- Arlo Eisenberg
Arlo Eisenberg (born 1973) is an aggressive inline skater who pioneered street skatingFact|date=March 2008. He is considered by many to be the godfather of the aggressive skating industryFact|date=March 2008.
Biography
Born in
Dallas, Texas on September 7, 1973 [ [http://www.skatelog.com/skaters/arlo-eisenberg Arlo Eisenberg - 1996 X Games Park World Champion ] ] , Arlo spent his high school years at the Arts Magnet high school in Dallas, where he studied visual arts and theater [ [http://www.lifelounge.com/Arlo-Eisenberg-_-Burgers,-Hookers-and-Art.aspx Words by: Chris Mitchell - Arlo Eisenberg - Burgers, Hookers and Art - Lifelounge - Daily Goodness ] ] . He discovered inline skating the summer before his senior year of high schoolFact|date=March 2008. Arlo attended three semesters at theUniversity of Texas in Austin before dropping out to follow his dreams West [ [http://www.lifelounge.com/Arlo-Eisenberg-_-Burgers,-Hookers-and-Art.aspx Words by: Chris Mitchell - Arlo Eisenberg - Burgers, Hookers and Art - Lifelounge - Daily Goodness ] ] .In the winter of 1992, Eisenberg moved to
Venice Beach, California Fact|date=March 2008, where he took odd jobs before landing a position selling inline skates on The 3rd Street Promenade in Santa MonicaFact|date=March 2008. In 1993, together with Brooke Howard-Smith, Brian Konoske, Aaron Spohn and Mark "Heineken" Groenhuyzen, he started an inline company called SenateFact|date=March 2008. Arlo was the chief graphic designerFact|date=March 2008. Popular images included slit wrists and bloody baseball batsFact|date=March 2008.Arlo created an image of himself as a social provocateur, an image which he fostered through his artwork [ [http://www.lifelounge.com/Arlo-Eisenberg-_-Burgers,-Hookers-and-Art.aspx Words by: Chris Mitchell - Arlo Eisenberg - Burgers, Hookers and Art - Lifelounge - Daily Goodness ] ] . As a competitive skater, he won the 1996 X Games street title as well as the 1994 NISS ChampionshipFact|date=March 2008. In 1997 Arlo's family opened Eisenbergs Skatepark in
Plano, Texas Fact|date=March 2008where, every year, they host the professional skate competition, the Eisenberg's HoedownFact|date=March 2008.Arlo achieved widespread notoriety when Senate produced a line of T-shirts featuring tags that said ‘Destroy All Girls." Fact|date=March 2008The tags, Arlo's concept, brought attention from CNN, and launched Senate into the mainstreamFact|date=March 2008. [http://www.lifelounge.com/Arlo-Eisenberg-_-Burgers,-Hookers-and-Art.aspx "In 1997, Arlo was profiled in People Magazine and Newsweek named him one of their 100 Americans for the Next Century."] [ [http://www.lifelounge.com/Arlo-Eisenberg-_-Burgers,-Hookers-and-Art.aspx Words by: Chris Mitchell - Arlo Eisenberg - Burgers, Hookers and Art - Lifelounge - Daily Goodness ] ]
In 2000, Arlo marriedFact|date=March 2008. His daughter, LuLu, was born in 2001Fact|date=March 2008. In 2002, the couple divorcedFact|date=March 2008.
After leaving Senate in 2000, Arlo provided freelance graphic design services to many companies in the inline industry including: Salomon, Rollerblade, Xsjado, Mindgame and USD [http://www.believeinone.com/?p=58 ONE rollerblading magazine · PRINT: Arlo Eisenberg Web Preview ] ] . In 2007 Arlo was hired as a senior graphic designer for Paul Frank Industries. Arlo has been the chief graphic designer for streetwear brand [http://francoshade.com "Franco Shade"] since its inception in 2002 [http://francoshade.com/?page_id=1229 "About Us" page] .
References
External links
* [http://www.lifelounge.com/Arlo-Eisenberg-_-Burgers,-Hookers-and-Art.aspx Arlo Eisenberg interview]
* [http://www.francoshade.com Franco Shade Clothing]
* [http://www.eisenbergs.com/index.php Eisenbergs Skatepark]
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