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Portland is famous for a lot of things; tall trees, fresh water, bridges, food carts, good vibes, and the smallest city park in the world.
Mills Ends Park has been an official city park since 1976, but it's more like a 2ft planter box in the middle of a downtown street, so it needed to be skated.
According to our research assistant (Wikipedia) "In 1948 the site that would become Mill Ends Park was intended to be the site for a light pole. When the pole failed to appear and weeds sprouted in the opening, Dick Fagan, a columnist for the Oregon Journal, planted flowers in the hole and named it after his column in the paper, "Mill Ends" (a reference to leftover irregular pieces of wood at lumber mills). Fagan's office in the Journal building overlooked the median in the middle of the busy thoroughfare that ran in front of the building (then known as SW Front Avenue)."
In all honesty the park is a total snoozer and mostly visited by tourists on segway scooters. But when you're in the spirit for adventure, even the smallest tourist attraction can be the funnest skate park.
It was fun for a while, but then the tourist showed up, so we went further looking for more fun. We found it.
Our friend Lindsey Smith of Makers Workshop has been included in a documentary called Making the American Man along with a bunch of our favorite makers and shakers (Freeman, Juniper Ridge, Topo Designs, etc...). Watch it on Netflix beginning July 1.
By Gianna Keiko Rankart // giannakeiko.com // @giannakeiko
Photos by Jacob Bottles // @jakefromthelake
Proof Eyewear is small, young, and living their motto: “Do good.”
Proof started like any good passion project—in a garage with two brothers, some ideas, a little money, and a few hours after the day job. Since 2010, it’s grown to sell consciously sourced, environmentally friendly eyewear in over 20 countries.
It all started with a truck driver in rural Utah named Bud Dame. A man who owed Bud money made good on the debt by giving him lumber equipment. Playing the hand he was dealt, Bud started a sawmill in 1954 with zero education or professional background and became the successful CEO of a company with over 2,000 employees internationally.
“Wood was always the passion,” explained Proof's COO and co-founder Tanner Dame. Proof’s founders—the Dame brothers—grew up working in the family wood mill, and had an intimate relationship with sawdust and the Idaho outdoors. Today, brothers Taylor, Brooks, and Tanner breathe life into the original dirtbag Yvon Chouinard’s philosophy: “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.”
Can an eyewear company source natural materials from this continent, avoid the allure of quick-fix philanthropy to complex global problems, and make super, on-point frames? Yes. Every collection is hand cut and finished. The ECO Collection is crafted from cotton based acetates—plastics made from cotton harvested from sources within the US and Canada. Purified, aged, stretched, wound, spun, infused, cut. The Skate collection, made from Canadian-based Maple wood, is basically a lasagna of vibrant skate decks. And of course the start of it all, the Wood collection, is harvested from only sustainable forests, making only premium cuts—shaping perfect, stylish frames. Hand stained and waterproofed.
Proof recently got a Kickstarter campaign way over-funded to produce their new recycled line The Aluminum Collection, proving the demand for a product that didn't exist.
Manufacturers today are producing the new American Dream, where sustainability is at the forefront. The old American Dream taught us that anything was possible. Combined with the paradox of choice, we could, if we choose, show up to this commerce landscape and get lost in opportunity.
With solid core values and a little gumption and grit, the understanding of heritage and giving back inspires Proof to work globally, enacting their Do Good projects around the world. The logo of a bird with a mechanical crank represents Proof’s belief that, “Everyone has wings to fly, some just need a little help.” In the El Salvador project, over 1,000 students were examined and given eyeglasses or surgery if needed, 19 homes were built following tidal wave destruction, and over 500 cocoa trees were donated as an additional source of income for the community. Proof has built eye clinics in India and rehabilitated child soldiers in Africa. Their latest Do Good project in the Philippines rebuilt orphanages, provided health screenings, and scheduled over 100 cataract, cleft lip & club feet surgeries.
This isn’t a company mindlessly donating at fiscal year-end to hide profits or get a tax write-off.
Even if the planet feels broken, it’s providing us an opportunity to draw from multiple inspiration points. To vote with our dollar, to not fit into boxes or career paths, to see life as art and art as life and use that philosophy to do a little good for the earth and its people… and look real good doing it.
See Proof's newest styles at the EXPO Adventure Festival
