For many years Raglan has been firmly on the radar, famous for serving cups of tea to the surf culture in Manu Bay’s green room. Now the masses that migrate west for the summer have something new to write home about. Postcards are going to… More ›
Tune into Airtime on TVNZ U - U.co.nz this Monday at 9.25pm to watch the Irrom lads, including Brett Band, Christian Low and Justin Keeley as they session Wanganui. As seen in Manual 44. More ›
A blast from Welly-town’s past. As seen in our premiere issue from December of 1997. More ›
Those who have had a conversation with Lance Corlett (A.K.A Loopy) probably get the feeling they’ve bumped into some character that has been dragged from some abstract political cartoon; he’s one of those people you’re pretty sure you understand but will never completely ‘get’. Lance… More ›
In keeping with family tradition Mat Kinsman gets his second cover with this sharp slide (nosebluntslide transfer) in Melbourne. The photo was shot by Aussie photographer Jason ‘Moey’ Morey. The new issue is due out soon and will come with a Free DVD. More ›
On a fresh and wintery Friday morning, the Substance tour rendezvoused at the Wellington ferry terminal. It was there that Ben McLellan, Dallas Marshall (Daliman), Sean Bone (Thug), Gus Curwood, Chris Maessen (Big Red), Jake Mein and Adam Kinsman set sail southward in search of… More ›
Grey Is The New Street Art! Text by Levi Hawken I wanted to write a few words to explain what Create and Skate is all about. With so much going on at the time of the event we didn’t have time to get a proper… More ›
Emeralds are a komische/progressive electronic trio from Ohio. That’s a very long way from Berlin, but they manage to harness the best of the German ambient and eccentric electronics scenes with a futuristic burst of burbling, pulsing synths. If I had to use one word… More ›
This tale begins with our five skateboarders stuck in the sprawling urban abyss that is Auckland. Precipitation was falling thick outside and the sorcerers that predict the weather couldn’t foresee an end in sight. The leader of our pack, Guy ‘Dragon Throat’ Coney, gathered the… More ›
In June of this year the Vans NZ Team got together in Auckland city and headed off on a short roadtrip through the Coromandel, Bay of Plenty and back to Auckland to session Mountain Dew’s Skate Pinball. Haimona Ngata went along with Mike Bancroft, Adam… More ›
A few years back, suffering from the breakup blues in a cabin in Wisconsin, Justin Vernon picked up an acoustic guitar and made some music. The resulting album, For Emma, Forever Ago, was a huge international success. Round two finds Vernon in a very different environment.… More ›
Text and photography by Ollie Logan. First published in Manual #35, September 2009. We were on a zebra crossing in New York’s Lower East Side when my girlfriend Kate spotted our good friends Bill and Rachel. They knew that we were overseas, but had no… More ›