Our friends down in Australia have sent word that the Melbourne premiere of These Days just happened. 350 kids dropped into the old National Theater in St Kilda to support hometown hero Robbie Walker. Even though the rickety old DVD player skipped over half of Robbie’s part, no one complained about watching it twice. Thanks to the guys at Pop Magazine, K2 and Billabong for making it happen.

Last year Nick Dirks had a cover of Transworld. Well Transworld also has a snowboarding mag in Korea, so Nick Dirks is now big in Korea.

Louif was in the states for his 22nd birthday party, so we all went out to dinner. It was cute.

Cheers.

Louif and his ice tea.

Thai Food.

Nick Dirks Business Card.

The Cake

Lance and Liam Blog Battling.

Who doesn’t like bob?

Nick Dirks and Lance.

Louif looks really drunk in this photo, Happy birthday buddy!

I just read this in Water Magazine, it’s an interview with surf pro Kelly Slater. I copy and pasted a few questions that were interesting to me, maybe you will take something from this also… Click here to read the full interview. KELLY SLATER INTERVIEW

Did you ever feel like you lost out on the chance to go to college, have those experiences?

Yeah, early on I thought about that. I thought about it at the time. But what comes around, goes around. My girlfriend now is going to college. I’m experiencing it through her.

The thing about school is you don’t come out any more intelligent than you went in. You’re the same person. I just got introduced to different stuff that I might otherwise not have been introduced to.

Most of the things people learn in college, they’re not so passionate about. It’s not because they wake up in the morning thinking about it, go to sleep thinking about it; it’s because they have to get this piece of paper, pay off the loans they’ve spent years building up. It’s not necessarily about the love you have for something; it’s about the need. The “having to do something.”

Yeah, most people don’t love school like we love surfing. But even for me, being vaguely involved in the surf industry, I’ll go through days where all I talk about is surfing. Every conversation. And when you finally meet someone who isn’t a surfer, and you get to talk about something else, it’s a relief. You’re so happy not to have to talk about surfing anymore.

Do you know how often I want to tell people to f–k off ’cause they want to talk about surfing? [Laughs.] I’ll meet someone and maybe they don’t surf, maybe they sort of do, and all of a sudden they start asking me, “Oh, what was it like…” about competitions, my life, surfing… You have no idea how boring that is for me. You have no idea how uninteresting that sounds to me.

Which is the irony, of course, ’cause that’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the last hour.

Salomon AM CHris Grenier sent me this photo yesterday of his go kart jump. He said they are stepping up their game and going bigger and bigger each time. Stay tuned for the mega ramp jump….

Check out some photos I shot on my vacation to Argentina…

Hahaha, not much of a bash, but Evans birthday dinner. Happy b-day son!

Chomp on this, was a skate video made, that stars skate industy folk. Guys like Ty Evans, Atiba, ect ect. This is a part of a skate photog Reda, its super funny. Check it out.

I just don’t know sometimes? I asked a bunch of people, this is what they wrote back to me. What do you think?

-alien creatures for sure.

-I bet the pharoahs back hen were so powerful that they could just get as many slaves or people in their kingdom and use any resource they wanted to drag those things around.

-aliens man, isnt there like identical pyramids on mars?

-weird.

-I think they were made by fucking aliens

-cranes, how else?

-crazy. egyptians moving big blocks?

-elbow greece or they rented a crane

Nick Lipton at YoBeat.com just passed on the link for the first review of These Days. After working on this stuff for so long its hard to look at it the same. I’m blown away with what Nick wrote, I hope you kids feel the same. Check it out… THESE DAYS REVIEW