Snowboard movie premiere season is heating up! Tonight is the Australian premiere of Burton’s ‘For Right or Wrong‘ with an afterparty at the baller-ass Imperial Hotel. Click the above flyer for the big version. You better come. I’m going. Oh and so is the Burton team. Yeah Chris Boadle, Chris …
POP goes out of its league… Bob McKnight Interview
So, for those who have taken the time to scan the pages of the last issue of POP, you may have noticed a short interview with Quiksilver Owner/CEO Bob McKnight. We spent 40 minutes with Bob talking about everything from how to build a great board sports company, to Natas, …
For Right or Wrong
Burton’s new film, For Right or Wrong, featuring Shaun White, Dave Downing, Jake Burton, Terje Haakonsen, Nicolas Muller, Keir Dillon, Kelly Clark, Kazu, DCP, Mads Jonsson and Jeremy Jones is launching at the end of this month. Your all invited to come on down the premieres being held in Melbourne …
Mac Attack Dude
We just powered up our new video editing setup tonight. A 3.0Ghz Quad Core Mac Pro with a high end 24inch Dell wide screen monitor. I dropped in some extra DIMM’s and an extra 500GB hard drive and installed Final Cut. Yeah, I’m a geek.
Win Win Win!
You may have noticed the little ‘post it’ note above. If you haven’t clicked on it yet, don’t be afraid, it won’t hurt you. In fact you’ll only come out in front if you click on it. It’s a survey we’re running at the moment asking some questions about snowboarding …
Blue Tile Lounge Again
As is becoming standard, the Blue Tile Lounge is the place to be on Thursday nights. I’ve been told to go tonight. Apparently there’s some kind of rock n’ roll band called Lucifer’s Gift playing. Be there at 9pm. This might be your last chance to visit Blue Tile as …
Gooch St Premier
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/mdiRyxc3zgg”][/gv] This coming Friday night Mordy are premiering their latest full length skate video called ‘Gooch St’. It’s at the Mordy Surf Centre at 7pm and is BYO so get there early. Read more for the full flyer or call the store on (03) 9587 4485.
Quiksilver NYC Art/Music Show
As I missed the Art On Foam show that Quiksilver held over the weekend (if you went send me photos!), I made POP’s resident New York City reporter go to The Happening, an art/music show that Quiksilver helped put on in downtown Manhattan featuring, among others, Mason Jennings and Thomas …
Busted Spies
I feel compelled to tell you that a good friends band is playing at the ever hospitable venue the Blue Tile lounge tonight (Thursday night). They’re called Busted Spies, the music is good and I s’pose you’d just call it rock… What more do you need to know? Well besides …
Here Here!
Last night (Monday the 23rd of April) at 5 o’clock at the St Kilda Town Hall, the final public council meeting was held for the St Kilda skate park. I personally have never been to a council meeting before and was not too sure what to expect. As I entered …
Issue 5 To Print
So issue 5 is at the printers! We’ve been working flat out for the past few months and I think you’re all going to be pretty surprised. It’s close to 4am Australian time so I can’t think enough to write more about what’s in the issue… You’ll be hearing all …
Boost SnoSho Commercial #3
Here’s the 3rd of the 3 commercials we made for this years Boost Mobile SnowSho event. They’re being shown on the webcast and big screens of the Boost Surf Show that’s on this weekend on the Gold Coast. This commercial was intended to have more of a ‘fun’ feel to …
Boost SnoSho Commercial #2
Here’s the 2nd of the 3 commercials we made for this years Boost Mobile SnowSho event. They’re being shown on the webcast and big screens of the Boost Surf Show that’s on this weekend on the Gold Coast. This commercial was intended to have more of a ‘snowboarder’ feel to …
Boost SnoSho Commercial #1
We were asked to make 3 commercials of this years Boost Mobile SnowSho event for the webcast and big screens of the Boost Surf Show that’s on this weekend on the Gold Coast. The brief was that the commercials had to be no more than 30 seconds long and were …
Killa
I just got sent the most awesomest flyer ever to be made ever. The Killa Robots are playing again. Their last and only gig to my knowledge was off the meat rack. So if you’re in Melbourne this Saturday night, you know where to find me.
Why surf?
Starting a magazine takes a fair bit of capital investment. It wasn’t a decision taken lightly by us here at POP and we continually re-evaluate what we’re doing and question our direction. However the inventor of the Aqua Skipper would have no such worries. This guy is sleeping soundly, patiently …
House The Art Going Photos
I was surpirsed at the amount of people at the ‘House The Art Going?’ show this past weekend. For a local art show in ghetto fabulous Seaford, Victoria, it was impressive. The show featured works by POP favorites Cast and Gamble but also surpirsed us with work from Andy Murphy, …
Real Nice
In some news from another photographer featured in issue 4, Tristan Still has just launched his web site. It’s real nice…
Do it
Samuel Chislom, the photographer who shot the cover and one of contents photos from issue 4 has a photography show at the Flightpath Architechs building in Adelaide for the next few weeks. The opening was last night so sorry if you were relying on me to tell you. As with …
House The Art Going
If you live on Victoria’s Mornington Pennisula you have to go to this art show this Saturday night (the 31st). Not only are 2 POP featured artists showing their work, but there’s also a rumour going around that Matt Maunder (aka Midget) will be DJing ‘an hour of brutalness’ set. …
ESA Wants You!
Expression Sports Australia is looking for a Marketing Manager. If you get the job please call us as soon as you know. I’d like to take you out for dinner to celebrate… I’ll even introduce you to my sister. You can have her. I hear she’s very good… Because if …
Man gets drunk, catches shark with his bare hands
I read this story on Yahoo news this morning about a bloke in South Australia that caught a bronze whaler with his bare hands… No shit! And just so you actually read the story, here’s what the guy said “I was pretty pissed. It was difficult getting him onto the …
Nemo/Trigger skim contest
Despite pouring rain and muggy conditions the largest field of contestants turned out for the annual Nemo/Trigger flat land skim contest at Frankston. New obstacles where unveiled for the first time today with a tonne of tricks like 50-50 360 shuvit-outs being pulled on the rainbow box. First place in …
In Da House
A few weeks ago (well months actually) I was invited to go an art show in a suburban house on the outskirts of Melbourne called In Da House. To my surprise Cam Stynes and Nathan Gamble, who’ve both had work in POP, had pieces on display. Needless to say I …
Santa’s coming
Happy Christ(air)mas to everyone. Tis the season to be merry. I hope you’re all having a nice holiday doing whatever it is your doing. I’ve got more updates on the way over the next few days. I went snowboarding at a little resort in up-state New York today. I’m editing …
Elm Webby
In more web news, Elm Company, one of the freshest labels to provide you with head topping has also updated their site. To my knowledge it’s not readily availible in Australia but that shouldn’t stop you from having a look. The photography is quite good.
DC 100
This is another news update brought to you by POP’s friend Chunk. It’s an interview with DC Shoe Co’s founder Ken Block after he jumped his Subaru rally car over a 100+ foot gap jump! Richard Branson, if you’re reading this… Grow some balls! You ‘fly’ hot air ballons. Ken …
Trouble
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last few days. As you can see in the above shot of POP cinematographer Jan Snarksi, we are New York City for a few weeks working on the next issue of the magazine… Okay, we’ve been partying… Alright, yes we have been …
Sidelife Christmas Party
Sidelife, the distribution company that bring us Huffer, Lib Tech, Gnu, Lola & Evie and the radtastic shop The Lab had their christmas party at Melbourne’s newest place to be The Blue Tile Lounge. The venue itself is built to be rock n’ roll in true skater style. With Animal …
The Mountain & The Wave
If you’ve ever wondered how a little Australian boardshort company turns into a global giant, it all starts with Jeff Hackman eating a paper napkin. Or at least that’s what I heard anyway. Also, if you’d read the news page in the 4th issue you would have heard that Quiksilver …
Monday
So Issue 4 comes out Monday! It will be in some selected shops around Melbourne Monday afternoon and then will spread out across the country over the next few days. To prove that I’m not telling fibs, here’s some photos and a movie from my visit to the printers last …
Sorry for the delay!
The 4th issue of POP Magazine features interview’s with Australian snowboarder Jackson Allen and Swiss rider Anne-Flore Marxer, skateboarders Ryan Wilson and Mark Meddows plus surfer James Catto. Wes Mantooth shows us how to work in the USA, we’ve got our first clothing editorial Stitched and Tristian Still shares some …
I support the St Kilda Skatepark, and I vote
Forget all the politics involved, I’d really just like to be able to have a skatepark in St Kilda (partly because it would be across the street from where I work). However, there’s a war going on between skateboarders and people who want the park built, and everyone else that …
Sleep
Okay… This week has been a 24hour flat-out operation. We got the 4th issue of the magazine to the printers (teaser coming soon, magazine will ‘drop’ in-stores next week) and we submitted the final cut of the Boost King of the Rail contest FuelTV show. So if you have Foxtel …
Australia
So I’ve been busy working all day on this surprise that’s coming Monday afternoon and a Koala walked into my front yard. How good is Australia?! We’ve got animals that look like furry dogs living amongst us in the trees! That’s so bizarre.