UK-based television production group Boomerang has just purchased the France-based snowboard website and print magazine Method Mag for an undisclosed amount and will include it in their Boom Extreme Publishing group.
Rasmus Ostergaard, managing director of Method, said: “The group’s skilled professionals share our enthusiasm for snowboarding and are leading players within extreme sports production. Boomerang’s expertise, creativity and business qualities will have a significant positive impact on our business. . . “Long term, it gives us a stronger foundation to project the Method brand to a bigger audience, and short term, it helps us to focus on delivering high quality content both in print and online to our existing audience. . . . “It also enables us to focus on our advertisers’ needs for partnerships with media groups like us in print magazine, online and IPTV for the future growth of snowboarding.”
And another indy goes corporate. Hope it worked out well for the entire Method team.
Thirtytwo and StepChild Snowboards are presenting the premiere of This Video Sucks tonight, (Thursday, September 17, 2009) at 9 PM at the etnies headquarters in Lake Forest, California. Music by DJ Nathanetics. . . Guess now we all know how crowd sourcing a movie title really works.
On Labor Day 2009 snowboarder Todd Richards, writer Sean Mortimer, and skateboarder Jesse Fritsch, and Sweet Jerome (qualified old guys all) holed up at a secret southern California mini ramp and spent the entire afternoon trying to land frontside blunts. Tony Hawk even threw in a $300 prize. Let’s just say Todd Richards didn’t win.
Video Grass will have its Southern California premiere along with Hard to Earn Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM in the hallowed halls of the world famous La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas, California.
Confirmed riders in attendance include: Darrell Mathes, Mikey LeBlanc, Laurent-Nicolas Paquin, Louie Paradise, Aaron Bittner, Jonas Michilot, Nima Jalali, Keegan Calaika, Desiree Melancon, Ben Bilocq, Nic Davis, MFM, Derek Dennison, Chris Bradshaw, Jeremy “Worm” Grendahl, Jonah Owen, and Cory Cronk.
And as if this place hasn’t been wrecked enough this week thanks to Shake Junt and the rest of The Crossroads crew, the after party will be at The Saloon.
MFM, Dan Brisse, and Annie Boulanger will be joining the Absinthe Films crew in Portland, Oregon tonight (September 9, 2009) for a showing of Nevermind at the Hollywood Theater. The doors open at 7:30 and the movie starts at 8 PM.
People magazineis reporting that Louie Vito “is stoked” to be blogging for them during his time on Dancing With The Stars. Starting September 21, 2009 we can all tune in each week for more of this:
So when I found out I was going to be doing a blog on my experiences on DWTS, I was stoked. Then I started to think, ‘What am I going to write about that would make people interested?’ Well, first let’s start with who I am:. . . I’m a pro snowboarder and I absolutely LOVE what I do. I’ve been snowboarding ever since I was 5- or 6-years-old. This December and January, I am going to be trying out for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Just making the Olympics for the U.S. is a feat in itself. So, right now I have been trying to get in shape and strong for the upcoming snowboard season and practice, and do what I need to do for DWTS, which brings us to the show …
Damnit, Louie. You’re playing the celebrity game so earnestly that we find it hard to even make fun of you.
TrentBush has deeper roots in snowboarding that most. Along with his twin brother Troy, Trent has seen every phase of snowboarding from the inside.
Amazingly, he has avoided getting jaded and has continually been able to reinvent himself for the times. He and Troy have had their own outerwear lines several times, and designed outerwear for Burton. Most recently they partnered to found Brandbase, the company that operates Tech 9, Nomis, and Sound.
Shayboarder interviewed Trent to get the background on all things Bush. It’s definitely worth the read.
Here’s a little teaser from Updown Mag‘s upcoming Nate Bozung interview (out Oct.5, 2009). From the sounds of this clip, he didn’t save a whole lot for the print magazine.
Unless you really have time to focus on them, Twitter interviews are a pain in the ass to follow.
Since we are actually interested in what Rome’s John Cavan has to say (and he is still saying it as we type) we decided to compile the entire Twitter stream in chronological order. That means we’ve made it really easy to read the whole chat from the beginning to the end.
UK-based television production group Boomerang has just purchased the France-based snowboard website and print magazine Method Mag for an undisclosed amount and will include it in their Boom Extreme Publishing group.
