Moto Tasha
International motorcycle journalist and enthusiast Natasha Paz, or Moto Tasha as she's known to the world, is a badass. Starting out riding for relaxation on her weekends off from the army, her hobby has become... Read More...
Flash Camp: Camping Adventure & Luxury Hotel In One!
Camping is undeniably one of the most awesome things ever.
When I was a kid, camping with my dad was always on the more extreme end of "roughing it". According to dad, tents were an unnecessary indulgence. M... Read More...
Transforming Sk8 to surf with Waterborne Skateboards
Imagine for a moment that you like really liked golf. Then imagine that golf courses are only grassy and perfectly smooth for like 3 hours, once every two weeks, at totally random times. The rest of the time ... Read More...
The Gospel of Tropical Jesus
Tropical Jesus. Man of Mystery. Eater of Nuggets. Rider of Motorcycles. Grower of Beards. Taker of Photos. Spanker of Buttocks. Soon to be, Opener of Restaurants. Whatever title you know him by, Joannes De Vinc... Read More...
Extreme Pogo Legend Ryan O’Malley
I have a confession. Growing up I was the token dorky kid that you find in every high school who rode unicycles instead of throwing footballs, who walked on stilts instead of having muscles and basically did ot... Read More...
Hannah Ozment’s Feathered Dragons
Thousands of years before guns, before camo gear and scopes, before laser guidance systems and weaponised drones, there was falconry.
Unless you're Hannah...
Falconry is the training of birds of prey to hu... Read More...
Joel Craddock & TwoSix9: Ethical Threads to Wrap Round Your Body
Be very careful around Joel Craddock. He is one of the most dangerous dudes you'll ever meet. Passionate. Smart. Charismatic. Driven. Sincere. Does shit.
He's the kind of guy that you innocently jump into a ho... Read More...
Jessica Hocking; Travels, Tacos & Mexican Earthquakes
Jess Hocking is a splendid example of someone who bravely let their passions and skillz guide the thoughtful construction of her ideal life. She manages to cleverly stitch together her love of travel and advent... Read More...
Getting Deep with Jordan Robins
Jordan Robins combines his passion for the ocean, his love for photography, and the natural wonders of the seaside paradise where he grew up, to capture some truly spectacular images. But getting the shots he g... Read More...
Hunt Skateboards + DSM
We have a mad crush on Hunt Skateboards. There, we said it. Just look at 'em; all colourful and slick and pretty, how can you NOT?! And the more we get to know about the brand behind those pretty decks, the mor... Read More...
Calumn Hockey: The Man Who Can’t Sit Still
We like Calumn lots. He's not the world's most famous adventure photographer. He's not the first man to climb some huge mountain in nothing but his undies, nor did he find sunken treasure on a lost Colombian r... Read More...
Clive Roddy, Designer and Maker
Most of us spend way more time than we want slaving away at shitty jobs to make 💰. Then after we've spent the best hours of the day working for said 💵, most of shit you can spend your hard-earned dolleridoos on... Read More...
The Record Company
I found a vinyl of The Record Company a couple of years ago in some minuscule record store in Silverlake, Los Angeles. I fell instantly in love. Raw and righteous bluesy rock, the likes of which are rarely he... Read More...
Alyce & George’s Beautiful Kombi Family
Most of us aren't lucky clever enough to figure out how to combine the things we love most in life and a job to pay those pesky ol' bills. But Alyce and George Gorgievski have been able do just that with their ... Read More...
Will + Bear + DSM
Since our ancient ancestors first climbed down out of nice shady trees and started walking around on their hind legs, people have needed hats. Alternatively, since the Lord, in his infinite wisdom, failed to pr... Read More...
Maddie Jones: Doin’ What She Wants.
Maddie Jones is in Mammoth, California. Probably. Or Death Valley. Or some other place with an equally badass name, it's difficult to keep up. Maddie's life is spent chasing snow around the world with the inten... Read More...
He’s Got the World in Stitches: Sam Barsky Knits His Life
Oh boy! We knew 2017 was going to be good for inspiring us to do the shit we love, but we never thought it would start THIS good!
Meet Sam Barsky. Sam knits. But he doesn't just knit your normal awesome itchy ... Read More...
Lucky Chance
In a world increasingly governed by fear, rules and pressure to conform, a world where we are bombarded by wave after wave of distraction from the beauty of the moment, Lucky Chance stood against the incoming t... Read More...
The Man with the Golden Hands: Zachariah Norton
By Daryl Jones
I skated to town today to get a coffee and use the café’s wifi to do boring shit like my overdue tax, pay a few fines and crunch some numbers like a responsible adult. But halfway there I spie... Read More...
The Street Art Walk: Australia’s Biggest Outdoor Gallery!
Ever carve a hilarious dick and balls into your desk at school? Scribble that you were 'ere on the local play equipment? Then you totally get how fun it is to publicly express yourself through street art…... Read More...
Raskal
There ain’t much cool shit Crille Rask can’t do. This nomadic adventurer hailing from “Planet Europe”, via a “rough and random” childhood split between Sweden and Portugal, has found his home on surf, skate and... Read More...
Walking the Line with Chris Wallace
Feature image by Marcus Boyd, letters by Daryl Jones.
Chris Wallace does amazingly cool shit. He's barely even an adult human being, but I bet ya that in the last two weeks he's done more scary activities than... Read More...
Aidan Marshall – The Boy Who Lived
Words by Daryl Jones, additional photos by Jack Burgess
Unnaturally good looking. Pale skin. A devilish grin and almost hypnotic charm that makes ladies swoon. Extremely intelligent and wise beyond his years. ... Read More...
Mystery Stone Monuments Discovered in New Zealand
By Daryl Jones
New Zealand's North Island is criss-crossed by wide rivers that have carved massive stony channels out of the rugged mountainous landscape.
... Read More...
Hayley Welsh + Andy Faraday = Magic
Hayley Welsh is an amazing artist and illustrator who paints whimsical, surreal creatures on random objects she finds in her travels. Her partner, Andy Faraday, is a kickass photographer, who shoots mainl... Read More...
Smug
By Daryl Jones
Fucking with a kids lego® is akin to keying a dudes car, and is widely known in boylaw as an unforgivable offence.
When I was a youngster I was an expert Lego® spaceship builder, and al... Read More...
Top Tips for (mildly) Poor People
By Daryl Jones and secret special guest contributor, 'Deep-Pockets'.
Somehow, I almost always have too much month left at the end of my money. Over the years, most of my friends and I have been kinda poor. I'm... Read More...
Robert DeLong’s Top 3’s
If you claim to be a music-lover and have not yet seen Robert DeLong perform, we're notifying the police immediately to have you arrested for '1st Degree Ear-Neglect'.
That's an offence we invented just now to... Read More...
Aussie Fly Fisher: Joshy Hutchins
Joshua Hutchins is a master of an ancient and beautiful art. This deadly pastime, once crucial for the very survival of our species, takes him deep into some of the most wild, rugged and extreme environments on... Read More...
The Life of an Extra
I’m waiting. It’s 7am. Two and a half hours in and counting. It’s cold. I taste sunblock. Costume is itchy. Instant coffee burned my tongue. My underwear is being stapled to my shorts by a stranger. Tom Cruise ... Read More...
J.Pierce: Rags to Britches
The art of J.Pierce makes your eyeballs feel like your tongue does when you dump a whole packet of Skittles™ in your mouth. Whether hanging in a fancy art gallery or on the front of some dude's shirt, his bold,... Read More...
Hanecdote
Hanah Hill, AKA Hanecdote, is responsible for creating a bunch of suuuuuper cute handmade stuff. Her 'Ghoul Guide' patches are beloved the world over for their uncanny ability to spread happiness and hope throu... Read More...
Tuft
I saw Tuft* by accident. I'd had a shitty day and I was tired, but some lovely friends managed to coax me out reluctantly into the warm LA night. So I found myself in a rough little bar that looked like it had ... Read More...
Stacey Te Huia: The Shearer.
Stacey Te Huia shears sheeps sheep. In fact, he's one of the best shearers in the world, which basically means he's the toughest guy you'll ever meet. Competing in World Record Shearing has been compared to run... Read More...
THE ASTON SHUFFLE: MENTORS FOR ‘BUDWEISER MADE FOR MUSIC’ LAUNCH
Did you ever sit alone in your bedroom and imagine you were a super famous musician, making up songs, playing to huge imaginary crowds at shows around the world, while people with your preferred body parts thre... Read More...
Kynan and Cara Rock the Kashgar
Do Shit Magazine Travel Reporter Kynan Elliot is currently somewhere in China, we think. He and his gf Cara Henderson are covering huge distances, tracing ancient trade routes and witnessing first-hand the hear... Read More...
Drink Water
Austin Smith and Bryan Fox really like snowboarding, and are super good at it. And nowadays, how it works is, when you get really good at something, people want to use you as a kind of super-powerful-mobile-bil... Read More...
Matt Horspool’s Life on the Road
Matthew Horspool is basically a DSM Reporter's dream. He's the kind of guy we stare off into space fantasising about, sighing and thinking about how easy our job would be if we could find an adventurer like him... Read More...
Stegosaurus Discovered in Cambodia
Words by Daryl Jones. Pictures by Jonathan Dallimore.
Me and my mates toats discovered an actual real dinosaur, carved into an ancient temple, in the deep dark cambodian jungle. The epic-jungly-temple-bits of ... Read More...
Callum Watson: Stabbed and Still Skiing
The shit Callum Watson loves to do is difficult. Really difficult. If you're passionate about almost anything other than Olympic Level Cross Country Skiing you're bloody lucky. Because for Callum, his passion m... Read More...
Adventures with Jamie
I’d been back in the country a few hours. My phone beeped. It was Jamie.
Fuck fruit baskets, that, friends, is how you welcome a man home.
... Read More...
The Amazing World of Julie Filipenko
We live in a time where most of the art we see is no longer hung in galleries, but flicked past with an index finger in a newsfeed on a tiny glowing screen. When you see the pictures Julie Filipenko makes, the ... Read More...
Jai Al-Attas: Launching ‘Loqules’
From a 10 year old boy hustling unsuspecting adults for pizza money, to teenage record label exec, to documentary film maker, to revolutionising the way travellers explore the world, Jai Al-Attas does the shi... Read More...
Off the Road with Nathan Weissel
By DSM Reporter Daryl Jones, Expert Navigator for car 607, with Driver Nathan Weissel.
I’m in in a tiny metal cage. Airborn without wings. Slow motion. My collarbones and testicles strain paintfully against th... Read More...
Exploring China’s Ghost City
With DSM Travel Correspondent, Kynan Elliot.
Kynan and his gf Cara are on a really big trip. They went to university for ages, worked as Primary School teachers for a year or so and saved up as much do$h as po... Read More...
Preston Pollard
Words By Daryl Jones, Feature Images By Michael Davello
Pro Skater. TV Presenter. Motivational Speaker. Actor. Model. Youth Worker. Alaskan. Ridiclously Nice Dude.
Preston Pollard is many things. But the... Read More...
Tigermonkey: The World Thumb Wrestling Champion.
Obi-Thumb Kenobi. Graeme 'Flash' Cunningham. Big Didgit. Thumbderbird. Jack the Gripper. Unless you're a hard-core Thumb Wrestler Groupie, or 'Finger', as they're known, you probably don't know these names. You... Read More...
Amazing Grace
Words by Daryl Jones
Grace and I used to to paddle kayaks together every week, back before she was a famous motivational speaker, yacht racer and adventurer. We originally planned to do this interview while in... Read More...
Matty Deck & his Sexy White Thighs
Turns out, the interesting, passionate people we talk to here at Do Shit Magazine, know all the other interesting, passionate people in the whole entire world. With like one degree of separation. So wheneve... Read More...
How to be a stand-up comedian.
With DSM Reporter/comedy virgin Daryl Jones, and sage advice from comic master Wil Anderson.
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Staring up at the empty stage. There are fake bricks stuck to the back wall. My pal... Read More...
Lizzie Sharp: Body of Work
Photography by Peter Coulston, Words by Daryl Jones.
I was an extra on this big movie, and there were literally hundreds and hundreds of us. So there were like 20 makeup people in charge of getting all of us r... Read More...
Hugh Harrison has DeeJaa-Vu
Hugh Harrison, AKA electronic music producer/DJ, DeeJaa-Vu, is barely old enough to get into the rooms he's filling. But this annoyingly talented whippersnapper is ripping his way into the highly competitive Au... Read More...
James ⟸ & His Rusty Shutter
James Arrow is passionate about making moving pictures. Most people are passionate about something; something they love and could talk about for hours while their family and friends doze off nod politely. Yet ... Read More...
Everyone should be Xave Koen.
I wish everyone was Xave Koen. I don't know how the citizens of Xavetopia would reproduce exactly, but feel free to use your imaginations. Or photoshop. I choose to believe that a new little baby Xave would gr... Read More...
How to Make it to the Top* in Hollywood
*Of the hill. With the big letters on it. Without getting arrested.
So it turns out that going to the Hollywood sign is totally illegal.
This came as a surprise to me. The first I heard of it was via a se... Read More...
Fun Machine
Fun Machine live up to their name WAY more than most bands. Radiohead: disappointingly human heads. The Flaming Lips: normal non-flammable facial features. Barenaked Ladies: clothed men. Machine Gun Fellatio: ... Read More...
Li Pawson
Everyone belongs somewhere. If you're lucky, as you grow up you can find that little niche, that subculture where you feel you feel like you truly fit. The teen years are so entertaining because that's where ... Read More...
Jacob Blunt, Virtually Falling off a Cliff…
Yesterday I went on a trip to Malibu and accidentally met a man named Jacob Blunt. People go on about the place, and apparently a bunch of super rich and famous people live there, so I thought I'd check it out.... Read More...
Ruby Rain: F O E P A H
Graffiti is illegal. It costs us honest taxpayers trillions every year to clean up and only bad people do it. One such bad person is Ruby Rain, perhaps better known by her alias 'FOEPAH'. Ruby is a 19 year ol... Read More...
London’s Hidden Magicians…
London is an excellent place to aimlessly wander.
Hidden amongst the touristy shit, absurd red busses and surveillance cameras there still lurks some old-world mystery and shadow. DSM braved the drizzle and w... Read More...
Maree Clout: Jervis Bay Through Her Eyes…
There are certain places in the world that posses the kind of beauty that words will always fail to adequately describe. Which is why George Theodore Photograph invented the camera in 1756. Unfortunately for ... Read More...
Salvation Mountain
Words: Daryl Jones. Pictures: Thomas Druitt.
Deep in the Californian desert, perched like a lost parrot on Mexico's shoulder, sits Salvation Mountain.
This absurdly gorgeous spiritual monument was painstaki... Read More...
The Delta Riggs Talk Shit: “Take that Lorde…”
By Daryl Jones.
When I was about 13 I was an illegal arms dealer. I would make bows out of willow branches, whittle up arrows and glue real feathers on one end and make sharp little metal tips for the other... Read More...
My Corey Riot
Ryan Le Bon's brother Corey passed away in November 2011. He had an aneuryism on the aorta of his heart and it ruptured, after years of battling numerous super-f**ked-up health problems. Ryan is a k... Read More...
Hello Hummingbird + Miss Street Inspired feat. DSM
Head to DSM on Facebook now for your chance to win custom resin jewellery by Hello Hummingbird!... Read More...
Cub Mac: From Kissing Sheep to Losing Sleep.
Under the scorching light of the Australian outback sun, two golden skinned, scrawny boys dragged a sodden, lifeless sheep up the muddy riverbank.
"You pump the heart!" The younger cousin panted, stooping with... Read More...