Jules Muck

Before I met Tardeusz, I was only told he painted. But when I got to his (one extremely large) warehouse, I learnt he also sculpts large metal pieces and he pretty much built his entire house himself, the room, the bathroom, the kitchen, all out of reused materials. One all-rounded polish man he is.

Aaron & Owen Smith

You might remember Owen (bottom photo) from San Francisco, I was privileged to have been introduced to his twin brother Aaron when I visited Los Angeles. Owen illustrates, Aaron paints. Both of them showered me with kindness beyond human abilities, such wonderful gentlemen they are.

Tadeusz

Jules Muck

One thing that I really look forward to when I meet new people (and eventually friends) are their stories, and these guys have the raddest, Derek claimed he was a giant dickhead that bullied everyone when he was younger but when I first met him I thought he was the second nicest guy ever. Went on to doing displays for big stores like Levi's and Diesel, touring with his band and recording for younger bands too. And that's also how he met Lauren (yes, you should have figured it out by now D is for Derek and L is for.... yes), Derek helped record Lauren's band and then all of them started jamming together. Fast forward a couple of years, they decided to start the DL skateboard project, Derek shapes and cuts the board and Lauren paints them. 

You know what you should do now? Go check out their stuff at http://dl-skateboards.myshopify.com/, my personal favorite part of the entire site is the FAQ.