Bios/Resume

Words

    Print/Trade
  • Bliss
  • Carbon
  • Color
  • DC Shoes
  • ESPN
  • Fun Not Fame Publishing (No Comply: Skateboarding Speaks on Authority)
  • Game Room
  • Industria
  • Missbehave
  • Mass Appeal
  • Progressive Publishing (The Buzz On Extreme Sports)
  • Resolve
  • SG
  • Skateboarder
  • Skateboard Trade News
  • SkateBook
  • Sole Technology
  • Slap
  • Sprouse Bros. Code
  • Stance
  • Strength
  • The Skateboard Mag
  • TransWorld Business
  • TransWorld Skateboarding
  • TransWorld Skateboarding Business
    Web
  • BlogMental.com
  • BoostMobile.com
  • ChuckPalahniuk.net
  • DCshoes.com
  • emericaSkate.com
  • esFootwear.com
  • etnies.com
  • etniesGirl.com
  • etniesskateboarding.com
  • EXPN.com
  • Goofy Vs. Regular
  • Lat34.com
  • MonsterEnergy.com
  • MonsterSkate.com
  • PacSun.com
  • RobBrink.com
  • SkateBiz.com
  • SkateMental.com
  • SmallEmpire.com
  • StanceMag.com
  • STILab.com
  • TakeMeToYourProm.com
  • ThirtyTwo.com
  • TWSbiz.com
  • VitalSkate.com

Photos

    Print/Web
  • BoostMobile.com
  • ChuckPalahniuk.net
  • DLXSF.com
  • EmergencySkates.com
  • emericaSkate.com
  • esFootwear.com
  • etnies.com
  • etniesGirl.com
  • etniesSkateboarding.com
  • EXPN.com
  • Game Room
  • M Magazine
  • MatixClothing.com
  • The Skateboard Mag
  • TransWorld Business
  • TransWorld Skateboarding
  • TransWorld Skateboarding Business
  • TWSbiz.com
  • Vitalskate.com

Experience

Missbehave Magazine (New York, NY)
Staff Writer
March 2006—present

The Skateboard Mag (Solana Beach, Ca.)
Staff Writer
December 2005—present

Sole Technology (Lake Forest, Ca.)
Online Content Manager / Unofficial All-terrain Skate Brand Marketing and Team Manager Guy
January 2005—present

DC Shoes Inc. (Vista, Ca.)
Copywriter
June 2004—November 2004

Career Press Inc./New Page Books (Franklin Lakes, NJ)
Editor
July 2000—February 2002

Out of Bounds/Princeton Ski Shops (Scotch Plains, NJ; New York)
General Manager/Buyer
June 1998—June 2004

Education

William Paterson University (Wayne, NJ)
September 1993—December 2000

  • MA, English (Writing Concentration)
  • Summer Writing Institute (Journalism, Freelance Writing, Writing for the Magazine Market, Book and Magazine Editing)
  • BA, English Literature (Writing Concentration)
  • Awarded Honorable Mention: Fiction

Member of:

  • Editorial Freelancer's Association
  • National Writer's Union
  • Society of Professional Journalists

Computer Skills

  • Proficient in Mac and Windows
  • Content Management Systems
  • WordPress, blogging software, etc.
  • Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, PageMaker, Quark, InDesign, iMovie, and HTML knowledge

Bios

TransWorld Business
April 2008

PacSun profile piece
February 2008

Read a bit about etnies behind-the-scenes magic man, Robert Brink, then hope that you will grow up to be like him one day…

The man named Robert Brink goes by many identities and honorary titles, but perhaps the most alluring would be Online Content Manager of etnies.com. Hailing from New Jersey, he finally made it out to the West/Best Coast a few years back, much to the delight of the California skateboarding community.

Brink has worked as a freelance skateboard journalist since 2000, and has been skateboarding since 1989. In-between running a New Jersey skate shop and baking bagels, he managed to earn both a Bachelors and a Masters Degree in English and Writing.

These degrees proved to be useful enough to catapult his career in skateboard journalism, blowing up the system with articles in The Skateboard Mag, Mass Appeal Magazine and Missbehave Magazine, which he is also a staff writer for, as well as his fulltime job with etnies.com, etniesskateboarding.com & esfootwear.com.

If you mention his name among members of the skateboarding community, their eyes light up and their tongues spill praise (literally) – Robert Brink is respected for his skills with both the board and the pen. He has been credited with his aptitude for combining the two greatest loves of his life and turning them into a full-time career. Is everyone taking notes on this?

And now, thanks to a rad partnership with Brink and etnies.com, we bring to a close etnies Rider Month here at PacSun.com. We all hope you enjoyed the daily rider profiles and feel a little bit closer to the daring and awe-inspiring etnies skate team than ever before. Cheers!

–Sabrina Hayat

Missbehave
Autumn 2006

MissbehaveMag.com
February 2008

Skateboard Trade News
January 2005

No Comply: Skateboarding Speaks On Authority
December 2005

SG
August/September 2003

Strength
August 2003

Robert M. Brink by definition is a long, white, American citizen that looks like Carson Daly on a diet. He is approximately an inch or two taller than tall and for as long as I can remember he has been turned on by the pale, melanin deficient females from earth. I believe that he must enjoy the sight of girls' veins and the rest of their gorgeous circulatory systems. Rob and I have known each other's existences for a ridiculous amount of years now. If I'm remembering correctly I think that when we first met I may have still had my umbillical cord attached. Either that or I had just recently had it removed prior to our meeting. He's one of the few mentally strong people that I hang out with that can not only spell properly but, he also comes equipped with an arsenal of vocabulary to mow the mentally weak down with. This is cause he's officially bonafied and this cracker's got degrees yo.

Rob and I have grown through the years from young men to normal men and now he's pro at words and I'm pro at skating. Hopefully my intro was neither too laconic nor too verbose because I just want everybody to get a perfectly delightful dose of wordage about my friend Robby here before you read his Jack Curtin article. Juggle yak balls.
-Tim O'Connor

Stance
August 2002