Comments on: Head Cleaner

By: JMH&%)

JMH&%) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:27:39 +0000

I think it’s a fine time to stir in a new east coast company with some energy and flavor. 5boro with it’s bland city vignette formula seems tired and dated. Zoo who? Zoo hasn’t been relavent in a long, long time. Forget all the biting. How about giving proper nods to better times and leaving both companies be. Certainly Palace can bit off a golden age. The politic lads, however, are closer to my home and right now, worth the support over the other alternatives. Let everyone be young and develop as they will.

By: A.o.

A.o. — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:52:46 +0000

I think its funny brcause skateboarding has a history of ripping off each others aesthetics and i find it peculiar that no one says anything when bigger companies do this but for whatever reason this is a problem. Is it because theyre two “cool guy” companies?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:07:02 +0000

yeah, i’d leave polar out of it. too whimsical and not “cool” enough.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:58:59 +0000

Initially it didn’t occur to me that Politic could be a chameleon brand that blatantly ripped from other companies in the way early 90s world/blind did. That is an astute observation indeed. Still to early to tell at this point, but it could be possible and that would actually be pretty cool, but the triangle with the owl isn’t blatant enough to merit a cease and desist, know what I mean?

Also, Palace and Polar are both sick small companies from europe but I feel like thats about the extent of their similarities. Palace is continuously referencing skateboarding’s past and present, with a heavy emphasis on image, and formulating an identity out of this. Polar’s identity seems a lot more introverted, like a simple extension of how Pontus Alv relates to his environment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:38:14 +0000

reminiscent of the popwar vs. yellow brand art-department beef

By: J-wU

J-wU — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:50:36 +0000

The whole look and aesthetic of the poitic logo and the launch clip was unfortunately to close to the bone and seems like a poor rip off. A shame considering the skaters behind “politic”. Suprised there was no mention of the “Polar” company in the post above which although not wholly similar to “Palace” they did have a joint Swedish tour recently and seem to be a fairly close meeting of minds for all things skateboarding. Personally I think there is a time and place for blatent rip offs especially when they come off as a homage, but politic dosn’t come off this way and as stated in the blog above given the genre of the skateboarding the seemingly lack of creativity is suprising.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:05:28 +0000

triangles are lame anyways…circles have pi

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:57:12 +0000

Everyone bites a little. The skating from both these teams is on point, just leave it at that.

By: Random Matt

Random Matt — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:00:31 +0000

This was a very cromulent post.