Yew
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Mix it!
Lately I have been really getting into the electronica mixes. I have a good friend name Ryan Virtue who is ripping it. Here is a new mix he made, Check it and leave a comment!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Singlet!
Well summer is here( unfortunately). With onshore 1/2 foot waves, I thought it be neat to make a new start to my summer with starting my new career in making singlets from T shirts. Here is one that I made today. I am open to anyone who wants me to hack at here t shirts. Yew
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
BS!
I posted the other day that I was heading up to see the volcom movie called BS! staring mitch colborn, andrew doheny, dusty payne, ozzie wright and others. We also got to see the goon's of doom play a gig at the event. The night was a blast. I and a friend were lucky enough to be asked to come work at the event, we unfortunately we missed the movie but got to see the complete act of the goon's of doom until the event was shut down by the police. I got asked by friend tim fisher who is the editor of Australian Surfing Life if I would of been able to come up and helpout. The catch was that we would get hooked up with free gear from volcom. We probly went throught about 20 carton's of beer also alot of jim beam with ginger beer. Red bull also sponsored the event so everyone had the burst of energy before the band hit the stage. Goon's of doom put on the act of the year, They were so alive and really got in with the crowd, they were walking into the crowd playing their guitar's, crowd surfing and ozzie thought it would be rad to stand on top of a floor speaker until he went tumbling over, still didn't stop him. I took my brother and good friend kerby along for the ride. The team at asl did a sick job to get this event on and want to thank them all espically ryan! there are some photo's of the night, and the day after. This event weekend of catching bus' with dude's smashed off their face's and hot girl's, mini shaka's, big shaka's, phone shaka's, espically gabe's tootles! It was a very amazing and exhilarating 2 day's! With board rider's to top it off.
the set up.
anyone want a beer?
ozzie getting up close and personal with the crowd.
fingered!
The world's gayest bird. on the hunt outside kirra surf.
Ask gabe what he think's of pearl jam! yew volcom
gabe want's my deck grip.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
friday night.
tonight i am off to surfing life HQ to work and see goon's off doom play and also watch the new volcom movie. There will be photo's from the night yew.
Monday, October 12, 2009
MATTIA
This is one of my goodfriends from bali Mattia. He recently went to the mentawai's and got some sick wave's. here's a bit of footage.
Untitled from mattia di Bitonto on Vimeo.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Aqua vault.
Went out to the shop today, Order me self some fin's from shaper's and got some shoes and a little bit of wax. Had a talk to gabe about filming and possible sponsor's so filming is in production. yew
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The hundreds.
The hundreds is a brand of LA that is sooo sick and is hooking up with a tattoo artist to get some new threads going. check there site. The hundreds also have a rad skate team and are really into there art!
http://www.thehundreds.com/
DANE
DANES got a new site out, so sick. He's got some sick video's up and more to come!
check it
http://www.marinelayerproductions.com/
Monday, September 14, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
video for the day!
rusty team was just in bali here's the clip!
Rusty Team in Bali from Ryan Bautista on Vimeo.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
weekend film
there was a little bit of filming done on the weekend, i got a very short part, but here it is.
a film my present conspiracy.
Monday, September 7, 2009
i picked this up off the stab website, very interesting read. www.stabmag.com
The faggots who ate surfing
For better or worse, the days of hearing Pennywise and their punk brethren on surf soundtracks are numbered. The influence of electro and club-culture over surfing is significant. What began as a maligned slither of the boardriding population, popularly known as “faggottttts,” is now the dominant trend. Soundtracks are filled with d-floor thumpers, groms regularly turn out in p-leather jackets and unisex pants, while surfing recently churned out is first A-class music masher.
Twenty-two-year-old Gold Coast pro Adam Bennetts has supported DJ Falcon (Daft Punk DJs), Metronomy (UK) and Ajax (Sydney) in his brief career. He just finished a four-month stint in the twisted Indonesian clubbing scene. Here, he regales us with some of the bizarrest shit he saw, gives us the 411 on Bali’s prevailing party drug and tells us what to make of the bug-eyed mincers traversing contest sites around the world.
Tell us about your gig in Bali.
One of my mates Peter Hopkins (brother of Wollongong pro surfer Michael) was DJing at Sky Garden. One night he was behind the decks and I talked to him for a bit about DJing and he was like, “I’m leaving on Monday, why don’t you finish off my set on Sunday night?” I came in on the Sunday, then he just disappeared and I had to finish off for him. I played my stuff and everyone had a hell time. The manager told the owners and it snowballed from there. I mainly played Sky Garden where I had a Friday night residency. I also did Home café in Seminyak and Club Icon next to Embargo on the strip.
Surf all day, gig all night, huh?
I didn’t want to DJ too much because you finish at four in the morning and miss out on the early sesh. I’d do one or two nights a week. Tell us your story.I’ve always loved music. A good mate’s brother was a DJ back home and I went to watch him gig at the big festivals like Summer Field Day. Afterwards I picked his brain. I bought my own CD decks when I was about 18 and for the past year and a half I’ve been playing in clubs. I played with (Sydney DJ) Ajax on the Goldy. I played with Metronomy (UK band) in Brisbane and Strip Steve (Boyz Noize records). Now I’m doing a collaboration for (my sponsor) Otis. It’s an hour-long mix with like 26 tracks on it. They’re gonna do 500 copies and send it out to all the stores.
When did Bali begin to develop the more tasteful aspects of the western nightlife?
The club culture has definitely improved. It’s very European influenced there, especially Sky Garden. All their resident DJs were from Germany or Austria or Sweden and would play techno and trance music. That’s why the owners loved me. I got thrown in there and was playing Aussie-influenced indie electro stuff like Cut Copy, stuff from the Bang Gang DJs and Van She. People would say, “this is the best night I’ve had in Bali.” If you go to Embargo or the Bounty you will hear a three-year-old top-forty mix CD. An hour in there and you’ll probably hear the same song two or three times. It’s outrageous.
Bali’s nightlife can be a strange scene. What was some of the weirdest shit you saw?
You can almost get away with murder. My brother Chris got up on the bar where I was playing, nude and started fruit-bowling (where the male sticks his appendage back between his thighs creating the affect of a male vagina) the whole crowd. He still didn’t get kicked out. One time this guy was spinning around wildly like you do with a broomstick, while skolling a beer. He came out of the spin and ran straight into a big glass wall. He head butted it and smashed the whole thing. His head and hands were cut, there was blood all through the toilet and he just put his shirt around his hand and rocked on. Another mate, Steve Grimmin and I would go out before I did my gig every night for two weeks. I saw him every night hang upside down, naked in one of those cages at The Bounty.
(Here's a ten minute teaser from the Otis mix to be released in stores soon.) What’s the dominant drug in the club scene?
Probably coke. You can get most stuff here; pingers or whatever. I don’t know where it comes from. It’s not a big drug scene, people only get on it for a special event. You can get away with it but it’s not worth the risk. You’re better off just going mad on the binnies and cocktails.
Who’s the loosest pro you’ve seen over there?
Mitch Coleborn was fucked the other night. It was the last night I played and it was a huge party at Sky Garden. He was falling over and pretty sloppy. He kept coming up to me and going “blah, blah blah,” speaking shit. The next day everyone was like “what about Coleborn last night.” He was sloppy but all-time hilarious.
You get many pissed pros hassling you for requests?
I’d get that cheesy Riverside song, you know “Riverside mothafucka,” requested a lot. It’s pretty annoying but if there are a few crew that want to hear it I will play it to keep them happy.
Is it tiresome doing gigs for surfers?
Nah, there are different groups. The boys from Sydney really appreciate my music, guys like Luke Cheadle and Michael Spencer. I love having music chats with Drew McPherson from Newcastle. Then there are the Goldy guys like Dion (Agius). I taught him how to DJ. Sedley and Fisher are doing gigs, I helped them a bit. I enjoy doing stuff for that sort of scene.
What do you make of surfing’s move towards electro and club culture?
It’s gone from the surfie dude who rocks up with his board and hoodie, to trendy dudes who kick around in skinny jeans and listen to good music. It’s more versatile and diverse, which is a good thing. You have to look at the Modern Collective era and the influence of Kai Neville over the music side of surfing. Stranger than Fiction had Cut Copy, Van She, Justice and some sick indie bands. The kids looked at the credits to find the songs, and it’s since become cool. There is an obvious shift in surfing and you gotta give thanks to the Modern Collective crew.
It seems like everyone is a DJ today. Is there a downside to that?
I don’t think so. It’s a revolution, you know. I don’t know if surfers are pushing that side of their image or if they do it for fun, but it throws in another avenue for surfers. I hit up brands that I think I could complement with my music. The sponsor gets a package. You might be an amazing surfer but companies want the package, and it’s an advantage that I have this other side. – Jed Smith
Want more from Mr Bennetts? Visit adambennetts.tv/
The faggots who ate surfing
For better or worse, the days of hearing Pennywise and their punk brethren on surf soundtracks are numbered. The influence of electro and club-culture over surfing is significant. What began as a maligned slither of the boardriding population, popularly known as “faggottttts,” is now the dominant trend. Soundtracks are filled with d-floor thumpers, groms regularly turn out in p-leather jackets and unisex pants, while surfing recently churned out is first A-class music masher.
Twenty-two-year-old Gold Coast pro Adam Bennetts has supported DJ Falcon (Daft Punk DJs), Metronomy (UK) and Ajax (Sydney) in his brief career. He just finished a four-month stint in the twisted Indonesian clubbing scene. Here, he regales us with some of the bizarrest shit he saw, gives us the 411 on Bali’s prevailing party drug and tells us what to make of the bug-eyed mincers traversing contest sites around the world.
Tell us about your gig in Bali.
One of my mates Peter Hopkins (brother of Wollongong pro surfer Michael) was DJing at Sky Garden. One night he was behind the decks and I talked to him for a bit about DJing and he was like, “I’m leaving on Monday, why don’t you finish off my set on Sunday night?” I came in on the Sunday, then he just disappeared and I had to finish off for him. I played my stuff and everyone had a hell time. The manager told the owners and it snowballed from there. I mainly played Sky Garden where I had a Friday night residency. I also did Home café in Seminyak and Club Icon next to Embargo on the strip.
Surf all day, gig all night, huh?
I didn’t want to DJ too much because you finish at four in the morning and miss out on the early sesh. I’d do one or two nights a week. Tell us your story.I’ve always loved music. A good mate’s brother was a DJ back home and I went to watch him gig at the big festivals like Summer Field Day. Afterwards I picked his brain. I bought my own CD decks when I was about 18 and for the past year and a half I’ve been playing in clubs. I played with (Sydney DJ) Ajax on the Goldy. I played with Metronomy (UK band) in Brisbane and Strip Steve (Boyz Noize records). Now I’m doing a collaboration for (my sponsor) Otis. It’s an hour-long mix with like 26 tracks on it. They’re gonna do 500 copies and send it out to all the stores.
When did Bali begin to develop the more tasteful aspects of the western nightlife?
The club culture has definitely improved. It’s very European influenced there, especially Sky Garden. All their resident DJs were from Germany or Austria or Sweden and would play techno and trance music. That’s why the owners loved me. I got thrown in there and was playing Aussie-influenced indie electro stuff like Cut Copy, stuff from the Bang Gang DJs and Van She. People would say, “this is the best night I’ve had in Bali.” If you go to Embargo or the Bounty you will hear a three-year-old top-forty mix CD. An hour in there and you’ll probably hear the same song two or three times. It’s outrageous.
Bali’s nightlife can be a strange scene. What was some of the weirdest shit you saw?
You can almost get away with murder. My brother Chris got up on the bar where I was playing, nude and started fruit-bowling (where the male sticks his appendage back between his thighs creating the affect of a male vagina) the whole crowd. He still didn’t get kicked out. One time this guy was spinning around wildly like you do with a broomstick, while skolling a beer. He came out of the spin and ran straight into a big glass wall. He head butted it and smashed the whole thing. His head and hands were cut, there was blood all through the toilet and he just put his shirt around his hand and rocked on. Another mate, Steve Grimmin and I would go out before I did my gig every night for two weeks. I saw him every night hang upside down, naked in one of those cages at The Bounty.
(Here's a ten minute teaser from the Otis mix to be released in stores soon.)What’s the dominant drug in the club scene?
Probably coke. You can get most stuff here; pingers or whatever. I don’t know where it comes from. It’s not a big drug scene, people only get on it for a special event. You can get away with it but it’s not worth the risk. You’re better off just going mad on the binnies and cocktails.
Who’s the loosest pro you’ve seen over there?
Mitch Coleborn was fucked the other night. It was the last night I played and it was a huge party at Sky Garden. He was falling over and pretty sloppy. He kept coming up to me and going “blah, blah blah,” speaking shit. The next day everyone was like “what about Coleborn last night.” He was sloppy but all-time hilarious.
You get many pissed pros hassling you for requests?
I’d get that cheesy Riverside song, you know “Riverside mothafucka,” requested a lot. It’s pretty annoying but if there are a few crew that want to hear it I will play it to keep them happy.
Is it tiresome doing gigs for surfers?
Nah, there are different groups. The boys from Sydney really appreciate my music, guys like Luke Cheadle and Michael Spencer. I love having music chats with Drew McPherson from Newcastle. Then there are the Goldy guys like Dion (Agius). I taught him how to DJ. Sedley and Fisher are doing gigs, I helped them a bit. I enjoy doing stuff for that sort of scene.
What do you make of surfing’s move towards electro and club culture?
It’s gone from the surfie dude who rocks up with his board and hoodie, to trendy dudes who kick around in skinny jeans and listen to good music. It’s more versatile and diverse, which is a good thing. You have to look at the Modern Collective era and the influence of Kai Neville over the music side of surfing. Stranger than Fiction had Cut Copy, Van She, Justice and some sick indie bands. The kids looked at the credits to find the songs, and it’s since become cool. There is an obvious shift in surfing and you gotta give thanks to the Modern Collective crew.
It seems like everyone is a DJ today. Is there a downside to that?
I don’t think so. It’s a revolution, you know. I don’t know if surfers are pushing that side of their image or if they do it for fun, but it throws in another avenue for surfers. I hit up brands that I think I could complement with my music. The sponsor gets a package. You might be an amazing surfer but companies want the package, and it’s an advantage that I have this other side. – Jed Smith
Want more from Mr Bennetts? Visit adambennetts.tv/Adam Bennetts Indo 2009 from Adam Bennetts on Vimeo.
meet the hazza's.
i was bumming around all day today, and i was on paul fisher's blog and came across this video,
check it out
Meet the Hazza's from Paul Fisher on Vimeo.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
a weekend in the life of curtis.
my weekend was very tiring, exciting, and full on. We had about 5 surfs just doing some filming and eating then more surfing and filming. had a really fun surf on saturday morning everyone was ripping reuben got absolutely pitted! one of the best barrels i have ever seen on a mal, coops was angry as always. Gabe took his position on the rocks and started to film me kooking it and reuben shredding it! i got some waves but we had a lot better session today with some alright clips and so on. Nearly everyone in the water was commenting on my new wetsuit form my sponsor dunes international, i got called banana in pyjamas, cooksey suggesting we play chess on my back, others saying i still have my pj's on, personally i recon its epic. Brendo snapped his board doing a bottom turn, smithers was doing crazy reverses on his fish, pete was pulling off some hacks, i was getting the odd wave and throwing up some spray, Today is fathers day nearly every family decided to come to evans and throw around there weight, the was one dude who came out in the surf ran over his friend slip her head open, snaked my borther and dinged his board, not a good dude to have in the water. Gabes going to be putting alittle something to gether over this week so should be up once done! yew!!!!!
theres a photo of my wetty!
Monday, August 31, 2009
OZZIE WRONG
ozzie wright!
my hero!
this guy is making surfing what it should be, the fashion the music, the surfing, he's just doing what ever the hell he wants and he does it amazing! he is so talented, art, music, surfing, skating, filming,photography, he could possibly do anything and be amazing at it
little weeds
The flavorsome five
Some called it the Australian Idol of surfing. Others, a cruel exploitation of young talent. Regardless of our motivations, the goal was to yield a new crop of Australian creatives. And we did that, or erm, they did that for us (Muhaha).
Looking back, we gravely underestimated the bore of creative juice dwelling beneath Australian surfing's landscape. We knew the current surf media was a poor representation of the ambitious and broadly influenced youth of today, but the quality and quantity of weapons grade specimens uncovered definitely took us, and the rest of the surfing world, by surprise
Given proper resources, this year's Little Weeds could easily create a publication to rival any within surfing’s confines. In fact, during season one, a number of Little Weeds contestants were picked up and put to toil by rival publications in Australia. If nothing else, the abundance of talented surfers, writers, models, filmers and photographers uncovered, alludes to the healthy state of this country’s creative and athletic landscapes. A trend, we hope and believe is shared globally. Here are your five winners for 2009:
Model: Ella Rose Corby
Surfer: Chippa Wilson
Writer: Mike Jennings
Filmer: Riley Blakeway
Photographer: Matthew O'Brien
Little Weeds Presentation from jack shanahan on Vimeo.
pete versus toby.
my friend alexi hooked me up with some gear today. Amazing clothing! I thought i would do him proud and get him a wetty from my sponsor!
check there webby!-http://www.peteversustoby.com/
here's a photo i took wearing the gear!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
weekend surf.
This weekend was jammed full of waking up to a dude banging on my door saying surfs good lets go, 7.a.m up out of bed got gear out the door and on the road. we got there at 7.20a.m after a quick trip to the bakery and looked out over the clod winter's morning mist to see perfect 2 ft right handers give only 1 guy on it. We got our wetsuits, zinc, wax and headed for the track. We hit the icy water about 7.30a.m and started getting wave after wave. We were both surfing to the best of our ability. The water was crystal clear and dolphins every where. we decided to go in at 9.40 a.m and i got my last wave and turned around to watch pete shred on his and he got to the close out and went for an air reverse he got a 2 ft air and started to rotate he went to land and the board flipped and he landed straight on the fin with his arse. He ended up pushing he fin through the board and putting a massive hole through his wetty exposing his extra white arse. We laughed all the way up the track until we got to his mercedes van and a group of beautiful girls and i thought i would be the larken and point it out to them. they got there giggle on and walking off piercing over there shoulders. We got our clothes on and head straight to the sandwich shak to get a feed. When sat down waited for ever to get food, we rang brendo and asked him what he was up to, he had just finshed work and was on his to the shak. when he arrived we told him the story and we decided to get our boards and head back out. we got to the beach and to find a sloppy onshore wave. we got our keen on and headed back down the track. we surf some of the shitest waves possible but still ended up having fun. After our surf we decided to rest up so i went home sat on facebook then received a call from smithers saying come for a hit of tennis, we battled it out for an hour and of course i came out the victor and when i was collecting the balls brendo thought it would be funny to serve a ball as fast as he could and being number 1 in evans head he can hit a ball, it smacked me straight in the side of the head. i had my sook and headed off to work. I woke up on sunday to my phone playing crime wave by crystal castle and the name brendo saying i'm pulling up at yours get ya shit. my got my board and 2 poppers and headed off to the surf. the surf was super fun and we were all getting barrelled off our heads i ended up with 8 barrels and 5 chop hop's, i near landing of air reverse, 7 nose dives, 8 kooked waves, 13 tail slides, and some very nice hacks!. brendo was doing barrelled to hack, hack, cutty and an air reverse to finsh it off.
the weekend of curtis senior!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
daily surf on the net!
When i got home from school today i did my daily browse on the internet going from facebook to myspace, from runamuk to tv dion then to stab then off to modern collective. and i came across this picture by a dude who is nameless so we shall call him dilbert! 
bali
Bali isn't what it use to be. I recently took my 6th trip there and the hole tropical great wave island is now a super busy,crowded,hard to get a wave, dog fight, and full of yobbo's going over to party. I must admit the party scene over there is one of the most epic thing anyone can experience. if your into the drinking scene then your bounded to get wasted there. The surf is still the same but the crowd isn't. All americans are coming over and thinking they own the island, The locals use to be people who were so frothed on having you in the water and now there starting to get aggressive and unhappy because of all these touro's trying to dominate the beach. As a touro you have to respect each others home. The quality of the people on the streets selling there goods were disgraceful. Its really disappointing to see the island turn this way. Bali is a place of peace but all these footy head, perth kooks are going over just to get drunk and try and get into fights. I don't understand how a island so amazing can turn sour? I am returning back to the island next year and its bound to be my last for a long while. If i want to go away and get in 1hr traffic jams just to get to a place which is 30 min walk i'll go to LA. All the big named brands are going over there and fucking up the hole eco system there. All the rich kooks are going over putting up house's were ever they want and putting the Balinese out of business because it stuff's up there water flow for the rice paddys. It must sound like the island is crap but it isn't it is still a wonderful place and i can't wait to go back and score really good waves and spend some nights at the bounty. My recent trip to bali was for my dad's big 50 b day. We got some good but crowded surfs and were very impress with hotel and so on.
when we were there dusty was throwing up some insane shit at keramas, my old man showing us he still has it, AND me doing chop hop's on a legian beachy.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
weather.
there weather was bullshit once again.
it was around 35 degrees when it is suppose to be around a cool 20 degree!
global warming is really catching up to us.
i took my camera to school to day and got a cool photo of the sound desk!
check it.
Monday, August 24, 2009
facebook.
i officially got facebook today. its already tripping me out!
add me!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=575737501&ref=profile
theres a photo to make your mind sizzle.
the quality of bali roads!
talk of the tour and progressive surfing.
The main talk about the tour is that everyone is over it and is going into free surfing. There's journalist talking to all of pro's asking them questions on it. For example dane reynolds got asked about how he attacks his competitive side of surfing and he simply replyed, 'i haven't changed my surfing at all, i go out in every heat and treat it as a free surf, i'm not going to be all bummed if i get knocked like alot of the other's on the tour'. There's even talk that the WQS is becoming better then the WCT, the amount of talent that is in the QS will blow away everyones mind. The WQS consist some of the best know juniors/ upcoming WCT winners. Look at matt wilkinson with his big air reverse and tight fit barrells! then your got julian wilson with his sushi roll and reverse that you think would be impossible. I was reading a article on Matt Wilkinson today about how his WQS contest strategy and he was talking about how you get 15 waves now on the QS and if you land a air reverse you get a 7. He thought to him self if i can produce 2 air reverse within 15 waves that would give me to score to beat anyone who does backhand/forehand rio's all heat. The other part of his strategy is when all the other contender's go to bed at 8:30, he will stay up and try and get a root, as it says in the article he keeps him relaxed and ready for a day on the contest scene.
it's great to see all these progressive sorta guys coming up with all these new type of airs that all the old crew can't do. The WCT in the next 5 to 10 years will be the most popular thing to watch in any sport. You have all these guys just going out to try and out do each other. The biggest contest at the moment is between dane reynolds and jordy smith. There watching each other get a sick clip like jordy's in indo when he did that rodeo clown on the red bull trip and they will try and get a better clip. This is exactly what they need in surfing. This makes surfing so interesting to watch and its inspiring all the little shredders to go out and try this shit.
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