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the db clay tribute

October 16, 2008

db clay tribute

sorry i haven’t been posting much lately. been hustling to get this site polished and done.

it is official, db clay is no longer selling wallets. i know i may have talked about this a tad much lately but it has been the center of my universe for the last half a decade.

we sold pretty much every wallet + we had in a frenzy towards the end. here is a video of us filling web orders in our dilapidated ship center. it took 4 of us over 2 hours to fill one days worth of orders. so if you are someone who ordered a wallet – thank you. enjoy it.

i also thought i would throw some random pictures from the last few years. we have over 20 thousand pictures (literally) so i can’t promise that these are the best. but i can promise these are random. zoinks!

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db clay was a company where everything mattered + nothing mattered. none of us cared about the fashion scene, the art scene, or any scene for that matter. we simply got used to the mentality of why not. we realized that nothing is cool – which in turn made everything cool. garett had this innate ability to take roadkill and make it appealing. tyler would start yelling things from afar which ended up becoming product names – i’m going on a stampage! hiya!!!. brandon dressed up a toby keith last year and performed an abortion in our bathroom (well not really, but kinda). courtney randomly scanned a flower one day and it ended up becoming one of our best selling wallets. brian put together the worst china book report known to man and we still call him a darsh. alex would paint wallets as well as everything else that was in his reach- no more white bitch!

we had a transparent business model – garett handed out balanced sheets to the entire team at our monday morning meetings. every idea was considered. we had show and tell and we clapped after everyone shared what their plans were for the week. mondays we played 80′s music. tuesdays was radio paradise. wednesdays was down tempo. thursdays was ravetrax (phat beats!!!1). fridays was 80′s. *always pad the weekend with the 80′s.

oh yeah, most importantly… we threw the best parties. because much like our work environment – you could come as you are.

our last bash is halloween:

db clay halloween

this is far from the end. i am sure i will bust out nostalgia every so often. thank you to everyone who encouraged us and was supportive. we were always shocked how much people were into our company.

pray for our economy and our next president.

Thank you Ben :) I loved every minute of it…and love everything you Boys and girls stood and stand for. Can’t WAIT for the next Chapter!!!!

P.S. If you keep using “Darsh” negatively…you kill it’s neutrality.

Peace,
Lo Lo McFlow

*Beacause signing off the same way is just boring.

Lauren Lisoski // October 16th, 2008 // 12:35 pm

Hey Ben. I know how hard it is to say goodbye to something that you loved and labored over. What you guys did is incredible, and I can’t wait to see what happens next! …..Also am excited to get my wallet. ;)

Anne // October 16th, 2008 // 3:35 pm

julian… you have always been one of my favorites. you have been with us since the beginning. you were one of the dammasch originals.

that plaid pantry story is some funny shit. i remember that!

mr.diggles // October 17th, 2008 // 10:53 am

o well, now i totally want to hear the plaid pantry story!

jecka // October 17th, 2008 // 10:57 am

I have many a memory… some of my favorites:

- As a running joke around the office, we would joke that the “db” stood for dick and balls
- We called our fax machine, “The Fax of Life”
- We called our filing cabinet, “The pedo-file”
- We called our scanner, “Uncle Scan”

I could go on for hours…

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