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Eric Meyer

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secret agent, race car driver, designer, thinker, skateboarder, bike mechanic. Vision Street Wear, Simple Shoes, Medium
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End of Summer Experiences, Part 1, Morro Bay Camping and Kayaking with Mike Folmer @shopskaterdaterdude Photographs are creative outlet for me, and I enjoy capturing my memories and the things that catch my eye and that I experience. I post very little of what I shoot. The basic rule is if I’m posting a lot I’m not very busy if I’m posting very little or next to nothing I’m super busy and probably taking tons of photos that few will ever see but me. In the last couple months, I’ve probably been to more events, celebrations, art shows, etc… than in a long time, so I’m just now getting to review some of these pics. It’s now time unleash my barrage of beautiful, wacky, cluttered, messy, artsy, boring, weird, sexy, simple, creative, interesting, relevant, irrelevant, and irreverent pictures to entertain myself…. I hope some of them entertain you as well.. This first post is from a fun trip that I took with my friend of over 40 years now, Mike Folmer. A fellow @skateboardinghalloffame inductee, seller of vintage goods, and fishing enthusiast as well as a great cook, and an all-around good friend.. We camped at the Morro Bay campgrounds, explored the general area, paddled and peddled, and ate fish that Mike caught for dinner every night, connnected with old friends, and made new ones along the way.. This first group of slides is our path from Costa mesa tomorrow Bay, with a quick stop to Skate Ventura, experience some farm animals, and make our way to our final destination… End of Summer Experiences, Part 1, Morro Bay Camping and Kayaking with Mike Folmer @shopskaterdaterdude Setting up and settling in at campsite, then taking a little cruise up the coast to Cayucos to explore places we could launch our kayaks… End of Summer Experiences, Part 1, Morro Bay Camping and Kayaking with Mike Folmer @shopskaterdaterdude We met up with Eric Meyer @ideafarm founder of Simple Shoes, OG @visionstreetwear designer, and Jack Smith @jack_smith_morro_bay founder of the Morro Bay Skate Museum and long time skater and friend. Always stoked catching up with these guys. They’ve done a lot more for Skateboarding than most of you will ever know… I’m very stoked to call
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Don’t forget this Friday is the @wolfsburgwest Meet & Greet kicking off the Solvang Vintage VW Weekend. See you there! ▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️ #Kuhltek @wolfsburgwest @flat4_official 🏁 @rancho_mike @westcoastmetric @capovw @hotvws @empi_inc @oc_transporter_organization @jbugs_california_pacific 🏁 @bencoracing @bostwickbuilt @nitrousoval @roth_vintage @bugnbox @vtobus @vwtoajp @picyourcase @therustyvw @aa_performance_products @carcraftstore @speedwell_usa @oldschoolbobkoch @gowestycampers @redartbox @niels_airmighty @derkleinerkampfwagens @santiago_aircooledvw_shop @king_vw61 @48special_racing @a_1performance @vdubs_upholstery @nos_vw @centraljerseyvolkswagensociety ▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️ #vwrevival #silveradoVWcampout #bugin #VWtreffen
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Such an honor to be a part of this family called Vision Street Wear this past Friday night art show @hvw8gallery called Finding Vision @visionstreetwear It was a full circle moment for all of us! Such a family reunion. I loved seeing everyone’s archives of things they held deer to their core. 450 pieces to explore, talk about, and remember or try to remember…. All the friendships that intertwined. Friendships I still hold so close to my heart. The creative need we all fought for and stood for unapologetically is an understatement and together we “all” created this thing called Vision Street Wear. A lifestyle we stood for through skateboarding, music, shoes & clothing a.k.a. alternative as it’s called now…Then it was just who we were and to have found my people I will be forever grateful. Thank you, @lucero_rip for getting me the job and for Lucky what a life we’ve woven and still continue to glide through seamlessly forever a family in our own way. (John Lucero Skateboarder! Amazing Artist, Best dad!) Thank you, @ideafarm for connecting the dots with Danny that brought me to the show and for always believing in me. (Eric Myers Design Director) Thank you, @martyjimenez for always helping me through the years with my art ideas making sure I’m included and all your hard work you’ve put into this show. (Marty JinX Skateboarder! Graphic Artist) My GIRL POWER friendships @kameronlennoxcostumes @roseapodaca I couldn’t imagine doing this life without you! Thank you for always being game to play Super Models! For ads, catalogs & trade-shows 🖤 and life as we know it meow! xx And for the new friendships @dano_zhang , Sena & crew. Brad, it wasn’t always easy but what we all learned from this experience is priceless. Thank you❤️🤍🖤 xx 📸 @kevinwilkesphoto
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#FunTimes last Friday night at the opening of #FINDINGVISION that took place all weekend @Hvw8Gallery to celebrate 50 years of VISION @VisionStreetWear LOTS OF GREAT POST THIS WEELKEND. If you missed it maybe you can catch the results online or see it in Japan or China in the coming months @MartyJiminez is known to the average skater as a Vision Pro but he worked in the Vison Art Department when not traveling as a pro skater he brought the current streets perspective back to the art department This gave him a great perspective to curate this show with old add boards and skateboard decks and interesting art artifacts. I understand that @Don_Brown @TheSkateboardMuseum helped along the way with the @Boardr promoting the event It was nice to see #BradDorfman have the chance to celebrate his life’s work. I meet Bart @SurfExpo in the early 80’s Vision distributed my rails in the early 80s and I moved to California in Jan 1985 with @Chuck_Hults & @Grigley to join Vision. Vision had a great distribution system around the world and the resources to support me to roll forward Through the 80s and I’m grateful for that. It was great to see everyone there to celebrate our #SkateboardHistory and how far a wooden tail skid can go #Spaceplate ProfessorSchmitt PaulSchmitt
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The @visionstreetwear Finding Vision retrospective was phenomenal! First to @dano_zhang and his team and those who worked on this; @donbrown @ideafarm @martyjimenez (who I missed seeing) @grayslide and oh so many that made it happen just like we did back in the day. Lots of great people and memories. It was also so fun to talk shop with Brad Dorfman it’s been a while that the Brad’s of Vision had a chance to do that. @bradley_fanshaw . #visionstreetwear #skateboarding #streetwear
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Family reunions are a Labor Day weekend given, so why not for a tribe that came together, in no small part, due to the Vision of a 29 year old, before we personally knew him or one another? Brad Dorfan started Vision in 1976—first with skate decks; then, a decade later, with some of the most covetable street wear, events and pro roster. The octogenarian was on hand at last night’s opening (slide 3 w/ Paul Schmitt) @HVW8gallery in LA, along with dozens of the era’s legendary skaters; influential creatives who got their start at this incubator of sorts; and many more who never worked there—including yours truly, who was eyeball deep in this eclectic, maverick clan during the late 1980s. Hundreds funneled throughout two gallery rooms, squeezing by familiar faces on the walls and IRL. They hailed from San Francisco and Florida. Thankfully, we could also party in the parking lot behind the gallery. Vision’s impact on the culture-at-large included the INXS album cover with the Psycho Stick graphic (10). The cartoon man with the swirly specs was in-house graphic artist Gregory Bevington (17, w/ @chuck_hults). As for the tattoo in the next pic? Belongs to some young whipper snapper. It’s that iconic. One phenom whose bearing was everywhere was that of John @Grigley. Stuck in his adopted NYC shooting an Apple+ series that has nothing to do with skateboarding, some of us tortured him thru the event texting clips and pics (4 is one ie). All in mad love for you Old Ghost. (Another MIA, @cindyjimenez, other half of co-organizer @martyjimenez, aka Jinx (19). We missed you lady!) About 450 archival pieces are featured in this too-brief 3-day show, painstakingly curated by Marty @don_brown @ideafarm dano_zhang. Bravo. One rare gem: a catalog page with a wee photo of me, wielding a spray paint can, clad in streetwear by my longtime pal and then-head designer at the brand @Mantrap_by_hml (she of the leopard hat). You’ll have to see the next post for that… SHOW ENDS TMRO: Sunday, ya. Lame. Then it’s off in a much grander iteration plus a documentary, to Shanghai and Tokyo. 📸 1 @kevinwilkesphoto; 6,9,11,16 @monicaorozcophotography; rest, me. #lavieenrose
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Back for part 2 on my design time at Vision Street Wear. This week is all about the women’s line I started. I remember going to trade shows back in the day and wandering the halls filled with the same small bikinis and beach coverups and wondering why is there no cool options for the skater girl friend? I knew we had to fix that gap in the market, and to this day I still find myself designing for that little alternative girl lost in a sea of uniformity. Starting this line was one of the most rewarding things I’d done in my career at that point and I’m incredibly thankful to my whole Vision Street Wear family for the support❤️ Come back next week cause I’m finally gonna talk about Skate Escape🤘🏻
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Been going on adventures with my friend Paul Dunn since the 1970s. Paul, Eric Meyer and myself first skated Naciemento-Ferguson Road back in the late 1970s or early 1980s on Sims longboards and 70mm Kryptonics. This time the gear was quite a bit different. More photos and videos soon.
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Vision Street Wear Vintage Ad. Grigley x Park x Jinx x Gator 📸 @ideafarm #visionstreetwear #oldschoolskateboarding #lisbonshredders #lisbonshreddersskateculture #skateboardingisnotacrime
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Here’s what you need to know for the VW Treffen this Sunday. . Yes we still have Car Show Entries available. We pre-registered just over 130 cars so we have over 60 entries still available. These will be sold at the gate for $75 cash Sunday morning, first come first serve. . The gate will open at 7am to all Car Show Participants, Swap Meet and Spectators. If you arrive before 7am, please drive all the way to the end of Blue Diamond Haul road, turn around and get in line. Please to not block the entry gate as we need to get our Crew and Vendors in before 7am. Please follow the direction of my staff out on the road. . If you are pre-registered or purchased a ticket online, please have your QR code out and ready to be scanned. If you need to purchase a ticket at the gate, all sales will be cash only. . $15 Spectator Entry $45 Swap Meet Entry (trailer +$45) $75 Car Show Entry . Once inside the park, follow the directional signs so you know where to go. We will have crew along the road directing traffic inside. No trailers allowed in the Car Show area at anytime. Drive to the far end of the spectator parking lot to unload and park your truck and trailer. All show vehicles need to be driven inside the show area. . If you have any questions at all, email me directly at andy@bugin.com . Hope to see you all this weekend! Thank you! ▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️ #Kuhltek @wolfsburgwest @rancho_mike @westcoastmetric @capovw @hotvws @empi_inc @flat4_official @pat_downs_performance @bill_and_steves @deutschland_metal_and_body @nitrousoval @roth_vintage @bugnbox @vtobus @oc_transporter_organization @vwtoajp @picyourcase @aa_performance_products @carcraftstore @speedwell_usa @oldschoolbobkoch @gowestycampers @niels_airmighty @derkleinerkampfwagens @king_vw61 @dierostigen_wagens @a_1performance ▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️ #vwrevival #socalvwweek #socalvwtreffen #vwtreffen #bugin #socalbugin #vwdragday #dragday #silveradovwshow #aircooledvw #socalvw #vintagevw #vwcarshow #vwswapmeet #vwdragracing #vwracing #triplecrownseries #vwtriplecrown #vwbug #vwbus #vwbeetle #ovalsonly #speedwell #vwtype3 #westfalia #westcoastbays #vwlife
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The board is in! It’s a 5’8” thruster, shaped by @promersurfboards and hand-painted by Gemi @urbandesertstudio. This board was on stage with The Beach Boys at Vina Robles last summer! Check out her site for the video. It’s a 5’8” thruster glassed by @clearwaterglassing . Personally, this would be on my wall. It’s gorgeous! Thank you Gemi for so graciously donating the board and two gift bags of merch! Also, shout out to Eric Meyer @ideafarm for donating two killer Tom Adler books. “Surf Life 32-02,” and “1936-1942 San Onofre to Point Dume.” I took a peek at these and the photos are stunning. Thanks Eric! The raffle to support the Morro Bay High School surf team @morrobaysurfteam will follow the premiere of Salty and the 1987 surf classic, North Shore at the Bay Theatre @bay.theatre 9/21. Doors open at 3:30. Show starts at 4pm. See you there! #salty #saltythemovie #saltytheshort #surf #surfcomedy #independentfilm #slofilmfest #surfmovie #independentfilm #indiefilm #independentfilmmaking #morrobay #centralcoast #effvanlife #vanlife #wavelengths #morrobay #cayucos #lososos #centralcoast #805
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Meet Jack Smith @jack_smith_morro_bay . This legend was one of our production assistants on the set of Salty. Jack made sure crafty was setup and kept us all fat and happy. For those that don’t know Jack, he and a couple buddies skated across the country in 1976. Did he stop there? Shit no. He’s done it 5 times and he’s about to cross again on an electric bike. Check him out @chasing_george_wyman . Jack’s also a writer and director and can be seen around town in his classic VW giving free rides. Thanks Jack for all your help and good luck on your journey! The Salty premiere is Sunday 9/21 at the Bay Theater. Doors open at 3:30. Fundraising raffle for the Morro Bay High School Surf Team to follow. Great prizes such as a custom surfboard and much more! #salty #saltythemovie #saltytheshort #surf #surfcomedy #independentfilm #slofilmfest #surfmovie #independentfilm #indiefilm #independentfilmmaking #morrobay #centralcoast #effvanlife #vanlife #wavelengths #morrobay #cayucos #lososos #centralcoast #805 #skateboard #jacksmith
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