A pile of work sits next to me, a pile that is bigger than those before it, a pile that is the biggest project of my life.

The point is, this place, a place that we try to keep flowing daily has been loaded with whatever I can find, finding time is the first hurdle, finding content of any entertainment is the next… The site has been crammed with poached stuff from the net for days, so for now I look back through the archives and for the second maybe third time we offer a section from ‘Inside’ A video from the Australasian junior series from a few years back… Enjoy… The days of old will return and not in the form of re-runs.

How fucked are re-runs on TV?…

Well re-runs suck more here, but its all we offer. If we had the equivalent of Seinfeld to re-run we would, but we dont so we won’t

WORTH YOUR TIME…

Photos by Simon Barratt & Steve Robbo

TB’s small fries event fired again this year… It’s one of the trophy’s you want on your shelf as a grom… What better bloke to run his own event than TB, he matches the groms froth for froth and when you see  Rileys’ Highlight clip you can see how much fun TB gets out of the event.

‘Small fries ripped yesterday!! Love ya work groms, see ya next year!!’… TB

Josh Burke

Noa Deane

Jack Robinson, Locked in

A tribute from us to you Ryza…

Half the town got onboard to make this thing come together… Its kinda sad that it takes something like death to get everyone in one place together again… It was a great farewell to a great bloke, I’ve been saying since my first beer at your wake… ‘Its the best party you ever threw’… There was tear covered smiles everywhere, you would of thought the Pirates lost the Grand final… If only that was all it was…

I hope you got fast internet up there because the fuckin’ thing goes for almost 40 minutes…

NB: Give this thing time to load up before watching it through (press play then pause it while it loads) If you are having troubles viewing it you may need to update or download the latest flash player then grab some tissues, its rough.

Big thanks to Hoops, Dwayne, Callum and Katya who drove around town chasing up as many faces as they could for these video farewells… (Apologies to those close to Ryza we never got to, it was a hectic few days)… We cant forget Dougy from Douglas Signs, Brett from Mode Screenprinting, Tully and Stu from Shotgun Surfboards, the Grey brothers from Rhythm, Spillsy at Volcom, Vards and Campbell for their rafflin skills, Clouty for the banners we never got time to put up, Chris at Pirate park for the cheapest beers since cyclone Betsy and everyone and anyone else who stepped up for Ryza…

R.I.P MATE

The World Junior Championships aren’t far off.

If the waves turn on it can be one of the most refreshing displays of competitive surfing you will see, Its one of few events that can crown a world champ in a handful of heats… We’ve had a hand in producing video content from past events and its about time we ran some shit we created on our whore of a site…

WJC 2008

WJC 2007

The first clip that went up had a few issues… So if you tried to watch it and it didnt give ya nothin try now… Kendall sends his sincere apologies.

Recycling is the done thing in the world of rubbish disposal…

So… It cant hurt if we do the same?… Any excuse to post this old clip, we’re trying to avoid this place becoming a stagnant fuckhole… We decided when we started this thing a year back that it aint worth the bother if its gonna suck balls… Im convinced that it has sucked balls at times but we try to keep the balls in our pockets and the posts on the pages daily’ish… I’ve had to go poachin’ the web for ‘post without purpose’ stuff to keep the balls rollin, but we do our best to try and keep a good majority of our posts from us, made by us or stuff our mates have goin’ on… So now that the disclaimer is out of the way here is a collection of Kendall’s best water clips from last year. Enjoy

Amongst piecing together the JBT documentary I got a last minute job to edit up the behind the scenes clip of the ‘One way road’ video… Phil, John’s manager spent the day roaming around with the handycam and sent it up to see what could be done with it… Here is the outcome.

Here is the official film clip

Just a few hours after I heckled Kendall for not flowing any shit for the site, I see he has pumped out this li’l clip of Joel’s first day in Hawaii… Worth a watch

With the Hawaii season almost ready to roll, we thought we should have a quick look back at a few moments from last year… Enjoy

A lot can change in a year… Lets hope my editing skills have… That was hideous

Im not sure what value any of the following shit has, but considering our sites stagnant few weeks its a matter of ‘anything’s better than nothing’…

I can’t tell a good story around a campfire 10 beers down let alone stuck here straight as a judge… So im just gonna run some photo’s and video and write some shit about it…

”You get what your given”…

We got straight off 14 hours transit into a Yellow, 2 door, Toyota Yaris… The lady at the Car rental place was a Jolly big black lady, reminded me of  Big Momma… She had a field day with us… Rollin’ out back to back Aussie jokes, combined with a combo of small car remarks… I think we made her day… She was out to ruin ours.

‘I know y’all be back, I can feel it in my bones… hahahah… Toyota Yaris… hahahah… Y’all be back’

Wade took this shot of Loz… Its a lot of desert from San Clemente to Vegas

2 days in and it was Vegas… We were strapped for cash, but after watching ‘the Hangover’ on the plane we had to go see it for ourselves… No fat Jesus though… We headed out to the desert, Wade, Laurie, Dane and Harry were all aboard…

The result… Broken banks, broken souls…

We drove 4 hours to the Grand Canyon, Took a few photos, turned around and drove 4 hours back… Dumb.

We drove almost 5000 km’s in 2 weeks… Passenger seat photos were rife

Im so interested in people…

No more so than the homeless… The further reality can be from my own, the more it interests me… I have never really witnessed homelessness like I did while in the States. A taxi driver told us that San Fransisco has the highest number of homeless people of any city in the country. Due to the city having the highest welfare payments, other cities like New York basically put the homeless on a bus direct to San Fransisco… How fucked up is that? But I wish we could of done that with emo’s a few trends ago.

Many of the homeless crew appeared to be content with their situation, many didn’t… I’ve felt some pretty low low’s in my life so far, but never to a point where I thought about walking out the door and choosing the street… Fuck, that’s a pretty arrogant remark and im sure the reasons go a lot deeper than ‘a few bad days and im on the streets’ but people are a strange breed, some just do things different than others… I guess the less you have the less you have to lose… Fucks me, Life’s a puzzle.

We stayed in lots of different hotels, they were somewhere between the bottom of the good and the top of bad… This joint was the bottom of the pile… Pretty sure the guy next door had problems with a prostitute he wouldn’t pay, one night all I heard was high heals and high pitched whinning… I would of given her a few bucks to shut up.

pigeon ponders…

No idea why I posted this really… The one thing I bought while in the states was a new pair of shoes… Nike does it best

Ive seen the hills of San Fran in so many films from skate flicks to Cop flicks…

Dont believe what you see in the movies… The yaris dont launch…

Chinatown… The better of a bad bunch of shots.

Could of been the edge of the world… But it wasn’t

Venice Beach is messed up… Everything about it… All in a good way

Double denim… Legendary

Art and all forms off it…

I tried to shoot this old bloke doing a full ‘disney on ice’ solo on his rollerblades… It was one of the most amusing things I have ever seen… But the look he sent me as I went to aim him up was pure evil… He went from this amusing fruitbooting ballerina to a stone hard bruiser… It was alltime

I tried to get a few shots of the local crew that loitered the place, but shooting people doing their daily thing is pretty wack and far from easy… I was pissed when I looked through the shots and had nothing of Venice Beach, but if some blow-in just rocked up and started taking photos of me rollerblading with my guitar down Poinciana Ave i’d be off it too…

The crew who manage to nail the lifestyle & personality photos of everyday people are either decked out with charisma or have a pocket full of cash. I have niether. The Venice beach locals we ran into weren’t into the idea of some Aussie deadshit snappin their photos.

One of our best mates, Dwayne Paenga, has 2 calls ‘Ya Pencil’ and ‘Pink’… This is for you Dwayno

Biggie & Obama… Roof top royalty

The most talked about burger joint in the universe… And it’s damn good.

I didn’t manage too shoot much video of the trip… Ive spent too much time shooting shit instead of just enjoying it…

The video doesn’t have much purpose… Not much really happens, but it’ll have to do. Enjoy