Posts Tagged ‘skateboarding’
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You ever have one of those days where something you do doesn’t live up to your own expectations for yourself? So I had this sweet experience the other day…
I went to a skateshop to attempt some research for a client project that so far hasn’t actually materialized. I found, upon entering, that I had a full 90-seconds worth of imagined street cred to be standing there in my khaki’s and polo/Express shirt, pretending to be cool enough to actually look at anything in there. I could not muster the strength to look behind Skinny-Totally-Disinterested-In-Me guy to see any real skateboard designs. Mostly I looked at shoes. Owning one pair of cool sneaks myself — which of course I was not wearing that day — I figured this might be an adequate way for me to inch closer to people who actually have cred. For as it stands now, I know that I have none.
My wife has cred, and does not understand this in me. I believe that I am somewhat a master of the subset of cool known as “geek” and a few of it’s subsidiaries, but when it comes to anything that is actually cool — indie music, skating, scrapbooking — I become instantly socially incompetent. This is, I suppose, mostly imagined on my part, but is nonetheless the last bastion of my teenage insecurities that remains.
At least I have a boss-hog Star Trek movie to keep me safe.
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The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 11: Epic Fail
June 5th, 2008 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Let me get this out of the way quickly: WE ARE OLD. We didn’t used to be old. Well, Donovan did, but I sure didn’t. Then suddenly we looked around (and recorded this show) and said the words “youth” and “culture” in tandem aloud, and found ourselves on the other side of the great divide. thankfully we welcome old friends John Henry Muller and Dave Nelson to the show to tell us how we’re doing it wrong. Listen, and if your ears are quick enough, you can actually hear the last vestiges of my youth slipping into the abyss.
Also: Inexplicably, I swear in this show. A Lot. You’ve been warned.
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Nate Voss is a designer, illustrator, talkshow host and design journalist. Working in Omaha since 2001, Nate served four years on the Board of Directors for 
Donovan oversees all creative development at