If you’ve ever wondered how a little Australian boardshort company turns into a global giant, it all starts with Jeff Hackman eating a paper napkin. Or at least that’s what I heard anyway. Also, if you’d read the news page in the 4th issue you would have heard that Quiksilver …
Mordy Movies
Keeping on the art tip, Mordy Surf are announcing and showing the winners of the Mordy Surf Annual Film Festival on Wednesday the 13th of December at their Mordialloc store. The festivities kick off at 7:30 with a free bbq, drinks and a tonne of giveaways. The categories include: Best …
Maple Syrup
Sam Chisholm, the photographer behind the 4th issue’s cover shot of Matt Horne, was involved in the skateboard art exhibition in Adelaide called Maple Syrup a few weeks ago. Maple Syrup was 30 artists from around the country painting up boards… Hence, skateboards + paint = Maple Syrup. Anyway Sam …
Baw Baw update
Last week it snowed in Victoria. Which is funny because Al Gore was in town giving a speach on global warming. I wonder if he thinks snow in November is normal? Anyway some friends took advantage of all that burned fossil fuel and went snowboarding at Mt Baw Baw. Hopefully …
Chris Boadle gets another cover
Chris Boadle has updated his blog over at Yoko.com.au with what appears (it’s in Russian and we haven’t been able to get Alex Kutaysov, the only Russian we know, to translate it) to be him on the front cover of the MF Gangs video magazine. The video magazine also looks …
Robbie Walker goes global
Even though he’s not yet listed on the K2 snowboards website, Robbie Walker has officially been put on the K2 international am team! That is huge news for him and Australian snowboarding. It couldn’t of happened to a nicer kid. Robbie, we’re stoked for you! Now go out there and …
The Best Contest Ever
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0cm8E0UcJD8″][/gv] I was reading the September issue of The Skateboard Mag last night and there’s a story in there about The Best Contest Ever which was the Vans Protec Pool Party. So during my daily YouTube session I looked it up. Wouldn’t you know it? It was the best …
¡Viva Prahran! Results
Here’s the results from the weekends Viva Prahran contest that Quiksilver put on. Sorry these took so long to get up. I’ve been trying to get my hands on some more photos because my camera is crap. Until I do here’s a keeper of the sponsored division winner Nugget. Fuck …
Monday
So Issue 4 comes out Monday! It will be in some selected shops around Melbourne Monday afternoon and then will spread out across the country over the next few days. To prove that I’m not telling fibs, here’s some photos and a movie from my visit to the printers last …
Movers & Shapers
Steve Friedmantold me about this rad little art show that painter Ian Bowers is putting on at the Jeffery Malesa Gallery in Sorrento until the 15th of December. It’s called Movers & Shapers and it’s quite a unique idea. The paintings feature local shapers and surfers. I missed opening night …
Fuck yeah Grosso!
Jeff Grosso is down in Australia travelling with his family. A few days ago he skated Frankston park with Matt Mumford. It wasn’t a demo, it was just skating. POP’s friend at Kickback sent the following photos with this email: Here are some photos from one of my fave demos …
¡Viva Prahran!
I’m bumping this news article up because it’s happening this weekend! Quiksilver, Oakley and Nike are putting in $7500 for the ‘Viva Prahran’ skate comp this Saturday at, you guessed it, Prahran skatepark (a suburb of Melbourne for those that haven’t been). There’s a vert jam session, am (un-sponsored) and …
Wheels on meals
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/URfClnq6nuM”][/gv] I’m not trying to get all preachy on you here but if you haven’t checked out greasenotgas.com then you need to. It’s a website that shows you how to convert just about any diesel powered vehicle to run of the vegetable oil they use in deep fryers. Snowboarder …
Summer of fun
I got an email the other day with a link to a rad little myspace photo blog a girl named Tamara has started. It contains instructions on how to make your summer the best fun ever. If you’re not going overseas then you better get onto building this! Thanks Tamara.
Sorry for the delay!
The 4th issue of POP Magazine features interview’s with Australian snowboarder Jackson Allen and Swiss rider Anne-Flore Marxer, skateboarders Ryan Wilson and Mark Meddows plus surfer James Catto. Wes Mantooth shows us how to work in the USA, we’ve got our first clothing editorial Stitched and Tristian Still shares some …
I support the St Kilda Skatepark, and I vote
Forget all the politics involved, I’d really just like to be able to have a skatepark in St Kilda (partly because it would be across the street from where I work). However, there’s a war going on between skateboarders and people who want the park built, and everyone else that …
Banjo
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/daeB6KO8R04″][/gv] Sorry for the lack of updates over the last few days. After the airing of the Boost Mobile King Of The Rail on FuelTV I kind of blacked out for a few days. I got sent a link to NSW all-round snowboard enthusiast Banjo McLachlan’s very loose shred …
Sleep
Okay… This week has been a 24hour flat-out operation. We got the 4th issue of the magazine to the printers (teaser coming soon, magazine will ‘drop’ in-stores next week) and we submitted the final cut of the Boost King of the Rail contest FuelTV show. So if you have Foxtel …
Australia
So I’ve been busy working all day on this surprise that’s coming Monday afternoon and a Koala walked into my front yard. How good is Australia?! We’ve got animals that look like furry dogs living amongst us in the trees! That’s so bizarre.
That’s sick
Firstly, everybody say thanks to Chunk for telling me about this update. Secondly, I’ve got to be quick. It’s negative 3:45 o’clock and I’m working on something big. I’ll have more on the surprise Monday afternoon but until then you should go here and watch the full length snowboard film …
Hook ups
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/lolLHgoHf4w “][/gv] Our friend Dave at Armedia has been helping us with some filming work for the upcoming Boost Mobile film. Being the motivated guy that he is, he also filmed a ‘sponsor me’ tape for his buddy Joel Redding. He sent it to me to have a look …
Mute
Now that you’ve seen the Boost King Of The Rail trailer and you’ve got an idea of what it’s going to be like, we need your help. We need music. So if you produce music and you’d like to get some exposure, give it to us to use on 30,000 …
We’re making a movie… I’m here to clean the pool.
You may have noticed that the 4th issue of POP is a little behind. Well that’s because we’ve been in production of our first ever full length snowboard film. On the 9th of September Boost Mobile held the King Of The Rail contest. We made a DVD and FuelTV show …
SS
Rusty is touring the movie Surfing Surfaris around Australia at the moment. The film tour is really just an excuse to have a bunch of parties and give away a heap of free stuff. I can’t really see anything wrong with that. Free stuff is good. There’s a show tonight …
Good Times
Last night Trigger Brothers had the Melbourne (possibly Australian?) premier for Mack Dawg’s blockbuster Follow Me Around at their St. Kilda store. Burton also gave us a sneak peak at some of next years boards (how rad does the girls Twin look?!). By all accounts the turnout (around 100 people), …
Richer than you
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. We’ve been really busy working on something really rad for you so I promise there’s something really good coming really soon. Really. Anyway I got sent a newsletter this morning and guess what? Shaun (not Shawn) White has his own pro model shoe …
See you there
Just when you thought that all the premier’s were over, this Thursday night (the 19th) at 7pm Trigger Brothers in St Kilda are showing what’s being called the video of the season, Mack Dawg Productions Follow Me Around. It’s being played in the shop which is rad because Burton have …
ASMF
For anyone on the east coast who’s looking for some pre-summer stokage you’re in luck. Samsung and Quiksilver are touring the Australian Surf Movie Festival with 28 shows along the east coast (it actually started last week). They’re showing 2 films, Flow and First Chapter. Just quickly; Flow was awarded …
Slats
Well he’s done it. Kelly Slater has just won his 8th World Championship at the Billabong Pro at Mundaka, Spain (yes Mundaka has a wave again). Although it must be said that tour rookie Bobby Martinez actually won the event. As rad as it is Slater winning, it gets me …
MDP People
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/sR-uUweZsBU”][/gv] The premier for MDP’s People at Frankston Trigger last night was a bit quite so chances are you weren’t there. Luckily I bootlegged most of the intro section for you! The video is pretty good. Very cinematic as you’d expect from the guys behind the project. As the …
Better late than never
I only found out about this yesterday but it seems that Trigger Brothers Frankston store is having a premier for MDP’s People tonight!. People is the film that came out of the NeoProto and Kids Know production crews merging together. So if you’ve got nothing planned for tonight come down …
Fully Sick Bro
My morning was made by this… I found this action from Carroll and Koston. You have no idea how excited we are about this video. Lakai have been making some amazing shoes (seen the Telfords in Navy/White?). Speaking of Lakai did you know the name originated from Mike Carroll’s nickname, …
Something right?
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9o2ofAVCkgQ”][/gv] Although this teaser has been out for a while I only just watched it. It’s for Oakley’s new skate film called ‘Our Life’ and it’s surprisingly ok given the Community Project. There’s a few different teasers floating around but this is the best I think. Apparently it’s out …
Shred Stopover
For snowboarders it’s getting to that time of year where you’re looking at flights and destinations for the Northern Winter. Well if you’re heading to Europe you may want to consider stopping in Dubai on the way through. Not only for the crazy buildings and ridiculous shopping but for the …
Hot Doggin’
Well the The Annual Trigger Brothers End of Season Mt Buller BBQ (or ATBESMBBBQ as I’m trying to get people to call it) happened on Sunday. I feel sorry for you if you missed it because it was a really fun time. And yes, there was enough snow for a …