Author Topic: Who started FA? (Read 12217 times)

Ineffable Epoch · « **on:** October 28, 2016, 09:18:15 AM »

May have been discussed tons of times, but feel free to enlight me.

It was started on 2006 by Dill and Ave? Both or just Dill? They started producing boards on 2013?

Rutger Hauer · « **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2016, 09:20:34 AM »

I remember downloading some nice mixtapes off their site like 10yrs ago.

MisterX · « **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2016, 09:21:07 AM »

Dill started it as a clothing endeavor about 15 years ago.

Ineffable Epoch · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2016, 09:35:00 AM »

Quote from: MisterX on October 28, 2016, 09:21:07 AM

Dill started it as a clothing endeavor about 15 years ago.

Cool. So you know when AVE started as co-owner?

MexicanSpaniard · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2016, 09:45:46 AM »

hulk hogans graphic designer

slappies · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2016, 09:46:34 AM »

Dill started it as a brand to produce all-over print hoodies in stupid colours in the early 2000s. I remember him wearing FA stuff in Skate More and probably The Osbournes.

Jake From State Farm · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2016, 10:32:07 AM »

Jason Dill and Mike Piscitelli. It's been around since the early 2000's.

pabloalvarado · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2016, 10:33:46 AM »

Quote from: Edu Altarriba on October 28, 2016, 09:35:00 AM

Quote from: MisterX on October 28, 2016, 09:21:07 AM
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Dill started it as a clothing endeavor about 15 years ago.
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Cool. So you know when AVE started as co-owner?

Around this time on Worshop it was pretty clear to invest on the whole FA concept. And here we are today with that brand/team.

TEMP-GNAR · « **Reply #8 on:** October 28, 2016, 10:34:39 AM »

Sean Pablo's mami is involved

childhood · « **Reply #9 on:** October 28, 2016, 10:41:55 AM »

Slappies:

Oh yeah I remember thinking those Skate More-era Fucking Awesome all-over print hoodies were the coolest at the time
Bad call on my part. Good thing I was a broke teenager at the time.

But yeah, as far as I know, it was a really small-run t-shirt and clothing company, starting in the early 2000s.
I think my first exposure to it was in old Epicly Later'd blog posts from around that time, and I wanted that shit so bad.

And then, like you were saying, they started a board brand in 2013 or whatever, and that was my first time hearing about AVE being involved really, but I could be wrong.

Writing this, it occurs to me how weird it is, that FA is a project that has been growing/building hype for over a decade, before becoming a skate company. There's probably some other examples of similar things, but I can't think of anything really. (JT hyping Zero as a clothing company, while on Toy?)

slappies · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2016, 11:06:47 AM »

^^^
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Skate Mental start off as some sort of blog post thing through Crailtap? I remember being aware of it before it was ever actually a board company. HUF is somewhat similar, starting as a shop/clothing thing before becoming a full on shoe company. They made those DIE HIPPIE SCUM shirts people were running for a while.

childhood · « **Reply #11 on:** October 28, 2016, 11:13:55 AM »

Yeah, I dunno about Skate Mental, but the Huf comparison is a good call.

If you have the time and patience to play the long game, it's a solid way to already have interest and demand in your company, as soon as it really launches.

Jake From State Farm · « **Reply #12 on:** October 28, 2016, 11:17:32 AM »

Quote from: slappies on October 28, 2016, 11:06:47 AM

^^^
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Skate Mental start off as some sort of blog post thing through Crailtap? I remember being aware of it before it was ever actually a board company. HUF is somewhat similar, starting as a shop/clothing thing before becoming a full on shoe company. They made those DIE HIPPIE SCUM shirts people were running for a while.

Skate Mental was a t-shirt brand originally, and done through Crailtap.

Fongstarr. · « **Reply #13 on:** October 28, 2016, 11:31:43 AM »

HUF was a shoe shop clothing brand. It wasn't a full line and mostly just shirts that went with shoes drops that HUF did. A lot of it was just shirts, sweatshirts and hats (new eras) which almost every other shop did when the SB craze was huge. It is pretty crazy to see where they are now though considering things. Their catalog is huge every season and I swear I don't know who buys their shit.

lk130 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 28, 2016, 11:51:17 AM »

Fat albert

MonistatOne · « **Reply #15 on:** October 28, 2016, 11:59:37 AM »

while we're on the subject of general questions regarding FA: does anyone know who the artist was for that FA ad where there's a kid sniffing airplane glue all zoned out and there's like a wasteland-type scene in the background? I saw it in a thrasher a pretty good while ago.

doomstation55 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 28, 2016, 12:03:19 PM »

Doom Sayers kind of went with the clothing hype pre hardgoods thing. They still don't officially have a team but it sounds like this is what Omar's going for.

Bread Harrity · « **Reply #17 on:** October 28, 2016, 12:35:00 PM »

paul did the same thing with primitive

childhood · « **Reply #18 on:** October 28, 2016, 01:32:44 PM »

Yeah, I guess I meant not to such a degree/ for such a long length of time, but good examples

DillAndKalis · « **Reply #19 on:** October 28, 2016, 01:34:23 PM »

Quote from: MonistatOne on October 28, 2016, 11:59:37 AM

while we're on the subject of general questions regarding FA: does anyone know who the artist was for that FA ad where there's a kid sniffing airplane glue all zoned out and there's like a wasteland-type scene in the background?� I saw it in a thrasher a pretty good while ago.

Robert Williams, he did the Appetite for Destruction cover for Guns N' Roses too.

GershonSweaty · « **Reply #20 on:** October 28, 2016, 02:37:21 PM »

I vaguely recall a Tim O'Connor Savier advert where has "skate mental" on his grip tape.

Pete · « **Reply #21 on:** October 28, 2016, 02:39:51 PM »

FA is only doing one more year before dill pulls the plug when he realizes how corny its gotten. Free Max b

GAY · « **Reply #22 on:** October 28, 2016, 02:41:47 PM »

It's strangely difficult to find the FA website.

This is not it: www.fuckingawesome.com

It's pretty funny, though.

fangen · « **Reply #23 on:** October 28, 2016, 03:45:38 PM »

lk130 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 28, 2016, 04:28:44 PM »

Fxing etnies

CHONGO · « **Reply #25 on:** October 28, 2016, 05:13:51 PM »

I had no idea that FA has been around for that long. Early 2000s?

Zeep Zander · « **Reply #26 on:** October 28, 2016, 05:28:49 PM »

anyone here know about the lawsuit that aj zavalas uncle is in with dill? supposedly he bit it off of a surfing company his uncle owned but that all I've heard about it

mr cheese · « **Reply #27 on:** October 28, 2016, 10:42:10 PM »

Quote from: Pete on October 28, 2016, 02:39:51 PM

FA is only doing one more year before dill pulls the plug when he realizes how corny its gotten. Free Max b

naw, FA sells out like crazy

sid vicious · « **Reply #28 on:** October 29, 2016, 02:25:42 AM »

Quote from: fangen on October 28, 2016, 03:45:38 PM

I have a brand new set of size 10's if anyone's looking

castillo's curls · « **Reply #29 on:** October 29, 2016, 04:22:15 AM »

Quote from: GershonSweaty on October 28, 2016, 02:37:21 PM

I vaguely recall a Tim O'Connor Savier advert where has "skate mental" on his grip tape.

Wasn't there a Savier Australia tour that was called "skate mental"? I remember reading that in a Skateboarder mag a long time ago. Stefan was on that tour as well I think

Author Topic: Who started FA? (Read 12217 times)

Jake From State Farm

TEMP-GNAR

Jake From State Farm

MonistatOne

fangen

Zeep Zander

mr cheese