Diggin’ In The Crates-Boston:

How was it?

An out take from a photo shoot for International Surfer Magazine.

When a friend who decides to sleep in instead of get up at dawn to go surfing asks you this, you tell him it was great. Even if it was miserable. Even if you sat out in the lineup being buffeted by a cold onshore wind, trying to find just one wave to ride in so you could get the hell out of there. You tell your friend it was great because it could have been. Everything could have come together perfectly. And he didn’t give it that chance.

If someone asks you this about a period of time, like Boston in the early nineties, the tendency is to do the same thing. To say it was great. But it wasn’t. It was at times. At times there were months on end where literally every day contained something new that
was discovered, or created, or learned. And at other times it was downright depressingly awful.

But everyone got out of bed for it. No one slept in. We were all together. And there was magic in that.

Ted, Blue, Lloyd & Mike outside the Planet on Newbury Street

Kadri Kurgun takes off on ugly wave in Massachusetts

Yoda was one of the two shop dogs at Placid Planet

Chris wore many hats at Placid Planet

Robbie Gangemi boosts a good one at Boston City Hospital

DeeDee was the queen of the whole scene

Gibber & Mikey Dread pose for a dual self-portrait in front of Placid Planet

Jahmal Williams one-footed ollie over a tipped trash can