Photography by Andrew Miller & Adam Clark
Words by Nico Nolan

For the past 2 months our LP team and staff have been putting in some serious hours at our new compound. With everyone going above and beyond the call of duty there was one team rider that really earned our first “employee of the month” AUSTEN GRANGER. Granger has ridden for LP since day 1. With BODE MERRILL bringing him on within the first week of LP’s shred team being formed. Bode basically said he needed to have Austen be a part of the program if he was going to ride for us. Now 7 years later we have developed bonds the bonds that never break. Our crew is committed!
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For over 7 years AUSTEN has repped LP harder than damn near anyone. He has every shirt and hoodie we have ever given him and he pretty much sleeps in his gear like its a 24/7 uniform. He has taken LP from one side of the globe to another. You can’t buy this kind of loyalty! We take care of him and he takes care of us.

With LP starting multiple operations at the same time ranging from a print operation, photo/film studio, retail store and a office space… we were in dire need of round the clock work and randomly during the same week of getting the keys to our new compound Austen showed up asking if we needed any work? Next thing you know weeks/months are flying by and Austen has been logging 12-16 hour days, 7 days a week with 0 complaints. His work skills have ranged from carpentry,construction,weeding stickers, screen printing…you name it. This guy is legit!

From his previous 20 years of making skate board ramps and always building shit having him build our “bowl corner” for the cyclical wall in our new photo studio was hardly a challenge.

building frames for LP PRINTS

Weeding stickers for the rest of the team

Being famous for spending hours upon hours on his sticker jobs for his boards his attention to detail really shined through for anything that needed a meticulous eye.

Being LP’s first EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH we asked him what he wanted to do for his day off of work….Knowing that I had a heavy arsenal of fire arms he asked if we could go blow off a few thousand rounds at the gun range but not just a few thousand rounds of anything. He wanted the full run with some heavy artillery. ” I mean I’ve been fucking it up down here so we should seriously go blow some shit up today…I want to shoot a machine gun…50 Cal..shotguns…pistols…I mean that shit is rad and I want to fuck it up!”

Well if you live in Salt Lake City and “blowing shit up” is a hobby of yours… GET SOME GUNS is where it’s at! We loaded up the arsenal and proceeded to let AUSTEN have one hell of a lunch break.

NAZI ZOMBIES MUST DIE

M6O NO BIG DEAL

12 GUAGE 4 LIFE

AMERICA FUCK YEAH…..just rolling out of the gun range on state street. This is the look of one happy employee! AUSTEN GRANGER KILLS IT FOR THE LP!