is that an o.g. eli gesner zy tag?
OG, but from 2020. We kept in touch after I spoke to him for Slam, and after me going on about how much I love that logo, he drew one up and sent it over. The thing on the right is from Eli too, it’s some choice words from the interview in his handstyle.
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No one has done graf on skateboard graphics as well as Eli. Absolutely nailed it. Stoked on that for you, well jel!
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Never really thought about it but yeah, it’s probably the most aesthetic graff logo produced. Almost graphically designed.
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I immediately wanted to disagree when I read this but I’m having trouble trying to prove you wrong
Got to give props to Andy Howell for his style though
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Totally see your angle. Howell was too cartoonish for me after my taste evolved but I must’ve redrawn his characters on my schoolbooks and in art a hundred times
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Think had a good tag logo too, and i want to say Mad Circle had one.
but that zoo one is pretty much the best.
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a very inspiring interview
really fucking good
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Amazing!!!
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A bit of early Zoo York sticker nerdiness from the collection if anyone’s interested.
The OG Shut Zoo York graphic
The early Zoo logo
Classic tag logos
Another of the early logos
Empire Wheels. The short lived Zoo wheel company
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Very nice! 
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$500,000+ for the 900 board? Nah m8
I wonder if he has a J Lee dodo skull
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I’d pay that if Tas Pappas signed it “flip your fucking board Hawk”
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Also if I had mad P and wasn’t poor as fuck
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Great. A sad, nerdy and awkward tech bro somewhere now owns an old skateboard with yellowing wheels
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This is so stupid. What’s the guy gonna do with it?
I’d like to see that board, or the board Chad Caruso skated across America on for example, in a museum, just to see what kinda setup those guys do that shit on. Be able to analyse it. Check the state of the wheels, see that Tony does not use risers, shit like that. It should be part of the culture, something thousands of skate rats could enjoy seeing for real, not something that rots in a rich weirdo’s hallway.
Typing this just reminded me of Jim Greco having his own Jim Greco museum at home:
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As one of those rich weirdos who collects this stuff I have a different take on it 
It would be nice if museums bought this stuff, but they don’t. Museums don’t have subject experts on skateboarding and there isn’t enough money in the skateboarding collector world to schmooze the curators and get skateboards added to museum collections.
The art and antiques world is always looking to place pieces in notable museum collections. Museums pay big, and they infer status and authority on the items they display. You can raise the value of an entire body of work with one canny sale to the right museum. The art world is always trying to do this. They spend fortunes doing it.
In the future it might apply to skateboarding, but the cultural value of skateboard artifacts has to rise, and if that happens then so does the price.
Almost a million for the deck Tony did the 900 on? Given past sales prices that makes it the single most important skateboarding cultural artifact on the planet. By some margin. Do you agree with that? I don’t. Chris Rice (@destroyedwood on insta) has some amazing decks that seem more ‘important’ to me, this Natas deck blows my mind:
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