What were you working on with Alex Olson before he left?
I liked that dude and working on stuff with him because he was bringing up pretty different ideas. ...So, we’d get various shoes to the production stage and get a pair in his hands and he’d be like, “These things are disgusting.” There was a pair he hated so much that he wrote all over them. So we scrapped it....So, we tried to develop more of an oxford shoe for him to skate in. Once again, we’d get them to production and then he’d pull away again. It was always fun to design with Alex, but we just never came up with something that worked for him. It was sad to see him go because I liked watching that guy skate.
Sounds like a real grateful guy who is a lot of fun to work with. I bet he was real sorry to see Alex go because of all the fun he had collaborating with him. If someone wrote all over something I had been working on for that person I think I would dry gulch the son of a bitch. This guy has the temperament to work with these skate divas.