Author Archives: Dave Nelson
Busy Week
It’s been too busy lately, but super fun and exciting. Here’s a quick recap of everything… A Day With Steve I finally made it back down to Lincoln to skateboard with my good friend Steve Andel. Most people know him as Venom. We skated ditches, curbs, wallrides and just cruised around. Definitely one of my […]
Cody Peterson dot com
The other day, we were buying domain names and I told Cody he should buy CodyPeterson.com before someone else does. But he didn’t. So I bought it without him knowing, and set up a website with a live webcam pointed at him. After 3 hours of live feed, he ended up finding out after a […]
Joe Hammeke and Robbie Brockel stop by
Omaha native skateboarder Joe Hammeke – staff photographer at Thrasher Magazine and skateboarder Robbie Brockel were on their way to the Damn Am Contest up in Minnesota at 3rd Lair, and stopped by the SecretPenguin studio. Joe Hammeke may be able to take great skateboard photos for one of the best magazines around… And Robbie […]
Omaha's New Skatepark
I posted a while back about the meeting for a new skatepark in the La Vista area. I’m happy to say I was asked to be on the Metro Skatepark Committee. We met this past week and went over some designs and proposals sent in by a few companies. The top 2 were from Pillar […]
Valuing Design
When we opened our studio in our new location, we made a decision to try and support artists in everything we did. We decided this because we value design, and wanted our studio to represent that. We wanted to attract clients that valued design as well. There’s not really one set way on how to […]
Nice Weather
Sara and I went to the driving range, and Tyler Paulson and I skated my mini-ramp over the past weekend. It feels good to be able to spend time outside again. I like this photo cause the ball is still on the tee! Sara actually did way better than I did.