6000
This blog is a pretty good form of procrastination if you like to explore interesting places. For some reason it leads to me wanting to leave the office rather then finish off work.
www.6000times.com/
Posted by: jack
innerspeaker
Ruling Perth band Tame Impala are dong something pretty interesting in video land, stay tuned.
Posted by: jack
day in the broph
The third Brophy related post in a row! Brophy has a "day in the life" over at Transworld. If you are that good, occasionally you have to wear make up too!
Posted by: morgangsta
text yrself brophfore u wreck yrself
Second Brophy post! Man I should be his agent. This one slipped thru my filter for a few days, but young Andrew has a text yrself b4 u wreck yrself over at the Berrics. Quality cranium tweakage on the knuckles tiger!.
Posted by: morganucanhandle
the high desert
Just stumbled across this art dumper's site: "The High Desert". Eric Anthony shoots amazing pics and rubs shoulders with some of the skattyboarding world's true elite including our own Andrew Brophy. You will find some classic pics of him in the "A Lonely Number" section, which lies in the photography gallery.
Posted by: morgs
the brass on the shop
After years of creative gnarling Nick Boserio has landed a spot on the Aussie Workshop team! YES Brass: ruling form son.
view press release
Posted by: morgs
photography hijacked
The multi-talented co-founder / art director of staple (Jack Pam) has been working hard the past three years on Photography Hijacked: a documentary which he has filmed, written, directed and edited himself. It screens on ABC TV May 18 and premieres at Fotofreo festival on the 27th of March. He will be steady blogging up until the launch. Peep it
www.jackpamphoto.com
Posted by: morgs
heath had steeze
The most famous West Australian skater of all time, was probably not the best on the board, but he oozed charisma like no one else. Heath Ledger left us a while back, and it always seemed odd to me that no one has covered his skating. Over at ESPN a friend of Heath's (Griffin Collins) talks about time with him and their foray into Dogtown's past. RIP Heath. You truly were a good egg.
Posted by: morgs
palmer's passportal posting
I stumbled across some Glenn Palmer gems "from around the traps" over at the Passportal.
Posted by: morgs
Issue 5
Why have we been so quiet? Because we have been working hard on issue 5! The next issue of Staple should be whizzing through various mechanical devices out in Knox, Victoria getting printed right now! We expect it to be heading out all over Australia by the end of the week. If you have a microscope you can check out the new issues proof below.
Posted by: jack
karma cam seven
Karma drops the 7th of her clips. Sick shredage from all including some steezey ripping from staple staff photog aidan white. yeeewwww!
Posted by: morgs
the swapmeetomatic comes through again!
Dekline and GMTA bring us a stellar video of James Ahern who's clearly been shredding new light on some of Freo/Perth's inner parks. Holy Guacamollie! Nice work McCormick. Thanks for the headline Barry.
Posted by: morgs
Willmore on Volcom
Zac is back and picking up sponsors just like that. His latest hook up is Volcom. Congratulations Zac. Congratulations Volcom.
volcomoznz.blogspot.com
Posted by: morgs
Double the Butter
The Fabulous Butter Boys have dropped two "Butter Homies" so far this year. They feature Steezy Wonder (Alex Campbell) and Burgandy (Justin Lloyd). These guys throw some awesome shapes and are embedded below for your retinal pleasure.
Posted by: morgs
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Melbourne artist Andy Murphy recently paid homage to our own staple ed and honourary staple pal Sam Morgan in the form of this remix of "Did you hear about the Morgans?" Get well soon Sam.
Posted by: jack
Brophy's Log Attack
Andrew Brophy and his DVS comrades have got a tonne of unseen footy over at their Skate And Create specific site. Some great behind the scenes doubles in the footage embedded below. Regardless of whether you have seen their final entry, this site is a must visit. Colin Kennedy made magic happen that's for sure.
Posted by: morgs
Off Flat Stanley
A final post for the year, featuring what may well be one of the finest photos of all time. What we have here is a magical fusion of steeze. It represents a union between two of the most stylish Australian skaters of all time. In 1999 Andrew Currie snapped this B&W uphill frontside k-grind of Kye Stanley’s in downtown Sydney. It was published in a Slam “Avant Garde” gallery late last century. Kye had no doubt just had another all-nighter with Davo. Perfect poise, great shapes, huge snaps and all white outfit whilst rocking some clogs of yesteryear. Yew! Happy Yew Near from Staple!
Click here for full photo
Posted by: morgs
Christmas gifts from 4 and GMTA
Last weekend Melbourne lurking 4 riders Yuta Tanaka, Morgs, and Mike Martin (honourary Perth-ite), along with several guests including James Whinery hit up Reservoir Skatepark. Shane Fowler made a little clip to commemorate the day (embedded below). Meanwhile, over at GMTA James Ahern hoiked his reindeer over the Freo pyramid on Christmas Day.
Posted by: jack
Badger in the Blue Mountains
Busy little badgie isn't he? A sickness suffering Harry appears alongside honourary West australian Marty Girrotto in this Blue Mountains Analog trip. We have embedded the footage here for you to check out.
www.agtransmissions.blogspot.com
Posted by: morgs
Crail love
Aaron Meza is a legend, not only did he manage to capture the pioneering of street skating by the Girl Massife in classics such as Goldfish and Mouse, and then go on to turn Skateboarder Mag into new levels of awesome, but he has linked to our mag from the skater's New Testament: CrailTap. If you are here as a result of this linkage, and are looking for the Brophy piece, click on the issue 3 thumbnail over on the left there
Posted by: morgs
Badgie Cam
Everyones favorite member of the Weasel family, the Badger (Harry Clark) is probably one of my favorite skaters... I once saw him caveman-jump up 5 stairs to start a line, he is pretty unique to say the least. As well as ripping in a sideways position he is also a true skate lurker. The Potter Chronicles Pt.1 is his first digi cam video and has some epic lurk footage of many sessions that have gone down in recent times. Enjoy.
Posted by: morgs
Little Wednesday
"Little Wednesday is some kind of prequel to the 1970s surf movie 'Big Wednesday'". Swedish-Fremantle transplant now living in London aka Gustav Eden and a bunch of London rippers have a new site up called Little Wednesday. They have RAD little clips mostly filmed on phones and digi cameras... makes me want to go skate even more than watching mindfield extras again. check it out.
www.littlewednesday.co.uk
Posted by: jack
Barb Bolt's techniques
In issue 4 we did a Studio Visit with Barbara Bolt as she was preparing for her solo exhibition; NEON, at Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne. During this visit we got to witness her unique and fluid painting style first hand which was truly intriguing. This clip is an extract from a 2008 short documentary Neon Blue. I think it gives a nice insight into her working practice as you get to see her in action, throwing paint around and tipping the canvass manipulating it into an image. Directed & Produced by David Liu & Chris Pahlow. Music by Nat Bartsch.
Posted by: jack
Brass is Free
Nick Boserio stars in the new insight clip "Repeat After Me: I Am Free". Buck wild son!
Posted by: morgs
Journal Ed remixes our cover
You may have already seen issue 4's Alex Campbell cover (shot by Ben Barretto), but you certainly have not seen this glam-rock remix by the one and only Sean Holland, editor of the esteemed Skateboarder's Journal.
Sean's Cover remix
Posted by: morgs
What's in the box?
Issue 4 landed on my doorstep yesterday, meaning it should hit the west coast later this week. Hype!
Posted by: morgs
Issue Four
What's in the box? Maybe its issue 4. It's not. It's actually issue 1 all boxed up before it was unleashed on the world late last year. Issue 4 however is in a bunch of remarkably similar boxes heading to a skate shop near you, look out for it soon.
Big picture of box
Posted by: jack-in-a-box
skateplorker guest post
Our skateplorker in Tokyo Dave Bradley stumbled across this underwater park in outer Tokyo whilst out on the shred with Michael Davdison.
Posted by: morgs
Clark de Triomphe
Harry has the lastest in the fourtnightly 4 clips. All hail the badger.
Posted by: morgs
Berlin
I am currently in Paris eating buttery bread and what-not. I am heading to Berlin next week, I can't wait to look out my old window . Strangely enough for a Perth mag, Berlin was a bit of a creative starting point for staple. Morgan and I at completely different times on different trips to Berlin came across a skate zine called Anzeige Berlin. Anzeige is a really epic little mag and flicking through it you can tell it is has had big influence on staple. You can check out some scans of Anzeige Berlin's pages from the link below. Salut.
Anzeige Berlin
Posted by: jack
Brophy frontside half cab
Maggie River's Brophy has got a banging half cab, (which is from his latest ad I think) over on the Cliche splash page. You can also see it here.
see big image
Posted by: jack
Big in Japan
Last week Morgan screened his ghetto cam road trip film "big in japan" last night at radio bar in Melbourne. Look for it soon on here on staple. And... I'm in Rome. Some Euro-posts coming soon!
see big flyer
Posted by: jack
Alex has bionic steeze
The third in the fortnightly 4 clips has been dropped. This week Alex Campbell comes charging into your monitor with styles for mega miles.
Posted by: morgs
Justin Lloyd Nedlanding
Justin Lloyd is seen asleep at the wheel in this new GMTA park clip.
Posted by: morgs
Jack Pam Photography
Staple art director and photographer / film maker guru Jack Pam has an amazing website which you should check out pronto likes.
Posted by: morgs
Yuta Tanakalepsy
4 have dropped the 2nd installment of their fortnightly team clips. Yuta shreds it!
Posted by: morgs
No Strings Attached
The long awaited Geldi and yow epic: 'No Strings Attached' is premiering on the 4th of September at the Piccadilly, the details are on the flyer.
Posted by: morgs
GMTA site is live
The GMTA squad now have a slick new website full of bits, clips and bobs. Benjamin McCormick (the man behind the epic 'You Are Only Dreaming' clip) has some sick footage all up in their too including a Quade Baker part.
www.gmtaskateboards.com.au
Posted by: morgs
Without Sun
Christian Belgaux who was a contributor to issue 2 is currently working on an interesting little project that is worth checking out called 'Without Sun'. They're about to publish their first Journal featuring international photographers of which at least two are Perth-ites. They are based a long long way north of Australia but due to Christian's connection to our isolated dot I am sure there will be some copies floating around.
www.christianbelgaux.com
Posted by: jack
Onya
From the lens of Benjamin McCormick some emotionally coated footy from two weeks in Melbourne with GMTA's James Ahern and Quayde Baker and Element's Phillip Marshall.
Posted by: morgs
Under the bridge
Quite a few crew from Perth have invaded Melbourne latly, so naturally we all went and skated an new, incredibly fun spot under a bridge in the northern suburbs. Here is a little clip I made from the last couple weekends of shreddery, enjoy.
Posted by: jack
Pachinko in the Port
The Yok's retrospective show titled 'Pachinko' opens next Monday the 11th down at Freo's Lil' Creatures. Should be a pearla!
Click here for flyer
Posted by: morgs
4 is locked and loaded
The 4 Skateboard Co. website has launched and the Staple editor (Morgatroid) has the first clip up in a series of fortnightly clips. It is embedded below for your retinas.
Posted by: jack
stage three: the magic number
Staple #3 is landing in skate shops around the country this week. Check your local Modus dealer for a copy. Inside: Albany, Zac Willmore interview, Yok, Gustav Eden, Cair Paravel, Grantley Miller, Phil Marhsall, Barry Mansfield, Cameron Owens, Nick Boserio…and many more.
Staple #2 online very shortly.
link to bigger photo
Posted by: morgs
spreading butter
The fabulous Butter boys drop another quality clip of b-roll footage.
http://quite-buttery.com/
Posted by: morgs
Stage two: proof sign-off
Next step in the mix is getting the proof back from the printers. Its pretty great seeing the thing that has been living within a computer screen for months physically printed. By this stage typos, alignment and design issues should have been ironed out. The physical proof is mainly to combat colour shifts that happen when moving from computer screen to paper and artwork setup problems. Also, when seeing the mag spread out like this sometimes you see issues with the flow of the mag and how some spreads look together resulting in the need to reshuffle images and text. Below is an image of the issue 1 proof sheet. Staple 3 has been signed off and is whirring around a printing factory out in the suburbs of Melbourne, more photos from its journey coming soon.
The Proof!
Posted by: jack
Autopilot
In a legendary gesture the multi-talented Ben McLachlan has allowed us to imbed "autopilot" on the site for your viewing. If you haven't seen his 2006 Perth masterpiece, you have been missing out. Enjoy.
Phokus Productions
Posted by: morgs
Major Lazy Days
Yuta and I ducked over to Perth for 10 days of skating. We should have brought wet suits! It rained solidly for the whole time. The few sessions we had were epic, thanks to everyone who helped us survive the torrentialness of it all. I made a ghetto cam clip from our adventures.
Major Lazy Days
Posted by: morgs
Zac's Cruiser
The other day Zac comes running over to show me his new board...cont. here.
Cale and Zak
Posted by: luke
Rain rain, go away.
It’s been so very wet here lately. Making it all the much more difficult to enjoy time with your skateboard. Seek out those undercover flat ground sessions where ever you can. Here I found one in the wild at a Primary School undercovered area. Enjoy the hunt.
Undercover
Posted by: luke
stage one: desktop vommit
It's that time again! Staple #3 has been sent to the printers. My desktop always takes a beating the week before print: many many emails of photos and many many test design's get dumped on my desktop to feed the hungry pages of staple. In the coming week I will keep you in the printing loop as staple heads towards a skate-shop near you.
Posted by: jack
Brophie's Berlin
Mr Andrew Brophy is on tour with a massive Eurontourage. He is seen in this Berlin Skatehalle clip alongside a Four Star studded cast. Can you ollie up double sets?
Posted by: morgs
phil communication
Phil James dropped this doozey promo a week or so back. Keep your eyes pealed for losts of new spots as well as a John XXIII frontside flip in a line!
Posted by: morgs
Happy Nannupday
Yesterday I hung with the birthday boy Nannup, alongside Yuta and Harry Clark. We almost skated a pool, but did not have enough daylight left for a bail out, so we opted for Manning!
Posted by: morgs
overgrowth 2
The absolute ruling human being that is 'Creepy' has put together the Overgrowth exhibition again. Go support it by drinking beer at the opening
check the full flyer for details.
overgrowth 2 flyer
Posted by: jack
Back to the Dam
We visited the dam from the Staple Issue 1 cover again. This time with a slightly larger group. The scale of this place is always impressive. We where treated to a lovely sunset and only two boards fell in the sludge. Overall a ripping day. You can view a clip at shred tavern.
www.shredtavern.com
Posted by: luke
Adam Morris back in Town
After some overseas adventures local legend Adam Morris has made it back home. You can again see him shredding around the city, no doubt. Here he is with Tom Langridge back at the infamous Leederville house.
Posted by: luke
Swiss Staple love
Alan Maag over at Blackout magazine seemed pretty stoked on the mag. He emailed me about it as soon as we received a link from Kingpin a day or so after launch. I was intrigued as to what he had said in his intro. So I translated it using some ghetto, free translating internet service.
black out magazine
Posted by: morgs
Luxxy
Perth ripper on board and behind lens: Daniel 'Luxxy' Luxford has some great imagery up on his new site.
Daniel Luxford
Posted by: morgs
Butter is better
Check this dollop of Buttery footage from the Butter Blog. Once your done, waltz on over to the Butter-blog. Butter is a Perth clothing company run by Garth Mariano and Pidge.
Quite Buttery!
Posted by: jack
Lenny and Glenn
We are working on a Zac Wilmore interview for Issue 3. Zac is currently recovering from a knee reconstruction, so it was exciting to receive this transmission:
Got some pics of Zeemore doing his first few tail stalls on the mini, trying to keep it low-key but the rehabs going well. Also snapped some photos of his new tattoo. – Glenn Palmer
Lenny Parmigiana (Glen Palmer) has been gently shredding up a storm lately filming with the mighty Pigeon for Passport’s new clip. – Zac Willmore
zaclunchbox
downforlife
Posted by: morgs
Leaving Home
Joel Rees is a photographer from Perth just left for South America to shoot for a book project. I think Joel is a talented photographer who is starting to produce really interesting work. I saw him the night before he left; he had 20 rolls of film, a beautiful Hasselblad camera and a head full of ideas. Good luck! (I wish I was going too.)
J max imagery
Posted by: jack
King Brown Five
Yok and his gang have dropped the 5th issue of the King Brown. Treat yourself to a copy.
King Brown Magazine
Posted by: morgs
The Tomlinator
Dylan Tomlinson (and his burl bags) are now getting boards from Zero. To celebrate he went and threw himself down some extra large handrails. He does this lipslide to warm up every time we go here. I think I've seen him do it about ten times now.
Here is some old footage of him, expect the latest stuff to be gnarlier.
Posted by: luke
X-ray vision anyone?
As a child I often wondered about all the cool things you could see with x-ray vision. Looks like photographer Nick Veasy spent a lot of time thinking about it too. Then he made it a reality.
X-ray vision is here.
Posted by: luke
Exclusive Woolies Life Tre’ler
Woolies Life Tre' director and master mind ‘Shalders’ sent us this exclusive trailer for his new production which you can buy here
l-e-c
Posted by: morgs
Vuckovich on Staple
Aside from linkages from some of the world’s most prominent sites, staplemag.com was received with incredible reactions around the world. Miki Vuckovich was an integral part of Transworld Magazine for many years and now runs the Tony Hawk Foundation. I received this mail from him on the weekend.
“That's awesome. Congratulations. The cover reminds me of the first LIFE magazine in the '30s- a colossal Margaret Bourke-White photo of a new dam project in the US. Anyway, always stoked to see people promoting their scenes in a quality, creative way.”
Life Magazine Cover
Posted by: morgs
Brophy on Euro 4* Tour
Margaret River’s finest bunyip is on tour this week in Europe with quite the star-studded cast. This is the first time a Western Australian has blown up to this level. Congratulations Brophy.
Flyer here.
Posted by: morgs
Port Heds Up
Two months ago I went to Port Hedland to judge a comp, do some demos and workshops with Harry Clark. He was absolutely killing it despite the ludicrous temperatures. As you will see their two skateparks are ludicrously good. Thanks to everyone in Port Hedland council who made this happen. I made a little ghetto cam clip from our adventures.
Staple: Port Hedlanders
Posted by: morgs
Last Chance Studios
4 very quality perth artists Daek One, Creepy, Sean Morris and Timothy Rollin have just moved into a shop on William Street in Northbridge. Long live artist run studios!
Sean / daek one / creepy / tim
Last Chance Myspace
Posted by: jack
Kid Zoom
Don’t you just get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing a homie getting recognition for doing what they love? Well Kid Zooms artwork is the opposite of that warm fuzzy feeling but I still love it. Creating twisted realities that look uncomfortably real is all too easy for this Kid. Check his site out here.
Kid Zoom
Posted by: luke
Charlie Isoe
My Perth friend Isoe has been getting his work all over the place check out articles in the new Yen Magazine, We Are the Image Makers and Lowdown Magazine. He also has a blog.
www.watim.com
Posted by: jack
Palm Springs
I am currently stateside spreading the good word of staple magazine far and wide. This photo was taken in the desert mountains on the way to Palm Springs, California.
Posted by: jack
Woolies Life Tre Premmie
Woolies Life Tre is premiering at 7:30pm Thursday 21st May at the Loft next to Lil’ Creatures in Freo. This will be epic. 
Peep the Flyer
Posted by: morgs
Nann’ up in that piece
Nannup can be seen owning the Black Box park with super steeze and new lines. 
Nannup Black Box
Posted by: morgs
RDKL TOPS
RDKL kids Killing it as per usual
Webbage
Posted by: morgs
Brophy’s Map Quest
Margaret River’s finest fat snapper has been going from strength to strength as of late. Check this Four Star Mapquest clip. He is all up in it.
Four Star Mapquest clip
Posted by: morgs
Palmer on Passport
Perth’s Glen Palmer has found himself a spot on the Passport Skateboard team. There is a nice manual to wallie photo of him over here.
Passport Skateboard
Posted by: morgs
Northern Bunyip
Recently crowned AusSOTY and Margaret River’s finest Bunyip can be seen shredding in this new Four Star “North of Everywhere” edit.
“North of Everywhere”
Posted by: morgs
Barry Slamsfield
Barry Mansfield has the interview in the current issue of Slam. Finally his ridiculous level of radical can been seen properly in one article. He can also be seen ripping in the trailer for the video with no name.
Perth video teaser
slamskatemag.com.au
Posted by: morgs
Issue 5
Out in print Wednesday 13th of February Issue 5 contains: Barry Mansfield interview, Woolstores feature, Shawba top ten, the Silents, Sydney Please with Joel Rees, Darren Richmond and truckloads more.
staple web exclusive
Welcome to Staple TV. This first epic-sode was filmed by Pidge (from Butter fame) with assistance from Geldi on didge and Barry Mansfield on Super 8. – MC
