Greenroom Festival, Japan. 3rd Time's A Charm!

Another Greenroom done and dusted. Such an amazing couple of days meeting new people, a lot of bowing & business card exchanging. Despite the heart breaking troubles this country has had over the past 3 months, there was plenty of support for the festival and for the surf community, giving everyone a reason and opportunity to have a good time. The turnout was in excess of 12,000 people, many of the old faces weren't present, but many new ones took their place bringing with them an unfamiliar twist on surf culture.

Pics below-

Double Denim TCSS lovers

Sho Watanabe

Shogo likes everything

Ty Williams being...well Ty

Yuta & Ryoko

Myself with great friend Angie Takanami and her son Ryder

Takahiro Hida (Hi-Dutch)

Xabi and the Basque guys

The Basque crew introducing their film "Modernist Basque Surfing"

Ty slightly jetlagged

Basque surfer, Clovis Donizetti and the Treehouse Peace Sign

A bit of night time music yea!

Builder of the Treehouse

The beautiful Treehouse stands strong within the Yokohama city scape.

We're stoked we came to Japan during this heartfelt time. It's amazing to see humanity come together and stay strong. We love you Japan and your people x

sage sequence

.... yes this is all the same wave

shot by Paul Joseph

Greenroom Festival 2011 Bump In

Back again for Greenroom Festival, Yokohama, Japan. Third time we've been involved and great to get over here and spread the love and support our Japanese pals. Couple of more posts to come.

Colour by numbers

Bodhi arrived in Japan a little damaged after the flight, but with a little TLC we fixed him up good


TCSS wall complete

Masa + Sam hailing Steven Harrington's wall


and this is my wall!

TCSS | WTW Tuesday

We're having a show opening and party at WTW Aoyama, Japan on Tuesday night.

Come down and drink Bieru.

Maybe Yes?

Remain In Balance @ Beams T

Monday night 16th of May, TCSS crew hung Steven Harrington's show and TCSS wall at Beams T, Harajuku, JP!!!!

We plugged away at it until the early hours of the morning, as everything takes that little bit extra time in Japan (translation n' what not) but sooooo well worth it! Big thanks to Beams T staff, Masahiro, Tamio and not to forget Steven Harrington. Proceeds from the show will be donated to Tsunami victims, via the Red Cross. The show is up until 6 June.

Spicoli and Bodhi rock'n Harajuku.

And now onto Greenroom....

Side Slippin shot by Simon

We sent our good pal, Simon Perini to Lorne last weekend to represent TCSS and capture Side Slippin Salty Sea Dogs and Purple Pixies West Coast Adventure... Click here to view the whole spread of shots. Thanks to Robbie Warden for inviting us along. Much appreciated. More Side Slippin to come for 2011?

YEW!

Hydrophilia

... hope you can drop by the Hydrophilic Store in Torquay next month (June 4th) to check out the goings on... Dean is a little excited to say the least!

Shack Attack

... some great shots sent in by Kerry Down from when that amazing swell hit the East Coast last month. He reckons he surfed over 14 hours in 2 days... aah warm water & offshores, where are you now?!

All shots by Todd Quigley

Jam and T-shirts packed for Japan

Not far away till we board the big iron seagull and make our way over to Japan. TCSS has plenty going on over there in the coming weeks.

First up is Steven Harrington's show at Beams T from 17 May, Jim's been in Bali working on some exclusive TCSS T-Shirts for the show. All proceeds will go to the Japanese Red Cross.

Straight from the screenprinting floor

Second up we have Greenroom festival. Kicking off on 20 May with the Art Exhibition Opening Party. The show will run from the Friday till the Sunday. Steven Harrington, Elle Green and Jim will all be exhibiting.

Thirdly we have a small show at WTW (waiting for the waves) Aoyama store on 24 May.

See you soon our Japanese friends.

Aloha Sunday - this Saturday

Aloha Sunday is opening this Saturday May 7th in San Diego, go check it out if you're in the hood. This is a new project for Kahana Kalama and TCSS is proud to be in the line-up.

Kahana tells us a little about the new store

"This Saturday I'll be unveiling a little project that I've been working on for a bit. I'm opening a retail space in the heart of North Park - San Diego, that will offer a collection of surf-inspired clothing and craft.

Growing up in Hawaii I was enthralled by the commonly used phrase "Aloha Friday" which is basically a celebration of the end of the workweek. As a play on this concept I'm calling the shop Aloha Sunday... a challenge and encouragement to live passionately and in a way that celebrates the days ahead.

The interior of the space is adorned with reclaimed materials and salvaged barn-wood from a family friends barn in Northern Oregon. If you have a second take a look at this short edit documenting the process of getting the wood into the space:"

Welcoming Soon from Aloha Sunday on Vimeo.

'Der' there's a Thomas Campbell show

Lucky enough to be invited to the opening of Thomas Campbell's show 'Der' last evening at China Heights gallery, Surry Hills. Presented by Jo Allen's new roaming gallery 'Gallery A.S.'. We just finished painting the TCSS studio walls, so we had a lot in common and so much to talk about.. Antique White or Jasmine White..hmm..tough.. The show's open until this Sunday and you've been working hard all week. Go drop some hard earned ding.

WIP | Steven Harrington | Beams T | TCSS

Lookin' Good. Steven Harrington just sent us some work in progress shots.

Steven Harrington x TCSS x Beams T

The Critical Slide Society and Beams T, Harajuku Japan are proud to present 'Remain in Balance' an exhibition of new sculptures and prints by Steven Harrington. The show will run from 17 May - 5 June. All proceeds from the sale of artworks will be donated to the Red Cross Japan Tsunami relief fund.

The TCSS crew will be heading across to Japan to cover Steven's exhibition as well as Greenroom festival and give support to our Japanese pals. More updates to come over the coming weeks.