So I went on a trip with my buddy Andy who is a photographer and the day before we left we went out to a spot at June and hit some pillows and did some powder slashing, the next day we headed out to Vegas for the SIA trade show; we spent a few days in Vegas parting and wondering around from bar to bar. We left Vegas with hangovers and blurry memories haha, from Vegas we made our way to Salt Lake City we spent 8 days in a shitty hotel where somebody got murdered besides that we had a good time “jibbing”. After salt Lake we went to Tahoe (Truckee) where we stayed at my friends house and had a swell time going to house parties and clipping tickets. We had some good times and some bad times but all in all it was a good trip, and I suck at writing stories, hopefully you like the pics more than my story:

More crew news our homie Harrison Gordon just got a four page Interview in the December issue of BL!SSS mag.  Not to mention our other good ole pal and Revolution Photographer Andrew Miller got six photos for the interview.  Pretty sick!!! Props to both Harry and Andrew (not Andre).  You can find a copy at one of your local skate/surf/snow shops and pick up this sucker for FREE.  Here is a little sneak peak.

- BL!SSS December Cover.

- Shitty scan but a little sneak peak. Pick up a copy to see and read the rest!

More info on BL!SSS mag check out blisssmag.com

To see more of Harrison on the REVOLUTION check these links out:

VIDEO: Mammoth 07 Season Ender

 Our good homie Kirk Kaufmann just got a full page shot in the new October issue of Snowboard Magazine article “Test Run Park Boards”.  Be sure you pick up your own copy lots of good stuff in this great issue.  I was especially stoked on the Mongo Pro article… check it out!  Anyway just wanted to give Kirk some love watch out for more great stuff coming from this tall fool!

Related:  5 Minutes with Kirk Kaufmann

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 Kirk Kaufamn taming the S rail at Bear mtn, CA- Mike Basher photo snowboard-mag.com 

When you are a pro snowboarder you bank on the fact that you can get paid for appearing in magazines, in videos and on tv. Alot of rider contracts are based specifically on incentive programs. As snowboarders we understand that getting published is much more than just a great accomplishment, it is a way for us to continue our drive as riders. It is a way for us to get some cash to fill our sleds for the next day.

As an industry, we all know that sponsored riders receive incentive for appearing in “print magazines” photos, video and television appearances. What about the internet? Many internet shred sites today are receiving more page views than the average print magazine per month. Internet sites are also able to track exactly how many times the pictures, and pages are viewed. It makes alot of sense to me why if I were a rider I would push for this type of incentive.

I can also see the flip side, like a rider saying. Yo check out my “myspace” profile. I got made photos published there. I do understand why a rider shouldn’t receive incentive’s for some website’s, but major magazines are all taking a big push toward becoming an “online publication”. Technology is also improving screen resolution so pictures can make just as big an impact as print photos (in some cases). We believe that riders should definitely get paid when they appear in feature articles like the MAC SPEDALE INTERVIEW and in the PHOTOGRAPHERS BLOG These are just a few outlets out of many where a rider should receive photo incentive in my opinion. Among the other outlets I would include snowboard-revolution.com, twsnow.com, snowboardermag.com, futuresnowboarding.com for top rate payment. Those are among the top Snowboard websites for editorial online publication content.

If I were a companies team manager I would ask a rider to submit a list of the websites they believe they should get incentive for. I would contact the online editor and make sure that user generated content is kept separate from the incentive program just to be safe. You don’t want “Tommy Backlip” creating his own Snowboard Revolution profile and dropping 1000 photos into the community and claiming incentive on them.

I would like to see these riders we publish get paid for riding.  I guess thats where the Revolution begins.  If you agree that riders should get internet photo incentive drop a comment and lets get these riders some incentives online.

Ashley Mangels at Mammoth - Living at Mammoth is pretty rad.  Sick pipe, sick park, four feet of snow the other day, lots of sun, decent freeriding, and one hell of a concrete paradise to help pass the time in the summer months.  You really can’t complain.  Everyone that lives there is pretty lucky. Take Atomic’s Ashley Mangels for example.  He gets to play in the park everyday.  Check out the pics below and peep the video clip HERE for a taste of his daily life living in Mammoth.

World Rookie Fest 2007 _ Livigno

World Rookie Fest slope style finish today with a very good showcase in Livigno pro park, dominated by norwegian team riders. During the 90 minute jam session, the champion title was assigned to well known rookie Stian Aanestad from Norway, impressive both on rail and jumps: he show triks like bs900 to sw-bs900 on the jumps and solid on rails.

Today in Livigno top rookies from all over the world, express a very high level of riding, getting the attention of several media and photographers, providing us a good example of rookie to pro system.
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John Centi 32 stair wood handrail down by the lake. Snowboarding in the Great Lakes region is awesome.

Me and the crew got bust yesterday with some pretty dope setups and one hell of a good time. This is how we do it, send your crew to this side of the states and let us guide you around the home town.

Where Brooklyn at, Where Brooklyn at, Where Brooklyn at, I got seven mack elevens, about eight thirty eights, nine nines, ten mack tens and a killer snowboard crew to go with it.

This is Brett Mason “Brooklyn” and oh this kid kills it so look out for him in the future, because you won’t be disappointed.

© All rights reserved Steve Olson

Bill Cooley was a part of our East Coast Snow storm mission this past weekend. We will bring you all the photos with a little story behind the photo so check back.

About this photo: This is a sick 32 stair handrail in good old western New York, kind of like our rail garden in the back yard, not but twenty yards away is another handrail, but metal. Two of the best, easy to setup rails I have ever hit. Oh yeah, this photo is copyright Steve Olson, so don’t steal it or your busted.

Johnny Centi & Bill Cooley PHOTO: STEVE OLSON

We got to shred AGAIN! So yeah, you probably read my last post about the snow storm that was creepin’ in and no I DIDNT MEAN CLOUD COVER AS THE CLOUD STICKERS COVERING YOUR BOARD, PROPS IF THEY ARE. I meant some snow was coming to the home town, tommorrow its on, we are supposed to be picking up my drop in ramp and hooking up with the likes of Eric Morelli, Brett Mason, Caleb Erb, Will Emo, Billy Cooley, Steve Olson and myself (Johnny) for a serious east coast rail mission and I will work my *#* off to keep you updated.

Here are some more Snowboarding shots from the Peek N Peek Rail Jam.  Top one is ours, but the rest are shot by photographer Jason Dalton. 

Yep, thats me. 

Billy Big Balls