The new Color Magazine / WeSC / Jeremy Elkin video, Elephant Direct is now online, through September 24th. But by that point, it will have been uploaded to nine different video hosting sites. Either way, it’s worth an immediate watch.

The program at hand is a fairly safe production, without anything even bordering on objectionable, unless you find a problem with “obscure spots,” which is what I have slowly learned is the rest of the country’s definition for the northeast’s remaining brand of skate spots. But, safety is basically what you would come to expect from a publication that called us out for editing a part in 2008 to Mariano’s song from Mouse, so there is little room for raised eyebrows throughout the video’s twenty-minute duration. There are a lot of Philly steps, flatground tricks in the middle of the street before olling up curbs, and a friendly reminder to everyone that Bradley Shepherd has been ahead of Dylan on the impossible circuit by about six years. And a few of these dudes absolutely massacre the Big O spot in Montreal. Footage from there never looked so insane up until now. Brian Clarke also manages to have one of the finer tricks in the video, even though it flashes by in three seconds, in the form of a back tail flip out on the median ledge at 111th and 7th. Proper emphasis on the closeness of the lamppost would have shed a bit of light on the difficulty of that accomplishment.

Features cameos from Leo Gutman, The Taj, German Nieves, and a few others. Torey kills it as usual.

What are the chances that Andrew McGraw was channeling Galen’s cuffed-jeans / construction orange and royal blue Adidas combination in this line? Probably ten out of ten. (4:58 in the preceding link, if you don’t know.)

This video kind of makes me wish we hadn’t written off Montreal in terms of skate spots on the last time we were up there in 2008, because by the looks of it, it seems like the only city besides New York and Boston left in the northeast with an excess of five decent skate spots.

Watch the video here. It wasn’t really working in Safari, but played fine in Firefox.