Words of Wisdom:

"One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy."
- Sir Richard Burton

My interview with: Club Of The Waves

When it comes to surf culture, surf artists, surf photographers, surfing forums, surfing debates or surfing anything, Club Of The Waves.com is the place to go. I've been a featured artist on COTW for a while now and have made some great contacts through the site as well as discovered A TON of really great artists and photographers. Take a gander... but don't blame me if you lose the next 2-3 hours to a computer screen!

I recently did a tasty little interview with COTW. Click >>HERE<< to check it out.

ERIK ABEL JOINS ARTSPROJEKT!!!

The time has come to officially launch my ARTSPROJEKT store/Art Laboratory! The brains of the operation, Andy Howell (Artist and former pro-skater) recently invited me to be a part of the AP family. Pretty stoked to be amongst some of my favorite artists! (Shepard Fairy/Obey, Mars-1, Erik Otto, DALEK, Jim Phillips, Ekundayo)

I've spent the last month putting together artwork and graphics for a basic product line of high quality prints/posters, shirts, hats, buttons, skateboard decks and other paraphernalia. And the line will constantly be expanding. The genius of ARTSPROJEKT is it's print-on-demand platform... a product is made only when it's ordered. Customers can customize most products too, ie- shirt style and color, print size, paper or canvas, framed or not. Artists don't have to worry about overhead, production, inventory or shipping... hallelujah! This means you can expect a constant flow of new products regardless of where I am in the world. Let's say it together now... AWESOME!

Be sure to join my newsletter so you'll be notified of special products I'll be offering only for a limited time.

So, check out what I've got in the store, get yourself a shirt and a few prints or a birthday present for the old lady(or old man) Currently I have 20 posters, a dozen shirts and loads of hats, buttons, mouse pads, mugs, skateboard decks and other various items to choose from.

GO TO MY ARTSPROJEKT STORE >>

There's also a little >>INTERVIEW<< I did for the AP blog.

For the complete low down on ARTSPROJEKT, Read the Press Release.

Billabong Shirt Graphic

A shirt I did for Billabong USA for their Fall 2009 line is hitting shops. Go grab yourself one!

The Kingdom of Tonga

X marks the spot. That little sliver of sand and palm trees will soon be my home for an unknown amount of time. Flight departs July 10th from Auckland... SOOO PUMPED! I'll be working on a small fishing lodge (Fresh sushi anyone?) in the Vava'u island group in Northern Tonga to escape the NZ winter! It's a pretty remote location, as you can see, and I'll definitely be scouting out some empty waves... might even have to make my own treasure map for the secretest of spots. In fact, I'm definitely going to be burying some treasure on a scrap of sand and coral around there somewhere... might just be a bottle of rum, but how many people can say they have treasure buried on a deserted island in the Pacific!!! Can't wait to mark that one off the list.

NZ: Winter Waves

Been slacking on the blog... Mostly because our house got robbed and my Mac Book Pro (aka: My job) got swiped with my iPod and sunglasses as well as a bunch of other stuff from my roommates. And the bastards took a giant shit on the lawn outside the window they got into. Damn turd burglers! So I've been a little bitter lately. Just been surfing a bunch and trying to forget about all the design files and music I'll never see again. Lesson learned: ALWAYS BACK-UP. Guess you gotta roll with the punches. Surfing always seems to help sort things out though...