by The Editors on August 19, 2008
Jeff Galbraith, publisher at Funny Feelings, LLC. is happy to announce the addition of two staff members at Frequency The Snowboarder’s Journal. Jessie Carlson as designer (apparently everyone in the art department has to be named Jessie), and Colin Wiseman as senior editor. Both have been around for a while, but it is press release season.
With her recent BFA in graphic design, tenure as a previous frequency TSJ intern, and an intuitive sense of what we do around here, Jessie is proving to be a perfect addition. She and her shepherd/husky mix Koda work with Jessie Lu Design to keep things correct upstairs in the art dept. Jessie Carlson is a charger who leaves the boys staring at her dust — both on the single track and on the hill. . . . Colin brings smarts, drive, and a real understanding of snowboarding’s roots and future. With personal travel from New Zealand to South America and a shred tutelage in the Canadian Coast Mountain range, Colin is definitely down for the rad.
Great staff is good, more great staff it even better. But then, wouldn’t really know anything about either of those options.
[Link: Frequency]
by The Editors on August 19, 2008
Gretchen Bleiler has been moonlighting as a video correspondent for Yahoo! Sports. Here is a clip of her interview with Dara Torres and Katie Hoff and others.
Nice work, Gretchen.
[Link: Yahoo! Sports]
by The Editors on August 19, 2008
JKL Worldwide Inc., a talent agency based in Tarzana, CA has filed a “fraud and breach-of-contract suit” against Rob & Big star Christopher “Big Black” Boykin.
According to the suit, Boykin was impressed by the work the company had done for the show’s skateboarder co-host, Rob Drydek, so he asked them early last year to help him with his own career. . . . With JKL’s help, Boykin, 36, entered into a new deal for the show’s third season “which significantly increased the monies he was paid the previous two seasons,” the suit states.
The raise was reportedly $163,750 more than the year before and JKL wants their piece of it.
[Link: KNBC.com]
by The Editors on August 18, 2008
In the new season of the Sundance Channel’s innovative, vodka-sponsored interview show Iconoclasts Tony Hawk is paired up with Swinger’s and Dinner for Five creator/director John Favreau.
Participants for Season Four are: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson; fashion designer Stella McCartney and artist Edward Ruscha; skateboarder Tony Hawk and filmmaker/actor Jon Favreau; political humorist Bill Maher and music industry executive Clive Davis; tennis champion Venus Williams and musician/producer Wyclef Jean; and actress Cameron Diaz and architect Cameron Sinclair.
The Tony Hawk/Jon Favreau episode airs Oct. 30 at 10 PM ET/PT.
[Link: Iconoclasts via Marketwatch]
by The Editors on August 15, 2008
In the new Norwegian horror film Dead Snow (Dod Sno) a group of frozen undead Nazis awaken to feed on the brains of young snowboarders. Not exactly a healthy diet if you ask us.
The film opens on January 1, 2009 and is in Norwegian. We doubt their will be subtitles, but we still can’t wait to see it. Maybe Terje will translate for us.
[Link: Dod Sno via iO9]
by The Editors on August 14, 2008
Southern Californian’s can get a copy of Billabong Media Director Jim Kempton’s book Surfing: The Manual: Advanced and have it signed in person this Saturday evening August 16, 2008 from 5-9 PM at the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente at 110 Calle Iglesia. Then on August 20, 2008, Jim will be signing books at Duke’s Malibu.
The book is described as:
The definitive guide to surfing from the world’s leading extreme sports publishers, Wavefinder. Never before has such an esteemed assembly of the world’s greatest surfers come together to provide the deepest insights and secrets of surfing for surfers.
Kempton definitely knows who to talk to.
[Link: Wavefinder]
by The Editors on August 12, 2008
They’ve done as good a job as anyone to spin the fact that the print business model just isn’t working, but Slap Magazine announced last week in a press release that after “several more print issues” they will stop printing a magazine and go 100 percent digital.
SLAP has decided to step up and be the first in skateboarding to make a clean break with the old, and with that sentiment and excitement we announce SLAP will now channel its efforts and creativity 100% into slapmagazine.com. So long paper!
It won’t surprise anyone to see that they’ve also gotten a little loose with the truth with the following statement:
With the most popular skateboard website in the world and an audience 10 times the size of traditional print outlets, our efforts will be directed at the massive international audience at hand.
Ah, most popular skateboard website in the world? This comparison with Skateboarding.com and skateboard.com on Compete.com would suggest otherwise:
Either way, it will be interesting to see how advertisers respond, because Slap is most definitely on the right track even if they seem to be a bit confused by their traffic metrics.
[Link: Slap Magazine via Vitalmedianet.com]
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by The Editors on August 12, 2008
Like an aging Barker’s Beauty from the Price is Right, deep laugh lines were beginning to show around the eyes of one of snowboarding’s longest-running websites and its ass was beginning to sag. Yobeat.com just wasn’t keeping up. That’s what happens when you’ve been blogging longer than the word blog has existed (we know all about this.)
Yobeat.com co-creator Brooke Geery has finally updated her side project’s backend to WordPress and given the site a whole new graphic face and we’re all thanking her for this. . . at least those of us who enjoy caustic ramblings.
Follow the jump for the entire press release. Yeah, it’s that professional now.
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by The Editors on August 6, 2008
For a while it looked like Future Snowboarding would be done, but now, thanks to the savior of all sagging snowboarding magazines there will be another day.
Storm Mountain Publishing, (SMP) the Boulder, CO based publisher of SNOWBOARD and Freeskier magazines announced last week that it has purchased Future US, Inc’s snowboarding division for an undisclosed amount.
This purchase makes sense for Future’s website alone, but we are still amazed that small publishing companies are able to make the magazine model work while remaining honest about their distribution numbers.
[Link: Transworld Business]
by The Editors on August 4, 2008
The UK’s Factory Media LTD, the parent company of Surfer’s Path, Kingpin, Onboard, Surf Europe and 10 other action sports magazine titles is launching a video channel called Mpora.tv today according to a story on Marketing Week UK.
The channel, which launches in the UK today (4 August), is set to extend across Europe during the year. The launch is intended to supplement the user-generated video website Mpora.com and is aimed at expanding its core audience to include mainstream viewers.
Nothing like video to bring in that mythical “mainstream viewer” huh? Guess we can add Mpora to the growing list of action sports video crapragators because it doesn’t look like they’re doing anything new.
[Link: Marketing Week UK]
