out:

Will the Eddie Go?

The charts are off the meter right now and it looks like there's a solid chance to run The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau event sometime between Sunday Dec. 6th and Tuesday the 8th. Quik has done an excellent job with their event site and offer a text alert so you won't miss any action from the most anticipated one-day event in the sport. We encourage you to sign up immediately. Once again we are the proud providers of this year's Eddie image taken by Dan Merkel. The image (seen above) was one of the "lost" images tucked away tightly in Merk's storage unit for the last 30 + years. It had never seen the light of day and ended up being special enough to be the face of the 25th Anniversary edition of the event. If that doesn't give you "chicken skin" I don't know what will.