Sk8Diary — Zach Baker’s ‘Baker 3’ Video [No, Not That One]

Many hands have been wrung about the decline of “third spaces” in America — the social membrane between home and work/school. Some of society’s ghouls have maintained that these interactions now thrive online, and it’s like, get a fucking life you data-mining losers.

For an activity that had bottles hurled at it by jocks in the early nineties, and had to proclaim itself as “not a crime” via bumper sticker for decades, in an age when your average person is afraid to say “hi” to someone IRL because The Algorithm™ has rotted a hole through their medial prefrontal cortex …skateboarding doesn’t look so bad anymore! We socialize! We get fresh air! We have …friends.

But there is another digital scourge encroaching upon skaters, perhaps even more consequential than the widespread breakdown of societal order. There is a disappearance of third spaces for our …footage.

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#QSTOP10 — March 7, 2025

This one got filed early so some #important #releases got deferred until next week.

Switch crooks through bricks, impossibles into rocks, and isn’t in nice when someone who’s an “ATV” can throw some shit out there that still feels wholly out of the realm of their respective wheelhouse?

Shout to to Phil for paying homage to Meatball’s iconic 2014 bagel loss 🥯 …with weed!

It’s Grant Taylor dude!

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Detroit Report — ‘the POSE video’ By Cooper Vosburg

Trying to think of what’s done more for the aesthetics of the letter M than the University of Michigan, but coming up short.

Anyway!

“the POSE video” is a new project by Cooper Vosburg, the architect behind 2023’s “Can’t Have Shit,” and eminent videographer of all things concerning the current generation coming up out of Detroit, one of the most interesting stateside scenes going right now.

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