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Looking Sideways

Matthew Barr, Matt Barr

Examining the creative life through the lens of surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding and other related endeavours.

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1. “For most of my life, the Southbank Centre has been the villain: casting stones, turning out the lights, building barriers, incrementally taking the space away, attempting to relocate it entirely, and then taking money off the community...

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"The Southbank Centre Was the Enemy" - Wig Worland On Why He Isn't Supporting The Southbank Centre's Skate 50 Exhibition.

Mike Manzoori, upstairs at Southbank. Photo: Wig Worland

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Who gets to tell the stories that shape our history? Looking back, this question has been the defining one of my weird little career in action sports journalism. It...

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Looking Sideways: 10 Things

1. I’ve lost count of the number of people who have sent me links to the Patagonia x Pattie Gonia story this week. And my LinkedIn and Instagram feeds have been ablaze this week with outraged people asking “What did ‘Earth is our only shar...

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Looking Sideways: 10 Things

1. Every now and again, I realise I’m in a bit of creative fallow period.

It usually happens, almost imperceptibly, every 12 to 18 months or so. I can tell because I find myself unable or unwilling to sustain the juggle that usually enabl...

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Insights: 5 Things I've Learned - OK COOL's Jolyon Varley

If you work in the creative industries and have logged into LinkedIn at any point in the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Jolyon Varley.

One of that platform’s most visible figures, and co-founder of OK COOL, arguably the world’s h...

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