Sean Cliver
@seancliver.bsky.social
Artist, writer, half-ass human, and co-owner of StrangeLove Skateboards.
Saturdays are for releases. Tomorrow, 24 January, it’s no holes barred as we explore the meaning of public domain in the legal, prurient, and nostalgic sense. So, if your idea of fun involves marketing toys to children with 95-odd year references, please come along and enjoy the silence.
January 23, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Saturdays are for releases. Tomorrow, 24 January, it’s no holes barred as we explore the meaning of public domain in the legal, prurient, and nostalgic sense. So, if your idea of fun involves marketing toys to children with 95-odd year references, please come along and enjoy the silence.
How to use Bluesky wrong. But right. Yet still wrong. Or at least a wrong trying to be righted by the inclusion of these words. But at least the overall sentiment is in the right place amid all the wrongs currently being perpetrated.
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
How to use Bluesky wrong. But right. Yet still wrong. Or at least a wrong trying to be righted by the inclusion of these words. But at least the overall sentiment is in the right place amid all the wrongs currently being perpetrated.
Hate to burst anyone’s bubble of enthusiasm, robotic or otherwise, but I’m primarily a purveyor of skateboards with the occasional linguistic trip, quip, or alliterative flip. For further enlightenment and/or disillusionment, please refer to: strangeloveskateboards.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Hate to burst anyone’s bubble of enthusiasm, robotic or otherwise, but I’m primarily a purveyor of skateboards with the occasional linguistic trip, quip, or alliterative flip. For further enlightenment and/or disillusionment, please refer to: strangeloveskateboards.com
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Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
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At the end of every year I like to recap all the skateboards we produced through StrangeLove. This is that time. So, come along and enjoy, as I take you on a magical mystery tour of our production calendar and all the graphicky things we did in watermelon sugar.
the 2025 year of wood in review
Whew. Can I utter that? Well, I just did. If 2025 was a marathon, let's just say I'm happy that we crossed the finish line. Okay, yeah, I know, we're not through the tape yet, but it's close enough fo...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
At the end of every year I like to recap all the skateboards we produced through StrangeLove. This is that time. So, come along and enjoy, as I take you on a magical mystery tour of our production calendar and all the graphicky things we did in watermelon sugar.
The hour is drawing nigh, so get the maximum bang for your buck today on strangeloveskateboards.com where the code DISCOUNT at checkout will save you 25%. We are a small company with no corporate backing, so rest assured no billionaires will profit off your support. We’re all in this together.
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The hour is drawing nigh, so get the maximum bang for your buck today on strangeloveskateboards.com where the code DISCOUNT at checkout will save you 25%. We are a small company with no corporate backing, so rest assured no billionaires will profit off your support. We’re all in this together.
Are you a madman or simply an ad fan? Either way, here’s a Top 40 countdown of all 16 ads we placed this year in skateboard magazine. Yes, the printed ones. With ink. On paper. Off presses. Because physical matter matters.
the twelve days of christmas
While I don't believe that heading is
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December 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Are you a madman or simply an ad fan? Either way, here’s a Top 40 countdown of all 16 ads we placed this year in skateboard magazine. Yes, the printed ones. With ink. On paper. Off presses. Because physical matter matters.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
Curious about the intersection of skateboard graphics, social commentary, satire, and other visual things that make a disposable statement? Check out with this bit of printed matter in an increasingly digital age:
Skateboard Americana / Zine
Words by Sean Cliver, Nick Halkias, Don Pendleton, and Ted Barrow Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 (36 pages) Perfect Bound! Full-Color Everything! Published by The Skateboard Museum! Product Description: The pe...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Curious about the intersection of skateboard graphics, social commentary, satire, and other visual things that make a disposable statement? Check out with this bit of printed matter in an increasingly digital age:
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Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
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Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
Trip the tryptophan fantastic. Or, digest and destroy with this look back on a shoe that beat all legal odds: the Holiday 2012 Nike SB “Krampus” Dunk High. Words, a lot of them, but pictures, too, found here:
gruss vom krampus; or, the making of a holiday tradition
‘Twas the year or so before December 2012 when my friend Nick Halkias finally emailed me with the question he’d long been hinting at but never previously managed to put into motion: Would I be interes...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Trip the tryptophan fantastic. Or, digest and destroy with this look back on a shoe that beat all legal odds: the Holiday 2012 Nike SB “Krampus” Dunk High. Words, a lot of them, but pictures, too, found here:
Amid all the heavy, how about something light and refreshing? No, I’m not feeling 7up, but I did have a couple of art shows in Japan and consumed a lot of fish (the latter which you will not read about at all… just trying to tie up the title with a neat and tidy bow):
sayonara, soshite sakana o arigato
This comes way too long after the fact—and probably should've been posted in part before I even embarked on my trip to Japan back in October—but let's face the confusing facts: My woven word webs here...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Amid all the heavy, how about something light and refreshing? No, I’m not feeling 7up, but I did have a couple of art shows in Japan and consumed a lot of fish (the latter which you will not read about at all… just trying to tie up the title with a neat and tidy bow):
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"You have at times seemed to question the very concept of a career. You told senior Barry Platowski, 'We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.'"
Your Services As Guidance Counselor Are No Longer Required, Mr. Vonnegut
Dear Mr. Vonnegut, As principal of Stephen R. Perry High School, it is with regret that I inform you that, after considerable reflection and numero...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"You have at times seemed to question the very concept of a career. You told senior Barry Platowski, 'We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.'"
Tired of the This American Life Horror Show? Flip on over to the poppy li’l creature feature playing out this Halloween at StrangeLoveSkateboards.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Tired of the This American Life Horror Show? Flip on over to the poppy li’l creature feature playing out this Halloween at StrangeLoveSkateboards.com
My body may be in Sunday, but my mind is back in Saturday where we just released all the new decks (with zines!), accompanying tees (and others!), the mysterious missing sticker pack (who knows!), and more. Find it all at StrangeLoveSkateboards.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
My body may be in Sunday, but my mind is back in Saturday where we just released all the new decks (with zines!), accompanying tees (and others!), the mysterious missing sticker pack (who knows!), and more. Find it all at StrangeLoveSkateboards.com
The full release this weekend includes a hypothetical “What if… ?” sliding door through time and space where @donpendleton.bsky.social was hired by Steve Rocco in 1992. Crazy? Not so much. Buy the ticket (deck) and take the dimensional ride (zine) this Saturday on StrangeLoveSkateboards.com.
October 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The full release this weekend includes a hypothetical “What if… ?” sliding door through time and space where @donpendleton.bsky.social was hired by Steve Rocco in 1992. Crazy? Not so much. Buy the ticket (deck) and take the dimensional ride (zine) this Saturday on StrangeLoveSkateboards.com.
Keeping it all in context, this is the follow up ad for StrangeLove that ran in Thrasher. There was one step between this and the other, but I’m simply going one step beyond to avoid any unnecessary confusion. Still confused? Welcome to strangeloveskateboards.com where puzzlement is job one.
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Keeping it all in context, this is the follow up ad for StrangeLove that ran in Thrasher. There was one step between this and the other, but I’m simply going one step beyond to avoid any unnecessary confusion. Still confused? Welcome to strangeloveskateboards.com where puzzlement is job one.
Remember the early 90s in skateboarding? We certainly do and knew how much it meant to crack open the new issue of Thrasher and TransWorld to see the latest happenings in skateboarding. Social media has robbed us all of such anticipatory joys. Anyway, here’s a recent print ad or ours in social form:
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Remember the early 90s in skateboarding? We certainly do and knew how much it meant to crack open the new issue of Thrasher and TransWorld to see the latest happenings in skateboarding. Social media has robbed us all of such anticipatory joys. Anyway, here’s a recent print ad or ours in social form:
Picture pages, picture pages. Time to get your crayons and your pencils. Does this ring your bell with a Pavlovian response? If so, ride the wormhole to…
time to get your crayons and your pencils
Picture Pages, Picture Pages. Time to get your Picture Pages. Time to get your crayons and your pencils! Picture Pages, Picture Pages. Open up your Picture Pages. Time to let… uh. Hmm. Well... how abo...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Picture pages, picture pages. Time to get your crayons and your pencils. Does this ring your bell with a Pavlovian response? If so, ride the wormhole to…
Since 2018 all strangeloveskateboards.com torso sheaths have been guaranteed rapture-ready garments in anticipation of The Day. Prepare thyself!
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Since 2018 all strangeloveskateboards.com torso sheaths have been guaranteed rapture-ready garments in anticipation of The Day. Prepare thyself!
What once was “skate and destroy” is now “skate and escape.” Achieve spiritual enlightenment not by witchcraft but watercraft on strangeloveskateboards.com
Jet Ski / 8.5 Deck
Artwork by Sean Cliver Manufactured at BBS Mfg. Hand-Screened at Screaming Squeegees Caveat: Be aware that blemishes and imperfections are an expected and accepted part of the screen-printing process....
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September 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What once was “skate and destroy” is now “skate and escape.” Achieve spiritual enlightenment not by witchcraft but watercraft on strangeloveskateboards.com
Look. It’s been pretty heavy lately with ignorance and dumb red-lining in severity. (Anyone else remember the old color-coded HSAS? Ah, sweet innocence…) So, come along and enjoy this tale of seafaring stupidity from a kinder, gentler, and simpler time of life in the US of A, circa 1991.
the young man and the sea
Before diving into this anything but Ernest Hemingway-like tale, I should warn you, the reader, that this post addresses the hot topic of ignorance. I know, bear with me, we've all been put through th...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Look. It’s been pretty heavy lately with ignorance and dumb red-lining in severity. (Anyone else remember the old color-coded HSAS? Ah, sweet innocence…) So, come along and enjoy this tale of seafaring stupidity from a kinder, gentler, and simpler time of life in the US of A, circa 1991.
A little of this, a little of that; or, professionally schizophrenic by design, a brief if not slap-dash history of my pen and I.
metamorpho and other tales to astonish
You know, it's always a crapshoot when it comes to these posts. I mean, in theory I know where they ultimately have to end, but generally only have a vague notion of how to start and practically no id...
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September 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A little of this, a little of that; or, professionally schizophrenic by design, a brief if not slap-dash history of my pen and I.