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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

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

Brian Lotti

The Unfolding Landscape — Pioneering street shredder and impressionist painter Brian Lotti is switching up the way we see skate.

  • Art
  • Niall Neeson

Mark Gonzales Paints

Finishing Touches — A homemade video by The Gonz of him painting a new piece of art.

  • Culture
  • HUCK HQ

Billy Ruff

Making It In Skate — Billy Ruff was one of the best vert skateboarders of the 1980s. And he puts it down to hard work.

  • Skate
  • Ollie Pelling

Jeremie Daclin

Keeping It European — French skateboarder Jeremie Daclin created an antidote to California cool.

  • Skate
  • Ed Andrews

Mark Gonzales Art

One Week, One Show — Artwork from the pop-up exhibition, One Week, One Show, by the renowned skate legend and artist Mark Gonzales.

  • Art
  • HUCK HQ

Jocko Weyland

‘Zines, ‘Zines, ‘Zines — Artist, writer and skateboarder Jocko Weyland is still championing the art of the Xerox machine.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

The Gonz & Jocko Weyland

The DIY Interview — In true DIY style, Mark Gonzales interviews artist, writer and long-time skate buddy, Jocko Weyland.

  • Film
  • HUCK HQ

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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