StrangeLove

something old and something new

October 10, 2024 • Sean Cliver

I've always admired an artist who can say a lot with just a few lines (much like I can admire a writer who can say more in 25 words than I can in 2000 with a superfluous use of commas and an extreme predilection for parenthetical asides) so today's fireside chat takes place with Winston Tseng, a graphic designer synonymous with such former skate brands as Popwar and Enjoi. However, this interview is not recent; it dates back to 2016 when I was frantically trying to feed the internet beast over at Gorilla Flicks to justify my only reliable monthly paycheck. That said, it can still be found via a semi-quick search in the great Google gyre of digital garbage, but for the sake of cheap and easy promotional fodder to feed our own worldwide beast and support this latest release with Winston, I'm simply regurgitating it here—with bonus content! Just like the miscellaneous contents of a parental bird's stomach.

timergy

October 04, 2024 • Sean Cliver

For the past year and change, Timothy Johnson had been out around the US compiling footage for a video project that never came to be. Nevertheless, everything in the digital bank was finally cut together in double feature fashion with that amassed by his friend Cody Cepeda for a debut on the Berrics. Because I'm a slow learner, I also just realized why the Berrics is often referred to as the "Berries" in certain parts of the worldwideweb—it's an autocorrect thing. No relation to small, pulpy, and often edible fruit whatsoever. Anyway, congratulations Timmy. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

kicking rocks with max murphy

September 24, 2024 • Sean Cliver

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the Psychic Eye Book Shop. Why, I'm not sure… my brain is often at odds with everything else I should legitimately be paying attention to—especially so in this turbulent eddy of our current times—and yet here I am reflecting on this ridiculous strip mall store in the South Bay of LA that specialized in anything and everything of a New Age persuasion. What's historically relevant if not funny about this is that I first learned about the business from Rodney Mullen, circa 1991–92, when I started working, aka living, in the World Industries environment. It would be...

how they matter

August 25, 2024 • Sean Cliver

Did you know we have a YouTube channel? I barely do. But get off my back, jerk, because so many different StrangeLove hats are worn between Nick and I that we're lucky if we can even remember our own names, much less what we did or did not say to each other a week ago. Yes, Moleskins would behoove our beleaguered and forgetful synapses, but that's more of a personal matter between the two of us and not something to be aired out in public spaces such as this… which I apparently already did. Hmm. Anyway, the pencil point of today's post is not our bottomless well of shortcomings as occupational human beings, but rather the great lengths we went to this summer to share the stories behind our newly expanded line of "Pro Series" boards and how they're all now uploaded to that Great Digital Garbage Gyre in the Cloud, aka YouTube.

me and you and everyone we unofficially know

August 16, 2024 • Sean Cliver

If there was ever an embodiment of a spirit animal in skateboarding it would undeniably be Mark Gonzales. Unofficially speaking, of course, because why would you expect to read anything about the mythical Gonz here? But that, my friend, is precisely where the blooming onion begins in our professional world of many layers. Let’s take a dip in the Outback deep fryer to unpack.