MATIX: THIS IS PROGRESS
Sometimes it pays off to answer the door even when it’s only midday and you’re still in your bathrobe. This morning the UPS fella stuck a heavy package in my hand taped up with Revival distribution tape. Last time they sent me something it was baby stuff for Lewis with these cool booties and a suit saying ‘my other stroller is a skateboard’. It’s dope getting packages. This one turned out to be a beasty hard cover book with embossed silver text “THIS IS PROGRESS”, by Matix, to celebrate 10 years of the brand’s existence featuring 280 pages of the creative process that went into creating the brand, interviews with all the team riders and even a 10 minute dvd slipped into the back for good measure showing the making of the Tangram commercials directed by Colin Kennedy (Skate More).
There was also a tee shirt in the package but since it’s too big cos I’m a scrawny bugger, we’re gonna give it away. It’s a Large. It’s black and the graphic is the bottom pic below done by Marc Johnson as one in a series of limited tees by the team.
Write us a comment below about your favourite MATIX skater and you might just WINWIN!
The book, by the way, has already found its way onto my bookshelf – it’s a keeper.
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MJ himself! sw noseblunt to back noseblunt, like whaaaat??!?!
I wanna winwinwin, you never gave me shit in the shop! I always had to pay for our double-mocha-frappo-lattes at 7-11!
Oh my oh my..
Having to choose between them is like choosing between whipped cream and strawberrys!
But I must admit that Rodney Mullen is my all time fave.
All the skaters are good for sure!
But Rodney Mullen shure knows how to skate – and how not to skate, cause he uses all of the board, not only grind and slides, but he combines all varies of flips, slides, grinds – not to forget dark- and casperslide.
It’s incredible what this man can achieve with a piece of wood and two couples of wheels..
The other day I was at Kontoret @ Vega, some of the visuals was this old school skatemovie – I searched for it at youtube the following morning, but couldnt find it. I then ran into an old school footage of Rodney Mullen in Japan, this kiddo was just jumping around his skateboard for 7 minutes without touching the ground!
I’ve never seen anything like that before..
Not only he was my favourite in Tony Hawk Pro Skaters for Playstation, he inspires me to work with a subject from all possible – and impossible – angles.
I’m off to trash my scooter in Fælledparken!
/Lasse