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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. 

 

Travis Pastrana has a Big Sac

As it turns out, athletes from the NBA to the X Games use the LoveSac as a place of refuge and meditation before the big game, heated match, or sick trick.  Long time fan of the Sac, Travis Pastrana invited me down to spend a little time with him (which means I get to winch him out of his foam pit) as he prepared for the X Games...."Oh, and bring my Sactionals with you."  I believe were his orders.  So I loaded up his order into my Navigator and delivered it myself, hoping to get a few Rally Racing tips out of him.  I drove to Maryland to SAC TRAVIS PASTRANA'S PAD.

So in what precious little time off I do have I end up working with foam, and fluffing....at least this time it wasn't fluffing Sacs. (and it certainly wasn't that kind of fluffing either).  Travis' foam pit, filled with 40,000 pieces of cut-foam blocks (should've been Sacs), needs to be "fluffed" after each and every time he goes in on one of his attempts so that the next time the landing area will be as fluffy as the first time.  All I have to say is this: I watched this dude wake up, throw on a T-shirt, jump on his bike, get a 30 foot run at the ramp and bust a double back flip as his warm up trick...a trick that he originated 3 years ago and hasn't been caught up with until this year, finally.  This guy is truly the best in the world at what he does.  Oh - and if you don't follow action sports, just tune in to MTV this fall for the 2nd season of his hit TV show "Nitro Circus."  Who knows, you may even just spot a Sac there too.  In the mean time, check out this little vid of this, the 2nd ever episode of SAC MY PAD...

 -- Shawny D. 

ROLLED MY CAR INTO A RIVER

The LoveSac Rally Racing Team made its debut at the Idaho Rally this weekend.  We ALL entered the race knowing really only two things about Rally: Go fast & stay on the road.  Being that it was my first rally, my co-driver's first rally, and even my mechanic's first rally, I decided to make the pilgrimage first to my buddy, owner of LoveSac furniture, America's top Rally Car Driver & X-Games Gold Medalist, Travis Pastrana, for some Rally car tips at his house in Maryland over the 4th of July.  Unfortunately, between craning him out of his foam pit as he practiced his sick trick for the X-Games,  and getting cold-cocked by some rugby player that night in the chaos that follows fireworks & partying, all I could out of Pastrana was: "Go fast & stay on the road."  Well Trav, as my wife would tell you, I seem to listen to about half of anything.....we went fast, anyway.  

Hopefully the 2 videos below do a good job of explaining how the LoveSac Rally Fiero got upside down, into that river.  For any of you considering a career in Rally Car Racing I figured I would make this video in a way that would hopefully give you a glimpse into what the whole 2 day event is really like...as my YouTube Rally research only showed me a bunch of wrecks and some insane driving. There is so much more to rally it than that.  Tell me what you think, please COMMENT.  Check em out (stay tuned for the jump, crash, & slideshow at the end of day #2 video)...

To see all the pics from my first Rally or to download them visit: http://picasaweb.google.com/chairmansac/IDRallyPics709Filt# 

A HUGE thanks to our sponsors: Action Auto in SLC (who prepped my car and now has to put it back together), Spoon Me Frozen Yogurt, Franchise Foundry, Caballo Negro Energy Drink (which our rally car practically runs on), Team DI for the sick fire-suits and gloves, Loomis Solar (WOW did those helmets and the WATERPROOF dash-cam ever come in handy), and of course LoveSac Alternative Furniture Co....who pays my life insurance, etc.

Not to mention a BIG THANKS to: Ryan Money, my co-driver for life, you are AMAZING dude...oh, and you saved my life.  Bill Talbot (Dirty Billy) who can fix anything on wheels.  Jeremy Back, who thought he was going on vacation only to find out that Rally is a team sport.  Joe Loomis & Jenna who always just show up and help out (not to mention hooked up our Rally suits in entirety). My parents, who came, volunteered, blocked the trail to vehicles for 12 hours and who STILL hate the idea of this whole thing.  My partners, Nancy, Ryan, and the rest of LoveSac HQ for tolerating me.  And most importantly the women in my life, Tiffany & Lucky Anne...THE coolest chicks on the planet.

-- Shawny D. 

Is THIS Sexist??? comment & win

A few posts previous there were all kinds of great comments on our Mother's Day artwork.  Some  loved it, finding it cute, fun, and interesting; others absolutely hated it, finding it sexist, in poor taste, and offensive.  Here we go again with our Father's Day ad...Is THIS one sexist???  Comment here.   

ABOVE is our Dad's and Grad's ad and window poster celebrating father's day and graduation!  This is hanging in every store window now.  The Sac/Squatt Cover package that goes along with this art has over 300,000 stitches in a straight-stitch embroidery using 3 colors of black, purple, blue thread making up its unique "inked" design.  This is the first ever Sac of its kind.  But in this case, it is the ad/poster I am asking about.  What do you think?  Love it?  Hate it?  ALL comments are welcome, and the 3 comments that I like best (the funniest, most thoughtful or well-argued comments), will win THEIR choice of an Easter Phur Cover worth over $300 (Super, Movie, or CitySac) from our last Limited Edition Line, OR a $50 in-store gift card. All comments due by Monday, June 1st.  I'll annonce a winner by June 5th. 

PS: Hats off to designer Alex Hinton from Salt Lake City, UT - the baddest ink artist in the land. (That is NOT him pictured above)

I look forward to hearing what you have to say!  Don't hold back, either way.

-- Shawny D.

Hotel LoveSac: Using Sactionals as Beds!

The new HOTEL LOVESAC was constructed in less than 5 minutes and cost far less to build than the $1 Billion Yankee's Stadium we visited once they arrived.  My sister, Wendy, and her entire family came to stay with us on the East Coast this weekend--her first trip ever to the Big Apple and her kid's first time sleeping 100% on LoveSac furniture (parents took the guest room).  Check out how Sactionals and PillowSacs make absolutely perfect extra guest beds, in case you ever need one.  Here's how:

1. Have friends (or family). Or, as some have been known to do, use LoveSac furniture as your only furniture.  (Yes, my nephew, Tyler, is putting his Yankees ice cream helmet-cup on my dog).

2. Tuck in your Ottoman (lone Base Piece) into the L-corner of your Sactionals sectional.  Secure moste easily with clamp, alone. 

3. Move Back Pillows. Place mattress topper or blanket over cushions. Sactionals cushions are LoveSac soft, and definately large enough (roughly Queen sized) to sleep on.  A mattress topper to cover the cracks makes them softer than most beds!  Also, Sactionals Bases are flat on top, not sloped back/down like all other sofas...making Sactionals excellent guest beds.

4. Just add bedding.  My favorite are goose down filled comforters....available at LoveSac.com very soon, btw! 

5. PillowSac Rocker: multi-functional.

6. PillowSac guest bed by night.  Just place black Rocker Frame (upper left) on its side - stores easily.  Lay down on the PillowSac.  OR, the newest Khaki PillowSac Inserts from LoveSac are actually 1 foot longer than the Covers, making them exactly the size of a "Full" (or "Double") Mattress!  Take the Cover off and fit it with "Full" sheets. (shown below with Eskimo Phur Cover still on.

 

7. Just add guests. Matt & Jess out cold.

  

8. My dog chooses the Sac over any "real" bed any day.

PS: Don't forget to teach your nephews the lessons their parents won't: How to ride motorcycles and how to catch crabs.  :)

-- Shawny D.   - Manager, Hotel LoveSac

Jackie Chan Round 2

So I had dinner again tonight with my everybody's favorite Asian, (and hopefully biz partner) Jackie Chan in Beijing tonight.  Hopefully he can help me make the right connections to roll out LoveSac in China and help us take care of a 1/4 of the world in one fell swoop on our way to total global furniture domination.

I swung by his new place in Beijing after.  It is an amazingly cool mansion apartment with a view.  It is still under final construction, awaiting the interior designer but he has Sacs throughout.  Last fall Jackie was filming his new movie, "The Spy Next Door," in Albuquerque New Mexico.   They filmed part of it in a mall and they wanted a LoveSac storefront on the set.  Jackie ended up napping in a BigOne, and just had to have one, so his entourage followed him into our Cottonwood Mall store in Albuquerque where a LoveSac rising star, Mr. Any Morales hooked him up with Sacs for his pad here in Beijing. [ABOVE: Andy, his family & the NM LoveSac crew with Jackie on Sactionals.]  Jackie is going to have a sick Sactionals pit set up in his entertainment room, and Sacs in 3 or 4 rooms throughout the place!  It will definately be the pimpest place in the Eastern Hemisphere, no doubt.

Who knows where the partnership will take us.  We are certainly dealing with the heaviest of hitters her in China.  We've got big plans but I'll keep em under wraps for now.  I feel very lucky for this opportunity.  Yes, mom, I got you a personalized Jackie autograph.

Y'ALL DON'T FORGET TO SHARE A COMMENT ON MY "SEXIST" BLOG BELOW!!! - win something!

-- Shawny D.

[ABOVE: Just a taste of the grandeur to come.  Jackie got a personal fluffing lesson from the ChiefSac himself....that kinda came out wrong, yeah!?]

IS THIS SEXIST??? comment & win

Last month I asked y'all to comment on our bizarre take on Easter (see a few posts previous).  Some of you had some REALLY insightful comments, and I would love to get some more on this month's LoveSac ad/window poster: "Mom's Love Sac too."  IS THIS SEXIST?  Comment here.

I guess it could be viewed as sexist on a few levels...but without any hints, what do you think?  Or is it just cute?  Or just funny?  Or not funny at all?  What feelings/emotions/thoughts does our image conjure up?  Is it good for sales, or not?  Does it get your attention, or not?  Do you care?

Anyway, please let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment.  I read every one last time. I will send my favorite couple of comments (submitted no later than Thurs April 30th) one of our limited edition MOM blankets (shown in poster), just in time for Mother's Day!  Don't hold back.  Say anything you like, good, bad, or ugly (but no F words).  My "favorite" comments aren't always ones that praise our work.  I just like a good point.

Rock on (from the dark side of the planet)... I LOVE MY MOM!  HAPPY MOM'S DAY!

-- Shawny D.

MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice Bus Blog

Children of the 90's unite!  I'm sure that many of you, like me, had "friends" who rocked those genie-like Hammer Pants to dances in Jr. High School.  In my case it was the Holmgren twins.  Man, they could do the running-man like nobody's business...in MATCHING twin blue-with-sequen Hammer Pants no less.  WHAT a memory.  Well, I guess the next best thing to having Josh & Jeremy Holmgren to roll with is rollin' with the man, the myth, the legend himself, MC Hammer on the LoveSac Bus.  Oh, snap--and Vanilla Ice too!!!??? (more below)  What's even better, THE BUS HAS ITS OWN BLOG! That's right, save it as a favorite - check it everyday: http://lovesac.typepad.com/bus/ will keep you updated on exactly where the LoveSac bus is, moment to moment, day-to-day, which is valuable information if you like free stuff.  That's right, free LoveSac swag for anyone who catches the driver and says, "Show me your Sac."  There is also a "text me" phone number on the side of the bus that you can text the word "where" to and get the bus's location, in real time, anywhere in the U.S. & be entered to win our weekly drawings for a FREE SAC. 

  We have heard from a number of you die-hard Sac fans just might not be getting enough love from the Sac from my blog alone, so we've added Charlie (our beloved keeper of the bus, AKA luckiest job in the world) to the ranks of LoveSac bloggers, and he'll be keepin' you updated from the road via the Bus Blog.  He's lucky enough to be rollin' the open highways of the southern U.S. with the likes of upcoming pop-star and MAJOR HOTTIE Jesse James. (shown left)  That's right, JESSIE JAMES IS ON THE LOVESAC BUS RIGHT NOW!  Go Charlie.

Anyway, enough with current, relevant pop-stars...back to Hammer & Ice.  So a few weeks ago, our man, the infamous Mr. Samuel Salisbury, a virtual legend in Salt Lake City, Utah, put together a concert for the history books.  Sam brought in Vanilla Ice & MC Hammer for a very special one-night-only/ever sold out concert event.  The LoveSac Bus was rollin' deep thru the weekend with the Hammer Dancers, Vanilla Ice, and the Hammer himself takin' their own pics and rockin' the Guitar Hero on the way to their various party spots.  To see all the photos from this crazy event click here  to see the gallery at LoveSac.com with all the pics of Hammer, Vanilla, and maybe even YOU at this event.  Check out this little raw user-video (below) of this very weird event....and Sam, i gotta hand it to ya, no one throws a party like you.

Tiffany, Jesse (with a broken neck, man!), Dan, Chris, and all of you in the S.L.C. who made this go OFF!!!!!!!...........I love you guys.

-- Shawny D.

LoveSac Photo Contest VOTE NOW!

So for those of you just tuning in, check out my previous post to learn more about this contest we're having.   Cast your vote using the form to the left for whichever photo you think is the "cutest effing" photo of the bunch.  The winner gets HOOKED up with all kinds of LoveSac swag (as noted in my previous blog post).  THANKS to all of you who submitted, and to all of you who do the American thing, and VOTE!  Voting cuts off soon, so PASS IT ON to your friends.  -- Shawny D.   best contestant  and vote.
Click Full Screen contestant's name and descriptions.

He has more LoveSac than I do....

So it turns out that John, from Maryland, may not only be the biggest LoveSac fan, he may even be more of a fan than I am!?  How is this possible?  Check this out...

That pic to the right is NOT the LoveSac Arizona Mills Store.  That is John's house.  I don't even have every one of those T-Shirts.  And the LovePuppy (center, black stuffed dog with spotted ears)....talk about a Limited Edition piece of the Sac.  Back to 2003 for that bad boy.  And if you look really, really carefully, I see a Snow Leopard Table Runner on top what looks to be a G1 U-table.  WOW.  The only other person I know who has one of these obscure LoveSac creations is  my mom. 

But John is not just a LoveSac fan of yesterday.  He has all of the latest and greatest from LoveSac.  To the left we see that John picked up a 2008 "Grad's Package," otherwise known as the Black Velvish Demon MediaPad.  That is just cool. 

And to the right we see one of John's many G2 Sationals configurations.  Clearly John "gets" the flexibilty of Sactionals.  I mean, wha other furniture could work in a strange little space like that one...and then become a part of a Movie Lounger or Sectional in another room, or eventually in another house.  John knows his LoveSac.

...and an O-Lamp.  Now I know John is serious about his Sac.  I don't think most people even know LoveSac sells lamps.  (ok, a lamp).  On top of all that, it appears that John has a virtual stockpile of LoveSac Covers, accessories, even the very rare baby blue LoveSac beanie!

John is kickin' it LoveSac style, same as I do nearly every night, curled up with a Navy FootSac blanket and a laptop. 

In John's own words, check out his take on things...

I drop in on your blog every once in a while and I've seen the people who claim to be the biggest fan.  I always wanted to challenge that but figured I'd let the kids play.  I can't keep anything the same for long, I'm always changing up but starting after my first 6' sac and TonoLove I've gone through:

 

4 SuperSacs

3 MovieSacs

2 GameSacs (I think that's what they were called... they were square)

1 Big One

Sactional G1's

Sactional G2's

3 Squattomans

LoveSac runners, placemats, birds, puppies, footsacs, pillows, tubesacs, sodasacs, a LoveSac shag rug that I kick myself everyday for getting rid of, license plate frames, T's, socks, etc!

 

Covers?  As Adam at Tyson's once told me... "You've got all the good ones".  I can't remember what they're all called but I've gone through:

 

Earth Microsuede

Black Microsuede

Mushroom Plush Suede

Original Puppy Phur

Buff Puppy Phur

Black Bear Phur

Artic SnowCat Monster Phur (?)

Chewbacca Phur (?)

Pink Phur

Blue Phur

Leopard

Crushed Velvet

Black Velvet

Dirty Denim

SUC's

Twill's

Cord's

 

My current inventory is:

 

1 SuperSac with the original Puppy Phur, Black Bear Phur and logos on the naked sac

1 MovieSac with Mushroom PlushSuede & Black Microfiber

3 Sactional G2 chairs with black & earth microsuede covers and an ottoman (that used to be a sectional)

1 O-Lamp

1 U-Table (with old school animal print runner)

2 U-Drinks

1 Media Rocker with media pad & speaker sac

1 Pet Pad with black microsuede cover

A ton of old pastel placemats & runners

1 LovePuppy

A bunch of Lovesac zip's, T's, socks & misc apparel

 

Anyway, you asked for pictures so I snapped a few, and found some on my computer.  Look around, you'll recognize some of your stuff...

THANKS JOHN!  MY FAITH IN HUMANITY IS RESTORED BY SEEING LOVESAC'RS LIKE YOU OUT THERE. 

 

NEVER STOP ROCKIN' THE SAC!!!

--Shawny D.