For some reason this one bummed me out.
Also him talking about the Zero graphics made me feel kind of uncomfortable.
oh man, i'm glad i wasn't the only one. he seemed so bummed on all the zero graphics. from what i could see, he only had one zero board actually hanging on the wall. i'm not saying that dudes need to have all of their pro models on display, but i would think that, especially for how long he was on zero, he would have at least some of his teammates' boards hanging up. he was definitely more stoked on discussing the antihero sarcasm series boards. it seems like maybe that's a closer fit with his personality. i remember being so hyped on his part in dying to live because it was such an outlier from all the other parts in the vid. perhaps that was representative of his entire tenure on zero.
i thought these quotes were pretty telling of his opinion on zero's art direction. that and the fact that most of them were being pulled out by his son from a stack of boards lying on the ground, as opposed to hanging up on the wall along with the boards from antihero, toy machine, habitat, wknd, alltimers...
"i mean, obviously, it's like a creepy, creepy horse, cus it's zero, so it has to be a bit scary. um, that, that was the vibe."
"this - look at that peacock. this is based on a tea towel from my mum's house. i think ben horton maybe sketched this up and made it into a creepy peacock for a zero graphic."
in response to his son asking if he liked a particular zero graphic based on a gravestone from a cemetery in barcelona - "yeaaah, i quite like it. it's a bit, it's a bit scary though. i don't know if i like scary graphics these days. or ever. but...i don't know, it's cool."
"this is, uh, you know, it's one of those graphics that they did because they're like, how do we market this dude? where's he from? scotland. oh, well, we'll do something scottish. so you get some sort of crest. and there you go. that's how it works."