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_LUKE STREADER RIDING SOME MID WEEK BYRON BAY PERFECTION.

JOSH'S JEWELS

_WE LIKE TIME. WE LIKE TREES. THESE GUYS DO BOTH.

_WE WERE AT A HOUSE PARTY ON THE WEEKEND AND THE DJ LEFT AT 10PM, HE TOLD EVERYONE HE HAD A PAID GIG TO GET TO. SO IT BECOME A JOB FOR THE IPODS AND EVERYONE’S FAVOURITES WERE COMING OUT, SOME LOVED, SOME HATED. THIS WAS DEFINITELY ONE WAS LOVED AND THIS CLIP IS A TRUE REFLECTION OF A PARTY STARTER.

MEXICAN FOLK ART

_I WAS SURE WE WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES DRAWING ON OUR SURFBOARDS AS TEENAGERS. RANDY NOBORIKAWA HAS TAKEN THAT CHILDHOOD PASSION FOR VANDALISING YOUR CRAFT AND DONE SOME SERIOUSLY COOL STUFF WITH IT. THE CALI-BASED ARTIST CAN ALSO MAKE LIGHT WORK OF A CANVAS. CHECK IT OUT...

HARD-FI

_PERFECTION TAKES TIMES AND THAT'S WHAT HARD-FI WANTED FOR THEIR 3RD ALBUM WHICH TOOK 4 YEARS. THEY ARE ABOUT TO TAKE IT ON A UK TOUR IN SEPTEMBER, AND NO DOUBT WILL FIND THEMSELVES ON THE SHORES OF AUSTRALIA SOMETIME SOON. WE'RE ON BOARD WITH THE BOYS AND THEY ARE PICTURED WEARING ICON BRAND AT THEIR RECENT ALBUM LAUNCH.

ROCK N ROLL SOOTHES MY SOUL

_NOTHING BETTER THAN COMING HOME FROM WORK TO A FRESH BOX OF SMOKES AND CRANKING THIS AS YOU CHAIN THEM BACK…

DIRTY LAUNDRY

_THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING WITH OUR DIRTY LAUNDRY FROM NOW ON.

LOCALS ONLY

_LOCALS ONLY IS THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE 70’S CALIFORNIA SKATE SCENE DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE DROUGHT WHICH LED TO AN EXPLOSION NOT ONLY IN BOWL RIDING BUT ALSO IN THE SPORT OF SKATEBOARDING.

“ONE AFTERNOON IN 1975, A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER NAMED HUGH HOLLAND DROVE UP LAUREN CANYON BOULEVARD IN LOS ANGELES AND ENCOUNTERED SKATEBOARDERS CARVING UP THE DRAINAGE DITCHES ALONG THE SIDE OF THE CANYON. IMMEDIATELY TRANSFIXED BY THEIR GRACE AND ATHLETICISM, HE KNEW HE HAD FOUND AN AMAZING SUBJECT.

ALTHOUGH NOT A SKATEBOARDER HIMSELF, FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS HOLLAND NEVER TIRED OF DOCUMENTING SKATEBOARD SURFING THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES, PARTS OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, VENICE BEACH, AND AS FAR AWAY AS SAN FRANCISCO AND BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO.”

AWESOME BOOK FOR SKATE AND SURF FANS, LOVERS OF SOCAL CULTURE OR 1970’S STYLE & PHOTOGRAPHY.