At the Knick Game, Big Chain in All My Splendor

May 6th, 2013 | 11:55 am | Daily News | 15 Comments

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Did anyone actually root for the Brooklyn Nets this season? Did Hov only do that so hopefully you won’t have to go through that?

This article about the making of Kids and what happened to the cast since 1995 by Caroline Rothstein is better than the movie itself. It mainly focuses on Harold Hunter and Justin Pierce, but manages to catch up with just about everyone with any sort of role in the film. An absolute must-read for any nineties east coast skate nerd.

Mic-E Reyes talks about punching people and getting punched during his Deluxe team manager days in a new interview with Chris Nieratko.

NY Skateboarding checks out the new street-based skatepark in Woodhaven, Queens. It’s so street that they even knobbed the lip of the brick bank!

“Skate & Stuff” is a new 23-minute, New York-based video by William Shum with cool spots, lines in trench coats, and Sergio Leone movie cut-ins.

This dude Conor Holliday 5050s up the entire handicap ramp ledge at the Jersey City Post Office, among other things in a new part, and Josh Wilson skates NJ crust in a Justin White-ish edit.

As expected, Boil the Ocean weighs in on the sponsor resignation of the century, in addition to living a post-Pretty Sweet existence, Greco’s new part, and of course, Mark Suciu. “Is Mark Suciu actually a 40-year-old bro who had been quietly filming in various towns under assumed names over the past 15 years, and is the steady release of footage a sign that he may have died sometime early last year, leaving the executors of his estate to periodically drizzle out tapes to sponsors in a Tupac-like series of posthumous releases?”

To remind us of simpler times, we upgraded the quality on the 2009 Mind Field re-edit.

The new Russ Milligan part is super chill.

While on the topic of Canadians, we uploaded a standalone version of 2 Beerz and Bradley Sheppard’s part from Elephant Direct, which is also available online in full.

Spot Updates: The Penn Plaza manual pad is done for. Ten years later, and Reese Forbes still has the best trick on it.

QS Sports of the Week: “Delfino dunking on Durant is like going to another county and seeing that they have pictures of dogs on the money.” — @netw3rk

Quote of the Week:

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Sorry ladies.

A pizza place in Brooklyn denied Mayor Bloomberg a second slice of pizza as a protest to the soda ban. (Fake) news story of the year.

Canadians and Philly Steps

September 19th, 2010 | 3:40 pm | Daily News | 3 Comments

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.

Run Through a Hundred Grand Watching Matlock

August 7th, 2010 | 12:17 pm | Daily News | 4 Comments

Matthew Mooney in the trenches of Kings County wearing a Snackman tee – Photo by the Sweiss

Most importantly, this weekend you should watch Stephan Martinez’s part in the Film Me video several times before leaving to go skate. The skating is super sick, with good spot choices and an all around wide variety of obstacles. I was worried it would be edited to some electro nonsense, as the trailer seemed to have indicated, but the soundtrack choice is the best thing used all year. An anthem of the highest form, but you already knew that.

Chris Kent wrote an article about being eleven and starting to skateboard that might bring some of you back to your older days before becoming cool and quit skateboarding so you could make sculptures out of napkins in some Romanian village. Chris Kent is a pioneer of the backside feeble frontside bigspin out maneuver, so anything he says is worth reading.

Clearly having far and away the best tricks in the bunch is no longer worth winning these days. They give you a “fan favorite” consolation prize. Nobody else on that list is skating the Con-Ed Banks. Let alone switch. Disney is full of bums.

Do you want to buy the Autumn Bowl? The opening bid is $15,000. Removal and transportation not included.

“Elephant Direct” is a video coming out of Montreal that features Torey Goodall, Bradley Shepherd, and Russ Milligan. Most of Torey’s New York footage was probably filmed still drunk from the night before. Premiering in Montreal this weekend, in New York towards the end of the month. Brief art trailer here.

Can you believe we were actually dumb enough to skate this “spot” two years ago? Yeah. The proof is here.

Bangs is back. He’s not trying to take you to the movies anymore. Just meet him on Facebook.

Quote of the Week: Matthew Mooney: “I don’t really like Vado.”
T-Bird: “You should. Because he repeatedly asks your favorite question — ‘HUH???’”

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