This is Annie lit up by the flashbulbs of Issue One, for our photo feature titled "Season to See Sun."

Beautiful girls, in beautifully minimal attire, are exactly why the Greeks invented summer in the first place.

It's natural. It's healthy. Cue the trash pop.

Today's kind of a big deal for us. There may be libations by noon. Loud music (well, it's already loud). Some sort of toast.

Today marks the raising of the second pillar of What Youth: our quarterly magazine, which is now available in the Shop alongside our new shirts (click here to place an order). So yes, big news to be sure. Just to give you an idea of what you'll find in the issue there's [...]

The first issue of our magazine is now available in the new What Youth shop. Click here to order a copy.

The magazine is a quarterly journal of the things we like. Surfing is definitely one of those things, but [...]

Helicopter pilot

Russian

Director (mostly foreign art house)

Arms dealer/warlord

Ringo Starr

Warehouse stock worker

Bodyguard

Installation artist

Coach to the German gymnastic team

Taxi driver

Member of the Weather Underground

Sheep farmer

 
There are many things you'd guess before "surfer" if someone asked you to identify this stranger above. "Waterman" and "professional athlete" probably aren't on the list either.

Which, in a roundabout way, is part of what makes Dion interesting. Enough so to make a documentary series [...]

In this final installment of the series, friends discuss the critics, projects and prospects of Dion Agius. He's 26 and not finished.

Why this FAQ on Scrapbook?

Because most people don’t know what our Scrapbook page is or even that it exists yet.

What is Scrapbook?

See, exactly.

[...]

No don't read this, watch the video. It's the funnest thing that ever happened.

 
Daze At Sea — online release July 2012


The Daze At Sea EP series continues only on whatyouth.com. Coming next: The California EP.
 

Chapter 7 from the Airstrike boat trip in Indonesia. What Youth was along to document the project, and in this series we show and tell about the modern flight that took place there.

The series will be capped in August with four video shorts produced by Kai Neville. The trip's best air, as judged by the public at summer's end, will win fifty thousand dollars from the Kustom account.

Surfing by John John Florence, Chippa Wilson, Matt Meola, Albee Layer [...]

Chapter 7 from the Airstrike boat trip in Indonesia. What Youth was along to document the project, and in this series we show and tell about the modern flight that took place there.

The series will be capped in August with four video shorts produced by Kai Neville. The trip's best air, as judged by the public at summer's end, will win fifty thousand dollars from the Kustom account.

Surfing by John John Florence, Chippa Wilson, Matt Meola, Albee Layer [...]

Make time tomorrow for La Goon, a new piece by Jack Coleman for What Youth starring Chippa on a punchy shorebreak left and shot on Super 8.

 
Here, an introduction from the filmmaker:

Chippa had been in and out of California for a month or two and was about to go home before heading out on a month-long Indonesian adventure. A small south swell hit and it was time to get out of Newport, so we headed south to [...]