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A beautiful long-term documentary project in a grimy East London skatepark

Mile End by Pani Paul — Photographer Pani Paul has spent three years skating and shooting with the diverse community at Mile End skatepark, a rare corner of gentrification-free London.

  • Photography
  • Shelley Jones

World leaders collaborate on pro-war charity Christmas single 'Bomb The World' (kinda)

A depressingly accurate spoof — Comedy group Mother's Best Child and online magazine Don't Panic team up to a produce a video that exposes warmongering politicians and token festive philanthropy in one swoop.

  • Music
  • Shelley Jones

A pop culture professor considers Middle East metal in the wake of the Paris Attacks

Dr Gerd Bayer on rebel youth — Metal music culture represents much of what ISIS hate. It's also kind of similar. An academic shares some thoughts on the new countercultures of the Middle East.

  • Music
  • Shelley Jones

Into The Deep with Finland's Greatest Freediver

Finlandia x Huck — He’s almost 50, he's got asthma, he’s about 235 pounds, and he's also a world-class athlete. Meet 'Kraken', the sea monster – a Finnish freediver who only realised he had the makings of a national champion in his late 30s.

  • Film
  • Shelley Jones

The world's best photographers share their most intimate images

Magnum: Up Close and Personal — Magnum Photos release 68 prints from their incredible roster of artists, on sale for just $100 each, contemplating the idea of intimacy.

  • Photography
  • Shelley Jones

A personal interview with Jonathan Shaw: writer, tattooist, hellraiser & 'anti-hero of the new age'

A Curious Student of Life — Jonathan Shaw travelled the world and left a red-hot mark on the people and places he encountered, but the real adventure, he insists, is the one you start when you get back home.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

Pussy Riot help bring horrors of Calais' Jungle refugee camp to a London art space

Connor Brothers: So It Goes — A new installation by British art duo The Connor Brothers sees them collaborating with Pussy Riot to channel the horrors of Calais' 'Jungle' refugee camp into a London gallery.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

The world’s most unusual watermen and women: Watch our new 4-part doc series

Finlandia x Huck presents… Journey From The Source — Get ready to meet ‘Kraken, the sea monster’ – a man who uses special breathing techniques to dive to record-breaking depths in the icy waters of Finland – and other amazing characters.

  • Film
  • Shelley Jones

Five things we learnt from Mark Gonzales' revealing Monster Children interview

Video: Longform — The most interesting man in skateboarding talks about eating cats at night, skating his son through Soho on a makeshift throne, and a period of excessive spending in Japan.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

Paris Pedal: a cyclist’s view of the City of Light

Climbs, camaraderie and cobbles — Parisian architect Amelie Bonnet Villalonga describes her idyllic commute and the city’s vibrant cycling community, in our latest story from The Commuter Journal – a cycling paper made by Huck and Levi’s® Commuter™.

  • Culture
  • Shelley Jones

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