Wilton, Milton, the Carpet vid, and most obvious #1 in the history of obvious #1’s.
Have a good weekend ❤️
Third Annual QS Thaw Out Recap
According to Jersey Dave, this year was the best one yet, and Dave doesn’t lie.
It was also the first one where it didn’t rain! Third time really is the charm.
Thanks to Vans and Jersey Dave for having us.
🔊 Shout out to LQQK Studio for DJing.
🛠 Thanks to John Cruz for the pool coping Philly step.
🍗 Thanks to Super Pollo for cooking.
🍺 Thanks to Minnows for pouring.
📹 Video filmed and edited by Mike Heikkila.
📸 Photos shot by Johnny De Guzman.
🏀 Some photos of some friends below.
‘BRAT’ — The First Video By Carpet Company Is Live
Make skateboards, and people will ask, “who’s on the team?!”
Actually, it’s usually the first thing people ask when you start a board brand.
For the longest time, Carpet avoided answering that question, and kept forging ahead toward becoming one of today’s best brands by going against the grain: hand-printing and numbering every one of their boards that make it to the masses, engineering a custom-blank tee that you can quite literally feel the difference of when rummaging through your local shop’s shirt rack, and sticking to their roots in Baltimore, away from the hotbeds of the “industry.” Hell, they got their own building before they dropped a skate video.
Trust Your Kickflip
Nolan Zangas’ photography book, So Far So Good, is now for sale online.
Greg Navarro’s follow-up to 2021’s Upper West Side Curb Club, which was filmed entirely at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument, will be The Central Park Flatground Club, a video entirely filmed within the confines of Central Park’s 842 acres — a place not exactly known for its abundance of skateable objects.
“It can be a delicate dance to do something you love for money. I’m sure I could have kept my career going for a while, and it was tempting to do that because I was making really good money, but I felt strongly I needed to do something else.” Jenkem interviewed known goat John Gardner about leaving his pro skateboarding career behind so he could focus on doing mental health counseling. Godspeed, John ❤️
“New York was the one where I was, like, ‘Holy shit, these are skate spots.'” Closer posted up Farran Golding’s interview with Nelly Morville from their last issue on their website.
#QSTOP10 — April 26, 2024
Always kinda wince when filing these with two enders at 1 and 2, but like, sometimes the most popular thing on the menu is the best thing on the menu. Promise to wane off the enders next week. You’ve no-doubt seen them already anyway, as they come from well-traversed corners of the QS viewership — and everything else is pretty much from Thrasher this week.
Let’s go Knicks 🏀