Slam Skateboarding

As we approach a new year, it’s easy to reflect on the derailed trainwreck that was 2020 and wonder how we were led into this whole ugly mess. And with our world leaders throwing around the same rhetorical phrase, “new normal” – which irks the shit o

Christmas can’t come soon enough this year. Between the bushfires, COVID, the Trump debacle, and the thousand other little clusterfucks 2020 has given us, this year has felt like a decade. As a skateboarder, Christmas can be a double-edged sword. Sur

Joel Rea is a 37-year-old skateboarder from the Gold Coast, but he’s better known for his highly technical surrealist paintings. A world-renowned fine artist, Joel takes influences from all over the place, painting the tigers from Dreamworld; the vio

It’s a Friday arvo when I catch Stevie Stipanovic on the phone and he’s in a pretty good mood. This morning, while he was driving to work at a building site in Western Sydney, his car overheated on the highway, which sounds like a total stitch-up. Bu

Dave Chami explains the process for this trippy, black and white photo series, and how he took the studio to the streets. I recently came across an old skate photo from the 1990s where the skater was silhouetted against a white wall. I loved how you

Jackson Pilz has long been one of Australia’s most creative and talented skateboarders. He first turned heads when he was a tiny, long-haired vert skating prodigy from the Sunny Coast who was dominating the local comp scene. But, as Jackson grew up,

Recent events have got me thinking, why is telling yourself ‘one more’ so habitual when it comes to things that are addictive? One more drink. One more episode of that show you’ve been bingeing. One more pouch of ciggies before you quit. One more chi