Comune’s Art Director Corey Smith is or has been a snowboarder, a musician, an artist, and a clothing-designing, team-wrangler known to get in a few online scuffles in his time. YoBeat’s Nick Lipton interviewed the Silverlake dweller to get the whole story down; past, present and future including the crazy shit like this:
Well there’s the time I holed up in the presidential suite at Hotel Lucia with Sean Lennon and a bunch of models for a coupe days. We bought like a grand of assorted drugs and just got weird. I took a hot bath for like a day, then I just chilled in my white hotel robe, I thought I could speak different languages. The girls were all tripping out, trashing the place ordering room service and jumping around. We were singing songs and just tripping out. I love that dude, he’s a genius like his father.
O’Neill is rolling out their latest green, eco-marketing project called ECO’Neill (get it?) with help from “soulful roots-reggae artist and waterman, Mishka.”
Mishka will be giving audiences a preview of the collection during his album tour starting this week, and will be contributing to the creative process and design of upcoming ECO’Neill styles. Later this year, he will be featured in related advertising, POP, mobile marketing and social media efforts from O’Neill to support the introduction of ECO’Neill t-shirts, tanks, beanies and boardshorts hitting stores next Spring.
The ECO’Neill line will feature “100 percent organic” T-shirts and boardshorts made from “recycled plastic bottles.” Because when we buy throw-away logo T-shirts that use our bodies as billboards we’re confident knowing organic cotton farmers are getting paid. [click to continue…]
While jetting through the Sydney International Airport Empire Ave.’s Lincoln spotted this little Nixon Sound Lounge, according to a post on the blog.
I guess you could call it a pop up store in a word, but fuck it was impressive! So the set up basically gives you the complete Nixon experience and seeing so many of Nixon’s products tie in with traveling, it seemed a no brainer to put this little gem together! . . One side is devoted to bringing the noise, headphones silly! While the other is all about telling the time! Whilst trying out various styles from their latest headphone collection, your nestled up on a comfortable couch watching the odd clip or two on the TV. Then you do a 360 and on the other side there is close to a complete range of their latest and greatest timepiece offerings.
Looks like a nice spot to rest up before diving into wilds of the Goldie for sure. Click the link for more photos.
Jake Burton discusses his daily shred and the 2010 Olympic snowboard uniforms with USA Today. The Gore-Tex pants (but not the jacket) will go on sale next October for $250.
Orange 21, the parent company of Spy Optic has had trouble with the Nasdaq lately. The company was sent a letter on September 16, 2009 with Orange 21’s stock price was below $1 for a consecutive 30 days. The letter gave Orange 21 180 days to bring its stock price above $1 in compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). When Orange 21 was not successful they got another letter form Nasdaq:
The March 16, 2010 letter from Nasdaq indicated that the Company had not regained compliance with the Rule and is not eligible for an additional 180 day compliance period given that it does not meet the Nasdaq Capital Market initial listing standard set forth in Listing Rule 5505. . . Accordingly, its securities will be delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market on March 25, 2010 unless the Company requests an appeal to the Nasdaq’s determination to a Hearings Panel in accordance with Listing Rule 5800 Series.
Orange 21 “does not plan to request an appeal” according to a press release and the companies common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market will be suspended. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
On March 15, 2010 Richard “Wooly” Woolcott sold another 20,000 shares of Volcom stock as part of his “sell 20,000 shares a month” program. This month, however, his shares are only $375,400. He appears to have sold at least 20,000 shares each month since September 2009.
But don’t worry. He still owns 10 percent of the company.
These are the stories we love: a young surfer works hard, helps create a successful clothing company that goes public, gets his loot, works hard for years, and then drifts off to Hawaii to live, surf, and be with his family away from the daily grind of life behind the velcro curtain. We’re not saying that is what Volcom Vice President of Marketing Troy Eckert is doing exactly, but that’s how we’re going to take the news that was released yesterday.
What was it? Effective May 15, 2010 Troy will become Volcom’s “Hawaii Strategic Director.” He’ll be moving to the Islands in June. Rolling into his former marketing position at VeeCo will be Ryan Immegart, 33, the co-founder of Volcom Entertainment.
“Hawaii radiates outward to many different cultures, and it’s very important to remain deeply rooted on all levels,” said Eckert. “I’ve always had a strong connection and passion for Hawaii and this move provides me with an opportunity to develop innovative ways to further build our brand in this important and influential market. This is going to be a very exciting journey.”
We’re stoked for Troy, Ryan, and Volcom. Youth is the establishment, right?
Steve Murray, 49, the former President of VF Corp’s Action Sports Coalition (Vans and Reef) is leaving the company to become President of Urban Outfitters, according to a release posted on CNN/Money.
“Steve is more than we expected with his vast global experience and brilliant track record in growing lifestyle brands and retail concepts. He is a perfect fit for Urban Outfitters, and brings tremendous creativity and leadership to our organization, along with a deep familiarity of global youth culture from his nearly two decades of work with the Vans and Reebok brands. I am thrilled to have Steve join our executive team and am confident he will play a pivotal role in the future development of the Urban Outfitters brand and URBN,” said UO’s CEO Glen T. Senk.
Seems like the perfect time for a career switch up. Murray had a great ride at Vans as the affordable shoes came back into style and numbers bloomed all around. Now, diving into retail, Murray will land first into one of the roughest segments in the fashion business. It’s hard to believe retail could get any worse, but we wouldn’t bet against against it. We wish him the best of luck.
Screw Apple. . . Neff does it all on a Sony Vaio, apparently. At least that’s what this new Sony ad featuring Shaun Neff appears to say. Borrowing heavily from the wearing lots of shirts Youtube meme the ad is cool, funny, and raw, but will it encourage anyone to buy a PC over a Mac? Hell, no!
Comune’s Art Director Corey Smith is or has been a snowboarder, a musician, an artist, and a clothing-designing, team-wrangler known to get in a few online scuffles in his time. YoBeat’s Nick Lipton interviewed the Silverlake dweller to get the whole story down; past, present and future including the crazy shit like this:
