Pop Magazine

June 22, 2016

Gone Snowboarding. Don't wait for us.

Pop Magazine founders Dave Keating and Rick Baker are moving on. It was a good run. Access the archives below.

by Rick

Seb Toots Releases 2012 Video Part

Seb Toots has released an awesome video part he put down in only six days. Filmed in Montreal, Switzerland, New Zealand and the US by Sunset films it has some great park and backcountry footage. There’s maybe a little too much use of the slow-mo …

Dylan Rieder’s Filter LX Commercial Is Awesome

Very neat – Dylan Rieder in this rad commercial for Gravis’ Filter LX. Awesome.

Let It Ride With Oscar Meza

This is awesome. Flip Skateboards have released a clip called Let It Ride featuring Oscar Meza. Huge.

TPG Pulls Billabong Bid

A few days ago TPG, the private equity firm which has been sniffing around Billabong for a year or so, decided that even at $1.45 a share, it wasn’t worth it. This is despite making a $3.30 bid earlier in the year which was rejected because …

Gravis’ Creative Departures In Belgium

Gravis have created this rad clip from their recent Creative Departures trip to Antwerp, Belgium. There’s a tonne of info on the trip over on this neat micro-site but you can see most of the …

Diaries Downunder’s ‘Diary Days’ Episode 1

The crew behind Diaries Downunder have released episode one of their new series, Diary Days. This features personalities from New Zealand and the clip is all about Kenji Fukushima who has lived in …

DC Snowboarding’s ‘Must Be Nice’ Premiere

DC are having an online premiere for their new snowboard film, Must Be Nice. The premiere is happening on Facebook tomorrow (Wednesday October 10th) between 5am and 5pm over here. After that the film will …

Dragon Remix Launch Party

Dragon held a party with Ozmosis for their Remix launch. The night was held in Melbourne at the Mon Bijou Penthouse and it looks like there was some good times had. Check some shots from …

Jay Davies Loves Bali

The good dudes at Rusty sent me through this rad clip of Jay Davies in Bali. Filmed by Shano Dawson and edited by Wyatt Davies – combined with yesterdays awesome weather in Melbourne I am now hanging out …

A Final Spring Fling With Oi Mate!

The last clip from the Oi Mate guys this year has the guys shredding the backcountry-side of Thredbo, some early morning halfpipe with Nate Johnstone, a couple of days with Matt Sedunary and a bit …

Nitro’s Hyped Teaser

And here’s a second rad teaser for the day… Nitro have released the short for their 2012 film, Hyped. The film features Austin Smith, Eero Ettala, Jon Kooley, Justin Bennee, Bryan Fox, Mark …

#Forum Teaser

Here’s the teaser for Forum, Special Blend and Foursquare’s 2012 film, #Forum. The film features the usual crew including Andreas Wiig, Pat Moore, Jake Welch, Nic Sauve, Austen Sweetin, Cam Pierce, Daniel Ek and Mario Kaeppeli. I might have missed …

Pretty Sweet Premiere Tour And Teaser

Coming in November there will be a couple of premieres for the new Girl/Chocolate film, Pretty Sweet. Check the teaser out below – the film looks amazing. Along for the film tour will be the likes of Mike Mo, Mike Carroll, Biebel, Guy …

Episode 4 Of Diaries Downunder 2012

Here’s episode 4 of Diaries Downunder for 2012. This time, Mitch Brown, Steph Z, Nick Hyne and the crew take a helicopter to the back of the Remarkables for a shred. Looks like it was an …

Eshe Skateboards Rolls Over Religion

Eshe Skateboards have released their second set of boards in the Religion is Garbage series. The boards depict different religions using the old Garbage Pail kids doing kinda funny stuff. This came to my attention via the media blog, Mumbrella, which contacted the guys …

The Australian Says We’re In Trouble – And They’re Right

The Australian published an article the other day tracking the happenings in the surf industry over the last few months. From the fire sale of Billabong to Rip Curls being in play, Quiksilver under investigation and Nike/Hurley dropping the U.S. Open …

Every Third Thursday With Tim Ostler

This ranks as the best Every Third Thursday to date. In 2000, pro snowboarder Tim Ostler was in a halfpipe accident that paralyzed him from the chest down. Signal team with Crank Brothers mountain bikes to create a board so Ostler …

Bangers In Mash 2012 Clip

Shaun Belmore shot me through this clip from the Radical Gloves Sausage Fest that went down last Monday. Looks like the guys got some great weather and had a lot of fun …

Behind The Scenes Of Rip Curl’s Latest Bikini Shoot

Here’s a quick behind the scenes look at the Rip Curl spring/summer 2012 bikini shoot in Fiji. There’s not much to say on this except that you’re going to want to turn off the sound unless you like hearing super, unnecessarily positive …

X Games Gets TTR Rating

I sincerely hope that the tours, points, qualifications and star rankings aren’t meant to mean anything to your average spectator because I read about this shit regularly and am still thoroughly confused.

Nicolas Muller And Wolle Nyvelt’s 1080 Jump Session

Here’s the latest episode of Flipside, filmed during the making of Absinthe’s latest flick Resonance. This episode sees Nicolas Muller and Wolle Nyvelt out in Laax and looking to land …

Holden Outerwear’s New 2012 Site

One of our favourite brands, Holden Outerwear, have launched their 2012 website. These guys have done some rad ones in the past – the look book with Mikey LeBlanc, Darrell Mathes, LNP and the crew …

Kilian Martin In Rad Smart Car Ad

This is awesome. Smart car in the UK have used Kilian Martin in an awesome commercial for the For Two vehicle. I’m not sure who filmed this one but if you haven’t seen his work with Brett Novak… You have some work to do. Go here to check …

Cam Mullan For Kingpin Skate Supply

Here’s a quick clip from our friends at Kingpin – this one features Cam Mullan and was filmed by Ben Laxton …

Mike Carroll And Friends Having A Roll

This video has something to do with a competition which I’m assuming may be restricted to entries from the U.S. but it does feature Mike Carroll, Sebo Walker, Brian Anderson and more having a roll, a BBQ and a little …

Billabong Loses Bain – And Fast

Bain has lost interest in Billabong… This article opens with “It took Bain Capital an almost embarrassingly quick time to kick the tyres on troubled surf wear group Billabong and walk away.” Eeeeep. Not the kind of write up you’re looking for when you want to …

Shaun White Trashed Hotel Room And Got Arrested

TMZ had an interesting little story yesterday with Shaun White getting arrested for public intoxication and vandalism. According to reports, after indulging in a little too much of the ol fire water White damaged his hotel room, when confronted by …

Rip Curl Taking Offers

Rip Curl has announced that it has received a bit of interest in buying into the company. There is speculation that the single brand business, which is pure wholesale outside of Australia where it has some retail stores, could be valued at around …

Spring Day At Falls Creek

Shaun Belmore shot me through this quick edit from a spring day at Falls Creek. The clip features Kieran McLaughlin, Shaun Belmore, Andrew Roth, Alec Summers and Lachy …

Dragon Requires A National Sales Manager

Dragon Australia is looking for a National Sales Manager cause the head office in the U.S. keep pinching the Australian Dragon crew… And I can understand why. The Dragon Aus crew would be an amazing bunch of people to work with. I’ve placed …

RIP Snowboard Pioneer Tom Sims

Snowboard and skateboard legend Tom Sims passed away on Wednesday night at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He was 63 years old and suffered a cardiac arrest. Sims created his first ‘skiboard’ in 1963 during his 7th grade wood shop class – he is also credits with creating …