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If you are keen to win a one off back pack with a few goodies then take a photo of your desk and tag #2ndsemester & @lo_wer on your instagram. The best desk photo wins what’s on this desk below. On the desk is A Lower athlectics flag, 2 x limited Bone Caps, Lower backpack (the only brown one existing), Beanie, Boxers, & Stickers. Entries close Thursday May 31st.

Have a good weekend folks. Here’s a track to start up your Friday night from Dam Native.

Every true kiwi has got their favourite pie/bakery. Sometimes it gets hard with all the bakery options in town. One Tree Bakery in Mt Maunganui claims to have the best pies in town and we haven’t found a reason to disagree just yet. We hit it up this afternoon to sample his new pie Steak and Blue Cheese. It was a stunner. If you are in the Mount make sure you go visit One Tree Bakery (it’s opposite BK in the Mount).

The man behind the pies

Pie preperation

Munch

Lex and Jake at Lower have some fun and interesting photos on their instagram’s (well we’ve always been pretty entertained). Anyway, now you can follow their instagrams alongside @lo_wer. The usernames are @jake_lower and @lex_lower. You can also see the latest images from them and Lower on our instagram widget on right side of the blog.
Go and get following.

This is a song/vid about the Mount and how not to climb it according to Sam and crew. There’s a lot of commentary we could add but it’s probably best just to watch the vid.

UCLWR 2nd Semester collection is in stores this week. You can view entire Winter season here

Nick Hyne is one of the most pro-active and hardworking people in the Snow world. Traveling the world in search for back to back winters and the best powder and terrain, working with big corporates to get projects like diaries down-under and japan-journals happening. He speaks fluent Japanese and rides a snowboard as good as anyone. Nick sent us this quick memo with a couple of picks he shot with Rich Bayly.

‘It has suddenly dropped in temperature and now there is a bit more of a snow feel in Queenstown. The top of the mountains now have a dusting of snow too. It has been sunny pretty much every day which has made for some rad autumn skating.’ richbayleyphotography.co.nz

There’s a few mumblings in the nz surf world that we like the sound of. But all we know is what they told us…

“A change in direction for New Zealand surf culture…  Full site coming soon…..”

Check it out here at http://damagedgoodszine.com/

At the core of street wear is the addiction of collecting – Shoes, watches, vinyl, hats, toys or anything else of interest. We seem to constantly have new items turning up at the Y.K.W.A.L offices. If you are a collector of, well pretty much anything you know how good the feeling is when you find what you are looking for. The other side of that is when you find what you weren’t looking for but knowing what you got is a treasure. Much of the inspiration we get is from genuine vintage items and design work. While searching for the next gold nugget this was found, an original framed photo of Sylvester Stallone with his 3m shark he caught by the Bay of Island in the far North of New Zealand. Stumbled across some gold.

The photographer said ‘he’d only made one decent film, Rocky. So i wasn’t star-struck’ 

The long winter drop called ’2nd Semester is dropping next week. Here’s a couple of the pieces below. So stay tuned for some freshness next week.