Madison headed to Brighton with some friends and a camera phone. Front board crail action anyone? Stay tuned for a little video she’s slapping together.

And what’s pre-season wihtout some eating shit? Those are my favorite shots.

Magalie charged it at Snowbird this past weekend. Check out that fly gear!

She also got some love in the new SBC Women’s Annual! Go check it out.

So it’s freezing on the east coast right now but Kelly had to get outta the house. She sent over these two shots of her messin’ around at the skatepark.

NIKITA PHOTOSHOOT WINNERS BACK AND BUZZIN’

Laura Austin and Pia Anette Brandvik were the two lucky ladies to just experience a trip with Nikita.  Picked from hundreds of entries in the recently run Nikita Photoshoot Contest, they got to join the Nikita crew and team girls on their 10^th anniversary FW09/10 streetwear photoshoot in Berlin. 

Both had a blast, took some photos and wrote about their trip.  First it might be an idea to give you a heads up on who’s who from the photoshoot, mentioned by first name in Pia and Laura’s write ups:

Ben Fee – Crazy Videographer on Nikita and Atikin photoshoots and Atikin bro (just got runner up in a Sigur Rós video competition for Best Use of Nudity, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-bVdsRcemjc check it out!)

Börkur Sigþórsson – Photographer for Nikita

Charlie – Börkur’s assistant

Esther Ír Steinarsdóttir – Nikita designer

Gabby Maiden – Nikita team rider, snowboarder & big bundle of fun

Gemma Marshall – Nikita team rider, snowboarder & sweetness

Heida Birgisdottir – Nikita Founder / Head Designer & BOSS

Helga Lilja Magnúsdóttir – Nikita crew in Product Development

Izzy / Izabelle Dejardins – Nikita ambassador, presenter, model and more

Julia Baumgartner – Nikita team rider, snowboarder and super positive person

Karin – super nanny for Lif on the trip!

Laura Austin – Nikita Photoshoot Contest Winner for North America

Laura Hadar – Nikita team, snowboarder and legend

Lif Young – Steinunn and David’s (Graphic Designer at Nikita) daughter

Lisa Filzmoser – Nikita team, snowboarder and shredder

Maria Falbo – Nikita team rider, skater & stylee

Natasza Zurek – Nikita team, snowboarder & inspiration

Pia Anette Brandvik – Nikita Photoshoot Contest Winner for Europe

Rafaële Deguehegny – Nikita team rider, surfer & smiler

Runar – GM and Moral Support at Nikita

Saadia Auður Dhour – Nikita Office Manager and beauty

Steinunn – Nikita photoshoot make-up artist

Here’s some highlights of what the girls had to say and you check out the Nikita website for the full stories:

Pia Anette Brandvik – A day by day account and cunning plans to make it to the next photoshoot!

Berlin with Nikita…..

I was going to meet the girls that I had on posters all over the surf/skate/snow shop I used to work at.  Have to admit that I was flipping out a bit on the plane there. Haha.  So when I arrived in Berlin I stood at the airport looking for the girl who was picking me up…  And that turned out to be Rafaële.  She was very sweet and cool.  There are not so many surfers in Norway, so it was cool for me to meet a girl who surfs for like the coolest girl brand in the world! 

We stopped by to meet Heida, Esther and Saadia. I was so nervous, but they were super nice and kind, so no problems there!  ..  I shared an apartment with Laura, the North American photoshoot contest winner. Shortly after meeting her I went straight to bed, but it took a while until I fell asleep…..

The story continues here - http://www.nikitaclothing.com/whazzUp/item.aspx?id=421#

LAURA AUSTIN – it began with a misundertanding, a camera and a victory dance

Browsing online and seeing the headlines ‘Nikita Photoshoot Contest’ immediately grabbed my attention.  Nikita is one of my favorite brands and when it said ‘photoshoot contest’ I thought they were looking for photographers, not models. ….

About a month or so later I received an e-mail with the title “So do you want to join us on our Photoshoot????”….I read the first line of the e-mail, saw the Nikita logo at the bottom, and immediately freaked out.  I think I just started laughing, I might have done a little victory dance, and then I called a few people. After I had calmed myself down a bit I read the rest of the e-mail. I was the North American winner of the Nikita Photoshoot Contest…..

I arrived in Berlin at 9:30 and Runar picked me up from the airport to bring me to the apartments we were staying at.  I’m not going to lie, I was a little nervous to meet everyone.  I had no clue what to expect.  But everyone was incredibly welcoming.  I met the whole crew including photographers, make-up artists, the Nikita models / riders, the filmer, and of course Heida the owner…. 

Check out the full story and photos here - http://www.nikitaclothing.com/whazzUp/item.aspx?id=420

and Lauar’s Blog:  http://laustindesign.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-germany-mission.html

 and Laura’s website: www.laustindesign.com

www.nikitaclothing.com

Ana Rumiha sent over a little video letting us all know what she’s been up to since winning the European Nikita Chickita event last season.  Needless to say, she’s been killing it. See for yourself:

Mimi Knoop headed over to help out at another skate camp. The campers had a blast and got to play in the sun…is it ever not sunny in SoCal..man…

A new little ripper

Photo op!

Vanessa and Amy came to help out

Clair recently traveled to Iceland to jump in on the outerwear catalog action. Here’s what she had to say about the trip and some photos:

“I traveled to Iceland for the most recent outerwear shoot a few weeks ago.  It was SUCH a cool trip and an amazing experience!  The country is beautiful and the Nikita crew was SO fun to experience it with!  We were lucky enough to be there during Airwaves- the biggest music festival in the country.  We’d walk down the main street of Reykjavik (Laugavegur) and hear music blasting from random open doors.  We’d walk in and there would be a metal band playing in a storage unit, or a mellow rock/brass band in a book store.

I had serious Iceland withdrawals when I returned home and can’t wait to go back!

PS- the outerwear for next season is SIIIICK!!!  VERY excited about it!

*The picture of the crazy person jumping over the river is Ben Fee jumping it as a present to Maribeth for her Birthday.  He made it!
*The picture of the pool party is at the beautiful Blue Lagoon.  A DJ was playing there for Airwaves and people were getting pretty rowdy.
*The last picture is of a band called Munich playing in a record store.”

Snowboard Connection is doing a sweet T-shirt design contest for the ladies out there.

The winner will receive:

Their design will be printed on Men’s and Women’s T’s and Hoodies

A $100 gift card to Snocon

And many other goodies!
Details:

+ Female artists only

+ Maximum of 2 colors

+ Design should be  winter inspired

+ Must include the SnoCon logo (http://www.snowboardconnection.com/index.cfm)

+ Must be 300 dpi OR  a vector art file

+  Design due by Monday, December 8, 2008

+  E-mail designs to Kelly@snocon.com

The top 10 designs will be displayed and voted on at the Snocon Ladies Night December 10th at the ALLEY24 Snowboard Connection location: 263 Yale Ave N., Seattle, WA

*Entries can be sent fro mall over the world so hop to it ladies!

Mimi Knoop kicked it with some lil’ ladies the first weekend of November and taight them a thing or two about skating.

“Almost all of the girls that signed up either learned a new trick, or learned how to drop-in, so it was a big success!”