{"id":6808,"date":"2009-03-25T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2009-03-26T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:21:58","slug":"the-vans-off-the-wall-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6808","title":{"rendered":"The Vans Off The Wall Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/vansotw.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/vansotw.jpg','popup','width=369,height=346,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\/2009\/03\/vansotw-tm.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Vansotw\" \/><\/a>Filmmaker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaredeberhardt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Eberhardt<\/a><\/strong> once told us that there are guys of a certain age in this industry who, no matter how hard they try, always end up wearing <strong>Vans<\/strong> shoes. They show up at weddings, funerals, and baptisms in suits. . . but on their feet it&#8217;s Vans.<\/p>\n<p>Many have had access to ass-loads of free shoes over the years but they always end up throwing on a pair of Vans on their way out of the house. The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0810983753?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0810983753\" target=\"_blank\">Vans Off The Wall<\/a><\/strong> book seems built especially for them, errr, or us.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vans Off The Wall tells the multi-generational story of the community that encompasses boards, bikes, art, music, and street culture, as well as the iconic shoes keeping it all together. With oral histories from <strong>Tony Alva<\/strong>, <strong>Joel Tudor<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Caballero<\/strong>, <strong>John Cardiel<\/strong>, <strong>Geoff Rowley<\/strong>, and others Vans: Off The Wall provides an intimate visually stunning account of how the company had changed the face of pop culture since its founding in 1966.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Self-promotional? Yes. Written by Vans Marketing VP <strong>Doug Palladini<\/strong>? Yep, but we&#8217;re not going to let either of those things quell our enthusiasm. That&#8217;s how much we&#8217;re looking forward to it. Vans says the book drops on June 1, 2009 but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0810983753?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0810983753\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon says they&#8217;re shipping May 1<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vans.com\/vansbook\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Vans Book<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsportsource.com\/mail_outs\/show_news_item\/33200_VANS-RELEASE-BOOK-OF-HISTORY\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Boardsports Source<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Jared Eberhardt once told us that there are guys of a certain age in this industry who, no matter how hard they try, always end up wearing Vans shoes. They show up at weddings, funerals, and baptisms in suits. . . but on their feet it&#8217;s Vans. Many have had access to ass-loads of [&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":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808"}],"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=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}