New York City Part 1

Yesterday My friend Brittany and myself took a trip to NYC for the day to just kinda get away from home for a while. This was her first time going, and probably about my 800th or something close to that. but pretty much over the past 2 -3 years. new york city and brooklyn have become a second home to me. After a little under 4 hour ride we arrived in Chinatown and hopped onto the canal street subway. getting off at Union Sq. stopped and had a small breakfast which consisted of coffee, apple fritter and cupcakes. (yeah i know right?) Walking around the Union sq. area and then heading up to fashion ave. until we made our way to Times sq.

now i have a little problem with times sq. Its the #1 spot in the WORLD for advertising. millions of dollars go into adverts there. why not let the little guys advertise there for free. we dont even need a big billboard.
During a previous trip i slapped a few stickers (roughly 200)up around times sq. and went back just about 2 weeks later and ALL my stickers where taken down. I mean. i dont care. your the one wasting your money paying someone to take them down. when they only cost me pennies to make and its not like im going to stop. so give up. leave my stickers.

Anyways. after time sq. we voyaged down to battery park and the WTC site. and continued over to my favorite little place to eat in Brooklyn. enjoyed some awesome thai food and called it a day. headed back down to chinatown and caught our bus home.

pictures will be in the next post.


-Kris

Free Idea in support of Haiti crisis

There are tragic events that happen that bring people out to help. the recent crisis in haiti is one of them. I have noticed ALOT of brands and bands doing a donation where as "buy a cd and 25% of it will go to haiti". and i think thats great. but its not enough. yeah you put your own money into making that cd and recording time. but making that should be about the experience. so seeing a percent. people will look at it and go "ok since im buying this im helping." and that is fantastic.

As of January 15th until February 1st ALL money from sales from Free Idea will be donated to help the crisis in Haiti. and when i mean ALL i really mean ALL. if you buy a shirt for 10$, then 2$ of it will be used to ship it to you. and the other 8$ will be donated to the Haiti crisis. if you spend 50$ shipping will be taken out (say 5$ for shipping) then 45$ will be donated to Haiti.
on February 1st.
if your reading this and going. "but this is just our money being donated, that free idea would have gotten, so what are you really losing besides sales profit?"
well one thing about running a clothing line, is you get ALOT of everything, so on my side. i am sending 100 plain white t shirts to haiti.

if you want to join in. the link to the online store is on the right.

there is no reason to order offline, get off your ass and go to the store.

A bunch of words for a title for this post, but its true. I hate change, especially when it affects places around you. I hate the fact that you can order movies offline and have them in your mailbox almost the next day. what ever happen to going to video stores? and not ones like blockbuster, im talking about those mom and pop video shops where they don't have 40 copies of a new release. But a treasure chest of classics. in this day in age there is very rarely a mom and pop owned video store. where you can still go and rent VHS tapes. where you get a 5 day rental for 3$. I remember when i was younger and my mom or one of my many brothers and sisters would take me to the video store on Friday nights and we would rent movies, as well as super nintendo video games. and these places always had a gumball machine where you could get a gumball that would win you a free rental. these places dont exist anymore.
Everyone is so into ordering offline that it makes it hard for shops in there community to survive. This might sound weird coming from someone who's brands success is owed to the internet. but if people would still order off of mail in catalogs. i would be doing that instead. Maybe im just to into the golden age of the 90's i dunno.


support your local video stores.

WANT EXTRA STUFF?

been trying to clear out what is currently sitting around for a little bit now. there is always just random sizes of old out of print designs hanging around in the bottom of the box.

so this is what's going to happen. If you order 1 shirt off of the online store. you will receive another shirt placed into your package for free.
if you pick up a Cardigan (there is currently 3 left) you will receive 2 tees for free.
so move quick.
and there is a 3/4 chance that the free shirt given in your package is NOT listed on the online store.

you can order off of the online store

www.freeidea.bigcartel.com

there is FREE SHIPPING on all orders that are 10$ or more.

FREE IDEA FACEBOOK CONTEST WINNERS

Last week i held a contest on the Free Idea facebook group to reach the group count to 1500 people. needless to say... it worked awesome. I wrote all the names down for everyone who loved out of state, and in state and separated them between those 2 options. I picked 3 names out of the "out of state" bag and those winners will receive free gear.

the following names are the first name andinitial of last name of the winners. followed by the state they are from.
if you are one of these winners. please send a email to freeideaclothing@hotmail.com with the following information.



NAME
SHIPPING INFO
SHIRT SIZE

WINNERS ARE

1: KATELYN R: -West Virginia
2: ALAND T : - California
3: Bonnie M: - Missouri



WINNERS FOR PHOTOSHOOT WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW!
stay tuned

-Kris

True to your Roots Part 2: Skateboarding

I started skateboarding in the turn of of the year 1999 to 2000. its crazy looking back and seeing that it has been 10 years so far. I was 11 years old at the time, and one of my best friends growing up got a skateboard for christmas and started skating so i wanted one to. So my mom brought me to walmart and i got a NASH skateboard, cheap to standards but i really didnt care i just wanted to skate. after that day, skateboarding consumed my life. bringing me to points where i would skip school to skate. At this time there was no skatepark in Fitchburg, and i never had money to take the MART bus to leominster to skate there. So street skating is where everything for me evolved. 1st street, the Boutelle Factory, Court House Ledges,FSB, Fay Set, and Tucci's halfpipe. where all spots where i would be on a daily basis. Before the skatepark was built. After that, the park became a second home and only night sessions went down for street skating.
over the years i have seen so many vids, to many to post. but here is one that is always in my top watched. and ALWAYS gets me pumped for skating.

Chad Muska: fulfill the Dream (the deck that Muska is carrying in the opening is my favorite deck graphic of all time!)
Chad Muska is also one of my favorite skaters of all time and he completely embodies an era in his style of skating and person.