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EK COLLECTION

SLATER LOVES FIJI

Eric Koston has always been leading the way when it comes to street style and innovation on and off of a skateboard. The California born-andbred Koston has had an esteemed appreciation for the life and times that have molded him into the icon he is today, and now he’s come out with an all new collection of shades from Oakley that pay homage to those roots. Eric’s signature series from Oakley feature special renditions of the Frogskin, the Holbrook and the Plaintiff frames. Both the Frogskins and the Holbrook celebrate the tortoise shell frames of yesterday, while the Plaintiff comes in a brown-camo ﬁnish. All three shades come with dark bronze lenses and are honed with the patented high-def optics for which Oakley is known. Koston’s glasses come with a collectible bag, and each shade offers a different avenue for you to express yourself, so why not get all three? These shades will be on the shelves by the time you read this, so make sure to snag the trio today.

Without a doubt, Professor Slater has to be one of the most comfortable surfers on the planet in the reefs surrounding the island of Tavarua. It showed in the way he navigated himself to the top of the podium at the 2012 Fiji Volcom Pro. Whether it was his tightly tucked barrel technique at Restaurants, or his in-tune wave selection at Cloudbreak that had him weaving through sections at mach-10 only pausing to perform blistering backhand turns that seemed unreal, he was rightfully the man to take home the $75k. In fact, the whole contest was unreal. The opening rounds, the historical big-wave free-surf session that went down, and to top it off the ﬁnals saw pumping Cloudbreak. We’re pretty sure that even Richard Woolcott couldn’t have ever believed in his wildest dreams that Volcom would score this hard, but sure enough, they did. Thank you Mother Nature. Here’s hoping that next year is a fraction of the entertainment we witnessed this year!

BARRY MCGEE iPHONE CASE Were you intrigued by cover artist Barry McGee last issue? Well, whether you’re a brand new Barry fan or have been a longtime apostle, we suggest that you check out the new iPhone case that RVCA and Barry are putting out. It’s a snap case with Barry’s signature artwork brought to you by RVCA’s Artist Network Program. Grab yourself one and in no time your iPhone will make the transformation from an ordinary old phone into a replication of one of Barry McGee’s pieces of art. So, kill two birds with one stone by protecting and decorating your iPhone by logging onto rvca.com and buying yourself one now!

BREAKFAST WITH BL!SSS

STABILIMENTUM Hurley is proud to present Stabilimentum, an art installation created by Hurley brand artist James Marshall (Dalek). The installation was built for the US Open of Surﬁng and is inspired and driven by Phantom Fuse, the newest generation of Hurley’s 4-time SIMA award-winning board short. In case you haven’t tried the Phantom Fuse boardshorts, let’s just say that the folks at Hurley design have really hit the ball out of the park. Whether you’re looking for comfort, trying to stand out in the crowd or throwing hacks in the lineup, we feel that the Phantom Fuse is the answer to everyone’s boardshort needs this summer. As if they’re not already giving us enough by way of their superior products, the Hurley heads have decided to throw a little party honoring their new installation for the US Open and everyone is invited. That’s right, Stabilimentum will be going down on Tuesday, July 31st from 6-9 p.m. at H Space Gallery located on 1945 Placentia Avenue. Mark it on your calendars and we’ll see you there!

Body Glove will be hitting the road from July 20th -24th for their California 1nvasion Episode II and they’ll be making their very first stop right here at BL!SSS headquarters. We don’t do this very often, but right now we’re inviting everyone to come on down to the BL!SSS offices at 413 31st street in Newport Beach, on Friday, July 20th at 9 a.m. to have donuts and coffee with Jamie Obrien, Alex Gray, Nate Yeomans, Cheyne Magnusson and many more of Body Glove’s finest. The tour will also make stops at ET Surf, Katin, Jack’s, Newport Surf, Republik of Kalifornia, Surf Ride, Mission Surf and many others being added daily. Come on out for free food, free product and good times. Log on to bodyglove.com for tour updates and post coverage.

STANCE IS STACKED KILLER SHARK Shark Watch’s very own Chad Labass was in our ofﬁce the other day and brought with him some of the latest additions to the Shark family. He unveiled to us the Killer Shark Metal Collection, which takes the iconic Shark silhouette and wraps it in a full metal jacket. The watch is stainless steel and ready to be rocked in whatever situation you deem worthy. The Killer Shark Metals come in colors that will accommodate anyone’s taste, and true to the Shark’s nature it’s water resistant up to 30 meters and comes backed with a lifetime warranty. Head on over to your friendly Shark Watch dealer and add a Killer Shark Metal to the ensemble.

The makers of the best threads around are mixing things up quite a bit with some red-hot talent on both their skate and surf teams. Stance has just recently added teenage phenom Nyjah Huston, along with all three of the Florence brothers – John John, Nathan and Ivan – to the Stance family. As if the brand didn’t already have enough innovative mojo going for itself, now Stance can rest easy knowing that they’ve got four of the brightest young stars in the surf/skate scene that anyone could hope to have waving their colors. So, what’s next up for these Stance newcomers? Expect them all to blow minds wherever they happen to be. For all the latest news and collaborations head over to stance.com.

UPPERCUT DELUXE Uppercut Deluxe is an emerging company that provides men with the highest quality barber supplies around. Uppercut is coming to the states straight out of Australia, and luckily for us, our girl Kiera Purcell was able to hook us up with some promotional gifts so that we could put the products to the test. They offer a wide range of hair wax products – Matt Clay, Deluxe Pomade, Featherweight and Monster hold – and have something for everyone, depending upon the look you want. Then, we tried the shampoo, conditioner, shave cream and moisturizer and we reached a whole new level of cleanliness. All of the products are made with the ﬁnest ingredients and are formulated to leave you feeling polished and ready for whatever comes your way. We’re not sure how the folks at Uppercut Deluxe tapped into the knowledge of the barber gods, but we’re glad we got to experience the hygienic bliss they’re supplying and we hope to see more of Uppercut Deluxe spread all over the world. For now, head to uppercutdeluxe.com to get your own.

DANE’S NEW FIN

BEAT JUNKIES - FOR THE RECORD In 1992 a group of DJs emerged from the depths of Los Angeles and the Bay Area that came to be known as the Beat Junkies. The Beat Junkies are one of the most influential DJ crews known to man, with members such as Curse, Rhettmatic, Melo-D, Icy Ice, Symphony, and What?!.They’ve collaborated with countless artists, produced mindblowing tracks and have inspired generations past and present. Now, LRG has honored the crew with a documentary commemorating the Beat Junkies 20th anniversary. The short film, titled “For the Record,” will be released on July 2nd. You can view the documentary in its entirety at both blisssmag.com and lrg.com. In addition, LRG is releasing a collaboration Beat Junkies tee and New Era snapback that will be available in finer retail locations. So pay tribute to the beat masters by getting some gear and showing your support.

One of the perks of not being on the World Tour is having some extra time to design and get creative with some of your sponsors. Dane Reynolds has been doing a lot of this as of late, and one of the newer released products he’s come out with are signature fins from Captain Fin Co. and Summer Teeth. The fin is the Al Merrick template with Dane’s favorite 5.5 degree cant and mega foil, which allow him to lay it on rail as hard as ever. If you’re thinking that these are just another dull-colored set of fins then you’ll be delighted to know that Dane’s good friend, Alex Knost, added his own personal touch by drawing some cool graphics. So there you have it – Dane’s newest creation, with a sprinkle of Knost’s creativity thrown in, and you’ve got every hipster up and down the West Coast frothing to get their hands on a set. Keep your eyes peeled, as they’ll be hitting stores soon.

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PUREGLASS ONLINE PureGlass has always been ground zero for some of the finest board builders in the industry. It has also become the one-stop shop for everything to satisfy the needs of both surfers and shapers. Whether it’s a classic Dano log, a high-performance Haydenshapes, Uhuru, J7, or Roberts stick, a new set of fins, a pad or surfboard building materials like blanks or resin, Jim and the boys have got it all. Now, PureGlass has made shopping that much easier with their new online store at pureglass.com. Log on and surf through the latest and greatest items in the online store, and check out their frequently updated blog with all the surf content your surf turkey brain can handle. The best part about the online store is that shipping and sales tax are free of charge. Pureglass.com is bringing highly sought after goods right to your fingertips, literally. You can also stop by PureGlass at 1777 Placentia in Costa Mesa and get all of the above or order the custom board you have always been dreaming of.

SUPERTIDE

Nixon has been continually pumping out the world’s best watches for quite some time, and they’re experts at keeping our wrists fashionable, functional and always a step ahead of the rest. A prime example of this comes in their newest tide watch the Supertide. The Supertide is your goto watch for making those quick lunchtime sessions from the ofﬁce worth it. The Supertide comes equipped with tide charts and sunrise/sunset data for over 230 beaches, but what caught our attention the most was the vivid high-resolution detail of the screen, making it much easier, and less straining on the eyes, to read. Hands down, this watch is a must-have for the avid surfer or waterman and we recommend everyone snag one.

I SPY TUDOR

The nose maestro himself is now wearing shades crafted by the folks at Spy Sunglasses. That’s right, we’re talking about none other than Joel Tudor himself. Joel is like a fine wine and just seems to be getting better and better with age. Whether he’s perched up on the nose for hours at a time on a clean Cardiff wall or throwing down on the mats with fellow jiu-jitsu world champs, Joel has just about every facet of life covered. He’s as straight up as they come and will go down in the books of history as one of surfing’s elite. We’re excited to see that he’s found the proper fit for a sunglass sponsor, and we look forward to seeing his own signature shade very soon!

FAMOUS ADDITIONS The boys at Famous Wax have just added a couple new young guns to their stellar roster. New to the team is Hawaiian heavyweight Kekoa Bacalso and California’s Josh Benjoya. These boys are top-of-their-class, action-packed surfers and will represent the Famous brand well. Whether charging big Hawaiian surf or tearing apart the Lowers lineup, don’t expect either of these two to come unglued, as Famous still has the stickiest wax we’ve ever come across. Combine that with their killer tail pads and leashes and you’ve pretty much got everything you could ever want for your shred stick. Click on over to famouswax. com and get yours today.

INSTA REEF GIVEAWAY Summer is on full blast and we’re feeling like it’s about time for another BL!SSS/Instagram giveaway. This time we’ve teamed up with Reef and they’ve given us two pairs of new kicks from their newly released RESRV Collection. The RESRV collection is premium footwear with a reﬁned look that’ll have you styled for a night out, but they can still be worn while trekking through rocky coastal regions thanks to their all-new “swellular” traction sole. It’s the perfect blend of style and durability and is the backbone of what the RESRV collection represents. All you have to do is keep an eye on our Instagram page @blisssmag and like this photo whenever it’s posted in the month of July. The winner will be chosen at random the following week and will be contacted via Instagram. Keep your eyes on the prize and good luck to all.

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Words: Spencer Pirdy

For quite awhile the bow tie had been lost and frozen in time, all but forgotten. There was a time when the bow was worn quite consistently. Back when galas and balls required them and when the majority of black tie event attendees rocked the bow with pride and not some skinny pencil tie from the Men’s Warehouse. We are in new times now though, and the bow tie seems to be making a comeback, as celebrities and common folk alike have added the bow to their ensembles. There has been a surge of bow-lovers from all over signifying a strengthening for the love of the bow tie. Plenty of big-name designers will probably tap into this emerging trend, but their over production and commercialized feel will be seen and send the consumer looking elsewhere. Where will people be able to ﬁnd the

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bow tie of their dreams? Well, we’ve found a local entrepreneur by the name of Matt Baker who’s quietly sewing himself into the hearts, or shall I say necks, of many. He just might be the solution to the bow tie niche. His attention to detail, old-fashioned approach and unadulterated love of the bow tie has helped him give birth to M.G. BAKER CO. For Matt, his infatuation with constructing clothes all started in middle school. He loved making his own outfits and had an esteemed appreciation for the fabrics used as well as the polished look he would strive to produce. This past October, when Matt was putting the finishing touches on a suit he was building for himself, he struggled to find a bow tie of his liking. “I couldn’t find anything with good material or that had the col-

ors I was looking for,” he said. So, he took matters into his own hands and thus began the process of researching how to make his own bow tie. He uncovered vintage 1940s sewing machines (which he feels work better and last longer than modern-day ones) and ventured into the concrete jungle of Los Angeles on a weekly basis to seek out and buy the ﬁnest of fabrics made of 100% cotton that any normally trained eye might overlook. Less than a year later, mgbakerco.com is up and running with a diverse range of custom-made bow ties. The unique and exciting colors are enough to turn a few heads, or the more subtle designs will ease you into the bow tie revolution. Now, many of you might feel a bit hesitant about getting a bow tie because you’re unfamiliar with how to tie one. But don’t worry.

Matt, being as wise as he is at the ripe old age of 23, has solved that for us. Each bow tie purchased comes in a box that features hand-written instructions on how to tie your bow tie as well as how to ﬁt it around your neck properly. Whether you’re looking to wear one for a formal event or just looking to casually throw one on with a button-up and jeans, M.G. BAKER CO. will have you dialed. Matt is bringing back a lost love and doing it with his own two hands, and his minimalist attitude means consistent perfection across the board. So, there you have it. Now, log onto mgbakerco. com today and order yours before the secret gets out and you’re left wearing that hideous ascot tucked deep inside your closet.

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Known Gallery presented another hit show, “Lovely Day,” a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Patrick Martinez. The crowd poured in opening night and buzzed around Martinez’s artwork… the neon lights generating a high energy. His show was inspired by the collocations/ contrasts of LA, the “beautiful days” and the “evils” that subside in the beloved city of Los Angeles. Known Gallery, located on 441 North Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, will be exhibiting “Lovely Day” by Patrick Martinez until July 7th, 2012, so make sure to go check out Martinez’s artwork and Known Gallery if you haven’t been. Patrick Martinez, a diverse young artist, is known for his lush, colorful paintings and portraits set in the streets of Los Angeles. His neon works play on hip-hop themes, his sculptures and his limited-edition obPhoto: Courtesy of Known Gallery

jects. For “Lovely Day,” he revisits the Los Angeles landscape. “It’s crazy to me that I wake up to beautiful days here in LA, but they are juxtaposed with the ‘evil’ things that happen in this sublime city. That’s the inspiration for the show,” says Martinez. For the piece upon which the exhibition is based, a still-life painting with a layer of neon, spelling Lovely Day on top, Martinez says, “I painted a bed of ﬂowers typical to Los Angeles and took what I was doing with neon, which is inspired by LA store fronts, and combined the two. The result was the piece ‘Lovely Day,’ which was also the ﬁrst piece I created in this body of work.” The theme is seldom addressed in contemporary art and one that intrigued Martinez. Many of his new works have similarly glossy exteriors with dark undertones.

Another paradox Martinez explores is the male psyche, as exemplified in his painting “Culture of Honor,” which depicts a thuggish man festooned with a child’s flotation device or ‘floatie.’ Martinez says, “I wanted to use a Los Angeles male archetype to present this idea. It’s a beach setting, the proud male doesn’t know how to swim, but he’s sporting this ‘I don’t give a shit’ attitude – but he really does care. Moreover, he doesn’t want to drown.” “Culture of Honor” is one of the show’s highlights, as are two vending machines that are like those typically found in LA car washes, laundromats and liquor stores. They have been loaded with custom-sculpted toys in plastic capsules cast in various materials. One of the items is a sticky hand “West Coast version,” the

other is a piece of cheese and a plastic pig ﬁnger puppet. The vending machines also vend prismatic stickers with images of Martinez’s new neon pieces. Patrick Martinez is one of the most exciting young artists in Los Angeles at the moment. He has exhibited in Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, The Netherlands, Toronto and Hawaii. Complex magazine recently named Martinez one of its “Most Important Artists of 2011” and one of its “Most Inﬂuential Artists of the Complex Decade.” To check out upcoming shows at Known Gallery and more images from “Lovely Day” by Patrick Martinez log onto knowngallery.com, or to see more of Patrick Martinez’s art click over to patrickmartinez.com.

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Words: Lee Loughridge I am a hater. I hate most food, art, people, architecture, cars, magazines, movies, TV shows… you get my point. Even if you don’t get my point I don’t care because most likely I hate the cadence you use when you read my words. It’s not because I think I am above everything or can do it better; it is for the sole reason that things never really go as well as you hope they will. Perhaps my expectations are always too high. For example, I went to the Bikini Bar recently. Firstly, I was expecting for it to be a strip bar with girls in bikinis, and secondly, that it would be a bar in general. My expectations were blown on both counts. No strippers, stages or poles to be had, and they only serve beer and wine. I ended up drinking fake tequila, which didn’t really get me drunk so much as it just made me lose my capacity to talk, all the while making me feel like I was on the boat in the tunnel scene of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory. To add insult to injury, I ﬂopped out on my girlfriend when I got home. You have to empathize with my hate at this point. Music is the source of the most arguments I have, second only to the outﬁts road cyclists wear. It is also the thing that has had the most impact on my life. I grew up in New Photo: Lenny Zimkus

Jersey completely immersed in the NY/NJ/DC hardcore/punk and metal scene. I am pretty narrow-minded when it comes to music, but I do know this scene and was a part of it since the early ‘80s. This makes me an expert. In the late ‘80s, Revelation Records was started and a slew of new hardcore bands recorded with the label – bands like Warzone, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of it All, etc. The most important band, in my opinion, to come out of this label was Quicksand. Quicksand was started by Gorilla Biscuits guitarist/writer Walter Schreifels. I have to be honest, I thought most of these bands were a bit hokey and way too fucking preachy. Most concerts had the front men spending more time preaching positivity and other rhetoric than actually singing. Walter was not that guy. Instead of talking he – along with Tom Capone (guitar), Alan Cage (drums) and Sergio Vega (bass) – formed what was essentially a supergroup of sorts for that scene. Quicksand was the band that changed the sound of New York hardcore period. I am not going to explain how they sound, because you can look them up and hear what I am talking about. The album Slip is one you should deﬁnitely add to your collection.

On June 8th, Revelation Records held a threeday event in honor of their 25th year anniversary at The Glass House in Pomona. A bunch of Revelations key bands played throughout the weekend. Night three promised a “surprise guest” performance and the buzz was that it was going to be Quicksand. I was let in on the secret a few days prior and wasn’t going to miss it. The last time I saw Quicksand play was in the early ‘90s when they headlined the Warped tour. It was also the ﬁrst time I saw them play on a big stage. Most bands have a hard time transitioning from small clubs to bigger stages. Quicksand took it in stride. So the question for most of us was could they pull it off almost 20 years later? My friend Jon and I were speculating about how it would go. We knew they only had two days to practice, and after almost 20 years that seems like a tough hurdle. We expected them to be even better than before merely because these guys individually never stopped playing music, so if you think about it, they should be better. Rumors of Walter walking out of practice and inﬁghting were all over the club, none of which were true to the best of my knowledge. The lights went off and dramatic, synthesized music came on and we knew this was the

moment of truth. I have only one problem with the Glass House and that is the sound. It never seems loud or clean enough for the space, so when I heard the baseline of Omission I waited, almost nervous for the band, about how it would sound when the song kicked in. When it did it blew a hole in my chest. I have been to hundreds of concerts over the years but I have never had this kind of reaction to a band live. It may have been the best performance I have ever seen. They were louder and tighter than I could have ever expected. The entire set only lasted about 30 minutes, but is was 30 minutes of pure hatelessness. I do, however, hate the fact that you just questioned whether or not I knew if hatelessness was a real word or not. I know Quicksand wasn’t nearly as big here as they were on the East Coast. That is your loss. You would have traded Sublime any day for these guys. Revelation will be doing a reunion in the near future in NYC, and it is safe to say that Quicksand will make another appearance. If you have the means, get on a plane and go see them play. It may just be your last chance.

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Interview: Liz Rice McCray Emma Hack is the Australian artist behind the artwork in Gotye’s music video, “Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra).” Emma’s art is documented in a time lapse, as the phrases “she didn’t have to cut me off” and “you can be addicted to a certain kind of sadness,” sing through your head and the song becomes alive. Emma strategically paints Wally (Gotye) and Kimbra into the picture, creating a human, multi-dimensional piece of art. Emma’s work has reached a new level of awareness and admiration and has been viewed on an astounding global level with growing obsession with over 250 million views on YouTube (growing daily and reaching a crazy cult-like status). The words “somebody that I used to know” repeat and Emma’s art starts to unfold, transforming and mesmerizing the viewer. Gotye and Kimbra are in essence the canvas, and as the video starts to lapse Kimbra sheds her paint standing bare… leaving Gotye standing alone in a magical and surreal backdrop, an image where he becomes his own personal painting. Emma Hack has been perfecting this technique/style of artwork since 2005 she is multi-faceted and works with animals, models, and photographic artwork. Make sure to check out the video (if you haven’t already) on YouTube and see more of Emma Hack’s work, including her recent portrait of Gotye at, emmahackartist.com. So Emma, your art is featured in the hit by Gotye “Somebody That I Used To Know” music video. How does it feel to have over 250 million views of your art? Quite surreal. I almost feel detached from it now as we created it over a year ago. But in

saying this, it is pretty amazing and exciting that people are appreciating what I do as well as a great song. Will you tell us the story about how this video featuring your art came about? Natasha Pincus, the director/producer, contacted me, as she wanted to blend Wally into a wall. The design is actually one of Wally’s (Gotye) father’s works from the ‘80s, a sketch as such. I was offered free rein but felt it wasn’t right to make it an “Emma Hack,” it had to be about Wally. I worked with him on reconﬁguring it slightly to work best for the blend. What was it like working with Wally (Goyte) and Kimbra? The process is quite painful, to be honest, so there were many obstacles, but they wanted it to work as much as I did. And after all, it was for them so they did their best. Both are such lovely people. Wally is a humble, genuine man. How long did it take to paint them and create the video? The painting took 23 hours to complete. It was stop motion so I was literally painting a spot, lining them up, taking a photo, then repeating – it was very technically difﬁcult! Will you tell us a little bit about yourself? Where are you from, etcetera? I am from Adelaide, South Australia. It is all about lifestyle here. Surrounded by two major wine regions, beautiful landscape and beaches, it’s a great place to feel inspired.

You began your career as a make-up artist. How did you move into body painting? It was suggested by my make-up teacher at the time, Bill Peacock. He noticed my gift for creating illusion with face painting and told me to start carrying it onto the human form. I entered a fantasy make-up competition, won, and was hooked! What inspired your unique style of blending body painting, paint on canvas and photography? In the early 2000s a friend suggested I look at the work of Verushka. She had blended herself into rustic walls and natural backgrounds; I loved the illusion but didn’t know how to relate it to my work until I saw the wallpaper designs of the late Florence Broadhurst. It was an instantaneous connection so I grabbed some off-cuts and started painting my models into them. It worked as very strong work from the beginning, and this was 2005. How long have some of your longest works taken to paint? The first wallpaper work, Wallpaper 1, took 19 hours to create. I then went back the next day and created the next one at 17 hours. I had no idea it would take so long! Did you always want to be an artist? Are you formally trained as an artist or selftaught? Are their any artists that you feel influence your work or inspire you? Yes, I always loved drawing and painting. You have to find your niche as an artist, as there are so many out there, and just believe in what you do. I started painting bodies 22

years ago and had the vision of where I am today. It hasn’t been easy but you appreciate the things that happen even more now because of that. I have no formal training. Do you work with animals and other subject matter beside people? I found a Broadhurst wallpaper back in 2008 that was named Crocodile Skin. I had the idea to find a crocodile to feature in it. When shooting this image the handler mentioned he had many other birds and animals, so I started featuring them within the works. I continue this as they are beautiful, fun to work with and send an environmental message. So we heard you just finished a portrait of Wally (Gotye). Where can people check it out? Do you sell prints of it, and if so, where? You can check out the short film on the making of the image on Vimeo (vimeo. com/filmtraits). The image is also up on my website, emmahackartist.com, and you can order prints by emailing me at emma@ emmakhackartist.com. Where can people check out more of your artwork? You can check out more of my work at emmahackartist.com. There are some documentaries of me working and creating on there as well as interviews. I am represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery in NYC. I am looking for gallery representation in California, so if anyone is interested please message me.

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With a gorgeous gaze and ﬂawless ﬁgure, Sophia comes pouncing in as July’s Super Taste. Sophia is the kind of girl that we’d all love to stumble upon while walking in the sand this summer. One should always be prepared for an encounter with a lady of this caliber, whether you’re at the beach, out on the town or waiting in line for coffee. Just remember to take a deep breath and trust your instincts. But seriously guys, no lame pickup lines, because girls like Sophia will use those seductive eyes and see right through you.

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Interview: Raul Montoya

Gareth Stehr is one of the ﬁnest lads I know. This bearded gentleman from New Zealand is not just a radical professional skateboarder, but he’s also a very talented artist. The term artist is loosely thrown around in this day and age. It seems like every professional athlete is adding the word “artist” to his or her list of talents. Gareth is not jumping on this bandwagon. He has been creating art for years, well before it was the cool thing to do. There’s no mistaking Gareth’s art, as your attention is immediately grabbed by the use of bright, neon colors – contrasting the really dark subjects or situations. Instead of buying his canvases from your run-of-the-mill art stores, he typically creates original wood panels or stretches his own canvases. His inspirations come

from his attraction of the occult, witchcraft, heavy metal, and psychedelic stoner rock. He isn’t blatant and cheesy when it comes to his dark and satanic pieces either, but rather he depicts the imagery as he sees it, leaving the viewer with feelings of joy and happiness. Besides his artwork and skateboarding, Gareth is also a true motorcycle aﬁcionado and fabricator. He incorporates this uniqueness of his metal work and fabrication in pieces of his art as well. We were able to track him down for a few simple questions, and this is what he had to say. How long have you been creating art? I’ve been doing art ever since I was a young kid back in New Zealand. I always chose art as a subject in school and took

photography up until the time I moved here to the US. Where does your inspiration come from? I draw my inspiration from everything. I believe it’s hard for an artist, or anyone for that matter, not to absorb the stimuli occurring around them every day. I guess to break it down more speciﬁcally, I like to draw inspiration from occult imagery and the notion of good and evil. It is very visible from your art that you put a ton of thought into it. It’s not superﬁcial, generic and you’re not trying to emulate what everyone else is doing. Especially with what you choose for your medium. I think your inspiration, when it comes to art, is very visible

in the way you skate. Do you have any plans for any art shows in the future? Yeah, I recently started working with a new agency called Nightseid. We will be looking for a gallery space and holding our ﬁrst opening hopefully within the next couple of months. It should be a really exciting show; they have a lot of great artists in the roster, so keep an eye out. What do you think about all the skateboarders that are calling themselves “artists” these days? I believe that skateboarding is such a creative sport that we are all artists anyways. It’s only natural that some of us branch out into other mediums and explore our creativity. I also think it is becoming increasingly amazing

that the community of skaters is banding together to create more group shows and events showcasing skateboarders and their art. What’s your favorite gallery and why? There are so many galleries I can’t really pick a favorite, but I enjoy the shows at Known Gallery on Fairfax. They always have some really talented artists there. You can

never miss a show at the R&R gallery. It’s a guaranteed good time with good friends and topnotch pieces as well. How much have you received for your most expensive piece? I dunno if I need to be chatting it up about that kinda stuff. Let’s just say it paid my rent for a bit.

I think that speaks volumes of the type of guy you really are. Thank you for your time and looking forward to seeing more of your work in the near future. To stay current on everything Gareth is up to, be sure to check out his website at garethstehr.com.

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THE LINE AND THE LION Folly of the Average Man on That Day I saw a lion up close in Africa. I was at the lion enclosure at a game reserve. I walked over to a giant fence that was about 20 feet high. The lions lived on the other side of it. The fence was not very impressive. It was made of wire squares. “Man, you could ﬁt your head through one of those squares,” I said out loud to myself. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” said a park ranger who happened to hear me. “The fence has quite a bit of electricity running through it, bru. And the cat can move pretty quick when he

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wants to.” “Just sayin’ is all,” I said. I walked over to where an adult male lay on the grass. The big cat sat quietly. A gust of wind teased his mane. He didn’t look at me as I approached. He looked off into the distance. It looked like he was thinking about a memory. I stood no more than a few feet from him. I took in the size of his paws, the mass of his skull. I looked at the muscles twitching under his pelt warding off the tsetse ﬂies. I watched the ﬂick of his tail. It

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made a heavy sound on the air. It sounded like if he whipped you with that tail it’d hurt. It might even leave a bruise. The lion yawned. His teeth were huge and his gape immense. I knew that this animal could kill me easily. I would provide little resistance compared to even his tamest prey. Chased down and clamped in his jaws, my bones would explode into splinters and my blood would spill onto the grass. He’d stand over my lifeless remains as the rightful king of the

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jungle and I’d be dead as dead can be. But that would never happen. I was perfectly safe. And I knew I was perfectly safe because of that thin electriﬁed line. A line that separated man from man-eater. A line I would have no cause to cross. Not now. Not Ever. We may have only been a few feet apart, but the lion and I were in entirely different worlds. Worlds I believed could never converge. And then I went to Fiji.

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Today the surf was massive. Like... 20-foot. Proper 20-foot surf. Bigger even. I saw shit I still cannot believe. I watched from a boat in the channel from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. I watched six-foot men ride ten-foot boards through 20-foot barrels. I watched and watched. Nathan Fletcher was out in the morning on a 10’10”. When he paddled past Ace Buchan, Ace said he felt like an ant. Melling and Bede and Otto and Raoni surfed two heats in the biggest waves I’ve ever seen for an ASP comp. Warriors. Hell men. Lambs to the slaughter. Two heats and that was that. The event went on hold. Then they called it off. “Too dangerous,” they said. “Wrong wind,” they said. But still… the freesurfers paddled out. I watched and watched. I sat and saw the craziest tuberides to ever go down, man. Ian Walsh got an 18-second 18-foot barrel. Reef McIntosh rode a tube so big it popped my ears when it spat him into the channel near our boat. Pat Gudauskas fell out of the sky sideways and somehow stuck it long enough to not get pulverized to dust. Ramon Navarro tail-wheelied his way over a foam ball to make the deepest pit of the day. Of any day. In history even. It seemed like every moment redeﬁned the one before it. Every wave raised the bar. The swell was still picking up and I watched and watched.

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At about 3:30 I figured I should at least go and watch from in the water. I wanted to suck up more of the energy of the day. I wanted to hear the banter of big wave surfers. What did they talk about in between sets? Inflatable wetsuits? Oxygen canisters? Jersey Shore? I wanted to hear that shit and I wanted to feel the swells, the weight of history, move through me. There had been no cleanup sets and no washthroughs. The swell was true to the line of the reef. And that line was as easy to see as an electrified

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fence at a lion enclosure. I knew on which side of that line I belonged. The side with no man-eaters. The swell was true. I knew I’d be safe. I borrowed a 7’0” from an Aussie guy named Nick. I dived over the side and into warm water. It felt soft and inviting. As I paddled toward the pack, sets continued to roll in and surfers continued to ride inside them. The scale of the waves took on an entirely different dimension. How big was that last one? I don’t know. How do you measure a wing of jets ﬂying at you? In speed? In height? In width? In volume? In

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power? I don’t know… It was massive. The whole place was buzzing. Whistles. Hoots. Cheers. Clapping. Laughter. Swearing. Disbelief. I saw Josh Kerr and Ace sitting on the edge of the pack. Friendly familiar faces. I paddled over and sat with them. CJ Hobgood joined us on one of Kelly Slater’s 9’0”s. Then he quickly turned and stole one that missed the guys on the ledge. The wave rolled under me. I felt the heavy rain of the spray coming off its roof as it passed. I was in the thick of it.

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But the line was clear. I felt safe and I watched and watched. I listened to the banter. It was as warm as the water. “This is pumping.” “This is perfect.” “Can you believe this?” Ian Walsh paddled past and everyone asked him about his earlier barrel. The talk was familiar. Surf talk. And then in an instant everything changed. The air. The mood. The line. My line. My line had moved. My line had betrayed me. And then I was looking from the wrong side of the line

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as a thing rose from deep and from the deep. Top to bottom, heaven to hell, ocean folding in half. Disgusting and incredible and truly frightening. Healey sat deepest. He had a quick look at this thing then changed his mind. I watched (and paddled) as he just scratched over an avalanche. Then I watched (and paddled) as the biggest big-wave hell men in the

world scratched over it too. I watched their reaction as they breached the lip and saw the wave behind it. I watched them gunning for the channel. I watched (and paddled) and watched (and paddled). When I reached the top of that ﬁrst wave I felt a hard kick to my chest. What I saw was hard to take in. The entire ocean was going skyward. No matter where I looked

there was rising water. Panic. Kids. Dry mouth. Home. Adrenalin. Life. Sickness. Death. The line… I buried my arms to the earlobes. I clawed and scratched and kicked. I put in every last bit of energy I had in my body. I had to get back to my side of the line and I feared in the deepest part of me I wouldn’t. The wave doubled up and started projectile

vomiting across the deepest part of the reef. I had never seen anything so big move so fast so loud. I watched Healy scramble. He was directly in its path. I saw his board go up and over. Did he go with it? If he did he’s dead. I don’t know. I couldn’t think straight. My mind was screaming at me “WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAY AM I OUT HERE? THIS IS A NIGHTMARE.” I kicked and clawed and scratched for the line.

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And then I was moving up the face and my entire lifetime of surﬁng told me I was safe. I had crossed over. The monster had stayed true to the reef. I was back on my side. The natural order of things had been restored. The wave roared as it ran under me, like a lion would roar. And then it was gone, on its way to Restaurants (where as an angry 10-footer it would clean up everyone out there and wash three guys onto dry reef). The entire lineup was screaming and cheering in the wake of this set. Healey had ditched his board and just made it through. He was alive and safe. Kai Garcia was already motoring out on the ski to get him. There was celebration in the air. Excitement. Kerrsy and I looked at each other. He was laughing. “Were you scared just then?” he asked me. “I was shitting myself!” Damien Hobgood Photo: Courtesy of ©ASP

“I didn’t come here to die, I came here to watch.” I told him, “I’ve never been more scared in my life.” Tonight photographs of the rogue set began appearing on computer screens in the media room, with Healy’s board caught up on the lip and a familiar shape in the bottom left hand corner frantically scratching for life and limb. I had to laugh when I saw it. It’s a strange feeling to look at yourself knowing that at that very moment you thought you might die. And then also having to admit that I was almost always certainly wide enough to avoid being eaten alive. Everyone on this island is asking questions of themselves tonight. People online are asking questions too. And I’m sitting here asking myself: Did I really cross the line today? I can’t say for sure. But I do know that of all the really stupid things I’ve done in my life, paddling out into that surf is not one of them.

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John Florence :: Photo: Courtesy of ©ASP

Oh yeah, by the way one of the best World Tour competitions of all-time went down as well. Tavarua island was host to the best in the world and they shined at Cloudbreak and Restaurants. None other than Robert Kelly Slater took top honors, but not without having to fend off a red-hot young Brazilian Gabriel Medina in the ﬁnal. Here is where everyone stood after the dust settled: VOLCOM FIJI PRO FINAL RESULTS: 1 – Kelly Slater (USA) 18.16 2 – Gabriel Medina (BRA) 10.87 VOLCOM FIJI PRO SEMIFINAL RESULTS: SF 1: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 13.93 def. Mick Fanning (AUS) 6.57 SF 2: Kelly Slater (USA) 19.50 def. C.J. Hobgood (USA) 13.50 VOLCOM FIJI PRO REMAINING QUARTERFINAL RESULTS: QF 1: Mick Fanning (AUS) 16.60 def. John John Florence (HAW) 9.10 QF 2: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 13.60 def. Taj Burrow (AUS) 10.46 QF 3: Kelly Slater (USA) 18.57 def. Julian Wilson (AUS) 7.76 QF 4: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 16.14 def. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 15.76 CURRENT ASP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR TOP 5 (After Volcom Fiji Pro): 1. Mick Fanning (AUS) 24,750 pts 2. Kelly Slater (USA) 23,700 pts 3. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 23,700 pts 4. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 22,400 pts 5. Taj Burrow (AUS) 20,950 pts Parko :: Photo: Courtesy of ©ASP

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Interview: Andrew Cannon I don’t know what it is about some people, but for some strange reason certain types of people attract abuse. Most of the time it is brought on by something goofy that they did, but sometimes it’s just because they can take it. Chris Mathis is that guy. If you have the chance to meet him, the first thing you’ll notice is that he is loud. Why? Is he hearing impaired? No, it’s because Mathis is excited. About what? Well, pretty much everything. I’ve known Chris since he was a preteen. He comes from a good home and a town where everyone wants to see him succeed, myself included. After taking a semester off of college, he moved out west and took residence in one of our guest bedrooms in an attempt to live the dream. Although he still has a ways to go, Chris Mathis is really coming into his own. Give us the rundown: age, sponsors and where you’re from? I’m 21 years old. I’m from Media, Pennsylvania, and I ride for World Industries, Ergo Clothing, Theeve Trucks and Fairman’s Skate Shop. Tell us the worst story you have about you losing someone’s stuff. I’m terrible. I guess I have a bad memory or something, but ever since I was little I was good at losing stuff. Not intentionally, of course, but I’ve lost clothes, money, phones, house keys … you name it. Recently, I took the bus from Arizona to Long Beach to stay with Charlie Thomas (World Team Manager). All the dudes at World give me shit for being flow trash, consistently blowing it one way or another. So I was convinced this time that there was no way I could screw up. I had it all figured out - skate hard, don’t complain and don’t blow it. My plan was foolproof,

until that first night I took Charlie’s cruiser board to the skate bar down the street. Long story short, I checked on the board once or twice and the third time it was gone. I had to take the walk of shame back to his house knowing I was in deep shit and wasn’t going to live this one down. The next morning before we took our sevenhour drive up to San Francisco I had to break it to him that I lost his cruiser board, his best one at that. Ever since, that’s all I hear from everyone on the team. I think I’m learning slowly but surely. Sorry, Chuck, I owe you. What is the coolest trip you’ve been on so far for skateboarding? By far the coolest trip I’ve ever been on was an 11-day trip to Guangzhou, China. It was me, Andrew Cannon, Mark Del Negro, Chris Haslam and our buddy Tommy Zhou translating, filming and showing us around the city. I had never been out of the country before and didn’t really know what to expect. It was amazing, such a culture shock from my little suburb town outside of Philadelphia. Seeing full families ride down the street on a moped with their kids hanging off the side, dodging the craziest traffic and seeing slaughtered animals hang off the back of motorcycles fly by you. It was truly amazing to fly around the world and see a completely different culture, and even better to go skate the best spots I’ve ever seen. That was the best trip of my life. We had a great crew, skated as much as we possibly could and got pampered with delicious food, beer, massages and skate spots – everything a man could want. I had the time of my life and couldn’t sum it all into one paragraph. If I could do it all again I would in a heartbeat, and I might possibly consider getting a little Chinese sugar momma to prolong my adventure.

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Have you ever rapped in another country? If so, please explain. Yeah, when we were in China I somehow ended up singing “Gimmie The Loot” by Biggie Smalls in front of a huge crowd of people. Some poor guy and his kid were trying to raise money for his sick wife in the streets of Guangzhou. He was singing some terrible sounding Chinese song with a microphone and speaker and didn’t seem to be collecting much money. I had never sung karaoke before that in my life but I guess it was my time to shine. Next thing I know I’m scrolling through songs on my phone with a mic in my hand. I didn’t realize until

midway through the song that a bigass crowd formed and people were giving a bunch of donations and ﬁlming on their phones. Maybe it was a little liquid courage but I was in the zone. The next day our friend found a picture of me on Chinese Google singing my heart out, so I’m pretty hyped on that photo. Who inspired you as a skateboarder growing up? Kerry Getz, Danny Renaud, Anthony Pappalardo, Arto Saari, Josh Kalis, a bunch of Philly dudes that killed it, probably because I could go downtown and skate the same spots as they did and fan out.

Who do you like now? Everyone I get to skate with on a daily basis hypes me up. Outside that, Jake Johnson, Austin Gillette, Ishod Wair, Mark Suciu, Kyle Nicholson – anyone who is raising the bar and isn’t a kook. What is it about you that makes you such a good whipping boy for everyone at World? Why does everyone give you such a hard time? I don’t know. They love to put me through hell, but I guess I deserve it because I like to give people a hard time as well. So I now have the reputation of constantly

blowing it and end up at the shit end of everyone’s jokes, or getting punched or told to clean the van or something. It’s good though – it’s like a brotherly love kinda thing, like if your brother wants to beat the shit out of you. I think, or at least I hope, they still like me or else they’d be giving someone else a hard time. So thank you and keep it coming. Which ‘90s cartoon character did you look like before you cut your hair? Rodger Klotz from Doug. How did being such a ladykiller almost get you killed

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at a party in Arizona? Ha, I wouldn’t say almost killed, but I went to some random bro party in AZ with a couple of my skate homies from the local park and everything was cool for a while, despite the room full of TapOut t-shirts. I ended up getting pretty drunk and making out with some chick there who seemed to be single. Then, like two hours later, me, my homies and the chick are sitting on the couch and the front door swings open and it’s these two meathead dudes roll in with all these shitty tattoos and starts yelling at me to get up off the couch. I thought he

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was joking at ﬁrst, and then next thing I know the one dude starts punching my friend in the head sitting next to me so I grab him to try and break it up and the bro pulls out a sketchy little switchblade and is screaming to let him go or he was gonna stab him. He had the knife like six inches above my buddy’s knee; I swore he was gonna stab him right then and there. Everyone at the party started freaking out and it eventually ended. The dude wanted to ﬁght me one-on-one for talking to his “girl.” At this point the girl disappeared and I told him I have no idea who anyone

was at that party, and I’m not about to ﬁght someone who just pulled a knife out because he got in a headlock. What do we have to look forward to seeing from you in the future? A bunch of skateboarding. My plan is to skate as hard as I can, learn new tricks, ﬁlm a bunch and take it day by day. I’m fortunate to have done all the things in my life so far and I’m having fun. I can’t ask for much more than that. Who do you want to thank?

I would like to thank my mom and dad for being so supportive, Andrew Cannon for having my back since day one, Dave Fairman, Charlie Thomas, Joe Hammeke and Chris Ortiz for making this interview happen. My sponsors, everyone at World for putting up with all my shit and pushing me to do the best I can, and all the homies back on the East Coast. Everyone that has helped me out … I owe everything in my life to skateboarding. It has made me who I am, and it gives me a reason to go out everyday and do something I love.

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Interview: Danny Fuller

Is all of what you’ve been working on lately going to be for your show at Gagosian in the fall? Um, ideally (laughs). I have benefits and all of these other things, but you know people want to donate money to art organizations and get art for free, ya know. I know that you really enjoy and love painting, but sometimes do you find yourself saying “Wow, this is really work”? Um, no. Painting is what I love to do. I’m really happy to be able to do it and when painting becomes difficult and there are hard things to accomplish it’s like anything else. It becomes extremely difficult work. It’s hard to complain though because it’s being able to do what you love and for me that’s the ultimate. For a long time I had to do everything else but paint to afford to paint. I always keep that very clearly in mind, and that sense is never lost. Never forget those days, right? (Laughs) Yeah, never ever-ever. It’s always at your doorstep. It’s a balance, and I always feel like it’s right on the edge. Were you born and raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts? Amazingly, yes. They closed the hospitals and maternity wards shortly after I was born, but yeah, I was one of the last people to be born in a hospital in Marblehead and then grew up there until I went to college. What was it like growing up there as a kid? Well, it’s like a peninsula and one of the older towns in the country that was founded in 1629. So for this country that’s old. And with the coastline there it was really about growing up in the water. I was near the water and in the water at a very early age and was able to explore independently from a pretty young age, and we had all of the islands that us kids would explore. Did you find surfing when you were a kid there or did you find that later on? Later on, definitely. I witnessed it. There was one really huge storm, and I think that was in ‘78, and a reef had formed that people started surfing at. There was really no tradition of surfing in the whole area, not that I knew of, even though I was a member of the surf club in my high school (laughs). Mainly it was skateboarding. That was the whole thing, surfing wasn’t; it was skating. This was in the ‘70s so it was like Tony Alva’s time and Jay Adams and all of that was happening while I was in high school because I’m their same age. Those are the people I really looked up to, so surfing wasn’t really a constant thing where I was. Did wake surfing though, because I was really competitive in yacht racing and sailboat racing from a very early age. I was actually a sail maker when I went to high school and in my first few years of college that’s what I did for work. Wow, so if we’re ever stuck in the South Pacific I’d be safe with you? (Laughs) Yeah, I’m good with sailboats but I’m not good with motors, and it’s hard for me to really trust going out in motorboats. I trust myself in a sailboat no matter how bad it gets in terms of conditions. Like, it can get pretty bad and I’m still okay with that, but when you’re relying on an engine and fuel and all that out in the middle of the ocean… that’s not something that’s particularly appealing to me. So sailboats are something I know very well and from racing them at a very early age. Have you always been interested in painting? In high school were you taking art classes, or was it something that you naturally had the ability for from an early age? Yeah, it was definitely from an early age for drawing and all my grandparents were “Sunday painters,” I guess is the term. In retirement they all painted. And so whenever I went over to whoever’s side of the family’s house they always had all of these oil paintings of the landscapes and paintings from the town. My grandfather was really the one who actually… every time I came over he’d give me a little drawing lesson, make sure I had the supplies and then would check up on my drawings each time. That was from a young age. In high school I was at a public school, and surprisingly for a small New England town they had an amazing art program. They had an excellent teacher and art history classes in a public high school, which is now basically non-existent. Now throughout the country that type of education is very hard to find. In the ‘70s I was very lucky to have that. I used drawing as basically a way of communicating with friends, because I had a knack for it and I could draw basically anything and people would ask me to draw things in the study halls or cafeterias or whatever. I was always drawing things and entertaining friends so it has pretty much stayed the same since then. I like the Sundays with Grandpa. Yeah, he would always make sure to check up on my drawing, but I didn’t really start painting until college. Painting wasn’t really an issue for me because oil painting seemed to be something I just did. The whole idea Images: Courtesy of Richard Phillips Studio

of using oil and oil paint and then the fact that you had to wait for it to dry and all that stuff seemed very unappealing to me. So, I made acrylic paintings in high school, none of which were very good (laughs), but it was fun. There were vastly more talented students in my high school whose work were very inspiring to me because they were fluent in oil paint and could draw amazingly well. So, the other students really were a big inspiration to me as well. Have you kept any of that early work from high school by chance? I don’t have it with me. It would probably be in some kind of storage facility. My mom might have some kind of a print or something that I made in junior high school put up in the house, but I don’t have any images of that stuff. It was pretty much like a cross between Salvador Dali and Ed Budmunk (laughs). Back in those days it was awesome. I really had no understanding of modern or contemporary art in the least bit. Art history was only up to… you know, it was a sketchy knowledge. Contemporary art wasn’t something I even knew about until like sophomore year in college and I was pretty much like, “What?” That changed everything. Did you move to New York before you went to college? I pretty much did in a straight line a migration south from my hometown. Meaning I went from Marblehead and moved into Boston in 1980 and did my undergrad at Boston University. And what’s notable about that is that it was a very, very traditional figurative painting curriculum in the sense that we drew and painted and sculpted from the live model and also had to be very well schooled in anatomy, as well as in the techniques of painting and sculpture and so forth. So it was a very traditional school. From that point, my senior year I ended up going to Massachusetts College of Art, which was far more liberal and progressive in their teaching. That’s what really prepared me to go to Yale, where I did my graduate work from ‘84-‘86. At that time that’s where I met friends: John Currin, Sean Landers and more, all whom I remain extremely close with to this day. That’s where I threw the whole idea of figurative painting out the window to do sculpture, which I continued to do until about 1990 and did not make paintings. So, I didn’t really resume painting until 1992. Then, in a way, ‘92-‘94 was kind of a period of experimentation and then in ‘95 I began the kind of “platform” from which my work has developed since.

Do you see yourself ever doing sculptures again? I do. Absolutely. I mean, I never thought I was going to make films or photographs, honestly. That didn’t even seem to be a possibility. The only way that that came about was that someone asked me to do it. I would never say “no.” So, if you asked me to do sculptures I’d say “yes” (laughs). In fact, I have boxes of elements for sculptures in my studio right now; it’s just to the point where I don’t know what to do. With any type of forum it’s a matter of finding what you want to communicate to the forum, because otherwise it really isn’t art or anything at all, except for stuff. When you can give life to it and have it be a potential carrier of an art experience that’s when you’ve got something. I feel like that sculptural element is really emerging to me again and I don’t know what form it’s actually going to take yet. Maybe after your next trip to Hawaii it will come clear to you. (Laughs) See that’s the thing, when I did live in Hawaii for a year, that experience that you have changes your thinking about art and sculpture and painting and everything for that matter. When I see the type of great work that people do, like the shapers or surfers or surfboards and all of that, it really throws into question, to me, what a sculpture could really mean. Because it’s just on such a different level. Just the imagining of those types of things. It’s a relationship to form that… I guess it’s quantifiable seeing Scene Machines and all of that, but it is based on a very abstract and very complex and very beautiful level. Where was your first exhibition? My first time showing a work in public, the person who did it was a guy named Bill Arrning and he was the curator of White Collumns, and I had one of my sculptures in a show about new sculpture. That was very early on. That was my first group exhibition. Then, my first solo show was at the Holly Solomon Gallery on 5th Avenue in New York, and that was my first solo show in 1987, about a year out of art school. When and where did you actually start surfing? I started surfing in New York when I moved back from Hawaii. In Hawaii I was rehabilitating from an illness, and when I was there I was living in Kona and working out, getting fit again and getting my strength back. At that point I was basically bodyboarding. I didn’t know anyone at that time who could teach me to surf, so I just grabbed a bodyboard and went out there in the beach breaks and got the daylights

pounded out of me. And then I started learning about the waves. Which, in a way, is a good way to begin. It gives you an awareness of the ocean. So, when I got back to New York this friend of mine at the time said, “This bodyboard thing isn’t going to do. You’re going to have to get a surfboard.” Essentially in 2000 I went to a local surf shop and got a board and in the fall started taking the train to Rockaway. I got my first wave on my birthday in October, and heading into winter I got a thick wetsuit and took the train to the beach all winter. I mean hardcore. It really gave me a sense of what it took to do it. Learning in the wintertime will definitely give you a sense for whether you’re up for it or not. I also went out to California that winter and met up with a friend and he took me to some LA spots. That was a big eye-opener compared to surfing in New York. Do you see many similarities in the expressions of surfing and painting? I feel they both require a certain commitment. Both are forms of art where you have to commit. On the expressive level, I think they are very similar. But also as far as performance, you have this element so now what are you going to do with it? It’s understanding the method and material that you’re working with. It’s about understanding the relationships of time as well, and both of those are really big elements in surfing and painting. Both mediums, where the studio is as critical of a dimensional place you could be. In painting, you can go to museums and see that next level of art. In surfing, being in Hawaii and seeing people perform at that top level was one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had. What artists from your younger days had the biggest influence on you? The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston was very important to me and also the Institute of Contemporary Art. That’s where I was able to see all of the contemporary art from New York being imported to Boston in this great space. And the curator at the time, David Ross, was getting all of this good stuff. This kind of great distillation of all of the coolest stuff happening at that time. There was just a lot of great art to look at and be inspired by in Boston.

Do you agree that this was crucial for you to see all of this as a maturing artist? I do agree. I mean, now we have all of these types of ways of interacting with social media, but nothing is going to replace, not even some type of virtual experience is going to replace, being in front of the work made by people from hundreds of years ago up to like three days ago. It’s the same thing as surfing; you cannot tell what the beach is like at Pipeline until you experience it firsthand. There’s nothing that can communicate that to you besides being there. You’ve become quite the filmmaker in the past year. What was that experience like for you stepping out of your element and into the director’s chair? As you correctly stated, I have not had any experience in filmmaking. I made no films in art school and no iPhone films at all (laughs). So, to be able to step into that realm and to be able to work with such experienced people immediately… it was a huge experience and a transformative one. It has opened my mind to the idea of how different forms can carry different meanings. I’ve just finished editing my new film and the idea that I’m now close to finishing my third short film, even a year ago, would be unthinkable. So, it is about one saying yes to opening up your mind to different forms of expression. Do you ever see yourself directing a feature film or documentary somewhere down the road? Yeah, I do. Somebody did approach me after the films came out about the idea of making an independent film. We got really close to having it work out, but it became an issue of timing with my show. But I’m still in communication with those people and the possibility is definitely there. Any last words you’d like to share or advice you’d like to give to emerging artists who are reading this article? I would say to be open to all the different kinds of mediums to one’s work and that includes the misreadings. Because sometimes it’s the productive misreading of one’s work where the greatest area of creative possibility exists.

Photos & Interview: Tom Carey Matt, tell us a few things about yourself. How old are you, where were you born and who are your sponsors? I just turned 23 and I’m from Maui, Hawaii. My sponsors are Oxbow, Sanuk, Rockstar, Dakine, Kaenon and Sos Shapes. Where are you at right now and what are you up to there? At the moment I’m Relaxing in Bali. I had about a week in between two Mentawai boat trips and thought I would come here to pass the time and take a real shower. Who are you with? I’ve actually been by myself. I was stoked to meet up with a few friends from Maui yesterday, but other than that it’s been pretty lonely. I kinda enjoy my alone time. It was my birthday the other day. It was kinda weird being by myself for that. I spent all day traveling then

ﬁnally got to my hotel in Bali. I got checked in, went to the bar and I was the only one there. I ordered a glass of whiskey, a few Bintangs, and watched a terrible live cover band. There was also a huge rat crawling back and forth across the bar ﬂoor. It was an interesting birthday but a memorable one for sure. It seems safe to say you’re a perfect example of a do-ityourself, self-established surfer. Would you say this is accurate? As far as making my own choices and not following a tour, yeah, that’s accurate. I’ve realized that there is also a lot of work that comes with being a professional surfer, and I could never do it alone. You need good backing sponsors, and in my case, a momager [mom manager]. It’s a full on team effort. Without them there is no you, and vice versa.

What’s it like coming from a small island like Maui? It’s amazing. I feel so lucky to call Maui my home. After all the traveling I’ve done I haven’t come across a place that even compares. It’s probably hard for most people to imagine, but for me, going home is the best vacation in the world. It’s beautiful. I got my favorite waves on earth, and the best group of friends I can think of.

We are so far from everywhere, so traveling is always expensive and we are not in the middle of the media. We can’t just stop by our sponsor’s ofﬁce whenever we want. We can’t just go to the mags to check in and see what’s up. There are still tons of guys from Maui who rip and charge that nobody even knows about it. Where say, in Cali, if somebody was doing what they were, they would be sponsored from head to toe.

Do you think it has its advantages as well as disadvantages? For instance, you guys seem to always have some waves to surf and some crazy winds to launch into. I don’t think you’d be putting those videos out if you lived in Cali. For sure, we have a few advantages. It’s Hawaii, we get every condition you can think of from 1-foot slop to 50-foot barrels. So as far as collecting content and becoming a well-rounded surfer, we are at an advantage. We also have disadvantages.

How strong is your support group over there of ﬁlmers, surfers and friends? In Maui it’s like a huge family – everybody is super supportive of each other. I couldn’t do anything I do without the guys ﬁlming me, or my friends in the water pushing me. How did it feel to win the inaugural Innersection Competition? Winning Innersection was the greatest thing that could have ever happened to me. It basically changed the direction my life was going. I was thinking about getting a real

job and just surﬁng for fun before that. Now, I’m living this insane life, constantly traveling and doing what I love for a living. Did you think you’d pull it off? Before the contest I just thought it would be cool to make it in to the movie. I thought there was no way in hell I would actually win the whole thing. After seeing the ﬁnal product I was like wow, there is a chance I could maybe do this.

not even sure what the numbers are. Have you been ﬁlming for a new Innersection video? No, I haven’t got the time. I’ve been ﬁlming for a Rock Star Web series Albee Layer and I are doing called The Isle. All of our footage has been going to that.

How much did you actually win and how long did it take to get paid? I won 100k. The guys at Innersection and I decided to work out a payment plan. I have received all the money as of a few months back.

What are some goals of yours this year? I’m going on the Kustom Air Strike trip in a few days. I would love to win that. Same with the Surﬂine punt of the year – wouldn’t mind winning that either. Other than that, I just wanna keep getting good footage and hopefully get some huge waves this coming winter.

How much of that did you end up keeping? I gave 25% to my editor and paid a few other people for some things. Then there are taxes and shit like that. I’m

I saw some footage of you at Jaws, I think. Have big waves always been your deal or does that come with the territory in Maui? For the past ﬁve years I’ve been surﬁng

Jaws, but I just started paddling it last year. I love big waves. I’m more known for my airs and stuff but I look forward to Jaws every year. Jaws is in my backyard, it had to happen, it was just a matter of time. Plus, there is no way I’m gonna let my friends go out there and not be a part of it.

My sister is an amazing singer. Her name is Lily Meola, and she Just recently got a deal withe Verve Records. Keep your ears open, I’m pretty sure she is gonna blow up in the next couple years.

How important is it to you to be a wellrounded surfer? I’m not trying to be a perfect surfer or anything. I’m just doing what I love and Jaws is part of it.

Are there any new moves you’ve been thinking about? I’m always trying to think of new moves. Sometimes before I go to sleep I will just lay there and try to imagine new ﬂips and spins and stuff like that. I have a few I’m gonna be working on.

Are there any other things you’re good at, like jamming on the guitar, shooting hoops or anything bizarre? Yeah, I can jam the guitar a little bit. Other than that I really like hunting and spearﬁshing.

I remember one weird alley oop varial thing in Mexico a while back. Yeah, I made that one up the night before. I haven’t had the chance to try it much. You need the perfect section. Let’s go back to Mex so I can try it again.

Isn’t your sister a talented singer? I think I remember hearing some songs in Indo last year.

Do you think most everything has been accomplished on a surfboard and new tricks are less likely to be conjured up?

No way, but it’s gonna get nutser and nutser every year. What would you like to see be done in the future? It would be crazy to see people doing airs on bigger waves. The bigger the wave the faster you go. The faster you go the higher you go. Do you credit the Internet for a lot of your success? My carrier is an Internet-based carrier. I owe it all to the Internet. Do you think the Internet is the key to underground surfers? For sure. Nowadays with the Internet, if you really wanna get out there, it’s as simple as ﬁlming, putting an edit together and getting it on the Web. If it’s good enough, something will come of it. What’s your plan for the rest of the

year? After this next Mentawais trip I’m going home and waiting for the next trip to pop up. I might be headed to Europe in September or something. Besides that, I’m free. If anybody has any sick trips lined up let me know. What have you done so far this year? I was shooting in West Oz a few months back. Then did a lot of ﬁlming at home. I just went to Peru with Sanuk. We did a thing called Operation Smile where surgeons go to third world countries and give free operations to kids with cleft lips and pallets. So I was helping out with that and surﬁng on our spare time. After that trip I went out to the Mentawais on a boat trip, and now I’m in Bali waiting for the next. Anyone you want to thank? My parents and sponsors. Any last words? Spindlecorn.

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Intro & Photos: Bryce Kanights If I were given only three words to describe Mason Merlino the ones that come to mind would be tenacious, gnarly, and gullible. When this young gun, living in Portland, Oregon, is out skateboarding he regularly gives it an all-or-nothing type of approach. Meaning, Mason’s determination and tough fight for tricks in any given situation carries a “make it or slam” ethos. This approach seems to work for him 99% of the time. But when Mason slams, he takes some of the biggest ones for sure. As far as being gullible, well that characteristic comes with his youth and being a bit naive in a sense. You can easily fool Mason, due to his inexperience and growing up in a small rural town. His friend and teammate Scott Koerner sat Mason down while on the road in San Francisco and here’s what he had to say. Interview: Scott Koerner Mason’s current sponsors include Lifeblood Skateboards, CCS, Vans (flow), Brixton, Venture Trucks, and Bones Wheels (flow). Tell us about growing up in Roseburg, Oregon, and how you got into skateboarding. I was a young kid playing soccer and doing other mainstream sports. Around the age of 12 I was always riding my bike and jumping stuff. Roseburg is a small town in central Oregon. If you weren’t doing some kind of

sport or any of those sorts of activities you were most likely doing drugs or something as a teen. There was really nothing else to do there. I eventually got a skateboard around 2005 and went to the local skatepark and loved it. I would skate the park from like 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. learning tricks and meeting new friends. I thought it was sick and it just kind of went from there. I pretty much realized that it was fun and there were no rules or coaches. Skateboarding is about learning on your own and I thought it was sick. My ﬁrst board was a shitty Mongoose deck with generic trucks and wheels. It was super slow. Then I saw my all of my friends began getting good skateboards and I got a “Skateboarding Is Not A Crime” Santa Cruz deck with Indys and Bones Wheels as my ﬁrst functional skateboard. I was hyped! Where are you living now? I’m currently living in Portland, Oregon, in a house with a lot of roommates. There’s a total of seven of them. It’s kind of crazy living with so many people. I’m not really used to it, but I have my own room upstairs away from everything. But I need to get a lock because my laptop and other things wind up getting used and abused when I’m not there.

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What is the best thing about living in Portland? Portland and the surrounding towns have the best skateparks for sure. And the skate scene is great. The skateparks are 10-20 minutes away from each other. There’s so many DIY and indoor spots too! It’s awesome to go downtown at night with friends and you don’t have to worry about getting hassled like you do in a small town. There’s a lot of activity and people where you can blend in and enjoy yourself. Do you have any favorite spots to hang out in Portland? Well there are some great restaurants for sure and lots of great things to do in general in Portland. One of my favorites is Bröder, which is a great place to have a Scandinavian-style breakfast. A place called Toast is another for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Otherwise, when it’s raining outside I like to hangout and kickback with my friends and skate some of the indoor skate spots that have recently popped up around the city. What is your top five list of skateparks? Windells is for sure one of the best out there today. The St. Helena skatepark in Northern California is definitely up there on my list too. Battle Ground, Washington, has a great one with all of the terrain available. Potrero Del Sol in San Francisco is another great one and Winston, Oregon, which is my home park near Roseburg, is an all-time favorite. What have been your biggest influence in life, both off and on your skateboard? My main influences have been skaters. When I first started skating, two of Roseburg’s older skaters, Lance Lesher and Rion Linderman definitely had an impact on me as a kid. When I

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would show up at the skatepark they were always killing it. It was really cool watching them as I got more and more into skateboarding. They pushed me to learn new tricks for sure. I remember at the ﬁrst Oregon Trifecta contest that I went to, I saw Omar Hassan, Otavio Neto and Mark “Red” Scott charging around the bowls and seeing them rip in person had a profound inﬂuence on me. Peter Hewitt is probably one of my favorite skaters with just the way that he barges everything. Tell us about Kevin Kowalski’s bowl. Did you help with that? Kevin’s bowl is gnarly, and no I didn’t help. I mean, I wanted to, but I never actually made it out to the coast. He lives pretty deep out there so if he would’ve asked me like, “Hey you wanna come help?” I would’ve. But, he had plenty of people helping him already too. Just with the timing I wasn’t able to help. But I did get to skate it. He’s gonna be juicing all over the place in no time! Tell us a bit about riding for Lifeblood. The team is super sick and I’ve been riding for them for about a year and a half. Bryce hit me up to ride for them about a year and a half ago. Everyone on the team is great and we’re all good friends, and we hang out a lot outside of skateboarding too. It’s a super cool company out of Portland and everything that it represents is what skateboarding should be, meaning that we ride everything. The boards are solid with great shapes made by PS Stix, which is owned by Paul Schmitt. What has been your approach to learning new tricks? I just barge it until it works.

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Sometimes it works out; other times it doesn’t. You possess the “make it or slam” mentality, right? I took two slams recently. I guess I’m always ready to slam. It’s definitely a part of skateboarding. You gotta pay-to-play to skateboard. What’s you favorite thing to skate? Backyard pools are at the top for sure. Skateparks with pools are usually a good time and full of fun lines. I definitely like rails in the streets too. Flat bars or bumps to rails are awesome. What are your favorite tricks? Thrusters. I definitely like back bonelesses. Frontblunts, Noseblunts, smoking blunts … most blunt variations are my favorites really. Feebles on rails are great too. Backside over crooks. What has been one of your favorite road trips so far as a skateboarder? We went on an 18-day trip across the country to Chicago and parts of Michigan. That was probably my favorite trip since we got to skate so many spots and skateparks. It was super fun. On a long trip what is the music that you mostly listen to on your iPod? Most often I listen to Witchcraft. Witchfinder General is a good one. Graveyard, Beck is good to kick back to while on the road, and Johnny Cash is always great to listen to. There are so many really that it’s hard to pin them all down. Word around town is that you were in the food court at the mall and a girl came up to you and asked you if you wanted to model. Why did you turn her down? I don’t know. It’s just seemed kind of gay. Yeah, but, being around lots of hot chicks and making a bit of money is cool right? Yeah, but I don’t know, the whole modeling thing just seems kind of lame to me. Staring at a camera being pretentious and really serious is a bit too much for me.

How did you get the nickname Captain Cupcake? (Laughs) Oh, are we really bringing this up? This is going to follow me everywhere. I don’t even really know how I got it. This is bullshit. First of all, I had a girlfriend and I would talk to her often. I don’t know why it is bad to talk to your girlfriend because that’s what you’re supposed to do. But soon everyone began to call me “cupcake.” I was the one that used to call other friends that and it gets totally turned around on me and now everyone roasts me for it. Talk about a total backfire, damn. Everyone used to call me “mittens” because of the way that I position my hands when I skate and I was fine with that. Like, I’ll take it. It’s way better that “Captain Cupcake.” Now that you’re single again we’re going to call you mittens then? Yeah, I don’t even talk to chicks anymore. I’m just skating now (laughs). What is a basic day in the life of Mason Merlino, given that it’s a sunny day? Usually I start to get calls and texts around 10 a.m. from Danny Tumia or Cody Lockwood. A lot of times if I’m with Cody we end up at Burnside for a majority of the day. Then we might go to Glenhaven or another skatepark near the city. Other times, if we’re not skating, we’ll drive out to some pretty sweet swimming spots nearby at the river that are good for cliff jumping and such. What are your plans for the future? I definitely want to go back to school and focus on something. I haven’t really figured it out yet. I attended a community college in Portland for general classes, but since I began to travel with skateboarding it was tough to juggle my schoolwork and keep my grades from slipping. I plan to go back fulltime once skateboarding slows down for me I guess. But there’s no time limit really. We’ll have to see how it goes. I’m going to just skate as much as I can and see what happens and see where it goes and where it takes me.

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Interview: Will Tuddenham :: Photos: Bob Plumb Let’s start this off with the standard boardin’ questions: How many video parts have you ﬁlmed and how was the snow-less season for you? This will be number 11 – if a subpar, half-part counts, that is. This was by far the worst season of my life. There was no snow, and every trip I went on didn’t seem to pan out. I was in Whistler for three weeks at the end of the season, and by the end, we had three sunny days. I got one shot and my snowmobile blew up. That’s pretty much how the whole winter went.

What’s been your favorite season filming so far? I would say it’s a tie between Love/Hate, We’re People Too, and Bon Voyage. After doing this for so many years how do you stay motivated? I have no idea! I have a child to support, so that has a lot to do with it. I definitely am picky about the things I want to film. I try my hardest to make it fun and enjoyable but it doesn’t always work out. It’s especially hard when your body constantly hurts.

If you could do it all over again, is there anything you would change about your boardin’ career? I don’t think I’d change anything about my career other than a few sponsorship choices in the beginning. I’m happy with where I ended up. As I get older, I just feel more and more like a disposable hero. It seems like I could get ﬁred any day and that would be it. I get bummed out because I have poured my heart and soul into this, not to mention half of my life. Then when it’s over, people are like, “Good luck, see you later.” Then what? I guess in hindsight I would have prepared a little more for life

after snowboarding. That’s my own fault though. What’s up with Wildcat Strike? It’s a band I play in with you (Will Tuddenham) and two other awesome amigos, Tony Lake and Jake Rosevere. It’s the best! Where can you hear the music? Go to wildcatstrike.bandcamp. com. The full length will be on there in a few days. How was the tour? It was amazing; there was such a good response! Salt Lake is a little strange when it comes to

music. Everyone talks during the shows and it seems like nobody cares. It was nice to play for people who had a legitimate interest in what we were doing. Especially for a band that nobody had heard of. It was great!

that it’s impossible for me to keep up unless I live on my computer, which is the last thing I want to do. It’s kind of scary. I think we all need to slow down and remember to be human before we’re completely desensitized.

What would you say is the biggest difference between the Love/Hate days of snowboarding and today? I think that there is SO much going on that it’s hard for people to stay interested in one thing. There are countless web videos, pros, tricks, spots, etc. The Internet is ruining everything! Or it makes it more accessible, I’m not sure. I know

What is the most memorable trick you have ever ﬁlmed? Probably that backside 180 on to the down rail in Burning Bridges. That took a while. What do you like most about living in Salt Lake? Everything! Four seasons, mountains, city life, not too crowded, and there seems to be a lot of people doing awesome things.

What do you like most about playing music? The only way to explain it is that it is pretty much the only thing I can do for hours on end and never get sick of. Whether it’s playing, recording, mixing, etcetera, it never gets old. It’s also the process of creating something from nothing and watching it grow and change into this crazy sounding ﬁnished product. It’s always nice to show someone and be like, “Yeah, I have no idea how I did that or where it came from.” What are your plans for the summer? Play and record a lot of music, do some art projects, hang with the little man and have some adventures. Want to thank anyone? Yes! Thanks BL!SSS for the interview, Bob Plum for the photos, Will for the interview, K2, L1, Ashbury, Coal, Mica, and Milo for all the support over the years! I wouldn’t be here without you!

Photos S.V.Macías // Resrv and Thalia crew enjoying the festivities: Corey Brindley Thalia Surf Shop manager, Heath Walker Reef senior mens marketing manager, Mark Tesi Reef creative director, Hans Hagen Laguna shredder and Nick Chocores Thalia owner // Resrv Premium Collection Surf Sherpa High Brown // Nick Chocores and Kristopher Jones, who was the lucky winner of the Xanadu Colab shred stick // Reef Resrv section merched out in Thalia Surf Shop // Scenes from a ﬂy on the wall as the party was off and running // Chuck Elliot’s merched Resrv section glowing behind the counter // Some cool old record covers // Two happy young beauties enjoying the art walk and Resrv launch // Xanadu’s surfboard that was given away at night’s end // Mucho Aloha, Mucho Aloha, Mucho Aloha, Mucho Aloha beer please // The place to be in Laguna during Art Walk.

Reef launched its new Reef Resrv Collection last Thursday in Laguna Beach at Thalia Surf Shop. Everyone lucked out and it turned out to be a picture-perfect day with not a cloud in the sky and fun little 2-3 foot waves gracing us before we rallied for the party from 6-10 p.m. It was deﬁnitely an evening to remember at the Thalia Surf Shop, where there was a packed house. From kids to adults, we celebrated the launch of the new Reef collection with friends, surf media and people just passing through the Laguna Art Walk. One lucky partygoer walked away with a brand new $700 Xanadu surfboard, as he was the winner drawn from the hat of people who made a Resrv purchase that evening. Talk about a great investment! Then, Reef surf team rider Catherine Clark got on the mic and stopped people dead in their tracks

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with her amazing vocal skills and her acoustic guitar playing. She threw down a couple of tracks that had everyone hooting and hollering. DIY (Do it yourself) king Cyrus Sutton had his mini recycled section going, transplanting used beer bottles and turning them into beer mugs. Local heroes and residents were in attendance as well as heavy hitters Luke Davis, Paul Fisher, Dean Dingo Morrison and Ben Bourgeois. Big shout out to the Thalia Surf shop crew- Nick, Josh, Corey and Karissa for making it such an unforgettable evening, and also to Chuck Elliot and all the Reef crew who helped with the set-up. Thanks everyone for your great support and we’ll see you next time!

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Words: Josh Grelock :: Photos: Derek Bahn // James ‘Dalek’ Marshall and the team from Livery Design Gruppe // Artists: Bigfoot, Stink and Jason Maloney // CR Stecyk III & Greg Escalante of Juxtapoz Magazine // Artist Natalia Fabia, Jay Bentley of Bad Religion & Mike Delacruz // Julian and his dad, Mike Ness of Social Distortion // Hurley senior designer Bradie Shemke and his better half // Cody McMahon, Amanda Hettrick, Robby Adams & Josh Grelock // Skate legend SALBA // Wounded Lion // Onlookers

What happens when James “DALEK” Marshall gets 40 artists together and gives them an art show at Hurley HQ in Costa Mesa? They get BLACKED OUT: A one-night-only group art show inspired by the Phantom Fuse, the newest generation of Hurley’s 4-time SIMA award-winning boardshorts. The theme of the artwork was black and white with one color of the artist’s choice. This made for a nice range of styles from grafﬁti-inspired works

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by Vizie, Scribe and Pose, to gallery artists Seonna Hong, Brandi Milne and Gary Baseman. Also contributing were some of our local favorites like Jason Maloney, Stink and Bigfoot. The night was topped off by a live performance of LA’s own Wounded Lion, whose minimal punk style was reminiscent of early Wire. All and all, it was a super fun night. Keep your eyes peeled for future Hurley Art events!

Photos: MorGnar & Rosalie Torres // BEERtrash premier crowd // Audacity // BH & Roger // Brian Young // Good time girl // Todd Perry knows what’s up // Get your mind blown // Next stop, Annihilation! // This mag is printed weird // The skatepark is always open

Ambig Clothing recently held its Zine 10 release party, and I gotta say, those boys sure know how to throw a party! To get the crowd nice and loose, there was free beer from Pabst for everyone of proper age. They mixed in some free BBQ, and to get things rockin’ Ambig had one of their bands plays some groovy tunes. This time around it was Fullerton’s own Audacity. Now, how does one end the night after a bunch of good beers, music, and food? Show an even better video! The Irvine Sucks Crew released a new video by Todd Perry called BEERtrash, which features rippers like Chris

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Gregson, Skreech, Marissa Martinez and a bunch of others. If you missed it … well, then you missed it, but we’ll see ya next time, as the Ambig crew plans to keep making these highly entertaining, completely free zines that are absolutely perfect for spending time on the throne. Big thanks are in order to Pabst for all the beer, Audacity for the rock ‘n’ roll, and Todd Perry for letting them host the premiere. Also, honorable mention to Active Luke for all the technical support and everyone else who came out and enjoyed. And remember kids … FREE GONZO!

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Words: Milk :: Photos: ronysphotobooth.com // Xavier & friends // Females of the night // Insight’s menswear designer Robbie Owens-Russo & Eric McHenry // Lovelies // Ashley Lauren // More lovelies // ...and even more lovelies // Insight roadies Josh Emmerling & Ayrun Dismuke // Man of the Hour: Eric McHenry // Sebastian & Osamu // Holy Barbarians

You know those parties where you feel comfortable eating a salad or some raw fish? You know… rabbit food parties, goddamned rabbit food parties! Insight shindigs have never and will never be rabbit food parties. The sick bastards over at Insight are cheeseburger, chicken pot pie, asada burrito, Mediterranean feast, “fill your tummy or you’re going to be in a gutter somewhere with your girlfriend prying your crusty slobber face off the concrete” kinda parties. Don’t sit there with the “I don’t know what you mean” look of silent disapproval! It’s a relationship builder, I promise. THIS EXISTS NOW tickled my nipples from Jump Street. When I saw the flyer I knew it was going to be the Excalibur of bash ‘em up hot girl/rad dude parties. Insight Garage Artist Eric McHenry’s twisted illustrations set the stage for an all-star evening. Catching a glimpse of these masterpieces was tough due to flocks of humans crowding the gallery floor. Don’t worry, the show hangs ‘til August 16th, so if you missed it, like I did, go get your eyes double stuffed with art from the tallest dude to ever land a kickflip. He’s charismatic, too. Lurking through the crowd of sun-kissed sexpots and vampy babes, I found Friday freedom in a familiar place. “Peligroso Donkey Punch?” Fuck yes. “PBR?” Fuck yes. Service with a smile, a really nice smile. Does anyone know the smoking-hot girl with the strawberry blonde hair working like a slave at all the Insight events? If so, tell her I’m sorry for standing in the corner for half the night breathing heavy and staring.

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Act after act kept attendees entertained, starting with the DJ duo strait from Australia “The FurrBurgers.” Rob Russo (Insight’s menswear designer) and Rad Dan Watkins (Insight’s creative psychopath) manned the wheels of Furr with such carnal passion that girl’s panties actually dropped and the group’s name became clear. It wasn’t just cleverly based on the amount of facial scruff the two were toting. After the FurrBurgers retreated from the hair pies of steel a familiar-looking band going by the name of Holy Barbarians wandered to the stage. Bopped off on some ﬁercely poured drinks and cold cans of heaven, my mind drifted off to familiar tunes. The Holy Barbarians? Sounded like a holy crock of shit. This band was playing under an alias for sure, and if you weren’t there then you weren’t there. But I was, I heard it, and my back and neck still aren’t right. I got so fucking ﬁred up when I realized what was going on I climbed into the rafters and rode that giant green arm with the gun in its hand ‘til it broke off the wall and knocked a part in Jared Mell’s giant wig. (Some of that didn’t happen but I wanted it to. Good seeing you J.Rad.) The sweets sounds of the Holy Barbarians slowly faded away along with my judgment. As the night ended, I grabbed a few Honest Teas and Body Armor Coconut Waters for the afterhours mix it up, mix it up, mix it up festivities and slipped into the Venice night with the hospitable folks from Insight. I love you dudes and dudettes. My ass is still busted from that fall from the rafters. You’ll be hearing from my chiro’.

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Words: Brandy Faber :: Photos: mobphoto.blogspot.com // Matt Johnson launching // Hans floating the boat // Sombrero sunscreen // It was the first time for the elementary school finalists out at Reef with no one in the lineup older than them // Bobby Gavin owned the elementary school final // All the groms lined up to take a swing at the pinata // Bobby Lockhart was fired up before the legends final // High school finalist // The Roark mariachi trio played live during the finals

The Spring Fever Surfabout is put on for the Laguna locals by Laguna Surf & Sport, with 2012 marking the 11th annual event over Memorial Day Weekend. It’s a great community event that gets the local surf families together to shred the Reef. The surf was pumping under sunny skies all day for the event and everyone had a great time. Jason Watson and Steven “SLiDawg” Chew did all the heavy lifting, putting on the contest again this year. Thanks to them as well as Leach, Surfvibe.com and mobphotoz.blogspot.com for the photos and all the sponsors. Results: Pro: Hans Hagen, Nate Zoller, Erik Nelsen, Porter Hogan

Thurston: Dante Madrigal, Davis Price, Jake Levine, Jeremy Shutts

Legends 35 & Up: Chad Mitchell, Darren Madrigal, John Monson, Steven Chew, Bobby Lockhart, Paul Cernich

Elementary: Bobby Gavin, Trey Lockhart, Colton Gregory, Julian Goldberg, Tai Diggins, Sam Nelsen, Kiko Nelsen

Mens 19-34: Alex Mattingley, Kris Williams, William Maniaci, Rex Strombotne

Girls: Alisa Cairns, Staci Diggins, Marlee Grosher, Maddy Kristensen, Coco Putnam, Dakota Shyres

Highschool: Adam Redding Kaufman, Shane Chapman, Cameron DePfyffer, Blair Conklin, Austin Silvers, Harrison Kirkman

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It’s very necessary to alert you that the notorious Hindu Pirates just wrapped up work on a new super awesome new EP that is getting pressed as we speak. These young swashbucklers have been working hard on their new sound. We’re delighted to say they have taken some big steps forward, and to celebrate the dudes will be playing a sort-of-supersecret-huge event in the coming weeks. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Read on to find out, but don’t tell your friends or a mess-load of people might show up. What up, dudes? I heard a little sneak peak of some new stuff you guys just recorded over in the Hurley studio. It sounds really good and definitely caught my ear as a strong progression from your earlier stuff. Was it that English bloke Davey Warsop that works over there that made it sound so good? Well, we spent a lot of time on the recordings over at Hurley, and Davey is really good as producer. He has a strong musical background and he has been producing music out of Hurley for a while now. He helped us progress with our sound and our songwriting. Davey is definitely a good friend to the band and he puts a lot of soul into anything he gets his hands on. When will those tunes be released Photo: Joe Toreno

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and where can all the youngsters out there ﬁnd them? All the new stuff should be up on iTunes by the beginning of August. And we will also hopefully be putting the new tunes out on vinyl and we will be selling those at all our shows. You’ve been together playing since you were in high school. You all went to Edison, right? You’re a couple years out now and still going strong. Talk a little about the evolution of the band and what you guys all are trying to accomplish going forward. Yes, we all went to high school together. When we started playing music together we were all only 16. We used to play mostly simple surf rock tunes, but now we are moving toward a larger sound and making the tunes more accessible to the listener. There are more than a handful of good rock ‘n’ roll bands that have sprouted up in the local scene the last few years. You’ve played with most of all them, so who are some of your faves and why? We really love our friends in the Tijuana Panthers. Those guys are all super awesome dudes and their music is super fun and easy to dance to. We also love Gantez Warrior. We have played a lot of

shows with them and they are always ready to party. You guys are obviously still having fun. I noticed you still keep a “we’ll play anywhere, anytime” attitude. Yeah, we just love playing music. It doesn’t really matter where or for who; we just want to play. We know we are just groms and any opportunity we get to play is a blessing in itself. You have played all the venues around town several times but now you just got the thumbs up to play the US Open of Surfing this year. Must feel pretty good, right? That’s got to be the ultimate hometown gig for any pack of surf rats like yourselves. Yeah, it’s gonna be so sick! Davey and Greg at Hurley hooked that one up. We are so stoked and grateful to be playing. It is so cool to be playing because Huntington is our hometown. The crowd is always awesome at the US Open and we will definitely be doing some major crowd surfing. Well it’s not cooler than being in BL!SSS mag! Yeah, BL!SSS is the sickest. We have all been reading this mag since before we even were a band, and we look forward to every issue!

Well thanks for the quick chat boys. Want to throw any shakas and shout-outs out there? Thanks for having us. First of all we would like to thank Ashley Elliot for helping us get shows and believing in us from the beginning. Shout out to Sonny over at AMBIG for hooking it up with the sweet duds and all the help with shows. Also thank you Davey and Greg at Hurley. Last but not least shout out to: Aaustin “AG” Green, Cole “Slaw” Devine, Adam “Blacked Out” Ferreira, Tommy “Dirty Money” Lobasso, Matty “Curly Stacks” Payne, Chelsie “Pay The” Tull, Dan “Michael” Knight, Kurt “Iced Out” Oshiro, Lauren “Made in France” Glasgow, Tess “Hundred Grand Latte” Lustbaum, Cheyenne “Front Page News” Clark, Jay “Make ‘em Pay” Payne, Ellie “MayDay” May, Emma “Dirty” Sanchez, Trev “Becks” Becks, Jesse “Parted Steel” Steelman, Yvonne “Bell Pepper Stilo” Lake, Kier “Martens on Deck” Hunks, Delon “Penny Wise” Isaacs, Jack “Belli Fullo Stacks” Belli and troy “Daddy Long Legs” Elmore. Thank you BL!SSS for having us, we love you guys. New music from the Hindu Pirates is coming in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled. And catch em’ at The US Open of Surﬁng – it’s going to be crazy.

We gave our friend Jared Watson, from local reggae-rocker outﬁt The Dirty Heads, a quick run down. Their new record Cabin By The Sea is fresh on the racks. First off, how does it feel to have a gold record in this day and age? Actually, we have a gold record as in a single. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not playing it down... we are so stoked! It feels great to get that much love from people. The new follow-up record is out this month. Give us a little background on the direction of this one. The approach was obviously a little different, so what changed this time around? Everything changed. We have grown so much as musicians, singers, and songwriters. We co-produced a lot of this album. We had a concept and a theme and we really found the sound we’ve been looking for since we started. Also, there was a longer-than-usual time

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between the albums, so we were ready to go when we hit the studio. Oh, and we switched from beer to wine spritzers and spliffs to weed-ﬁlled Virginia Slims. I am sure it is a relief to have the new album under your belt. Looking back, what were the best moments in making the album? Oh man… that’s a hard question because I was so pumped to ﬁnally get back in the studio. That in itself was a wonderful feeling. Then add in recording at the Sonic Ranch in El Paso (look the place up... it’s mental) to all the collabs we got to work on – just the whole thing was really special to me. Enlighten us on some of the bigname guests you invited to perform on the new album. Yeah, just a couple little guys like KyMani Marley, Matisyahu, Del the Funky Homosapien, and our buddy Rome, who’s always hanging out. And as an added bonus, our summer tour with Matis came from the writing session

with him. Is that Wing from Wahoo’s in the video for the song, “Spread Too Thin?” How did you get him in the mix? (FYI readers, Wing owns Wahoo’s and has a next-level golf game.) Wing’s always in the mix! He’s been feeding us and supporting The Dirty Heads for a long time now, so when we heard they wanted a food truck and a crazy boss in the video we called him up, thought it would be funny, and he was great. He killed it. You guys are from Huntington Beach. What’s the day-to-day program when home? What is the best thing about home? My program is pretty much hangout with my girlfriend and family. We cook a ton. I skate at the indoor Hurley Park with my friends – thanks to Cody at Hurley for that! If I was home this summer, I’d spend most of my time at the beach, but we are out for three months!

Being from HB you guys have some ties to the surf industry. Tell us a little about some of the friends you endorse and those perks you enjoy… My brother runs the surf shop Kanvas by Katin, so I pretty much grew up and worked there my whole life. We’ve always repped the shop. Etnies, Electric, Stussy, Monster, House of Marley and LRG have always hooked us up and had our backs. I’m close friends with Chet Thomas, so Darkstar is what I skate. I also have a tank top t-shirt and beanie line coming out soon call TGRSHRK. Look for it; super simple, clean, highquality gear. Duddy’s also gonna have some really sick tees coming out too. Dodgers or Halos? Lakes or Clips? Ducks or Kings? The Sparks, the Brett Simpsons, and the Chad Tim Tim’s. Thanks Jared, and agreed – go Simpo!

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Costa Mesa lady-killers Gantez Warrior have a brand new record out entitled Shaka Boogie. Be sure to download that thing for free via their Facebook page and leave them a tip. Here is front man Levi Prairie just before we had to manhandle him off stage for playing a never-ending dance party set at the local gig. Photo & Review: Max Ritter

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Have you ever heard of washtub bass? It’s a bass you build out of a stick and string. This guy in this band named “Paco” owns that thing. Guadalupe Plata is a three piece of wild men from Spain who play some seriously hell bent, fast blues. It’s the slide guitar, stamp-your-foot vibe that makes you want to go run manic in the streets. The lyrics are all in Spanish but the boogie will translate just ﬁne. Shakas to J. Smith for the tip off.

Thanks to Bazooka Joe from Slovenly for sending through this awesome new record from Canadian band Hellshovel. Liking the twanged-out psych country, Joe says it sounds like Johnny Cash drowning in cough syrup. These guys must be on cough syrup. Kids, don’t drink that.

Oxnard grease-man carpenter and allaround bad dude Max McDonald guts out some of his punk-tinged Americana on his long-time-in-the-making solo album. Max takes a sonic diversion from his past work in No Motiv to channel some of his more personal favorites like The Pogues and Billy Bragg. Get on board Max’s program. Chicks dig songsmiths and woodworkers. It’s a fact.

Before you pick up the new Usher to get your dance ﬁx, check out the debut from RTX, now named Black Bananas. The band is the latest and greatest from ex Royal Trux member and vocal kitten Jennifer Herrema. It sounds very futuristic, like the soundtrack to Ghostbusters. And don’t forget to invite us to the dance party.

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