Pilerats, Journalist

Nathalia Lindvall ruminates on the various controversies around world-beating clothing manufacturer American Apparel.. They stand for loose buttons, loose hair and loose…yeah, well… looseness. American Apparel isn’t exactly a company known for their ability to keep the pants on the models, and flipping through their catalogue is basically like reading an excellent hipster version of ZOO magazine.

60-odd thousand blog followers is no mean feat by the age of 19.. Not many teenagers can claim being featured in the New York Times, but then again, Willabelle Ong is not your average teenager. At only 19, the young fashion blogger has garnered an impressive 63,000 subscribers and appearances in publications such as Teen Vogue. Her blog, PALE DIVISION, is where her work takes place as she uploads pictures of her own ‘personal style and fashion’.  Her unique take on chic styling is a breath of fresh air, drawing upon an array of brands to achieve an end result that is on-point and charming. Such styling has not gone unnoticed with the young blogger appearing on ASOS and being praised on Twitter by celebrity A-lister, Vanessa Hudgens. Amidst her busy schedule balancing both university and blogging, Willabelle found time to talk to us about life as a blogger.

VIDEO: Skrillex - 'Summit'. Very early on in the piece, like right back at the start, we hung out with Skrillex a heap of times whenever he was in the country. Video legend Moonclad Kid documented a heap of these and ended up cutting it together as the video clip for Summit.

Tyler Kandel‘s ode to the end of America's summer, shot for STALKER Magazine.. One day we dream someone will shoot a series of photos for us just like this. Until that time, enjoy this epic series from photographer TYLER KANDEL for STALKER Magazine. It's celebrating the end of the American summer, but has us extremely looking forward to the Australian summer. Wins all round.

Opportunities in life are there for you to take them - seriously or not, just ask my aunt.. By Nathalia Lindvall My aunt* has always told me to think about one obvious thing, that we only have one life to life. Duh… you might say, but how many of us regularly forget to enjoy the tings life is giving us? Yeah, quite a few right. So, according to her, as we only have one chance to live a life full of happiness, we should take our existence seriously unserious. My aunt is a proof living after that motto is a healthy recipe for an awesomely happy life.

Learn a few things from Valley Eyewear founder, Michael Crawley.. Some of you rascals may recongise the name Michael Crawley, MC was one of Australia's most revered and loved dropkneeers in the '90s. Basically he fucking killed it, without him and a few others, kids wouldn’t be doing what there doing on the knee these days. Anyway these days he heads up Valley Eyewear, putting out some of the raddest and freshest shades this side of the universe. I’ll let MC fill you in on the story and all the other bits.

Ukrainian photographic duo create haunting, mischievous and ultimately beautiful imagery. Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven are two emerging photographers who have been experimenting with cameras since their perhaps not-so-innocent youth. They came together on the internet and since then have been working together to create incredible imagery which they distributed mostly via flickr and diy zines. Whilst they've dipped their toes in commercially with clients including New York Magazine and Urban Outfitters already, we feel this duo's style is going to have a much bigger effect, most likely in the fashion world in the not to distant future.

Check our chat with the lords behind Uppercut Deluxe.. We recently caught up with Luke Newman and Steve Purcell, the lords behind Uppercut Deluxe for a chat about all things brand, barbershop and more. For those that don’t know basically their products are the duck's nuts and make all our scruffy heads look great. I will leave them to tell you about everything below.

Rad shirts designed by Indonesian school kids in a sweatshop free zone.. What happens when Dutch designers create cool T-shirts with drawings made by Indonesian school kids? Face This is what happens, a foundation that uses the profit of each t-shirt sold to support the school for those same kids. We'll let Jos van der Hoek from Face This explain...

Fantastical worlds your mind should visit sometime.. Tristram Lansdowne creates fantastical worlds that are good for your mind to dwell in. If you'd like to check out more of Tristam's work, head to his WEBSITE.

A week around NZ in a Winnie The Pooh camper.. "One island, two friends, seven days, three thousand kilometers, one (not so) wicked camper, five jump-starts, twenty five CD's, nine skateparks and too many thugstances..."