James from Cardinia Shire Youth Services emailed me about a skate comp happening at the new park in Pakenham, Victoria …
Surfing 50 States at National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle
Jonno and Stefan’s adventures are continuing at the moment but their film, Surfing 50 States, is still going strong everywhere. …
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. …
Street League and ISF Team For Olympics
Street League has endorsed the Olympic Committee’s decision to appoint the ISF (International Skateboard Federation) as the official representative body …
Dragon Requires A National Sales Manager
Dragon Australia is looking for a National Sales Manager cause the head office in the U.S. keep pinching the Australian Dragon crew… And I can understand why. The Dragon Aus crew would be an amazing bunch of people to work with. I’ve placed …
Owen Wright – Dragon Tales
Dragon are releasing a set of clips called Dragon Tales and the first one features none other than Owen Wright. The blurb about the series says “Through the eyes of four up-and-coming surfers, this tale speaks of youth, summer, progression and fun. From world dominance, rising …
Amazing Spanish Skate Park
This came to me via Juxtapoz and I am pretty damn keen to move to Spain on the basis of this skate park. According to the post the park was completed this year and includes “a skatepark, concert hall, rock climbing, theatre, ballroom, and even broadband Internet. The entire building is covered under a large thermal canopy, allowing use in all weather conditions.” For more, check the photos above or head to the Juxtapoz post.
Dew Hut Jam Rookie Award
The Dew Hut Jam is on this Saturday afternoon and for 2011 they have eleven riders in the running for the Rookie Award. They range from “15-year-old Henry Bessell, through to the likes of 21 year old Nathan Johnstone” and to win they need to go through a three part process. Part one is the public voting section. If you haven’t yet done it, you can cast your vote over here – voting closes at 12 noon Friday 29 July. The second part is
The Full Interview With Steve Berra – Part 2 of 4
As mentioned at the beginning of part 1, a much edited down version of this interview originally appeared in issue 18 of Pop Magazine. Steve Berra gave up hours of his time to sit with our writer, Steele Saunders, and talk about The Berrics, his history and his opinions on the direction of skateboarding. It’s an amazing interview – the full text is being released in four parts, this is part one. All up it is 17,000 words and I’ve listened to it and read it over a dozen times so …
Hurley, Billabong and the Australian Open of Surfing
The biggest event of next year’s Australian surfing calendar will be at Manly. In February. Co-presented by Hurley and Billabong. What? Yeah, that’s what we thought.
One Fan Laments The Passing Of Silverchair
Maybe it was a Melbourne thing but Silverchair always seemed to be a divisive band … They were obviously popular but I never met anyone who admitted to liking them. Then when I first went to the UK a friend of mine would swap seamlessly between thrash metal and Silverchair (he even had posters on his wall) which always seemed weird. Still, even though we hadn’t heard from them in a few years, news of their breakup made big news and one friend of Pop’s felt like …
Rip Curl Buys Ozmosis Stores
Rip Curl announced they had purchased the 19 store Victorian chain, Ozmosis. This is the second major retail acquisition for Rip Curl and follows a big industry push into retail over the last few years led by Billabong who has purchased major chains world wide over the last year and a bit. I’m not sure how long this trend can last but I would suggest to any small to medium size chain stores – now is the time to sell up. I don’t see this kind of battle over floor space lasting …
Dragon Marketing And Sales Assistant Jobs
Dragon Australia is after a sales and administration assistant along with a new markerting coordinator. I have known the crew at Dragon for years now and it seems like an awesome crew to work with. The roles are based in Torquay – see below for all the details and where to send your CV!
Hollywood’s Action Sport Success’ and Failures
127 Hours got a lot of its sports sequences right because it didn’t try and treat them as ‘extreme’ – there was none of the cliché catch phrases, metal music or other cringe-inducing elements Hollywood loves to throw into any sequence that hints at a surf, skate …
Terje Haakonsen Calls For Olympic Change
You might have caught some of the discussion about this in the Shoutbox yesterday. Terje Haakonsen has written an amazing letter calling for a change to the existing setup surrounding the Olympics. You can read the full letter over on Snowbroader here. There’s a …
Rip Curl Buys 15 Surf Stores
Rip Curl is upping their retail game acquiring 15 surf stores in W.A. According to the release (below), “The Perth-based acquisition consists of nine “Waves” surf stores, two “City Surf” stores and four “Cite” streetwear stores in the chain. The stores are located in mall locations across and around Perth.” This is going …
Kelly Slater – 10X ASP World Champion
Just a quick update to let you all know that Kelly Slater has won his 10th ASP World Title and proved again Chris Mauro’s point that he is one of the worlds greatest athletes. Slater dedicated the achievement to his family and to Andy Irons saying “It’s been a week of extremes …
The Camera Club Gallery, Sydney
Two friends of ours, Justin Barnwell and Darryl Nichols have got a new gallery opening in Bondi. Called ‘The Camera Club‘ it is a different take on things and will include a mini bar and pizzeria. The concept is pretty rad – check the release out below for all the info!
Rusty Signs Joey Brezinski
Rusty have signed Joey Brezinski onto their team. Brezinski will have his own line coming from the label called R.AD …
Iikka Backstrom On Nixon
Iikka Backstrom has signed onto the Nixon global snow team. He joins Danny Davis, JP Walker, Romain de Marchi, Gigi Ruf, Jeremy Jones, Hana Beaman, Elena Hight, Cheryl Maas, Jenny Jones and Todd Richards. Read more for the full release.
ESS’s ‘3 Bills’ Event
It’s getting to that time of year again when we get the rail jam announcements. First cab off the rank …
Oakley Holbrooks
(Photos by Julius Kellar) The Oakley Holbrook is the latest creation of Jesse and Shaun White. I spotted these on …
Boom Dizzle’s Top 10 Skate Tunes
Growing up all I did was skate, watch skate videos and listen to music. As much fun as all skate …
In The News feat. Leighton Meester
Most people are finally back at work this week and the real post-Christmas hangover begins… Yes, it’s another year of …
From Romania With Love
Not only does the first episode of the new season of Top Gear feature Australian all around good bloke Eric …
Coal 2010 Website is Up!
It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of everything these guys do and they haven’t disappointed with the 2010 …
2009 Australian Junior Series
[flv]https://popmag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Junior_Series_09.flv[/flv] The good guys at TSC shot me through this epic little video of the annual Teenage Rampage Australian Junior …
Burton US Open – 21st March
The Burton US Open is coming up fast! You can watch the live webcast as it happens on 21st and …
Simply Bread – Series 2
The second in Fat Kids’ series of Simply Bread events is happening on Friday April 17th at the Roxanne Parlour. …
SEAT Ibiza
Here is an ad for the Seat Ibiza which is apparently now 25 years old. The clip very roughly follows …
Shecklers Office
We’ve seen ‘The Fantasy Factory‘ in photo and video over the last few weeks. Now lets have a look at …
Analog ‘Show Us Your Ghouls’ Comp
I just got emailed some footage and photos from Analog’s ‘Show Us Your Ghouls’ contest which was held last Friday …
St. Kilda Skatepark Needs You!
The St. Kilda Skate Park is still not a sure thing. The well organized, well financed opposition to the skate …
The Great American Detour
Our good friend Tyler Manson, who you may remember from issue 10, and his girlfriend Lauren Carre have recently released …
2008 Air & Style Canceled
The 2008 Munich Air & Style has been canceled after a major sponsor pulled out. According to the press release …