Ride uses children to make snowboards.

686 founder and creative director Michael Akira West has been getting wild lately. Collabs and limited edition runs for dayz. West’s most recent project, “In My Eyes,” has us particularly excited. For Installation 1, West enlisted the help of artist Nathan Sayawa to recreate 686’s Smarty Complete 2.5 Ply jacket with Legos.

Also in the Installation, 686 created their Smarty Admiral womens jacket out of International Code Flags—the flags that are used to signal between ships.

(via hypebeast.com)

agr takes pride in maintaining the highest degree of journalistic excellence, so that you, the goodreeder, receive the most accurate, fair, and thorough stories that matter. We strive to never allow personal biases to influence the news reported. That said, there are somethings that just push our buttons.
Burton x Futura “Forest Camouflage” Series

Holy canoli, another damn collaboration. Everybody is doing collabs, even our toast: it collaborated with some raspberry jelly and came out amazing. But this collection from Burton tastes like putting dish soap on our …

Burton’s 08/09 Idiom line. A collaborative design effort between Staple Design and Fragment Design. Also some hard goodsl. (via highsnobiety.com)

(image via highsnobiety.com)

(image via highsnobiety.com)

And on a sidenote…We couldn’t agree with our boy Prodigy more: blogger’s = street as all getout. Recognize:

“P.S. ANYBODY THAT GOT SOMETHING AGAINST KEEPING A BLOG, YOU SHOULD STAY FARRRRRR AWAY FROM THE FOOL AND NEVER TRUST EM’. A BLOG IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY, JUST LIKE RAP MUSIC ISN’T FOR EVERYBODY. A BLOG IS INTERNET SLANG FOR A LOG AND …

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
-Lao Tzu
Wise words Lao. Unfortunately, claiming “vagabond” as a profession doesn’t sound as cool to everyone as it does to us.
Plus we really miss the hippness of Seattle . As delightful as the snow of the Wasatch was, the scarcity of chai and incomprehensible indie music that no one knows about left us culturally starved. So we’ve returned home, to the city where drinking malt liquor is cool as long as your pants are snug, …

Today is the first day of spring, and that got us thinking about Easter. Easter is sick because you get eggs, and eggs remind us of our favorite movie. In our favorite movie, dinosaurs come from eggs, and then they hatch, and then they get big and eat people. So cool!
In other news…Burton is collaborating with designer Mark Ward on a shirt that has teeth on it. (via Slam X Hype)

(photo via Slam x Hype)
So anyways, think about this: a frog that eats dinosaurs! (via Telegraph …

Awfully quiet around here….
There are is nothing that can excuse our absence this past week…except for this one.
agoodreed is a fairly resilient entity: all we need is some reliable (and free) wireless, a lot of joe, and our thinking caps. But for the past week, agoodreed has been on the road with Galvanic Design on a rail jammin’ tour. We did not anticipate not having constant access to wireless and coffee (cough…Wyoming…cough). And without these two elements, our thinking caps don’t run so well.
agoodreed has had to …

I give up. I cannot figure out the trends in snowboard fashion. I just bought some damn Holden pants, and I had some little kid come make fun of me at the mountain. Indeed his pants were wayyyyy tighter than mine, but its the best I can do given my massive leg muscles. So I just heckled him from the side of the run while he did all manner of spinner-scooter-tapper-slapper maneuvers.
Back to the issue at hand. I thought the denim thing in snowboard pants …

I went digging through my backpack the other day and found all kinds of great things: part of a clif bar (or poop, I can’t tell); missing glove (smells like poop); overdue library book; seashell; and something sticky.
Burton went digging through theirs and decided to do another damn collaboration…

Burton and Japanese accessory designer Head Porter are collaborating on the Burton x Head Porter Excursion technical bags.  The image from Hiroshi Fujiwara looks promising…this could be the pack agoodreed has been waiting for.
(via Slam X Hype by way of Hiroshi Fujiwara…that’s …

Once again, agoodreed is the first to steal shred news.
First off,
agoodreed is soooooo over the whole Burton x some-fashion-designer-that-doesn’t-give-a-damn-about-snowboarding deal. Please, just make some damn snowboard gear that works…
Anyways here is the loot:
“Futura x Burton Vapor Snowboard: Futura’s signature atom/helix design is emblazoned on an upcoming collaboration with one of snowboards finest brands Burton. The multi-colored graphic also features the Burton name scrawled in Futura’s famous font. No word yet on availability.” (via Hypebeast)