If you haven’t had the chance to view Thomas Campbell’s mind-bending, dream state-inducing, knowledge transference of a film Yi-Wo, then you need to stream it during the Yi-Wo online world premiere October 10-12, 2025. We recommend it.
For all the details on how to register please and view the film click here.
[Link: Yi-Wo]
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Matt Barr’s Looking Sideways podcast goes deep with artist Thomas Campbell and his latest surf film Yi-Wo. If you haven’t seen this mind-bending, dream state inducing, knowledge transference tablet of a film, then maybe don’t listen to the podcast until you have. If you experienced Yi-Wo in a group setting (that is best), then by all means click the link for a peak inside one of skateboarding and surfing’s most intensely creative and prolific minds.
Our favorite line from Thomas was when Matt asked him how he knew the film was finished. “Just when it worked,” Thomas said, “Just when I could watch it from beginning to end and I didn’t want to change anything.” That’s only one of the reasons it took more than 10 years to complete.
[Link: Looking Sideways]
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This great clip should answer most of your questions about what Ed Templeton is up to lately. Wires Crossed, right? And if not, then this interview with Jamie Thomas definitely will.
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Pin-up Magazine sits down with pro skater Alexis Sablone to discuss the intersection of skateboarding and architecture and life.
A competitor in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Sablone knows better than anyone the skater’s intimate relationship with the built environment, which results in a more finely-tuned understanding of the small details of certain buildings or streets than even the architects or planners who designed them could claim. Like all skateboarders, Sablone — who once rode the Guggenheim’s iconic spiral, a challenge in itself given the slope and run of the unending ramp — values those smaller, “unassuming blips in the everyday landscape,” like “a street median, a gap in the sidewalk, a fire hydrant on top of a hill.”
Definitely worth a read.
[Link: Pin-Up Magazine]
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We asked Apple’s Image Playground AI to create a “skateboard” for us. It delivered something straight out of a PacSun catalog circa 2009. Our AI future certainly looks bright, doesn’t it?
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No, we haven’t talked to Matt Biolos. Nor have we tried. It’s quicker to just post a link to TMZ and call it a day.
Lost International is suing Lady Gaga for trademark infringement for her “Mayhem” album … claiming they own the rights to the term as used in the surf company’s distinctive logo and that Lady Gaga’s use is basically identical. . . In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Lost says they’ve been slapping a stylized version of “Mayhem” on their surfboards and merch for over a decade … and Gaga ripped off the design for her latest album.
Gotta protect what’s yours. Right?
[Editors’ Sidenote: The list of other people and/or brands we did not check in with for this post include the band Mayhem, Men of Mayhem, Mayhem Wheels, Mayhem Security, Mayhem Nation, Liquid Mayhem, Musky Mayhem, Mayhem Theater Company, Mayhem Wines, Mayhem Datil Pepper Farms, Heaven Mayhem, and the Farmer’s Insurance Mayhem guy. Oddly, the word itself is beginning to look totally wrong to us.]
[Link: TMZ]
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Instant camera. Cool collab. Why not? Burton’s version is $599 and comes with a custom Burton case, or $399 on Amazon. Click the link and buy three. Then you can print your photos without getting creeped on. Bonus for certain.
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We’re always interesting in what Thomas Campbell is doing. In this instance, he’s adding flavor to Josh Hall’s Skip Frye inspired “Le Sliviar” glider model surfboards.
[Link: Josh Hall Surfboards]
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The OGs of electronic music Kraftwerk will be hitting the North American road in 2025. To promote the tour our favorite pro skateboarder Tony Hawk created a video. Check it and get your tickets now. This band won’t live forever. . . or maybe they will. They are the robots.
[Link: Kraftwerk Tour]
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Yes, occasionally it takes an outside view to show us how really great some of our own people are. Take Scott Hulet for example. We all know he is an amazing editor, writer, and all around proper surf journalist. Duh? And sure, he has a book out that collects some of his best writing about South of the border. But seeing it reviewed in an online literary journal makes it so much more meaningful. Doesn’t it?
Take for instance Florida man Dan Reiter’s review of Hulet’s Flow Violento on the literary site The Millions. Reiter says:
Over the past 25 years, the brightest and most consistent star in its constellation has been Scott Hulet. Equal parts T.S. Eliot, Hunter S. Thompson, and Jon Krakauer, Hulet stirs in wit, jazz-improvisational style, and a gift for aphorism (“Shoals are generally discovered by their victims”; “There’s something comforting about seeing a pirate at rest”) that has become manna to the waterman faithful. As both contributor and editor of the Journal, he has done perhaps more than anyone on the planet to elevate the corpus of surf writing.
Boom. How’s that? Pretty good company. Make you want to read it now? How about if Reiter calls Hulet the “patron saint of surf lit”? How about now? If you do, click here and space villain Jeff Bezos will send one directly to your door. And even if you don’t, at least click the link to read the rest of the review because boy, oh boy, does Dan Reiter love him some Hulet writing.
Ah, after all that we should probably point out that Reiter writes for The Surfer’s Journal (and Surfer and ESM at least once) so maybe. . . so maybe someone will write a glowing review of his book On A Rising Swell when it comes out in April 2025. Who knows?
[Link: The Millions]
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