The Bleach Festival starts Feb 11th on the Gold Coast. We are proud of our friend Kuni Takanami who has been in Byron helping us on various projects. Departing Japan with his young family after the devastating earthquake last year, he starts a new life in Australia.

Many of our friends and creative collaborators are featured at the festival this year. Here’s the talented lineup.

Looking forward to seeing this by our talented friend Emmett Malloy.

Click here for free streaming access to Campaign 2. All you have to do is subscribe. Thank you for the many years of support…there would be no such thing as this career and Poor Specimen if not for all the people out there who watch the films.

Also our classic movie pass allocates a percentage to the Surf Resource Network’s ‘Create Your Future’ International Photography program. In 2012, SRN will bring aspiring young photographers from Liberia, Sri Lanka and Peru to the US for their own photography exhibit. As we speak they are busy making their dreams come true thanks to the donations the program has received from all over.

Happy Holidays from our family to yours.

Congratulations to Byron Bay local and big wave charger Kieren Perrow for taking out the 2011 Pipeline Masters.

Check out his interview in Surfer Magazine online HERE

Photo:Todd Glaser

Happy to be a contributor to Kelly’s new project. Check the site here.

http://soundcloud.com/reggaeskapunk/poor-specimen

Just a few photos of the new VSTR shop opening in Byron Bay. Installation by photographer Ryan Heywood. For those of you who haven’t heard, VSTR is Kelly’s new line coming soon.

The message board

Communication within a community is its foundation, one could argue that without communication there is no community, just strangers occupying a shared piece of earth. A true community can exist via communication alone, from handmade zines to online forums.

SURFERS TARGET CALIFORNIA WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGN “TRANSPARENTSEA”
THE ONE MONTH ODYSSEY BEGINS

TransparentSea
Environmental Initiative
A Modern Voyage with Ancient Creatures
September 29th – October 25th
California, USA
http://transparentseavoyage.com

Slater’s Dream and the “Lost Atlas“, A Meandering Review of the New Kai Neville Film

By Bradley Corbett for Surfer’s Journal Magazine

At the 2011 U.S. Open of surfing, event winner Kelly Slater, $100k in hand, remarked that what had occurred over the course of the week was what he always dreamed surfing could be.