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Vice/VBS.tv - Doin' It Baja: The Arto Saari Interview

For those into skateboarding, Finland’s Arto Saari is known for his big, aggressive skating style…and his iron-man ability to recovery from some seriously brutal spills. What you might not know is that Saari is also an avid motorcyclist. He’s been riding around Helsinki for years, and, more recently, he’s been rolling through his new home turf of Southern California.

When we started kicking around the idea of partnering with Vice’s VBS.TV to document a crew of skaters as they rode from San Diego to Baja, Mexico, we knew we had to invite Arto. Dude is not only sick as hell on his board, but he’s also a total good vibe. (Plus he can chop wood and build fires, too, which we knew would come in handy.)

Awesomely, he was up for the adventure. So we outfitted him with a new Nightster Sporty, pointed him in the direction of the rest of the boys—including Heath Kirchart, Keegan Sauder and Patrick O’Dell, friends Harvey Foster, Kynan Tait and Hime Hu, and guide Bill Bryant—and sent a film crew along to document the journey. Check out the epic results that make up Doin’ It Baja here.

Since we’ve been posting the videos, the response has been crazy. People have been writing us wanting to get the story behind the story. What couldn’t be shown in the clips? How can I do this ride? How pissed were the locals at you for skating their town square? So we decided to catch up with Arto to dig in deeper about his experience taking part in Doin’ it Baja. Read on to find out why Arto’s gun-buying idea got nixed, how a Sporty performs off-road and how this trip rekindled Arto’s desire to ride from Northern Europe to Africa.

Click here to read the rest of the interview on the VBS blog.

INKED MAGAZINE - Antonio Ballatore

Picture an interior designer and chances are you’re not envisioning a bearded, burly, tattooed ex–punk musician from New York City—unless, of course, you tuned in to season four of Home & Garden Television’s reality show competition Design Star. Devoted watchers are already well familiar with season winner Antonio Ballatore, the man the judges deemed their “bad boy of design.”

“I’m definitely shocking to the traditional HGTV crowd,” says Ballatore. “I build houses and 1920s-themed sets, create live special-effect explosions, design over-the-top kids’ rooms, and modify old hot rods. There’s no limitation to where I can take my creativity.”

It’s exactly this brazen enthusiasm that helped Ballatore advance past the 10 other finalists throughout the show’s weekly interior design challenges. In one episode, his unorthodox decision to ornament a wall with fluorescent-pink geese was a surprising hit with the judges.

Click here to read the rest of the piece, which appeared in Inked Magazine January 2010.