{"id":6990,"date":"2009-03-30T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2009-03-31T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T19:28:08","slug":"the-slap-ron-cameron-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6990","title":{"rendered":"The Slap Ron Cameron Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ron-cameron.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ron-cameron.jpg','popup','width=522,height=207,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\/ron-cameron-tm.jpg\" height=\"170\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ron Cameron\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are times we see stories that we really wished we had done first, but never did. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slapmagazine.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=912&amp;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\">Slap Skateboard Magazine&#8217;s Ron Cameron Portfolio<\/a><\/strong> by <strong>Mark Whiteley<\/strong> is one of those pieces.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roncameron.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Cameron<\/a><\/strong> could be one of the most underrated skateboarding artist\/designers ever to work in the business. From the Nothing Is Cool design for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blockheadskateboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blockhead Skateboards<\/a><\/strong> to the RVCA logo (yeah, he&#8217;s responsible for the V and the Artist Network Program), Ron has been working behind the scenes creating some of the most original designs in action sports. It is Ron&#8217;s take on the commercial side of skateboarding, however, that spoke most to his deep history in skateboarding. Here&#8217;s part of what he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It really is difficult to earn a living in the skateboarding industry. I always just egotistically thought my talents. . . like I would produce great work and the money would come and that&#8217;s not true. A lot of times if you don&#8217;t go in with money you don&#8217;t go out with money. And that&#8217;s the hard lesson I learned. And you need to take care of business no matter how ugly it feels to you. And if you think you&#8217;re going to become a businessman asshole. You&#8217;re not. You&#8217;re just taking care of that part so you can continue to do art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wise words. Follow the link for all the images and an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slapmagazine.com\/images\/stories\/Features\/2009\/February\/ronCameron\/portfoliocameron.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">audio interview with Ron<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slapmagazine.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=912&amp;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\">Slap Skateboard Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatedaily.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skatedaily.net<\/a><\/strong> <strong>and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roncameron.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Cameron<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times we see stories that we really wished we had done first, but never did. Slap Skateboard Magazine&#8217;s Ron Cameron Portfolio by Mark Whiteley is one of those pieces. Ron Cameron could be one of the most underrated skateboarding artist\/designers ever to work in the business. From the Nothing Is Cool design for [&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":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7023,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/7023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}