There’s a new surf range from Mahalo. A steel and nylon string ukulele but also, more excitingly, a lap steel slide guitar shaped as a surfboard. Yep, that’s right, it’s shaped like a surfboard!
No idea what they sound like but the lap steel in particular looks like a lot of fun.
Images: Mahalo
Willa Holland of the O.C., Gossip Girl and all sorts of other stuff I’ve never actually seen plays the ukulele! She’s even managed to get a song called Pretty Sweet Song, on the Spike Jones skateboard documentary, Pretty Sweet – so she’s okay in my books. You can listen to the song on spotify but it’s strangely absent from YouTube.
There’s also a nice interview with her in Marie Claire from a larger piece called Extracurricular Cool Women. Her obsession is the ukulele and she recommends using a shoestring as a strap.
Image: Marie Claire
It was -5, snowing, but I still caught that island spirit.
This post is pretty much just a virtual toot* to another ukulele owner. Freunde von Freunden is one of those modern day through the key hole sorts of sites where they just go and nose round other peoples houses.
Olimpia Zagnoli is an illustrator who lives in Milan and has a pink flying v ukulele.
Image: Freunde von Freunden
Ukulele in the basket and I also have exactly the same red cabinet.
Image: Freunde von Freunden
* Like VW or Mini owners toot their horn when they pass another VW or Mini car driver
Elvis playing the ukulele screen prints. A4 and only an edition of 8. One of these little beauties will be adorning my wall once I get a frame for it. The image is from Blue Hawaii. Andy Warhol eat your heart out.
