ISSUE 008

Original Maui Mai Tai

With tasting notes of Hawaii, airline memorabilia, how a skater captured the zeitgeist (and Frank Ocean), a gorgeous Sausalito home, and the latest in audiophile developments.

The good life beckons once more!

Hot Hyperlinks

☼ A stunning stone house in Turkey

☼ Visit the Virtual Pan Am Museum, logging everything from vintage baggage tags to air sick bags to 1980s employees and customers

☼ The original "Just Do It" ad in 1988 that spawned decades of iconic Nike marketing

☼ With iOS 16's background removal, document all your outfits from within Notes app

☼ Our Vacation® "Classic Whip" whipped cream sunscreen (30% off for our Pool & Exec members)

☼ Symbol is pioneering audio storage that "looks as good as your music sounds"

☼ The Chinese library with a roof pool that lets you walk on water

☼ 11 highlights from this year's BFI Film Festival in London, and a tribute to "cinema's North Star" Jean-Luc Godard

☼ Why do more than 2,000 pairs of twins flock to an Ohio town?

☼ Byredo teams up with Ojas to create a new sensory experience — a fragrance diffuser for audiophiles

☼ Maria Sharapova's beachside Japanese inspired home with a basement bowling alley

☼ Leading the charge in unique Airbnbs, this Bedouin Cave lets you sleep inside the lost city of Petra

SUMMER-ENHANCING PEOPLE

The Pink Buzzcut: Evan Mock

Though Evan Mock may be known most recently for his role portraying Aki Menzies in the Gossip Girl reboot on HBO Max, it was none other than Frank Ocean who initially catapulted the Oahu-born skater and surfer into the spotlight, unbeknownst to Mock at the time who he was speaking to.

Coaxed by artist friend Tom Sachs to say hello to Frank in a video because of his "cool hair", now the quintessentially Evan Mock pink buzzcut, Ocean reposted the video and the rest swiftly became history. Mock woke up with thousands of followers and a warm embrace from the fashion community.

From the tight-knit surf and skate scene in Hawaii, the free-spirited Mock has racked up a host of accolades, from starring in Calvin Klein campaigns to walking for Louis Vuitton and shredding in their first skate shoe to a global partnership with Pandora amongst collaborations with Balmain and photographing Travis Scott's Astroworld tour.

Mock attributes the rigour of his skating roots as one of the reasons why he's able to traverse so many disciplines including acting, modeling, photography and design, having recently launched his own line Wahine, local slang for a girl who skates or surfs. The garments are an homage to Hawaii, particularly its women.

On being effortlessly cool and naturally multidisciplinary, Mock shares that “I feel like skate culture kind of controls every culture. If you think about cool kids, every cool kid is a fucking skater and looks good, it functions as a platform to get into other industries.”

While skating, fashion and acting take current precedence, the future could hold anything for Mock, drawing inspiration and motivation from multiple forms around him.

He explains: "I get inspired pretty easily and I watch a lot of documentaries, a lot of films about people and their lives. So I get inspired to see how hard they work to get where they are now 一 which fires me up to do the things that I do every day and push and I keep working towards a goal, whatever it may be."

In the words of Evan, "Being an icon means creating your own path and sharing it with the world."

SUMMER-ENHANCING VEHICLES

EXHIBIT A: Maturo's Lancia Delta Integrale • EXHIBIT B: 1972 Ford Bronco in Green & Cream • EXHIBIT C: 1987 BMW M6

SUMMER-ENHANCING PLACES

Another Day in the Bay: CANDYLAND

SUMMER-ENHANCING PARTIES

The Barcelona EDITION: Cabaret

BARCELONA 🇪🇸 October 1st 2022

Join us for the next in our series of worldwide soirées (see: New York, London, Ibiza). With modern disco legend TENSNAKE, we'll be taking over the Barcelona EDITION, designed by the former co-owner of Studio 64 and "father of boutique hotels" Ian Schrager.

TICKETS

Available now here

Esteemed Executive & Pool Member NFT holders can claim their complimentary ticket here

Get in the mood by listening to Tensnake’s recent Poolsuite mixtape and looking forward to catching you on the dance floor on October 1st!

JOIN US

🌴 Tune in to our ultra-summer radio, Poolsuite FM, on iPhone & web

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🌴 Say hey, or send us leisurely content you’ve discovered: hi@palm.report