the life of Brian Pennington

Pure Joy

Brian Pennington — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:41:43 +0000

As a young-en growing up in Southern California, there was a good chance of being exposed to the surf scene. I thank god for allowing me to have an insanely fun childhood. I will never forget the first time I saw two teenagers skateboarding down our street in Echo Park Los Angeles. They had metal wheels in those days. My brother and I watched in amazement as these two stylish dudes carved down Lakeshore Ave. That’s all it took to set us on fire for all things surf. We were dirt poor in those days and little did we know our mom would re-marry and move to Hacienda Heights Ca.We were little kids at the time and the surf scene was alive and well in the heights despite being 30 miles inland. Our step dad owned his own company and our very first vacation was to Newport Beach for what seemed like most of the summer. We were in the water almost the entire time. While in Newport, we ventured next door to Huntington Beach. Better known as “Surf City USA”. As providence would have it, the US Surfing Championships were going on and we were able to watch David Nuuhiwa, Jeff Crawford and Dale Dobson battle it out. It was there that I fell in love a thousand times more with surfing. Huntington Beach in those days had to be the coolest place to be. The surf shops lined the streets and each one had a very hip surf vibe. One shop in particular always stood out – “Pure Joy Surfboards” I loved the name the first time I ever heard it as a little grommet and it never left my mind. Though the shop closed it’s doors , I hope to do it justice and catch the essence of the days in which it was around.

Dancin Fool

Brian Pennington — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:46:47 +0000

dancin fool

Originally uploaded by b pennington

About BP

Brian Pennington — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:19:23 +0000

Husband, father, surfer, musician, artist looking to find home for talents that lie within.

Besides the obvious of wanting to enjoy my wife and kids to the fullest extent – I want to express myself through creating art in music and graphic design. I play guitar from ear – learning by playing along to Bowie records. My art work is the same – I have been studying various graphic artist around the world and am blown away at the talent out there. Just like music – the inspiration is endless and I use this inspiration to find my own brand of art.

Modernism

Brian Pennington — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:23:23 +0000

Modernism is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to make, improve, deconstruct and reshape their built and designed environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation, thus in it’s essence both progressive and optimistic. The term covers many political, cultural and artistic movements rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Broadly, modernism describes a series of reforming cultural movements in art and architecture,music, literature and the applied arts which emerged in the decades before 1914. Modern (quantum and relativistic) physics, modern (analytical and continental) philosophy and modern number theory in mathematics are, however, also said to date from this period. Embracing change and the present, modernism encompasses the works of thinkers who rebelled against nineteenth century academic and historicist traditions, and confronted the new economic, social and political aspects of an emerging fully industrialized world. Some people divide the 20th Century into movements designated Modernism and Postmodernism, where others see them as two aspects of the same movement.