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Video: Life as an illegal tattoo artist in Havana

One foot forward... — A free-market economy is transforming Cuba... but one skateboarder feels torn over his country's changing identity.

  • Film
  • HUCK HQ

Theft or inspiration: How musicians fight accusations of plagarism

The Song Remains… Similar? — From the six-second rule to the 'common source' defence, musicians have found all sorts of ways to fight off accusations of thievery. Ahead of Led Zeppelin's trial for copyright impingement next month, this is a song-by-song illustration of the loopholes that can make or break artists.

  • Music
  • HUCK HQ

Video: Skating through a waterpark on lockdown

Quarter pipes on the water pipes — What do you do when it’s time to drain a waterpark of hundreds of thousands of litres of water and shut it down for maintenance? Invite three world-class skateboarders in for some epic dry runs and slides, of course.

  • Skate
  • HUCK HQ

The best new surf and skate films

As chosen by Hamburg’s surf community — SoCal skate docs collide with North Sea DIY surf movies at Nord Nordwest Surf Film Fest, Hamburg. Here are the festival favourites.

  • Surf
  • HUCK HQ

Boots on the Ground: Volunteers of the Refugee Crisis

Helping refugees at Europe's frontier — Volunteers have stepped in to fill gaps where the international community has failed to avert a humanitarian disaster.

  • Film
  • HUCK HQ

Artists respond to the Brussels terror attacks

U.N.I.T.Y. — After Brussels is hit by coordinated terrorist bombings, illustrators and artists around the world share their responses.

  • Culture
  • HUCK HQ

Does Slayer have the most diehard fans in the world?

Stories of life-long obsession — As Slayer release a gruesome new music video, thirty-five years after they first formed, Huck goes in search of the diehard fans who have signed up for life.

  • Music
  • HUCK HQ

Video: A culture-shocked tour of Japan by skateboard

Lost in Translation — Skaters Ishod Wair, Peter Ramondetta, Raven Tershy and Kevin Terpening rip through three Japanese cities with little sleep and plenty of confusion.

  • Skate
  • HUCK HQ

Video: Surfing icon Derek Hynd on embracing the wave philosophically

Escaping into a pure source — A new documentary short offers an intimate portrait of one surfer's free-spirited approach to feeling at one with the sea.

  • Surf
  • HUCK HQ

Mongolia’s skate scene is blowing up: here are the videos chronicling it

Embracing a post-Soviet world — The new generation of young Mongolians are the first to be raised outside of Soviet rule since 1924. In Issue 54 – The Defiance Issue, Huck met the Mongolian skate crew determined to change their country's culture for the better. Curated here is a playlist of short films and documentaries exploring the many young people breaking from traditional Mongolian convention.

  • Magazine
  • HUCK HQ

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