{"id":263,"date":"2010-08-29T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2010-08-29T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T19:23:46","slug":"skateboarding-art-and-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"skateboarding, art and the industry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chromeballincident.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/chrome-ball-incident-12-don-pendleton.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"external\">very thoughtful words<\/a> regarding skateboarding, art and the industry by the remarkable don pendleton:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, the skaters are always going to decide where skating goes. So if they want something cheap made in China, they&#8217;re going to get it. If they demand something more, they&#8217;ll have that option as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These days, it seems less of a craft and more of a commodity unfortunately. Those transfer graphics are horrible and temporary but it almost seems kind of fitting for Chinese boards, doesn&#8217;t it? I mean, companies went from lovingly crafting these intricately created skateboards and hand screening the graphics color by color to lining up popsicle sticks in China and basically applying a big decal to it. Kind of sad in terms of history and what skateboarding leaves behind as it advances&#8230; but it may have helped some companies keep their doors open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sales force has become a part of the design process because they know what&#8217;s selling and what isn&#8217;t and the average company is chasing the dragon in terms of give them what they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>very thoughtful words regarding skateboarding, art and the industry by the remarkable don pendleton: &#8220;Ultimately, the skaters are always going to decide where skating goes. So if they want something cheap made in China, they&#8217;re going to get it. If they demand something more, they&#8217;ll have that option as well.&#8221; &#8220;These days, it seems less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skateboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}