Rich Morrison (above, R) is an international surf artist known for his experimental art and an appreciation for nature.
Morrison’s latest piece is a functional surfboard made from 72 beer cans. Rich was able to construct this unique board with the aid and expertise of surfboard maker Gary Seagraves.
Rich’s love for the environment (and maybe, beer) inspired the use of recyclables to create this tasteful ride.
The beer cans are coated in polyurethane and epoxy to provide a sturdy base for the board.
It’s part of Morrison’s Enviro Surf Art Series, and will be tested in the ocean very soon. Surf on over to the Enviro Surf Art Series on Facebook.
related: other products made with recycled materials
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Reading about the beer can surfboard reminded me of the summer when me and some friends rebuilt a car made out of beer cans. I wouldn’t have described us as “eco-friendly” exactly, but we needed something to do with all those empty beer cans. I can’t recall the exact year – sometime in the late 70′s – but we retrofitted from the chassis on up a 1971 Ford Pinto using nothing but empty beer cans and duct tape. The Pinto was pretty beat up, having spent one too many nights at the North Platte demolition derby, but the engine still ran and we decided to give that old Pinto new life. Using close to a thousand flattened beer cans – mostly Schlitz and Falstaff empties – we assembled each quarter panel in the back of my cousin’s machine shop and then screwed them onto the frame (we didn’t bother with a roof, opting to roll dune buggy style). We fastened duct tape on all the seams for added support, not to mention giving it some pretty sharp “chrome” detailing. I’d like to report that when we rolled the refurbished Pinto out of the barn she barreled up the highway to cheers and fist-pumping. The truth is, the Pinto sputtered a few yards, scraped the side of a tool shed and fell completely apart in a ditch by the side of the road.