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If you’re looking to cop a pair, it’ll run you $139 USD.

SUPER has met the lifestyle mood of another brand and gave birth to new interesting collaboration: Chocolate Skateboards. Chocolate was founded in 1994 as a spin-off from Girl skateboard Company. We at Super wanted to celebrate Chocolate’s success and 15 Year Anniversary with a limited edition release of 333 special pairs of sunnies. Our common point of view on quality and the continued research of changes have made us work together with excitement for this fresh and special project.

A shade based on our Classic silhouette, characterized by the double use of two different colored acetates on the exterior and interior. Translucent grey and translucent red for the frame and same but inverted for the arms. The Chocolate written logo on the inside and the square red glass-lined one on the outside. All pieces are numbered 00/333 and come with the white box that has always distinguished SUPER’s special projects.

Co-founder and creative director of Stereo Sound Agency skateboards, Chris Pastras’ artwork ranges from highly personal, journal-like paintings to stylized and fine-tuned design work. Highly regarded within both the skate and art worlds, Chris Pastas’ surpasses the boundaries between the two, his work overlapping and spilling into both arenas. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including Paper, Lodown, and Slap, and displayed in exhibitions worldwide.

Mark Ong aka SBTG is one the most famous sneaker customizers in the world, and Owner and Chief Designer of the Royalefam clothing line. Although based in Singapore, his name is known the world over in the underground fashion, and sneaker enthusiast world.

FH: In your own words, briefly tell the readers who you are and what you do.

SBTG: I am Mark Ong aka SBTG. I run a brand called Royalefam and i am a punk rocker , freedom fighter , a husband, a leader, a voice for Asia and a contributor to the world’s fashion / street subculture.

FH: I know you got your start in the fashion game customizing sneakers; tell us a little about that.

SBTG: I started out patching up my ollie holes throughout the late 80s throughout the 90s. The SBTG name gained worldwide recognition in 2003 when I killed it in a custom sneaker competition. Since the popularity was growing and all the branding elements were ready, Royalefam apparel was born.

FH: Tell me a little bit more about your start as a sneaker customizer, since that is probably what you are most well known for.

SBTG: Its been a crazy ride and a great life experience to be able to have this as a career. I have gone from being on the top, with all the opportunities in front of me to being down and just cashing in. There has been a lot of self realizations and shifts in way of being throughout the past 2 years and now I am back with a strong team and I am recommitting to my craft to contribute to peoples lifestyle. It ain’t just about me anymore u know?

FH: Tell me how you got in to customizing sneakers, and did you have a long term plan to have your own apparel brand, or did you start out just wanting to be a sneaker customizer?

SBTG: Well back in the 80′s when i started skateboarding at about age 8 or 9, i didn’t have a big rotation of sneakers. as a matter of fact i only had one pair. Being heavily influenced by my dads artistic talents, most things around me were aesthetically driven. Patching the holes up wasn’t enough, I cherished what i had so i made sure they were patched up in a way that looked like it was designed that way. It had to look dope! I always wanted to be known for something, and I was very into sneakers all my life. I wanted so much to have my own sneaker / colorway so nothing could stop me. I actually wanted to have a clothing brand but it worked the other way. But the whole point is I basically threw away the key the minute i walked in that door. I told myself that this is gonna be it, I’m gonna be here for a while now.

FH: So your customizing basically started out as a basic desire to design your own sneakers?

SBTG: Yup, very accurate.

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It should be well known and recognized that most Skateboaders ain’t punks, but that goes with anything. I bet there are some hardcore Librarians you don’t want to fucking mess with at all. In the above video, some Vato pulls a firearm out on a Skateboarder and the rest is kick flippin’ history. Watch, study, discuss.

I really dig when People who were once considered apart of the counter culture, get their chance to shine doing big things in big places that never would have happened if they didn’t keep grinding at what they believed in. Tony Hawk Skating the White house was a Big Fucking Deal in my opinion, but before tony was doing it on that level,  eleven years earlier, OG Skater Mark Gonzalez was skating museums in germany. I watched this video the other day of Mark Skating the Stadtisches Museum in Germany in complete awe – who wouldn’t want to run a muck in a museum AND get paid for it. Enjoy!