Get Connected – Quiksilver Mashed Jacket
With the guidance of pro skater Javier Mendizabal, Quiksilver has developed the Mashed Jacket (€170, Midnightblue or Beige, Ripstop Cotton) that integrates audio headphones into the tips of the hood draw cord. This innovative system conceals the connection between the earphones and the MP3 player, located in the jacket’s front pocket. Now available in Quiksilver [...]
Surfing Moments With Craig Anderson
Craig ‘Ando’ Anderson is one of the most stylish and progressive free surfing talents on our planet. Hailing from Mereweather, NSW, stomping grounds of twin fin innovator and 4x World Campion Mark Richards. Ando’s signature Flint boardie takes inspiration from MR’s iconic late 70’s Quiksilver boardshort design with a shorter 19” outseam, inset color blocked [...]
The Joy Of Ride
Snowboard pioneers Martin Sammet and Jogi März built their first board because they wanted to experience the feeling of surfing upon snow. That was 1983. From those humble beginnings, Pogo Boards was born. Today, they build and ship high-quality, handmade decks to all parts of the world from their reconstructed farmhouse workshop in southern Germany. For [...]
Black History Month Of Action Sports
In honor of Black History Month, Tim Brodhagen gives a dose of the role African Americans have played — and continue to play — in action sports. Shut and Zoo York founder and New York skate legend Rodney Smith, snowboarder and X Games host Keir Dillon, and the untold story of surfer Nick Gabaldon in [...]
Surf Riot By Nick Waplington
“We’ve got a riot and we’re making arrests,” Huntington Beach Lt. Jack Reinholtz said shortly after the melee began. He said it was the worst disturbance to occur in Huntington Beach since a 1969 Easter weekend riot. He said in the Los Angeles Times in 1986 that his “group of about 10 officers was surrounded [...]
Urban Mobility Hooded Backpack
PUMA will have to make some autstanding collections if they want to overtake Nike and Adidas. For this season, the PUMA by Hussein Chalayan UM Backpack ($180) is a first start. The hooded backback is designed with a two-way zip front compartment, padded laptop compartment with hook-and-loop closure inside main compartment, zip pocket, slip in [...]
Surfing The Wild East
On September 26 2011, the Blickinsfreie team together with professional surfers Ian Walsh, Gary Saavedra and Perth Standlick went on a three-week adventure through the Caucasus Eurasia with a mission to surf the Black Sea as well as Caspian Sea just north of Baku, Azerbaijan. Fusing the intentions to expose new surf territory with a [...]
This is Trouble – Dedicated To The Life And Work Of Trevor “Trouble” Andrew
Last fall, Desillusiøn Magazine followed Trevor “Trouble” Andrew on a journey around Brooklyn and New York City. The short documentary shows the city, its people, music and art scene out of Trouble’s very own perspective, while sharing his vision of life and the board sports culture. “This is Trouble” captures some unique and intriguing footage [...]
Exploring The Perfect Moroccan Waves
During the biggest swell of this winter The Billabong Adventure crew arround Sancho, Jerome Sayhoun and Adrien Valero, opted to visit Morocco in the hope of finding cleaner conditions than the stormy weather and winds that accompanied this swell in Northern Europe. They found perfect waves on a slabby left somewhere North of Agadir and [...]
VSTR Surf Lifestyle Brand by Kelly Slater
VST & Company was a Filipino disco group prominent during the late 1970s in the Philippines. Considered to be the pioneer and icon of what is known as the Manila Sound. In surfing, VSTR is run by 11-time world surf champion Kelly Slater and on top backed by Quicksilver. The recently launched surf lifestyle brand [...]
Surfing Biggest Teahupoo Ever
The Aug 27th 2011 during the Billabong Pro waiting period at Teahupoo is what many are calling the biggest and gnarliest Teahupoo ever ridden. Chris Bryan was fortunate enough to be there working for Billabong on a day that will go down in the history of big wave surfing. The French Navy labeled this day [...]
The Nixon Art Mosh
The Nixon Art Mosh will make its 2012 debut with a two-night installation located in the heart of Munich. Beginning Sunday January 29, this invitation-only art exhibition will showcase the works of Brett Walker, George Morton-Clark, Orlando Campbell, Matt Small, Cheryl Dunn, David Bray, Greg Eason, Mc Bess, LG White, Best Ever, Crista Léonard, Adam [...]
GoPro Hero2 Camera
You’ve asked for it. GoPro cameras are used by more stoked sports and photography enthusiasts than any other camera in the world. The HD HERO2 Camera ($299.99) are the most advanced GoPro cameras yet. Available in outdoor, motorsports, or surfing versions — each with specific accessories for the task. It is the smallest, lightest, most [...]
A Film About Living …
It’s challenging to do all of the filming on your own on a surftrip. It’s a constant battle between your two passions, surfing and shooting. And furthermore between shooting video and/or photo. Photographer and filmer Roman Königshofer had no script to follow just rough outlines of some ideas. I’m stoked on the outcome though – [...]
Gesa Ronge Exhibition @ BIS
From Cologne over Hamburg to the ocean, this is the short summary of Gesa’s life. Now she lives in the Médoc close to the ocean, which is the source of her inspiration. 10 years ago, she came in touch with the Atlantic and surfing became her passion. She studied in Hamburg at the “Hochschule für [...]
The Escondido Tow-In Experience
For many years Pro-Snowboarder Mitch Toelderer is coming back to visit his friends in Puerto Escondido and every year he´s hoping for a big swell to realize his dream of “tow into big walls” session. When the swell than was suddenly on the radar and they are watching the crazy towin footage of that same [...]
The Single Life
The Rusty team recently went to Bali armed with single fin surfboards. Josh Kerr rewrote the history book with combos of futuristic manoeuvres on a single fin: airs, reverses, fin-chucks and gaffs were the norm. To watch the universe change watch this – a clip featuring the Rusty team in Bali going looney on their [...]
Albatross Exhibitionist
Inspired by the tragic story and images of Albatross chicks on Midway Island dying slow and agonizing deaths due to ingested plastics consumed in error by the seabirds, the Skeleton Sea artists, including collaborators Xandi Kreuzeder and Joao Parrinha, created a new installation and accompanying short film titled the ‘Albatross Exhibitionist’. Constructed using a selection [...]
Snowboarding & Surfing the Lofoten
After finising the filming in Tamok and Lyngen for this years HIKE project Mitch Tölderer and his friends were heading southwest towards the infamous Lofoten Islands, Norway. The dream was to get perfect snow and waves in the same day. Well, dreams don´t always come true perfectly at the first try… By the way, the [...]
The Kerrazy Kronicles
JOSH KERR has had a busy 12 months. In the last 12 months he has travelled the globe filming for his debut profile movie “THE KERRAZY KRONICLES” and he also qualified for the WCT. A very busy year indeed and a year some have called a career highlight year for any professional surfer. The “KERRAZY [...]
Scratching the Surface
The first official full length trailer for the new Julian Wilson movie Scratching the Surface. Julian has for sure the power to become a second Kelly Slater! Enjoy the ride … ❚
The Kerrazy Kronichles
Josh Kerr has had a busy 12 months, he has travelled the globe catching footage for his debut profile movie THE KERRAZY KRONICLES and he has also qualified for the WCT. Was very busy year indeed and a year some have called a career highlight year for any professional surfer. The KERRAZY KRONICLES movie is [...]
Man-Made Wave Simulates an Ocean Break
Wave Garden is the ability to enjoy a beach environment and a real surfing experience beyond the oceans of the world. Wavegarden’s cutting edge technology allows for the creation of a broad and customisable range of authentic surfing waves in a safe and natural environment. This cost effective and environmentally friendly wave generation technology is [...]
Matt Meola – $100.000 Innersection edit
Last week the Top 5 guys were close to winning $100.000 for their Innersection part and they’ve have asked if they’re surprised to be under the top dogs: Gabriel Villaran said: “I can’t believe it. I’m out of my head.” Pete Devries said: “For sure, I’m surprised. I don’t know if people are just excited [...]
