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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: lamfordie on February 19, 2024, 03:54:24 PM
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jCcFFPWAV/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
This time from Ryan Decenzo. Name isn't good.
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Professional quality skateboards made to push the limits & designed by Pro Skateboarders.
hard pass
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I don’t like how cent is pluralized when the next word starts with s. Rolls off the tongue weirdly.
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shitty name and ai art, this brand is definitely going places
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Every other skater is going to carry and promote their own ‘brand’ at this rate what the fuck is going on😅
‘So yeah guys I like monkeys on the banana phone pushing the limits for pro skaters, fucking 2 cents yes!’
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I hope Raffi sues.
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Seems like a great fit for him.
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Looks like the team is Ryan Decenzo, Tyson Bowerbank, and Trae the Tank based on the followers. I have zero clue who is clamoring to get a board associated with these three.
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blank boards just become more attractive everyday
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That graphic... yikes. Typewriter facing backwards, inconsistent # of fingers, all sorts of random objects...
At least pretend you're trying
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There was a small company in Portland a couple years ago called two cents and I’m pretty sure they had a monkey graphic
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Why doh? What the monkey doing with that banana? He ain’t posting on slap? Is he talking to it? That’s crazy dawg. What the thing in front of the monkey? This look like some Ai graphic. No one cares about two cents. What the fuck you can buy with 2 cents? This ain’t the dust bowl Dorothea Lame.
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Haha stupid monkey
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Some kid is going to get that as his first board. Such a shame. Skateboarding needs to hurry up and die to cleanse its bowel.
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Looks like the team is Ryan Decenzo, Tyson Bowerbank, and Trae the Tank based on the followers. I have zero clue who is clamoring to get a board associated with these three.
Damn. Not even throwing a sponsorship to his brother Scott?
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Man NOBODY is gonna buy this
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That gross giant logo. I’m disappointed. I was primed to support whatever decenzo was gonna do.
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Looks like the team is Ryan Decenzo, Tyson Bowerbank, and Trae the Tank based on the followers. I have zero clue who is clamoring to get a board associated with these three.
Its Ryan, Tyson, Trae and Caleb Aldorasi….dude who got on Darkstar right before the whole Dwindle thing happened. I think TJ Rogers was going to be a part of it originally as well.
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Ryan's a legend but the fact that he's never been able to create a "cool" enough image of himself to even get a good board or shoe sponsor, make's it insanely unlikely his company will be successful. It's also a pretty bad time in skating to be starting a board company in general
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There was a small company in Portland a couple years ago called two cents and I’m pretty sure they had a monkey graphic
I remember 35th North carried some of their boards
(https://i.postimg.cc/Ghm29fXt/IMG-0461.png) (https://postimages.org/)
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jCcFFPWAV/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
This time from Ryan Decenzo. Name isn't good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8
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“Another Board Company” would genuinely have been a better name, then you could at least claim the lack of any effort is ironic
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I like Ryan Decenzo but this aint it... He might need better homies
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That graphic... yikes. Typewriter facing backwards, inconsistent # of fingers, all sorts of random objects...
At least pretend you're trying
Gives me suspicions this was AI generated
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That graphic... yikes. Typewriter facing backwards, inconsistent # of fingers, all sorts of random objects...
At least pretend you're trying
Gives me suspicions this was AI generated
The lamp is the biggest one for me. It doesn't look like anything. Although, the phone cord does wrap in a linear fashion (except for the random bit on its arm.)
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That graphic... yikes. Typewriter facing backwards, inconsistent # of fingers, all sorts of random objects...
At least pretend you're trying
Gives me suspicions this was AI generated
The lamp is the biggest one for me. It doesn't look like anything. Although, the phone cord does wrap in a linear fashion (except for the random bit on its arm.)
It’s 100% AI. Look at that weird layer of what I assume is supposed to be smoke overlaying the image, specifically the bottom part. Absolute garbage.
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It has no lower body below the desk, but we should see it. And yeah, the hands and backwards type writer - it's 100% AI art.
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God, I hate Canadian skateboarders and I am one
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they follow trae the tank
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(https://i.postimg.cc/kMZgs32f/IMG-0292.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/MKQKrPRx/IMG-0293.jpg)
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This trash will sadly be some poor soul’s first board. The horror. The horror.
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Is this the worst one yet?
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When I saw the thread I thought this brand was actually called Another Board Company and got really stoked for a second
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“Another Board Company” would genuinely have been a better name, then you could at least claim the lack of any effort is ironic
Beat me to it!
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Highschool dropout vibes
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Every other skater is going to carry and promote their own ‘brand’ at this rate what the fuck is going on😅
‘So yeah guys I like monkeys on the banana phone pushing the limits for pro skaters, fucking 2 cents yes!’
I kinda think why don’t they? Paul Rodriguez sold all gold boards pre-Primitive and people snapped em up quick. Didn’t Chris Cole do the same in-between Plan B and Zero (round two)?
I just figure skip they should skip the “graphics” going forward, cuz it ain’t gettin better.
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Name is already better than Uma or Sandlot Times but that's not saying much.
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That is the worst logo.
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(https://i.imgur.com/wzCpXA6.png)
That's pretty funny. I love it when these kooks try to add that "some hand drawn elements" in there to try to make it not AI-generated.
Come on man, you do tattoos, even your IG bio says "all styles welcome" you should be able to draw a monkey on a typewriter yourself. Or at least if you consider yourself an artist, you should at least see that the typewriter is facing the wrong way or that there's different amount of fingers on each hand... What this says about the quality of rest of his "art", well...
Lowest of low effort. Shit sucks.
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(https://i.imgur.com/wzCpXA6.png)
That's pretty funny. I love it when these kooks try to add that "some hand drawn elements" in there to try to make it not AI-generated.
Come on man, you do tattoos, even your IG bio says "all styles welcome" you should be able to draw a monkey on a typewriter yourself. Or at least if you consider yourself an artist, you should at least see that the typewriter is facing the wrong way or that there's different amount of fingers on each hand... What this says about the quality of rest of his "art", well...
Lowest of low effort. Shit sucks.
So is a collage of AI shit, even worse.
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I was really hoping that ABC (Another Board Company) was the name of the brand.
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Ryan's a legend but the fact that he's never been able to create a "cool" enough image of himself to even get a good board or shoe sponsor, make's it insanely unlikely his company will be successful. It's also a pretty bad time in skating to be starting a board company in general
This. Dudes buck as hell though no denying
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I noticed they deleted any negative comments on this post. Pretty whack. Gotta keep all the 🔥, 👏🏻 and 🙌🏽 comments to give the illusion that people think these graphics and logo are sick. This brand is destined for the toilet.
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Looks like the team is Ryan Decenzo, Tyson Bowerbank, and Trae the Tank based on the followers. I have zero clue who is clamoring to get a board associated with these three.
People who watch braille but read thrasher is probably the median demo
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Name is already better than Uma or Sandlot Times but that's not saying much.
I’d rather carry uma
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I was really hoping that ABC (Another Board Company) was the name of the brand.
This would be pretty fun for 5 minutes. Still though, levels above whatever this two cent thing is yikes
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I was hoping the thread title meant “Another” was the name.
At this point we need a brand called “Another Board Company”.
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I assume the logic behind this is that by owning a company, he can now write off travel, accommodations, food, etc. as business expenses, which is probably a better deal than whatever Darkstar was hooking him up with. Which I mean cool, power to him, but he could make it less obvious. What a steaming hot pile of dog shit.
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I assume the logic behind this is that by owning a company, he can now write off travel, accommodations, food, etc. as business expenses, which is probably a better deal than whatever Darkstar was hooking him up with. Which I mean cool, power to him, but he could make it less obvious. What a steaming hot pile of monkey shit.
Fixed it for you.
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Coulda swore there was a generic/cheap/shit truck company going by that name or something very similar in the late 2000s.
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What's cool about ai generated images is that you can't enforce copyright on them! Idk if that still tracks with some minor tweaks made by an actual human, but it's possible that you could just take the graphic and put it on your own boards without consequence. Not sure why you'd want to, but you could
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I’m not paying more than 2 cent for it.
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(https://i.imgur.com/wzCpXA6.png)
That's pretty funny. I love it when these kooks try to add that "some hand drawn elements" in there to try to make it not AI-generated.
Come on man, you do tattoos, even your IG bio says "all styles welcome" you should be able to draw a monkey on a typewriter yourself. Or at least if you consider yourself an artist, you should at least see that the typewriter is facing the wrong way or that there's different amount of fingers on each hand... What this says about the quality of rest of his "art", well...
Lowest of low effort. Shit sucks.
he added "hand drawn elements" to make it look even more like digital mush? that makes no sense, would be a lot less embarrassing to just admit it was completely ai generated
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DEAD BRAND WALKING!
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Another Elaborate Tax Shelter
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My 2 cents, he shoulda stayed on Darkstar.
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Reminded me of One More Skateboard Company
Anyone who has one of these decks has a true rarity
Shout out Vert Is Dead for the nonstop documentation
https://vertisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-more-1992-catalog.html (https://vertisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-more-1992-catalog.html)
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Graphic reminds me of an A.I. Norman Rockwell illustration
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I assume the logic behind this is that by owning a company, he can now write off travel, accommodations, food, etc. as business expenses, which is probably a better deal than whatever Darkstar was hooking him up with. Which I mean cool, power to him, but he could make it less obvious. What a steaming hot pile of dog shit.
That actually makes a lot more sense than running an actual company, just keep the Red Bull and contest money coming in, report everything as a business expense and have the company declare losses every year. I'm sure it's more complicated than that but hiring a good agent or accountant will fix that.
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I assume the logic behind this is that by owning a company, he can now write off travel, accommodations, food, etc. as business expenses, which is probably a better deal than whatever Darkstar was hooking him up with. Which I mean cool, power to him, but he could make it less obvious. What a steaming hot pile of dog shit.
That actually makes a lot more sense than running an actual company, just keep the Red Bull and contest money coming in, report everything as a business expense and have the company declare losses every year. I'm sure it's more complicated than that but hiring a good agent or accountant will fix that.
nah its not that difficult. Every tax consultant can declare.
Difficult is to build up a cool skatebrand and make money with it.
Just starting a brand to have own boards - because nobody pay you to ride there boards
and putting all cost on your company
Dont want to defend Ryans new company -name and graphic is poor.
But If he sell the boards of the trunk with signature for small buck
at the park - he is doing more then the majority of pros with there board sponsor.
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Man, I get pros wanting to make a brand as their skateboarding career is coming to an end but god damn this shit is so bad.
“Another Board Company” would genuinely have been a better name, then you could at least claim the lack of any effort is ironic
Came here hoping that was the name
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Dudes, here's an altered image that was done on MSPaint on my laptop. Kind of like cut and paste from multiple generated images with some hand drawn elements in there as well that were made a bit out of focus to match the generated image quality.
(http://i.ibb.co/Mgzw1Hg/garbage2.jpg)
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This can't be the face of Canadian skating. I'd prefer Red Dragon takeover the industry before my eyes are subjected to more of this.
Trae the tank as a team member is fucking hilarious though
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Every other skater is going to carry and promote their own ‘brand’ at this rate what the fuck is going on😅
‘So yeah guys I like monkeys on the banana phone pushing the limits for pro skaters, fucking 2 cents yes!’
I kinda think why don’t they? Paul Rodriguez sold all gold boards pre-Primitive and people snapped em up quick. Didn’t Chris Cole do the same in-between Plan B and Zero (round two)?
I just figure skip they should skip the “graphics” going forward, cuz it ain’t gettin better.
Pretty sure Cole’s boards didn’t sell anywhere near as quickly as he thought and that’s why he went back to Zero vs. doing his own thing
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Name is already better than Uma or Sandlot Times but that's not saying much.
I’d rather carry uma
(https://i.ibb.co/JyMdrKC/IMG-4538.webp) (https://ibb.co/JyMdrKC)
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Damn what a let down.. decenzo should have better taste. What is this AI garbage? 2 cents? Here’s my two cents: scrap and start over while you still have time.
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Seeing all the insta comments saying how great and sick the graphic is is so disheartening but also reflective of heaps of industries now.
I'm getting real nihilistic about the industry I work in. People put heaps of time and effort into making a complete product with unique art; while others just do an ai copyright infringement of a comic or something and get people clapping like seals saying how epic it is.
Why try to do anything if people don't actually give a shit. Just slap some garbage on some garbage and it'll be just as popular.
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Every other skater is going to carry and promote their own ‘brand’ at this rate what the fuck is going on😅
‘So yeah guys I like monkeys on the banana phone pushing the limits for pro skaters, fucking 2 cents yes!’
I kinda think why don’t they? Paul Rodriguez sold all gold boards pre-Primitive and people snapped em up quick. Didn’t Chris Cole do the same in-between Plan B and Zero (round two)?
I just figure skip they should skip the “graphics” going forward, cuz it ain’t gettin better.
someone like paul rodriquez doing that and someone like decenzo doing that are absolutely not the same thing- beloved flagship skater for nike with 10+ pro shoes vs guy who rides for darkstar and FP footwear... of course people snapped up the paul boards
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Why couldn’t he have just went to Plan B or Thank You or fucking Sandlot even.
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Seeing all the insta comments saying how great and sick the graphic is is so disheartening but also reflective of heaps of industries now.
I'm getting real nihilistic about the industry I work in. People put heaps of time and effort into making a complete product with unique art; while others just do an ai copyright infringement of a comic or something and get people clapping like seals saying how epic it is.
Why try to do anything if people don't actually give a shit. Just slap some garbage on some garbage and it'll be just as popular.
It really is depressing isn’t it. It’s like bots praising bots. They’ll just drop a fire emoji and a generic, upbeat one liner because a guy they like is doing a thing. No critical thought beyond that. Maybe we are the monkeys with a backwards typewriter and this graphic is a subtle critique of society’s collective inability to grasp its own lack of self awareness. Maybe Ryan Decenzo is telling all of us to wake up to the threat of AI destroying human ingenuity. We need to know what Mickey papa thinks of all this.
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Why couldn’t he have just went to Plan B or Thank You or fucking Sandlot even.
why join a lame brand when you can be at the forefront of one
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There was a small company in Portland a couple years ago called two cents and I’m pretty sure they had a monkey graphic
(https://i.postimg.cc/Ghm29fXt/IMG-0461.png) (https://postimages.org/)
5 weeks ago Decenzo liked my comment that AI art sucks; now he starts some AI bullcrap company?
(https://i.imgur.com/RnwFKl7.png)
I prefer this over the AI collage bullcrap
(https://media.rainpos.com/3261/img_3217.jpg)
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Everything about this is a tragic.
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Seems like a great fit for him.
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My 2 cents, he shoulda stayed on Darkstar.
Darkshart has got to be dwindling out by now surely. Company reminds me of that cow scene in Me Myself and Irene
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There was a small company in Portland a couple years ago called two cents and I’m pretty sure they had a monkey graphic
(https://i.postimg.cc/Ghm29fXt/IMG-0461.png) (https://postimages.org/)
Strange, especially being Ryan is from Vancouver (PNW) making it more likely he’d be aware of this.
I don’t hate the graphic if it was made by a human, the tail logo is hideous though.
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Here’s the thing
Ai art don’t have to really suck. This shit does though. Ai is a tool. Like you is fool. It’s just up to the person asking the fucking “google serf” to make something that you think about real. As real as anything is in the digital world. Some real shit on your phones.
It’s just that this ai art and it Sucks and if you scared of Ai you might need to be cuz It learning from are dumb hateful asses and that’s on us god.
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Damn what a let down.. decenzo should have better taste. What is this AI garbage? 2 cents? Here’s my two cents: scrap and start over while you still have time.
what about ryan decenzo gave you the impression that he has good taste?
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Seeing all the insta comments saying how great and sick the graphic is is so disheartening but also reflective of heaps of industries now.
I'm getting real nihilistic about the industry I work in. People put heaps of time and effort into making a complete product with unique art; while others just do an ai copyright infringement of a comic or something and get people clapping like seals saying how epic it is.
Why try to do anything if people don't actually give a shit. Just slap some garbage on some garbage and it'll be just as popular.
It really is depressing isn’t it. It’s like bots praising bots. They’ll just drop a fire emoji and a generic, upbeat one liner because a guy they like is doing a thing. No critical thought beyond that. Maybe we are the monkeys with a backwards typewriter and this graphic is a subtle critique of society’s collective inability to grasp its own lack of self awareness. Maybe Ryan Decenzo is telling all of us to wake up to the threat of AI destroying human ingenuity. We need to know what Mickey papa thinks of all this.
WHAT DOES JA RULE THINK OF THIS TRAGEDY??
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Okay I’m starting Another Board Company. Dm me yo sponsor tapes
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Okay I’m starting Another Board Company. Dm me yo sponsor tapes
Tite. Can you hop in the doloran and receive my sponsor me tape in its original form?or do I got to upload it to the cloud ?
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Okay I’m starting Another Board Company. Dm me yo sponsor tapes
I got a double decker vhs/dvd. I recorded 3 hours of pjlwhl dvd menu over questionable when I was 12 and fell asleep on the floor and my toe hit the record button. My biggest regret!
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Okay I’m starting Another Board Company. Dm me yo sponsor tapes
I've got 3 insta clips and hella b-roll of me sparking up
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Okay I’m starting Another Board Company. Dm me yo sponsor tapes
I've got 3 insta clips and hella b-roll of me sparking up
Slow mo everything -100x, sounds like a full part to me!
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Damn what a let down.. decenzo should have better taste. What is this AI garbage? 2 cents? Here’s my two cents: scrap and start over while you still have time.
what about ryan decenzo gave you the impression that he has good taste?
You’re right.. my expectations were too high. But it doesn’t even match the redbull athlete aesthetic he has… it’s giving…lazy stoner? Which Ryan is not.
Damn it’s just out of all the cool shit you could do with a new board brand and you do this.
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Damn what a let down.. decenzo should have better taste. What is this AI garbage? 2 cents? Here’s my two cents: scrap and start over while you still have time.
what about ryan decenzo gave you the impression that he has good taste?
You’re right.. my expectations were too high. But it doesn’t even match the redbull athlete aesthetic he has… it’s giving…lazy stoner? Which Ryan is not.
Damn it’s just out of all the cool shit you could do with a new board brand and you do this.
Let’s not forget he titled a part “sender bender” I’d say this is all on brand
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deux cenz
how is his brother not on?
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closer to 1.4 cents when u consider the exchange rate
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That graphic... yikes. Typewriter facing backwards, inconsistent # of fingers, all sorts of random objects...
At least pretend you're trying
Gives me suspicions this was AI generated
The lamp is the biggest one for me. It doesn't look like anything. Although, the phone cord does wrap in a linear fashion (except for the random bit on its arm.)
What is the monkey wearing on it's back? Some sort of backpack? Also the weird random cobwebs and that cluster over the right shoulder just floating there.
Another Bad Creation
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closer to 1.4 cents when u consider the exchange rate
gnar this man
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graphic is terrible, backwards typewriter killed me
also
(https://www.palazzodellamemoria.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mr-burns-monkeys-typewriters1.jpg)
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abort mission
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What's 2 cents supposed to mean? Their profit margin on each deck sold?
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I like Ryan Decenzo but this aint it... He might need better homies
The fact that none of his friends or loved ones talked him out of this…smh
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What's 2 cents supposed to mean? Their profit margin on each deck sold?
I think it’s a play on his last name
deux cenz
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deux cenz
how is his brother not on?
You know the brand is bad when even 2024 Powell is a better option.
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deux cenz
how is his brother not on?
You know the brand is bad when even 2023 Powell is a better option.
Ryan deuce-sends-oooo
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graphic is terrible, backwards typewriter killed me
also
(https://www.palazzodellamemoria.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mr-burns-monkeys-typewriters1.jpg)
omg
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Every other skater is going to carry and promote their own ‘brand’ at this rate what the fuck is going on😅
‘So yeah guys I like monkeys on the banana phone pushing the limits for pro skaters, fucking 2 cents yes!’
I kinda think why don’t they? Paul Rodriguez sold all gold boards pre-Primitive and people snapped em up quick. Didn’t Chris Cole do the same in-between Plan B and Zero (round two)?
I just figure skip they should skip the “graphics” going forward, cuz it ain’t gettin better.
Pretty sure Cole’s boards didn’t sell anywhere near as quickly as he thought and that’s why he went back to Zero vs. doing his own thing
someone like paul rodriquez doing that and someone like decenzo doing that are absolutely not the same thing- beloved flagship skater for nike with 10+ pro shoes vs guy who rides for darkstar and FP footwear... of course people snapped up the paul boards
Goes to show how much I paid attention to Cole’s situation. I’m not surprised Cole and Decenzo don’t/won’t do as well as Rodriguez, but they do have fanbases to some degree.
Skateboarding hasn’t needed Another Board Company for at least five years… should I begin campaigning to alter the tax code to prevent these future delusions from materializing??
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deux cenz
how is his brother not on?
You know the brand is bad when even 2023 Powell is a better option.
Ryan deuce-sends-oooo
nice
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Hot glue lamps are all the rage these days.
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What's 2 cents supposed to mean? Their profit margin on each deck sold?
Yezzur!
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What's 2 cents supposed to mean? Their profit margin on each deck sold?
Yezzur!
Could be the royalty per board sold too.
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Da-send-bros with him and Scooter woulda been a better brand
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Damn what a let down.. decenzo should have better taste. What is this AI garbage? 2 cents? Here’s my two cents: scrap and start over while you still have time.
what about ryan decenzo gave you the impression that he has good taste?
I've come to like Ryan over the years but
(https://y.yarn.co/89f49394-5b4c-4498-94e0-8b7f9946e960_text.gif)
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More like no cents/ no sense
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okay, so we can add Ryan into the ‘careers that flamed out’ thread
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One cents, two cents
Red cents, Blue cents
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One cents, two cents
Red cents, Blue cents
That’s the second graphic
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I’m just confused to why a monkey would have a lubed up dildo in their pen cup? Doesn’t make sense even for a silly fictional monkey!
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Like others have mentioned, ABC (Another Board Company), is a fucking champion of a name as should be Slaps de facto board brand of choice.
It truly was the blurst of times...
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guys how else can you show off typewriter keys without making it backwards?
It is a monkey after all
Lets just hope they see this as a learning lesson
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(https://i.postimg.cc/8Cd50qsY/IMG-0340.jpg)
New development. Wonder if this dude has a copyright. Seems like it was a small operation but it did already exist regardless.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/8Cd50qsY/IMG-0340.jpg)
New development. Wonder if this dude has a copyright. Seems like it was a small operation but it did already exist regardless.
bruh...
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There was a small company in Portland a couple years ago called two cents and I’m pretty sure they had a monkey graphic
(https://i.postimg.cc/Ghm29fXt/IMG-0461.png) (https://postimages.org/)
would much rather skate this board
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Frankly, a C&D from the smaller brand would be one of the best things that could come of this for Ryan Dece: he legally has to start fresh w/ a new brand, and hopefully a clean slate (provided the taste of the “2¢ incident” branding misstep hasn’t lingered too long in the collective psyche,) and he is able to put this unfortunate episode behind him.
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Rebate
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(https://i.postimg.cc/8Cd50qsY/IMG-0340.jpg)
New development. Wonder if this dude has a copyright. Seems like it was a small operation but it did already exist regardless.
I randomly decided to Google this company and landed on this exact IG 😂. How funny
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graphic is terrible, backwards typewriter killed me
also
(https://www.palazzodellamemoria.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mr-burns-monkeys-typewriters1.jpg)
Same. Should have called it Almost Surely Skateboards and had the monkey logically in front of the clacking machine instead of behind it.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/8Cd50qsY/IMG-0340.jpg)
New development. Wonder if this dude has a copyright. Seems like it was a small operation but it did already exist regardless.
LOL
No way
This might be the most Ryan Decenzo thing I've ever seen, heard, or been a part of.
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This company is already making more waves than anyone else in 2024
(https://i.postimg.cc/gctXBwQV/IMG-0354.jpg)
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This company is already making more waves than anyone else in 2024
(https://i.postimg.cc/gctXBwQV/IMG-0354.jpg)
I think I would respect the answer of “no I didn’t” more
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i’m just glad that I get to see Ryan defend himself for creating a graphic of a monkey smoking on a typewriter. It’s more entertaining than anything this brand will ever produce.
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This company is already making more waves than anyone else in 2024
(https://i.postimg.cc/gctXBwQV/IMG-0354.jpg)
I just love that he tried to disparage the original concept for being unoriginal
Also not a fan of the cheeky “…but that’s just my two cents” mic-drop attempt at the end there. It’s giving Alan Partridge “needless to say, I had the last laugh” vibes
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New part Friday
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3ouOBwrybC/?igsh=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg==
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
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Maybe he should just bankroll the original two cents company, their logo is cooler and their smoking monkey feels a little more "original or creative" than Decenzo's...
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This company is already making more waves than anyone else in 2024
(https://i.postimg.cc/gctXBwQV/IMG-0354.jpg)
I just love that he tried to disparage the original concept for being unoriginal
Also not a fan of the cheeky “…but that’s just my two cents” mic-drop attempt at the end there. It’s giving Alan Partridge “needless to say, I had the last laugh” vibes
yeah, you nailed it. I was happy beginning to enjoy Ryan in his late career hucking down the biggest shit in his mid 30’s but all of this has placed him back into irrelevancy for me.
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3ouOBwrybC/?igsh=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg==
Interesting to me that there’s no mention of 2cents in that post, even in the tags
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Guess this is just another one of those My Sweet Lord/He's so Fine situations.
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/gctXBwQV/IMG-0354.jpg)
I just love that he tried to disparage the original concept for being unoriginal
Also not a fan of the cheeky “…but that’s just my two cents” mic-drop attempt at the end there. It’s giving Alan Partridge “needless to say, I had the last laugh” vibes
The respect I have for decenzo is lost, it wasn't that much but still. Dude came out as a kook shitting on a small company.
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
(https://www.sequence.co.nz/user/images/13073.jpg?t=2007082055)
This one?
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
(https://www.sequence.co.nz/user/images/13073.jpg?t=2007082055)
This one?
Yeah. Not my kinda thing but it has so much more personality than what he's gone with now
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Not sure if ABP and I’m not reading this whole thread but how is this the second time there has been a skateboard company called Two Cents that made a smoking monkey board
EDIT: Nevermind I looked at the thread for one second after posting. I’ll still leave this photo here
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWSwvROlne5/?igsh=eHpobnJjd3gwYnh5
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Decentzo proving it doesn’t matter how good you are on a board you’ll always be a bellend
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
(https://www.sequence.co.nz/user/images/13073.jpg?t=2007082055)
This one?
Yeah. Not my kinda thing but it has so much more personality than what he's gone with now
Not to be "more unoriginal ideas" but that graphic is a straight lift from a late 1950s series of pictures called "Monkey Humor". I had the actual picture as my first iphone background.
For reference:
(http://i.ibb.co/LSjdbKc/d0f42ffe3c82224f7997d7d5cc0f48ea.jpg)
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Honestly, Ryan telling this dude to get fucked is actually hilarious and makes me respect him more.
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i’m just glad that I get to see Ryan defend himself for creating a graphic of a monkey smoking on a typewriter. It’s more entertaining than anything this brand will ever produce.
Yeah, I will never care about either brand, I just care about bizarre, internecine skateboard beefs so let them fight.
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
(https://www.sequence.co.nz/user/images/13073.jpg?t=2007082055)
This one?
Yeah. Not my kinda thing but it has so much more personality than what he's gone with now
For reference:
(http://i.ibb.co/LSjdbKc/d0f42ffe3c82224f7997d7d5cc0f48ea.jpg)
Oh yeah... I thought it was familiar.
Still looks infinitely better. Decenzo can afford to hire a monkey and a photog. Pony up the cash bro.
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
(https://www.sequence.co.nz/user/images/13073.jpg?t=2007082055)
This one?
Yeah. Not my kinda thing but it has so much more personality than what he's gone with now
For reference:
(http://i.ibb.co/LSjdbKc/d0f42ffe3c82224f7997d7d5cc0f48ea.jpg)
Oh yeah... I thought it was familiar.
Still looks infinitely better. Decenzo can afford to hire a monkey and a photog. Pony up the cash bro.
Oh 100%. I'd buy that board.
Even if he did a series of licensed/acknowledged Monkey Humor, that'd be fire. You'd get stuff like this:
(http://i.ibb.co/23Hb9mj/6a00d8345158fb69e201538f23b531970b-800wi.jpg)
That's an instant cop
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"your dog page skateboard instagram and decided I'm going to make a company and rip off this guys whatever you have goin on over there!?"
"I have nothing but love for your company and wish you all the best."
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"I guess great minds think alike or something like that.…"
"A smoking monkey isn't anything creative or original."
Goddamn this is fucking rich.
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"your dog page skateboard instagram and decided I'm going to make a company and rip off this guys whatever you have goin on over there!?"
"I have nothing but love for your company and wish you all the best."
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"I guess great minds think alike or something like that.…"
"A smoking monkey isn't anything creative or original."
Goddamn this is fucking rich.
New Sci-Fi graphic should be one of these quotes
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I was hoping the thread title meant “Another” was the name.
At this point we need a brand called “Another Board Company”.
Reminds me of the short lived "One More Skateboard Company" from the early 90's.
https://vertisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-more-1992-catalog.html
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
(https://www.sequence.co.nz/user/images/13073.jpg?t=2007082055)
This one?
Yeah. Not my kinda thing but it has so much more personality than what he's gone with now
For reference:
(http://i.ibb.co/LSjdbKc/d0f42ffe3c82224f7997d7d5cc0f48ea.jpg)
Soooo is anyone gonna go tell descentsy his AI graphic is a rip off of a rip off too or do I gotta keep getting my comments deleted on his gram
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I’ll buy anything with a picture of a funny primate on it. Anything.
how much are your NFTs worth?
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I hope Raffi sues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJjx19sRbs&ab_channel=mrcoolcat50 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJjx19sRbs&ab_channel=mrcoolcat50)
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UqOtBK7felk
discuss, but only the social interactions
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UqOtBK7felk
discuss, but only the social interactions
That was really fuckin sick, and then it got really fuckin weird
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Would be hilarious if instead of this back alley abortion of a “company” he went to Frog or Limo lmao
A nearly middle aged corny Canadian dude skating better than all the trendy kids in their edits
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Would be hilarious if instead of this back alley abortion of a “company” he went to Frog or Limo lmao
A nearly middle aged corny Canadian dude skating better than all the trendy kids in their edits
You really will wedge limo, frog, 'trendy kids' into any post you can for no reason huh lol...
Not even globe wanted this guy in the end
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Would be hilarious if instead of this back alley abortion of a “company” he went to Frog or Limo lmao
A nearly middle aged corny Canadian dude skating better than all the trendy kids in their edits
You really will wedge limo, frog, 'trendy kids' into any post you can for no reason huh lol...
Not even globe wanted this guy in the end
This is why pros need a union with some type of exit strategy or road to retirement plan. When they’re cast aside to fend for themselves we get AI typewriter monkey graphics.
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I hope raffi, the chimp from monkey humor, and the dog from the original two cents kick decenzo’s ass
#Onelesscompany
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thanks for letting us know
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This company is already making more waves than anyone else in 2024
(https://i.postimg.cc/gctXBwQV/IMG-0354.jpg)
Ryan Condescendzo
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Johnny Chimpo graphic incoming.
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dog guy's twocents is pretty rad
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTz7MEGluNl/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPlttr9jncw/
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dog guy's twocents is pretty rad
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTz7MEGluNl/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPlttr9jncw/
I think the only thing that saves Decenzo from legal issues is how they used numeral 2 instead of spelling it out. The right thing to do would be to commission dog guy to do every 2cent board graphic here on out
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…The right thing to do would be to commission dog guy to do every 2cent board graphic here on out.
Looks like we got ourselves a regular King Solomon here, PALS.
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I’m not a lawyer but who gives a shit either which way anyways? Anyways since right now this shit night court
I say homie guilty of ripping off a bad idea and now some one is kinda famous amen
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Don’t want to beat the dead horse - but even if you put zero effort into your new company - you shoud at least Google once if there is no similar named company around.
But this two 2 cent company shoud merge.
So they woud be 4cent, Ryan woud have some proper graphics - and they woud have a Street league top pro on the team.
Woud be a win win situation for all parties involved.
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That other two cents brand hasn’t released a product in like 7 years, dude should let it go.
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That other two cents brand hasn’t released a product in like 7 years, dude should let it go.
No, everyone should continue to beat dead horses with their pocket change, or whatever the fuck is going on I lost track.
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Might as well take it even further and change the name to “Two Pennys” skateboards, first graphic could be a homage (rip-off) to the Cheech and Chong graphic, but it’s just two monkeys high as shit writing fried Instagram manifestos on typewriters.
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We don't have pennies here in Canada.
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We don't have pennies here in Canada.
Deux Loonies
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graphic is terrible, backwards typewriter killed me
also
(https://www.palazzodellamemoria.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mr-burns-monkeys-typewriters1.jpg)
Exactly! Can we ignore everything else we know about him and try to believe that the graphic and its reference to the Infintite Monkey Theorem is a razor sharp commentary about the very nature of AI generated art and an affirmation of what makes human creativity/expression so magical? And that by using the very tool he’s critiquing, Meta-Decenzo has elevated even the act of creating this company/board to true performance art? Is he the new Gonz? Andy Kaufman on wheels?
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graphic is terrible, backwards typewriter killed me
also
(https://www.palazzodellamemoria.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mr-burns-monkeys-typewriters1.jpg)
Exactly! Can we ignore everything else we know about him and try to believe that the graphic and its reference to the Infintite Monkey Theorem is a razor sharp commentary about the very nature of AI generated art and an affirmation of what makes human creativity/expression so magical? And that by using the very tool he’s critiquing, Meta-Decenzo has elevated even the act of creating this company/board to true performance art? Is he the new Gonz? Andy Kaufman on wheels?
Absolutely, absolutely. With even more subtle touches to drive the point home. For example, with the typewriter turned away from the graphic monkey, he is giving the creative imperative to us, consumers and proverbial monkeys that eat up AI generated dreck. Seize the means of creation back from the machines thus seizing the market from the powers that be.
And don't even get me started on the primate's attire. Jungle/safari garments are a clear nod to colonial mechanism of putting locals on lower management levels within colonialised territories, in order for colonialised people to forget who they're colonialised by and direct their wrath towards local quislings. Divide and conquer. All of that, clearly, pertains to board manufacturing being transferred to Asia, the hime of the lower management graphic monkey.
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I bet Ryan don't even know his wheel graphic was a stolen piece. And the whole "I've had this idea for years but I never actioned it" is so lame.
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See what you did there Ryan 8)
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1.- the first board company looks like is just a homies board company.
But 2. Now is so easy to find names used by other companies
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I honestly believe this dude didn’t take any time to see if this had been done already because he seems oblivious to everything except drink energy drink and hit gap/handrail
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I’m starting a board company exclusively for slappers called “Another Pants Thread”. There will be some banger graphics as soon as I figure out how to use AI
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I honestly believe this dude didn’t take any time to see if this had been done already because he seems oblivious to everything except drink energy drink and hit gap/handrail
That’s about the size of it
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I’m starting a board company exclusively for slappers called “Another Pants Thread”. There will be some banger graphics as soon as I figure out how to use AI
It's never been easier, you could totally do it. Photoshop has AI implemented now, it pulls from Adobe stock. You can use AI to fix your fucked up looking Midjourney AI images extremely fast, then AI upscale them so they're not pixilated on a board. Even Illustrator has implemented AI for vectors, so you can scale your graphics to infinity.
I used to do graphic design as a side gig, but the writing is on the wall. Nvidia Eureka is finding novel solutions in robotics, ten years of training is now condensed into three days, and the hardware is only getting faster. If things continue like this, shortly generative AI image programs will stop relying on stolen art and will use novel AI.
I "made" (yeah no, it's a hodgepodge of stolen work) this giant skating Harvey rabbit with a prompt based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize play. It came out all fucked up and wonky looking like the tattoo artist's monkey graphic. 15 mins in Photoshop later, and there's no uncanny weirdness:
(https://i.imgur.com/n2XgXril.png?1)
He didn't even spend 10 mins cleaning up the monkey graphic in PS. Whatever Ryan paid was too much
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Hey cool pic, does the bunny have one big hole in his lil hat, for his ears, or two smaller holes?
Unfortunately AI is really bad at shit like this
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Hey cool pic, does the bunny have one big hole in his lil hat, for his ears, or two smaller holes?
Unfortunately AI is really bad at shit like this
No clue, you’re right, its rapidly getting better though.
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There's a difference between a passable picture and building a long term brand.
Ai isn't going to create Baker or Supreme. It can't create taste or human decisions. Sure it can dummy up a picture but if the people doing the "creative" are idiots then it'll still look like shit.
Every good designer knows that design isn't just moving the pixels.
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From all of this what I get is that I have to idea how to generate crap on AI
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Hey cool pic, does the bunny have one big hole in his lil hat, for his ears, or two smaller holes?
Unfortunately AI is really bad at shit like this
Pretty sure that's just a sweatband.
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I was hoping the thread title meant “Another” was the name.
At this point we need a brand called “Another Board Company”.
Reminds me of the short lived "One More Skateboard Company" from the early 90's.
https://vertisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-more-1992-catalog.html
Came here to say the same thing. Glad I didn’t imagine 1 More.
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Its actually an old Bones graphic
I'm on mobile so can't be bothered embedding it but the old bones one is so much better. The difference between actual artist and AI trash is huge.
(https://www.sequence.co.nz/user/images/13073.jpg?t=2007082055)
This one?
Yeah. Not my kinda thing but it has so much more personality than what he's gone with now
For reference:
(http://i.ibb.co/LSjdbKc/d0f42ffe3c82224f7997d7d5cc0f48ea.jpg)
That looks like Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
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I took about 7 minutes and made this on midjourney. I feel like the 3rd one is almost the exact same composition. I’m sure I could get closer to the board graphic, but I didn’t feel like wasting my time.
Anyways, AI “art” is fun for a few minutes, but ultimately it’s a soulless sham and if someone calls themselves an artist but only does AI they’re fucking clown shoes.
(https://i.imgur.com/iDbT84u.jpg)
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I took about 7 minutes and made this on midjourney. I feel like the 3rd one is almost the exact same composition. I’m sure I could get closer to the board graphic, but I didn’t feel like wasting my time.
Anyways, AI “art” is fun for a few minutes, but ultimately it’s a soulless sham and if someone calls themselves an artist but only does AI they’re fucking clown shoes.
(https://i.imgur.com/iDbT84u.jpg)
Heh some if these are bordering on the surreal.
Like, the banana with the phone cord coming out seems too on the nose, but I like the cigarette w/cord.
The idea "infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters" sort of relates to battling a trick over and over. I don't mind that idea on a board.
But the art should be made by a human. AI generated art is like AI generated tricks: why should I care?
But then again...if some companies weren't so lazy with their art, or continually recycling old graphics, it'd be harder for this sort of stuff to get a foothold.
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Didn’t know what to make of “dog page skateboard Instagram” thought it was a typo - but twocentsskateboards Instagram is literally majority dog photos.
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I took about 7 minutes and made this on midjourney. I feel like the 3rd one is almost the exact same composition. I’m sure I could get closer to the board graphic, but I didn’t feel like wasting my time.
Anyways, AI “art” is fun for a few minutes, but ultimately it’s a soulless sham and if someone calls themselves an artist but only does AI they’re fucking clown shoes.
(https://i.imgur.com/iDbT84u.jpg)
hey man, my degree for AI prompting is totally worth something
respect the art
bro
no two prompts are the same
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Soulless skater soulless brand, perfect.
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I really like the analog cigarette idea. Really makes you think.
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"I have nothing but love for your company and wish you all the best"
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"A smoking monkey isn't anything creative or original."
A TYPING monkey though...that's ground breaking.