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Put your ear to the page and you can hear it. It’s the sound of Stab milking Taj Burrow’s teats. When we got the bird up in the air again in Bali, it was to photograph and film the awesome team of Andy Irons, Joel Parkinson and Taj Burrow.
The Little Devil
This kid is 15, wins most contests he enters, lives the simple life of a vegetarian and yet at least one deeply religious figure in his home town claims that he's the devil! That his bleached blond hair is the work of Satan! And that he looks at young women in a diabolical manner! Small towns, eh? Story by Jet.
Kelly Slater is an American Hero
The latest in Ben Brown’s series of controversial cartoons. In this episode, he documents Slater’s incredible 2005, from his back-to-back wins in the Pacific to his last-second victory over arch rival Andy Irons at J-Bay.
Ike and the 270o camera
Water photography is so, like, yesterday. What the cool kids are into is, like, pulled-back gear shot from the land with stuff in the foreground, like, sand and natives. Oh, really? According to us, and we be the coolest thing in the world (just read our media kit), the water shot is back in fashion. And all because of our boy Scott Aichner, who has invented a 270o camera rig.
The Stab Awards
To much fanfare and with spotlights dancing across the summer sky in Los Angeles, we presented a handmade Stab ring each to Andy Irons, Bruce, Sunny Garcia, Kala Alexander, Mark Mathews and Taj Burrow. Even rogue jetski driver/diver Reef Macintosh got a ring for his superb act of self-preservation in Tahiti.
Digiluxe
Film? She dead! Every single photo here was shot on a digital camera and spat onto the page out of a memory card. Fuck Kodak. Fuck Fuji. And fuck Polaroid.
TAJ AND THE BIRD
In our eternal quest for the gimmick cover that sells a million, we forced Taj Burrow into a 20-foot acid drop out of a chopper. He lived. And here’s his story. Story by Sam McIntosh.
