Sunset
by Reviewer Rob
At sunset on Saturday, the final day of daylight savings time. Light santa-anna conditions were fading after a couple of days but there was still a glassy ocean to photograph as the wind began to slowly pick up out at sea. It had been as glassy and smooth as new tinfoil all day. This was after surfing the small 3-foot swell and on the walk back to my van with my Nikon CoolPix pocket camera (replacing the pricier Canon SureShot whose viewscreen broke). The sun was a perfectly round orange ball of shimmering radiation at the edge of the largest ocean on earth and now it was time for the last 6 p.m. sunset of the year.
Rick Griffin, the late, great surf cartoonist and concert poster illustrator, used to draw pictures of winged flying eyeballs and setting suns if I recall correctly that the stratification of the atmosphere on this horizon reminded me of. I was thinking about it when I saw this that maybe as a youth in his L.A. hometown of Palos Verdes he saw scenes similar to this and his artist’s eye caught the idea of making the winged flying eyeball that was in a spread of his now rare comic book TALES FROM THE TUBE.
On a side note: I bought a copy of TALES FROM THE TUBE at an SD Comicon back in the early/mid 1990’s and then I sold it to a San Diego used book seller about a year later for not a very big markup. Seeing this pic makes me want to find another one. RR
