{"id":47774,"date":"2015-01-29T05:33:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=47774"},"modified":"2015-01-29T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:18:02","slug":"rodney-mullen-gets-wired-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=47774","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Mullen Gets Wired Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ff_mullen_1_sittingportrait.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ff_mullen_1_sittingportrait.jpg','popup','width=1200,height=810,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ff_mullen_1_sittingportrait-tm.jpg\" height=\"290\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ff Mullen 1 Sittingportrait\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from creating nearly everything to do with modern street skating (before it was called that) <strong>Rodney Mullen<\/strong> has also become a hot-ticket public speaker on the Silicon Valley lecture circuit speaking to groups about dedication and remaining true to your passions. But there&#8217;s more, as <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/rodney-mullen\/#slide-id-1694945\">Wired Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Brendan I. Koerner<\/strong> found out in his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/rodney-mullen\/#slide-id-1694945\">profile on Mr. Mullen<\/a><\/strong> in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/rodney-mullen\/#slide-id-1694945\">February issue<\/a><\/strong> of the tech culture magazine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 30 years after he invented most of the gravity-defying maneuvers that still form skateboarding&#8217;s basic vocabulary, Mullen is enjoying a strange sort of second act. He has become a sought-after speaker on the Silicon Valley conference circuit, making the rounds at PopTech, Foo Camp, TEDx, and myriad of other events where technology bigwigs gather to feast on ideas.  . . As his speaking career has flourished, Mullen also has landed an array of choice consulting gigs: advising the head of a USC research lab that develops virtual reality systems, shooting a short film about creativity for Adobe, collaborating with the Smithsonian to launch a project about skateboarding, history, and innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the rest of the profile, please click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/rodney-mullen\/#slide-id-1694945\">Wired Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from creating nearly everything to do with modern street skating (before it was called that) Rodney Mullen has also become a hot-ticket public speaker on the Silicon Valley lecture circuit speaking to groups about dedication and remaining true to your passions. But there&#8217;s more, as Wired Magazine writer Brendan I. Koerner found out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47778,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions\/47778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}