Serial# : QC2609
I Love Rodney Mullen. The first instance of achievement and desire driven effort I ever experienced was learning how to ollie on a skateboard. I will never forget the feeling of the first time accomplishing something that I worked for that I couldn’t do prior. I was a kid, younger than 10, I must have been 9 probably. I can’t recall how many weeks it might have taken me to learn this skill, but I recall coming home just aching and burning to go down to the street in front of our tiny apartment and spend hours just trying to do what I saw others impressively being able to do. A trick, a key to a door unlocked only by a specific series of movements of your limbs and body. A door that once opened looked like magic to the unknowing rest. I felt how I imagined a wizard would feel. And I surely thought I looked as such. I loved that piece of wood with four stupid wheels attached to it that simultaneously brought so much physical pain on the way to blissfulness. I loved it because it represented the fact that if I tried long enough, and thought about how to do it for long enough, then I could.
I don’t think there’s ever been someone more important —and there might very well never be someone more important— for that world than Rodney Mullen. In lonesomeness and ignorance, as a child, he transformed and built the practice we know today as skateboarding. A single man gave everybody after him the building blocks to express themselves. Skateboarding is not a sport, at least not the way I see it. Its a dance, its improv. Rodney Mullen’s brain is weird, and weird brains are humanity’s greatest asset. Rodney danced like no one had ever danced before him, just because he never knew he couldn’t. And after him, there’s not a single person who can escape the fact that their dance is only allowed to be thanks to the creativity of Rodney Mullen. I Love Rodney Mullen.
O.a.k (One-of-a-kind):
This line of instruments acts as my space for study and unbounded creativity. It is the continuation of my original non-serialized work, meaning, a cymbal line where anything goes.
It will most likely also act as the breeding grounds for any forthcoming new lines and designs as time moves forward, so keep your eyes open, one of these could one day become a regular act.
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Serial# : QC2609
I Love Rodney Mullen. The first instance of achievement and desire driven effort I ever experienced was learning how to ollie on a skateboard. I will never forget the feeling of the first time accomplishing something that I worked for that I couldn’t do prior. I was a kid, younger than 10, I must have been 9 probably. I can’t recall how many weeks it might have taken me to learn this skill, but I recall coming home just aching and burning to go down to the street in front of our tiny apartment and spend hours just trying to do what I saw others impressively being able to do. A trick, a key to a door unlocked only by a specific series of movements of your limbs and body. A door that once opened looked like magic to the unknowing rest. I felt how I imagined a wizard would feel. And I surely thought I looked as such. I loved that piece of wood with four stupid wheels attached to it that simultaneously brought so much physical pain on the way to blissfulness. I loved it because it represented the fact that if I tried long enough, and thought about how to do it for long enough, then I could.
I don’t think there’s ever been someone more important —and there might very well never be someone more important— for that world than Rodney Mullen. In lonesomeness and ignorance, as a child, he transformed and built the practice we know today as skateboarding. A single man gave everybody after him the building blocks to express themselves. Skateboarding is not a sport, at least not the way I see it. Its a dance, its improv. Rodney Mullen’s brain is weird, and weird brains are humanity’s greatest asset. Rodney danced like no one had ever danced before him, just because he never knew he couldn’t. And after him, there’s not a single person who can escape the fact that their dance is only allowed to be thanks to the creativity of Rodney Mullen. I Love Rodney Mullen.
O.a.k (One-of-a-kind):
This line of instruments acts as my space for study and unbounded creativity. It is the continuation of my original non-serialized work, meaning, a cymbal line where anything goes.
It will most likely also act as the breeding grounds for any forthcoming new lines and designs as time moves forward, so keep your eyes open, one of these could one day become a regular act.
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