How did you get into skating?Grew up next to a skatepark in Ventspils, Latvia! Tried inline, skate and bmx and stuck with skating! Who were your first sponsors?Local skateshops in Riga – Champion & Boards. lv would give me element boards and es shoes! How’d you go pro?Skateboarding a lot,
Skateboarding video content is difficult to typologise, is it B-roll film, Cinema proper, YouTube content, or a Deluezian multimedia nomadic “assemblage”? Given its recent addition to the cultural landscape, and relatively minimal academic treatment thus far, I attempt to analyse skateboarding film in its style, form, and as a system
By Toby Brockelbank & Mykhaylo Tevkun Stake and Destroy Most of the reason I was stoked on this job was to write about the skate scene, share cool shit I thought was going down in our world of grinds and flips, and convince at least one of you readers to
There seems to be this misconception among cinema enjoyers that they could never make a film. They haven’t seen every arthouse film, have never studied media, don’t have a camera, mic, lighting set up, or friends who can act. You need none of that. You need a phone and a
This issue contains plenty of discussion on crime itself, its social and political foundation, and even its distortion into entertainment, but very little on its consequences. Aotearoa has 18 prisons. Under a Labour Government, our prison population dropped more than 25%, however under our right-wing coalition, has exceeded 10,000 inmates
Noah: A few mates making documentaries on things we’re interested in. Noah: Louis and I met at uni. Gryffin’s my cousin. Louis: We were all helping out at 95bFM and John Campbell came in one evening to give a talk. He told everyone off for only speaking with pundits, politicians
1. What inspired your art for this issue? My art is almost always inspired by what I’m listening to when I make it which is fitting for this issue haha. I was listening to a lot of Vocaloid while doing the cover and less digital sounding music when I
We can all picture a geek, no matter how inaccurate the caricature might be. The archetype has persisted, pimple faced and spectacled, through the public consciousness. But when you look outside… WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE GEEKS? We put out a question asking people if they consider themselves geeks, which
Ever lived in a trap house? Now you don’t need to. I am proud of this incredibly original and unique idea of humanising drugs, unless you’ve seen college humour or sausage party, in which case I’ve done it better. We’ve all had that flatmate, but now you’ll know how much
Prescription Abuse and The Pharmaceutical Black Market Unlike most of our writers who spend their time writing on Substack or Wattpad, turns out someone had a friend outside of our writer’s room. Some friends have different struggles to you, and some struggles have more stigma, consequences, and are harder, if
