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Vincent Stanley

Five Thoughts — Writer, environmentalist and Patagonia's longest-serving employee, Vincent Stanley, shares some of his wisdom on our shared responsibility to nature.

  • Culture
  • D'Arcy Doran

Joel Rice

Contest — Joel Rice is a skateboarder and journalist who writes FLIP, a skate-related column for McSweeney's featuring in-depth interviews with everyone from Thrasher editor Michael Burnett and that video-game guy Tony Hawk to professional colourer-inner Ed Templeton. This short story is an experimental piece of factual fiction, inspired by events that may or may not have happened, about a day in the life of a skateboarding hack.

  • Skate
  • Joel Rice

Beauty Obsession

The Ugly Truth — So-called 'empowering beauty' campaigns by cosmetics companies aimed at women only reinforce an ugly obsession with appearance.

  • Opinion
  • Tetsuhiko Endo

Grant Petersen

Buck The Race! — Bicycle guru Grant Petersen is flipping the middle finger at racing culture and reviving the lost art of cycling for fun.

  • Bike
  • Tetsuhiko Endo

Full Backing

Legit & The New Self-Regard — Why nothing or no one can be cool anymore, but we can all pray to be 'legit'.

  • Opinion
  • Niall Neeson

Team Brainwash

No Morals, Just Victory — Does the culture of competitive sports mean young people are being brainwashed by an idea of winning at all costs?

  • Opinion
  • Tetsuhiko Endo

Esquire Women

Purely Ornamental — The objectification of women by magazines like Esquire and Cosmopolitan is just another extension of the rampant consumerist lifestyle they promote.

  • Opinion
  • Tetsuhiko Endo

Elephants

In The Room — Outrage in Western media over the slaughter of elephants in Africa ignores the very serious socio-economic and development problems that cause it.

  • Opinion
  • Tetsuhiko Endo

Cara Delevingne

The Birth of Wacky Chic — How eyebrows, onesies and funny faces shook-up the world of the perfect, silent pout.

  • Culture
  • Tetsuhiko Endo

Skateboarding

& The Cult of The Hipster — Kingpin magazine founder Niall Neeson shows how to upset an entire youth culture by pointing out what is hiding in plain sight: skateboarding created the hipster.

  • Opinion
  • Niall Neeson

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