Continuing in its steady world domination, Billabong has acquired Southern Californian skateboard company Sector 9. Billabong already owns other labels Nixon, Von Zipper and Element. You can read more about the sale here. Next stop, Street Luge – to the Extreme.

Transworld is reporting P-Rods steady rise to Hollywood stardom. Perhaps following in the footsteps of other skateboard legends, Jason Lee and Tony Hawk, ‘Vicious Circle‘ will see P Rod in the lead role which will be his second major role in a feature film along with the still in production …

POP Friend and Photographer Guru Steve Gourlay has a cool interview over at skateboard.com.au. I highly recommend a read if you A – Like hearing about Molotov cocktails. B – Want to know more about pubic hairs and photography. Or C – Are an aspiring photographer.

OK so if you are some sort of like major super-hater (and i know there are plenty out there…) and didn’t like “Fully Flared” then perhaps the next offering from Lakai “The Final Flare” will please you. It comes in a 3 disc set including a Blu-Ray disc of the …

If you are like me and think that Brian Wenning is a zen master on a skateboard, then you should check out Ian Ried’s new video “Streets Is Talking”. I can’t guarantee that it is going to be chock full of hammers and amazing skaters but what I can guarantee …

Above is a neat little mock up of the proposed $US2 million skatepark to be built at the famed Venice Beach, CA. You can read and see a little more about it here and here. It’s definitely looking pretty good, and although I know nothing about size, 16,000 square feet …

With the news of the end of Kwala filtering around the past few weeks people were starting to wonder if the Australian skateboard Industry was about to take a turn for the worse. But thank goodness well-known skateboarder and now new Distributor owner Ben Ventress came through with the goods. …

Because it rained across Victoria all weekend I wasn’t able to go skating for Go Skateboarding Day. It made me think, what would Tony Hawk do in circumstances such as this..? Well, I found just the thing. He’d ‘pimp’ out a Jeep Wrangler of course! If you’re into the Man …

[quicktime width=”450″ height=”338″]http://www.crailtap.com/c3/newrandoms/sat_with_spike.mov[/quicktime] If you all nerd out on Spike Jonze like we do at Pop, then you would be stoked to see him skating round like this. But if he has time to go skating does that mean he has finished ‘Where the wild things are” hmmm.

Girl Skateboards has just recently uploaded a fresh little film covering the shenanigans of the most recent Australian Tour. As you would expect from the crew at Girl, It’s very high quality, and chock full of HD goodness. Unfortunately I am not completely geeked out on this stuff yet, I’m …

Well, no… but he sure is up there. Probably in the top 25 according to this online article from Men’s Fitness. Ryan just loves skating with his shirt off and getting jacked (not entirely sure what that means, could be this). Good for him. I think i prefer my skateboarders …

The new trailer for the forthcoming Transworld skateboarding video has just been released. It features Australia’s very own Richie Jackson who has literally bought flare’s back into to skateboarding… Were they ever in? Anyways he has some amazing mind boggling tricks up his sleeves that’s for sure. The trailer is …

Josh Stewart, the creator of the iconic skateboard video’s Static 1, 2 & 3, has just uploaded onto his blog ‘Theories Of Atlantis‘, every clip he has of Pat Stiener. He used them in Pat’s part in Static 3 and is encouraging everyone to download and edit their own versions …

Not exactly shocking news but Es have released a new colourway for their Bobby Worrest shoe in collaboration with Krooked. This wouldn’t get a mention except for the fact that they did the release with a little video that you can see below the cut. Some of the video is …