Ken Block On Boardsports Business

Ken Block has got to be one of the most knowledgable guys around when it comes to action sports. He kicked off in 1991 when he got together with Damon Way to create Eightball Clothing which then moved into Droors, Dub, and finished with skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing powerhouse, DC. He has …

by Dave

Alife Sessions Present Drake

Last month, Alife Sessions had Drake along for a party … It was something to do with Umbro but the details there don’t matter. What matters is that we all missed out on something amazing – check the video out below!

by Dave

Stylewars A Month Away

Arguably the best event in Australia this year, Stylewars, is less than a month away. This year Pop will be on location at Falls Creek bringing you up to the minute coverage. This year’s event continues bring the radness with a line up of local bands and international pros. Last …

by Rick

2010 Forum Battle At Baw Baw Photos And Webcast Video

Pop’s resident photographer Julius Kellar was up at the 2010 Forum Battle At Baw Baw taking photos. Julius has sent in his favorites so have a look. You might have also heard Pop did a live webcast of the entire event. If you missed the entire 3 hour show, you’re …

by Rick

Adrian Grenier On ‘Teenage Paparazzo’

Last week I got to talk to Entourage’s Adrian Grenier (who plays Vincent Chase in the show) about his new film, Teenage Paparazzo. Grenier directed and starred in the film about 13 year old Austin Visschedyk who …

by Dave

Plastiki Arrving In Sydney This Morning

Plastiki, the boat made of 12,500 reused plastic bottles and a whole lot of courage, has almost completed it’s 8,000 nautical mile, 4 month trip from San Francisco to Syndey. It’s due into Sydney Harbour at around 11am this morning (26th of July). The adventure aims …

by Rick

Battle At Baw Live Webcast 1:30 Tomorrow July 24th

Just a final reminder that tomorrow is Forum’s ‘Battle at Baw Baw’ and if you can’t make it along on the day, be sure to tune into Pop at 1.30pm for a LIVE WEBCAST of the whole event! See you tomorrow!

by Dave

Videograss Saturdays: Season 2 Episode 7

I can watch Nima Jalali and Darrell Mathes snowboard some of the worlds best mountains and be fine with not being there. But watching these two sub-6-footers playing some ball in the Utah Jazz’s training facility and not being there absolutely kills me. Some guys have all the luck.

by Rick

2010 Burton Cattlemans Rail Jam Wrap And Photos

Well it’s Sunday night and it’s all over. The 2010 Burton Cattleman’s Rail Jam was a smash. Some big tricks, some never seen before tricks, and a new winner. By now you probably already know who won, but just in case here we go again. First place went to Tom Pelley …

by Rick

New Trouble Andrew Clip

Former snowboarder turned musician, Trouble Andrew, has got a new clip up for his song ‘Caddillac’. According to Frank151, Trouble has signed to Virgin Records so there could be a full album in the works. In the mean time, check out the clip above and if you …

by Dave

Hot Water Music And Bouncing Souls Australia Tour

Some of you may think this is a slightly out of character post for Pop but these two bands have been in enough snow, skate and surf videos to warrant it. One of my favorite bands, Hot Water Music have announced another tour of Australia. It’s been a few years since …

by Rick

Converse’s “Three Artists, One Song” Drops This Friday!

Converse has got a project running called ‘Three Artists, One Song’. The project takes Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast, Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Kid Cudi… It’s Cudder that’s got me posting this! Before the actual track drops, there’s videos with each of the musicians. Check out the Cudi …

by Dave

Ashbury Is Not Just Eyewear

(Photos by Julius Kellar) Everyone knows we’re a fan of Ashbury’s work and the guys have been getting better and better over the last few years… From the new gear, we wanted to show off something other than just the eyewear. Ashbury puts a tonne of effort into their apparel …

by Dave

In The News Feat. Gisele Bündchen

This week, In The News, we have the power of Facebook’s founder, Rolling Stone’s amazing work, the problem with smiley J’s, and Brazillian model, Gisele Bündchen. Have a great week!

by Dave

The Rob Blog: First Kids Can Ride Trip

With a lot of help from Rhylla at Mt Buller, my gorgeous girlfriend Alice and Geoff Walker from Mansfield Secondary College, the first Kids Can Ride trip has begun. I started Kids Can Ride because I wanted to snowboard with kids who love snowboarding …

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Top 10 Ways To Die On Film

Another Saturday and another Top 10. This one is courtesy of Annie Fox and our friends over at TheVine.com.au. Enjoy. It’s easy to get desensitized to violence on film. Who hasn’t had a “ho hum” moment when yet another bullet slices through the eyeball of an innocent bystander during a …

by Rick

Made You Look Melbourne Premiere Photos

[UPDATE: More photos thanks to Robbie Warden] The Melbourne premiere for New Zealand production crew Reason Film’s latest movie went down at The Station in Prahran last night. By all accounts the film was pretty epic with an amazing ender by …

by Rick

Riot In LA After Lakers Win

Party With Panda photographer, Clayton Woodley, was hanging out in L.A. watching the Lakers take out the NBA finals and happened to be in the right place at the right time. He grabbed his camera to catch the riot in the streets after the game. You can see a few …

by Dave

David Thorne: The Haters Make Him Stronger

The article below appeared in the most recent issue of the magazine and although he is known to many of you, some less internet savvy have been a little perplexed. David Thorne is the creator of some very popular internet memes – most well known is his attempt to pay …

by Dave

Analog And Justin Bleick Creating Denim

Analog has been working with the creative director at Ever Clothing, Jason Bleick, to produce some good looking denim. Rad Collector said, “Having already upped their denim quality considerably with Bleick in 2009, they are going for even higher end product for 2010. Using Turkish mills and an Egyptian factory, …

by Dave

2010 Perisher Park Update 1

Just got these shots from Perisher’s Grooming Supervisor Adam Galbraith. A good dude to be sure… With quite impressive spelling and grammar… Anyway, moving on! He says that “last night we added a 6m down box to give us a total of 10 features in the Slopestyle park on Front …

by Rick

Billabong Pro J-Bay Webisodes 2 & 3

Billabong have been doing a series of webisodes leading up to the 4th stop of the 2010 ASP Men’s World Tour, the Billabong Pro at J-Bay. Episodes (webisodes?) 2 and 3 are up now. Episode 2 (above) features J-Bay local and Billabong World Junior Champion Jordy Smith. Episode 3 is about former three-time …

by Rick

Patagonia Torquay Winter Board Swap

Here’s a cool initiative to move your old craft in a board swap at Patagonia in Torquay. The deal is everyone needs to call or email the Patagonia store in Torquay their name, phone number and number of boards they want to bring. You’re allowed a …

by Rick

ROC Nation Aviators By Skullcandy

These have got me pretty excited… As the people in the office know, I don’t mind a bit of Jay-Z (4 hours a morning isn’t too much is it?). Skullcandy have created a custom headphone with Jigga Man Called the ROC Nation Aviators. They’ve taken inspiration from the classic Ray …

by Dave

Billabong Design For Humanity Video

On June 10th Billabong held their annual ‘Design For Humanity’ event. They got 3,000 crew down at the Paramount Studios 5-acre NY Streets Backlot in Hollywood. According to the release, “100% of this year’s ticket sales and proceeds from the art show and product collaboration auction sales will be donated …

by Dave

2010 NBA Finals – Lakers Win!

Sorry to spoil it if you’re waiting for the replay but I figure your chances of not hearing the result are next to nil anyway. The Los Angeles Lakers are the 2010 NBA Finals Champions. It was a hard fought physical game with terrible offense from both teams. Still, as …

by Rick

Summer Dew Tour Stop 1 Live On FuelTV June 27th

The summer Dew Tour is back for another season. It’s Stop 1 and just like our cover latest cover hero hinted at, Shaun White is in the vert comp. A 1080 on a skateboard not your thing? Perhaps P-Rod in the park might be? No matter, it’s all being covered …

by Rick

Snoop Rocking Neff At Lakers Game

Snoop has been a long time fan of Neff rocking the brand at different events for quite a while now. The other day he was spotted on his way to the Lakers vs. Celtics game in the Neff Daily cap. There’s a pap video of the guys heading off below …

by Dave

Billabong Pro J-Bay Webisode 1

Billabong have put together a webisode series as promotion for the upcoming 4th stop of the 2010 ASP Men’s World Tour, the Billabong Pro at J-Bay. Webisode 1 is a retrospective of last year’s event when Joel Parkinson won.

by Rick

2010 NBA Finals – We’re Headed To A Game 7

Well it happened. The Los Angeles Lakers convincingly beat the Boston Celtics in LA last night. That means we’re going to a Game 7! Do or die for both teams. As the brilliant NBAMate.com guys said (much better than I can): “Game 7’s are basketball’s Superbowl, the …

by Rick

New Xbox 360 Hits Australia July 1st

For those of you like me who don’t mind a bit of couch time. Microsoft have showed off the newest version of it’s Xbox 360. Gizmodo have all details, but all you really need to know is it’s smaller, has more ports (and one for Kinect), runs quieter, has a …

by Rick

2010 NBA Finals

It might not be a secret, but I’m a massive fan of the NBA and playing basketball. This year, I have been glued to ESPN and NBA’s broadband league pass as the regular season wound down and Lebron James looked like he’d take the Cavs the whole way. Then Boston …

by Rick

NJ Skateshop Talks Footwear With Complex

NJ Skateshop’s Chris Nieratko and Steve Lenardo have picked out a few of their top selling kicks for Complex. There’s the predictable Vans Chukka’s and Era’s along with Adidas Busenitz’s and the Lakai Manchesters. Worth checking out the list (here) – Oh, and while you’re clicking, you should definitely peep the …

by Dave

In The News Feat. Zoe Saldana

This week we have the hacker who released the video of US soldiers firing on civilians turning in his source, satellite photos of the Gulf of Mexico, a collection of Greg Williams work, Chrome vs. Firefox on Mac, one man with his Gallardo and Zoe Saldana. Enjoy!

by Dave

Element Pulaski Jean

(Photos by Julius Kellar) There’s nothing harder than finding a good pair of jeans – most that you come across now have wack cuts, crazy logos or some bizarre shiny denim. The above Pulaski jean from Element is something else. A classic straight cut, five pocket washed black denim pant. …

by Dave