by The Editors on September 19, 2008
After all these years of thinking that Seattle-based C3 Sales Manager Johan Malkoski was simply a crass, belligerent, caustic, ass-monkey we finally learn there is a method to Johan’s world famous assness. It’s all part of a plan, according to an interview on The World of Snowboarding Through Fembot Eyes.
I have a knack for making rough first impressions, most likely it’s the Masshole in me. Or maybe it’s because I like to start at the bottom and work my way up because if you start at the top there’s no where to go but down. I don’t know, I’m working on the problem though.
That is the best news we’ve heard all day. Read the rest of the interview for more insight into the salesman behind the brands Capita, Coal, Union, and Defcon. And wish him luck as he works through his problems. It will be better for all of us if he can. And we mean that in the nicest, most caring way possible.
[Link: TWSTFE]
by The Editors on September 18, 2008
This show at LA’s Crewest Gallery on October 4, 2008 (opening 2:00 PM to 9:30 PM) is something we’re actually excited about. Then again, the Dogtown cross we hand-markered on the wall of our childhood is still there so we’re obviously partial to the work of Craig Stecyk, Skip Engblom, et. al.
The invite only opening party is the night before (October 3, 2008 at 7 PM).
[Link: The Label Lab]
by The Editors on September 17, 2008
While claiming to be the first person to do anything in the world is getting more and more difficult, Jafar Alam, 25, says he’s the first Bangladeshi surfer. And now he is sharing his love with the Cox’s Bazar Surf Club which he founded in 2002..
This month he will hold his fourth annual surfing competition, when a group of 15 American surfers will descend on the beach to compete against locals. . . . He now has 48 students, including 12 girls. Although home to a 125-kilometre (78-mile) stretch of unbroken coast, it was only the occasional intrepid international tourist who would test the waves, he said.
It would probably be an easy contest to win. Better start packing.
[Link: Daily Times]
by The Editors on September 16, 2008
by The Editors on September 15, 2008
Portfolio.com checked in with T. Hawk and he says he’s not afraid to “get his hands dirty.”
Tony Hawk is rich and chief executive of his own company, but that doesn’t mean he’s changed all that much from the skateboarding kid with a junk food diet. In fact, it’s something he says makes him a better C.E.O.
[Link: Portfolio.com]
by The Editors on September 15, 2008
One of the new collabs that the SkullCandy sales crew was excited about at ASR was their new Metallica headphones. But they probably were hoping on a little better reception than the one gadget site Gizmodo just gave them:
Metallica Headphones Would Have Been Awesome in the ’80s Before We Knew What Dicks Metallica Were . . . Skullcandy and Metallica have teamed up to create these absolutely metal headphones, showing the world just how into a burned out, old-man rock band you are.
Kind of how we were feeling when we heard about it. But hey, think how many more people know what SkullCandy is now?
[Link: Gizmodo]
by The Editors on September 15, 2008
Analysts at Piper Jaffray & Co. downgraded Zumiez today saying that the companies shares have “surpassed our target objective” and are “trading essentially in line with the long-term earnings growth rate” and they’re giving Zumez a “neutral.”
We expect shares to trade in range into the 1H of 2009 and would recommend adding to positions on sector pullbacks – longer-term, ZUMZ offers a superior investment profile. Our 2-3 year outlook remains positive, tied to square footage growth, solid category trends, and the company’s ability to orient its merchandise to evolutions in lifestyle cycles. We’ve re-set our 12-month price target to $18/share based on 20x FTME EPS (FQ4-FQ3), in line with the company’s LT earnings growth rate.
Sure, fine.
[Link: Street Insider]
by The Editors on September 15, 2008
by The Editors on September 15, 2008
We wrote about Gil Le Bon De Lapointe and Pierre Andre Senizergues’ Skate Study House back in February, but the mid-century modern skate project has finally made it to the LA Times.
I’m the artist, and he has the money to do it,” De Lapointe says. “Pierre gives me inspiration, he pushes me to find ideas and concepts, new ways to use the skateboard. The skateboard has given him all his success, so he wants to give that back.”
Seems the Home & Garden section just can’t get enough of Pierre Andre lately.
[Link: LA Times]
by The Editors on September 15, 2008
As we overhead someone say last week, “Ol’ Naude has had a pretty good year.” And we would agree. According to a report in Australia’s The Age Billabong’s Paul Naude unloaded a few shares last week:
Last Monday he sold 250,000 shares at AUS$13.35 each. The AUS$3.3 million was the most he had raised from share sales for quite a while. . . . Last year he disposed of 100,000 at AUS$15.52 a share, while going right back into history — March 2006 — he raised AUS$2 million when he flogged 125,000 shares at AUS$16.06 a share.
Taking a little money off the table probably isn’t a bad idea right now.
[Link: The Age]
