Another Board Company

[Can he read]

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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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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.

[jgonzalez]

I hope raffi, the chimp from monkey humor, and the dog from the original two cents kick decenzo’s ass

#Onelesscompany

[CHONGO]

thanks for letting us know

[Eric Dolphy]

This company is already making more waves than anyone else in 2024

Ryan Condescendzo

[Shitbag]

Johnny Chimpo graphic incoming.

[Seadramon]

dog guy's twocents is pretty rad

[snackman233]

dog guy's twocents is pretty rad

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

[Lou Strux]

…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.

[Ninj2]

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

[lurker_and_poster]

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.

[MusclesMarinara]

That other two cents brand hasn’t released a product in like 7 years, dude should let it go.

[JM]

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.

[offkilter]

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.

[Watson]

We don't have pennies here in Canada.

[lurkluke]

We don't have pennies here in Canada.

Deux Loonies

[Giftedly Hater’d]

graphic is terrible, backwards typewriter killed me

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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?

[Mallie]

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graphic is terrible, backwards typewriter killed me

also

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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.

[Ghost Face]

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.

[showbobs]

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This company is already making more waves than anyone else in 2024

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Ryan Condescendzo

See what you did there Ryan 

[Vds]

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

[Fartknocker415]

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

[kookdusoleil]

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

[Can he read]

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

[PuffinMuffin]

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:



He didn't even spend 10 mins cleaning up the monkey graphic in PS. Whatever Ryan paid was too much

[rukes]

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

[PuffinMuffin]

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.

[lurkluke]

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.

[moonordie]

From all of this what I get is that I have to idea how to generate crap on AI

[Ghost Face]

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.

[Lucky_Basek]

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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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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.