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
Gidget, a portmanteau of girl and midget, is a surfing movie with a girl protagonist from 1957. It’s no Nicholas Ray film but the first half, if you can get past the slightly annoying Gidget character, is watchable purely for the surfing and general bumming around. None of this wetsuit malarkey you get nowadays. It’s how surfing should be. There’s also a great party luau scene at the end of the film so it’s worth watching the whole thing, despite the ending.
Anyway, at the beginning of the clip the big kahuna is playing a ukulele, the instrument of kings.
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.
I sometimes spot ukuleles on other blogs. Backyard Bill is a photographer who does profiles on different people. I like his photos and I like the little interview with the person at the bottom.
Here’s a ukulele from the Kelsey Lu McJunkins – Brooklyn profile.
Image: Backyard Bill
