One of the most entertaining things there is to do on this planet is ask Andrew Doheny questions. Any kind of questions. Your answer will be delivered and plucked from his mind the same way a Lotto ball is: completely at random.  Whatever pops up is what you get. There's nothing tricky, he's not playing any games, his agent isn't off camera. Andrew Doheny decides for himself. And that is a beautiful thing.

In today's episode of Off Beat we popcorn-question Andrew for an afternoon in between surfs around his house. The results are pure and hanging with him was nothing short of rad. [...]

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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 of a postmortem from a pretty serious “walk” we've just returned from. A car was driven from our current location in Orange County up to an island off British Columbia. Along the way we skated, surfed, forgot, remembered, danced, drove, brooded, exclaimed, drank and moved ridiculous distances without sleep just to see what it would feel like to not know which side of consciousness we were on. While nature bloomed and whizzed by outside the window, our brains swelled with too much alcohol and no computer screens to save us. But now we know what it feels like to skate Burnside and Orcas. Surf frozen Canada and wash it down with Lucky beer served by friendly small town granola girls. At times we must have looked like miserable bum fights, at other times we were wetsuit clad with big stoke grins, alive and leaving frozen tracks on frozen waves we'd never knew existed. And we found all moods that exist between those two extremes along the way. [...]

Damon Way stands in his kitchen before an espresso machine. The kitchen is on the middle floor of his modern three-story house in San Francisco's SoMa district and Damon is serious, for the moment, because he's making coffee, correctly.

He grinds a small handful of beans. The pantry in his home normally stocks Blue Bottle, Sightglass or Fourbarrel roasted walking distance from Damon's door. He checks the grounds for coarseness. With a countertop scale he weighs them, skims some, weighs, skims and weighs until the measure comes right. He's punctilious, as if making a bomb. Damon tamps and pulls a shot, steams almond milk, adds honey and a cinnamon dusting and then excuses himself to deliver the latte to his wife upstairs.

Above the ritual a Slowdive record plays from a large turntable in the adjacent living room that Damon designed. Slowdive is good. Perfect maybe. [...]

Sincerely Suburbia is our final salute to a film and a moment in time we're rather fond of. And damn is it a pretty little thing. Shot around the globe in 2012, this is an almost 10-minute film pulled from the Dear Suburbia cutting room floor. But being that Kai is notoriously picky during editing his films, it doesn't feel like an after thought at all. It stars Dane Reynolds, Kolohe Andino, Conner Coffin, Jay Davies and Mitch Coleborn with cameos by Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow and Cory Lopez.  [...]

Kai is notoriously picky when it comes to clips that make it into his film. His cutting room floor is filled with puddles of banger clips and rad shit that just doesn't fit into the films. Which is a bummer, but only until he releases stuff like this. Tomorrow we'll be premiering Sincerely Suburbia, the final farewell to an incredible film, year and chapter in our lives.

So as we sign off from this chapter and film with Sincerely Suburbia, we'd like to remind you that this is the beginning of the most exciting part of what we do: hitting the road and starting all over again. Which we're doing immediately, already filling hard drives with visions of late nights and long flight and tons of surfing. Don't forget to come along every day, right here at What Youth. After the jump you'll enjoy an overwhelming amount of images shot by Nate Lawrence, Dion Agius and Craig Anderson. [...]