Welcome Back, Shane

Mar, 14 2012

We’re proud to announce Shane Rossi is back in the warehouse doing sales again. For all the shops east of the Mississippi, he’s the man who will be primarily taking care of all of your ordering needs now.

Hamilton Action

Mar, 13 2012

Steven sent some pics and an edit through; check them out below.

Skapegoat 6

Mar, 12 2012

Skapegoat 6 is being released today, and it’s only available on DVD, exclusively through Empire.  For more info, check out a little writeup on the Dig site HERE, and a photo gallery featuring Jared, Ratman, Garret, Oba, and Max HERE.

JEFF

Mar, 12 2012

Jeff just got Macneil and he made this edit for them with some clips he had left over from last year.

WHIPS: OBA STANLEY

Mar, 12 2012

Tom/ Belcher/ Cali

Mar, 12 2012

A couple of pics from Tom and Dave’s trip out to Cali the other week.

MADE IN THE USA COLLECTION

Mar, 09 2012

So after a lot of anticipation over here at Animal we are proud to finally release a small Made in The USA collection. You can check out a couple of photos Edwin shot over at Defgrip, and some more detailed images in our webstore.

Made in USA is something you don’t see too often anymore especially in apparel. A tough economy has made most people choose a cheaper overseas production rate over national pride while letting craft and skillful blue collar work in America slowly fade away. When Animal first started all of our parts (although a small range of sprockets, pegs, and stems) were made domestically. We continued to make these products domestically until all of our manufacturers slowly started going out of business. We tried finding new manufacturers in the U.S. but they were all closing too. We had started making other products in Taiwan like tires because there were no factories or production outlets anywhere in the states capable of making them. Eventually we had no choice but to take everything overseas.

At the onset of deciding to make a proper clothing line we couldn’t find anywhere locally to make what we wanted so we went overseas. After being involved in the apparel industry and doing some digging we found a few different manufacturers we are really happy to work at home. The first of which was Demartini Canvas who produced our Kenmare back pack. Now we are expanding our Made in USA range with the Branded hat made by our friends at Quintin and Branded jacket made right here in New York City. Both the hat and jacket are made of wax cotton, which was milled in New Jersey where we drove to pick it up right from the factory. Waxed cotton is incredibly durable, windproof and water proof. It wears like leather and only gets better with age. On top of that this jacket is constructed to military-grade specifications. Accompanying these are two t-shirts: the Northern shirt, Made in USA and printed by America Icon in Newburgh, NY and the Branded pocket shirt which was constructed and assembled at a factory in Brooklyn a few blocks from my house.

This collection is small run and only available directly through our web-store. Although we’d love to produce all of our products domestically right not it’s just not possible. But look out for more small drops of locally made clothing in the future.

Dig 87

Mar, 08 2012

Dig 87 is out now, and it has an article with Brennan about a lost snake run, a Skavenger ad with Ratman, an interview with longtime Animal affiliate Dave McDermott, a Jared gap to switch tooth hanger ad and Lost For Words barspin on a large pyramid, as well as photos of Lino and Max Gaertig.

Tom on Two Wheels

Mar, 08 2012

Seen on Defgrip’s Flickr.

Wiz/ ESPN Seth Holton Photo Gallery

Mar, 08 2012

ESPN posted a gallery of some Seth Holton photos from the early 2000′s HERE; a Wiz photo from the old brick quarters in Philly made it in there.