See excerpt below from the February 13, 2013 Deer Man of Dark Woods / Barrier Kult interview with Youthbones.com. See the whole english translation at barrierkult.blogspot.com.
"7. What's your outlook on the current skateboarding scene and industry?
The industry is torn between a fragile core image and a corporate side trying to infiltrate. A lot of skateboard ‘professionals’ seem to welcome the corporate groups though because humans are greedy and even so-called creative skateboarders yearn for money and wealth comforts. Corporate brands hire hip brand designers who entice people with culturally convenient and desirable 'styles'. The masses will follow. Old core brands get ripped off by larger brands, larger brands water down core aesthetics and cater to the lowest common denominator. Poseurs. That’s always been skateboarding and that’s still the current state of the industry. I don’t think anything has changed ever. Also - Motorcycles, dirtbikes, camping, shooting ranges, work jackets, etc. are the new insincere fad of the times. Nothing has changed because the intent stays the same – to follow old school cultures that once had some sort of integrity but are now made shallow and convenient by poseurs who can purchase their scene over the internet. That’s the current state of skateboard ‘scenes’. Smartphone generation on vintage dirtbikes. Skateboarders are as insincere as ever and their ‘look’ represents nothing of who they are."
