Would you try to sell your house without a real estate agent? Well maybe some people might but ask them how long their house was on the market and if they did it again would they go the same route? Would you handle your dental care all by yourself or would you invest in a dentist to do [...] More

Film goes back and forth between English and Spanish, but it’s a great story on snowboarder Iker Fernandez. One that should be told in a culturally relevant manner. Hence the bilingual format… After having the opportunity to interview Queralt Castellet at the Winter Dew Tour Nike Open in Breckenridge, firmly believe that U.S. Spanish-language media is missing out on [...] More

How many of us have ever landed a job by knowing someone, raise your hand?  If you all of a sudden feel like you are auditioning for a Sure commercial at least you are realizing that networking works! We are all guilty of denying that we are going to need help sooner rather than later.  The fact of the [...] More

A recent survey found that more than 60% of college students and young professionals believe they should have the right to work from home on a flexible schedule.   Cisco conducted the study of 2,800 young adults worldwide, and it’s worth noting that those 60% believed a flexible working schedule was not just a hope, or a perk, it [...] More

Portrait gallery by Jay Watson of skateboarders including Northern California pros, legends, artists, and groms. Photographed in Santa Cruz, CA for Board Rescue More

Thought it was both interesting and cool to see that Yes Snowboards premiered their new film in Santiago, Chile. This act of paying homage to the snow scene in that country it reaffirmed my belief that we’ll start to see the North and South American markets migrate closer to one another. It will be increasingly difficult to ignore [...] More

I recently went through the daunting process of moving.  Aside from hauling all my worldly possessions upstairs to my new place, dealing with forwarding mail, setting up utilities and waiting through gaping “installation windows” (yea, I had nothing to do between 10am – 4pm…I’ll just wait for you cable dude…) is a total pain. Ironically, the same day that [...] More

This really isn’t surprising. I saw this coming, and the waves of young surfers in Latin America will be consistent in the years ahead… In one of the most important and biggest surf events of the year, the Brazilians were on fire to face the North-American waves, showing everyone that the new generation of 6.0 surfers from [...] More

With the Quiksilver Pro New York a couple months away, we roamed the streets of Manhattan to find out what real New Yorkers think about surfing in the Big Apple. Here’s what we found. This short video shows why the Quik Pro in New York has potential to change perceptions of urban dwellers…These were my thoughts when news broke [...] More

I’ve seen a few articles spring up lately discussing how social media is costing businesses big money each year in lost productivity.   Some articles estimate it’s upwards of $10,000 per employee, per year.  First off, this struck me as funny, since social media is such a large part of what I do.  In my case it’s literally my [...] More