Pop Magazine

June 22, 2016

Gone Snowboarding. Don't wait for us.

Pop Magazine founders Dave Keating and Rick Baker are moving on. It was a good run. Access the archives below.

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Pop Magazine Closed

Started in 2005, Pop Magazine published a free quarterly magazine focusing on Australian snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing. Pop grew to …

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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. …

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2015 Dirksen Derby

I’d been hearing about how fun Josh Dirksen’s charity banked slalom event at Mt Bachelor was for a couple years. …

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Asher Pacey ‘Off The Well Worn Path’ With Desillusion

This clip is either an epic way to start the day, or a terrible one, depending on how you think …

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 …

Mick Fanning Fights Off Shark And Has To Share Prize Money

As you will have seen on any number of more reputable media outlets this morning, the World Surf League improved the …

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 …

#ADetroitFilm Trailer

This isn’t strictly a skateboard film but it does look good and there’s glimpses of a board in there. Created …

Diaries Downunder Is Back For 2015

Diaries Downunder is back and looking better than ever – Nick Hyne, Nick Brown and Mahi Mains go deep into the …

2015 Cattlemans Rail Jam Results And Photos

If you woke up Saturday morning, looked out the window and thought that a new ice age might be approaching, …

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, …

Quiksilver: Bankruptcy Or Restructuring Within 9 Months?

Investor Jeremy Raper: Raper Capital has written an indepth piece on the likely outcomes for Quiksilver based on the most …

Jake Burton Recovering From Serious Illness

Jake Burton is recovering from a serious illness diagnosed right after the Burton Open back in March. He suffered from Miller …

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 …

Odd Folks’ Pre Peri Peri Chicken

Jeremy Saunders shot through this edit for Odd Folks featuring Rocco Rachiele, Josh Vagne, Jordy Crockford, Bryan Bowler, Troy Sturrock, Joel Cuntle and Jye Kearney. The guys …

Grindhouse’s Afterlife Teaser

Here’s the teaser for U.K. outfit Grindhouse’s new film, Afterlife. It features Andy Nudds, Janne Lipsanen, Antti Jussila, Jonny Pickup, Zakke, Petrus Koskinen, …

Manboys Spring Edit

The Manboys have released a spring edit where they hit a few events, muck around a bit and hit a …

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 …

10 Years Of Cattlemans History

Check this clip out… If you can tear your eyes away from Chunk’s glorious beard for a minute and pay …

Quiksilver Pulls Guidance, Shares Tank

One of the first earnings calls for new Quiksilver CEO, Pierre Agnes, has been a tough one. “Logistics issues” have …

10 Years Of Cattlemans This July

Happening on July 11th will be the tenth Cattlemans Rail Jam event – there’s $10k up for grabs and the contest will follow …

Snowboard Big Air Added To 2018 Olympics

Photo: Nick Hamilton for Transworld. Yuki Kadono at Air and Style in LA, 2015 The IOC has announced four new …

Kyneee Snowboards – Just One Trick

Kyneee Snowboards has got $500 up for grabs – all you need to do is upload your best trick to …

Blueprint’s All In Ender

Here’s the big ender part for series two of Pat Moore’s awesome Blueprint series. This one features a recut from …

Travis Rice Getting The Shots

GoPro took a bunch of crew out heliboarding in the BC backcountry as a goodbye to the 14/15 season and …

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, …

Chapter 4.2 Of ‘This Just Happened’

Here’s the latest ‘This Just Happened’ featuring Halldor Helgason, Eiki Helgason, Felix Engström, Sven thorgren, Kevin Bäckström, Tor Lundström, and …