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'''Arlo Eisenberg''' (b. 1973) is an [[Aggressive skating|aggressive inline skater]] who pioneered street skating. He is considered by many to be the godfather of the aggressive skating industry. |
'''Arlo Eisenberg''' (b. 1973) is an [[Aggressive skating|aggressive inline skater]] who pioneered street skating. He is considered by many to be the godfather of the aggressive skating industry. |
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Arlo Eisenberg (b. 1973) is an aggressive inline skater who pioneered street skating. He is considered by many to be the godfather of the aggressive skating industry.
Biography
Born in Dallas, Texas on September 7, 1973, Arlo spent his high school years at the Arts Magnet high school in Dallas, where he studied visual arts and theater. He discovered inline skating the summer before his senior year of high school. Arlo attended three semesters at the University of Texas in Austin before dropping out to follow his dreams West.
In the winter of 1992, Eisenberg moved to Venice Beach, California, where he took odd jobs before landing a position selling inline skates on The 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. In 1993, together with Brooke Howard-Smith, Brian Konoske, Aaron Spohn and Mark "Heineken" Groenhuyzen, he started an inline company called Senate. Arlo was the chief graphic designer. Popular images included slit wrists and bloody baseball bats.
Arlo created an image of himself as a social provocateur, an image which he fostered through his artwork. As a competitive skater, he won the 1996 X Games street title as well as the 1994 NISS Championship. In 1997 Arlo's family opened Eisenbergs Skatepark in Plano, Texas where, every year, they host the professional skate competition, the Eisenberg's Hoedown.
Arlo achieved widespread notoriety when Senate produced a line of T-shirts featuring tags that said ‘Destroy All Girls." The tags, Arlo's concept, brought attention from CNN, and launched Senate into the mainstream. In 1997, Arlo was profiled in People Magazine and Newsweek named him one of their ‘100 Americans for the Next Century.’
In 2000, Arlo married. His daughter, LuLu, was born in 2001. In 2002, the couple divorced.
After leaving Senate in 2000, Arlo provided freelance graphic design services to many companies in the inline industry including: Salomon, Rollerblade, Xsjado, Mindgame and USD. In 2007 Arlo was hired as a senior graphic designer for Paul Frank Industries. Arlo has been the chief graphic designer for streetwear brand Franco Shade since its inception in 2002.