Click the image to make it big! This is a little late but part of the new Burton iDiom range was featured in the current issue of Complex. I only got my copy yesterday so that’s why I’m late on it. Still, for those that don’t know, Burton iDiom is …
Ryan’s Life Is This Good?
Season two of the Life of Ryan is starting on MTV on January 8th – well, in the US anyway. I can’t spot in on the Australian site so you will just have to get your download on. I seriously want to know how much of this show is scripted… …
Nitro – One Track Mind – Review
Okay, this has taken me a few weeks to get together but having just seen Nitro‘s new free DVD, One Track Mind, I wish I’d been on this earlier. I’m not one for overly glowing reviews and the film does have a few faults but overall, this is a pretty …
Hit Runs are Fun
It doesn’t matter what the weather is like, your riding skills or how tight your pants are everyone can enjoy a good hit run. Whistler reminded us of this today. Have a look at the video I made of the day here.
West Coast SnowPark Newsletter
I got a rather boring but slightly interesting email newsletter a couple of days ago from the West Coast SnowPark people. Don’t get too excited, this isn’t like the New Zealand SnowPark. This is the indoor snow centre in Perth that’s been in the works for some time. Given the …
Globe Occy Tribute Shoe.
Globe are releasing a shoe to commemorate Occy’s 1999 World Championship title win. The shoe is being released to coincide with Occy’s retirement at Pipe this year. No disrespect to Occy here, the guy is a legend, but isn’t it a little late for this shoe? I mean, great for …
Braun Cruzer Requires No Jokes – Funny On It’s Own.
Well, this has made my morning. Drew emailed me this last night and I’m yet to fully stop laughing. Apparently the new eXXXtreme is all about facial hair. Yep, wank beard styles are what it’s all about. Head over here for a real laugh and make sure you check the …
Subscriptions Paying Off!
If you got some extra scratch left over from Christmas, you might want to get yourself a subscription to POP because we look after our own. Richie here got hooked up with a new copy of Tony Hawks Project Underground and everyone else got a couple copies of Analog’s new …
ShortStraw Summer Party
If your the new kid on the block how do you make an impact in the surf market these days? Well you could run an amazing ad in POP (some of the best artwork we saw all year, read page 26) and then chuck a huge party in Sydney, Brisbane …
ARC Rugby Is Funny, Fraser Davidson Is Genius
Whilst out looking for animation ideas for our upcoming film project I came across the work of a very talented designer named Fraser Davidson. If you’re looking to waste some time watch his series for the amazingly good ARC Rugby. If AFL was called by this Jedi guy I might …
POP is now optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch
So despite Australia not even having the iPhone yet, I went ahead and upgraded the site to work with the iPod Touch. So it should work with the iPhone (if any one has a Touch or an iPhone let me know if there are any problems) . The great thing …
Stereogum’s 30 Favorite Live Shows Of 2007
Probably the only thing good about a New Years are all the lists people make. Super fantastic music website Stereogum have complied their favorite live shows of 2007. Having missed Daft Punk, I am stoked to have purchased tickets to both upcoming shows for The National and the Arcade Fire …
Fuck you I quit!
I quit my job last week, and I have to say, it’s an entirely satisfying experience. It’s the second time I’ve quit a good job this year, and I highly recommend it! Nothing beats the feeling of whiling away your remaining days with no responsibility. I won’t bore you with …
Boost ‘Under Lights’ Commercial Behind The Scenes
Well after reading that Ty Evans interview we posted earlier in the week I had a better look around that SkatePerception.com website. It’s basically a skate filmers website. Whilst the design is a little clunky the forums are alive and well with camera geek bits and pieces. There’s a ton …
Lakai Fully Flared Review
I’ve been trying to write this review for a week now, it’s just hard to put into words how good this film actually is. Do you remember the first time you saw Mouse? Fully Flared is to the 2000’s what Mouse was to the ’90’s. The opening sequence is amazing …
Mike Giant Santa Cruz Decks
Another hook-up from POP’s reporter of the year. I’m not sure if these are new or not, but if someone’s thinking about getting me a late Christmas present you could do worse than Mike Giant’s deck series from Santa Cruz skateboards. Normally I would hold out on putting this sort …
Ty Evans Gets His Tech On
Photo by skateperception.com You know how much we loved Lakai’s Fully Flared, and you know we love cameras. Well, if your like us, then your going to want to read this over at Skate Perception. Ty goes into details about how they filmed the intro, what kind of cameras they …
World Snowboarding Day at Grouse
There was little fanfare or celebration as it was two days before Christmas and only one half of the world had snow. The 23rd of December was world snowboarding day. I hope you where lucky enough to go riding or at least got to flip through a snowboarding magazine to …
New Mordy’s Website
The Victorian snow/skate/surf retailer, Mordy’s, have just updated their website. I always liked their old one but it seems the Mordy’s guys like to keep things fresh. Oh and look at that, they’ve posted about the new issue… Aww… Thanks Mordy’s!
Brighton’s New High Speed Quad
Another bunch of photos from POP’s reporter of the the year. These shots are from the opening day of Brighton’s new high speed quad over at Millicent but it could be from just about any resort in the US right now after the latest storms. This is all I heard …
Trevor ‘Trouble’ Andrew Vermont Show
For those of you that are fans of Trouble Andrew, a good friend sent through some photos of his show at the annual Burton sales meeting in Stowe, Vermont. In the crowd you may see up front, Jake, Gigi, Keegan, Mikel, Elena, Kelly and the guy from Miami Ink.
Find the new issue.
I wanted to update you all on our circulation tracking. The new issue has shipped and is in stores, but what stores I hear you ask? Well, these ones to be exact. I’ve finished updating our Google Maps page to reflect the current issue’s circulation, so if your wondering where …
Has PJ Ladd left Es?
In what might be a world first super exclusive for POP, or might be a total rumor, we are hearing that PJ Ladd has left Es to join DC. There’s no details yet, or confirmation from anyone – in fact, right now my source is the bag lady who hangs …
DC Mtn Lab 1.5 Launch Party!
Last night was the premiere for DC’s new Mtn Lab 1.5 video. If you didn’t make it down to the bar last night, then you missed a fun night thats for sure. It started out looking like a disaster, and I have to say, we thought POP might need to …
And In More DC News…
I just came across this on good ‘ol Skatedaily.net, it appears that Rob and Big are back soon for a third season on MTV! Peep the above teaser to see what kind of shenanigans they get up too. Unfortunately this mag doesn’t pay enough for me to get subscription TV …
Pissed Off
So I woke up this morning and had this note left on my floor by an American friend (not Mike) who I’ve been showing around. Pissed off…
DC MTN.LAB 1.5 Premiere, Thur, 7pm @ F4 in Melbourne!
Just a reminder that DC’s Mtn.Lab 1.5 premiere is happening tomorrow night! It’s being held at the F4 club in the city located at Level 2, 322 Little Collins Street. DC is matching everyone, drink for drink, on the bar… So that’s buy one get one free! It should be …
JP Walker on StepChild!
“Not Jan” called it in the Shout Box days ago – After weeks of speculation, StepChild has announced that they have signed JP Walker. Walker said, “Where else would I end up? Come on, you know I keep it one-hunney! StepChild is one of the last true snowboard companies out …
Note To Self
Whilst on my way to the amazingly fun Shortstraw Clothing’s Christmas party last Friday night I had the chance to meet a very nice lad by the name of Max. Max and I got talking about Daft Punk and the Lakai film. Soon I discovered Max hand makes denim jean’s …
EESA Clothing’s RV Up For Sale
When I first saw this in my inbox I thought it was a joke. Well now with 8 hours to go it seems very real. Base layer clothing company eesa are indeed selling their Chevy G30 Class C RV at no reserve on eBay. That means it’ll sell for the …
Sticker Jobs
So you get your board out ready for the season, before you wax it, before you mount the bindings and even before you give the shop guy the cash for the board you are thinking of the sticker job you are going to do. It is a snowboarding tradition to …
Lakai and Guy…
I was at the Lakai Fully Flared premiere last night, and all I can say is Guy Mariano. The Lakai team have produced a film that is so fucking amazing that skateboarding just got a whole lot harder for every other skater in the world. If you look at the …
Lakai Fully Flared Premiere Photo Wrap-Up
Last night, if you weren’t at the Melbourne premieres for The Darjeeling Limited, 2 Days In Paris or at the opening night of Daft Punk, chances are you were at the Fully Flared premiere that POP and Lakai put on in Gourlay’s studio off Greville Street. We counted over 200 …
This week on the internet…
Apologies for the weakness in my postings, I have no excuse really. I am, however, waiting for some photos from last Saturday so i can have something semi-interesting to show you. It’s 32 degrees today, so I don’t have anything to tell you about the snow. Instead I might start …
POPMag.com now mobile!
I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that this website is now optimized for mobile device browsers. It won’t look as nice, but you can now browse to all the content much easier. If you browse to www.popmag.com.au on your phone for example, the site will automatically …