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The Discovery :: We Are Handsome We been digging on WAH for a while now. They do rad campaigns, they make rad looking swimwear and obviously they use rad looking models. This is their latest – The Discovery – there’s a couple of new shapes/styles alongside the all over prints that WAH are known for. More at We Are Handsome.

Insight Roll With The Gold Roll With The Gold – it could mean a thousand things, it could mean quite literally roll yourself in gold or perhaps more metaphorically of rolling with the good times,  but I imagine I’m actually missing the real meaning – what ever it may be. Roll With The Gold is a piece from Insight’s A/W Collection – you saw the lovely chambray shirt from the other day, it’s nice. And now this, a vintage styled raglan crew (220gsm, it’s unbrushed) that’s got ‘Roll With The Gold’ printed in heavy, cracked plastisol across the front of it. The plastisol is thick, but it’s rad, with being cracked and beaten up it really adds to the look of the piece, especially with the crew already copping a garment dye heavy vintage wash. The type of piece you buy when you want something new, but don’t want to look like you bought something new. Available now at Insight  - it’s also available in a yellow/gold, which is call back to the print. The yellow is good, but I’d prefer the ‘dirty boot black’.

Brixton & Captain Fin First they did the caps, which made sense – Brixton make headwear. So it’s only fair the favour gets returned with a fin from the Captain. It’s only really for people who run Futures, doesn’t look like FCS got a start. The fins have images on the outside of the two front fins, and on the inside of those fins and then the back fin – it’s all loaded up with branding. Check your local shop or the Captain Fin store. Shred.

Warby Parker. Clark Kent. More then likely at some stage of your life, you wanted to be Superman. You wanted to be Clark Kent, rush into a telephone booth and run out faster then a speeding bullet. But you didn’t, you won’t, you can’t. It’s science. But now, you can at least take your four eyes game to a new level. You can now look like Clark Kent (well, at least run the same spectacle look as he would. Two shades got made up – the Chamberlain and the Percy – and had some Man of Steel points added. Percy cops a little red hit on the hinge and old mate Chamberlain cops a blue hit. Both are attractive frames that would def make you look a lot sharper around that cubicle you hide in all day.. Hit it at Warby Parker images via Complex

All new Trucks from Thunder are dropping in skate shops now. Theotis Beasley has a new Pro Truck, Belee Dat, Shane O’neill has new VIP lights and Austyn Gillette gets a new color up of his Jet Set Lights, While Alec Majerus takes a Rain Check on the day outside with an indoor session at 3rd Lair skatepark.

We kinda touched briefly on the DC offices when we plugged the Quiksilver building last year. Well, the guys at Hypebeast have kinda done a similar thing, but with a they did a video for their latest instalment of Hypebeast Spaces.It’s a pretty personal view of their Huntington Beach office and the people who work within their four walls. I kinda think our look thru the offices was waaaaaaay better, we included all brands under the quik roof. But it’d be self indulgent if we started ranting about that huh? Imagine if we even dropped a link for you to click too… Heavy. Video: Hypebeast

Davis Torgerson and the DC shoes crew hit up Davis’ hometown of Minneapolis for Familia skateshops 8th annual Day of Familia and the release of Davis’ new Familia shoe colorway.

Thanks to everyone for being apart of skateboarding’s overwhelming support for Sebastian. His Transplant surgery went very well. We’ll keep everyone updated as we hear more. Thank you Skateboarding.

If your old man is a bit of a 80s hipster then there’s every chance you could probably find a similar shirt to this in his wardrobe. But, realistically who can be bothered trawling for it? As you can see, there’s three different colours for this new number – Olive, Grey and Purple all of which feature the same all over print. Our pick is the gray and olive. The purple looks a little too much like something a creepy uncle would wear. Don’t know if they’ll come to Aus this forthcoming summer. Time will tell. Photos: Style Engine

Road Test :: Patagonia R2 Front Zip Welcome to our first Road Test – where we attempt to give you some good feedback on some product in various categories. The goal is that helps you guys in getting a better idea and knowledge on a product before you make the purchase. We’re aiming to do the best we can and cover every angle we think of, odds on there will be moments, etc that we lag on or completely miss. That’s the best thing about coming off of a low base, it’s only going to get better… First up we’ve got a wetsuit, it’s a little easier to road test a wetsuit then a pair of shoes, a shirt or even a watch – but relax, we’ve got those categories coming in hot as well. Come say hello to the R2 Front Zip from Patagonia… The Suit ::  Patagonia threw us a suit to test, use and abuse for our first Road Test, the one in particular we’re testing is the R2 Front Zip. It’s, as the specs say, got 100% external seam sealing along with internal taping on all critical areas. Is made from handmade 2.5mm neoprene and has a new hybrid grid lining that combines mid-weight merino wool and virgin polyester in the front, back, torso and thighs for core warmth and comfort. Adding to that, the sleeves, inner and outer thighs and lower legs are lined with a lighter green recycled polyester grid for warmth and flexibility when paddling. On first appearances it’s quite an exciting suit to hold, pull at, try on. It’s all black with minimal branding – can’t go wrong there, in fact I really love this aspect of the suit. I’m not sure if it’s the idea that you’re using a suit that makes you think your doing some good for the environment by using it or what, but I definitely got excited when playing around with it. I know I also got pretty excited when I saw that Patagonia had made the transition to using liquid tape, whereas previous suits just had taping in critical areas. Entry ::  This is a little embarrassing. I’ve been used to using chest zips that are already pretty much zipped up for me, all I have to do when the suit is on is either attach the zipper head to the zip and pull, or just zip it closed – depending on whether it’s a close or open ended zip. The Patagonia R2 Front Zip is a complete zip off set-up. You zip it off, it’s completely zipped off and the flap goes over you head. I just said ‘zip’ a lot too, was kinda weird… So, the first time I was using the suit I was all like, fuck, how do I get this flap over my head to zip it up? Think I stood there for about five minutes trying to yoga my way into grabbing if from behind until I realised that if I just bend over, the flap falls onto my head and I can grab it easily… The Patagonia R2 slid on and off really easily, I don’t say that because I’m short on words, I say that because it actually did. Wet. Dry. Damp. The suit just slides on over your limbs, which probably has something to do with the interior materials, but either way I haven’t once had to double tug, yank or pull the suit on to hard to get it up my legs or my hands thru the ends. Flexibility/Comfort ::  The R2 is a flexible suit – the majority of suits these days are. But the material used in the R2 is stretchy and light, if your upgrading from a suit that’s a couple of seasons old you will def notice an improvement in flexibility. It’s also one of the most comfortable suits I’ve worn – won in part due to it’s ease of getting on and off. The use of Merino Wool through out the suit may leave some of you a little itchy every now and again, but it’s pretty non existent and something I’ve been told tends to disappear after 6 or so surfs – just something to be aware of. The cuffs/ankles seem to run the same material as the knee pads, which for reasons I’m unaware of, really seem to help the su