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

Dear Youth Dane Reynolds gets nostalgic on Marine Layer

Dayne Reynolds Marine Layer Surfing Dear Youth What Youth
03.24.14 – TAGS:
Photo: Travis Ferre

Dane Reynolds posted a little trip down memory lane on his website Marine Layer Productions today. He details our first trip to Japan for Dear Suburbia with Yadin Nicol, Kolohe Andino, Conner Coffin, Kai Neville and Courtney (AKA Napkin Apocalypse). And he even mentions “The Claim.” The trip didn’t make the final cut for the film, but has always held a special place in all our hearts, and lived as a prequel and a short film (Wake Up, It’s Over) on our site. We did fireworks, chased waves, got hit by a typhoon, wrote haikus and gave each other haircuts (looking good Conner!) and vowed to “never come here again because it would never be as fun.” And then we went back anyway.

Head over and check out the video, photos and commentary from Dane here: Marine Layer Productions.

Surfing road-trip dear youth what youth

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…

Coffee Sightglass San Francisco What Youth

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…

Sign up for letters from What Youth


By enabling this page, you are acknowledging and accepting our privacy terms and conditions.