Obviously not one to pass up a challenge… Stereo team rider Danny Renaud accidentally fell 9 stories last Friday. Crazy thing was, he not only survived, but is expected to make a full recovery. His only injuries were broken legs and a few broken internals – I heard that after …
Quiksilver Now Sells Sea Shepards Merch
Keeping on the defenseless animal tip, Quiksilver have shown their support for those flaming whale lovers the Sea Shepards by selling their Jolly Rogers merch in Quicksilver stores. If you’re not familiar with the Sea Shepards let me bring you up to speed. They’re basically a borderline militia enforcing the …
Holden ’09 Outerwear Preview!
Cover for the 2009 Holden Range Book So, what was I doing on this very, very hot Melbourne day? Trying on outerwear! Yep, we got a sneak preview of the 2009 – that’s right ’09(!) – Holden outerwear range. And uh, I don’t know how to say this but… Oh …
Bra Boy in fight: World in Shock!
Not Richie I know – just a funny photo. I’m speechless! Apparently Bra Boy Richie Vaculik was involved in a bit of a tussle at Mick Fanning’s world title celebrations. By “bit of a tussle” I mean, the guy who was standing in the wrong place, at the wrong time, …
World Juniors
This is a few days old right now, but it still worth putting up here. Adding to all the other Australian World Title surfers, Sally Fitzgibbons won the world Juniors at North Narrabeen Beach in Sydney the other day. She’s like 15 18 years old, so thats pretty rad. You’d …
Magazine Writers Wanted
We want this next issue of POP Magazine to be better than ever. The trouble is, none of us can write worth a damn. So we’re willing to pay terrible money for someone else to do it (but some money nonetheless). We’re looking for people that can write creative stories …
Burton iDiom featured in Complex
Click the image to make it big! This is a little late but part of the new Burton iDiom range was featured in the current issue of Complex. I only got my copy yesterday so that’s why I’m late on it. Still, for those that don’t know, Burton iDiom is …
West Coast SnowPark Newsletter
I got a rather boring but slightly interesting email newsletter a couple of days ago from the West Coast SnowPark people. Don’t get too excited, this isn’t like the New Zealand SnowPark. This is the indoor snow centre in Perth that’s been in the works for some time. Given the …
Globe Occy Tribute Shoe.
Globe are releasing a shoe to commemorate Occy’s 1999 World Championship title win. The shoe is being released to coincide with Occy’s retirement at Pipe this year. No disrespect to Occy here, the guy is a legend, but isn’t it a little late for this shoe? I mean, great for …
Braun Cruzer Requires No Jokes – Funny On It’s Own.
Well, this has made my morning. Drew emailed me this last night and I’m yet to fully stop laughing. Apparently the new eXXXtreme is all about facial hair. Yep, wank beard styles are what it’s all about. Head over here for a real laugh and make sure you check the …
Subscriptions Paying Off!
If you got some extra scratch left over from Christmas, you might want to get yourself a subscription to POP because we look after our own. Richie here got hooked up with a new copy of Tony Hawks Project Underground and everyone else got a couple copies of Analog’s new …
ShortStraw Summer Party
If your the new kid on the block how do you make an impact in the surf market these days? Well you could run an amazing ad in POP (some of the best artwork we saw all year, read page 26) and then chuck a huge party in Sydney, Brisbane …
ARC Rugby Is Funny, Fraser Davidson Is Genius
Whilst out looking for animation ideas for our upcoming film project I came across the work of a very talented designer named Fraser Davidson. If you’re looking to waste some time watch his series for the amazingly good ARC Rugby. If AFL was called by this Jedi guy I might …
POP is now optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch
So despite Australia not even having the iPhone yet, I went ahead and upgraded the site to work with the iPod Touch. So it should work with the iPhone (if any one has a Touch or an iPhone let me know if there are any problems) . The great thing …
Stereogum’s 30 Favorite Live Shows Of 2007
Probably the only thing good about a New Years are all the lists people make. Super fantastic music website Stereogum have complied their favorite live shows of 2007. Having missed Daft Punk, I am stoked to have purchased tickets to both upcoming shows for The National and the Arcade Fire …
Boost ‘Under Lights’ Commercial Behind The Scenes
Well after reading that Ty Evans interview we posted earlier in the week I had a better look around that SkatePerception.com website. It’s basically a skate filmers website. Whilst the design is a little clunky the forums are alive and well with camera geek bits and pieces. There’s a ton …
New Mordy’s Website
The Victorian snow/skate/surf retailer, Mordy’s, have just updated their website. I always liked their old one but it seems the Mordy’s guys like to keep things fresh. Oh and look at that, they’ve posted about the new issue… Aww… Thanks Mordy’s!
Trevor ‘Trouble’ Andrew Vermont Show
For those of you that are fans of Trouble Andrew, a good friend sent through some photos of his show at the annual Burton sales meeting in Stowe, Vermont. In the crowd you may see up front, Jake, Gigi, Keegan, Mikel, Elena, Kelly and the guy from Miami Ink.
Find the new issue.
I wanted to update you all on our circulation tracking. The new issue has shipped and is in stores, but what stores I hear you ask? Well, these ones to be exact. I’ve finished updating our Google Maps page to reflect the current issue’s circulation, so if your wondering where …
DC Mtn Lab 1.5 Launch Party!
Last night was the premiere for DC’s new Mtn Lab 1.5 video. If you didn’t make it down to the bar last night, then you missed a fun night thats for sure. It started out looking like a disaster, and I have to say, we thought POP might need to …
And In More DC News…
I just came across this on good ‘ol Skatedaily.net, it appears that Rob and Big are back soon for a third season on MTV! Peep the above teaser to see what kind of shenanigans they get up too. Unfortunately this mag doesn’t pay enough for me to get subscription TV …
Pissed Off
So I woke up this morning and had this note left on my floor by an American friend (not Mike) who I’ve been showing around. Pissed off…
DC MTN.LAB 1.5 Premiere, Thur, 7pm @ F4 in Melbourne!
Just a reminder that DC’s Mtn.Lab 1.5 premiere is happening tomorrow night! It’s being held at the F4 club in the city located at Level 2, 322 Little Collins Street. DC is matching everyone, drink for drink, on the bar… So that’s buy one get one free! It should be …
Note To Self
Whilst on my way to the amazingly fun Shortstraw Clothing’s Christmas party last Friday night I had the chance to meet a very nice lad by the name of Max. Max and I got talking about Daft Punk and the Lakai film. Soon I discovered Max hand makes denim jean’s …
EESA Clothing’s RV Up For Sale
When I first saw this in my inbox I thought it was a joke. Well now with 8 hours to go it seems very real. Base layer clothing company eesa are indeed selling their Chevy G30 Class C RV at no reserve on eBay. That means it’ll sell for the …
Lakai Fully Flared Premiere Photo Wrap-Up
Last night, if you weren’t at the Melbourne premieres for The Darjeeling Limited, 2 Days In Paris or at the opening night of Daft Punk, chances are you were at the Fully Flared premiere that POP and Lakai put on in Gourlay’s studio off Greville Street. We counted over 200 …
POPMag.com now mobile!
I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that this website is now optimized for mobile device browsers. It won’t look as nice, but you can now browse to all the content much easier. If you browse to www.popmag.com.au on your phone for example, the site will automatically …
Analog Beer & Sushi Party
Last night Analog had a little beer and sushi party as a little thankyou to all the shops (and hanger-on like me) for their support over the year. It also gave them an excuse to premiere their newest installment of The Moving Picture Project which was Arto and the skate …
Lakai’s Fully Flared Premiere this Thursday the 13th
This Thursday the 13th will see POP teaming up with Lakai for the Melbourne premiere of Fully Flared. Sticking with POP’s philosophy, it’s completely free! I’m not sure if you have seen the trailer, but we are pretty pumped on this film and can’t wait to see you there. It’s being held at …
POP Magazine – Issue 8 Coming Soon
The 8th issue of POP Magazine is due in stores shortly and features interviews with World Champion Mick Fanning and Western Australian charger Jay Davies. We also talk with New Zealand born skater Pascal Leniston and snowboarder Nick Gregory. Irwin Fletcher is back again with excessive rage, we take a …
West Coast Legend
Photo by Brady van Wyk I have to share this story with you guys, because POP has a new friend in Western Australia and I think the story is pretty cool. About a week ago we got an email from Ben Dwyer in Western Australia asking where he could get …
Blank Video Premiere
POP website contributor of the year, Shane, sent through a few photos from the Blank video premiere last night. Mike Martin had the closing part. Apparently I wasn’t important enough to get one of the 200 seats at the Toff because I didn’t even know it was on… I guess …
Better Be In Denim Show Photos
If I was ever going to go to heaven, it was going to happen last Friday night! Mark Lording, curator of the If You Send Me To Heaven, Better Be In Denim art show, did an absolutely bang-up job of getting 18 of Melbourne’s most creative artists to source there …
Bikecar Playing At Melbournes Bicycle Film Festival
As someone pointed out in the shoutbox, Bikecar is indeed playing at the Bicycle Film Festival next weekend (at 7pm on the 8th of December to be exact). If you haven’t already watched Bikecar (or even if you have) then you really should go watch this. It’s one of my …
New Flagship Burton/Al Merrick store in L.A.
I’m not ashamed to say I love shopping. I get a lot of shit for it but as Brodie Bruce says in Mall Rats… “I love the smell of commerce in the morning.” So, when I came across this article this morning on Transworld, it had me booking my trip. …