Maker Manual w/Maker-Art Handler-Sustainable Skateboard Crafter Eric Angus

Blood Sweat & Careers

This week on the pod we speak with Maker Eric Angus. Eric opened our eyes to the maker universe and showed us how the term is certainly in conversation with multi-hyphenate. Eric makes sustainable skateboards, works with cement (have you ever seen a cement lake?), is on the install team at an art museum AND is starting his own collaborative studio (phew 😅)! Identifying as a maker has certainly given Eric confidence to move from one hands-on frontier to the next...perhaps the same way your confidence can flourish once you’ve realized the strength being a multi-hyphenate offers. It’s the professional through line that flows from gig to gig with Eric that so impressed our hosts. Eric not only seeks out work he can do with his hands, but also infuses each pursuit with purpose! Sustainable skateboards so your punk rock actions of “jammin’ with a city” can also be an emblem of the environmentalist movement: he sees skateboards as a tool (through their grinding and slamming) that can help tear down the concrete jungle and invite nature back in... He even sees purpose in his time spent at a ski shop tuning skis (even though he was a professional snowboarder!!) By the end, we decided that the purpose Eric carries into his work is simultaneously very real and very much just his attitude. Why not listen and you be the judge?! You can find Eric and what he makes at: @angus_studio His skateboards live at: @anthropocene_skateboards If ever in Carbondale, CO look him up and visit his collaborative shop! We hear his photography may be hanging on the walls inside...