Headed off to the Greenroom

Jim, Ben, and Sage have landed safely in Japan and by now are well and truly setup for The Greenroom Festival.View the full lineup of artists, musicians and films here. Elle has already started posting photos from the trip below!

getting green

morning drugs: georgia coffee from the dispenser.
looks like it's working for this guy

skate decks on the top deck

getting set up inside the main hall

sage, jim & ben putting their installation together

ben, t moe & jimbo at jon wegener's stand

evening drug: ahhhh asahi

photos are filtering thru of the Greenroom Festival set up.... looks like an amazing venue... soundtrack provided by Ray Barbee & The Mattson 2

Why didn't we make that?

What a nice clip. Thanks Jussi.

Super Duper Slo Mo

Tokyo Drift

I was standing lost outside Shibuya station when this boy came up to take a Polaroid of me (turned out he was from Melbourne go figure). We were interrupted from this old mate asking for Yen-glorious

Nick and I caught the monorail to Odiba- a man made island near the Rainbow Bridge. It was awesome!

Petra- I shall shoot her next week!

Hiro-o

Shibuya stationMasa you kill me! The guy on the left was so pissed off we took this photo. Suffer!

Welcome to the terrordome.

See more Tokyo photos on my blog and website peace!

Tokyo Lets Go!

Okonomiyaki with Masahiro and Nick- they had my own special

Masa and myself trying to look pensive?

Tomoya at Mi casa- Roppongi

Dee Jae Pa'este

Dee Jae's San Fran tat artist boyz

Will and co

Lets go

Hiro-o Sat. 24th May

My first post for TCSS. Thanks guys!
Tokyo has been a whirlwind....thought I'd get some site seeing, people meeting and parties done before The Greenroom Festival this Saturday May 30th!
See more of my photos here

Noosa pumping..but then again the whole east coast is

Marc Llewelyn shot through these shots from Noosa from the Weekend. All the points were working and firing. Eww!

Nat's photo blog

One of my buddies, Nat has a blog that he's been running since he upped and left Melbourne and took off to New York. Not surf related what so ever, but he takes a really gritty photo and provides a great narrative of his day to day in NY.Visit his blog here.

Hell Green in the land of the rising sun

We would like to introduce a new contributor to the The Critical Slide, Elle Green (Hell Green). Elle left for Japan last week and will be documenting Jim, Ben and Sage's time over there whilst they exhibit at Greenroom festival and Beams T. Below are a couple of shots we pinched from Elle's blog and check out her site. She'll be posting and commenting over the next few weeks.

Low Tide Slide

Sage Joske, skimming the cobblestones on his alaia at Manu Bay, Raglan, New Zealand.

somebody got a new log

do you think aj could look any more pleased with this shiny new acquisition? no, i don't reckon so either. yeeeeow brother!

sage & surfing world

a great article in the latest issue of Surfing World with interview & photos by Andrew Kidman of Sage Joske. Sage & Andrew discuss the magic of surfing wooden craft with their usual eloquence.

further into the issue is another article by Andrew with Bert Berger also weighing up the wood/flex factor. All makes for a good read.

part 2

down the line

the latest installment of shots from simon perini was chock full of goodness .... so full we had to split em up. part 1 here

The Present East Coast Australia Tour

The Present is currently working it's way down the coast. Here are the dates:

'The J' Noosa
Saturday 16th May
Licensed event strictly 18+ plus
7.00 Doors open
7.30 Band of Frequencies
8.00 Film start
9.30 Band of Frequencies

The Coolangatta Sands Hotel
Friday 22nd May
Licensed event strictly 18+ plus
7.00 Doors open
Musical Guest Shannon Sol Carroll

Byron Bay Community Centre
Sunday 24th May
Licensed Venu, all ages
6.00 Doors open
Musical Guest Shannon Sol Carroll

Sawtell Cinema
Wednesday 27th May
All ages / Alcohol free
TBC
Musical Guest Shannon Sol Carroll

The Avoca Beach Theatre
Friday 29th May
Licensed Venu, all ages
7.00 Doors open
Musical Guest Shannon Sol Carroll
Tickets available at The Avoca Beach Theatre

Randwick Ritz
Monday 1st June
7.00 Doors open
Musical Guest Shannon Sol Carroll

Manly Cinema
Friday 5th June
7.00 Doors open
Musical Guest Shannon Sol Carroll

Manly Cinema
Saturday 6th June
7.00 Doors open
Musical Guest Shannon Sol Carroll

Tickets are available now through the respective venues. Please tell your mates.

semi-emo self portrait piks:

dominic breen, 

for a Yr.11 art assignment.

The Vintage

There's a new night this Friday called the Vintage..various sliders may have something to do with this little puppy. Pop on down if you're in Sydney town. Think old school tunes. Jonathan Zawada, one of the best designers in town developed up the artwork.

brown trout

mr brown dropped by for a roast dinner & ended up as our lookbook model... a couple of tallies & he'll say yes to anything! photographer nathan oldfield

he's also on the current cover of ALB getting tip time at avalon. sweeeeeeeet. photographer nathan smith

Steven Harrington Interview

There's an interview with Critical Slide contributor Steven Harrington over at the Tee Shirt Blog (one of my favourite blogs, worth bookmarking if you're into your tees). Have a read.

Critical Shoot

Yesterday was Look Book shoot day for Critical Slide. We'll have it up online in a few weeks. All looking good.