Do Technology Company's Have More Creativity Than The Music Industry?

How often have you wanted to smash something computer related?

Not too far in the recent past, making a living as a musician was a bit easier and the audiences paid a bit more attention to a live act, rather than just a guy with a laptop standing on a stage with headphones. In our current time frame, dance clubs are packed elbow to elbow, while many rock, punk and country acts are playing to less and less fans. 

Could this be a paradigm shift in musical taste? Or, maybe fans are just wanting something new and the immediacy that they are used to, from the internet. Could these electronic musicians be tapping into a larger unknown sphere of influence that in actuality is a database of the pre-programmed minds of video game sounds, website dings modem rings? Hmmm.... Maybe the electronic music evolution is just another part of the internet revolution and music that has been performed in a style for decades is just going out of fashion.

Skateboarding Is Life... Stay Rebel, Stay Sharp

There isn't a day that goes by, in which I don't think about riding a skateboard. Even though I don't get to ride everyday, my mind races back to great spots that I have ridden and I think on memorable times. Great sessions with friends or that personal 2 am mission, with me and slick curb at the ol' Food Lion grocery store, still make me feel absolutely alive.

Skating gives definition and meaning to everything that I have become. Without learning how to ollie a gap or dropping in on vert, could I have ever learned the confidence to work with a large client? I don't think it could have happened honestly. Without giving blood and adrenaline to further my skill set, most of what I know now would feel empty and false. A skateboard allowed my path to creative freedom. Traveling through the world on the only true four wheels that I know, I thank all those that I have met along the journey and those I will meet at the next jam. 

From Brazil, to a good buddy's photo imprint and lasting mindset... Stay Rebel Stay Sharp

Skateboarding is life... grinding in the pool at Raleigh's Harsh Creek park

Jack White On Creativity and Pushing Through To New Ideas

Jack White's short diatribe here says it best about giving yourself limitations in order to be more creative. Personally, we feel that most people are inherently lazy and will follow a group to achieve most things. Pushing through to new boundaries is damn hard work, yet is also equally frustrating and rewarding at the same time. Individuals such as Jack White are ones to learn from along with a plethora of other true characters that seek to build new ideas from what was thought an area that has already been mined. With this notion, after all orders are packed and ready for shipping, time to get back on the '51 Chevy shop truck build...

One more reason why Jack White can do no wrong