Stellar photographer, artist, and Radcollector columnist Laura Austin just scored a sweet new gig as the Online Editor at shred bible SNOWBOARDER Magazine. Its a big deal for anyone but for Laustin, a veritable child prodigy who’s already been making major moves in the industry for a decade despite being all but 20 years old, its definitely a dream job. We snagged her for a second before her workload piles up to tell us how it went down and to make sure her column stays poppin! Read the complete interview after the jump and check Laura’s handiwork here.

Laura Austin returns with another rad “decent exposure” feature, this time with every shred photographer’s favorite photographer, Dean Blotto Gray. Aside from creating some of the most incredible imagery in snowboarding over the past decade, Blotto is also one of the dopest dudes in the game as evidenced by his answer to Laura’s question about device snobbery “I have zero issues with any device that captures photographs.” Enough said, read the whole thing here.

Laura Austin continues her decent exposure series with up and coming shred photog Aaron Blatt. The Vermont raised Blatt is the photo editor for East Coast Snowboard Mag and has already found time to live and shoot in New Zealand and Oregon in addition to the Green Mountain State. Read the full feature here.

Rounding out our coverage of this year’s US Open is Laura Austin’s gallery of selects from the weekend. Her stellar collection of action and lifestyle shots almost make you feel like you were there. Peep them all here.

Rad Collector columnist and renaissance chiquita Laura Austin recently dropped her raddest decent exposure feature yet, with Snowboard Magazine’s founding and now former photo editor Mike Basher. At only 30, he’s about as OG as you can be in this game. Read the full interview here.

Columnist Laura Austin has just dropped another installment of her dope “decent exposure” series. This time it’s NYC by way of Burlington, Vermont photog Brendan McInerney who gets the LAustin love. Read the full feature here.

Rad Collector columnist Laura Austin has just dropped another super rad installment of her “Decent Exposure” photographer interview series. This time, legendary Canadian lensman Oli Gagnon goes in on what he thinks is dope, played out, and how surviving an avalanche changed his life. Read the whole thing and peep a grip of photos right here on Laura’s column. Also be sure to peep Oli’s own shred mag Slash .

If you haven’t already, make sure you hit up Laura Austin’s column for her new series “Decent Exposure.” Intended to give some of the ill shot takers in shred some shine in front of the lens, Laura starts off with the multi talented Ben Birk. East coast and not afraid to talk shit, you kinda have to love or hate what’s he got to say. Read the whole thing here.

X Games is like the most major massive contest deal in the universe and since you could get all the action you needed and then some from ESPN this weekend, we didn’t go too nuts trying to keep up. In that spirit, here is the full X Games recap direct from the ESPN crew. Check it out as Sal Masekela and Dana Jacobsen break down the big moments. This year was a good one – full results are right here. We also have some exclusive on-the-ground shots from X from Laura Austin that we will be running shortly. Stay tuned.

The 2nd annual Maloof Money Cup went down this past weekend and Radcollector contributor, photographer and all around ace in the hole, Laura Austin was there in the trenches taking it all in – Snoop show, Kobe drop in and all. Here’s what she had to say about it:
“Some of the craziest skating I have every seen went down at the Maloof Money Cup. With the jam style format of the competition there would be many skaters all throwing down at once, so if you blinked you would miss something. Maloof is set up to replicate something you might find on a street, with marble ledges, brick walls, stair sets, picnic tables, etc, so it forced skaters to get creative. And because of the format you were able to see some skaters that you wouldn’t normally see in contests. With the close to 90 degree weather and constant sun I was feeling the heat just shooting photos, I can’t imagine what it was like for the skaters. Some of the highlights, 18-year-old Alex Perelson threw down a 900 in the vert competition, becoming the 4th person to ever pull off a 900 in a major competition. That combined with his huge airs all day gave him the first place spot and $75,000. Adam Dyet took best trick with a kickflip back tail down the Rincon rail. Street must have been hard to judge with the top skaters all throwing down at one time but Chris Cole was definitely the most consistent, earning himself the first place spot and 100 Gs.”
A bunch of Laura’s photos after the jump. Stayed tuned for some images from Finals in a bit.