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A desert sunrise helped everything make sense for surfer Kassia Meador

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Kassia Meador shares how she found fulfilment and happiness in the California desert, by letting go of the idea that she should have only one career.

Written by: Huck HQ / Alex King

Culture

Love and heroin addiction in NYC laid bare in Heaven Knows What

Director Q&A — Without a series of cosmic coincidences, gritty indie feature Heaven Knows What would never have come together, explains director Josh Safdie.

Written by: Robin Nierynck

Music

Brother Ali: The Muslim covert albino rapper

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, rapper Brother Ali discusses how hip hop became a portal to a new faith, and how that faith is now his focus.

Written by: Huck HQ / Adam Woodward

Art

Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bundick wants to make approachable art

Yours Truly Creative — Chaz Bundick talks art, design and the value of simplicity in a short doc from the newly relaunched Yours Truly.

Written by: Robin Nierynck

Opinion

What can Rachel Dolezal teach us about identity politics in America?

Black/white/other — In the wake of the Rachel Dolezal media extravaganza, Tetsuhiko Endo points back at the real issue: that “authentic” racial identity is a myth.

Written by: Tetsuhiko Endo

Top Picks

How much can you learn about a skater in 90 seconds?

KR3W’s CASE // STUDY series — KR3W launch a new video series CASE // STUDY that examines the style each of their pro riders in just a minute and half.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Film

Step into the world's smallest museum

Prison tattoo guns, Fake IDs and bullet-proof backpacks — New York City’s Mmuseumm helps visitors make sense of the madness of modern society through its curated selection of cultural ephemera.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Culture

This American Life's Stephanie Foo landed her dream job by embracing failure

Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Stephanie Foo tells how she got her dream job - as a producer at This American Life - by being really good at failing.

Written by: Andrea Kurland

Activism

Five things we learned from London’s anti-austerity march

National Demonstration Against Austerity — From Athens to Andalucia, growing numbers of Europeans are taking a stand against austerity. Here’s what we learned from the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets on Saturday to protest the new UK government’s policy of cuts and privatisations.

Written by: Robin Nierynck

Things that inspire me

Kamasi Washington shares his influences and inspirations

Things That Inspire Me — Street Fighter to Stravinsky and African street parties helped inspire South Central saxophonist-composer Kamasi Washington’s debut LP The Epic.

Written by: Alex King

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