Globe / Devo Airport Survival Collection

The Devo Airport Survival Collection

Globe has teamed up with the band that brought you the first ever music video featuring skateboarding. Of course I’m talking about Devo’s Freedom of Choice. Prove me wrong if you can. Skater Dater doesn’t count, it’s a short film meant to showcase skating, not to provide visual accompaniment for an existing song. You might recall that Globe had the limited edition Clash shoe collaboration that I had a hard time wrapping my head around. It certainly makes more sense in the case of Devo, a band that always had a marketing and merchandising strategy. You used to be able to order the yellow hazmat suits and red energy domes from the inserts in the albums. What the heck does this have to do with skateboards? Globe’s collaboration goes beyond shoes to include, among everything else, a complete skateboard with a Devo branded wheel. Devo had an allegedly unlicensed skateboard before courtesy of the now defunct (?) Punk Rock Skateboards. Although that was Gerald talking, and perhaps it was a case of the right hand of Devo not communicating to the other right hand of Devo.

Here’s the board. Notice the wheel too. It’s a bit disappointing that they are recycling the same Devo graphic used on the T-Shirt and even the previous Devo skateboard.

Devo skateboard and wheels

Here’s the original board from Punk Rock Skateboards. It seems to have disappeared of the web. It’s still for sale on the Speed Dealers site, but it’s hidden and you have to know where to look. If anyone has a picture of the actual board, please send it in.

Devo skateboard from Punk Rock Skateboards

This is from the forthcoming Airport Survival Collection. I could have (and would have) rocked these back in the day, but if at all possible, they are even too “80’s” for me at this point.

Devo board shorts

Other items in the Devo Airport Survival Collection include denim, a “Fight or Flight” suit, leather bags and accessories.

The eagerly awaited “checkpoint friendly” collection for clever travelers looking to clear airport security comfortably, stylishly, and with a chuckle or two aimed at TSA fools who have turned air travel into a hideous experience.

Someone must have had a really bad experience at an airport. An odd selection for sure. Leather bags? I’m curious to see how these items can poke fun at TSA without arousing their ire and causing more problems. Click to enlarge this advert from the September 2008 issue of Transworld Business.

Devo Airport Survival collection from Globe

Finally, here’s another excuse to post Devo’s Freedom of Choice skateboard-centric music video. Look for some of your favorite old-timey skaters.

Discussion

9 thoughts on “The Devo Airport Survival Collection

  1. Didn’t Agent Orange have a video playing in the bottom of a bowl while skaters rode around them? Seems like that would have preceded Freedom of Choice. Anyone remember??

  2. Freedom of Choice was ’80. Agent Orange’s first record was ’81, but I guess there could have been a video before that. Unlikely, though.

  3. That Agent Orange scene was from the Vision video titled Skate Visions, which wasn’t released until 83 or 84.

    The real tip off is Stacy Peralta skates in F.O.C.

  4. i love skating to DEVO.

  5. damn i’m gettin’ old. can’t keep my agent orange and my devo in chronological order anymore, it’s all running together… thanks for straightening me out.

  6. sea cliff vert ramp on September 12, 2008 - Reply

    Agent Orange’s first record was in ’79. Devo has been around since the early 70’s.

  7. Right-o Sea Cliff- and most people probably would’ve been turned on to the band via Rodney On The ROQ blasting out over the valley, he loved that hardcore/punk version of “Bloodstains”.

  8. sea cliff vert ramp on September 12, 2008 - Reply

    “bloodstains” is still one of the best punk singles ever.

  9. i want to buy this stuff! i want the shoes the most but i can’t buy them anywhere!

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