Do you want to talk about ABSTRACT spots? What about parallels between SCULPTURE and skateboarding?!?!?
We’re talking about a knocked down street sign, placed on top of TWO, yes, TWO metal wired garbage can containers (one banked, one not) in front of a neighborhood grocery store and adjacent to a brick wall. And a 5050 on top of it all.
Shit just got real.
This will not be outdone for ages to come.
“Notice the Osiris logo? I’m trying to make it the best selling drink of all time, like the D3. I put an éS logo in there for the skaters, too.” — Pryce Holmes, creator of the “The Pryce Holmes”
Some Norwegians from Matix Clothing flew out to New York, and posted up a well-done trip montage on Vimeo. The most impressive manuver in the video is a 360 flip down that awful double-set on 39th Street and Broadway. Does anyone want to buy Quartersnacks a T2i by any chance?
Seldom-seen footage of the switch big flip over the Fish Gap. Apparently, it was in some Focus video New York montage. If it’s not on the internet, it may as well have never happened. It’s online now, so everyone could strike it off the “heard about it, but never saw the footage” list. Most of that list actually has to do with big flips.
Anyone who grew up watching E.S.T. videos and Metrospective clips definitely looked up to Danny Falla (a back tail backside flip out over the Flushing grate was pretty massive in 2002…there weren’t legions of Europeans flying in to do misty flip crooked grinds over the grate gap back then), so it’s cool to see him getting more coverage these days.
There’s a new, stupid up rail in SoHo. Someone is probably going to get murdered on it. It’s 100 times more dangerous than New York’s original [knobbed] Up Rails, and those were dangerous.
Michael Gigliotti put together one last clip before he says goodbye to New York and skateboarding for quite some time. Features mostly skatepark footage, Little Alex, and probably the last footage of Giglotti until his Mariano in Fully Flared-level comeback part in 2018.
Speaking of Gigliotti, The Shady One, and the Homie Pro, they have the finest section in the 40-minute Diamond Days compilation. Brian Delatorre has the best music/skating combo, and E.J. appropriately has the curtains. ¡TOMA!
“They Hollywood as hell,” says UNIS graduate Joakim Noah. UNIS should have taught him that the proper phrasing is “they are Hollywood as hell.” They probably couldn’t teach him much about being more effective on offense though.
Thanks to 1 Cigarette, Grey Skate Mag, Ethan Evans, Pyrex Vision, Recordings of Boardings, Network Skate, So Fucking Radical, 48 Blocks, Olson Stuff, NY Skateboarding, Kingpin (only ones who pointed out that Billy skates solely in Air Max 90s), Caught in the Crossfire, and Hella Clips for linking up out Memorial Day weekend montage.
Quote of the Week: “The world can’t end at least until the Knicks win a championship again. So we got a long time to go.” — Mike Bloomberg. Not to co-sign Bloomberg or anything, but he’s right on this one.
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The TWA Flight Center opened at JFK in 1962, and became a designated New York City landmark in 1994. People probably didn’t start skating it until some time later. It was designed by Eero Saarinen, who, diminutively speaking, also unintentionally designed two other New York skate spots: The CBS building, and the old version of Lincoln Center (the eighteen-stair hubba Heath Kirchart 5050ed in Sight Unseen, and a lot of marble benches that were probably destroyed during the renovation.)
We like to make a note of non-sensical inclines / skate spots in fancy buildings. Hopefully, there are many more to come.
These actually might be ravers. Or a hybrid of some sort? Haven’t spent enough time at Union Square since they re-did the back to really classify this species accordingly, sorry.
The Nerf guns are a nice touch though.
Via Tron Jenkins.
For the majority of The Real Back, Young Jeezy avoids the Rick Ross “B.M.F.” impression (yes, it was a strange turn of events) that he has been running with for the past year, and seems to have returned to the inspirational anthems he does best. The tape is going to receive a lot of airtime this summer.
Most American schools could have saved the part of their budget dedicated to graduation speakers by simply playing the intro song for the crowd of worrisome parents. Recent graduate unemployment is destined to fall if more of them listen to this for the whole summer.
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