Up, coffee, fins, coconuts with Terry (what up Terry), toothbrush, Monster tattoos, drive, snacks, it's windy, M&Ms, Dirty South, a crazy guy (what up crazy guy), surf but Chippa thinks he's skating, Banks beer, yeeeeeeah mate, Tyler, the Creator, drive more, John's still 14, six crazy guys, no bare back persons, conch shell, dance party, [...]

Kolohe thrifting in New South Wales, because vintage is the RAGE. Why get endless free shit from your industry-leading global sportswear sponsor, when you can pay good money for a used musty button-down that someone might have died in?

 Hey, sick shirt though.

Hover for captions and full-screen | Photos by Pat Stacy

These shots are from the Australian sessions for Daze At Sea — just a small sample from the three months director Vic Pakpour spent down there logging sessions and spreading the rumor he's a sitcom star in California.

Photos by the all-day smile factory known as Pat [...]

This was after Dillon’s rental car got keyed in a Yamba parking lot while he was surfing. The keyer’s total lack of ingenuity is what was most disappointing. He could have taken his vandalism in so many directions.

Like, he could have been clever and scratched “MY BACK,” or been artsy and written a sonnet, [...]

At 26, Dion has practically become an entire pro surfing genre unto himself. He's as remarkable out of the water as he is on a surfboard.

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Chippa really has an eye, two eyes actually, yellow eyes, catlike.

He surfs catlike too, in the third prequel to Dear Suburbia, for instance, where he does some feline maneuvering on a surfboard, in Barbados, which is also where he shot and captioned these photos.

More from Barbados [...]

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The day after we posted the Barbados prequel to Dear Suburbia, we were on the phone to John John.

The first thing he said was, "How's that edit you did of me you fuckers?"

Anyway, here's some photos he took and captioned for us from the trip.

Poetry is dead. The web clip killed surfing. What's a blowtail? The barrel is back. Big-budget soundtracks. Bill fucking Murray. It's a spiced rum. The mountains are purple and the red wine is uncorked.

Kai's nearly finished the rough edit of Dear Suburbia, which we'll preview here at the studio in a matter of days. He's been locked away [...]

Maybe go to France, maybe meet a girl, maybe ride a wave, maybe drink the wine, maybe speak the words, Je vais rester pour toujours, maybe stay.

Daze At Sea — online release July 2012


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