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We've seen some dumb things done with sleeping bags in the last couple of years, but this innovation actually makes sense. We fall asleep in hammocks all the time, so why not have a sleeping bag hammock? Especially in the Northwest where it gets chilly all year round.
Check out the good work they're doing at Clayborne Outdoor Gear:
I went to Long Beach for the Agenda trade show and to have a release party with Make Collectives. Now I have a crush on Long Beach.
Long Beach is diverse. I don’t mean that in a skin-deep way, I mean it in a pealing paint sort of way. You can see layers and layers of human effort here. In the buildings I saw old regal California business booming, mid-century modern simple-city, and crusty tarp tents flapping loudly at the sky like rascal parrots from a wilderness I’ve only ever tasted on psychedelic drugs. I saw old black uncles dancing on the sidewalks alongside a toddler to a Hispanic DJ spinning thrift shop records, while a Vietnam vet’s wheel chair slowly made it’s way through the crowd. Young happy people said the vets name, their sweaty hands patted his back, the peace patch on his shoulder winked at me. He was handed change. I teared up. I was handed emotional change in that moment too. I physically felt the warm gooey and loving heart of Long Beach. I have a crush, for sure.
I grew up in the “Valley” and foothills of LA and never had a reason to visit the LBC. It was Snoop Dog and Sublime country, not my country.
When Agenda invited Stay Wild to come experience their LBC trade show I had some hang ups. I thought this show hosted smoke puffing street wear brands and big budget action sport brands locked in a money pissing competition. I was totally wrong.
Walking up to the front door I came across Iron & Resin’s shiny new trailer. It was full of their Spring 2016 clothing line which was cool, but cooler was the Seaworth cold coffee they had on nirto. Coffee on Nitro, fuck-yes-please! As it turned out Iron & Resin actually pulled out of Agenda to do this trade show business on their own terms. This trailer is planned to go on tour and work as a flagship store in towns around the USA. When Agenda founder Aaron Levant heard they were pulling out to do this he asked them to set up out front of the show to maintain their outsider approach.
Aaron isn’t some money-hungry business man breast feeding from the outdoor/action-sport/street wear industry like I thought. He’s more of an art show curator. He held the first Agenda show for 30 brands in a thai restaurant across the street from the monstrous Action Sports Retailer trade show (RIP), now he hosts about 750 brands in the Long Beach Convention Center. He curates the exhibitors and the layout by what he thinks would taste good together. Most booths are super basic, so retailers, distributors, press, and sneakers-in can see the product before seeing the budget backing it. This layout totally evens the playing field. If your business warrants it, you get more space. Vans has a bigger booth because they’ve got a long list of appointments from retailers and people who want to do business with them, but across the isle in direct competition is a standard sized booth for a brand with no budget.
Long Beach’s East Village Arts District has a lot of cool businesses, but Make Collectives is my favorite. They’ve got fancy clothing, jewelry, home stuff, good smelling apothecary things and not a drop of pretentious vibes. They’ve got a real community growing here at the shop and it’s here that I got the best view of Long Beach’s tender heart. After Agenda we had a release party here for the magazine. Tons of people came by to grab a fresh copy and a cold drink from New Belgium and Venice Cold Brew. Tigers in the Sky played to a full house and lot’s of new friends were made. I didn’t want the night to end and in a way it didn’t. Days later I still feel pure stoke from that party.
Check out these shots from the amazing Christel Robleto:
Stay Wild Long Beach! I can’t wait to come back.
John Hook is a pretty regular contributing photographer here at Stay Wild, so when we saw him hanging out with our favorite surfer Kahana Kalama at the new Aloha Sunday store in Honolulu, we were like, “WHAAAAAT!? These two dudes are making sweet, bromantic magic together?” Check out the photos John shot of Kahana surfing, as well as the “love notes” they wrote about each other.
"We linked up for a measly 2ft swell at Rocky Point and he shot a roll of film on his Nikonos. I thought the photos would suck and, no joke, when he emailed them over I was completely blown away. It’s not that he made me look like I was ripping way harder than I was, it was that for the first time in my life the photos he took actually captured how much fun I was really having.
He’s pretty much one of my favorite humans largely in part because I feel like we both share the same disdain, frustration, and love for everything that Hawaii is. It’s like I know I’m going to get made fun of by mokes for wearing short shorts and crazy aloha shirts… but it’s okay because at least there’s another weirdo with a camera who thinks my shorts are cool."
Photo of John Hook by Evan Schell
"Hollywood would cast Kahana as the Hawaiian rascal boy in a surf movie. In the end, he'd show his heart of gold by helping the main kook get the wave of his life.
In real life, Kahana is just some ridiculously good looking dude that loves surfing and hanging out with his family and friends. Aloha Sunday, as a brand, kinda represents the wild Hawaiian rascal that actually wants to look good.
Opening the outpost in Kailua, Honolulu, made perfect sense, since that's where Kahana was born and raised. Bringing the brand officially back home from San Diego's North Park. "The Local" is a shave ice spot connected to Aloha Sunday. They serve up delicious shave ice made with all natural locally sourced (from all the Hawaiian islands) syrups. Buggah so good, broke da mouth."
Heyo, it's kewl if you didn't come to this year's Kook Out surf contest and party. We know the Oregon Coast is far away and that there aren't any good waves there anyways. But you know what? We don't care! We're not professional surfers. We're total kooks, and we went out to prove that kooks have more fun than surfers who get all serious about one of the funnest sports in the world: wave-sliding!
Check out these film photos by Anthony Georgis and you'll see we hit all the sweet spots:
-Giant Peace Speaker playing the good vibes (till the cops shut us down).
-Tarp Surfing
-Hot Tubs by the Original Nomad.
-Cold Beers by New Belgium.
-Kombucha by Brew Dr.
-Locally Shaped board by FrestCoast & up-cycled skateboard fins by Pushfins.
-Prizes (everyone who surfed got a prize or trophy of their choosing) by Aloha Sunday, Mowgli Surf, Blackfern Surf, Burton Durable Goods, Stanley, Woolrich, Elm Company, Sitka Surf, and some other random goodies like golden kook trophies!
