Well, 2010 is on top of us and the Holiday Season is over. Which means it's back to work time. This is fine with me. I like to work. Joe P? He likes to break. Photo: Riley Proctor. Snowboarding Saves Lives!

While I'm sitting here in Tahoe waiting for more snow and the Holiday week to take us by siege, peep Spain-based Agent Nestor Bombin fighting time on a rail in Val Thorens, France. And for more quality time burning, check out this great bit of reading on Mike LeBlanc via David Benedek. Snowboarding Saves Lives!

The Holiday Season is upon us and Xmas week is rapidly approaching. Means it's getting busy around here. Before we get buried butt-deep in work and snow, I wanted to toss out some Holiday cheer. This piece is from Friedemann Zschiedrich hailing from Hamburg, Germany. Happy Holidays from Automaton! Snowboarding Saves Lives!

Yet another piece in the Automaton war machine, Cheeseboarder brings your favoritest snowboard brand to their Belgium-based operations. Calfornia's getting snow from Tahoe all the way down to Lodi. Hold thumbs for a solid winter worldwide! Snowboarding Saves Lives!

I went to get the mail yesterday and got buried in SASE's for stickers which is cool. Gotta get them out there, and people love stickers. However, I noticed that some of the envelopes were dated as far back as September! For really. And we JUST got them yesterday. Now I'm not so into pointing fingers, but it's tough not to find the fault for this one. Postmarked Sept. and arrives Dec.? Yeah. Generally we get the SASE's back into the mail within days, so I apologize to those of you waiting for your fresh new Automaton stickers since summer. Got all of them out the door today, though, so hopefully you-know-who will deliver them before next summer. Heck, stickers are even making the rounds in Norway. Photo courtesy of Dustin's Europe invasion. Snowboarding Saves Lives!

T-Day weekend usually marks the start of the Holiday season as well as when the snow resorts generally open. Unless you've been living under a rock or simply don't care about snow (probably the same people who torture puppies), you know that nearly everywhere has been getting the 2009 super early season good stuff (SESGS). Happy Holidays! And since we're on a Brent kick (that fro refuses to quit), here's a shot of him getting some pre-season Mammoth love action. Photo: Jerod Anklam. Snowboarding Saves Lives!

Stefan at Canadian shred/design blog, 4 Snowboarding, gets the deep down story behind some of your favoritest Automaton graphics. Snowboarding Saves Lives!

Usually a pic like this means Joe P. But this time it's John Vickroy, posting that plant up at Timberline, Oregon. Snowboarding Saves Lives!

This weekend at the Ginac Gallery is Super OK with visuals from your favorites Alex Funderburk, Joe Polillo, and others. Music by DJ GMO. Click the pic for event details, and we'll see ya there!

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As seen in the latest issue of Fine magazine which uniquely organizes new snow swords by color. Automaton has one in the pink. Snowboarding Saves Lives!