Ritual Grinds
by Paul O’Connor My big passion is nudging people to see skateboarding a little bit more mytho-poetically. Sure, riding on a board is fun and playful. It doesn’t have to be more. My answer is that this is precisely why it ‘is’ more. The fact that the object and intent of skateboarding is so ambiguous […]
America Has a Problem
Remember the massive peaceful Los Angeles ICE protests that went on in June? Because that shit has been STRIPPED from media. At though the protests in LA and several other states somehow seem to have vanished into thin air, this is not the case at all. Think, hundreds of people arrested, “deployment of national guard”, […]
SOUTH KOREA ABOLISHES PRIVATE ADOPTION AFTER ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS
Since 1955 around 170,000 South Korean children have been essentially exported to foreign countries for adoption. In March of this year, the South Korean government admitted responsibility for facilitating this exploitative industry. An investigation into human rights violations within these adoption agencies was launched by the South Korean government in 2022, leading to the admission […]
The Meaning of Skateboarding Film
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 of meaningful signs that reference […]
Editorial – Issue 19 2025
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 snap your tail into an […]
Sports Centre – Issue 18 2025
Amira Attempts to Understand Sport So, I am what one would call a self-proclaimed ‘couch potato’. I have done sports such as cricket and football (football not soccer you can fight me on that), but the majority of the time my exercise is centered around walking to the bus stop. Therefore, I thought I would […]
Editorial – Issue 18 2025
Holding the power of being your opening thoughts to this week’s issue, I am giving you a list of (some of) my favourite films and why you should most definitely watch them (after reading this issue): 1. Juno (2007) This is the best romcom ever, and don’t let the genre romcom scare you because it is […]
Nexus Breaks The News – Issue 18 2025
HURL HURRELL TO HELL Fonterra big boss – and I say big with zero exaggeration, look at the guy – Miles Hurrell made it clear that the cost of butter is not something he intends to do anything about… In long words, this means that Fonterra will continue to talk big chops about how the […]
Guess AI Scandal
A supermodel who dazzled the fashion world and landed in Vogue’s pages has been exposed as a total fake, created with artificial intelligence. The striking “woman” in a recent Guess advertisement was revealed, in obscure fine print, to be a digital invention—not a human at all. The move has triggered outcry from real models and […]
Homelessness in New Zealand 1 in 1000
The Salvation Army has released a report which has revealed that one in 1000 New Zealander’s are currently without any form of shelter. Other information included in the data has found that 14 in 1000 are living in what is considered uninhabitable housing and currently 57,000 women across the motu are homeless. No part of […]