We’re hearing rumors from several sauces (that’s right, the ketchup told me) that ACP have sold Australian and New Zealand Snowboarding to Wolseley Media – the investment fund that swapped Rolling Stone for Waves and Tracks a few months ago. According to the rumor, Wolseley picked up Auz/NZ Snowboarding along …
Hoban’s Blog Update
It’s been a while but Ben Hoban, writer of the controversial post entitled ‘Skate to Death – Why?’ has written a part update to his last post and an art critique on the ancient discipline of skate park graf… covering everything from the ‘pot leaf’ to the ‘cock and balls’ …
Rick McCrank for Peta
This might be the oldest news around but as I only just came across it, I’m going to pass it off like its new. Lazy? Maybe, I don’t feel like deciding right now. Anyway, Rick McCrank is supporting Peta and has his own print ad doing the rounds. Apparently “eating …
Who Just Blogged? Smells Terrible
As the ever watchful God just pointed out in the shoutbox, we have been definitely lacking with the updates lately. God, however, knows all. I have been away and the rest of the team are finishing a DVD, and a magazine. I just finished the last part of my travel …
Is PSC Swanston St. To Become A Skate Footwear Store?
So, rumors are floating around that the Globe Intl. owned PSC store on Swanston St. in Melbourne is set to become a ‘Foot Locker‘ style store for action sports shoes. If the rumors are correct, the store will no longer sell skate hardware, just footwear. At this stage there is …
Mylestone Site Launches
Victorian based apparel label, Mylestone, have launched their website (click here to check it out) and although light on content at the moment, I’m assured that there will be more up there soon. Myles Maddock, founder of Mylestone, has been working hard on this for a few months now and …
Burton Team Changes
Transworld is reporting some major team changes happening at Burton. Danny Davis, Mason Aguirre and Kevin Pearce have all moved up to the global team along with a host of new names. Names apparently no longer on the global list include Romain De Marchi, DCP, Keir Dillon, Ross Powers, JP …
White Knight Two Unveiled
Following up on the super-mega-cool SpaceShipOne project a few years back, Scaled Composites has unveiled it’s new mothership, White Knight Two. In case your not obsessed with going to the moon like I am, Scaled Composites is the company behind the first privately funded manned space flight. They have now …
Subscriber Gear For The New Issue!
So, this photo is of about 1/3 of the gear that companies sent in for our lucky subscribers this issue! We’ve got some great stuff from Afends, Alife, Ride, The Official, Rip Curl, Billabong, Destyn.Via, IFOUND, 10 Deep as well as music DVD’s from MacBeth and a deck from 5boro. …
Mitch Williams Wins Battle at Baw Baw
Mitch Williams won the Battle at Baw Baw – Matt Sedunary came second with Tom Pelley taking out third. I don’t have details on the win, nor do I have photos or video at this stage… all I have is a phone call from Drew to tell me who got …
2008 Boost Mobile SnoSho Wildcard Entry Now Open
Like the title says, the SnoSho is now taking wildcard entries for their event. Having been somewhat involved in this event for the past few years I’ll tell anyone out their thinking about entering as a wildcard this: If you make the finals, it’s easy to win this event. If …
Enviro-tripping
If you are a “cool, hip, and happening” person, not a day goes by where you don’t wax lyrical and trip balls on the effects increasing oil prices with other likeminded individuals. Fair enough, we are at war over it (and a few other things, like terrorists). Transworld Business has …
Trouble on KarmaloopTV
Watch this and make your own mind up about the guy. But Trevor Andrew aka Trouble has a clip on the KarmaloopTV’s Their Words series. Trouble talks about his transition from snowboarding into music and his relationship with singer/producer Santo Gold. Look, I find his music entertaining but am I …
Koston, Kennedy, Mariano, Szafranski On Neff
We originally called it a few months ago but now we have the official release, Neff have signed Eric Koston, Terry Kennedy, Guy Mariano and Braydon Szafranski. It’s a pretty amazing team Neff have put together – Shaun obviously knows how to do shit right and says in the release …
Internet Sensation – N.P.H as Dr Horrible
This is all over the web now, and normally I would just put this in the forums, but Neil Patrick Harris is my new man crush thanks to his amazing performance as Barney on How I Met Your Mother. He is the star of a video-blog/musical about an evil genius …
Issue 10 Editorial Shoot At Steve Gourlay’s Studio
As the the title says, we’ve been over at Steve Gourlay’s studio shooting the fashion editorial and product’s for the upcoming issue 10. We shot the headwear and footwear editorial, photos of all the gear we took overseas to film Two Weeks In with and various other electronics and all …
Maloof Money Cup = Mega Bucks
News just in is that Paul Rodriguez and Pierre Luc Gagnon took out the 100K and 75k prize purse at the Maloof money cup. You may remember this post a few weeks back about this competition. Not a bad days work for the two, not that P-Rod exactly needs it …
REMINDER: 2008 Burton Cattleman’s Rail Jam
Well after a shaky start to the snow season, I think it’s now safe to say it’s on like Donkey Kong! And like Kong busting out of his hut in DK Country, Burton are first off the grid like Toad in Mario Kart with the 2008 Cattleman’s Rail Jam contest …
iPhone Users Contest!
Many of you will already know this but because of the sheer size of the current passing bandwagon, we thought we’d let a few n00bs in on the fact that our site is… in fact, iPhone accessible. And has been for like a year… yeah, we’re ahead of it (by …
Mt Buller TVC Uses Pakour to Sell Snowboarding – I think
I might be last on this but I was watching Nelson Aspen’s Hollywood report this morning when a new commercial for Mt Buller came on… It’s an unusual angle they’ve taken with this one, using Parkour (is it a sport? Cmon, it’s just silly walking) to sell snowboarding/skiing. Here’s hoping …
WANTED: Bern and Pow Looking for Good People
Mylo at Mylestone sent me this today… BERN UNLIMITED and POW GLOVES are looking for experienced agents and reps to pick up the brands in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia. The potential for growth from the two brands is massive. With quality and individuality of high …
Sheckler Speaks to Nieratko
Everyone loves to stick the boot into Sheckler. Even I’m guilty of having a go sometimes but I do have a lot of respect for the guy. There are few skaters willing to weather the shit storm of abuse he has endured to… well, lets be honest… follow the money …
POP Magazine EmpireAve.com Interview
We must have done something right, or incredibly wrong lately. We’ve been ‘Featured’ over at EmpireAve.com. EmpireAve is an Australian based website run by two friends of ours, Lincoln and Tim. This time Dave and I got to chat about the infancy of POP and what we did before the …
Worth Seeing – Gotham Knight
If you’re like me and have been a fan of Christian Bale ever since Empire of The Sun chances are you’re eagerly awaiting the new Batman film (or perhaps you just like snuff films? Ohhh…too soon?), and no I’m not talking about the gay Batman. Well you might be interested …
Joy Division Zune – Engadget Hands On
Remember a while back we posted about that limited edition Joy Division/Peter Saville Zune? ‘Yeah, but what’s a Zune?” It’s a MP3 player kinda like the iPod but that’s not important right now. Well anyway Engadget have posted photos of a prototype and even some of the packaging. It looks …
DC Goes Green
Well not really… But who cares about deer anyway? This clip isn’t exactly new but i thought it might interest some of you guys and girls. Good to see Travis Pastrana doing his bit for the environment. DC have been into motor sports for a while now, and we have …
George Carlin 1937-2008
*WARNING – LINKS MOST LIKELY NSFW* In sad news, amazingly hilarious and controversial comedian George Carlin passed away this week of heart failure at the age of 71. Carlin had a long rich life in comedy and was once subjected to U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding his vulgarity. Always topping …
Death Cab for Cutie – L.A Show
Death Cab are coming to Australia soon, but I got to see them play last night in Los Angeles. I have posted about it in the forum’s over here if you want to have a read. It’s worth checking out if you’re a fan (and there are no spoilers if …
Skate Coverage is getting Tech!
If you can remember way back to… well, I can’t remember. But we used to do an article in the mag called ‘Where You At?’ which was a little annalysis of the media rankings for skaters and snowboarders in Australia. This was modeled off the Exposure Meter done by Transworld… …
Dragon Goes It Solo
Earlier this month Dragon severed its ties with Oakley and their super-mega parent company, worlds largest optics manufacturer, Luxottica. Up until 2006, Dragon was in a private partnership with Oakley when it was purchased by Luxottica for mad money. Dragon hopes the move will allow them to focus more on …
There’s Something In The Woods (I Think It’s Rick)
A friend of mine runs a blog called ‘Something In The Woods’. It’s a little bit of everything and a site that I regularly steal news from. Well in return for me ripping their news off, they’ve let me be the first in their ‘3 Is The Magic Number’ series. …
Go Skateboarding Day 2008
Just a friendly reminder that today (maybe tomorrow if you don’t live where I do), June 21st is Go Skateboarding Day. Nothing says friendly like a fully grown man roughing up a thirteen year old girl for skateboarding on a day dedicated to skateboarding. Hopefully today goes off without incident. …
Visa Troubles
The associated press are reporting on an Australian woman named Laura McKenzie who has just finished a stint in an American detention center after she over stayed her tourist visa on the tail end of a Canadian winter. If you’re interested (and ever plan on going to the States or …
TTR Farewells Drew Stevenson
Australian snowboarding legend Drew Stevenson recently hung up his beanie as CEO of the TTR World Snowboard Tour. Probably the most influential Australian on the world snowboard scene, Drew was responsible for MethodMag, Onboard, and of course the TTR. Most notably for all of us here in Australia, we now …
Transworld Skateboarding Awards
Just letting you all know if you are interested the 10th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards were announced the other day. Basically all this year’s awards did was solidfy how god damn good Guy Mariano is! And the winners are…