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Dylan Rieder and Mark Oblow, France, Circa 2000 Back Den 058

“dylan and me in an elevador in marseille france, for a bowl riders contest circa 2000. we have known each other for a long, long, time and traveled the world together, all because of skateboarding. the friendships i’ve made riding my surfboard or skateboard are priceless! i’m very thankful. contax t-3, 35mm kodak 400.” —Mark…

One Roll 009: Nate Tyler in California Roll(s) shot by Michael Cukr

We tricked Nate Tyler into letting us come stay with him at his beautiful home in Central California a few weeks ago. We told him we’d make a video about him (which we did), but really, we just wanted to hang with him and his beautiful family in his lovely hometown. It really is where…

what youth recommends taj burrow misfits

Misfit Lefts and Rights Taj Burrow vs. Dion Agius set to The Misfits

Every day it seems to get harder and harder to sift through the endless web clips to find something that makes you so hyped that you’d wanna put on a sandy wet wetsuit in frozen rain, but this Taj edit did it for us, so it’s going up. And maybe it’s because it features a song…

Listen to The Garden Orange County’s ever evolving punk crusaders

The Garden will most likely hate being referred to as punk crusaders, but since their birth as a band in 2011, Wyatt and Fletcher Shears have bulldozed pigeonholes and musical boundaries by maintaining a level of dont-give-a-fuck charisma matched with unbridled talent. The twins, who perform as a two piece band with only bass, drums…

New What Youth Sweatshirts and Jackets On Sale Now

Ok, it’s still hot as fuck out. So I understand your reservation about jacket purchasing right now. But somewhere, it’s starting — just slightly, hiding behind humidity and heat, but it is there. The cold. Right now you only feel it in the late evening, or early in the morning. The cold palms of winter. They’re…

What Youth Issue 12 Read the back cover of the new issue

They say this won’t sell. That our art project has run out of paint. There aren’t enough of us. We should ride a motorcycle on fire through the tube at Teahupo’o if we want to make it. Get some clicks. We’re too young. Too old. Too bold. Too abstract. Our social strategy is flawed and…

Artist Series: Langley Fox Episode 005: A What Youth Original Series

Langley Fox began her artistic career sometime around kindergarten — by drawing star people, an obviously more complex version of the stick people you and I probably drew. But it’s those star people that have evolved into photorealistic drawings that have been commissioned by everyone from Marc Jacobs to Maroon 5. Langley is from Idaho….