Arlo Eisenberg is an aggressive inline skater who pioneered street skating.
Education
Born in Dallas, Texas on September 7, 1973, Arlo spent his high school years at the Arts Magnet high school in Dallas, where he studied visual arts and theater. Arlo attended three semesters at the University of Texas at Austin before dropping out to follow his dreams West.
Career
He is considered by many to be an important innovator of the aggressive skating industry. He discovered inline skating the summer before his senior year of high school. 1992, Eisenberg moved to Venice Beach, California, where he took odd jobs before landing a position selling inline skates on The 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica.
In 1993, together with Brooke Howard-Smith, Brian Konoske, Aaron Spohn and Mark "Heineken" Groenhuyzen, he started an inline company called Senate.
Arlo was the chief graphic designer. Popular images included slit wrists and bloody baseball bats.
Arlo crafted an image of himself as a social provocateur, an image which he fostered through his artwork. In 1997 Arlo"s family opened Eisenbergs Skatepark in Plano, Texas where, every year, they host the professional skate competition, the Eisenberg"s Showdown at the Hoedown
In 1997, Arlo was profiled in People Magazine and Newsweek named him one of their 100 Americans for the Next Century."
Post-crash
After leaving Senate in 2000, Arlo provided freelance graphic design services to many companies in the inline industry including: Salomon, Rollerblade, Xsjado, Mindgame and United States dollar. In 2007 Arlo was hired as a senior graphic designer for Paul Frank Industries.
Arlo was the chief graphic designer for streetwear brand "Franco Shade" since its inception in 2002.
Arlo kept the "Ghost "North Knives" logo and the "Franky" ghost cartoon character and started a new company called, "GOST" which launched in early 2009. Franco Shade released one more season after Arlo"s departure and then ceased operations. In 2011, he designed the movie poster for "The City Never Sleeps."
Arlo Eisenberg appears in two documentaries on skating, 1999"s lieutenant"s All Good" and 2005"s Barely Dead.
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Quotations:
Destroy All Girls.".