We talked about The Panic Button a while ago and posted links to their youtube teasers but now their website is eventually online, it looks sick and you’ll be able to watch the DVD teaser and download their podcast as well. We’ll add The Panic Button teaser on the Spongercity Podcast if we can. Check the website here.
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We promised a few people we would add their websites when updating our LINKS page. Done deal. Sorry for the wait. If we forgot you, send us an email. Check the INFO page for email details. We answer all emails within a few days so if you get no answer from us send it again, the email must have been lost or considered as a spam.
Cheers !
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We’ve re-designed some of the site pages and eventually released the new pages yesterday night, starting with the DVD reviews pages which has a totally re-designed list of DVD reviews: more than 60 DVDs reviewed so far ! (note that the DVD release dates are wrong, we’ll correct this as soon as we remember when the DVDs came out haha). The Podcast page is new too, no more ‘media’ page. It’s all about Podcasts and RSS feeds nowadays. Come on, don’t be shy and jump in the hi-tech wagon with us ! The Music reviews page has also been re-designed and the Tests page as well. Expect more tests and more reviews very very soon. Next DVD review is FACES. Next board test is the SCIENCE 7 41.5 crescent tail 2008 edition. Fins test as well, we’ll let you know why Bluntcuts are some of the best fins out there. Let us know if you want to see any specific DVD review or board tests on the website, we’ll try to review them. We added a little Spongercity Store for those who want Spongercity tees and caps. Shipping is free for those about to ask.
Also peep the new A-Frame site here. A-Frame hails from the US and is the best online bb mag you can find. You gotta check it if you havent yet. Next issue coming soon. Thanx Alex for the hard work and sick mag.
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This is one of the rare californian video out in 2007 and it would’ve been a shame for us not to review it coz it’s fresh, it’s got awesome footage and it’s got what most videos dont have: heaps of different spots, heaps of different riders and a taste of what travelling around the world is. Read the complete review…
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SPONGERCITYINTERVIEW_BENPLAYER_LASTWORDS
INTERVIEW done on the 8th of March 2005 – “Last Questions” with Ben Player
BEN PLAYER not only works at Movement Mag but he’s everywhere : he’s in every single Mag and video, he competes on the world tour and makes it to the top 10 if not the top 5 of the RIPTIDE peer poll every year for the past five years (#6 this year). Ben’s surfing is creative and as stylish as it gets, he’s impressive in the water and super cool out of the water. He was probly out of the water and at home in Oz the other day when i asked Ben if he was ok to be interviewed for playbord.com coz he said yes pretty quickly and answered his emails for a couple days. We got lucky… Anyway, both me and Ben thought that a real interview is kinda boring and lacks of spontaneity and authenticity so we agreed on the ‘Last Words’ interview format (which i must admit i borrowed to TransworldSURF Mag). I sent Ben the 30 or so quick questions and got my answers the next day. That was last week, we cant be more fresh than this on playbord ! So here are Ben’s last words and facts :
Last surf you had : Yesterday at Black Rock. 4 ft and flawless. I surfed for 9 hours.
Last mind-blowing barrel : Backdoor January 05
Last board you loved : The board I have now, Grey top, white pin and red outside rail.
Last trip you went on : A road trip yesterday ; a 4 hour drive each way.
Last bodyboard movie you watched : Raised Heights, Waldren Bros. Video…insane
Last rider who blew your mind : Morgan Brown ; an local aboriginal at Balck Rock yesterday.
Last time you got dropped in on : Yesterday and got a nose of a board in my ribs
Last time you were scared : January 24th at Pipe 12-15 ft and no one out.
Last thing you bought yourself : A coffee this morning…Cappucino
Last car you rode in : My Holden Barina..small and cheap.
Last time you got lucky : A while ago…too long.
Last injury you had : mmmm, popped my shoulder yesterday and am killing today.
Last song you loved : Modest Mouse…that bling bling one.
Last thing that made you cuss out loud : All ways, I swear too much.
Last punch you threw : Ages ago…stupidly.
Last time something changed your life : The other day when I broke up with my girlfriend.
Last video part you were stoked on : Raised Heights
Last time you stand up surfed : 1 year ago.
Last thing you broke : My Apple G4, I fractured the LCD screen.
Last time you took a picture : 1 week ago with one of those LOMO cameras
Last book you read : Da Vinci Code
Last website you visited : Porn over the last couple of days…he he.
Last magazine you read : Movement
Last time you lied : The above question.
Last girl you kissed : Catherine my ex girlfriend
Last time you wished you were alone : After I kissed her goodbye…not.
Last time you wished all your mates were here : Today
Last time you thought you were gonna die : At Teahupoo a couple of years back.
Last time you felt inspired : Every moment I have time to appreciate life
Last time you said « it’s the last time » : The last time I broke up with my girlfriend.
THANX A LOT BEN
Spongercity.com
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Parkway Drive is touring in europe and we were lucky to watch ‘em play live yesterday night in Paris, France. We took a little trip to Paris with a bunch of friends and enjoyed a nice hardcore show with heaps of bands. Parkway Drive was definitely the stand out band, they played 8 songs, mostly from their previous album. Freaking awesome live show. Check a few pictures we shot and a small video from yesterday night. You must have heard ‘em in recent bbing videos.
For full picture gallery click here. For seperate pics it’s here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
For the video, right-click and download this .mov video: PWD live show clip.
Note that we re-recorded the song over the video because the sound was crap and the camera microphone pretty much died. The music was so freakin’ loud that it blew the mic.So the image and sound might be a little un-synched but it’s still pretty good to watch hey !
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Riptide issue 160 is out. It says “Biggest issue ever” on the cover and jeez, yes, it’s sick and nice! Check it out.
We just got the brand new HELLO (luck squirrel club) teaser which is awesome. We’ll add it on the Podcast ASAP. While waiting for it, you can already watch it here. “This is a film that’s fun, colourful and if anything has too much personality. We want the viewer to be involved, we want them to walk away better for the experience. We didn’t sit on a beach shooting riders we had no relationship with, or paddled out and shot the same footage as 3 other film crews. We wanted to personalise this film so it had to be about the people, not purely about what happened in the water.”
Their DVD will be out in 1 or 2. Stay tuned, more news coming soon.
Last but not least, in the same vein as THE INSIDE but 13 years later, Scotty Carter’s new project with Mike Stewart called FIRE, which we talked about a while back, eventually has a teaser to watch. It’s here and it looks different and pretty interesting.
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Yewwwww. Kyle Maligro who has been riding for Toobs back in the days and then rode for BZ for a while is now back on the Toobs team with a new killer board model. It’s got his old logo on it and i’m already frothing looking at the board. As Kyle said, it’s “Good to be back with the Toobs family.”
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