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Kelsey Brookes lives Aloha.

Keegan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:07:15 +0000

I am in Hawaii right now with RVCA shooting. I have been hanging a bunch with my friend Kelsey Brookes. He is such a rad positive guy and his artwork is beautiful. Check his stuff.

Below are a couple pieces he has done while out here between surf sessions at Velzy Land and Rocky Point.

Will be posting some stuff soon from our trip on here soon. Aloha.

Santa Cruz, SF, and back.

Keegan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:10:34 +0000

This is the second installment of my road trip with the RVCA dudes up north to SF and back. Once we got to SF, we got some super fun waves at Ocean Beach, where there was a contest being held. Big shifty beach break peaks were fun.

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Finally met up with Al Knost and his magic red van in the city.
We all caravanned down to OB to get some surf.
Knost shapes a lot of his own boards. Below, contemplating the risk vs reward ratio of a heavy leashless retro single fin in double overhead + beachbreak that breaks what seems like a half a mile out to sea.

Knost, cruising to the waters edge.

Below is Dominic (sleeping) and Tanner Praire, hanging in Knosts van. Tanner was feeling a bit under the weather most the trip.

Mid day van chill session with Ford and Ellis manning the super 8

Alex is shooting his lookbook for his signature clothing line with RVCA. Ford poses in the hotel room.

This photo below is of Ellis, who hand shaped this stringerless flat-as single fin. He’s tested it in big Indo Desert Point tubes and its proven to work.

The Road to Bolinas.

The San Fran city scape
The obligatory Golden Gate bridge shot with some lines creeping in at fort point below.

Below are some of the display photos in the SF RVCA store of mine. Mexico to the left, and over the shoulder of Danny Fuller in New York. Nice seeing work of mine up places.

The outside window display. Knost in mexico.

We ran into the OTHER Keegan with RVCA, Keegan Sauder. Keegan’s unite.

At some dive bar, MKUE is up.

Knost.

The below photos are a sort of behind the scenes of Knost shooting some more of his upcoming line.

The next morning, we were back on the road. GVC-Good Vibes Crew and DFW Down For Whatever.

The Great Red Van on the Great Highway.

Tanner on the train tracks standing next to the low key Gothic Dolphins tag.

Locals in SC say no valley kooks allowed.

Knost has honestly one of the most original styles and approaches waves in a completely different way than I have ever seen in person. Really rad checking him out. And to be honest, I have to admit I completely passed judgement on him before I knew him and kinda wrote him off. After doing my first trip with him I was blown away.

We went for a bowl in Santa Cruz. Ford below.

Met up with Film Maker and Artist Thomas Cambell and he threw some rocks with us.

Knost, Jack Coleman and Thomas.

The next morning we thought it would be a good idea to check some super localized spots with a bunch of dudes and cameras. Sick idea especially when once we got to the sand and the waves were good, we got screamed at “Split Kooks!” I love localism. Honestly. So awesome. Keeping the dream of “Secret” waves alive.

Ford Archbold about to jump off the rock at Steamers Lane.

Ellis shot from the cliff above.

Target practice with the one pump bbgun.

And thats all she wrote. 101 B-line back to Malibu. I had a few days at home, and am now in Hawaii. I will be posting some hawaii photos up soon. Aloha!

land

Keegan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:48:24 +0000

Directly off the boat in Indonesia I headed to Bali. Here are some more non-captioned photos. Enjoy.

Southern Cross clips

Keegan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:16:10 +0000

The Southern Cross

Keegan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:34:44 +0000

I am going to keep this post simple. There are a lot of photos, and I could probably try and explain the scenario for each and every one, or explain why I made the image or where the spot was, or why I like a specific texture etc… But I think since I havent posted in so long, I would rather just keep the photos to themselves, and let them speak. I went on another boat trip to somewhere in Indonesia on the wonderful Southern Cross captained by the legendary Scuzz. Here are some photos. Enjoy. And I apologize for taking almost 2 months to update this thing, especially over summer when I should be posting more than ever. Again, please enjoy.

A surf trip without any photos of the surf. Pretty nice. After all, it never really is about the actual surf in the end.

so hectic bra

Keegan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:32:17 +0000

The place I am staying above. Calm between the purple blobs in the indian ocean.

just chilling.

Keegan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:59:44 +0000

Relaxing on Bali in Indonesia at the moment at the Uluwatu Surf Villas, will get some new stuff up soon.

post number 267

Keegan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:55:52 +0000

flew over my home break on the way to shooting the band Angels and Airwaves in Seattle last week. I think I can see Pascal getting a wave from Mystos to Gully all the way from here…

Leaving for Indonesia in a few days and can’t wait to completely check out for a little while. Until then, lots of work to do.

Installation Magazine

Keegan — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 02:40:34 +0000

The Debut issue of Installation Magazine, a rad California based culture arts publication, did a pretty rad piece with a bunch of my photos in it. It is available now in print version and online. Check their website for more info.

A few screenshots of the article. Go pick it up to check the whole thing.

ice cream

Keegan — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:50:00 +0000

My little cousin Fisher, collecting on the local ice cream man’s daily rounds in La Saladita, Mexico.