BEN MENZIES PERTH
Having lived in Perth and done very little academically for the better part of my entire existence, I've somehow weaseled my way into a permanent position at Highs and Lows as a flogger and blogger of footwear and street couture. Due to a certain jen se qua, my intellectual innuendo has found it's way onto the pages of Acclaim magazine, GameInformer and various websites and east coast radio shows, the latter of whom like to cherry pick from my personal blog on a quiet news day. I've ridden a skateboard for the last six years and have been playing video games since before I was born. When I'm not doing any of that, you can find me where the free booze is, possibly with a camera in my hand.
BEN MENZIES / November 29
This was announced. Crailtap team videos have always been on some Spielberg shit in the way that they don’t come out very often but when they do, new standards are set and critics gonna crit. After pouring over the trailer a few times it looks like skateboarding’s own [...]
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BEN MENZIES / November 16
I’ll always remember Kid Zoom as this illustrious individual responsible for that one crazy piece at Leederville skatepark. It was one of the original pieces to be done there during the park’s inauguration and with credit to the other artists who’d contributed, Kid Zoom’s work was always a [...]
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BEN MENZIES / November 07
There’s nothing worse than dedicating months of your life to becoming a ‘Sam Worthington’ in the online realm of first person shooters only to be teamed up with a ‘Jonah Hill’ or someone equally green. While you and your seasoned teammates run precise strategies exposing every possible loophole [...]
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BEN MENZIES / November 04
So here it is, that thing I was talking about the other day. With this trailer comes further evidence that Rockstar Games are one step closer to completely blurring the line between video games and movies to the point where it will only become visible again when lesser [...]
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BEN MENZIES / November 03
While the NBA’s higher-ups and more economically active players continue their fruitless bi-weekly 14 hour advanced calculus seminars and fans the world over desperately cling to the possibility of a 50 game season or a poorly organized world tour, it appears that there is still basketball happening everywhere [...]
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