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 …
Jason & Chris
I just saw these. Etnies teamed up with Jason Lee and Chris Pastras to do a Stereo series of sorts. Jason’s is the slip on which has his photographs of LA screen on the side. Chris’ is the mid with sketches of Istanbul and Stockholm. I thought it was worth …
Mumble
I stumbled upon Mumble Magazine today. It’s not your usual skateboard website; it’s more positive than that. To see what I mean have a read of the ‘Doing It Right’ story on Nike. Also worth checking out is the ‘Focus On’ Grant Brittain (of course, you didn’t need me to …
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 …
Law & Boarder
Skater Corey Dowds, who gets flow from Planet Earth clothing, has had a bit of a bizarre run in with the law. Those of you who are keen readers of the Skateboard Mag probably already know about this, but Corey was skating around a fountain when a local police officer …
Jame Zammit on Analog
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Gd5UgKwEk60″][/gv] Peep this video of Analog’s newest signing James Zammit. Pretty damn impressive if you ask me, but I skate worse than my 3 year old nephew and all he can do is fall off. So, pretty much anything over tick-tacking impresses the shit out of me. And because …
Madness
Patrick O’Dell, of Epicly Later’d fame has a ‘webcast’ series going on over at Spike Jonze’s/Vice website VBS.tv. I was sent a link (thanks Dan) to an interesting episode talking about Andrew Reynolds ‘madness’ (basically OCD). Have a read of the article here and just because there’s not enough links …
More Bad News
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/fOXCQcyn_Ac”][/gv] Well it’s been a bad week for Australian skateboarding. Vert legend and former world number 2 Ben Pappas was found dead off Victoria Pier in the Docklands over the weekend. The exact situation is still a bit sketchy but the Hearld Sun reports his girlfriend was found dead …
Bad News
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/WEoviATnMDA”][/gv] Skatedaily.net reported this morning that 2005 Slam Skateboarder of the Year, Shane Cross, passed away in a motorcycle accident last night. Ali Boulala was driving and is in a serious condition in hospital. Shane, you’ll be missed. Go to skateboard.com.au to leave kind messages. Lets hope Ali gets …
Bowl-A-Rama Photos
A little late I know but Bowl-A-Rama went down over the weekend. Rune Glifberg won it. This is what my friend Ralph had to say about Bowl-A-Rama: ” The contest was sick once we got to a spot that we could actually see. We got to see the masters division …
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 …
Bowl-A-Rama
If you haven’t already heard this coming weekend is the 3rd annual Bowl-A-Rama contest at Bondi. Well it’s actually more of a festival now. Anyway it’s always insane so unless you’re overseas on the moon, you’d better be there! Read more for the flyer or download the pdf here. Oh …
It’s here!
After a long wait it’s finally coming to Australia. Well officially of course. The Australian premier for Christian Hosoi’s documentary, Rising Son: The Legend Of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi is happening at the Bondi Beach Road Hotel on the 22nd of Feburary at about 9 o’clock. As it’s being held in …
Skate don’t drive
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/El6OVFhipwM”][/gv] SkateDaily.net mentioned this Nissan ad a few days ago. It also reminded me of the new Jeep commerical. Maybe these companies have done research and found out that office workers are the same people that skate to work? Could this mean the end of knobbed ledges? Only time …
Analog Skate
Luke Croker (featured above in the 1st ever issue of POP) and Corbin Harris were the first two kids to get signed to the Analog Australian skate team late last week. That’s great news for both the guys and a good start for the Analog team. I wonder when we …
Stunts
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ksGlbmpx_Rg”][/gv] Williams Spencer had an interview in Thrasher awhile back. Remember the kid that front fliped down a 9 stair onto his board?! No? Then watch the above clip. Thanks to Ollie at Redders for the link.
Baker Tour
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dj2TyKc08mY”][/gv] Skateboard.com.au posted a link to some video’s of the Baker demo at Frankston a few days ago. The above clips from Chip and here’s another from Easy E. There’s another demo in Hobart today and then Sydney and Brisbane after that. Read more for the flyer.
Frankston Indy Demo
Sorry I didn’t pre warn you about the Indy demo at Frankston! Hopefully you made it without my help. Okay… As normal with Frankston demos and in the middle of Australias worst drought, it rained on and off all afternoon. The skaters arrived late and people where keen to see …
Serious
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/sYSr-Sft4Zk”][/gv] This could be the best thing I’ve ever seen. I bet this guy rolled off the couch, said to himself ‘righto, probably should break the world record today… but first I’ll finish this beer’. How’s the shoes?! No socks! And what a wind up! Awesome! Now that’s how …
MU$KA
Chad Muska has an intresting update on his blog… oh sorry, his Muskablog. It seems that perhaps the royalty cheques from Element aren’t as big as he’d hoped. So he needs our money. Well at least that’s what I think he’s asking for. I don’t know. I do like the …
Raggie don’t skate
If you’ve logged into myspace lately you may have noticed this video of a couple of US soldiers skating a little mini they built on the roof of their base. Whilst the skating isn’t great, it’s not nearly as terrible as the narration and is still worth a watch. Although …
Fire
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HdxPzbNO7TI”][/gv] We’ve been a bit light on the skateboard news on the POP website. So what do I have for you? Well a snowboarder on a skateboard. Lame I know but I’m working on some new stuff for you. Until then have a look at the above clip of …
Do Work
I’m loving being in America. I’ve watched the entire first season of DC skater Rob Dyrdek’s new MTV show Rob & Big. There’s not much of a story; it’s pretty much just Rob and Big Black hanging out with their pooch Meaty (probably the second raddest bulldog of all time …
Mordy Movies
Keeping on the art tip, Mordy Surf are announcing and showing the winners of the Mordy Surf Annual Film Festival on Wednesday the 13th of December at their Mordialloc store. The festivities kick off at 7:30 with a free bbq, drinks and a tonne of giveaways. The categories include: Best …
Maple Syrup
Sam Chisholm, the photographer behind the 4th issue’s cover shot of Matt Horne, was involved in the skateboard art exhibition in Adelaide called Maple Syrup a few weeks ago. Maple Syrup was 30 artists from around the country painting up boards… Hence, skateboards + paint = Maple Syrup. Anyway Sam …
The Best Contest Ever
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0cm8E0UcJD8″][/gv] I was reading the September issue of The Skateboard Mag last night and there’s a story in there about The Best Contest Ever which was the Vans Protec Pool Party. So during my daily YouTube session I looked it up. Wouldn’t you know it? It was the best …
¡Viva Prahran! Results
Here’s the results from the weekends Viva Prahran contest that Quiksilver put on. Sorry these took so long to get up. I’ve been trying to get my hands on some more photos because my camera is crap. Until I do here’s a keeper of the sponsored division winner Nugget. Fuck …
Fuck yeah Grosso!
Jeff Grosso is down in Australia travelling with his family. A few days ago he skated Frankston park with Matt Mumford. It wasn’t a demo, it was just skating. POP’s friend at Kickback sent the following photos with this email: Here are some photos from one of my fave demos …
¡Viva Prahran!
I’m bumping this news article up because it’s happening this weekend! Quiksilver, Oakley and Nike are putting in $7500 for the ‘Viva Prahran’ skate comp this Saturday at, you guessed it, Prahran skatepark (a suburb of Melbourne for those that haven’t been). There’s a vert jam session, am (un-sponsored) and …
Summer of fun
I got an email the other day with a link to a rad little myspace photo blog a girl named Tamara has started. It contains instructions on how to make your summer the best fun ever. If you’re not going overseas then you better get onto building this! Thanks Tamara.
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 …
Richer than you
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. We’ve been really busy working on something really rad for you so I promise there’s something really good coming really soon. Really. Anyway I got sent a newsletter this morning and guess what? Shaun (not Shawn) White has his own pro model shoe …
Fully Sick Bro
My morning was made by this… I found this action from Carroll and Koston. You have no idea how excited we are about this video. Lakai have been making some amazing shoes (seen the Telfords in Navy/White?). Speaking of Lakai did you know the name originated from Mike Carroll’s nickname, …
Something right?
[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9o2ofAVCkgQ”][/gv] Although this teaser has been out for a while I only just watched it. It’s for Oakley’s new skate film called ‘Our Life’ and it’s surprisingly ok given the Community Project. There’s a few different teasers floating around but this is the best I think. Apparently it’s out …