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Multimedia Snowboard Tragedies
I like to put these snowboard book reviews into themes, because no one reading something on the interweb wants to read about individual reads they aren't going to read, so I look to see if there are...
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17 Epic Snowboard & Ski Slasher Movies
I'm from the Jaws generation, and I'm now forever cursed with an irrational fear of getting eaten to death by huge aquatic teeth missiles. As a result one of the things I've always really appreciated...
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Say What You See - Can you name the 25 ski areas?
This week we've created a new way to waste some of your spare time before next season. Can you name the 25 ski areas in this huge dose of Photoshoppery? ...Click on the pic to see the full-size...
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Putting the Anal in Analysis. Why SIA's newly released snowsports...
I'm a bit concerned that the people who analyse the snowsports industry are a bit crap at their jobs. I guess if they were good they'd be working in banking...Earlier this week SIA (Snowsports Industry...
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Hipster Snowboard Branding - Electrifying Logos
Earlier this year Electric decided to revamp their brand and go through the monstrous process of changing all their stationary. The resulting rebrand was all over the recent design trend of hipster...
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Top 10 Brilliantly Useless Do-It-Yourself Snowboard Instructables
The other day we came across Instructables.com, a site for sharing do-it-yourself tips and projects, and we thought it would be interesting to see if there was anything useful we could find to improve...
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Worth1000 closure wreaks devastation on the snowboarding penguin...
What would the Internet be like without an endless stream of penguins Photoshopped onto snowboards? We're about to find out...Sad news gang, Worth1000, the endless Photoshop competition site that...
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Chad's Gap Vintage Snowboard/Ski Poster What We Made
Two years ago I had a crack at producing some vintage snowboard posters. That time out I attempted to change history by taking some classic ski posters and replacing the skiers with snowboarders. It's...
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Snowboarders Top Trumps & Proof that a snowboarder is the greatest athlete of...
We came across this pack of Top Trumps Snowboarders the other day and figured it would be worth a look. Little did we know that this unassuming pack of cards would provide the irrefutable truth that...
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Sequences of Sequences - Resequenced Snowboard Photography
We thought it would be interesting to have a crack at making some gifs, but we didn't just want to produce yet more of the same gifs of video clips that have suddenly started to swamp the internet. We...
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A Fete Worse Than Death - Illicit Goes Undercover At The Fulham Ski Fete
The Fulham Ski Fete took place on Sunday. You might be surprised to find out this event exists, and then you might just suppose it was a just an innocent event suffering from a lack of marketing, but...
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow & Why You Love Snowboarding
I've always wanted to understand why I love snowboarding. It's an odd sport for me to be into considering I live in a country that's short on snow or mountains, and that I've broken myself so badly...
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Seminal Snowboard Movies - Pornifying The Classics
The standard way to tell if a movie is great or not is whether it's got it's own porn parody. Who can forget the cinematic greats like Shaving Ryan's Privates, The SoreSack Prevention, Forrest Hump,...
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The Snowboarder's Total Guide to Life - Is this the worst snowboard book ever...
Over the past few days I've been slowly ploughing my way through this truly terrible book. It was one of the toughest and most miserable things I've ever done in the name of snowboard blogging. I...
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Confessions of a Vintage Snowboard Trader
Traditionally snowboarding has been seen as a young person's game, but snowboarding has been knocking around now for a generation, and as the snowboarders have aged the demographics of the sport has...
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Extreme Pie Charts
For several years we've been creating infographics to help visualise different aspects of snowboarding. One thing we've almost entirely avoided using so far is the much maligned pie chart, described by...
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Beanies, Bean Bags, Boobs & Booze – 12 things we learned from the London...
We hit-up the London Freeze Festival on Saturday and this is what we found...1. Free drugs2. The après ski bars theme I wrote about a few weeks ago was excellent and it’s definitely the way to go for...
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Nokia Giveaway Caption Comp
Nokia gave me a phone for the Burton European Open coverage and now it's time to give it away. I promised to do this before I got the phone and after a few days of playing with it I'm regretting that...
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Illicit does...Motivational Snowboard Quotes
We though we'd have a go at creating some motivational posters for snowboarding. These things are guaranteed Facebook bait, so this post is bound to be a winner. It's just a common snowboard saying...
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Punters vs Core Snowboarders & What Shaun White Actually Means To Snowboarding
Over the past few months across the snowboard magazines and the blogosphere there's been a heated discussion about what Shaun White brings or doesn't bring to snowboarding. Some people hate him, some...
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