NEW C&D
New C&D Randy Colvin, released about an hour ago from HRLife.com.
Only 100 made. Screen printed and made at the same woodshop as the originals.
Still a few left....
Only 100 made. Screen printed and made at the same woodshop as the originals.
Still a few left....
Yes,
ReplyDeleteApparently skate merchandise is beginning to make money as an investment on e-bay at the moment. Most of my iconic skate clothes were either nicked or have been put out for Islamic Relief because I never grew into those XXL baggies I thought I would.
My friend was telling me he got £60 for a Lance Conklin T-shirt he bought for £35 in about 1994.
You know looking back the 1990's was actually a very sophistocated decade with pretty good music, fashion, film, etc... It was a decade to be proud of compared to the cringe worthy 80's.
Kids these days don't really have a belonging to sense of time or place. Media gone schitzo.
TALKING AMERICA
ReplyDeleteMust mention America and it's relationship to the UK in terms of industry which I am beginning to understand is quite deeply rooted/connected.
In my last job we were using the old IBM green screen as a database to track work on a WAN (wide area network) across the country.
Now not alot of people may be aware that the IBM green screen software was designed and built in Santa Cruz California. We took out a 20 year contract with this software, the contract ran out and America said, "You're going to have to pay £250 000 to renew the lease or you can no longer use it" so our smart Alec director said back to them, "fuck you we'll design our own software, save some money".
So they set the chinese guy away designing a new system to track work and he sorted it out. Problem now is (and I dare say this is being repeated across British Industry) the only person who knows how our tracking system works is Chinese and is probably waiting for an opportunity for the company to go bust like, Jaguar or Rover so he can pack all the equipment away into containers, ship it too China, carry on production with sensible running costs and in so doing so further fuck up our economy and essentially make us poorer in the long run. That's the reality.
So we built this kind of American funded heavy industry over perhaps a 100 year period from say before the first world war to ... the 80's and you notice the "Big Three" American powerful names around the place "The Rockafellas", American standards for: hardness, weight, haulage, etc... and I'm left wondering why has America had such an influence over British Industry?
Is it, and I suspect it is, that we borrowed shit loads of money from America to fight the second world war (so did Germany) and our way of repaying them is to buy all this junk off them and make stuff for them? I don't know.
Secondly in my current job (I don't want to give too much away to save embarassment from my fellow colleagues) we are basically refurbishing American produced Electrical/Metal goods they have built for us so that they last longer. These are expensive things (£12000 a piece) So why does America make these things for us?
I love my new job compared to the last one by the way. I think it's the American link. They have shown me they have a sharp eye for bullshit businesses/people.
I'm going to post this, I know it doesn't make much sense but I think it's worth a read...
I love the board by the way.... I can relate every violent assault I have ever experienced down to two things alcohol(drugs) and/or blondes (normally both) so you'll have to excuse me if I am wary of them.
ReplyDeleteI hope I'm wrong about the software issue. I couldn't care less if China makes our cars, cranes, oil rigs and stuff like that but this is serious stuff.... bombs, tanks, guns, nuclear power stations, trident submarines, apache helicopters, etc... all tracked and probably under survailance by the Chinese authorites.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the directors would be so stupid to let this happen. hint, hint!! I hope I'm wrong. Just pay the fucking fine or employ one of the ten thousand strong unemployed information systems management post graduates born, bred and educated in this country to install a modern system.
No offence intended China, I'm all for the nuclear disarmament thing it's more an issue of national security and who should have access to issues concerning national security. Who can you trust?
Maybe China is the most trustworthy country to control nuclear arms. The west has already proven it's isn't responsible enough to own them...
Sorry about the rant. Could be wrong, could have been a big "sting" style stage set up with the express purpose of freaking me out. Well, it worked.
SKATEBOARDING
ReplyDeleteHaven't abandoned skate theme. I love the Creature team, especially this Dave Gravett kid and the lizard king and all of the new kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGkQYdv19jo&feature=related
Found this other site, the black label site. A bit dark. Truely get the impression this lot are gangsters or some kind of skate team gone bad. Always the way with skating, once people have made it mainstream the footage becomes soft and you have to scratch away at the surface to find the seedy under belly of hard under ground scary stuff again. Anyway, black label blog site is:
http://blog.blacklabelskates.com/
Warning, a bit wrong but there you go....