Ever heard of Skatin' Life? What about Perfect Transition, 540 or Skateboard Australia? Maybe Street Noise, Crank or ASM will sound more familiar?
These titles are all Australian skateboarding magazines that have come and gone over the past 35 years. James Turvey, a self-described skate archivist, collects all of them - along with Slam and plenty of other, more obscure 'zines - in the interest of preserving the print media that charts Australia's skateboarding history. James is 40 - now one of the older heads in the Newcastle scene - but he's not some bitter old man who's trying to live in the past. I'd describe him as a passionate skate nerd with an encyclopaedic brain, bursting with information about skaters, photographers
