Jeff Duke

Keep dreaming baby. From the Australia archives ‘17.

Have you found a silver lining? The last year has been pretty mental for me and @llsupply - in a good way. But it came at the cost of some of my passions. Opening a store, partnering with MEC, hiring staff, it was a wild and fast ride. I worked harder than I ever have and suddenly the rug gets pulled. But taking a step back has its benefits sometimes. Reevaluating what’s important and where you want to go. I barely shot this year, apart from on trips and it’s something I miss.... More time being the lens this year I think, less behind a desk.

Off the bottom @lachyreef Distant memories of distant shores.

Old boy. Bailed you out of jail (before you went). I nearly got you shot.... You nearly got me drowned. I got you fired. 6 countries (I can think of.) Tens of thousands of kilometres clocked. One courtroom trip. At least 100 bars, 95 of which you were forcibly removed from. The list goes on... Racked up a books worth of stories that hopefully never end up in a book. Hell of decade. To many more.

Now more than ever I think it’s clear that we’re all connected and something effecting people in one part of the world ultimately and eventually effects us all. Same goes for waste. This bottle was found in one of our @llsupply beach clean ups on Northern Vancouver Island. If you’ve been to Indo you’ll recognize it. It’s a brand if water bottle from South East Asia that was carried here via the Pacific Ocean. A small sign of a much larger interconnectedness of our planet.

A little quarantine fun tonight. @alleboballe as live as can be tonight at 7pm on @llsupply. Crank up the Bluetooth, pour a @whistlebuoybrewing beer and tune it to tune out. hope to see ya all there. #llsupply

The things I would do for a moment like this right now.

Some of you may feel like you’re underwater right now. Particularly if you’re fearing the loss of your job, business or worst of all family. It can be hell scary. Your first instinct is to freak out and try to get to the surface. But sometimes on a bad hold down, that is out of your control in the short term. After a handful of times being forced to spend longer than you’re comfortable with underwater, you realize the only way to stay down as long as you need to is to be calm.... Let it take you, relax, think of somewhere else and wait. Most importantly, remember you will always come up. Fear can be productive, panic is not. If you’re underwater right now. I’m with you. Hang in there, stay calm. We will come up. #llsupply #covid_19

If you have the financial means, it’s maybe more important than ever to support the local businesses you care about. We’re trying to do our part to flatten the curve. In a week many people have seen their businesses essentially come to a halt across the country. Stay home, stay safe and if you’re able continue to support your favourite places online - for many of us, it’ll be the difference between being here when this is done or not.

Dubai was eye opening... and wallet opening. Hands down one of my favourite parts was the local Souk in Bar Dubai. - Chanelle laughs when I tell people I loved Sharjah the most. It’s like saying you went to Toronto and really fell in love with some obscure industrial town outside the suburbs. - With buildings dating back to 1850 this place was the polar opposite of downtown Dubai. We cruised across the river on a rotting boat that cost something like 2 cents -wandered the backstreets of the spice and textile markets and ducked through doorways that almost don’t seem like they could have possibly been built for humans. I won’t remember the $30 cocktails in ten years - I’m already trying to forget those, but I will remember this place. #lifestyleoverluxury

We woke up at 5am to drive to an abandoned airfield in the desert. We’d rented a car the night before and arrived as the sun just began to break the fog. We turned a blind eye to the no trespassing and no photography signs and snuck in to snap a few photos. We weren’t sly enough though and we were kicked out within ten minutes of arrival. - We were bummed. Chan wanted to climb inside the old Russian cargo plane there and even after we were escorted off the premises, she was s...truggling with taking no for an answer. Driving back a little defeated, I whipped off the highway and down a dirt lane into the desert. - The most incredible sun rise came over the wind whipped dunes and I think she forgot about her Russian cargo plane pretty quickly. #lifestyleoverluxury See more

Dubai is surreal, it’s like stepping into a movie that begins with a small ominous subtitle, ‘in the year 2096.’ Where the disparity between rich and poor is at an unprecedented level and you, the main character, have somehow stepped from one side to the other. From the moment you board the plane and a overly calm English female voice, so perfect it borders computer generated, sells you on multi-million dollar condos. Homes that are apparently the, ‘key to a happy and prosper...ous future.’ To the moment you step into airport customs and feel dwarfed by the 100 ft ceilings, marble floors and gold plated pillars. The city doesn’t seem real. It’s astonishingly clean, no homeless, no old buildings, no sign of anything that doesn’t fit the mould of lavish perfection. It’s intoxicating, the contrast to what I know as real life. I sit here typing this, listening to the 5am call to prayer and the intermittent roaring crackle of sports car engines pulling onto the highway. It’s completely different to how I imagined. It’s completely different to what I value. But I love it. I love it because it has such a unique and unparalleled character. Something I’ve never experienced. And that’s what travelling is all about isn’t it, finding, appreciating and absorbing something wholly new to you - even if it’s just for a fleeting moment. #lifestyleoverluxury

24 hours of flying ‘til I’m back hanging out with this gal. See ya soon Dubai #lifestyleoverluxury