Big news: Surf Artist Drew Brophy has been crowned PostSurf's Sell-Out of the Week!
Like almost everyone else who works in the surf industry, this whorish schemer has hopped into bed with corporations in order to extend the glide. Don't be hatin' - we all do it! Difference is, Drew Brophy does it like a porn star. And for that, he deserves to be celebrated.
Drew Brophy started out doing board art for ...Lost. Since then, he's expanded his business considerably. His states "Drew has been a professional artist for over 20 years, licensing his art to many great companies to adorn everything from tiki sculptures to skateboards, wakeboards, bikes and toys to shoes, clothing lines and fabric designs."
One of these "great companies" is JGR Copa, which manufactures Brophy'ed out skimboards and bodyboards.
If you want to buy one of these boards, definitely make sure to get a Brophy model. Do it to support an industry bro... or do it because some of the non-Brophy'ed JGR Copa bodyboards have been recalled 'cause they contain lead.
Bitch said WHAT now?
Yes, that's right. According to this "The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of JGR Copa due to excessive lead in the paint used on the undersides." For any ignorant m'fuckas out there, "exposure to lead can permanently damage the brains of children, particularly those aged 6 and under."
And people complain about Surftech!
Again, not all the JGR Copa bodyboards contain lead. Keep your kiddies away from the ones with the green Big Lizard logo. (See below).
This unsavory revelation about JGR Copa dovetails snugly with the general tone of shrill commercialism on Mr. Brophy's website. While the Mollusk Generation makes art in teepees and shuns the evil of corporations, Drew provides "Business of Art Tips" like this: "Many people are unhappily working at jobs because they don’t have faith in their ability to earn a living as a full time artist, or because they just aren’t sure where to start. Fear stops them from taking the leap to doing what they love. I say, just get started, take the first step, and the rest will follow. "
It's good advice. Unfortunately, in this modern world compromise is often part of the "earning a living" process.
You start out doing "what you love." Next thing you know, you're working with some Floridiot candy-coated cocksucker of a company that sells lead-coated bodyboards to tots. It's a slippery slope, my friend.
I speak from experience.
thanks for getting the Floridiot dig in there Lewis, we really appreciate it.
The Sunshine State sends big wet 107˚ heat index kisses to you and yours!
Lewis, Why must you pick on Mr. Brophy? It’s obvious to me that Drew had nothing to do with JGR Copa’s toxic transgressions. I mean . . . nah, I’m kidding. There’s no defending such wanton hucksterism. Nice exposé. I just hope none of the unfortunate lil’ lidsters who spent their days sponging awy on a JGR Copa Boogie Board didn’t also spend their nights devouring Nestle Toll House cookie dough:
I don’t know which I find more offensive, D-Bag Brofucker’s “art” or lead paint on toddler-size boogie boards.
Wait a minute. Did I see a goldfish smiling provocatively at me with full red lips and dreamy blue eyes? Now that’s clever.
We think Brophy is great!
I’m pretty sure that Brophy will lead the arts and crafts hour for the douche bag division of hell. You will be greeted with the same image as above except the 8 magic markers wedged between his nubby fingers will be claws that ooze led paint.
I’d rather live in Florida that San Fran any day. Like all the fags who live there that place is a cold shit hole.
How many pro surfers from SF have ever made it on tour anyway?
Oh yea, just lewis. The ASP’s fluffer.
Dear Lewis,
I just got confirmation that the boards that were recalled by Copa WERE NOT Drew Brophy boogie boards. They are the 18″ Lizard Brand kickboards.
So, your article is incorrect. I like your site, but if you are going to try to ruin someone’s reputation, please make sure it’s on accurate grounds.
Drew Brophy is a COMMERCIAL ARTIST, and just like a dentist drills teeth to earn a living, a commercial artist creates commercial art! This is how he provides for his family. (He could quit and go wait tables, but why do that? Drawing is much more fun!)
Drew likes to joke that he hasn’t learned how to paint yet. He’s going to do that when he’s older and has more time - after our kids’ in college! So, make fun of his art all you’d like. He will be the first to say “I’m definately not the best artist out there.”
Please, correct your article. And it would be nice, too, if you lightened up a little. Go pick on Ed Hardy!
Sincerely Yours, Maria Brophy (Drew’s Wife and Business Partner)
As the proud new owner of an alaia and also an unabashed art snob, I would like to point out that “surf art” has always been, for the most part, an oxymoron. Discounting, of course, the great Katsushika Hokusai and a handful of his Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji wood block prints. Feel free to add an addendum that can then be duly debated.
ahahhah. Oh Maria, you’re a card.
Sincerely Yours, Heinz Phillips (Ed Hardy’s Life Partner and Business Partner)
Bunch of hypocrites! I can’t believe that none of you bought the penn set. I was commanded to do so by the powerfull thrid eye. I also can’t help but think that he’s channeling GOB (George Oscar Bluth II), from Arrested Development , in his ad.
I give Maria Brophy credit for posting here. Poor woman is either very brave or ignorant of the angry mob she’s throwing herself to.
Not to be a stickler, but when I read the post it seemed clear that the Brophy boards do not contain lead, but those other ones do.
@ Mrs Brophy
If you read the captions of the last two images, you’ll find some text, including “Sell-out Brophy lead not included” and “Other JGR Copa boddy boards…Lead Included”.
Also, for those of us not in the inner circles of the paint-pen art community. What do you have against Ed Hardy? Does he copy Rick Griffin’s style or something? I’m not sure I follow.
Best,
Mr. Brandon
I think Maria makes a good point in that her husband/business partner is simply doing what he enjoys for a job and, despite the fact that I may be a little jealous, I reckon he should be commended for making it work. If we all start looking too hard at ethical business practices, there are a lot worse things in the surfing world to be uncovered than just a few lead weighted boogies. That being said, would Mrs. Brophy put her own young one on a JGR Copa board given their um, questionable history?
Go suck a cock Lewis
Ah Yes, noting like the good old O.C.
where everything and everyone is on the up and up! 24/7.
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009
Matt Brown of Stock Scam Site Investors Hub Indicted on Charges of Felony Fraud in Pump & Dump
InvestorsHub.com is the brain child of Silicon Investor user Matt Brown. Having identified additional functionality and a niche in the financial message board space, Matt created iHub and in 2002, Bob Zumbrunnen was appointed as iHub’s President. Since then the site has come to dominate the financial message board arena. According to Investorshub.com literature, they are “one of the most popular financial message board destinations in the world.” While Wilkepedias definition is far less flattering. According to them, these message boards are a place utilized mainly by schemers and scammers who use boards like Investors Hub to, “tout ludicrous and fraudulent claims, crooked newsletter writers who (post and) promote a stock for a fee, message boards swarming with “buy now!!!” postings about a stock from anonymous, paid posters, and fake or misleading press releases issued by the company.”
I guess its no wonder that on May 21, 2009, Matt Brown was indicted and accused of felony fraud by The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware. They announced felony criminal charges and on the same day the SEC announced that Matt Brown was among eight participants in a penny stock manipulation ring that allegedly pumped the market prices of at least four stocks and generated more than $6.2 million in illicit profits when they dumped shares on the market. Many believe, this is just the tip of the iceberg- that far more fraud will be uncovered at Investors Hub and it is quite possible that Investors Hub will be shut down as it has always been known to be nothing more than an incubator of, slime, slander and fraud.
The SEC alleges that InvestorsHub.com, which is operated by Matthew Brown of Aliso Viejo, Calif. and other participants in the schemes often timed the manipulative trading to coincide with false or misleading press releases issued by the companies to hype the stock. The four companies were GH3 International, Inc., Asia Global Holdings, Inc., Playstar Corp., and Xtreme Motorsports of California, Inc. In other words, Matt Brown of Investors Hub is being accused of operating four separate pump and dump schemes at one time! Which makes one wonder- is it possible that there are many more incidents of fraud involving Matt Brown and Investorshub.com that have yet to be uncovered? How many innocent investors has this man bilked? We simply don’t know. What we do know, is how a pump and dump works:
A company’s web site may feature a glowing press release about its financial health or some new product or innovation. Newsletters that purport to offer unbiased recommendations may suddenly tout the company as the latest “hot” stock. Messages in chat rooms and bulletin board postings may urge you to buy the stock quickly or to sell before the price goes down. Unwitting investors then purchase the stock in droves, creating high demand and pumping up the price. But when the fraudsters behind the scheme sell their shares at the peak and stop hyping the stock, the price plummets, and investors lose their money. Fraudsters frequently use this ploy with small, thinly traded companies because it’s easier to manipulate a stock when there’s little or no information available about the company. This is the type of deplorable criminal activities that the SEC and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware allege that Matt Brown and Investors Hub were complicit.
“As we allege in our complaint, Brown and his accomplices around the country met through the Internet and together spun a web of deception that gave investors the false impression that there was a real demand for these stocks,” said Scott Friestad, Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. Brown and his criminal cohorts, “went so far as to write some of the misleading press releases that pumped these penny stocks so they could line their own pockets with millions of dollars.” Investors Hub own web site notes Matt Browns ability as a, “highly experienced message board operator who specialize(s) in developing and managing very large communities. This expertise has helped iHub achieve its current 84 million plus page views a month.” This access and expertise also seems to have spawned a multi million dollar felony involving eight individuals, with Matt Brown and his much maligned message board, Investors Hub, in the center.
RE: Ed Don Hardy
Don’t roust on EDH–he’s one of the cooler guys you’ll ever meet–roust, instead, on Christian Audigier, the douchebag who bought the liscensing rights to EDH’s name and artwork.
Good thing MJ didn’t die yesterday or none of you would have even known that you beat us 2-0.
I have a great pair of Ed Hardy short shorts that I wear whenever I’m in the West Hollywood Channel Islands surf shop!
@ floridiot. Great to hear we won’t be expecting you any time soon. Great to hear. And I love your retort about how many pro surfers have made it on tour from SF. Snap! You got us there. Fuckwit.
where can I buy a Bro Dufus design with the lead? I want to inoculate my kids for the future when southern california is part of mexico and they work in bodyboard factories airbrushing lead paing on sponges for rich chinese kids.
@ Occy’s Mum
I will beat you worse then the WillIam smackdown on Perez Hilton. Your face will make Rihanna, after Chris Brown’s beating, look good . . .
See bitch, women like you just don’t learn.
No person raised in SF can escape the damage inflicted on his mind and anus to become a pro surfer. No damaged goods please. Everyone from SF is damaged goods. I am from South Carolina and we are all damaged goods too.
Brophy is pretty cool though and his wife is obviously a bad ass.
Sheppard Fairey, Drew Brophy, Ben Bernenke, Stephen Colbert are all from South Carolina. See we aren’t all fucking rednecks and our Gov. humps hot babes from Argentina. LOL Ca. you may have waves and nice weather(and good weed) but you have no money and a ton of Hispanic expats clogging your pipes.
Drew, I know your brother.
Children,
Don’t forget to buy your ‘Extreme (Confederate) Rebel Pitbull’ towel.
I have to admit, that I feel safer knowing that the commercial artist responsible for this is not waiting tables for a living or otherwise in charge of handling food for public consumption. Please, buy a towel to keep this person in their current job and away from our food. Thank you.
WTF!
@Pac, can yu find me one with a Portugese water dog on it?
@ Maria Brophy
I’m sorry that I earlier implied that your husband is a huckster when, clearly, he is nothing more than a PIMP! Check you OUT little sister! Can we see some more photos? Mmmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmm! I bet YOU can do more with a Posca pen than Drew could ever dream. (I just realized that Drew is an artistic name. Your husband was destined–predestined even–to be an artiste! Drew draws! Drew is drawing! Drew drew! Pretty cool, huh? Ever said that? “Drew drew”? That’s a complete English sentence! With a subject and an implied predicate! Drew either drew a picture of something, drew a gun, drew the winning number from the housewifery lottery . . . yeah, we know he did that. In fact, here’s a neat little poem about housewifery:
Housewifery by Edward Taylor
Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning wheel complete.
Thy holy Word my distaff make for me;
Make mine affections Thy swift flyers neat;
And make my soul Thy holy spool to be;
My conversation make to be Thy reel,
And reel the yarn thereon spun of Thy wheel.
Make me Thy loom then; knit therein this twine;
And make Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, wind quills;
Then weave the web Thyself. They yarn is fine.
Thine ordinances make my fulling mills.
The dye the same in heavenly colors choice,
All pinked with varnished flowers of paradise.
Then clothe therewith mine understanding, will,
Affections, judgment, conscience, memory,
My words and action, that their shine may fill
My ways with glory and Thee glorify.
Then mine apparel shall display before Ye
That I am clothed in holy robes for glory.
Wow! Fuck me if that little ditty isn’t laden with more bawdy sexual metaphors than a Shakespearean sonnet subjected to the Baconian theory and recited by Gwyneth Paltrow! Mmmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmmm!!!!! Any time you’d like to take me to paradise with a spin on your holy spool, just let me know Mrs. Brophy!!!! I shall be waiting to disrobe mine holy apparel for thou!!! Mmmmmm, mmmmm, mmmm!!!! . . . alas, I digress . . . ((That was a log paranthetical aside, wasn’t it?))
So, seriously, will you post more photos of yourself?
p.s. - Who took that picture?
p.p.s. - Are you naked in it?
p.p.p.s. - I am imagining you totally nude.
I want a scary clown shooting heroin surrounded by perfect but pointy sharp waves on my next board.
Huge Ass is a huge ass.
Brophy got lucky, was in with a vapid crowd who needed graffiti and scored a temp gig.
Lewis approached this “subject” as a sell out when that’s all Brophy has. Mrs. shitty artist admitted as much. But someday he will paint with oil and museums around the world will be amazed by dragons and flames and wonder why Drew never got into tattoo’s.
I can hear the docent now…..” Well, the esteemed Mr Brophy emoted eloquently on sanded fiberglass with the acumen of Monet, if Claude pretended to surf.”
Then Lost will become proprietary and sue the estate of the Brophy Children for all Drew’s royalties.
Beats shaping bad fish.
@Hugh Jass 9:08pm
I just read this comments thread for the first time since lunch…
Bra-fucking-vo! I laughed. I cried. And then I molested a grom.
My day is complete.
Thank you, sir.
Not surprising, the list of “sell out of the week” recipients will consist of people who are actually making money from their trade. Just another example of Lewis being a bitter fuck.
I dont see why you’re picking on Drew or Maria, they are great people who would never hurt anyone. They work hard and make an honest living. Im writng in because I know them personally and am offended that you would write such things about them. Im sure there are some better things you could be writing about really… and Im sure the peole who wrote those insults wouldnt be talking all that shit if they were face to face with Drew! or me! Thats why they didnt put thier real names on there.
re elect me president of earth
Drew is a good bloke who charges.
He is one of the first board artists that used posca’s and has been imitated by so many people.
As if he knew anything about lead in those booga boards.
As far as I’m concerned all you legends that pay out on him need to go out and see how hard it is to draw pics for a living.
I’m willing to bet money that all the armchair gangsters that are so tough online would be quite polite in person.
Ease up on the Brophy clan, they are awesome people.
You have to stand by your writings when you leave your real name. Anonymous postings are by people who are scared and spineless. I’ve never heard anyone, ever, call Drew a sell out. This is definately a first.
To Caspian: Thanks. Love your art, too! You rock!
PS: The boogie board thing is irrelevant. Lewis writes for shock value. There’s not much truth to any of his posts. Most people know that and they enjoy it anyway. I’m beginning to understand…..this blog is not for the educated.
So, do you HAVE to be a poor dirtbag in order not to be labeled a sellout? Surf culture is amazing and so hypocritical. If you’re ‘keeping it real’ and dumpster diving for food, you’re a soul surfer, but the second you find some success, SELLOUT!
Drew makes a good living doing what he loves (how many of you can say that?), surfs all the time (and surfs very well, BTW, including heavy pipe, etc… - how many of you can say THAT?)
Show me one successful person and I’ll show you 10 playa’ hater losers.
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