Surfing, Skateboarding, Music, Photography, Travel, Culture and general antics of the youth on the run.

A good looking cutting room floor Issue 17 is ready for ink, here’s a peek

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Full disclosure: We didn’t plan it like this. But as we’ve learned along the way, that’s so very OK. Hell, that’s what we’ve been doing in here since day 1: not sticking to the plan. Being spontaneous and open minded. And that’s the story with Issue 17.

It’s got a bunch of chipped teeth, backfires and needs an oil change, but I think it’s beautiful in it’s own way.

It has a trip in it that features Craig Anderson, Chippa Wilson, Dillon Perillo, Yago Dora, Eric Geiselman and Lee Wilson on a boat trip that looked all but doomed in port. The 50 year storm, a fucked forecast, rain, smoke, wind but a fucking sick crew who weren’t going to let that dampen the fact that we were going surfing. So we sent it and we’re all good. And of course we pulled it and the vid is sick.

We also ended up in Norway, Sweden, Hawaii, hung with Jason Jessee, the Ho family in Bali, Andrew Allen, Kelly, Creed, Knost, Ty Segall, The Allah Lahs and bunch more. Stay tuned for release info. You know we’re gonna have a party…

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Dear Youth The fun that leads to sleep paralysis

“Never trust a thought that didn’t come from walking.” That’s a quote by an old madman by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche. He’s an existential pioneer and had one hell of a dark passenger throughout his life. But the man sure did drop some wisdom while he was here. I bring this up as a bit…

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Dear Youth A Treatise on Art and Coffee

Coffee is a drug. That’s masked by ubiquity and social acceptance but it’s just hot speed. Black hot wonderful speed. That thought lingered last Saturday morning as a nice young man in a waxed-cotton apron and mustache — and not a November mustache, but a real annual subscription to the thing — fixed my Guatemalan…

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