KCDC has it for $15.
Went to Brooklyn for the sole purpose of buying this
November 28th, 2011 | 6:34 pm | Quarter-Diary | 2 Comments
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Tres Trill: Palace in Normandy
November 28th, 2011 | 6:00 am | Daily News | 11 Comments
In 1996, Kareem Campbell checked his pager between a backside tailslide and a nollie half cab over a bench. Throughout the golden age of Love Park, Stevie and Kalis often shouted each other out and engaged in conversations with their filmer mid-line. More recently, Phil Rodriguez kicked a soccer ball prior to doing an ollie on a turtle shell. These moments have gained infamy in the annals of skateboard video tapes and YouTube pages. And we’re still very much concerned with them today.
So one is left to wonder: Where will Chewy Cannon’s sequence of copping a sack, backside 5050ing down a kinked hubba ledge, and doing a nollie half cab flip on flat rank among the mid-line nuances most-noted by skate nerds?
Unable to track down Keith Nut and commission a 2011 update of his “Most Disturbing Rap Lyric of All Time” title-holder, as was used in their last clip, Palace was left to settle on New York’s modern purveyor of all things “trill,” and his song that may or may not be about their company. Additional music supervision is provided by Lil’ Wayne in his days of being more concerned with rapping well than learning how to skateboard.
The video was filmed over the course of four days in Normandy, a region that has not received much burn throughout French-set skateboard endeavors, at least when compared to Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, etc. The place looks covered with cool-looking spots and architecture though. The DVD of this is out there, you just might need to be in Europe to acquire it. Here’s the official web version.
Monday links will return on Tuesday. It’s going to be in the sixties for two more days, so you should probably go out and skate if you don’t have real life obligations.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: If anyone has details on the whereabouts of Keith Nut, please contact Quartersnacks, so we could book him for parties and begin work on a comeback mixtape.
An Interview With Jake Johnson
November 25th, 2011 | 9:30 am | Features & Interviews | 37 Comments
Sorry this took so long, but here’s an interview with the always talkative Jake Johnson. Some of the answers are long, and took a different turn from the questions, but you can treat it as an open-ended thing. Not having to worry about space is one of the good things about the internet. Read it in two sittings if you have to. Enjoy.
Just to backtrack a little bit…Everyone seems to move to L.A. or New York, why did you move to Pittsburgh?
After I messed my knee up, I just decided to get away for the recovery. In New York, you’re paying for your ability to move everywhere fast, and share space with tons of people. It just wasn’t worth it for me. My ex-girlfriend and my brother lived in Pittsburgh. I was seeing doctors there, I just felt comfortable moving there and hibernating. I think I work better in New York, but there’s a lot of value in having more space and you save a lot of money living out there. I don’t want to be a victim of rent forever.
You’re trying to buy a house?
Eventually, but my rent is really cheap as it is.
Is that where you’d most likely settle at?
I don’t know yet. I just signed another one-year lease there. I actually have a pretty sick skate house out there now, because I live with two young kids, Justin and Zach Funk. We have a mini ramp in our backyard, a whole house to ourselves, and central air.
You think you’re going to stay in Pittsburgh after this next lease runs out?
I do need to move back to New York, but I’m going to be traveling so much this next year. Right now, I’m paying $400 a month to have a whole house and a mini ramp.
Since you’ve been posted out there, do you want to talk about the scene they have in Pittsburgh a little bit? It seems like New York, Philly, etc. are nowhere near as rough as Pittsburgh is spot-wise. How was it adjusting out there?
It’s really small, I adjusted well. There’s One-Up Skateshop, and a crew of guys that skate for that shop. It’s like a dozen core skaters of all ages. There aren’t lot of people out there that are skating for any image, and most of the skaters out there are from very rural areas around the city. They’re just resourceful, country-type people. In New York, there’s a “scene” to everything, and you’ll bump into skaters everywhere. Being a skater puts you into a scene, like a network, night clubs, this and that. Out there, there’s nothing to skating except gnarly rugged street spots and a small skate shop. They drink just as much as people do here [in New York] or anywhere else, but there’s no scene to it. I relate to people from those sorts of areas real well.
This is already on every skate site
November 25th, 2011 | 9:28 am | Daily News | 12 Comments
But we’re going to post it anyway. Music supervision courtesy of Sundays at Sway.
By “2012,” they probably mean “December 2012.” Either way, it’d be a good thing to have for next winter. Lord knows everyone watched Fully Flared six-hundred times throughout the winter of 2007-2008. (Sidenote: Does anyone know the deal with DVDs and whatnot for that new Shake Junt video is?)
Featuring:
Vincent Alvarez, Brian Anderson, Kenny Anderson, Elijah Berle, Brandon Biebel, Chico Brenes, Devine Calloway, Mike Mo Capaldi, Mike Carroll, Daniel Castillo, Justin Eldridge, Jesus Fernandez, Rick Howard, Gino Iannucci, Marc Johnson, Cory Kennedy, Eric Koston, Sean Malto, Guy Mariano, Rick McCrank, Alex Olson, Anthony Pappalardo, Stevie Perez, Chris Roberts, Raven Tershy, Jeron Wilson.
Does someone want to make a funny pie-chart of how respective screentime in this video will be shared between those twenty-six people? What are we guessing in terms of runtime, 90 minutes?
Should be a good one.
