Portrait: This week meet Tim Taplin. When not watching South Park or at Tafe studying Graphic Design, you'll find Tim getting slotted and punching airs at South Narra with his brother Jay and Isaac (Bobby Martinez) Buckley. Tim surfs Matt Penn boards and is stoked on them. Tim's favourite surf trip was to Tavarua / Fiji at the start of this year and he is always frothing to head back down to his local South Coast break when it's firing. I recently spent a week or so with Tim on the North Shore of Hawaii eating plenty of Shave Ice and getting barreled in the Keiki shorey, he said the highlight of his trip was 'me' (which was quite nice of him - cheers mate). Tim is an all round top bloke, he likes covering his skin with products made by O'neill and protecting his eyeballs with Otis sunnies. He also has a 'second' favourite photographer called Zander. If you dropped in on Tim I reckon he would forgive you pretty quickly.

RVCA sale: This is where I point out that's its the last RVCA sale they are doing for a longish time. So if you are into quality threads it would benefit you greatly to hit this sale. The Summer sale store in Brookvale is closing down so the RVCA crew are doing this garage sale to clear all their items and samples (Winter gear too) and there is even a 'name your price' bargain bin. The weekend will cap off with a BBQ and beers too, which all sounds too good to be true! Go here for the finer details.

Flat day fun: Some kids bought themselves a blue tarp and had themselves a good time. Check it. You will like it.

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