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COLLECTED THOUGHTS 013 KOLOHE, BREAKING NEWS
Mon
02
Jul
A little espresso. A small bottle of Mexican cola. And away we went. Kolohe hobbled into the brand new Zebra House Café in San Clemente with me last week. He wore Oakleys and they dangled from a pair of Croakies. He had on one sandle and he was on crutches. His left foot in a massive boot black boot. It looked serious.

And while we spoke on the obvious, Kolohe and I gabbed on many things. He is still revved [...]
KUSTOM AIRSTRIKE 2012: CHAPTER 3 A GOOD LIST
Mon
02
Jul
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 [...]
LA GOON CHIPPA WILSON IN A WHAT YOUTH ORIGINAL SHORT
Tue
03
Jul
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 for Chippa's attitude toward material gain. A biting cultural commentary. Three thumbs up.

Hahaha.

 
Filmed and edited by Jack Coleman exclusively for What Youth
THE CALIFORNIA EP FROM THE DAZE AT SEA FILM SESSIONS
Fri
06
Jul
There are other waves in California besides Lowers and Salt Creek. Just like there's four other Olson kids besides Mary Kate and Ashley. Apparently.

Here's more Lowers and Salt Creek.

 
Daze At Sea — online premiere July 20, 2012 on What Youth


The Daze At Sea EP series continues only on whatyouth.com. Coming next: The Indonesia EP.
 
DAZE AT SEA: FRIDAY, JULY 20 EXCLUSIVE SCREENING AT WHATYOUTH.COM
Sat
07
Jul
Billabong made a surf film and now we're going to show it to you, before anyone else can, because we were charming and they handed off the file.

All this year Daze At Sea was being filmed in Australia, Europe, Indonesia and the US, which still includes Hawaii. We've been showing some sessions from the film here at whatyouth.com in our Daze At Sea EP series. Watch them, or watch them again, and if you're pleased then come back Friday, July 20 when we [...]
KUSTOM AIRSTRIKE 2012: CHAPTER 4 THE INFAMOUS BLAKE MYERS BETWEEN FILM SESSIONS
Sat
07
Jul
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 [...]
SUGARLOAF DIARIES KAI GOES INTO THE HILLS TO EDIT DEAR SUBURBIA
Mon
09
Jul
Dear Suburbia, will world premiere August 2nd during the US Open of Surfing and it’s shaping up to be quite the piece of celluloid. A few weeks ago, Kai loaded up his PA Blake Myers, about 20 hard drives, a few bottles of wine, a bounty of Coors Light, and one too many Harmony Korine films and headed into the mountains near Big Bear, California.

They returned exclaiming death to the web clip and the triumphant return of the barrel [...]
GRIFFITH DISCOURSE, PART 1 OUR CONVERSATION WITH ALEX OLSON FROM WHAT YOUTH QUARTERLY, ISSUE ONE
Mon
09
Jul
On a sunny day in Los Angeles, we drove to Griffith Park and spent an afternoon with professional skateboarder Alex Olson. Alex is someone we appreciate because he cares. He cares about skate culture. He cares about surf culture. And he gives a shit about what's currently happening to both. Hit play. Have a think. And read the full interview in our latest issue of What Youth Quarterly.

 
  • This was when we were in New Zealand doing Dear Suburbia, and that trip was crazy. The place we were staying at was this old…almost like someone’s little camp. So it was the eight of us crammed in this space, and the last night, we got a bunch of wine and beer and we got home and got hammered.
  • The one of Craig was in his bedroom and he’d just bought that painting the day before when we went antiquing in this weird little town. I like that there’s a light behind him, so it has a glow behind his head, and then the red and the blue bed sheets.
  • I had been shooting photos the whole time — I like to take photos of people when they’re not looking because I hate asking someone to take their photo. I’m too scared. The older I get, I seem to be getting more and more shy.
  • I seem to have a bit of a problem with portrait stuff, asking people, and then I don’t know — I just feel awkward when I’m taking them. I’ve been trying to do a bunch more lately because it’s something I really want to get better at. I’m just learning everything, how to get people to act naturally or whatever.
  • We were just at the house pretty hammered and I think I had had a bottle of red wine and gotten wasted super quick before I knew it, so I got to the cottage and got some portraits that I’d wanted to shoot the whole time we had been staying in this weird little place, and I just hadn’t got around to doing it. But I was hammered, so I was like, “Fuck it,” and I started grabbing everyone.
  • The house was all really dull and mundane and all the colors were really muted, so it was cool. And we got some other shots: the whole group sitting together in the hallway, where it looks like a classroom or something, and then I got a portrait of Dane I was really happy with.
  • I started shooting film in the last two or three years. I always have that feeling of not wanting to waste it, even though it’s just eight bucks a roll or something. Like if I burn through film, I feel like I’m wasting because it’s a physical thing. With digital you can just kind of hammer away and it’s nothing. With film, it’s a physical thing that you’re wasting, so I try and take as little as possible, which sometimes sucks because I’m stumbling fucked up and don’t take a lot of shots that I
This was when we were in New Zealand doing Dear Suburbia, and that trip was crazy. The place we were staying at was this old…almost like someone’s little camp. So it was the eight of us crammed in this space, and the last night, we got a bunch of wine and beer and we got home and got hammered.
NIGHT OF THE COVER DION AGIUS ON THE EVENING BEHIND ISSUE ONE'S FRONT PAGE
Tue
10
Jul

Hover for words and photos by Dion Agius

At the end of a trip that saw low and strange days, then high times and fine waves, Dion took some pictures on his Canon AE-1. They're portraits on film: Craig Anderson, Conner Coffin, Dane Reynolds and more good friends.

Three exposures from the roll are Craig. One of those ended up on the cover of What Youth Quarterly, Issue One. Here are some of the others, with words from the photographer.