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The Jamie Sterling Prize pack winner

Mike Quilliam — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:26:30 +0000

A few weeks back Surfer Magazine had a contest for some lucky reader to win a Mega prize pack from Jamie Sterlings sponsors. Well it seems that one of our boys on the east coast knows the winner and sent me over a picture of this lucky winner Bradford Andrews from Charleston. Bradford has enough wax for a lifetime of surfing and enough Red Bull for a month if hes anything like me.

ASR starts tomorrow

Mike Quilliam — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:55:10 +0000

ASR is tomorrow through Sunday in San Diego so for those of you that are attending lets see that Atwater Flag waving high throughout this show.

Atwaters US Open party at Beachfront 301

Mike Quilliam — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:13:47 +0000

On Saturday we took over Beachfront 301 on Main Street in Huntington Beach to bring Marc B to the masses once again and this time he brought along some friends. Cindy Santini came along to rock along with Kellen Malloy who destroyed it up there. And in between there was the owner of Peligroso tequila was there belting out some of the 90’s best rap songs. Marc B just swung by the office for a minute and I told him I wanted to have another show with him, Cindy, Kellen and the Peligroso owner somewhere around here after he gets back from Argentina. So be ready for it!!

The Dirty Heads Official video for “Lay Me Down”

Mike Quilliam — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:04:57 +0000

Jared sent over the video a few weeks back to give us a look at to what they had done down in Mexico a few weeks prior and to let us know that Atwater was all over the video. Well here is the official video from the Dirty Heads featuring Rome and Atwater.

The Dirty Heads – New Music – More Music Videos

DM2 in Canada

Mike Quilliam — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:14:15 +0000

We have been moving north the last couple of months into Canada and have been having some great success. Here is some shots from one of our latest accounts DM2. Check out that fixture above the door, that bad boy isn’t going anywhere, and just look at how everybody is so focused on it.

The New Atwater/Chris Mumma Poster!!!!

Mike Quilliam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:52:04 +0000

We keep telling our team to get out there and shoot with some quality photographers, well this is what happens when you listen. We just did another run of posters and did a couple thousand with Atwaters Chris Mumma. I was out back this afternoon setting up a little bank to curb next to the Atwater RV that we got parked behind the office and Chris rolled up with his girlfriend Ally. I thought what a perfect time to get Chris to sign some posters to hang up around town and specifically Wahoo’s. So below you can see how I made Chris feel like a celebrity and had him sign a few posters and snap a couple shots.

Next poster will be Isidro Vargas doing a Frontside Blunt down an 11 stair in Santa Ana, we discussed it yesterday.

Atwater brings the 1st ever straight razor shave booth to ASR

Mike Quilliam — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:50:48 +0000

So It has taken a bit of time to compile all the photos from this past ASR that we just finished a few weeks back but I think it was worth the wait. As many of you already know we had a barbershop set up on the floor of the show to do haircuts and straight razor shaves. Now for those of you out there that have not yet had a straight razor shave it is quite an experience. They wrap a steaming hot towel around your face to get the wiskers to stand at attention so its a smooth shave and let me tell you its smooth. Its a little weird at first but then when you come to the realization that these guys are professionals and they do this 40 times a day you kind of just sit back and relax.

We had our good friends Brent Ferris and AJ Henley come down and perform their skilled craft on the attendees of the show and with a never ending supply of people lined up to get cut it was quite a busy day for the two of them but they did it with a smile on their face the entire time.

So for those of you who didn’t get to stop by the booth this year hopefully we will have it going on next August as well and you can get your shave on then.

Brent even shaved heads

Dean went under the knife

The station

Jack Laird got a fresh looking cut

Trick photography

This stuff is legit

Wes Van Der Vort stepped in for a cut

BMB had me schedule him for 9:30am on day 2 of the show but since nobody was there at 9am I decided to get a little trim via the blade

Jesse Faen from Insight got the hot towel shave

I felt bad when I would take these shots of the guys getting the shaves because your natural reaction when someone puts a camera in your face is to smile except when your getting a straight razor shave because if you move while their shaving your throat there is a chance you could get cut

The hot towel was awesome

Sean Smith from SIMA

The Bear from what I believe was from the H-Street booth was roaming around the halls so I pulled him in for a quick cut

I dont think he thought we were serious but then the cape came out and he looked a bit concerned

Doog from Surf Expo is a busy guy and knows everybody at the trade shows so it was difficult for him to wait in the lounge for his shave while everybody he knew kept walking on by

Josh Hunter from Transworld was doing a little segment on the most amazing flare ever seen at a tradeshow.

The Von Zipper family was all over the place while their family member took a little off the top

I pulled this one off AJ’s facebook page and didn’t realize until I was resizing the photos that it has Brents name across his chest. Wingnut was the first in line to get a shave on Wed. I have been pumping him up on this for about 2 1/2 months now and I think he was pretty stoked on the outcome.

Brent cleaning up Wingnuts adams apple

Another shot of Dean getting cleaned up

AJ and Dean

The Bear and Luke Wessman from Luckys Tattoo Parlor

High and tight

Kainoa getting rid of his mop

Jim Shubin going under the blade while filming a segment for Playboy TV

Shubin

Shubins camera guy

I think this is my favorite picture out of the whole lot. It looks like Brent just made a mistake on the back of this guys head with the look on his face.

The crowds never stopped. AJ and Brent are ASR celebrities

The Dirty Heads and Atwater

Mike Quilliam — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:36:48 +0000

So if you were up this morning around 7am on your way into work or to the beach or maybe on the way home from an all night bender there is a strong possibility that you heard The Dirty Heads performing live on the Kevin and Bean Show this morning and if your familiar with the Kevin and Bean show you would know that they are quite selective as to who they invite to perform on their show. Anyway, Dustin and Jared were on their way over to the studio just about a half hour ago and they got to swing by to grab some gear on their way.

Dustin and Jared

Joe from Surfside Sports

Mike Quilliam — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:08:42 +0000

So we went down to the Agenda show last Friday and took a lap around. We got to see a bunch of folks over there showing their goods. Joe Edukas, the guy behind the guy was there rocking his Briggs hat in all its glory.

Happy Holidays!!!!

Mike Quilliam — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:02:07 +0000

Atwater wants to wish everyone a happy holiday and would like to thank everyone for their support over the last 4 years.