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'Volcom Crustaceous Tour'


Spent the day in Kuta attending this Volcom contest at Halfway. The conditions (1-2ft) didn't make for a very existing showdown but it was a nice sunny afternoon nonetheless. Actually paying more attention to the event ground crew than the water action since pulling off any kind of arrangement in a place like Bali requires some heavy organisational skills. I find the surfing industry a bit edgy but I guess every 'industry' behaves a bit funny when it deals with such delicate cultures as surfing and skateboarding.



Fanzines are always an interesting idea; the size and the homemade xerox feeling. This one had some pretty weird layout, several copyerrors and plenty misspellings. Very successful and well executed. Free hands-outs in the form of smaller DIY publications work well.




2006-aug-02 @ 1:49 am Permalink
Tags: surfing, bali, kuta beach, indonesia, magazines, volcom


'Fafi Bali'

Fafi Official

2006-jul-31 @ 1:26:34 pm Permalink
Tags: fafi, streetculture, art, bali, indonesia, kuta beach


'Zappo Bali'


I met Zappo some weeks ago before departure and promised to look for his piece close to Poppies II. The colours where still strong, really crisp. Hard to believe it's six years old.
Took a tour around Kuta and the Seminyak area and found a few others pieces. Not really anything noteworthy but still nice to see some graf on Bali.






2006-jul-30 @ 2:18:50 pm Permalink
Tags: graffiti, bali, kuta beach, asia, indonesia


'Industry'


The surfing industry has a HUGE presence in Kuta Beach. Every year visitors to Bali (mainly Europeans) are introduced to Australian and American surfingbrands for the first time while preying Kuta's huge surfretailstores. The infamous Legian shoppingsdistrict in Kuta hosts all the biggest brands; Quiksilver, Billabong, Rip Curl, Volcom etc. and together with nearby factory outlets this street certainly is a major hub for establishing and creating relation to surfing's retailmarket. The use of codes and customs is well established here. For example the use and style of the now almost standard kneelenght surftrunk have atleast in parts spread to Northern Europe via Bali and Australia by travelling youths and/or high school exchange students to Aus. A 'contemporary' brand like RVCA would probably do good operating more actively here.





2007-nov-10 @ 9:56 pm Permalink
Tags: bali, indonesia, kuta beach, surfing market, retail, asia


'Natural Medium'


Time to pull the nischeflag since it's all surfing now. Kuta isn't changing much, still a tourist tenement ghetto mixed in with the usual testosterone driven surfing hoard. The beachwaves at Kuta Beach are always fun but the challenge begins at the Bukit peninsula. As usual taking up camp in Bingin.







2007-oct-29 @ 12:29 pm Permalink
Tags: surfing, indonesia, bali, bingin, ulu watu, impossibles, kuta beach, padang padang, asia


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