Sorry to say: I love the concept, but this site is exactly why people think Flash is bad.
Tom Brown is pleased to announce the launching of one of the first of its kind, virtual surfing museums on line. ‘MR. SURF JUNK is my opportunity to give back to the surfing community in a way that helps preserve our surfing history’, states Brown.
“The items found in the museum are artifacts which I have collected over the years from my early childhood days as a young boy surfing the frigid waters of Santa Cruz.” The website is easy to navigate. It contains articles from the 1960’s 1970’s and through the 1980’s. It allows the surfer the opportunity to visit ten different rooms displaying 500 photos, 50 photos in each room.
Each photo contains a detailed description of the item being displayed. Topics touched upon include vintage surf magazines from the top publishers (some now extinct), contest posters and programs from events held around the world, movie posters and programs from some of the finest surf film makers of our time, surf books, comics, LP’s, vintage surfboard brochures and price lists, skate history, and an entire room dedicated to rare, one-of-a-kind articles.
A true collection of goods from the early days of the sport. Some, newer items from the 21st century are briefly touched upon as well.
“The launching of Mr. Surf Junk’s Surfing Museum is my way of giving back to the surfing community and keeping the stoke alive for future generations,” enthused Brown. Prior to launching MR. SURF JUNK, Tom spent the later portion of his career working with Shaun Tomson at Solitude Clothing and the more recent re-launch of the iconic brand INSTINCT Clothing.
In addition to these two ventures, Brown held the position of Sales Manager with Virginia Beach based Life On A Board and manufacturer’s rep for Oxbow clothing. Most recently he held the position of distributor for Oxbow Surfboards in Northern and Central California.
To view the site, please visit mrsurfjunk.com. Feel free to comment or add information by contacting Brown at tom@mrsurfjunk.com
www.mrsurfjunk.com
The big news? As of today, EasternSurf.com is now the independent entity of its big sister print publication that you’ve known and loved for the past 18 years and counting. The all new EasternSurf.com website is a completely separate editorial and advertising vehicle, featuring its own unique, stand-alone content that will be continually updated throughout the week — vastly different than our older site, which was updated once every six weeks upon the newest issue’s release to visually enhance that edition’s content.
Most importantly, the re-launch of our website will complement Eastern Surf Magazine and help to grow our readership — one of the largest and most dedicated in the surfing world — by quantum leaps with each new post, as well as propel our business model forward. Besides offering a plethora of fresh, new departments and features that reflect the top-quality East Coast surfing photojournalism that ESM is known for — including pertinent East Coast news, photographer portfolios, evocative human interest pieces and profiles, engaging interviews, timely contest reports, entertainment reviews, photo features, historical retrospectives, travel stories, a range of stimulating galleries, and various multimedia and interactive content — we are also happy to announce that we have partnered up with Surfline, the gold standard in wave prognosticating, as our official East Coast swell forecasters. We will also be providing Surfline with links to our own website’s content on their soon-to-be-redesigned East Coast surf cam pages.
The EasternSurf.com team has worked long and hard for a year now to bring this dream, of becoming the most definitive website anywhere covering East Coast surfers as they make their respective marks at home and around the world, to fruition, which we humbly submit here for your enjoyment. As the founders and co-owners of ESM, we can say that this is without a doubt our most important endeavor to date since printing our first edition of Eastern Surf Magazine in 1991, and we can’t give enough thanks to our extremely talented, dedicated, and passionate crew for their collective efforts in producing the fantastic digital ride you are one click away from dropping into.
