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Title: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Miserable Old Sack of Shit on August 25, 2020, 06:36:28 PM
Yeah yeah I know, I've got two posts and I'm already making threads, but cut me some slack, I've been reading this shit for years and only just posted now.

So what does "awake" mean in all the Venture ads/shirts/etc? That shit has perplexed me since I was a kid.

Thanks in advance, Shalom, and so on....
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: ok boomer on August 26, 2020, 07:11:52 AM
My guess has always been that "you are asleep if you are riding X trucks", thus you are now "awake with Venture".

Always liked that logo design. Never been into "always on the grind".
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: dannyprovolone on August 26, 2020, 07:34:44 AM
the admins don't want us to know
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: I take care of my curbs. on August 26, 2020, 07:37:48 AM
Woke.  Seems like for a company that’s always on the grind, they haven’t had a ton of photo ads of dudes actually grinding with them. 
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: JosephSmith on August 26, 2020, 08:03:19 AM
Bryan Herman knows
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: SneakySecrets on August 26, 2020, 08:25:57 AM
It’s like a Rothko.  You gaze into it and it reveals itself to you.  A secret between two strangers.  The observed and the observer.  What you see in it is not what I see in it.  And the ultimate tragedy is that we can never explain it to another because human language, with our old, dead, clumsy, empty symbols, was never designed to convey the transcendent.  And so we each die alone, incapable of ever truly expressing our deepest thoughts and emotions to one another no matter how hard we try.

Either that or they just thought it looked cool on a t-shirt.
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: PAWL on August 26, 2020, 08:34:42 AM
It’s like a Rothko.  You gaze into it and it reveals itself to you.  A secret between two strangers.  The observed and the observer.  What you see in it is not what I see in it.  And the ultimate tragedy is that we can never explain it to another because human language, with our old, dead, clumsy, empty symbols, was never designed to convey the transcendent.  And so we each die alone, incapable of ever truly expressing our deepest thoughts and emotions to one another no matter how hard we try.

Either that or they just thought it looked cool on a t-shirt.

To be fair it’s likely both
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Shifty Flip on August 26, 2020, 11:13:25 AM
Quote from: dannyprovolone link=topic=1126x74.msg3378313#msg3378313 date=1598452484
the admins don't want us to know

Admins of being woke. Confirmed.
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: ungzilla on August 26, 2020, 12:24:48 PM
Woke.  Seems like for a company that’s always on the grind, they haven’t had a ton of photo ads of dudes actually grinding with them.


they have been mostly awake though
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Seventyfrigginseven on August 26, 2020, 03:07:56 PM
It's implying that you were sleeping on Venture..but now that you have tried them, you are "awake" to the fact that you are riding the best trucks ever made..well except for Indys of course.

Just kidding I have been riding Ventures since before you were born...
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Ray C. Usery on August 26, 2020, 06:06:54 PM
(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/image/Features/2009/1986/8612/800t/8612p14-p15.jpg)
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Eric Dolphy on August 26, 2020, 06:41:49 PM
(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/image/Features/2009/1986/8612/800t/8612p14-p15.jpg)
ironically, if they had actually released that fishing vest it would be selling for vintage 'preme prices in 2020
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Hombreezy on August 26, 2020, 07:57:09 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYpZpSWJeD4
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Slayer666 on August 26, 2020, 08:34:49 PM
https://youtu.be/AgRSUokt8HY
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Ray C. Usery on August 26, 2020, 08:36:32 PM
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(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/image/Features/2009/1986/8612/800t/8612p14-p15.jpg)
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ironically, if they had actually released that fishing vest it would be selling for vintage 'preme prices in 2020

I could really use that lamp
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: iskateventures on October 04, 2021, 08:31:04 AM
It's implying that you were sleeping on Venture..but now that you have tried them, you are "awake" to the fact that you are riding the best trucks ever made..well except for Indys of course.

Just kidding I have been riding Ventures since before you were born...

no one cares old man
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: al_cvbrera on October 04, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
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It's implying that you were sleeping on Venture..but now that you have tried them, you are "awake" to the fact that you are riding the best trucks ever made..well except for Indys of course.

Just kidding I have been riding Ventures since before you were born...
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no one cares old man
the response and username are just perfect.
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: ok boomer on October 04, 2021, 12:29:01 PM
Wasn't it "awake with Venture" or something? Like... awaken to the trucks that are Venture
Title: Re: What does "awake" mean (Venture trucks)?
Post by: Fhk on October 04, 2021, 02:05:24 PM
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It's implying that you were sleeping on Venture..but now that you have tried them, you are "awake" to the fact that you are riding the best trucks ever made..well except for Indys of course.

Just kidding I have been riding Ventures since before you were born...
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no one cares old man
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the response and username are just perfect.
Can't argue that! I saw his low post count and strange lashing out at me and I did some soul searching. I'm willing to bet he reached out for my attention under a different username in the past, and unfortunately I did not give him adequate attention. I apologize. "Please understand, I do want you as a fan"
https://youtu.be/aSLZFdqwh7E