Tradeshow Hell – Part 2
February 5, 2010

First day of the show and it feels super good that you can actually smell the fresh cool air outside rather than the recycled oxygen and cigarette smoke in Vegas. The convention center also looks nice. Looks like Mr. Bear thinks something is going on.

Inside, there’s a lot going on.

Welcome

Where’s our booth? Oh, here it is.

We opt for a “closed” style booth as we like to keep our shit under wraps. However I’ll give you a sneak peek. Inside, we do a full merchandising section so stockists can quickly and easily see the story we’re promoting. In the back, we have 8 individual selling stations which are packed to the rim.

Harrison, our Dirty South homie, has been hustling it all day. He’s triple booked here and showing three stockists deep. If you want to check out Harrison's blog and see him hate, click here.

Just a little something something to come

The cool thing about shows is that you run into tons of heads. Frank 151 honcho Stephen and photog master, Craig, stopped by to show me the new Middle East issue (and to give me some passes for their gig with RZA, I’m not gonna get drunk and pass out like last time, aight???)

Meet Goose. He’s our ex 686 mad scientist who now works at Columbia probably causing too much trouble, but we still love him.

We had a good vibe going on in our area of the show. The C3 family (Capita, Coal, Union) as well as Holden were right next to us. Congrats to Capita for their 10 years in biz!

I like the 10 year time line

Union bindings are on point. Martino, George and family got it going on. Designed/developed in Italy and tested worldwide just for you.

What show wouldn’t be complete without getting stupid at night? Since I’m kinda beat, I’m gonna go mellow and just say what's up to some homies. Frank’s gig was dope, check out the view from the top.

RZA and friends tore it up.

Nike also did an installation with Space Junk, talking about junk….

…please don’t ever let me do this again. I’m going to bed.