I posted this on KR the other day but those bastards were no help, so maybe you bastards can figure it out: So I was just watching 80's monster monster movie "the Gate" on the Space channel and the little Hessein kid in it is wearing a shirt that has a skeleton holding a guitar in one hand and his other fist in the air, it is basically the same graphic as that illustrator series Heroin skateboard deck James Jarvis did, just not Jarvisied. Anybody know what the graphic was originally from? I'm guessing it might have been some old Powell graphic or something but I have never seen it before. Also I think I remember a while ago someone saying there was going to be a reissue of that Jarvis Deck in a different color, anyone heard about that? Also, today is International Go Skateboarding day, so go skateboarding!
I think you are right, it might be some old Powell-Peralta. Lots of shirts from the 80's involved skeletons and guitars. Its funny I have not been around skaters for a long time and I ran into the Adios team at a hotel a friend was staying at last week. I hung out with a guy named Ed Selego for a bit, really cool guy.
Count, It's a World Industries (Rocco era, when they were still cool and had the best team in skateboarding) Rodney Mullen "Rock Is King" deck.
i'm not answering your question.. but these are coming out soon: more info: http://www.stussystore.co.uk/content/news.asp?id=73
AAAAAAHHHHHH!!! Deadgoon you fucking rule! I love that graphic, I loved Jarvis's to and figured it must have been based on something but I had no idea what until I saw that kids shirt in the Gate the other day. So that must have been from around 87, at least that's when the Gate came out. Killer, thanks man!
I don't know about that. 87 was a weird time in sk8ing. I remember rockin a Kaupas deck and the majority of decks still had that 80s style shape.(distinguishable nose and tail. That looks more like the transitional period and World Industries didn't really form till 1988 (officially). That shape in the pic looks closer to like 89-91.
Yeah I didn;t know when World Industries started but I was thinking that shape looked newer than 87, I kind of just figured that if it was that old and a Mullen deck maybe it was some weird freestyle deck, like the one in this awesome picture: Maybe the graphic on the shirt in that movie I saw was actually from something else though, and World's design was based on whatever that was?
most likely the case. I believe that graphic was a blacklight poster which World Industries just ripped which they were notorious for.
legalize skateboarding. Pee on the DOT... DOT buries authentic American history. http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-100804 ... 1408.story
This is now buried too but it used to be a great skate spot! The Ghost Parking Lot was in Hamden Connecticut http://whoadu.de/?p=80 http://lostinjersey.wordpress.com/2009/ ... rking-lot/ http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/4491
Wow, old thread! I wanted this Corey O'Brien deck when I was a kid. But couldn't afford one, so I took some sandpaper and spray paint to either a Kamikaze or Nash, and slapped the Reaper sticker on the bottom to make my own. A kid down the block wanted to trade me his Vision (the B&W "vertigo" looking one), but I put so much work into my board that I couldn't. I was just looking for an image of the Kamikaze I had and all I could find were Sims boards, but I think mine was an off-brand. It was black, with the rising sun graphic, and I think Kamikaze was written in that "bonzai" font that was used for anything Asian. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
