Kelly Slater is a freak of nature and there is no denying it. Quiksilver have a neat little mini-site up that has a look at their most bankable athlete on the roster. There is a sweet little video that has a ton of archive footage and chat to the man …
Vans Iconoclasts
Not to be confused with the TV program of the same name, Vans have recently launched their Iconoclasts campaign. For some reason it reminds me a bunch of those Converse ads I’ve been seeing around town with Hunter S. Thompson, Pharrell, and a bunch of other famous dudes/dudettes. Whatever, Vans …
Eddie Aikau 2008
The Quiksilver Eddie Aikau memorial big wave event for 2008 is now “underway” having kicked off on the first day of December. The reason underway is in quotation marks is because nothing has actually happened yet. See for a big wave event you need big waves, and without them there …
Issue 11 – Final Photos Almost Done, Going to Print Monday!
Today, Rick and I spent most of the day at the Thomo&Coach studios in Prahran with Simon Moody shooting some of the last photos for the new issue. As you can tell from above, this issue has a swimwear fashion editorial! We’ve got a few more to get tomorrow but …
Vic Premier Brumby Extends Rip Curl Pro Support till 2011
Victorian Premiere, John Brumby, met with former World Champion and Rip Curl Pro Contest Director, Damien Hardman, at Bells Beach today to announce that the Victorian government would continue to support the Rip Curl Pro for the next three years. “The Rip Curl Pro is a major draw card on …
Bodysurf.com.au
Having just returned from a few days on the Gold Coast with mediocre swell, I remembered just how much fun Bodysurfing really is. Ryan Heywood has a tidy little zine on bodysurfing that I saw a little while ago on the Shortstraw blog. Its free, on the internet, and is …
Donavon Frankenreiter Australian Tour Side Shows
After hearing that Billabong surfer Donavon Frankenreiter was touring his appropiratly named new album, Pass It Around, at some of the upcoming summer festivals, I was slightly disapointed. I don’t really do festivals, I’m scared of bogan’s. Well as is always the case, a bunch of side shows were annouced …
Australia’s Next Top Models Go Surfing!
Some of Australia’s Next Top Models got down to Manly on November 16th for the Rip Curl Girls Go Surfing Day. Rebecca Jobson and Kristy Coulcher from season four of the program suited up with 4,000 other girls to give surfing a shot. Apparently, Rip Curl Girls Go Surfing Day …
Quiksilver Sold to VF Corp?
As all the avid shoutbox watchers will have noticed, there’s a rumor flying around about Quiksilver being purchased by VF Corporation. The rumors have come about after a drastic fall in the Quik share price combined with a company debt of $1.05 billion and difficulty in offloading the loss-making snow …
Kerby Brown
We are a couple of days late on this because the news sites are all over it (hurts to be beaten to the punch by Kochie) and I’m sure it’s done the corporate email forward rounds, but Kerby Brown has a massive set. This took place of the coast of …
Newcastle The Movie
New Australian feature film ‘Newcastle‘ was released to cinemas on the 6th of November. According to their website, the film is “a coming of age tale of elusive dreams and the eternal wave”. From the trailer it kind of looks like ‘Point Break‘ without the bank robbery and more good …
Occy’s Melbourne Instore
Occy was in the Melbourne Central Billabong store yesterday signing copies of his new book – ‘Occy: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo‘. The shopping centre got pretty crowded with well over 150 crew packing in to get his signature. Occy spent an hour signing before having …
Rusty Changes Premiere
Last night, I hit up the Melbourne premiere for the new Rusty film Changes (trailer above). What I got to see of the night was awesome – free beer, good people and a fashion parade. Unfortunately, I had an excessively early morning this morning so I had to bail before …
The Great American Detour
Our good friend Tyler Manson, who you may remember from issue 10, and his girlfriend Lauren Carre have recently released the ‘Great American Detour‘. It’s a bit of a ‘detour’ from the content we would usually show on the site, but definitely worth a look. The documentary shows highlights from …
Occy’s Book Tour
Occy’s got a book out called ‘OCCY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo‘ and it’s hitting stores this week. The launch is being supported with a string of instore appearances by Occy starting at Boarders in Geelong tomorrow at 12pm. Check the above flyer for dates and …
“The New Cape St. Francis”
Just stumbled upon this amazing little piece of video from the crew at Lost. Captured somewhere in Africa whilst filming for their latest video, it is a pretty amazing looking wave. Not only does Corey Lopez ride it for about a minute and a half, the guys at Lost reckon …
Tom Carroll & RCJ on 60 Minutes
Photo from SMH.com.au by Chris Nelius Last night I was in for a treat! I tuned into 60 Minutes to catch a thing on the drug cartel wars in Mexico when I found Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones doing a segment on surfing at a place called Pedra Branca – …
Dear & Yonder Gallery Show
Well, as promised here are the photos form the Dear & Yonder benefit show. It was a pretty casual showing, with a lot of friendly people. Dear & Yonder is the name of an all girl surf film that is half way through production. They need some money to finish it …
Dear & Yonder Benefit Show
If you happen to be in or around Los Angeles this weekend then you might want to check out this sweet gallery showing. The show is called Dear & Yonder, and is to benefit an all girls surf film. As you can see, there are some big name artists involved, …
Surf Rail Of Death
A while ago I posted about the kickflip contest that is being held by Volcom. Well since then, surfing has got even more urban with a handful of people trying to work there way around the obvious difficulties that come with putting a handrail on a wave. That’s right, taking …
Surfing 50 States World Premiere
A while ago and school friend told me about these two guys he, Jonno and Stefan. Apparently they were making a surf movie about surfing in all 50 states of the USA. At first I was a little suspect, after all, is that even possible? But then I started seeing …
Ms. Peter Drouyn?
A shoutbox commentator left an obvservation the other day that likened us here at POP to New Weekly or Who magazine. Well, this one’s for you. The Daily Record is reporting that Gold Coast surf legend, Peter Drouyn, is set to undergo gender re-assignment surgery. His list of life accomplishments …
Great White Hunters
A little while ago this viral video did the rounds, it’s pretty cool, but totally fugazi. The above clip is not, and freaking awesome. These guys are hardcore. It was submitted to Tropfest where they placed 3rd but should have definitely won. If for nothing else, the simple fact that the …
Congratulations Kelly Slater, 9 Time World Champ
Kelly Sl8er, Sl9er, Slater is officially the ASP World Tour Champion for 2008 making it an impressive lifetime haul of 9 world titles. With two events still to go on the tour, Kellys’ lead won’t allow Taj, Parko, or anyone else take the title from his waxy hands. Kelly cemented …
Point Break, LIVE!
I’m not going to lie to you, I have always thought that theatre is pretty lame. However, when this little number came through my inbox, I had to give it a second look. Point Break Live is a cross between reality TV, a play, and all-time classic film Point Break. …
Issue 10 On The Way To Subscribers
Well even I started to think it wasn’t going to happen, but Issue 10 finally arrived from the printers at 4pm this afternoon! Dave was able to get the subscribers packages in the mail. So subscribers, check you mail tomorrow! NSW, SA, TAS and WA will be Saturday or Monday. …
Beneath The Waves
Layne Beachley released her autobiography, ‘Beneath The Waves‘ today and is most probably a must have for all you book readers out there in ‘I hate the internet land’. Seeing as I live in internet land, I will have to settle for the extracts availble on….. the internet. For a …
Kobys’ Plea Deal
Notorious Bra Boy, Koby Abberton has entered into a plea deal with US Prosecutors in relation to his latest incident in which he allegedly punched an off-duty cop outside a Hawaiian bar in March. Actual details of the deal are being withheld until official documents are signed, giving Koby the option …
180 South
I had the fortune to meet Emmet Malloy yesterday. In case you don’t know who he is, he is the man behind Woodshed films and Brushfire records. I got to talk to him about all things film releated and even got some fresh info on thier latest project, 180 South. …
ASPtube
I can read, so I know that the username was registered in March, but the ASP World Tour has unveiled their official Youtube Channel. If you happen to be working and miss any of their live webcasts, you can be sure to catch all the highlights and a bunch of …
Morning Of The Earth – Live In Concert
I might be the only person left that doesn’t know about this. I was out for dinner last night and I saw this poster on the wall. It seems that the iconic 1972 surf film is showing again. Except this time the music is live. According to the flyer above, …
Proof Of Issue 10
Not only are these the proofs of issue 10 but it’s also proof to you that it’s coming. A couple days ago Dave and I went down to our new printers and made sure everything looked right. Who would have knew that dual covers, a DVD cover mount, a centerfold …
Slater Is On Fire
It shouldn’t be a suprise anymore, but Kelly Slater just cruised to another victory in the ASP World Tour at Trestles in California. That puts him at 5 victories in 7 events. The guy is like Michael Jordan sticky taped to Michael Phelps, but better. With only four events left …
RPM Signs on Steven Walsh
RPM have signed Lennox Head surfer Stephen Walsh to their surf team. Walsh is one of five nominees for the 2nd annual Waves “Black Knight Awards” for free surfing (so that’s competitive free surfing right?). Anyway, Walsh joins a pretty amazing roster RPM have been quietly building over in NZ. …
VBS.TV School Of Surf
We have spoken about VBS.TV and their other sport related programs before, so while Hi Shredability is on hiatus, they are bringing you surf programming in the form of ‘School Of Surf‘. It’s about a high school surf tournament that takes place in the U.S.A. and has Red Bull as …