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

Bantam Board By Globe

Globe have released their version of the Penny, called the Bantam. The guys released the board whith a clip below and while normally this wouldn’t rate as news, you know… bikinis. So, enjoy!

48 Minutes Of Raddness From Nitro

Nitro have put up their full film featuring Markus Keller, Eero Ettala, Marc Swoboda, Marco Smolla, Knut Eliassen, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Anton Gunnarsson, Ben Bilocq and more. It is 48 minutes of raddness and well worth watching. Check it out below!

Scarlett Johansson And Neff For Charity

Scarlett Johansson has got together with Neff to create an all natural beanie which will be helping a cancer charity, City of Hope. The guys are giving away up to 5,000 beanies and up to US$20,000 as part of the collab. Pretty awesome. For more on the beanie, head over here and for more of Scarlett, hit the gallery above!

Dylan Rieder And Sammy Winter For Gravis

Gravis have put out a rad little clip featuring Dylan Rieder and Sammy
Winter shredding the streets of Tokyo. It’s to promote their new shoe
the Filter. Check it out!Dylan Rieder And Sammy Winter For Gravis

Lifeblood skateboards – We Must Bleed.

If you need a come down from the epicness that was the SB chronicles, lifeblood have released a rad park heavy film “We Must Bleed”.

Design Sally Fitzgibbons’ Surfboard

Red Bull have set up a little comp where you have the opportunity to get one of your designs put onto Sally Fitzgibbons’ board. Aside from the bragging rights you’ll score a trip for you and a friend to the Roxy Pro on the Gold Coast and $1,500 cash to party with. There’s also a People’s Choice category with the winner getting $1,000 happening on their facebook page. So, grab your crayons …

Night Surfing At Bondi

Some friends of ours were involved in the Strongbow ‘welcome to summer’ event which happened at Bondi last weekend. The guys got surf film maker Jack McCoy down to film a night session with 17 surfers who had their wetties and boards rigged up with neon lights. There was quite a crowd along to check out the happenings and apparently it looked pretty damn amazing when the guys were going at it with the fireworks in the background. Check out a clip from the night below!

Nitro’s ‘What Goes Up Must Come Down’ Intro

The good guys at Nitro have opsted the intro to their film, ‘What Goes Up Must Come Down’ on Vimeo. The full film is due out on December 5th and features Markus Keller, Eero Ettala, Marc Swoboda, Marco Smolla, Knut Eliassen, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Anton Gunnarsson, Ben Bilocq, and more. Check it out!

Afterhours At Boreal

Here’s a quick clip of the Afterhours crew doing some pre-season shredding at Boreal. The clip was filmed by Ian Post and features Yale Cousino, John Murphy, Charles Reid and more. Check it out!

Girl And Chocolate Film – Amazing Trailer

The full trailer for the Girl and Chocolate got released last Friday in the US and damn, it look amazing. Featuring the likes of Brandon Biebel, Chico Brenes, Mike Mo Capaldi, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Gino Iannucci, Marc Johnson, Eric Koston, Sean Malto, Guy Mariano, Rick McCrank, Alex Olson and many, many more (full rider list below the teaser). Directed by Ty Evans, Spike Jonze and Cory Weincheque and …

Rick Howard Interview

With the teaser for the new Girl and Chocolate film dropping tonight/tomorrow Australian time, I thought it would be good to post the Rick Howard interview we did for issue 19. He talks about the upcoming film, as well as his history, starting Lakai, losing team members and Guy Mariano. Check it out!

Mike Basich – Off the Grid

Some people may think he’s a hermit, most people will probably think this is RAD!

Travice Rice’s Supernatural

Travis Rice takes a bunch of Red Bull’s money and starts a new comp.

Hardflip The Movie Is Going To Be A Piece Of Sh*t

There are so, so many things wrong with this. Kyneee, I don’t know if I can thank you for posting that link in the Shoutbox cause this has just made me angry. Ahaha. Starring Randy Wayne, John Schneider, and Rosanna Arquette with special appearances from Christian Hosoi and Brian Sumner the film tracks a kid who thinks skateboarding is everything and then he… Who am I kidding, writing words about …

Velvet Sea’s Latest Featuring Burrow, Otton, Aguis and more!

Check out this rad new clip from the guys at Velvet Sea featuring Taj Burrow, Kai Otton, Bede Durbridge, Miguel Pupo, Chippa, Ben Godwin and Dion Aguis. It was shot by Sam Page at Hossegor. Rad – enjoy!

Dragon Orbit Launch Party

Dragon launched their latest sunglass, the Orbit, at the Backroom in Sydney last week. The night was themed on an acid-house-rave and Owen Wright was along for the night. Check some shots from the event above – looks like it was a fun night!

Jake Koia On Red Bull Chronicles

Jake Koia’s got a rad episode of Red Bull Chronicles up. He covers filming for Givin, his influences and his lifestyle and how much of a motivator Robbie Walker is to him. It’s well worth a watch, check it out!

Lost On The Slopes? Check Google Maps!

Google have been running around in their customized snowmobile adding snow slopes to their Maps site. So far they have the likes of Whistler and Crystal happening. Check some details on the snowmobile below and details on their progress in the video below that.

Wilko’s ‘Out To Brunch’ Is NSFW

I know the blog was mentioned in the Shoutbox the other day but Matt Wilkinson’s Tumbler ‘Out To Brunch’ has an… interesting… new clip on it. Probably not one for the office though – there’s nudity, both the good kind (female) and the bad kind (male). Check it out below and head over here for the whole deal.

Life in the Garden State By Third Chapter

Third Chapter have created this rad clip with the team called ‘Life in the Garden State’. Shot by James Brown the clip features Blake Harris, Rowan “Happy” Sercombe, Jamie Keating, Brett Royden, Rylan McNeill, Cameron Markin and more. Check it out!

Adidas Gets Jake Blauvelt To Make Boots

Adidas have signed on Jake Blauvelt to create a line of snowboard boots. The lines is to compete with Nike’s very success entry into the market over the last few years and the aim is to have three boots available by 2013 plus a snow friendly casual boot. Check the ESPN article here for more info.

Signal Tips The Hat To Steve Jobs

Signal has done a tribute board to Steve Jobs. This is probably the best episode they’ve done purely on the basis that it would actually be pretty hard to achieve the end result. Check it out!

GQ In The US Lists This Winters Best Boards

GQ in the US have a list of what they claim are this northern winters best boards. While they tend to focus on the graphics rather than the tech, they have made a few good choices. The list includes the Signal Rocker Light, Forum Youngblood DoubleDog and the Burton Method. Check the full list over here.

Vestal Australian Launch Party

While they have had one or two false starts here in Australia, Vestal have been killing things in the States and now Australia gets a chance to check out the hottness. They held a launch party the other night and the likes of Corbin Harris and Tom Pelley were along to help celebrate. Check out a few shots of the night via Lifeiwhtoutandy.

Nike SB – The Chronicles Teaser

Nike have released a teaser for their upcoming feature.

Nyjah Huston’s Rise and Shine Available Now

Nyjah Huston’s new part, Rise and Shine, was released last Friday on iTunes. The reviews so far have been pretty amazing and the trailer made it look epic – I haven’t had a chance to get a look yet but I can’t wait… Downloading now. It costs $2.99 for the HD version and you can download it here. Thoughts?

Erica Hosseini On Oakley

Erica Hosseini has left Spy eyewear for Oakley. There’s a lot of words in a press release that talks about individual style and function and quotes about why everyone is excited about the hook up… However, I thought I’d go with a gallery of photos and a video to show why this is newsworthy. You’re welcome.

The 686 Scion Numeric Concept Car

… and taking out the award for most brands involved in the one collaboration project?

Owen Wright – Dragon Tales

Dragon are releasing a set of clips called Dragon Tales and the first one features none other than Owen Wright. The blurb about the series says “Through the eyes of four up-and-coming surfers, this tale speaks of youth, summer, progression and fun. From world dominance, rising …

The Full Interview With Steve Berra – Part 4 of 4

It’s taken a little white to get here but it is well worth the wait! Steele Saunders has become a semi-qualified audio tech and has cleaned up all four parts of the interview with Berra to make for much easier listening. In this section Berra talks about making films, the reasons for starting the Berrics and the logistics of the park. You can read …