Started in 2005, Pop Magazine published a free quarterly magazine focusing on Australian snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing. Pop grew to produce a feature length snowboard movie, an industry leading website for daily news, web-casts and digital versions of the magazines as well as premiere events and consultancy. Ten years later, …
How To Start A Magazine: Lessons from 10 Years of Pop Magazine
In 2005 Dave Keating and I, Rick Baker, set out to create a free press surf, skate and snowboarding magazine. 10 years later, we’re closing the ‘doors’. The whole endeavor was always about capturing the creativity and excitement that surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding gave us and from that, building a …
Koston Features In Apple Watch Ad
I spotted this over on Ride Channel the other day – the latest Apple Watch ad, called Berlin, features none other than Eric Koston in the background of a scene. Check the 22 second mark in the clip above… I’m doing my best to suss out how/why at the moment. …
Trailer 2 For #aDetroitFilm
Here’s the second trailer for A Detroit Film (check the first trailer out here). This adds a little more context to the use of the city wastelands in telling a positive story – about the start, not the end. But also providing a pretty spectacular backdrop for the people featured in the …
#ADetroitFilm Trailer
This isn’t strictly a skateboard film but it does look good and there’s glimpses of a board in there. Created by Jordan Garland, the film aims to highlight the positives going on in a city that looks in decline. He partnered with artists, skaters and BMXers to tell a different story …
Street League’s Stop 1 – LA Results
Street League Stop 1 for 2015 (excluding the Pro Open) went down over the weekend in L.A. and for once, there was a surprise ending. Luan Oliveria came through with the goods and took out the stop on the last trick – a switch front bigspin heelflip. There’s a full …
Someone Get Terje On The Line… Skateboarding Needs Him!
Skateboarding (in some form) is shortlisted to become a part of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Already, internet commenters are shrieking about how it’s an “art form” and shouldn’t be called a sport… Whatever. In the end, this is going to happen. Snowboarding is a ratings juggernaut for the Winter …
Mike Blabac Interviewed For Red Bulletin
When doing one of the early issues of the print magazine, I remember my first photographer fan-out being when we got to work with Mike Blabac on getting shots together for a piece on one of the DC team at the time. It was rad because we’d been looking at his photos for years …
New Balance’s Sunland Clip
Here’s a rad clip from New Balance featuring Arto Saari, Tom Knox, Jordan Taylor, Tyler Surrey, Jordan Trahan, PJ Ladd, Marquise Henry, Jack Curtin, Levi Brown and Tom Karangelov. The clip was filmed and edited by Russell Houghten. Via Skatedaily.
Street League 2015 Stop 1 – Barcelona
Image via Transworld Skate. If you want to save a little time, you can pretty much pull up any of the previous posts on Street League for the results here… You guessed it, Nyjah Huston wins again. It was a close call with P-Rod coming in just behind followed by …
Gino Iannucci Interviewed For Route One
Route One has done an awesome interview with Gino Iannucci. It has been released in three parts and covers a lot of history from back in the day as well as his current interests and thoughts on skateboarding. Definitely a rad watch. Part one is above and parts two and three …
Red Bull Team Hits Madagascar
Red Bull team members Barney Page, Denny Pham, Nestor Judkins, Wilko Grüning, Brian Dolle, Gosha Konyshev along with filmer Patrik Wallner, and photographer Lev Maslov hit up Madagascar for a bit of skating. The conditions for skating there look sketchy but fun and the clip they turned out is epic. …
Street League 2015 Schedule
The schedule for the Street League 2015 tour is out and it kicks off in mid-May with the Nike SB Pro Open in Spain followed by the official stop one in LA mid-July. There’s only four events in total, including the championship – from memory, this is shrinking again from …
Jenkem’s Shane O’Neill Documentary Teaser
Jenkem have put together a mock teaser trailer for a Shane O’Neill documentary that seems to be a friendly jab at his style. Called ‘ZIGRAM23: the Shane O’Neill story’ it’s about a skateboarding robot. The editing is actually awesome. Check it out.
Ty Evans and Brain Farm – We Are Blood Trailer
This is probably the most anticipated skate film in a while, maybe even since Ty Evans Fully Flared. The Brain Farm backed production is shot on a pretty epic scale – some of the locations like the sports stadium and Burj Dubai hotel heli-pad are incredible. Anyway, go full screen …
Peralta Documents Powell
Here’s a neat little clip Stacy Peralta made of George Powell in the workshop. There’s not that much to say about it – nicely shot and edited, definitely worth a look (even if it’s really a bit of a commercial for the Powell Peralta brand).
Update On Brain Farm’s Ty Evans Skate Project
Dubai local and skater, Karim Nassar, is showing Ty Evans and the crew around Dubai while they’re filming. He’s given an interview to What’s On talking in very loose details about how it’s all going. From a camera tech point of view, as expected, they’re loaded. Off the top of his …
DVS Skate and Create Detroit
DVS have put out a clip that was shot in Detroit. A city that must give an eerie sense of abandonment, loneliness and decay all too familiar to the brand that has gone through a succession of owners, team changes and near death over the last few years. The guys cleared sections …
DC and Nissan’s Headlight Sessions
Nissan have got together with DC to create a pretty epic clip in Barcelona featuring Wes Kremer, Matt Miller, Madars Apse, Antony Lopez and Joseph Scott. Not that it matters, but it’s to promote their Nismo Juke RS – the important part about this is really that they did it right. …
Beyond the Elementality By Desillusion
Desillusion has done another rad little clip, this time with Element brand founder Johnny Schillereff. The clip is basically Schillereff in and around his office talking about the core principles of his brand and his ethos. The part about knowing what to protect is right on point. As always, beautifully shot and edited by …
Daryl Angel And Nick Boserio In Eight And Sand
Riley Blakeway has been out shooting with Daryl Angel and Nick Boserio for Monster Children. The trip up the west coast of the U.S. is part of the release of issue 45 of MC and is called Eight and Sand. It was shot entirely on 16MM film and received a …
Nike SB Free With Malto And O’Neill
Here’s the coolest commercial I’ve seen in a while. Nike SB have put together a promo for the SB Free with Sean Malto and Shane O’Neill. The guys are hitting an all white scene with some really neat little effects on the shoes. Well worth a watch.
Tum Yeto Teams With Alien Workshop
Alien Workshop has been quiet for a while with business dealings in the back making it difficult to put out product. They were purchased by Burton in 2008 and then sold to long time pro, Rob Dyrdek in 2012. Another corporation purchased an interest in the company in 2013 but lots …
Who Runs The Skateboard Industry?
Red Bull have put this one out. It’s a great question and the different responses to it are awesome. I think Mike Vallely’s end point is the best. A great way to start your Friday.
Desillusion’s Night In Berlin
The Desillusion crew spent a night in Berlin with skater Michael Mackrodt and produced this beautiful clip from it. With darkness falling so early in the winter, the best spots are in the subways. The guys headed out late (or very, very early) and got shots in some really great …
Last Resort: Aspotogan
Here’s the full film for the Red Bull project Last Resort: Aspotogan. As mentioned when we posted the teaser, this luxury resort in Nova Scotia was abandoned mid-way through construction two decades ago. The crew took some time to setup some great features and get some amazing footage. The clip features …
Plan B True Review
Last week saw the release of Plan B’s True – one of the most anticipated films to come out in a while. I wouldn’t call it Fully Flared levels of freak-out but people have been speculating on it for quite a while. The first thing to say is that this …
Match Made In Hel Wrap Clip
The post yesterday on Westfield got me thinking about Match Made In Hel. Turns out I’m really, really damn late on this but it is so good, I’m going to post it anyway. The competition, which you can view the promo for here, was led by Arto Sari and supported …
Corbin Harris Skates Westfield
This is actually a sad story of missed opportunity. Westfield got Corbin Harris to skate a newly opened shopping centre (or a slightly refurbished one, or something). The shoot was done at night and he had free run of the place… pretty rad. Then, someone decided that gratuitous use of helicopters was …
Teaser For ‘Last Resort: Aspotogan’
Red Bull has released the tease for a rad new clip coming out on December 4th. The clip is taken in a semi-completed luxury resort on a peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada that was abandoned two decades ago, mid-way through construction. Ryan Decenzo, TJ Rogers, Joey Brezinski, Cody Lockwood, Nate Lacoste, …
Desillusion’s ‘Resurrect The Destructed’ With David González
Desillusion have created another fascinating clip this time focussed on David González. After watching, I’m not sure I like the guy more than I did before seeing it. Kinda dirtbag-ish, but making a bit of an effort to get to that image (kick the bins!). But hey, the filming might have just happened …
Skating New York’s Abandoned Psych Ward
Sean Colello has created this eerie but rad little clip in an abandoned New York State psych ward. The skater is Rob Miceli and there’s an awesome set of photos by Colello to go with it, which you can see over here. In the description, Colello says, “The campus is a pretty huge …
Adventuring To An Abandoned Skate Park In The Sierras
Brandon Rein has created this great clip of he and his buddies hiking up to an old, forgotten skate park in the Sierras. If you’re after some pointers, Thad in the Vimeo comments says the crew are “… hiking up from Fallen Leaf Lake up towards Angora Lake. The big mountain they pass …
Yom Kipor Turns Israel Into Giant Skatepark
Photographer Amit Schwachter and skater Tamuz Rachman have filmed an amazing clip in Israel on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kipor. I have little to no knowledge of this holiday but apparently you can use motorised craft of any kind so the roads empty out and you’re left with a whole tonne …
DC’s Full Part For Matt Miller
DC have released a full part for Matt Miller’s new shoe. This is not your average product-shot-logo-gasm that a clip for a new line would normally be. Instead it’s an awesome and very watchable 3:21 minutes of Miller killing it to Hustlaz Ambition by Young Jeezy. As a side note to this, …