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Q: Do you think that graffiti makes an abandoned building more interesting or detracts from it?

A: It really depends. A few weeks ago my girlfriend, her sister, and I went to this beautiful abandoned castle in the woods in upstate NY. It looks like something straight out of a fairytale. But when we got inside, we found that some kids had recently gotten in and spray painted racial slurs and poorly drawn dicks all over the walls. Why anyone would think that’s cool or funny to do in such a beautiful place is beyond me, but that’s the kind of stuff you see almost everywhere you go. Occasionally you will see some really awesome graffiti done by an actual artist, and it can really add to the over all mood and feeling of the room or building you’re in.

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FC: You also run a design-your-own contest, making you something of an open-source sock company.

CA: It’s been hugely successful, it was a super great idea, and I’ll pat myself on the back for that one. It’s so many wins. It makes my job easier, since people from all over the world are emailing us designs for a chance to win the grand prize, $1,000 plus the sock going into production. Our last contest, 2,000 designs were submitted, and we put the top 30 or 40 on our Facebook fan page. The fans love it, because they feel like they’re choosing the products, and it increases our fan numbers—we just reached 10,000 fans. So it’s just a win-win all around.