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Dear Youth France, you son of a bitch

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France.

You broke my heart. The damage is done.

I think I still love you though and I’ll most probably be back in your grasp again.

Where were the dreamy beachbreaks? Modern Collective-esque, the air wind, sunshine, lone girl in black bikini?

Have I squeezed the best out of you?

The last few weeks we have been your slave: 15 feet one day, flat the next. And to rub salt in my wounds Jeremy Flores just released a clip called “The best France has ever been.” And we were there, you bitch!

Shitty winds, your curvaceous sand banks blown out — even the hidden nooks we frequent were a slap in the face. A crazed man carrying a log chased us back to our car. Fuck me. I get it. It’s over.

Chip nearly stomped a huge backside slob. Almost. Noa came so close I vomited on the beach. Dion lost his credit card, got a new one, and lost it again.

Filming for this project has been the toughest of all the films. Locations are easy to document, individual parts are tricky. We’re going for gold.

The boyz should be able to remember their parts years from now.

There are moments. Those moments make the film. Let’s pop a bottle to those moments, with less than a couple months of filming left, we will wrap. Toast to that.

France you were a bit of a son of a bitch, but I always come back to you.

See you again soon x —Kai

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Thurston Moore made our ears bleed Live from the LA Art Book Fair

Thurston Moore continues his reign as the king of dissonance at the LAABF

I still haven’t seen Cluster either And it’s being made in the room next to me

I didn’t think I’d have to write that. But there it is. The morning of the premiere and I still haven’t seen the damn thing. After a week in the desert, followed by an even more dehydrated stint in the lizard den known as the What Youth editing bay, Kai and Blake are still the…

Seven missions, 16 sessions A dispatch from your guide to good waves

Hints from a good-wave magnet

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Dear Youth What Youth HQ during the making of Cluster

This is us on deadline.

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A rookie’s year on the run Dear Youth with Quinn Matthews

Quinn Matthews recaps his 2014 year on the road as a rookie.

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Dear Youth One more Aloha from Hawaii (with Quinn Matthews)

We just had to say aloha one more time. This time Quinn Matthews says farewell to the island. It’s been exactly a year now since Quinn Matthews caught our eye with his photos from Hawaii, and this year was a stellar sophomore campaign. Always fresh, and always rad angles.

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Dear Youth: See Ya Hawaii 12 Photos from the North Shore

Nate Lawrence photos from the North Shore.

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Dear Youth Swimming at Pipe: Quinn Matthews

Editor’s Note: Every time Quinn does something (anything), it’s probably his first time. And while I think he’d swam and shot at Pipe before, these were definitely the biggest waves he’d ever swam in. Which lends for good reading, especially when you line it up with the results you see below. Quinn wrote this and…

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Dear Youth 15 photos from North Shore: Quinn Matthews

Last year it was his fresh approach in Hawaii that caught our eye. And throughout the year he’s continued to amaze and baffle us simultaneously with his awe of the world around him and ability to get the wildest shots at the least likely of times. Quinn Matthews is a shy, unassuming, extremely green but…

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Dear Youth 15 Photos from Hawaii: Kenny Hurtado

Kenny Hurtado has always been one of our favorite photographers. Both for the purity of his photography and for his humble demeanor. He’s been over on the North Shore the past few weeks and took a very unique approach to his coverage of the most photographed place in the surf world.

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Dear Youth 15 Photos from the North Shore: Nate Lawrence

Photographing the North Shore is an interesting skill if you wanna do it right. Nate Lawrence has been on the North Shore for a few weeks now, and prior to that he’s logged well over a decade of pilgrimages each year. And somehow, each trip back he manages to surprise us with the unique and…

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Dear Youth Right Place, Right Time.

I just had the best month of my life.

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