Thought Patterns
by Emanuel
March 18, 2009 at 05:09
filed under skate+snow+surf
To allow for some context, this post is the third in a series of posts about the different stickers that were produced for my skateboard/snowboard shop when I was in my teens. These posts were sparked by the fact that I managed to get my hands on a old issue of TWS Skateboarding in which the shop and myself were featured, and so began the trip down memory lane.
This version was the third sticker I produced for the shop, and once again, it is very much a reflection of the period. We were right in the middle of the World Industries ‘stealing’ graphics from everyone era and so it was simply “the” thing to do. You can’t really blame me for such an obvious choice as the King of Beers, right? I was a teenager enjoying life to the fullest, skateboarding and snowboarding tons while working hard at making my shop/skatepark stay on top of the game while completing CEGEP (Québec’s equivalent of Junior College). Those were good hectic years with plenty of late-night sessions at the park followed by hommages paid to the Anheuser-Busch clan.
Sticker #3
We had gotten past the need for information overload by this time as the word had spread and the skatepark was pretty well known so the objective of this sticker was now to compete against some other shops that by this time had sprung up. It was about image. Of course all the best skaters of the area were sponsored by the shop so that was a big help, although they were also at times our worst enemies (the lesson here is that you can NEVER make everyone happy).
The substitutions on the sticker were made in a very simple manner, and viewed in today’s everyone-has-photoshop times, they look rather primitive. But nobody really took notice and the mass amounts of stickers flowing through the shop kept going, we were still getting kids coming asking to buy large quantities of the sticker, well in the hundreds. This was specially true of kids coming to the shop/park from areas outside of Québec City. I always thought that it was really cool to get such support and I got to meet so many cool skaters from all over the province, many of which who became friends.
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Guy
Oh shit! J’me souvenais pas de celui-là! Mais maintenant j’ai des souvenir de ton Palmer rempli!!
G
Emanuel
Bien certain que tu l’avais oublié celui-là, pour les amis(es), il venait toujours avec une ‘tite frette’
Pop Quiz: Est-ce que tu te souviens du suivant?
Guy
Je dirais que c’est celui qui est rester 10 ans sur ma manette de vhs!! Un rond, avec une barre au milieu (Vuarnet style, si on veux) dans les tons de orange, bleu sur fond blanc….??
Emanuel
Vuarnet style…je n’y avais jamais pensé! Nice…
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