A lot has changed in a year for Noa Deane. Last summer, his visit to CA would have been a pretty off the radar affair. A few hellos and some shitty surfs in Newport shorebreak. But over the course of 2014, Noa has, umm, kinda been blowing up. With new sponsor deals, loads of hype, film projects and some hammertime web clips dropping, Noa’s 2014 summer trip to CA was a whole new party, with obligations, parties, sponsor visits, multiple movie premieres, autograph signings and the whole enchilada — not to mention he never dawned a single jersey in competition the whole time.
One stop on his itinerary was to the new Rusty HQ in Laguna Beach, where he pawed some new ’90s inspired sleds complete with Todd Chesser-inspired flame sprays, raided the candy bin, snagged a new wardrobe and gave away some boards with us that featured his photos. We tagged along, because Noa’s funny. And the new Rusty office has good candy and coffee.
Noa California A What Youth Original
Paperback Point Alex Knost, Wade Goodall and Ford Archbold in Mexico
An ascending, tumbling, crumbling, patient, speedy, soft, warm, friendly reminder of how the ocean behaves at the Mexican coast. Just like this forever. Surfing by Alex Knost, Wade Goodall and Ford Archbold If Mexico strikes your fancy today, go back again with Dion Agius in the What Youth original short Bright Grey.
That’s All She Wrote Summer in Biarritz with Jack Freestone, Ryan Callinan and more
Old wood forests, old world markets where men sell bread and cheese, new wave girls on the streets and beaches, pouring smooth Gallic invitations out into the air, a rented flat steps from the sand and swell in the water that’s trunkable with the sun out, which it is. This summer we spent some weeks…
Julian East Sessions From the Australian East Coast, Julian Wilson Mid-2012
Julian is busy, winning US Opens, and snaking Slater or maybe getting snaked by Slater depending on your interpretation of a rule we can’t pretend to have read, but when he’s free Julian does the right thing, gets in a car, and drives off with us to find a wave and mess its face up….
Stout Atmosphere Starring Mitch Coleborn, Dillon Perillo and Nat Young in Ireland
Ireland and jazz.
Jack Robinson Inside some Waves And where to see his best work yet
This piece is two months old now, just like Jack Robinson, but it’s worth an encore presentation due to new developments. Two months ago we couldn’t yet say this: Jack has a section in Dear Suburbia that cements him as the steeziest, bowl-cuttest small person around. He slouches in angry waves all bored, like nothing’s…
Misfit Lefts Dion Agius and a Coasta Rican Left Point
“New York punk was just punk, simple and static. When Glenn [Danzig, singer/songwriter] started the Misfits, he mutated the punk sound and image into something darker and more sinister, a punk-metal hybrid that later found bloom in the quiet, boring suburbs of Oslo and the boggy backwaters surrounding Tampa. Punk belonged to the media/celebrity hubs…
Exotic Bedlam A What Youth original short with Dane & Dillon in Indonesia
They went to do airs but the swell grew, and it grew until it washed out all the waves except one, and there were no airs to be done, just this. Bedlam. Filmed by Kai Neville and Mini in Indonesia.
Return to La Goon Chippa and a wedge, this time with acid drops
Summer looks fun on Super 8 film.
Vega Trestles is better than everywhere else
Here are one or two things about the people in this piece: Before this summer, Owen Wright had never really been to America besides for surf contests, and during contests you don’t really do anything else. So this year Owen came with his lovely girlfriend, who’s studying for her teaching credential, and they just did…
Bright Grey DION AND A SILVER-SLATE SHOREBREAK
Bright Grey, a What Youth original short.
La Goon A What Youth orignial short starring Chippa Wilson
At its core, La Goon is a thoughtful consideration of Western social norms. Chippa, the once-bricklayer made good, still an outsider to the manufactured sheen of south Orange County and its citizens. He seeks out this overlooked reject closeout — a foil for his own character. Losing his nose and surfing anyway is a metaphor…
Temporary Vacation, Part 2 A What Youth original short
Time is indeed always slipping away, my friend.