I sent Tony Serra a copy of Driftwood Shacks and he sent me a link to www.ladonia.org.
Nimis is a series of wooden sculptures situated along the coast in the Kullaberg Nature Reserve, Höganäs Municipality, in the northern part of Skåne County, Sweden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladonia_(micronation)
I’m working away on my Half-Acre Homestead book.
Our own Driftwood Shacks book has arrived in the USA. It should be available from our website by late January and in bookstores soon thereafter. It looks really good.
Due to all this, I haven’t had much time to create new posts.
Earlier postings on them: www.lloydkahn.com/?s=higginbotham
Jim Fisher, a powerful swimmer, was on the Lowell High School (San Francisco) swim team in the early 1950s. The first time I ever went swimming in the ocean was when Jim and I went across the Great Highway from Fleishhacker Pool after a swimming meet, and went body surfing. It changed my life — the blue sky, the blue water, the waves…
After graduation, Jim went to Hawaii and, along with other haole California surfers, surfed the biggest waves they could find. I realize that this photo is blurred and scratchy, but It’s one of my favorite surf shots. There’s just something about it that grabs you. Jim said he almost drowned on the wipeout that ensued.
‘Between Worlds’ chronicles a unique collaboration between two renowned artists: Andrés Amador, who creates expansive works of beach art and preeminent long-exposure photographer Henthorne, who attempts to capture Amador’s ephemeral installations before they are reclaimed by the elements.
It’s a story that explores the challenges and rewards experienced by artists who sacrifice their singular vision in pursuit of creating something breathtaking and original.
A film by Brad Kremer, Christopher Frey, and Phillippa Frey
From Leo Hetzl
This is a drawing of the lumber and passenger steamer Seafoam, loading lumber at the point off the town of Mendocino, sometime in the early 1900s. It’s hard to believe what these guys did in heavy seas, off of rocky shores back in the day; check out the guy riding on the logs! From the Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Historical Society Museum In Fort Bragg, California
Sea otter in kelp beds in Marin County, holding an abalone. They are delightful little creatures. In the ’50s in Santa Cruz, there was a friendly little otter that used to come right up to our surfboards at the Wild Hook; we called him Sammy, the sea otter.
From my forthcoming (March 2019) book, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture on the Northern California Coast
I came upon this beautiful arrangement of beach objects at Muir Beach last night as the sun was setting. Mac Murphy, who often swims in the cold ocean sans wetsuit for 20 minutes or so, made it. He picked up the feathers — a lot of dead birds last night, and created this lovely circle.
Spent a windy night in this driftwood windbreak shelter. It was cleverly angled to block northwest winds.