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Vissla: Summer Wetsuits Rubber Time Machine

    An homage to déjà vu. Back to the basics. The sunscreen. The feel. This salted nostalgia is making us feel deja vu from head to toes and we couldn’t feel warmer. If this isn’t the funniest thing you see this summer, we don’t know what is. – WY

Venice Pavilion Recreation BBQ Goes Off OG’s skate, write, + mosh to the beat of the 90’s

The block got hot over the Memorial Day weekend as adidas Skateboarding and BEYOND THE STREETS, in partnership with Juice Magazine, officially celebrated the recreation of the iconic Venice Pavilion with a BBQ-style block party showcasing the best of Venice Beach’s skateboarding, graffiti, and music scenes with an all-star skate jam and concert. It was a…

10 Reasons to Go to the Cosmic Creek surf festival HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EXPERIENCED?

The Cosmic Creek is a retro-style surf experience paying homage to an earlier era. If you want a taste of the Outerspace that was the experimental time of the 1970’s, then come by Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point on June 2nd and 3rd. It will be a journey back to an alternative place where…

Surf Night In Canada WITNESS THE SURFING MEDIA TAKEOVER OF THE GREAT WHITE NORTH

  Canada is having a surf media moment right now. It has been for decades, but at this very minute the combination of surfing talent and the people capturing it on video and in photos is Internationally top shelf. This Friday in Vancouver all of these greats are combining into one blow-out Surf Night in…

Just Add Wind A Keramas Freesurf Gallery

Our senior lensman, Nate Lawrence, is no stranger to shooting every Indonesian lineup. With the top 34 surfers in town, Nate has been putting in some long hours for your viewing pleasure. Bigger, higher and more technical is the norm now. The real action has been happening between the heats. Enjoy. – WY Pat Gudauskas…

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Austyn Gillette’s FORMER Part Is Top Shelf PLUS A DARKLY CANDID CHAT W/ DANE ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, + DYLAN

Austyn Gillette just added some serious weight to his already strong legacy with his new part for FORMER called ‘Radiant Cure.’ The man just looks too natural on a skateboard and some editing from former professional laser tag player Warren Smith gives it even more of that je ne sais quoi. Once you’ve given the…

Inside Atiba Jefferson’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ Photo Exhibition FEATURING DRAKE, DYLAN, GONZ, IGGY, + EVERYONE IN-BETWEEN

Instagram is helping downgrade the way we view photography. Since the beginning the viewing platform of photography keeps getting minimized from gallery walls, to coffee table books, to quality print magazines, to now, tiny digital squares on a handheld device that we absorb into our brains for all of 0.1 seconds. It’s a disgrace to…

Bloodlines: Jackson Dorian The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in this family

Check out Jackson Dorian, the 11 year-old hellion from the Big Island. He’s a terror on any board. How long till he’s pushing him into 20-footers?

SOJOURN a beautiful cinematic journey through NZ

New Zealand is cold. Damn cold. So it makes sense Adelio wetsuits would test their rubber in the frigid waters....

SPENDTIME PALACE Lock Your Doors People

The Costa Mesa menaces, aka the brash beach boys, aka Spendtime Palace feel like your friends, only a lot cooler. I’m...

Andrew Allen Is Getting Bigger + Better 2-MIN OF SOBER RIPPING FROM AA FOR HOCKEY

The American treasure that is Andrew Allen just had over 2-minutes of footy released for HOCKEY. There is something about...

Uncharted Skateboarding in the Azores NO LONGER JUST A SURF TRIP

The Azores, located off the coast of Portugal, are known mostly as a surf destination. That didn’t stop a crew...

Kael Walsh in West Oz Froth for the Soul

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”- Tom Wolfe No one has never...

Shane Borland’s Pandas Kung Fu Grip

Freak of both natures. Whether it’s land or water, Shane Borland is a little hellion. Here he is terrorizing some new...

Street Side with Mike Miller WEST COAST O.G.

We caught up with one of the most iconic photog’s in the game Mike Miller. Who has taken his lens around...

EAR CANDY: TOPS Salted Nostalgia

Hailing from Quebec, it’s hard to understand how TOPS has effortlessly captured the salty, beach-filled summer nostalgia in their music. Until...

Waves by Taylor Curran Starring Jake Kelley

Taylor Curran’s ode to “Ill Communication” blends the art of surfing and music videos in this stylish edit, “Waves.”

Kai Hing in 6DIMENSION#REALM9 Doom Metal and Surfing Never Felt So Good

Kai Hing’s new website www.Sul.Ninja and it’s first video drop 6DIMENSION#9REALM will make your head pound. In a good way....

Looking Back At Where the “Debris Meets The Sea” THE VENICE PAVILION WAS THE 80’s/90’s MELTING POT OF SKATE/SURF/ART CULTURE

  Back in the day the iconic Venice Pavilion was famously known as where the, “debris meets the sea.” Over...

Noah Schweizer In “Stream” Location, Location, Location

In between tacos and Tecates we sat down with ex-Floridian Noah Schweizer and discussed living with a Hollywood starlet, ten...

Go ‘Beyond The Streets’ This Weekend In LA CELEBRATING THE HEIGHTS OF THIS MODERN ART MOVEMENT

What do you have going on this Sunday? If you are in LA go to Beyond The Streets. What are...

BEYOND THE TOUR WITH JORDY SMITH WEST OZ ISOLATION

From roaming the sharky sections of Margies to West Oz isolation. Jordy took the jersey off and sought some shade...

Eric Geiselman in Lark A video essay of Indonesian Wave Desecration

Spend a few months in Indo and you’re bound to get some good waves and clips. Lark managed to dodge...

Tonight We Drink RIP Jeff Hanneman

Today is the 5 anniversary of the death of Slayer guitarist, Jeff Hanneman. We thought it was only right to...

Take a ‘Breather’ in B.C Vancouver skate underground didn’t take a (hiatus)

Back in the day Vancouver, BC was once the hot bed of skateboarding in Canada and for much of North...

Nate Tyler and Chippa Wilson in Aerobics by OCTOPUS

Everyone knows Chippa and Nate are huge fans of jazzercise and aerobics as seen in OCTOPUS’s newest edit shot by...

The Flounders’ Cup Are the Judges Going to Blow It?

  There’s no second chance to make a first impression…and god I hope the WSL nails the judging on this...

Girl We Adore: Christiana Mortoccia

“The best thing you can do is live in the present and never question the future.” Finding solitude between past...

Full Speed Through Mar del Plata w/ Milton Martinez ARGENTINIAN SURF CAPITAL IS A RUGGED SKATE PARADISE

Known for it’s surf and tourism scene, Mar del Plata in Argentina also has it’s share of rugged skate spots...

Un-immaculately Beyond Conception FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF ‘SEX CULTS + ANARCHY’

  Un-immaculately Beyond Conception “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored....

YOUTH ON THE RUN WITH EITHAN OSBORNE

  WY: How was that trip with Ford [Archbold], and Tom [Carey]?  My trip with Ford and Tom was sick....

Thrasher and Adidas Present “Hell of a Paradise”

  Only Thrasher and Adidas can bring together a crew of total legends to Waikiki for the “Hell of a...

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