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Next time your in Dana Point

February 12th, 2010 by Mike Quilliam

Next time your taking a peaceful drive down the PCH and you happen to stumble upon the dreamy little town of Dana Point take some time out of your day to make your way into Infinity Surfboards which is located right at the tip of DP on PCH. Not only will you find yourself in a maze of some of the best surfboards this side of the Mississip but on your way in you can’t help but notice the 6 foot Not so Happy Panda Bears in the front window. This was done by the legendary Ladies man, The Angry Woebot who is a great friend to Atwater and will now be scaring the great folks of Dana Point for the next few months but don’t worry he just looks scary. Feel free to go on inside Infinity and ask for the Brown Blurr and have him take your picture in front of the window and I’ll throw you up on this here blog for millions to see!

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Slightly Stoopid at the Sundance Film Festival

February 11th, 2010 by Mike Quilliam

So last week after Slightly Stoopid performed in front of 3 million viewers on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show they jetted off to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah to perform at an event going down during the show.

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Are fixed gear bikes still cool?? Jason Hassan explains:

February 10th, 2010 by Mike Quilliam

So I was wondering if the fixed gear bikes were still as popular as they were about a year ago when everyone from the Brown Blurr, to J to the IzzO were ridding those bad boys from here to there and back again. I was thinking about this at this past ASR tradeshow and figured that I might just as well ask someone who eats and bleeds fixed gear bikes so I went on a search for Jason Hassan. I found Jason or Fixxy Hassan as he likes to be called on the streets just straight up cruising up and down the isles of ASR on one of his custom jobs he had built specifically for his type of aggressive fix gear attack on the hills and back alleys of Costa Mesa. I didn’t get my camera out in time but at one point Fixxy Hassan here was actually riding his bike (or as he has referred to it many times as his reason for living) like a surf board up and down the isles kinda like you would assume some crazy guy up on the venice boardwalk would do it but either way it was a real treat.

When I asked Fixxy what his motivation behind progressive fixed gear biking was he said that he is just doing what he loves. Getting gnar is just an added bonus. I asked if he had any plans to take fixed gear bikes to any new heights and he just looked at me and mouthed two words that will haunt me till the day I die, “Mega Ramp”.

Via Con Dios Fixxy

An illustration of what Fixxy Hassan would look like if you could see him surfing his bike

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ASR Feb 2010

February 5th, 2010 by Mike Quilliam

So another ASR trade show in the can. This one was a great one for us at Atwater, we had our booth at the Class trade show upstairs and on the main floor at ASR. Now throw into the mix a flippin Barbershop smack dab to the right of the entrance past the make up counter and across from the Bum camp. I will be posting up some pictures dedicated to just that little diddy in just a bit so keep on coming back and checking.

The Man The Mystery The Legend Mr Paul Tyson Brown showed up in full effect. He was going to do some live painting at the booth but we couldn’t find a big enough tent for PTB to work in so he said no

RVCA had a cool Leo Romero display going on outside Class

Paul Tyson Browns pieces displayed all around the entrance to Class

Paul Tyson Browns pieces displayed all around the entrance to Class

Jeremy Parker even brought one in for us to use at the last minute.

Tommii Lim’s pieces at the Class Trade show

Tommii Lim’s pieces at the Class Trade show

Tommii Lim’s pieces at the Class Trade show

Mr Bradley

The Atwater Booth at Class

Snuck right up behind this guy while he was on the computer. Nice shirt my man!!

Tommii Lim also did live art at our lounge on the ASR floor

Aaron Martin aka Angry Woebot also did some live art during the 2 day festival of lights

Greg Osthus talking to Bobby and Mike of Jacks

MarcB and the ladies

Evelyn at the Element booth

Jason Hassan, I got some great shots of this guy riding his fixed gear

Jeff Osthus talking some theory at the show

Sun Diego was in the house at the ASR show

Jim and John Gray just cruising the show

Pinky and his friend at the Atwater booth

The infamous other Odbert

Dylan, Nick Skawinski and Dustin Odbert at their booth after a long day at the show