Shawny D. ChiefSac

Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk

In my endless travels China is one place I have been to dozens of times now.  It is still a picture-a-minute.  Of all the many accidents I've seen (and been in) in China, this is the first time I've ever seen a milk truck disaster.  I love the Chinese version of a semi-truck.  Always open-air with a massive net over the top.  Clearly not so effective this time.

  Just another reason to back up traffic.

Now of all the burning cars I've seen (and I've seen many), this is the first burning car I've seen in China.  For some odd reason, when I used to live in California I swear I saw a flaming vehicle once a month.  In fact, one time I even saw the car in front of me catch on fire...I actually dialed 9-1-1 for them!  Then, when they pulled over and got out, we just sort of watched it burn.  

I mean, what do you do?  It's an oil fire and unless you have a fire extinguisher, the flames shooting out from underneath the car, threatening the fuel tank, are pretty much gonna do their thing.  In this case, the car must have gone up fast...not even a fire-truck on the scene yet.

China really is a picture a minute.  

The past few weeks at LoveSac have really just been all about the grind.  TONS of new product development work and office work...not much to write home about.  So I just thought I would share these weird photos I took on my trip.  Hope you enjoy.

 

Look.  It is a giant gold dog and a giant silver dog on the back of a flat-bed semi-truck.  

Look.  This is actually my absolute favorite China vehicle (see my blog about 10 posts previous for the entire list).  If you CLICK ON THE IMAGE it will enlarge and maybe you can see what is going on here. 

 It is a raw internal combustion engine driving the front two wheels directly, pulling the cab and truck bed behind it.  Much like a horse-drawn carriage, only pulled by a crude ode to the modern man, instead of a horse.  The best of these motor-carriages are actually turned by giant handle-bars that the driver holds onto, turning the whole direction of the entire motor/front-wheels part of it, pulling the driver behind.  THIS is the kind of thing that in another 5 years will be totally gone from the ever-modernizing China.

Finally, there was this fish.  This fish is very LoveSac. 

-- Shawny D.

Customers Do it Better

I’m always showing you what we can do with Sactionals and (what I think is) our wicked-cool LoveSac furniture.  Here are some Sac’rs personal pads as (is always the case): customers do it better….

This is one of our Colorado Sac’rs: Shane Moss.  Shane clearly has good taste.  Shane chose to go with our (now extinct) Puppy Phur, which was discontinued in late ’07 after P.E.T.A. found out just how many puppies went into making a seven cushion sectional like this one.  (Actually, this washable LoveSac Cover is 100% faux and 99% puppy friendly….its just a joke….its not even really my joke….I stole it from our FlatIron, Colorado store’s blog).

I really like the way that Shane chose to do a DOUBLE Chaise Sectional.  This is a position not even shown in our video of 69 Sactional Positions, which, by the way, was NOT an intentional attempt at college humor.  We literally just kept shooting positions in the white room until we had gone all day.  When we counted them up, guess how many we had!?   Yeah – we had to just let it ride.  BUT, the point is, even at that many, the seating possibilities stemming from LoveSac Sactionals go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on, etc.

This second Sac pad is none other than Mr. Jackie Chan’s place in Beijing China.  You can only barely tell (from the left side of the photo), but Jackie also owns a seven cushion sectional built out of our extremely modular Sactionals, all with Espresso PlushSuede Covers (our most popular fabric).  Jackie picked up a GRIP of LoveSac gear while filming his upcoming Hollywood release “The Spy Next Door,” in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  This film is sure to be a hit, largely thanks to his on-set naps on the Sac in the on-set LoveSac store shown in the film - - spoiler alert!

Needless to say, after experiencing the power of the Sac himself on-set, Jackie raided our Cottonwood Mall location and flew home with stacks of Sacs.  Now, as you can see, his whole entourage crashes on them after a long day of trying to keep up with THE most energetic person I have ever met in my life. 

Stores in China, you ask!?   Yes, we’ve talked with him about it.  Someday, it will come.

 Finally, we have Hank, from Salt Lake City, Utah.  I just happened to be at our Gateway location the other day and as I was handling some biz at the counter, Hank walked right up, and with confidence, bought himself a Sac for his upcoming college days….without even flinching.These are my kind of customers! Hank: college will never be the same...

-- Shawny D.