Transworld is reporting here about luxury wheel maker, Lexani, moving into selling skate shoes. The shoes are being designed by pro skater and long time designer, Felix Arguelles. This is the second wheel company to get involved in skate with Zanetti sponsoring P-Rod, Terry Kennedy, Stevie Williams, Jereme Rogers and …
Busiest Month Ever for POPMag.com.au
The last 30 days has seen over 5000 people vist POPMag.com.au, marking the first time we have passed the 5000 Absouloute Unique Vistor level. If you’re keen to see some more stats, you can always head over to our circulation page for our Google Analytics login deatils. I’m pretty pumped …
333 Footwear
Steele got me onto this yesterday – apparently Andrew Reynolds has some involvement in this slipper/footwear company called 333. The name is a reference to his OCD’s which you might have heard about in his Epically Later’d episode. You wont find mention of Reynolds on the site because Sole Tech …
Russ Grundy Works Hard for the Money!
Billabong and High Roller rider, Russ Grundy, has been working hard. High Roller had him out to judge some kind of bikini contest for the new face of the energy drink. I wonder where these girls rate on the crazy/hot scale? The winner of this event goes into the finals …
Annual ESS Rail Jam Photos!
Tommo dropped us an email with a few photos from the annual ESS Rail Jam! It looks like it was an amazing night with top honors being shared between Tom Pelley and Andy Lloyd. The night was sponsored by High Roller Energy Drink, Forum Snowboards, 3CS Outerwear, DVS, Grenade Gloves, …
Introducing the POP Player
In the first of some big things for POPMag.com.au I would like to present POP Player, a little virtual iPod we built to entertain you whilst you browse around. You can see it below the ad on the right hand side of the page. We will be updating the playlist …
Elanora Bowlriders This Weekend!
The Quiksilver Elanora Bowlriders comp is on this Saturday May 24th. JK shot me through a reminder with a photo of local Saul Bell using the new full pipe – you can check it out below the cut. Anyway, if you’re in the area, get along – it should be …
Packer beat us to it!
Former Scientologist and owner of Crown Casino, James Packer, has beat us to buying Hotham and Falls. Through a subsidiary of a subsidiary company, James has gained control of MFS Living and Leisure – does that name sound familiar? It does to me, you can see their last correspondence with …
Bruno Santos Wins Billabong Pro Tahiti
Okay, I know we’re about 4 days late on this but for those that haven’t heard… Brazillian wildcard, Bruno Santos has won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti. He beat out the usual suspects during earlier rounds to take on the local wildcard Manoa Drollet in the final. Check out the …
Grand Theft Auto IV – Makes $310 Million in 24 Hours.
The latest installment of Grand Theft Auto just broke a bunch of earnings records according to the tech website Toms Hardware. GTA 4 is now the Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and the Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment Product in 24 Hours. The game beat out Halo …
Zoo York X Ghostface Killah
How would you like to score yourself a ‘Zoo York X Ghostface Killah‘ deck and tee-shirt combo? We’ve got two sets (there are only 30 in Australia) to give away to two lucky readers. I guess I should make this at least a little challenging, so how ’bout this… we …
Brisbane ‘Two Weeks In’ Premiere Tomorrow Night!
Just a reminder to everyone up north that tomorrow night is the Brisbane premiere of ‘Two Weeks In…‘ Rick and Chunk are heading up there and it looks like the guys at Snowbiz have put together a great night. It’s happening at the Metro Arts Building at 7pm, check the …
Grenade ‘The Boned Age’ Teaser
The new Grenade flick, The Boned Age, has got teasers galore out! Featuring Kyle Clancy, Sketchy-D, Lucas Magoon, Benji Richie, Scotty Arnold, Scotty Lag, Tyler Flanagen, Louie Vito, Gabe Taylor, Danny Kass and the rest of the team – I’ve got two different clips to share with you now and …
Two Weeks In Melbourne Premiere Time Lapse
Here’s a time lapse of the crowd at the Melbourne premiere for Two Weeks In. We started it half way through the night because we had to run home and get the fish-eye lens. I would say there was between 100 and 400 people there. I think we can all …
More Photos From Himbrechts/ForceFeed:Swede Exhibit
Here’s those extra photos from Dan and Oz’s show. I got to Sydney on Wednesday night so I was lucky enough to get a look at the show being setup. I’ve got to say, it was such a good insight into how real artists think and work. I was very …
Himbrechts & ForceFeed:Swede Exhibit Opening Night
Last Thursday night renown snowboard photographer Dan Himbrechts put on a joint exhibition with digital artist and friend Oz Dean (known as ForceFeed:Swede). The show was held at the MTV gallery in downtown Sydney. It was packed with well over 200 people showing up. For snowboarding and Sydney, that’s a …
Two Weeks In – Melbourne Premiere
Well, it’s taken a few days but I now feel good enough to sit down and look at a computer. If you didn’t make it down to the Melbourne premiere of Two Weeks In then you missed out, but don’t feel bad because I don’t think we would have had …
Sydney Premiere At The Roxy
Last night we stopped off at the first leg of our national premiere tour of our new film “Two Weeks In”. It premiered at two venues in New South Wales, we were able to get down to the Roxy in Parramatta for the 8pm showing. We were pretty stoked to …
ESS 10-50% off everything!
ESS have helped us put on 2 showings of our new film and proved themselves to be awesome dudes. Basiclly, we think they deserve your money, and what better way to give them your money when your getting shit for cheap. Starting May 7th ESS are having a 10-50% off …
Trouble In Melbourne
Apologies to everyone waiting on me to post these up. I’m sure your facebook page has been looking extra bare. Well no more. Last Thursday Trevor ‘Trouble’ Andrew was touring Australia, He had a MTV show in Sydney followed up with some smaller sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. Regardless of …
Qmotion Skate Controller
I saw this on Engadget last week. I knew that Qmotion already built an ‘XBoard’ for older generation consoles but now they’ve gotten all next-gen on us. As Engadget points out, they’re also going to be allowed to make official wireless peripherals. Something Microsoft doesn’t let many companies do. How …
Fred Ganim Sweet Nothings Show
Artist Fred Ganim from the Serps has a showing coming up May 10. Fred rips on a snowboard and his art is worth checking out. Plus, he is a super nice guy so drop by and have a look and say hello. Ask him about his days as a New York doorman, he …
Alphanumneric Packs Being Given Away!
Lush Productions are celebrating the re-launch of Alphanumneric by giving away free shit! For those that missed the post the other week, Alphanumeric relaunched in late April. You can check out a sick interview with A# originals Mirko Magnum and Alyasha Owerka Moore about the relaunch here. Oh, and for …
The Bugle – An Audio Newspaper for a Visual World
This is in no way related to skating, surfing or snowboarding but after hearing this weeks edition of The Bugle, I had to share it with you guys. John Oliver, who some of you will know from The Daily Show, runs a weekly podcast with fellow comedian Andy Zaltzman on …
Jeremy Flores and the Bleaker Short
[flv width=”450″ height=”253″]https://popmag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/jeremybleekermp4.flv[/flv] I was sent these Quiksilver promo videos the other day, they are worth a watch. They are basically mini-interviews with Jeremy Flores (above) and Dane Reynolds(below) followed by ads for the new Bleaker boardshort. If you like the 8-bit soundtrack at the end, you really should check …
People Get Inked For Free Snowboards
It’s taken me a little time to get this up but on Friday April 18th we saw Australia’s first ‘I Love Ride Tattoo Party’. Over 150 people turned out with 45 putting their hand up for the chance to receive a Ride tattoo… that’s 45 people that love Ride enough …
Boulala Jailed Over Shane Cross Accident
Ali Boulala has been given a minimum two years jail for his part in the accident that took the life of Shane Cross. Rumor has it that no one, including the family of Shane Cross, supported giving Ali jail time but the judge said in sentencing that Ali was “aware …
New Thomo&Coach Site Up!
If you have seen the new issue you would have noticed the photos in the outerwear preview and on the products page look pretty damn good – I wish I could claim credit (and normally I would) but that is 100% the work of our friends at Thomo&Coach… Steve Gourlay …
Two Weeks In Site Update: State Premiere Posters
I’m just letting you all know I updated the Two Weeks In directors blog with images of the 3 different film posters we had made for the film premieres in each state. Have a look if you’re interested.
Australian Ski Fields Ranked Worlds Most Expensive
What does the Australian ski fields and 50 Cent have in common? That’s right, they both “get money.” A report from the Australian Alpine Club has ranked the cost of day tickets from mountains around the world and Australia’s mountains are ringing the register the loudest. It’s hard to spin …
Trouble Andrew in Australia… Story so far
Trouble Andrew is in town and having fun. After the Mile High Gig, Trouble and Ian Longwell attended the afterparty for the MTV Awards. Above is a shot of Trouble on the Red Carpet… Sunday night was a gig at the Shore Club in Manly. You can see a load …
Alphanumneric is Back!
Alphanumeric relaunched on the 24th of this month and will be hitting stores in Australia via Lush Productions! I know plenty of crew are keen to see the new styles – a lot of them are similar to what came out during the first few years of Alpha but there …
Dan Himbrechts Photo Exhibit – Sydney
If you’ve had a chance to read the news in the new issue you would already know that esteemed snow/skate photographer Dan Himbrechts is showing of some favorite photos (as well as a portrait series he’s been working on for the past two years!) at the MTV gallery. Graphic artists …
Infinite Huffer Party
Huffer launched it’s 08 winter range at The Facility in Collingwood earlier tonight. By all accounts it was a good night. Of course the clothes were typical Huffer hotness. Red Ink kept the crowd entertained and when the beer ran out Tone cracked open the liqueur cabinet and started offering …
Two Weeks In – Parramatta Showing Added!
I just got a phone call from Jason from ESS Boardstore in Parramatta and he has lined up the Roxy to show Two Weeks In for us! So, all you Sydney shredders can get down there and see the film. There might be a small cover charge on this one …