Comments on: cafepress for skate rats

cafepress for skate rats

mathowie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:53:49 -0800

BOARDPUSHER is basically Cafepress, but for skateboard decks. If you've always wanted to design your own deck, now is your chance.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:55:09 -0800

To test it out I made a MeFi deck which is so-so. If this was around when I was 15 years old, I would have spent every day making a new deck. As it was, I used to just sit and draw them all day.

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:04:41 -0800

Excellent. I wonder what quality level we're talking about here.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:07:52 -0800

Well, they say they're real 7-ply canadian wood decks like every other deck you can buy at a shop but I have no idea what the paint/printing is like. I just ordered one to see though.

By: Gator

Gator — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:09:27 -0800

I'm not remotely interested in skateboarding, but this is still pretty cool.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:10:26 -0800

matt, did you order the metafilter branded one?

By: lyam

lyam — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:14:51 -0800

I didn't see any longboard decks. Boo. Great idea, though.

By: tadellin

tadellin — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:15:15 -0800

Never really understood the appeal of skateboarding.

By: grimcity

grimcity — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:16:37 -0800

I never understood the appeal of not skateboarding.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:26:27 -0800

I never understood the appeal of vegetables.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:30:29 -0800

Select Your deck Size Heh. /sophomoric

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:32:57 -0800

I designed the graphics for a deck in the late 1980s. It was made by an offshoot of Madrid Skateboards. My friend Joe Bowers (now at Alien Workshop) came up with the name and shape (Ditch Bitch). I wish I had kept a model for myself.

By: goofyfoot

goofyfoot — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:44:04 -0800

This is a perfect wedding gift for my cousin, who's gone through so many decks he's repurposed them as bookshelves. Maybe could put a picture of his baby on it. Thanks for the link!

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:06:48 -0800

Matt, I was like you. I must have filled so many pages of my "awesome" deck designs, though I cringe to think what they looked like now, probably all variations of punk band album covers. Can you remember to give us an update of what it looks like when it comes Matt?

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:14:19 -0800

And also, Matt, could you scan in some of your old designs? :)

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:21:00 -0800

Rad.

By: bardic

bardic — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:24:22 -0800

This is a crime.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:34:01 -0800

gnarly! ps spreadshirt is miles better than cafepress

By: imaswinger

imaswinger — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:45:29 -0800

Gator: you're nick would imply otherwise. Mark 'Gator' Rogowski I used to sooo rock the Gator shorts (jams)!

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:53:46 -0800

Gator came to a bad end, actually. Homicide conviction. There's a documentary about it floating out there somewhere.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:22:16 -0800

Homicide conviction.... Bah! Who didn't commit homicide back in the old days?

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:23:43 -0800

At what age is it inapropriate to still want to learn how to skate? When are you supposed to stop thinking skateboarding is cool? Because I'm not there yet.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:24:27 -0800

that link doesn't lead to where you think it does, imaswinger.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:44:30 -0800

This doesn't look inappropriate and that dude's gotta be pushing 60.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:49:21 -0800

Now I have no excuse not to pick it up. Grandpa can do it and I can get a cheap board with a Jim Woodring or something on it.

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:13:55 -0800

Yeah, if memory serves, he had a really fucked up relationship with this one girl, eventually became zealously born again, and ended up (raping and?) killing his girlfriend's friend in one of those jealous-crime-of-passion things. Still in prison in CA.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:50:03 -0800

This is a crime. posted by bardic at 3:24 PM CST on July 14 [+fave] [!] Designing Skateboards is not a crime, man. Quit hasslin' us.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:11:46 -0800

It kinda makes me wish I could balance myself on a piece of wood. (Not that kind of wood you sick people!)

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:56:43 -0800

At what age is it inapropriate to still want to learn how to skate? 87? Cafepress stuff is shit quality. Just saying.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:22:30 -0800

Wouldn't let me upload my "nosferatu" picture. Bummer. I sued to ride my board to work everyday when I was a kid, but I don't skate much anymore. I'm over 260, tough to find a board for the beefier iron afficianado. /I suppose I could switch to cardio...but I don't do salad.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:04:41 -0800

Metafilter, the board has arrived.