2012 aintshit

the year after next years model lineup, minus a couple heavy hitters. so maybe around 2012.5. stay tuned for the rest of the goods out this winter. handmade on earth by robots.

rmccoy pro 156
mudseason 151
kattack 151
rastattack 154

CNCtests

hopefully by now you guys know that we have assembled some cool machinery here in the nightmare factory. we are still exploring the potential for all of our machines and are excited by the results every time.
smash it, cook it, bend it, mix it, cut it, paint it, shred it.

tests continue with the CNC router and blocks of foam and plastic, making signs and diecutting bases, all to make sure we can create perfect snowboards!

tonka, the warehouse gnardog isnt stoked on all the dust we are kicking up.

U.S.A.! A-OKAY!

Just when we were all getting "de-sensitized" to the explicit content of our Mudseason orgy snowboard graphic, our artist Cole does it again. We're hit with another graphic to make the general public scratch their heads wondering with question "is that snowboard graphic allowed to happen?" and "how do you expect snowboard shops to carry that shiiiiiiit?". There is nothing more fullfilling than telling our friends and supporters that with nightmare we will do anything we decide. However, the only thing that beats that is pushing that idea even further, maybe bumming some people out, maybe getting some people stoked, and in the end building something of our own that has limitless boundaries... it kind of feels like freedom, so I guess that makes us real live patriots. NIGHTMARE HOSTILE CORPORATE TAKEOVER deck coming soon! ebay that shit. 

refreshing

kevin jones (prorider) took some time away from snowboarding, in an interview he said some things that were super refreshing to us at the nightmare factory.

"No, I didn’t take time off snowboarding, I stopped being a tool bag for the idiots that control snowboarding “culture”. I just snowboarded without cameras for three years…. it was very refreshing."

Baby we wont ever come down
Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with us.

help nightmare and summit county to recognize the toolbags and kooks, and keep snowboarding true. turn off the gopro and just ride, love it and kill it, video never tells the true story of our culture.

meanwhile work continues at the factory, with lofty goals and dope art we have the rest of our summer planned out.
winter is on the way.

TABBLE / MATTER

The artwork for our jibstick is complete. It's a coffee table, a conversation piece. Sit back, relax, and blow all your rent money on weed and pizza.
148/151/154/156

ARTISTinRESIDENCE

All it took was a shitty light rig, a jank skateboard dolly, some homemade generic beer cans (stolen from the movie repo-man), and the last 9 terrible houses i've lived in to come up with this board graphic. This one hits  home, hope you can relate...

and up jumps the devil!

It's funny how satanic and occult imagery has krept its way into snowboarding. Almost an overnight campaign to "shock the squares". I guess were just as much to blame, meh...whatever. Anyways,  you can call it a youth urgency to rebel against their parents or you can call it marketing genius at work. I wonder if its got the kids thinking about the reality of the pointy looking heart-a-gram. I also wonder if the mall foodcourt is ready for this.

David Snedden- draws NIGHTMARE some shit! ideas from the inside and out

While a lot of snowboard companies claim "handbuilt, handmade, and other sappy logos blah blah blah" we are excited to actually own the machine that "hand builds" their cores and everything else in between. While the robot is working we're busy gathering more and more artwork to put on our "handbuilt" snowboards...here are some ideas sent to us by hand from the handmade hands of David Snedden for snowboards and stuff.

NIGHTMARE snowboard artwork SNEAK peak:

 

So here is a look at some pieces from the  board graphics churning out of the Nightmare Factory. Its just a sneak peak of whats to come as we are anticipating a full release party and world domination launch in november. You can stop in the factory and see the full boards for yourself whenever you feel like logging off the computer, but we all know facebook's got you wrapped up in wrangling "internet hot" babes..... So for now see things through the high eye and wander amongst evil kittens being attacked by dogs of lightning while our cosmos are filled with the fury of bears battling sharks and wolves struggling against the king octopus. If your mind has not had enough, relax and get into your summer groove in Summit Counties "Mud-season Orgy" snowboard graphics....Soon there will be a size, shape, camber for everyone!

independence day shred

after one of the longest seasons on record we get to stop and catch our breath (before the basin opens in 3 months)........... and say thanks to everyone that made it possible this year.

so GIGANTIC thanks to:

our crew, other crews, nightmare, snow, gasoline, our snowboards, vail resorts (koff, koff), everyone who attended one (or more) of our parties, swamp donkeys, wranglers, bartenders, designated drunks, skate night shredders, SUMMIT COUNTY!

we are working through rad ideas for next season and cant wait to see you out there too!

old bot/new trix

we had to road trip over 2,000 miles into the heart of los angeles to pick up this robot. this final piece of technology will allow us to design and build our decks in house (ie. raw materials to finished snowboard). every other company out there wants you to believe that their boards are "handmade", well lets be honest. 

our boards were handmade for the last two years, imperfections existed, it took way too long, and was not a consistent way to build. 

every board is still assembled by a human (and a shredder nonetheless), but now every part is cut and shaped by a robot. this ensures that we can achieve repeatable shapes, high tolerance accuracy, and designs that we could not have perused in the past.  our robot-slave is busy learning all the new tricks so that we can keep cranking out snowboards, skates, and more!

in other news, the site (strangesnowboarding.com) is temporarily down for maintenance while we get ready for next season. if you are wondering what we are up to, stop by the factory and skate for a bit, keep checking the blog or facebook. 

the crew that remains in summit gets to shred tomorrow, in the middle of summer, on a 40in base at arapahoe basin. come join us for the last day of one of the best seasons ever. thanks for the snow ullr!

untitled

we dont have a name for it yet but it is still a really rad snowboard.
156 ultrarev, fresh and new with not many places left to ride.

art done by our friend Dimitri, check out the rest of his stuff here: http://valianteffort.carbonmade.com/

still snowing

out of control snow all season long has left us with a solid base halfway through spring. we find ourselves riding the same lines from early in the season as we drift into the backcountry, equipped with tunes, snacks and lots of high SPF sunscreen. not as deep in as we are used to but just as much fun. the whole crew has been able to test out nightmare decks and learn new tricks, working hard all season long. now its time to sit back, relax and enjoy some primal colorado alpha rays!

morals ideals and bullshit

slippery slope huh?

is this the gateway snowboard that leads men to objectify women?

would putting naked dudes on boards objectify men? (we will try this one)

personally we at the nightmare warehouse think that burton did not go far enough. so we took the next step. art for art's sake, and put that art onto something that we get to ride. full frontal, cartoons, sex toys, deviant behavior, full pentagram.

what happened to the days when skate and snowboarders were outlaws, renegades, troublemakers? now we must conform to please every parent, child and institution before we can create a rad snowboard. 

well thanks to burton (and rome and world industries in reality) we learned something from their "marketing fiasco". the more people that get together and hate on graphics the faster the snowboards sell out, so go ahead HATE hard and we will be stronger. (or show your true colors and appreciate!)

nightmare will always stay true. a snowboarders snowboard, made by shredders for those who cant live without it. we will continue to put the things that we want on our decks, and continue putting incredible materials inside our decks. pushing at the industry from the inside.  

buck furton? just say it already........

FUCK BURTON ride a NIGHTMARE (and bring all those dope protest signs with you)

ad space.

This ad rules... definitely categorized in the "when they were cool" section. Burton used an excerpt from Madonnas uber controversial book "SEX" and replaced the sex words with all that is snowboarding. The first word suggests what many may think...snowboarding is better than pussy.
"The ad outsmarted a culture consumed in one-upmanship with humor and unabashed confidence. By deconstructing the hype surrounding the undisputed Queen of Sleaze, it embraces a hand-made, raw composition that communicates an honest, quality vibe to the company's advantage."- AIGA

sexsells

photos: chris rose

sneakpeak

after endless amounts of work all season long we turned out this monster.
ryan finally gets to ride his snowboard his way, right before breck closes, awesome timing. cant do close ups yet but stop by the factory to check out the real deal and some other art.

if anyone has pics or video from the last railjam (ie. backflips over the bronco 2) get it to us and we will trade you for your best shots.

EDIT!!!!!
check out more art from Tom @ www.tomdenney.com
we love all the artists we have been and will be working with. i should have put this up from the beginning.

partydown

what are you looking at nick? u havin fun yet?

shit guys, what an impressive night. i cant even begin to list the tricks we saw go down, and i def cant remember where all that nightmare brand Donkey-Spit ended up. most importantly summit county stepped up and let us know exactly how much they like to party.
thanks to everyone's donations we are more than 35% of the way to the new miniramp addition (RAD). fuckfashon shirts were a hit (some even walked off on their own), so we are gonna have to get some new designs out there.
half the crew is still feeling the hangovers but all we can think about is the next excuse to rage.
until then take advantage of spring storms and try to catch up with us destroying some slackcountry.

collin has arrived

1. make sure your bindings match your hoodie.
2. spot check, make sure shits gonna look reeeeeal tiiiiiiiight (footy or not)
3. keep your shoulders droopy so it looks like you "dont give a fuck" whether you made the shot or not.
4. don't ask to "peep the shot" right after you eat shit
5. don't ask to "peep the shot" right after you landed shit.
6. don't let bryan borrow your memory card....yesterdays "banger money shot" just turned into a card filled with last nights dubstep show documented extra blurry.
7. keep asking if the shots "legit" and if its cool to edit using his shit while hes working on a completely different project.
8. don't ask collin if he wants to smoke a bowl while he's grumpy....you can figure that one out yourself...

bangyourhead

we have been really putting in our hours at the nightmare factory. trying our hardest to break new boundaries and produce the most intensely crafted snowboards. handmade, hand carved, hand molded and shaped. built from our hands and even other peoples hands. hands handling the majestic process from start to finish. handling tools and crafting boards identical from the last. from products man cannot touch and woven from threads of the earth through process that work our fingernails to the bone, its all been hands on. FUCK THAT BULLSHIT. we cut out some new shapes, cut out bases, put in some rad epoxy, made a rad core, filled it with some special sauce and smashed it all together with a machine space engineers built. now were riding these shits. fucking stoked. our wait is over to ride the thunder.

greg did it!

NEW SHIRTZ!

We have new shirts. Get at us to get at them. 15 smackers.

Everything Rad About Snowboarding Came From Skateboarding.....copyandpaste

lost&found

its been a while since weve had a party at the warehouse. avoiding cops, avoiding serving underage mall rats, jumping off roofs, bailing on the mini ramp, falling from the rafters, wrangling summit counties finest, dancing like bryan loftus, knife fights, broken hearts, misplaced egos, avoiding bryans penis, barrel fires, and reliving prom have all been memories to cherish again and again. there's nothing like the morning after.. whether you're waking up next to a terrible decision or nervously trying to clean the vomit from inside a strangers refridgerator (you could've sworn that was the toilet at 5 a.m.) its all fun and games until you lose your shit. While we all go through the same motions and all deal with the aftermath, we still get to deal with the after-aftermath. Part of that is sitting through the next morning getting visits and calls about the shit people lost in their carefree nite of partying with us. Usually nothing ever turns up. Well, today is someones lucky day! We found one of the 7 missing i-phones from one of those raging nights! after losing a layer of ice in our parking lot, we're happy we found your missing property. Come by and claim it! i think this things got 4g! and a custom touch screen.

dyesublimation party

we scored some sweet machines for our new print office. epson 4880 hacked with dyesub inks, standard 24" vinyl cutter for the most rad stickers ever. but how do we get all this cool art onto your snowboard topsheet?

lets remember back to highschool chem-lab. states of matter, sublimation, osmosis, dark matter, how hot your lab partner was/wasnt, how much you could drink at lunch, Bunsen burner safety.
here at nightmare labs we have been reviewing our old textbooks to try and get the highest quality topsheets for our decks. dye sublimation is the industry standard for printing on plastic products. the process involves printing on transfer paper and then applying massive heat and pressure to SUBLIMATE (solid to gas) the image into the plastic topsheet. the image becomes a permanent part of the plastic, so bash it, scratch it, dent it, the image is still vibrant.

so this process normally involves various specialized, expensive machines to be done professionally. we had the cheaper option to retrofit one of our snowboard presses so that we can use it to sublimate. after a week of fabrication and waiting for parts everything is finally together ready for testing .

steevie rasta came up to summit with his 4runner mounted metal shop to help us finish this project. we ordered bunch of steel and aluminum to press onto thin topsheet materials.
greg shows off our new bladder system for applying pressure. no air leaks at 40psi. i think he is just compensating for something here, you can be the judge.
pressure test with all the materials in the press. it is holding great and getting consistent pressure. all the layers in there serve a purpose to make sure that art comes out crisp and clean.
temperature tests were conducted at the end of the night. we managed to heat up our 3/4in aluminum plate to 350F (oven hot) in just under and hour and a half. no fires, nothing melted, success! next stop is the art department to print out graphics for the r.mccoy promodel.

be on the lookout for a sneak peak before it hits the snow.
dirty dozen. heavyshred. nightmare.

G.N.A.R(topia)

if anyone out there does not know the game of GNAR, please use google and educate yourself.
for the rest of you, welcome back grasshoppers. the guys at nightmare are trying to get some stuff together thats going to prove to be radical. help us out with this process, the more info we get the better the results.heres how you can help us out:
shred all the terrain in the map above
fill in names that we are missing (or think up new names)
shred again
take pictures and video
email everything you have to us at_ tom@strangesnowboarding.com
get published, do not pass go, do not become rich and famous

watchout for the sonic boom.

new hotness

old and busted

found this one sitting in the archives from just over two years ago. first splitboard project, first real backcountry experience, mila there to party all the time. the inserts were not flush, no inside edges, shitty broken morrow torch (foamcore). this board died riding down buffalo mountain from the summit, others have some and gone but nothing worth remembering.
sleds made it all fast and easy, burning arms instead of quads, endless pow at the touch of the throttle.
the real dream is an hour long run from the top of the world back to my door, no noise, no gas, exhausted.

new hotness
after almost a week working on this project all the hardware got attached this morning. dusted the old skins and poles off and set out from my backyard up buffalo again. the 6mm core and asymmetrical rocker help this monster skin up through the deepest of powder. powslayer sidecut makes for effortless turns on the way down. i didnt quite make it as far as i wanted (standby for technical difficulties) but with one day under the ole belt im ready for more and more.

the split was layed up with entropy bioresin (a new product for us up here in summit) they offer the same waterproofing and flex characteristics as the industry standard resin systems but are 70% bio based. better for the earth, better for us, pretty rad idea.
check them out here:
http://www.entropyresins.com/

split personalities

the nightmare/daydream splitboard is one step closer to riding a 14er near you.
we went oldskool with the powslayer design, but cut it in half (keepin the twoplankers happy i guess) 4 sidewalls, 4 edges, more inserts than jenna jameson could handle, lightweight, rockered, everything you need, nothing you dont.

get your skins and quads ready, the longest and steepest runs are a week or two away.


core(s) profile (not the final tip and tail shape)


sidewalls being attached to the left half.

the crew took some damage today. hoping for speedy recovery for some shoulders, ankles and feet.

plaidcollar work

there is a lot to be said of the "class" that rocks plaid and flannel to work, carhartt, bibs, chaps, snowpants, boots, whatever. you do you, we all have fun.
more work at the nightmare labs leads to some fabric purchases and 13mm of rocker.



sparkles in the topsheet
watch out for the warangler riding this beastie at the stone, preying on donkeys, slaying big line.


r.mccoy riding his promedel in the nightmare backyard

hey, if you didnt hear the jibberjamouter was really rad. true snowboard fun. keep comin out summit county we want to continue making this a dope local place to sesh and get shots.
jeff got some mag quality material, treat your eyeballs again and again.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernhardjeff/5409489900/

backcountry treasurehunting

the jibberjamouter was sick, thanks to the crew for shoveling for a solid week, thanks to everybody for throwin down. curt and kody got us all riled up and i think nobody went to work or even got out of bed the next day.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernhardjeff/5409489900/


meanwhile, back at nightmare HQ.
decks keep rollin out, different shapes, fresh graphics, getting the r.mccoy promodel all dialed in.

trailers and snowmobiles are frustrating, cold temps shut down all operations. extra layers and no snow make for stress out here in summit.

but today everything good came back to snowboarding.
earn your turns, explore, good vibes with the crew and animals.

kody taking a minute at the cabin, 2 new decks out on snow today.

pretty classy accommodations for the middle of nowhere, sleeps as many as u can fit and comes pre-stocked with treasures!
left some of our own and headed back down the hill.
shred till dead

soups ready yall

saturday the 22nd
8am-close
BYOB(breakfast, brunch, booze, boards......)
come lend a hand