The shoutbox has been asking for it, and now it’s here. Out today at your friendly neighborhood newsagent is issue 2 of ‘Australian & New Zealand Snowboarding’ complete with bonus cover mounted ‘Two Weeks In…’. What you see above is the web-sclusive first peek at the cover. Issue Two features …
Visa Troubles
The associated press are reporting on an Australian woman named Laura McKenzie who has just finished a stint in an American detention center after she over stayed her tourist visa on the tail end of a Canadian winter. If you’re interested (and ever plan on going to the States or …
Snow Park Opening Postponed
Just so we (Southern Hemispherians) are all in the same boat, Snow Park NZ has had to postpone the proposed opening of the season due to lack of snow and ‘unseasonal’ weather. It was set to open tomorrow (June 18th), but has now been put on hold indefinitely. I would …
Burton Mellow Park Opens in Beijing
Snowboard Mag picked up on this too but we just got sent some photos of that indoor Burton park in China that we mentioned a week or so ago. Beijing, the city hosting the 2008 Olympic Games in September, unveiled their brand new indoor terrain park in the Qiaobo Ice …
Mitch Allen Back On Burton
I know this is old news but to keep our esteemed advertisers happy Mitch Allen has signed back up with Burton after a 5 year absence. “I’m stoked to be back on Burton. They sponsored me in the beginning and I’m pumped to be back on”. Mitch joins Jye Kearney, …
Marc Baker & Jake McCarthy on Brixton Ltd
Brixton, a US (or are they UK? … Definitely not Russian) headwear company have just signed up snowboarders Jake McCarthy and Marc Baker. They join an already solid team of surfers and skaters like Steve Caballero, Jamie Thomas, Chris Haslam, Omar Hassan and Patrick Melcher
TTR Farewells Drew Stevenson
Australian snowboarding legend Drew Stevenson recently hung up his beanie as CEO of the TTR World Snowboard Tour. Probably the most influential Australian on the world snowboard scene, Drew was responsible for MethodMag, Onboard, and of course the TTR. Most notably for all of us here in Australia, we now …
Future Snowboarding’s name not appropriate anymore
Transworld is onto an exclusive this morning reporting that Future Snowboarding has handed ‘you’re sacked’ letters to its employees stating that “that the company has closed its doors and will discontinue its print and online operations effective immediately.” Click here for updates.
Opening Weekend 2008
Queens Birthday long weekend saw the opening of the Australian snow resorts, and provided snow-loving Australians with nothing short of a kick in the nuts. Unfortunately, it just hasn’t been cold or wet enough for natural snowfall, and simply too hot to make a substantial amount of the fake stuff. …
Introducing the POP Magazine Forums
Well, it’s been a long time in the making and a lot of hours in front of the computer (not as much as this guy though) but we have finally finished the POP Magazine Forums. Magazine subscribers have been testing it out for us over the last week or two (thanks …
Real, Like Reality TV Real
Freshly uploaded to the tube is this beauty. POP friend ‘The Dingo’ and his good friend Danny Kass bring you what I can only assume is the trailer for the reality show he was telling me about the last time he was back on his home soil. ‘The Adventures of …
Coal Headwear Warehouse Tour
Today Paul and Renee from Coal gave us tour of their warehouse and 2008 range of Coal Headwear . As expected, the stuff is amazing. Rarely do we get to see a range that is so solid and that doesn’t require “Spin & PR” in order for me to keep …
Burton Sponsors New Chinese Indoor Terrain Park
Actual park may/will not match photo – this is Dubai. I can’t find shots of Qiaobo yet. Transworld reports this morning that Burton has taken the option of naming sponsors on the new Qiaobo Mellow Park, an indoor terrain park in China. According to the release, the park, located just …
Capital 17 Contest – Torture Ensues
On Friday night in Melbourne our friend Brett and his crew at Capital 17 held a contest to win a board/boots/binding setup… all you had to do was keep your hand on a board for the longest. Easy huh? Actually the contest stretched on till Saturday night and Brett got …
Grenade Game Footage
Click here to check out some footage taken by Snowboard Revolution at the 08 Grenade Games. The footage features all the usual suspects from Grenade along with their… um… substance fueled antics. Unfortunately I capped my internet due to a sudden addiction to Entourage earlier this month so at 64kbps …
Dream of Pop Teaser
Above is the new teaser for Atikin sponsored film, Dream of Pop. Atikin is brother brand to awesome ladies label, Nikita. The teaser features Atikin team rider Gulli Gudmundsson and Icelandic friends, Halldór and Eiki Helgason. I’m not going to lie, I have limited knowledge of these riders but the …
Win a trip to The Remarkables (and the Stash)!
Although the flyer above is too small to read (I couldn’t find a better sized one), it says that Burton has joined with Air New Zealand and The Remarkables to give away a return trip for two to ride ‘The Stash’ at The Remarkables resort in New Zealand for 5 …
Shaun White Snowboarding for Wii
Shaun White Snowboarding (SWSB) is in development for Wii. Boardsportsource has a release this morning on the development by video game company Ubisoft. It will be available on all three 3rd Gen systems but is being developed “from the ground up for the Wii system, taking full advantage of the …
I Ride Park City – Can I come?
This is the teaser to the new film made by Park City, appropriately named "I Ride Park City". I’ve always dreamed about making a snowboard video in a fixed location, which would allow for some pretty sweet camera setups. I guess Park City have pulled it off by the looks …
Burton Custom Southen Hemisphere
This is pretty cool I think. As part of the promotion for the new Burton film, It’s Always Snowing Somewhere, Burton have done a limited set of grachics for the Custom, that are only avaible in the southen hemisphere. Australia got 70 (out of 300) of them, and the rest …
Isenseven – Teenage Love Graffiti Trailer
The trailer for Isenseven’s new film, Teenage Love Graffiti came out the other day. There is some amazing shots in there, although I have to say, they maybe went a little over the top on the motion graphics. Anyway, it’s worth a watch. Thanks to Tyson for the heads up.
WeSC Headphones Commercial
Ages ago we propped WeSC on their headphones in the mag… well now they have this pretty amazing commercial floating around. Gotta love Jason Lee. If you’re in Melbourne and keen to score yourself a pair, head down to Lawton Knows Ruby in St. Kilda – one of my favorite …
Ryan Tiene on IFOUND
Photo courtesy of Dan Himbrechts – www.danhimbrechts.com Aside from filming with Sandbox for their new film, All Day Everyday, Ryan Tiene has been hanging out and riding with IFOUND rider, Rube Goldberg. Rube was so impressed that… and you heard it here first… Tiene has been signed onto IFOUND! I …
Ashbury Drops In Australia – I Freak Out
The new hottness in the eyewear game is Ashbury. Take it from me, these are the new leg bags and tight pants. Ask any of the guys from Two Weeks In, America is all freaking on them. They just put Marc Baker on the Aussie team, and if you read the …
Snow Gear Going Cheap
If you can handle a crowd , then you might be able to scoop up a bargin at this sale that’s going on in Melbourne till June 15th. Talking about sales, the new Death Cab for Cutie album is available . It’s sort of awesome, I put the single " …
Snowboardywood
I don’t want to dwell on it too much, but Hollywood has ruined so many things that i love. Transformers, killed by Michael Bay. Star Wars prequels, ruined by Hayden Christiansen. The list goes on and on, it is a rant that could last for days. Maybe months. Maybe it …
‘Two Weeks In’ Brisbane Premiere Photos
On Saturday night, my new favorite city of Brisbane held the last of the ‘Two Weeks In…’ premieres with the awesome crew at Snowbiz. As far as we know, it was the first time a snowboard film has been premiered in the sunshine state. Leonard from Snowbiz had organized a …
Annual ESS Rail Jam Photos!
Tommo dropped us an email with a few photos from the annual ESS Rail Jam! It looks like it was an amazing night with top honors being shared between Tom Pelley and Andy Lloyd. The night was sponsored by High Roller Energy Drink, Forum Snowboards, 3CS Outerwear, DVS, Grenade Gloves, …
Packer beat us to it!
Former Scientologist and owner of Crown Casino, James Packer, has beat us to buying Hotham and Falls. Through a subsidiary of a subsidiary company, James has gained control of MFS Living and Leisure – does that name sound familiar? It does to me, you can see their last correspondence with …
Two Weeks In Intro on YouTube
In case you haven’t scene the intro to Two Weeks In, we have it up on the YouTube now. You can watch it above, or you can get to the mini-site we built for the intro here. If you’re in the Brisbane area, make sure you get down to the …
Brisbane ‘Two Weeks In’ Premiere Tomorrow Night!
Just a reminder to everyone up north that tomorrow night is the Brisbane premiere of ‘Two Weeks In…‘ Rick and Chunk are heading up there and it looks like the guys at Snowbiz have put together a great night. It’s happening at the Metro Arts Building at 7pm, check the …
Grenade ‘The Boned Age’ Teaser
The new Grenade flick, The Boned Age, has got teasers galore out! Featuring Kyle Clancy, Sketchy-D, Lucas Magoon, Benji Richie, Scotty Arnold, Scotty Lag, Tyler Flanagen, Louie Vito, Gabe Taylor, Danny Kass and the rest of the team – I’ve got two different clips to share with you now and …
Superpark 12 at Mammoth
TJ Schneider’s new episode of Snowboard Realms has just come out. It’s from Superpark 12 at Mammoth and is the last of the season. It’s definitely worth watching.
Two Weeks In Melbourne Premiere Time Lapse
Here’s a time lapse of the crowd at the Melbourne premiere for Two Weeks In. We started it half way through the night because we had to run home and get the fish-eye lens. I would say there was between 100 and 400 people there. I think we can all …
Issue 9 Circulation
I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that our circulation page is now %100 up to date with the stockists of Issue 9. If the store is on the map, they got sent a box of magazines last week, so if you’re trying to track down a …