Snow Park should be paying the Holey Moley people for all the good reasons they keep giving me to head over to New Zealand. The above photo was taken at the start of August, before Burton pushed up the New Zealand Open course. Imagine what it would be like now. …
2006 Burton Australia Open Cancelled
I just got word that the 2006 Burton Australian Open has been cancelled due to insufficient snowfall. Whilst some of you might be thinking ‘why didn’t they just do a big air/rail jam/party’… I for one am glad that they made the difficult choice of not doing it at all. …
POP’s Buller Day Trip
So Friday was an epic day. At 6am the morning after the Quiksilver video premier I was up and in the car on the way to my first day trip of the year. I said ‘day trip’ so naturally that was Mt Buller. After paying the heist money for the …
Dane Reynolds Melbourne Premier
Me and my band of fellow free-beer, surf video loving warriors went a long to the Melbourne premier of Dane Reynolds new Quiksilver’s film, First Chapter. Whilst not quite as good as the Christian Hosoi and Arto Saari mini ramp session that was the US premier, the movie was pretty …
Burton Open New Zealand Slopestyle
The slopestyle of New Zealand Burton Open has just wrapped up. There’s a bunch of photos and video at the NZ Open website so head over there. Watch the videos because the ‘host’ is kind of funny. Props has to go to Australian Emily Thomas for getting 2nd! Yeah gurl! …
6455 visits!
So we had 6455 visits to the site in August. Thats a record for us. So to thank you all for checking the POP website for your daily dose of time wasting I’ve decided to give away a 7.5″ Darkstar Paul Machnau Armor Light Resin skateboard (it’s actually guaranteed against …
Love thy lomo
Okay can everyone please stop emailing us asking where they can get the Lomo Fisheye 2 camera from! I’m sorry we forgot to list the Lomography.com.au website in the magazine. If I wasn’t so retarded I would have put the Lomography.com.au website as the best place to buy all your …
Shralp! is amazing!
Our good buddies at Shralp! have just released podcast number 36. They were cool enough to feature some footage from the recent Burton Rail Event held at Mt Buller a few weekends ago. If you’ve got itunes, fire it up and search for Shralp in the podcast directory. If your …
It’s about time!
POP Issue 3 is shipping out to stores this week! Our delivery monkey’s will be out in Victoria first thing Monday. The rest of Australia will go by the post so it will probably be even quicker as they’re way more reliable than the monkey. Some ‘advance’ copies went out …
Go skate
If you were wondering why the site wasn’t updated for the last 4 days it’s because I was up at Mt Hotham for the weekend (I’ll have some video footage for you in a few days time). As most of you could probably guess, there wasn’t much snow on the …
Vans Summer collection
Vans Summer 2006 Core Skate collection comes out next week. Normally I wouldn’t post press release type stuff but I thought it was pretty nice that Rowley’s Classic shoe is 100% vegan friendly and also comes in a limited edition Motörhead version. So you can skate hard and guilt free.
Holey Moley
The guys over at the Holey Moley snowboard camp have just annouced some new locations for their camps. The September – October camp is down at Snow Park in New Zealand whilst the December – Janurary camp is at Salt Lake City, Utah. If your thinking of going on a …
Aussie rockin’ and rollin’
I went to an Eddy Current Supression Ring show at Melbourne’s ‘Revolver’ a couple of weekends ago. I managed to stop rocking long enough to film this song. You can download some mp3’s from there website I think. There’s nothing quite like some good ol’ Aussie rock…
Digital Snowboard Magazine website updated
The 411VM of Australian snowboarding, Digital Snowboard Magazine, have updated their website with a bunch of new video that didn’t make it into the DVD. The whole sites gone through something of a revamp. It’s a little hard to navigate and you need to create an account and login to …
Burton Rail Event film!
Well it wasn’t quite live but here it is… Film from the Burton Rail Event held at Mt Buller this past weekend. Go to the mini site for the footage. A big thanks goes to POP’s newest bestest friend Jan from Project Media for all the cinematography help.
Burton Rail Event photos & teaser video
Well after all the stress of not being able to get the live webcast thing to actually be live, I feel we here at POP have to redeem ourselves a little. So while we’re editing down the footage of the event, I thought I’d post some photos and a little …
Almost live webcast site now online!
So the website for this Saturday nights Burton rail event at Mt Buller is now online. There’s video interviews with snowboarders Chris Boadle, Aaron Maxwell, Chris Eacott and Marc Baker speaking to POP about what this contest means to them. So do your homework for the contest and hear what …
Grand Sale!
Pizzey and the rest of the team at Greensborough’s Central Board Co. in Victoria are having The $50 Sale this weekend (22nd, 23rd & 24th). In case you’re retarded, The $50 Sale means that nothing is over $50! As always with these type of things, there’s condidtions so make sure …
It’s on the way…
Some of you have noticed we changed this page a few days ago. Well thats because we’ve signed off on the proofs of the 3rd issue of the magazine and it’s on the print press as we speak! Keep your eyes on the usual websites for exclusive internet only releases …
Gotham Update
Late Friday night, after the Melbourne Death Cab for Cutie show (video & photos coming soon), some of the POP staff made the 5 hour drive up to Victoria’s Mt Hotham… Now I don’t want to be the negative type but the conditions were less than ideal. If it doesn’t …
Congratulations on the cover!
Photo: Marc Baker, blunt stall by Dan Himbrechts. I just received this in my inbox. It appears as if Australian photographer Dan Himbrechts‘ shot of Australian snowboarder Marc Baker has got on the cover of the national French snowboard magazine Snow Surf! A huge congratulations to the both of them!
Burton Rail Event
Okay everybody, pay attention. I have an announcement! On Saturday the 22nd of July during the snowboard demo weekend at Mt Buller, Burton is holding an invite only event on the Village Square hand rail. Ten of Australian’s best rail destroyers will be there so if you can make, it’ll be …
Thredbo Park
Charles Beckinsale and his company JC Jibs are the guiding force in park design and building in Australia. For the second year in a row Thredbo have employeed Charles and his guys to design and maintain it’s multiple terrain parks. Charles sent POP through some photos of him sliding the …
Vans Rowley TV Ads…
We got these (there’s 2) Vans Rowley TV commercial’s in the inbox today. One above, one below. Check them out.
In case you haven’t seen it…
This is Chris Haslam’s part in the Almost video. If you haven’t seen it, you’re in for a treat. If you have, you know how good this goodness is…enjoy!
Buller Rocks
Some POP friends went up to Mt Buller last weekend and shot this for us. Aparently the MBP (Buller has tried to disguise it’s crappy park by painting all the rails green and calling them MBP. Credit to the creative genius’ at the Buller marketing department for the Mount Buller …
Makin’ A Magazine
Sorry you haven’t heard from us in a few days. We’ve got some updates coming in the next 24 hours. But for now, rest assured, we’re makin’ a magazine! It’s only days now until Issue 3 is at your local shop. And yep, it’s still free! If you want to …
A day in the life of the UnInc team
So Friday was a lucky day. I got to spend it down in Melbourne with the Burton UnInc team! Basically, I hi-jacked the brand new Volkswagon van that Burton had borrowed for the day and drove around Gigi Ruf, Romain De Marchi, JP Soberg, Danny Davis, photographer Dean ‘Blotto’ Gray …
Burton ‘The Process 4′ Movie Tour
Well I finally got sent the flyer for the Australia leg of Burton’s ‘The Process 4’ movie tour. It kicks off in Sydney today and then down to Melbourne tomorrow followed by a showing on the Gold Coast and then in Newcastle. As I’m down in Melbourne for tomorrows madness, …
Altitude Store Opening
Last Thursday night was the opening of Melbourne’s newest snow retail store called Altitude, located at 241 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Whilst not your traditional store opening (which is usually a good excuse for kids to come and drink free beer whilst stuffing there pockets full of ‘free’ product when no …
Trigger Wednesday Skate Night
For the last few Wednesday nights, Jon Poole, Troy Omahony, Mike Martin and the rest of the Trigger Brothers guys have been dragging down the extension cords and generators to the epic Frankston skatepark for a little after work wheel shralp. Being the nice guys that they are, everyone’s invited! …
POP-Gravis iPod case giveaway!
Did you win a Gravis iPod case from POP Magazine? In the 2nd issue of POP, we ran a contest asking readers to sign up as our friend for a chance to win. We’ve annouced the winners so check below to see if your one. If your on the list, …
DC Demo at Prahran
I’ve been sitting on this clip for a while now. I just wasn’t sure if it was cool to post it as Jason really gave it a crack this night but he got broken pretty good. Jason and Pappas were pretty much the only ones giving the crowd a show. …
Dan Himbrechts
Dan Himbrechts is the most on point photographer in Australian snowboarding today. With roots stemming from his early skate and music days, Dan has used his BA in Visual Arts to produce amazing imagery time and again. Renowned for his control of artificial light and cutting edge techniques, Dan grasps …