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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: zippy z on August 28, 2015, 03:43:27 PM
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I know this is a bit old, but seriously. What the fuck is Joe thinking with a Pink Floyd collabo?
http://www.habitatskateboards.com/instagram/966322434741833871_224434547 (http://www.habitatskateboards.com/instagram/966322434741833871_224434547)
This is the same garbage that was going on when the AlienXHabitat ship was sinking. Pink Floyd socks? Get the fuck out of here.
Joe, you asked us to trust you and we did. Now you're going to pull this shit? Fuck you and fuck Habitat. I'm just glad I can still support a couple of your riders through adidas.
I should have known the rebirth was a joke when Al went full cheese dick and hopped on the Yacht. Fuck you, Al. You and your stupid pork pie beanies.
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My goodness.
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I don't like Pink Floyd much either but is that really that big of a travesty.
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Actually I love it !
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I should have known the rebirth was a joke when Al went full cheese dick and hopped on the Yacht. Fuck you, Al. You and your stupid pork pie beanies.
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Pink Floyd is tight.
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1,000,000 X better than Baker and Chris Brown.
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Habitat is tight
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Fred gall
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Castrucci probably likes Pink Floyd or something... because you know, they're not half bad.
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That's my point. Collabos are bullshit. Just look at how pathetically watered down Huf is.
1,000,000 X better than Baker and Chris Brown.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbiYUFoKQwg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbiYUFoKQwg#)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbiYUFoKQwg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbiYUFoKQwg#)
That Fearless edit on the first half is still one of my favorite edits ever. Just fit so well, and it was kool seeing Janoski skate for Vans in this brief moment before going to Nike.
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Redux has raised his conciousness and now sees the blinding light the veil has been lifted.. FUCK SKATEBOARDING...
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Actually I love it !
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Considering how many companies do dark side of the moon rips this is like the ultimate privilege. They are doing a legitimate collaboration. This should be a sign that things are going pretty well if they can do this while everyone one else is still making imitations.
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I know this is a bit old, but seriously. What the fuck is Joe thinking with a Pink Floyd collabo?
http://www.habitatskateboards.com/instagram/966322434741833871_224434547 (http://www.habitatskateboards.com/instagram/966322434741833871_224434547)
This is the same garbage that was going on when the AlienXHabitat ship was sinking. Pink Floyd socks? Get the fuck out of here.
Joe, you asked us to trust you and we did. Now you're going to pull this shit? Fuck you and fuck Habitat. I'm just glad I can still support a couple of your riders through adidas.
I should have known the rebirth was a joke when Al went full cheese dick and hopped on the Yacht. Fuck you, Al. You and your stupid pork pie beanies.
The whole thing is dumb but this part really made me laugh. "Fuck you Habitat, you're not core! Good thing I can support of true skate company like Adidas."
Everything sucks man quit cryin.
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About a million times better than a Chris Brown collaboration.
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Never saw that regal road video before. Can this now be more Fred Gall appreciation? The stalefish 270 was gnarly
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Castrucci is tight and so are Pink Floyd, never been too much into collabs but dude, quit the bitching ???
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Listen to 'meddle' and tell me pink Floyd sucks. Heathens.
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This album still blows my mind everytime I hear it.
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Full Album) 1967 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZqrnpgOGAo#)
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What all of you fail to realize is that this is the only "collab" that actually makes logical sense. All the other ones seem as if dudes were just pulling companies names outta hat.
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Listen to 'meddle' and tell me pink Floyd sucks. Heathens.
Hallelujah! Preach brother. Can I get an amen in here?
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Meddle is probably still one of my fav Pink Floyd albums. Its the great album before Darkside of the moon that doesn't get much recognition. It would be sick if they made Meddle merchandise instead of the usual and now overdone Darkside of the moon cover art.
Interesting fact about the meddle cover art its actually an ear underwater. My mind was blown when i found that out, I always thought it was like some kind of lochness monster since it only showed half of the ear and it was sideways.
(http://i.imgur.com/pVtkz7l.jpg?2) (http://imgur.com/pVtkz7l)
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Listen to 'meddle' and tell me pink Floyd sucks. Heathens.
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PINK FLOYD Echoes Part 1 Live at Pompei 1972 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnC7TdkRnP4#)
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(http://www.akaloko.com.br/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/u/lu_akaloko-24-01-201400852.jpg)
(http://www.youindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/enjoipandadeckgoodsfdsf.jpg)
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Oh chut up. If you had a skate company and had the opportunity to do boards with a highly influential band you probably listened to since middle school, you wouldn't do it?
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That shit is crazy about the ear i didnt know that, and a double fuck yeah for posting Live at Pompeii. I have that on VHS so badass and heavy.
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I am not a fan of the band,
but i like both designs and woud
ride the boards.
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whatever helps him lay off the Woods collabs.
Having said that, habitat should do a White Fence board 8)
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The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd (Studio Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAydj4OJnwQ#)
Pink Floyd are pretty sick, there's nothing lame about that collab.
The most iconic Baker board apart from the team logo
was that Aladdin Sane Reynolds graphic.
I.e. classic rock and skateboarding go well together
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I really like the sound of Floyd on vinyl. If you listen the Dark Side of the Moon its totally different to the modern version of the record. Specially Brain Damage/Eclipse. Animals is an amazing record and I totally love that album.
Im always looking for the really old vinyls because I think the amazing part of collect LPs its the fact they have history. Both of these are really old. Im looking for Meddle, Wish you were here and The Wall but always I lose the bids at last minute. On the Record Store I love to go they just have re-issues and fuck that.
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Echoes from Live @ Pompei = one of rock's greatest works of art
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It's not about Pink Floyd. It's about Habitat going down the same path that got them in hot water the first time. I'm scared this is the first step of another bad journey for the Habitat team.
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It's not about Pink Floyd. It's about Habitat going down the same path that got them in hot water the first time. I'm scared this is the first step of another bad journey for the Habitat team.
Habitat was never in 'hot water'. The company that owned DNA went bankrupt. It had literally nothing to do with AWS or Habitat or how their sales or product were doing or what board graphics they were putting out. Also Pink Floyd is tight and so is Joe. You actually know nothing.
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Habitat/Alien pre-Burton* never had to stoop to making lowest common denominator collaborations. Andy Warhol and Pink Floyd? Give me a break.
*I know they're not under Burton now, but that was the watershed moment.
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heavier than all that stoner rock crap:
Pink Floyd - The Nile Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0KH6QWmhrU#)
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How you can hate this ? So classy.
(https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/11856567_517670185076224_887154197_n.jpg)
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Al Davis on AYC was a shock imo. But get money fuck bitches or something like that.
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They were a brand within a company. They were lucky to hold onto the ownership of the brand when the parent company went to hell and imploded.
If the collab was with Bob Marley's estate would you be cool with it? How about a Habitat X Ghost Face collab? Maybe Habitat X Doctor Bronner's? I'd hate a Habitat X Scott Walker collab. Let Huf do the garbage collabs with any and all takers. The Ginger Lynn of street wear.
My issue is with the business decisions collabs represent not with the aesthetics or associations of the collab itself.
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It's not about Pink Floyd. It's about Habitat going down the same path that got them in hot water the first time. I'm scared this is the first step of another bad journey for the Habitat team.
Habitat was never in 'hot water'. The company that owned DNA went bankrupt. It had literally nothing to do with AWS or Habitat or how their sales or product were doing or what board graphics they were putting out. Also Pink Floyd is tight and so is Joe. You actually know nothing.
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What about Habitat x Todd Jordan?
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That would actually be pretty sic.
What about Habitat x Todd Jordan?
I'm not a big fan of the Floyd (I do love all of their early stuff) but their whole reality is a virtual treasure chest of images, its kind of dissapointing to only see the most iconic ones being used. For example, that Meddle ear graphic on a purple or blue stained board would have been gnarly or the "Labyrinth" album cover on a black stained board- oof! Not to mention the madness of "The Wall," hell, even a screen-grab from the live from Pompeii video would have been a rad shirt.
They could have gone way harder on this if they had wanted to.
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I've actually got a few thoughts...
I could see a Habitat x GFK collaboration on an Al Davis board. Throw Al in the supreme clientele album art and I'd buy it.
Regardless of the Pink Floyd collaboration, their graphics haven't been consistently good since around the mosaic era, in my opinion. They remind me of a little kid who likes Habitat a lot and doodles board graphics in class, but doesn't quite get why they older Habitat graphics are good yet. Same with their videos. The skating and team have always been great, but it seems like after Inhabitants, all of the videos have been trying to copy the Habitat formula without fully grasping what it is, if that makes any sense. It's almost like Castrucci hasn't done the graphics since Wenning left. Case in point, those GX1000 boards, which I felt, personally, as a Habitat fan and a GX fan, to be extrememely lazy (same actual board graphic, different color scheme and pro only) and the 'Pack and Go' series. Or that could be me disliking the unnecessary "PACK AND GO" taking up a third of the graphic.
Either way, this isn't the worst of their worries.
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I've actually got a few thoughts...
I could see a Habitat x GFK collaboration on an Al Davis board. Throw Al in the supreme clientele album art and I'd buy it.
Regardless of the Pink Floyd collaboration, their graphics haven't been consistently good since around the mosaic era, in my opinion. They remind me of a little kid who likes Habitat a lot and doodles board graphics in class, but doesn't quite get why they older Habitat graphics are good yet. Same with their videos. The skating and team have always been great, but it seems like after Inhabitants, all of the videos have been trying to copy the Habitat formula without fully grasping what it is, if that makes any sense. It's almost like Castrucci hasn't done the graphics since Wenning left. Case in point, those GX1000 boards, which I felt, personally, as a Habitat fan and a GX fan, to be extrememely lazy (same actual board graphic, different color scheme and pro only) and the 'Pack and Go' series. Or that could be me disliking the unnecessary "PACK AND GO" taking up a third of the graphic.
Either way, this isn't the worst of their worries.
Great points start to finish here. I've always been a big supporter of Habitat (since Day 1) but I try to stay unbiased without sounding too much like a fanboi. The graphics have kind of ebbed and flowed IMO. I kind of liked both Charley Harper collabs and there have been some amazing series (the Exposition series might be one of my favorites from any company in the last 15 years), but also some real misses. There is some good looking stuff coming in this Fall '15 catalog.
Regarding the team... they've always had some great riders but I feel like the team now, in it's current inception, is the best representation of the aesthetic Habitat is trying to capture. As corny as that may sound.
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heavier than all that stoner rock crap:
Pink Floyd - The Nile Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0KH6QWmhrU#)
I totally forgot about this song, nice! Not a big fan of the band anymore either, but I still get down to St. Tropez and Fearless. Nothing wrong with this collab, it's not like it's infowars or anything.
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I've actually got a few thoughts...
I could see a Habitat x GFK collaboration on an Al Davis board. Throw Al in the supreme clientele album art and I'd buy it.
Regardless of the Pink Floyd collaboration, their graphics haven't been consistently good since around the mosaic era, in my opinion. They remind me of a little kid who likes Habitat a lot and doodles board graphics in class, but doesn't quite get why they older Habitat graphics are good yet. Same with their videos. The skating and team have always been great, but it seems like after Inhabitants, all of the videos have been trying to copy the Habitat formula without fully grasping what it is, if that makes any sense. It's almost like Castrucci hasn't done the graphics since Wenning left. Case in point, those GX1000 boards, which I felt, personally, as a Habitat fan and a GX fan, to be extrememely lazy (same actual board graphic, different color scheme and pro only) and the 'Pack and Go' series. Or that could be me disliking the unnecessary "PACK AND GO" taking up a third of the graphic.
Either way, this isn't the worst of their worries.
Great points start to finish here. I've always been a big supporter of Habitat (since Day 1) but I try to stay unbiased without sounding too much like a fanboi. The graphics have kind of ebbed and flowed IMO. I kind of liked both Charley Harper collabs and there have been some amazing series (the Exposition series might be one of my favorites from any company in the last 15 years), but also some real misses. There is some good looking stuff coming in this Fall '15 catalog.
Regarding the team... they've always had some great riders but I feel like the team now, in it's current inception, is the best representation of the aesthetic Habitat is trying to capture. As corny as that may sound.
YO, who's that in your sig....
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hypothetical situation: freddy on cons and scum co.
edit: and heineken
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YO, who's that in your sig....
Paul Shier from Make Friends with The Colour Blue. One of my favorite parts.
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How you can hate this ? So classy.
(https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/11856567_517670185076224_887154197_n.jpg)
not into Floyd at all, but these look really nice
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(http://www.akaloko.com.br/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/u/lu_akaloko-24-01-201400852.jpg)
(http://www.youindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/enjoipandadeckgoodsfdsf.jpg)
Money bumps
The issue here is that the graphic is an obvious money grab. The mass opinion generally approves of Pink Floyd, and these habitat boards will appeal to those 60mm college cruiser bro/stoner and general know nothing about skateboarding types. Also, it's not creative. It's one of the laziest graphic design ideas that also seems to work. I'm sure templeton made that board just to sell decks, because you know that's why he runs toy. To sell boards.
Design wise, it isn't clever. Nothing new. Money bumps. Mass appeal is boring.
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YO, who's that in your sig....
Paul Shier from Make Friends with The Colour Blue. One of my favorite parts.
Really.. wouldnt' have thought that.
Shier's sick though, Isle skateboards are putting out some of the best graphics right now.
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Oh, for fucks sake! Habitat X Official collabo.
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YO, who's that in your sig....
Paul Shier from Make Friends with The Colour Blue. One of my favorite parts.
Really.. wouldnt' have thought that.
Shier's sick though, Isle skateboards are putting out some of the best graphics right now.
The original Blueprint was fantastic. I distribute their boards some years ago and everytime a new shipment came I was fascinated with how everything was create with such a good taste. Make friends with the colour blue is a unique skate video. I enjoy it a lot !
Around this same time I also sell Habitat boards and shoes. I dont remember any collection of boards that really was mindblowing but all the soft goods were always on point. Thats a plus with that company !
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Habitat x Bernie Sanders collab
#makeithappenyesterday