Brock just sent me a few more details on whats going on in Noosa with Shortstraw… “From the Ivory Bar in Hastings St, we kicked on over to see our good mates at Solace in Noosaville, watch Andrew Kidman and Neal Purchase play, and support Kidman’s Ether book launch. If …
Fantasy Surfer – I’m no good at it, did anyone do better?
Okay, so this Fantasy Surfer thing… despite my inclination to say that the scoring is off and the whole thing is rigged, I’ve gone with the less obvious answer… and that is, I’m just no good at it. Currently I’m ranked 5,930 of 10,527 – that’s not even top 50% …
Shortstraw’s Catalog Dead in the Water!
I know, I know… the headline right? Amazing. It really is the hilarious headlines that make this site what it is – and with this gem, I didn’t disappoint! Oh, wait… I need to explain huh? Well, Shortstraw have been shooting their new catalog over the last few days and …
Pitstop Hill Surf Resort
A friend of mine just sent me some info about this sweet little resort in the Mentawai’s. It’s called Pitstop Hill, he says that his trip there was amazing and that this place is the goods. Well, it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for a place to stay …
Rip Curl Pro 2008
The Rip Curl Pro is coming around again! I highly recommend making the effort to get down there and see the contest – its always a bit of fun. Fantasy Surfer says the Rip Curl Pro is “One of the most respected and sought after trophies in all of Surfing, …
Fantasy Surfer is Fun!
Fantasy Surfer was propped in the Shout Box a while back. Basically it works like this; you get a $50mil budget and you have to put together a team of surfers who get awarded points based on their finishes in the CT. It’s taken me a while to get my …
Rossignol For Sale, Going Cheap.
It’s seems global surf corporation Quiksilver have given up on Rossignol. The Finical Review has an interesting article about it here. I always thought it was a bad idea, I mean, the whole thing sounds like a setup to a bad reality TV show. It would go a little like …
Chris Ward Wins Ike Turner Prize!
Is this Chris Ward (right) honing his skills for the ultimate fight or just larking around after the Fiji Pro? You Decide! (I love responsible reporting) According to Transworld, Lost surfer Chris Ward has been arrested after beating up three girls with a block of ice in Whiskey Creek, California. …
Mavericks Just Happened & The Eddie Is On High Alert
I saw this on Yahoo news this morning. It looks like Jeff Clark’s 2008 Mavericks Surf Contest went down in near perfect conditions. Greg Long won it. There’s some photos here and some crappier ones here. I also got an email from JJ at Quiksilver letting me know that the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Billabong buys Tigerlilly
Jodhi Meares has sold her Tigerlily swimwear label to Billabong for an amount which I can’t find for lack of both skill and time. Still, the name Jodhi Meares might ring a bell with you… she just happens to be media and gaming rich kid, James Packer’s, former wife. Unfortunately …
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 …
Eddie Aikau Quiksilver Invitational Live Webcast
I don’t get excited for a lot of the surf contest press releases I get sent. Most of them are from junior comps held in 2 foot slop. Not that I don’t want to support the up and comers, far from, but there’s only so much time in the day. …
Billabong XXL – Chopes Goin’ Off
So Billabong’s XXL competition riped the lid off of it again. The above clip is filmed at the famed “Chopes” in Tahiti and of course, hilarity ensued. And by hilarity, I mean fucking gnraly 30 foot slabs of water smashing peoples skulls in. Oh yeah, and Maya Gabeira just became …
Some guy called Mick Fanning…
Hello! Is anyone still there? I know its been a while between updates but as you know from my previous post, I’m in the process of shifting cribs. The new place is up and running so I’m back into this website updating thing. There’s a lot of shit gone down …
Anon Surf Contest!
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/b2OLcV6cU0U”][/gv] On Sunday 25th October Anon held what looked to be a pretty amazing surf contest in Manly, Sydney. The little soirée was held early evening and attracted a crowd of around 500 which included surf celebs like Occy and Tom Carroll. The surfers included Anon team riders Dion …
British Airways Ban Surfboards… Then un-ban them!
Apparently the UK’s flag carrier, British Airways, made a decision earlier this year that as of November 6th they would no longer be accepting surfboards on their flights. According to their website, which still lists them as being banned items, it has to do with the “size and complexity” of …
Australian Surf Movie Festival
I received a lovely email last night from a lady who is helping to market the “Fructis Style Surf Hair Australian Surf Movie Festival” (Again with the catchy titles, how do Fructis do it?) She asks if we could say a word in “the POP MAG” (she must have found …
Young Guns 3 Review.
Rating: 8 out of 10 Director: Jason Muir Riders: Clay Marzo, Dane Reynolds, Ry Craike, Jeremy Flores, Garrett Parkes, Kelly Slater, Julian Wilson From the outset I was a little skeptical about the video, purely because surf video’s have lacked any real innovation for a while now. However, from the …
Bra Boys gets Hollywood!
While normally willing and able to give shit to anything – I might just hold back a little here… Might. The Bra Boys documentary is apparently going to be getting the Hollywood treatment and be made into a major motion picture. Through a long chain of websites, but mostly with …
News (I think).
Maybe this is news and maybe it isn’t. I know it’s pretty businessy. However I’m not sure because I can’t make much sense of this. Something gnarly just went down at Rusty. It seems Rusty Preisendorfer, the company that owns Rusty, just sold their company to Vegas Enterprises (the Australian …
Jim Beam Surf Tag Team Finals
The Jim Beam Surf Tag National Final was blessed with all the ingredients this year; clean, smashable waves, awesome weather and all the fruit that comes with it. Some teams found their star surfers and some didn’t, some competitors rose to the occasion under pressure and some cracked…
Quiksilver Ads
Quiksilver been doing some interesting billboards in Copenhagen recently. There’s the above ‘in the barrel’ bus stop, there’s a hand-rail billboard and a quater pipe bus stop. Not bad Quiksilver, not bad. Thanks to Chunk for the heads up. Read more for the other pics. Oh and thanks to this …
The Boys
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BQLRzNb4K64″][/gv] The Bra Boys documentary premiered in Sydney a few nights ago. I don’t really know what to say. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I’ve got to be honest, I’m scared I’ll get shanked in the spleen if I say something wrong. Anyway I hope it’s safe …
Mixed Tape
The trailer for Reef and Bobby Martinez’s new film ‘Mixed Tape: Volume 1’ has been up on their website for about a month now. However I did some YouTube detective work and found a new trailer which was posted a couple of days ago! Now all I need is a …
Insight-ful
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ThqLBPc2WCo”][/gv] You’ve got to give it to Insight, they seem to be one of the only companies doing something original with their surf team. Just look at their ads. However if you’re one of those people that can’t look at still pictures anymore (broadband has really taken over your …
Smith in-store
If you live on the Gold Coast and want to bro down with the Smith surf team then make sure you’re at the City Beach Pac Fair surf store next Sunday (25th of Feb) at 3pm. I’m sure if you ask Yadin really nice he might aim a pair of …
Dynamite!
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XKFWAE2ED2w”][/gv] You’ve got to give it to Quiksilver, they know how to make good commerical’s. Or rather they know how to hire good advertising agency’s to create good commerical’s. Such as this one from Saatchi & Saatchi.
Volly Con’est
If you’re down on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria Volcom are having a free surf contest down at Gunamatta tomorrow! There’s a division for everyone and even if you don’t feel like surfing you just know they’re going to be throwing out a heap of free stuff. And you know …
What about global warming?
Kerferd Road baywave madness. Fuck open beaches, hooray for global warming! Thanks to Chunk & Tony Mott.
Why wouldn’t ya?
What were you doing 10 days ago? This footage was shot on the 14th of his month. So was this. I don’t know who the cinematographer is because I can’t read whatever language the guy speaks. Thanks anyway guy.