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.
With the publication of The Disposable Skateboard Bible artist/writer Sean Cliver has become a hot commodity (even with the Wall Street Journal, apparently), but if you want an interview done right, sick Dave Carnie on the subject.
Okay, at this point, we’re just throwing all the movie premieres in here even though theseBillabongevents are so jam-packed popular that it’s almost pointless to even try to get in, we’re still going to mention that the World Premiere of Still Filthy is going down at 9 PM on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at the Hard Rock Hotel. That’s tomorrow night.
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.
For years we’ve fantasized about getting trapped in a well-stocked Venice, California kitchen with Tara Dakides, Chanel Sladics, Kassia Meador,Claire Bevilacqua, and Wahoo’s Wing Lam, who hasn’t.
Now, The Zeno Supper Club has gone and made it a reality as one episode of their series of ‘webisode” releases coming out on Youtube.com. We weren’t there, but we’re looking forward to seeing them cook up their Smoked Porter Braised Mole Short Ribs real soon.
Which reminds us: we love cooking at home when someone else does the cooking.
Blogger and former Surfline Power RankerLewis Samuels appears to be throwing in the towel on what he called The Post Surf Project. In a post titled Epilouge he broke it down like this.
I am not Lewis Samuels. . . That ended long ago, amidst the pixels and fuckery, clammy clickthroughs, custard pudding bastards, vitriolic comments, tags, tapioca fuckwits and strewn code. A writer does not write the truth about themselves. They leverage words to obscure things. They write the truth about other people, and leave themselves out of it. . . The surf industry is not surfing. My brief forays into the dark, sickly heart of the matter have reminded me of that. Over the course of the last nine months on PostSurf, I’ve simply tried to remind others of this fact. The PostSurf story has proven my point.
We’re not really sure what any of this means exactly, and were not sure that we’re going to miss it, as great as it sometimes was. We’re guessing there is a little more to this story. If you know it, let us know.
This clip from Zimtstern would have easily won many of the recent snow and skate video advertising contests. More importantly it puts us right back in the fall feeling when the air gets crisp, the nights get long, and we start strapping into our snowboards in the middle of the livingroom . . .
Tony Hawk announced today via Twitter that he will be speaking at The Twitter Conference in LA on September 22, 2009. He will join Loveline’s Dr. Drew, former Star Trekker LeVar Burton, and celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos on a panel titled Twitter and Celebrity: A Match Made in Heaven?
Not sure what I’ll be saying cuz I’ve been wingng it so far… but it’s working.
Match made in heaven? Well, it appears to be working quite will for Tony. Hearing Tony speak will cost $299. That’s how much the conference costs, which reminds us: all the money in social media is in telling other people how to make money in social media. . . funny how that works, isn’t it?
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.
