Tag: Ryan Callinan

THIS IS US: JERK OFF TAPES THIS IS AN ABSTRACT PRESENTATION TAKEN FROM OUR HANDY CAMS DURING FILMING FOR THIS IS US: AUSTRALIA

Surf culture isn't polished. It's not cut out for primetime. And anyone who's ever chucked surfboards into the back of a van knows what type of conversations go down on surf trips. We have all the ...lost videos and watch them to this day. And while we hope you enjoyed This Is Us: Australia and all the good surfing and poetic shots and cutaways, we had to sign off with something a touch more..ummm, raw. This was inspired by creepy, shoulder-mount cams from the '90s. Hit play and do remember to fuck around as often as you can. We're surfers. And we're lucky. And this is a surf trip. Be sure to listen for Dillon Perillo's very candid confession... [...]

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THIS IS US: AUSTRALIA PART 4 OF THE WHAT YOUTH ORIGINAL SERIES

There is a lot of chaos cluttering our brains these days. Texts prevent pondering. Snapchats prevent reverie. Twitter prevents epiphany. Instagram prevents memory. And thunderstorms prevent brainstorms. And on and on.

It’s difficult to get true commitment — let alone ponder the fact that beyond our instantaneously gratified society there are canyons in the oceans where vampire fish live; or meditate for a moment on the fact that there is space. How can one ponder space when it’s nearly impossible to initiate a real conversation? Warrant a look in the eyes or an earnest response? It is easy to track someone today, yes. It is hard, however, to elicit anything of substance as we walk around like the texting dead.

Which leads us to the motivation behind this trip we did to the coast and why we chose these surfers: Creed McTaggart, Chippa Wilson, Ryan Callinan and Dillon Perillo. We wanted to remind ourselves of something. Something about existence. About humanity. About surfing. This is part four of This is Us: Australia and we hope you like it. We got a house, drank beers, went surfing, drove around, fucked around and talked about chicks. Ryan wore his wetsuit the whole damn trip and Creed had a few cigarettes. Dillon read poetry and Chippa applied fresh Fox stickers for the first time. It's wasn't always deep and meaningful (although at times it was) but it was fun, and this is what it looked like.

Coming Next Monday: A bonus section from This is Us: Australia featuring outtakes from the trip that will ultimately prove we've lost it. [...]

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THIS IS US: AUSTRALIA PART 3 OF THE WHAT YOUTH ORIGINAL SERIES
We're all different. We're all the same. It's all fucking good. Life is many things. And this is us: moody, happy, sweaty, ripping, reading, writing and psyched as we wanna be, roaming through Australia. Part three of four.
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Apr
THIS IS US: AUSTRALIA PART 2 OF THE WHAT YOUTH ORIGINAL SERIES

We dealt with a ton of rain during filming for this series. It hampered surfs, made us chase our tail, wiped skating off the list for many days and poured chocolate milk colored water into the lineups. But it didn't come without fun too. Locked indoors for the evening, we'd sip on red and play cards, shit talk, read poetry books and watched skate videos. We actually learned some shit. The waves we'd find every morning were always different. Weird shorebreak with no other people even thinking of going out. Then we'd paddle out because funny wipeouts were inevitable and there was always the odd chance that someone might find a Danny Way sized mega-ramp. We surfed a ton right through all the rain. And that's just how it was. No one complained. This is episode two. Enjoy. [...]

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Apr
THIS IS US: AUSTRALIA PART 1 OF THE NEW WHAT YOUTH ORIGINAL SERIES

The concept for the This Is Us series is simple: grab surfers we like to hangout with, put them in a house, go surfing a ton and record it, to show what it's like on a trip. Our first trip for the series features Creed McTaggart, Chippa Wilson, Dillon Perillo and Ryan Callinan in a wave rich region in Australia. The house was filled with books, wine, food, beer, boards, skateboards and good tunes. We faced the storm of the century for the first two days and after it passed found a variety of wedges, ramps and this anomaly of a right that's featured above, which according to locals is rarely rideable, but it turned on for Ryan, Dillon and Creed  in part 1.

Be sure to tune back every Monday this month for new episodes of This is Us: Australia. [...]

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Apr
HAVE A LOOK AT US PHOTOS FROM THE NEW WHAT YOUTH SERIES THIS IS US: AUSTRALIA

PHOTOS: Lawrence

On Monday we'll be releasing episode 1 of the new show This is Us: Australia. Above is a gallery of our week, infesting a house in Australia. Over the course of that week, Creed McTaggart become our new muse. Dillon Perillo pondered existence daily with readings from Henry Miller's book Tropic of Capricorn and offered up daily Bukowski poetry recitals. Ryan Callinan proved to everyone that his backhand whip is the real deal. And Chippa Wilson debuted his new Fox logos and demonstrated why he's the most contemporary aerial surfer in the game. We had a shit ton of fun, as you'll see come Monday in episode 1.

Click through the gallery above. And full screen it, life's short. [...]

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THIS IS US: AUSTRALIA PREMIERING MONDAY, APRIL 1ST ONLY AT WHATYOUTH.COM

This is Us: Australia is the first installment in a new four-part series by What Youth that documents the goings on during one surf trip, over one week in Australia with Creed McTaggart, Dillon Perillo, Chippa Wilson and Ryan Callinan. It is a sandy, train wreck of rain, ramps, chicken schnitzel, poetry readings and shark dodging. Hit play for a preview and be sure to catch the first episode Monday, April 1st, right here and all Monday's in April.

And for a photographic installment from the road during filming, click here. It's a mess. There is wax and sand on everything. But that's just the way it is. [...]

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Mar
DEAR YOUTH THE MAKING OF A NEW WHAT YOUTH ORIGINAL SERIES

PHOTO: Lawrence

We’re currently in Australia filming for a new What Youth film series called This Is Us. So far, in the first two days we've survived the 50-year storm. Had a late night skate session fueled by the lights on our cars, searched every nook and cranny along this section of Australian coast and met some quality surfers. Let’s start with Ryan Callinan, who’s featured above with a nasty whip in front of prehistoric rock. Ryan is polite, he does dishes, he’s super positive, not obsessed with his phone and is more surf psyched than anyone we’ve ever met — which believe it or not are all very rare qualities. He’s #theboys — and is single handedly bringing back the high five. The second is Creed McTaggart, a Western Australian bad ass with the gentlest of demeanors. He’s the guy you want in the car. He’s soft spoken but has the timing of a comedian. He’s got a Pink Panther tattoo and is full of rad stories and insight at just the right time. The guy loves Mitch Hedberg. He also says rad shit out of nowhere, like, “Dammit! I left my mojo in the other car!” There's also Fox’s newest team rider Chippa Wilson, who continues to prove there is no one more right now on the face of the earth. Between his rock and roll’s in the skatepark, to his ridiculous pull ratio during free surfs, Chippa maintains his reputation as the coolest kid at school. The fourth surfer we have is Dillon Perillo. Dillon spends most of his day debating existence and reading quotes from the novels he’s reading. Just a man and his search for meaning in a meaningless world. We love him. (More after the jump) [...]

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DEAR YOUTH FUCK HENRY MILLER

PHOTO: Lawrence

There is a beautiful home in Australia that is now inhabited by us. Nine of us. It has several bedrooms. A beautiful deck. A gas Weber barbecue. Kitschy photos of Waikiki, Santa Monica, Tahiti and other surfing “meccas.” We are here surfing, drinking, skating, talking, grilling, and reading poetry together because we saw a film called Shelter that was based on a similar premise: a house of dudes surfing and hanging out…only we wanted to fuck it up a bit. So we brought a few new characters to our version. One chain-smokes and doesn't have a clue how actually bad ass he is. One is freshly inked with a new sponsor, a fuck-ton of tattoos and the most technically perfect approaches in surfing. Another has a backhand whip that is so committed he makes you want to be better at whatever it is you do. And the other is Dillon. (Continued after the jump.) [...]

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Feb
WHAT YOUTH'S TOP FIVE VIDEOS OF 2012 NUMBER 4: KUSTOM AIRSTRIKE EPISODE 4
Maybe it's the Sonic Youth. Or Chippa and John John going back and forth across the Mentawai skyline like McEnroe and Borg at Wimbledon. Whatever it is, this video revs our engine and has been put on more than a few times to get us psyched and out the door — which is all we're [...]
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