Rock and Roll Tuesday started back in early June and I’m surprised so many weeks went by without one song from the Ramones. Here are a couple live tunes, that sound a bit rough, performed a long long time ago to keep you moving through the week.
Yeah buddy, keep on rockin!
Here are a few recent visual ramblings in my effort to fill this book in 365 days or less. Some simple (or advanced, in my case) math tells me I started this endeavor roughly 35 days ago, and I just filled my 33rd page. I guess I missed a couple days, but I have been traveling a lot recently, so that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Not much you can do about it, anyway.
“Franz Kline Can Suck It”
“The Easiest Way to Make It”
“What Happens When the Rainbow Ends in the Middle East”
“Hold Up!”
1994. Here’s a sample from the Standard/Mack Dawg joint project Coming Down The Mountain. Tom Burt opens this clip with a bunch of steep, narrow lines–gotta respect his place in snowboard history. Then Terje drops a part arguably from the height of his riding career–the days when he dominated the pipe AND rode rails and road gaps.
As a Canadian, i didn’t know/ate some Chipotle before, we don’t have it. I fell on that South Park episode where they talk about Chipotle and they say that if you eat Chipotle you’ll end up with blood stains in your underwear. Well, watch this clip, put it at 3:49mins…
I learned after watching that episode that there was a Chipotle in Silverthorne. It made the episode even more funny, I was pretty stoked. Silvia and me made it there.
i didn’t find any blood stain in my underwear. Cartman is right, Chipotle is pretty good.
Will Lavigne
I returned from my latest trip to Austria and the board factory last night, and was greeted by some awesome mail from this past week.
First up was a little gift from Seth Neefus’s new project, the Free Life Center. A few months ago, he sent out a link asking for people to help them raise funding for this new project – a traveling art, music and sculpture instalation. I threw them some cash, and i got this nice care package from them – a nice 3 color screen print from his partner Mark Warren Jacques, a cool little zine about both artists and their project, and a small little pencil sketch from Seth.
Next up was some goods from this year’s Notch and Notch 1985 artist Niall McClelland. He started up SEER Editions not to long ago as an outlet to publish works in a non flashy, newsprint/zine style. These are some shots from the first few. The work in here is pretty beautiful, and works really well in this medium. Get your hands on them if you can – it’s well worth it.
Snow has melted a little bit so we’re able to skate skate again. That’s pretty cool, I snowboard in the morning and skateboard later after. Here’s a few tricks
Skate edit from Will Lavigne on Vimeo.
Will Lavigne
Hey Paul here – one of the guys who started Rome and, among other things, the person who designs our snowboards. I’m going to chime in on the blog from time to time with the intent of shedding a little light on some of the design and development stuff that we do here but might not be covered in a lot of detail in the catalog or on the website.
So to start off I wanted to write a little bit about the Pusher. The Pusher might best be understood by thinking of it is as the fun loving offspring of a ménage à trios involving a Mod, an Agent and, for a little extra spice, a Postermania.
The Mod’s shape influence on the Pusher is the most immediately recognizable characteristic you’ll notice when you first pick up the board. The nose and tail are a modernization of a shape I designed back in the day with one of snowboarding’s great talents. While this type of board shape is a personal favorite both aesthetically and admittedly a bit nostalgically, they are definitely more of a challenge to “shape” and get perfect on the computer than the more traditional radial nose and tail shapes. It takes a bit of time and massaging to get it just right but with this board being a true twin, once I get the nose dialed the tail is already done – and when it is executed right – it just feels good to look down and see this board under your feet.
The guts of the Pusher are where the Agent influence comes in and are the primary drivers of the price point that the Pusher falls:
The Superpop core matrix with it’s alternating laminates of select Poplar and Paulownia woods give the board a great blend of pop, lightness and dampening. This along with our StraightTriax 30 Carbon laminate make for one of the best freestyle oriented constructions out there.
Our Impact Plates and Impact Edges add a ton of strength where you need it – the Impact Plates resist all the compressed landings and all the (i.e. not Rome’s) sharp edged bindings you can throw at it while the extra thick profile of the Impact Edges stand up to far more box and rail abuse than normal profile edges.
The last characteristic borrowed from another board in the line is the Reverse-Free camber profile that the Pusher shares with the Postermania series. The Reverse-Free camber line consists of a mellow reverse camber profile through the middle of the board to just outside the binding mount area and straight camber profile from there to the end of the running length of the board. The reverse camber center section of the board allows for a playful, loose freestyle feeling while the straight camber sections provide for positive edge pressure and control throughout your turn as well as a solid platform for ollieing and of course just all around positive and fun tail pop. The addition of the Carbon-V stringers in the tip and tail work with the straight camber to enhance this control and ollie boost.
The combination of the geometry and technologies really make a difference you can feel and appreciate over a full season of hard riding. While you can certainly spend less (and more) for a snowboard, in my experience the materials we are able to spec at this price point result in one of the best balances of performance and value for the versatile true twin freestyle board that the Pusher is.
So that’s a little background, and a bit of editorial, on the Pusher … or rather the “Mogentia” as I am starting a petition to re-name it. Damn catchy right?
Stop by your local shop this weekend, ask to check out a Pusher, get one under your feet and let us know what you think.
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p.s. I’ve got plenty to blog about that you may or may not find interesting so would be stoked to know what you are interested in so if you do have any questions or tech topics you want to hear more about, leave a comment below or email us. Put “Blog topic for Paul” or something equally clever in the subject line and we’ll get back to you on it one way or another.
Slayer is not down with biters or listening to Techno; especially on Tuesday, a day that Rome and the real Stowe locals have dedicated to Rock and Roll … Slayer is down with Rome and Rome is down with Slayer. Never have have I been more happy to bring you RRT than today. Here are two great live performances from the Download Festival back in 05.
This is quite possibly the best RRT ever.
SLAYER FOR LIFE!!
Here’s another quick (and possibly the last) board graphic tease for you guys from the 2011 collection. This time, I’m showcasing a variety of base type. Enjoy!
