Conversation With: Don “Nuge” Nguyen On Volume 4, his band Arctic, and living heavy and traveling light
Nuge shreds both on a board and on an axe. He also owns his own company, Volume 4, with Sammy Baca. “It’s the best thing ever. To get to do your own shit, and not have to ask somebody if it’s cool. Let’s fucking make a teepee. Whatever.” What Youth hung out with Nuge in his…
Conversation with: Cosmonauts Live from The Echo, with a Hollywood Video reference!
“I’m gonna go hide for a while.” It’s almost 1 a.m. The Cosmonauts just finished slaying the Moon Block show at the Echo, and Derek Cowart – singer/guitarist for the band – is done. The night was an end to what was a 10-day-long tour that took the band up the West Coast and through…
Conversation With: Napkin Apocalypse Behind the scenes with Courtney
Editor’s note: A few months a go we went to Dane and Courtney’s house to film a For the Love episode on Napkin Apocalypse We talked at length with Courtney about how Napkin Apocalypse, animal obsession and sewing have created this new world. Below is the extended interview and it is filled with awesome. And we’re also…
Conversation With: Warren Smith Ex Homeless Laser Tag enthusiast
“…And then laser tag came in the last few years of high school and it almost won. It almost took over all of them. But thank god our laser tag center burned down because I might be the manager of a laser tag center instead of surfing or whatever the fuck it is. “ –Warren…
Conversation With: The Shrine Chatting with one of the heaviest bands of our time
“I WAS LOOKING FOR A SINGER FOR A WHILE AND AS SOON AS THE THREE OF US JAMMED TOGETHER I WAS LIKE, ‘FUCK, THE THREE OF US CAN MAKE ENOUGH NOISE AND HAVE BIG ENOUGH AMPS THAT WE DON’T REALLY NEED ANOTHER PERSON OR ANOTHER OPINION IN THE MIX.” – THE SHRINE, 2015 What Youth: how long have you…
Conversation With: Mike Piscitelli Fucking Awesome, photography and Ozzy Osbourne
“I dropped out of school at the end of ninth grade and I pretty much ended up working in the porn industry (behind the scenes).” How did you get here? I’m originally from the Valley, outside Los Angeles. I dropped out of school at the end of ninth grade and I pretty much ended up…
Conversation With: Kevin Terpening On moving from Ohio, working on his Huf part and celebrating his dog’s birthday at Petco
Kevin Terpening is a pro skater for Huf. He’s said that he gets psyched to skate by watching Marine Layer. We went to his house to work on an upcoming Fairly Normal part. And we lucked out, it was his dog’s birthday. So we partied at Petco and talked about how a small town boy…
Conversation With: Photographer Jason Reposar “I guess I can say all this now that I’ve been convicted and deported.”
Former Transworld photog who vanished from the U.S. reappears…with Metallica.
Conversation With: Christian Fletcher “Live fast and die last.”
Interview by: Leo Maxam | Photos by: Herbie Fletcher Editor’s note: By now you’ve hopefully had a chance to watch our Fairly Normal on Christian Fletcher that we shot in Bali. On the back of his motorbike. Proving ourselves. Nearly dying. But getting the interview. And hopefully you’ve gotten a chance to get a copy…
Conversation With: Pontus Alv & Arto Saari At Polar Skateboards, Malmo, Sweeden
Committed to creativity
Conversation With: Craig Anderson Snowboarding, boogieboarding and new shades
Craig Anderson has been a busy man. He did a strike mission to Samoa with some boogieboarders for last minute Cluster clips. He just designed and released a new sunglass frame with Electric called the Txoko. He’s joined the Huf footwear team. Dropped his Cluster part. And then went snowboarding for the first time in…
Conversation With: Frank Ockenfels From What Youth Issue 9
He’s shot everyone. From Jenna Jameson to George Clooney to Lemmy from Motorhead. But what truly interested us about Frank Ockenfels (FWO3) was his process. Because photography seems to be in a bit of a transitional predicament. As more and more people gain access to and are inundated with imagery on phones and computers, the…
