Posted September 7, 200618 yr Hi all. I have put together a Cleveland Surfing Art Show at Bela Dubby Gallery. It's located on Madison in Lakewood, not too far from W 117. The displays feature many fantastic pics of the city and will be up all through September. The Show is to raise awareness for a documentary I'm filming called "Out of Place: a portrait of surfing the great lakes." http://www.edesigned.net/bela/bd/beladubby.html (new hours: they do not open until 4pm, but they're now open Mondays) Go check it out!!!!
September 7, 200618 yr Wimwar, the name sounds familiar....I think he had a display run at the gallery?? "the Masked Villain" is my buddy, Jack. You have to wear wetsuits that cover most of your body. That way we can surf in the coldest temps, right up until the lake freezes!!! We get our best waves in Fall and Winter.
September 7, 200618 yr Surf: I'm cold looking at those pics and I'm in Phoenix... Can you posts us some shots from the documentary? I'd love to see some actual surfing footage. Thanks & good luck
September 8, 200618 yr There is some absolutly cool stuff about surfers in Lake Michigan. I ran across the great lakes surfing subculture via websurfing..... Apparenlty there are some good waves off the Gary/Hammond area during the fall! Imagine surfing in a icy cold lake with flecks of snow coming down, with a backdrop of refinery flares and blast furnaces!
September 8, 200618 yr I can post pics all night...this surfing documentary is my life's work!!! Sure mleroy I'll post some more. I just have to go back and change the file names from "jpeg" to "jpg" for some reason. Jeff- Lake Michigan generally gets better waves than we do here. Michigan has beautiful beaches too. mrnyc- thanks, wish you could be here to check it out, the exhibit turned out fantastic. pic 1: group staying warm at Edgewater Park last winter pic 2: Sean Rooney at Edgewater last week, he's a native of Laguna Beach, CA. His family is restoring the WT Grant Building on Euclid pic 3: Vince Labbe, Edgewater Park last winter pic 4: Mike Miller in Lorain = big waves
September 8, 200618 yr Pics from the gallery show opening party on Saturday Sept. 2nd. bela dubby gallery is a neat place right in my "birdtown" hood in lakewood. it's a combo beer cafe/coffee shop/art gallery.
September 8, 200618 yr On what street is that gallery? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 9, 200618 yr Thanks. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 10, 200618 yr I can't believe someone didn't beat me to the punch, but mucho congrats, surfohio for starring in the NYTimes' most-emailed article of the day! By CHRISTOPHER MAAG Published: December 10, 2006 CLEVELAND, Dec. 9 — They surf in Cleveland because they must. They surf with two-inch icicles clinging to their wet suits, through stinging hail and overpowering wind. They work nights to spend their winter days scouting surf. They are watermen on an inland sea. More info about surfing in Cleveland found in remainder of the NYTimes article [link unknown]
December 11, 200618 yr hey surfohio you will be interested to know my step-bro's surf music record shop is 2 blocks west of that gallery (it's called hodads).
December 12, 200618 yr I think that Chris Maag wrote it. He's a very successful free-lance writer who lives near West Blvd & Clifton. I think he does a lot of work for Time and NYT.
December 12, 200618 yr I think that Chris Maag wrote it. He's a very successful free-lance writer who lives near West Blvd & Clifton. I think he does a lot of work for Time and NYT. And if that wasn't enough, the article appeared on the front page of the Sunday Times--no less! (okay, it was below the fold, but still...) http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
December 12, 200618 yr ^yeah, seriously...how 'bout some citation folks?! The by-line was an unintended casualty of my exuberant cutting and pasting. Sorry Chris Maag!
December 13, 200618 yr Wow that article got around!! I thought Chris Maag did a great job. Great guy. The editors actually condensed the story for the front page and took the name of my movie out of it- but that's okay. I kind of cringed when reading it--he didn't pull any punches about how polluted it can get...but maybe that's a good thing, a wake up call that will strengthen the resolve to help clean things up. MRNYC is your bro-in-law John? I have filmed inside Hodads for the documentary. I love that place!!! One of the reasons I love living in Lakewood are the cool underground places like that. Scott D. p.s. I for 3 months I managed to avoid telling my wife's family in NJ that I quit my job to make a movie. Well they know now.
December 24, 200618 yr MRNYC is your bro-in-law John? I have filmed inside Hodads for the documentary. I love that place!!! One of the reasons I love living in Lakewood are the cool underground places like that. Scott D. yep! not bro in law but step bro ;) his partner in crime over there is rich.
January 4, 200718 yr Surf Ohio, what is the name of the recent documentary that spotlighted great lakes surfing? I recall that it made it's Cleveland premier at the Cedar Lee about two years ago...
January 4, 200718 yr hey guv, it's called unsalted. i had the link saved, here ya go: http://www.unsalted.tv/
January 20, 200718 yr Hey all. Anthony Bourdain from the Travel Channel stopped by Edgewater Park yesterday. For two hours they filmed a segment on local surfing that should air in July or August. Great guy!!! I'm sure he'll have a great time in Cleveland. Scott
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