Skateboarding is incredibly creative and that can be very helpful in your life no matter where life takes you. In 2011 I launched a short-lived series called “Cre-8 or Die” on the ABF Skate Shop Facebook page with the goal of showcasing old ABF customer businesses and proving that skateboarding is incredibly creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial. I’m going to revive and expand on that series here on my website now in 2016. If you’re a skateboarder doing something creative (started your own business, musician, craftsman, artist, etc.), and you think skateboarding helped you achieve that innovative, creative, entrepreneurial spirit, please contact me and I will write about you here in the New Cre-8 or Die Series!
I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know and skate with Dan Paone recently, but his history with ABF Skate Shop runs much deeper than that. If you shopped ABF in 1990 or 1991, Dan may have helped you. Dan worked at ABF then and even drew up some of our sticker […]
One of my favorite things about returning to skateboarding as an adult has been getting to know all the amazing people doing it. Skateboarders, in my experience, are more creative, artistic, and entrepreneurial than the average person, and I’ve found Mark Sisom to be especially so. Not only has Mark been riding […]
It’s always exciting when a new family moves in on your block. But a couple years ago, I got the added bonus of a skateboarder moving in! Husband and father David Farrell lives right across the street from me, so we get to skateboard together just about whenever we want. While our […]
Back in the late 80s when Todd Laffler wasn’t riding his board he was taking amazing skate pictures & publishing his Skateboarding Zines Fish Eye & Zoom Lens. Todd turned his passion for photography into a successful career as owner of Laffler Photography. Todd credit’s his Mom with first teaching him how […]
Cre-8 or Die 3 back in 2011 was about my old friend Corey Pierce and the success he was experiencing drumming for his metal band God Forbid! Updating this for 2016, Corey and the band have gone their separate ways. Now Corey says he is “producing and booking NJ local and underground […]
Before starting new Cre-8 or Die posts, allow me to retell the four 2011 stories. Our first Cre-8 or Die post was about former Team ABF rider Ian Halliday and his friend Melody’s nationally renown Coffee Slingers Roasters in Oklahoma. Now time marches on and Ian is no longer involved with Coffee […]