Why go to a fine restaurant, when you can just stick something in the microwave? Why go to the park and fly a kite, when you can just pop a pill?

October 25th, 2010 | 12:09 pm | Daily News | 4 Comments

If you did not spend at least ninety percent of your free moments contained within this last weekend outdoors, you truly blew it. These are the last days of perfectly magical weather, so enjoy every potential morsel of it while it lasts, because sixty-two degree evenings (probably) aren’t coming back for another six months.

You’ve definitely seen Shaggy around Astor and Union Square for many years, he is a very distinctive character. He’s one of those dudes who has been around forever, and was responsible for some posters at the Banks that upset Ryan Hickey, Mike Hernandez, and others back in the nineties (apparently, there is no photographic documentation of these posters.) He wrote this quick article for Blackbook Magazine about working in the mailroom at Hearst Magazines, and moonlighting as a prominent Union Square skateboard personality. Also, last month, The New York Times did a profile on him and his life-long hobby of writing letters to the editors of various magazines (you may have caught them in Slap back when it was still in print.)

Jimmy Marketti put together this footage reel that covers the past few years. It has no order to it whatsoever, just a random batch of footage. Features Rob Campbell, Taji, Black Dave, and others.

There’s a gorgeous new marble ledge spot on 29th Street. Two backside for regular ledges extending past handicap ramps, two frontside for regular ledges extending way out over sets of three stairs. It’s not in front of a security window, but it will be. And no, this isn’t blowing anything up, because it’ll be a bust by the end of the week, if it isn’t already. Go have fun while you can.

Rob Harris interview via TheseVideoDays.

Here’s a quick edit from the Vans space out in Greenpoint. There is no real reason to go there until the temperature drops a solid twenty degrees. It’s too early to succumb to watching indoor footage, but go for it if you want to check the space out. The song jams though.

“Queens Finest” video via Steve Marino. This premiered back at the Queens Museum of Art event before the Maloof Money Cup back in June. Great montage, even though rap instrumental parts aren’t the best of looks. Play the original song with the lyrics over it and you’ll be good. “…while I be sippin’ gin straight in a plastic cup…”

Even though the Baracka Flaka Flames video is the ignorant viral hit of the week, the “I Go Hard *When* I Paint” video from the summer is vastly underrated.

Quote of the Week: “Do you want to buy a Darkstar helmet for $15? It’s $150 online, you can check.” – Bleeker Street Junkie

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“I had no idea the Bronx was under a tornado watch last night. Neither did this guy.”

July 24th, 2010 | 1:34 pm | Daily News | 5 Comments

Most people who make it onto field level on a regular basis are typically in the upper income bracket. And when the rain starts pouring (figuratively and literally), Lakers fan syndrome quickly sets in and they scurry off to their Towncars / BMWs and rush out of the Bronx. But occasionally, there is a drunken degenerate who works for prominent expensive tee shirt distributors, and who spends his free time filming skate clips for websites named after Little Debbie snack cakes, that breaks through the boundaries and makes it into the distant high-brow land of field level seats, thugs it out through nine innings of being soaked and leaves with a Blackberry that’s no longer under warranty due to rain damage.

Transworld ran a quick day-in-the-life-esque video of Eli Reed skating around the Lower East Side and sitting around the much beloved, Troll Triangle AKA La Esquina Park that has quickly grown into the number one sightseeing location in Lower Manhattan. Day-in-the-life clips need more lines like the one at the Popeye’s Ledge. They’d all be a lot more entertaining to watch that way.

Slappy Cove > The Courthouse Drop. If you like art, and are a part of the Slappy Cove coalition, Rob made a clip for you.

Hollywood trying to pretend like he’s not Hollywood. Anyone who spends the winter in or around Hollywood, is Hollywood. No one should be mad at it though, because everyone in New York wishes they could spend the winter eating good Mexican food in seventy degree weather.

The IBM Ledge is currently blocked off with scaffolding. New York likes being really indecisive with scaffolding, so you’ll either be able to skate it by mid-Fall, or you can start school in the Fall, get a PhD, and still not be able to skate it when you graduate.

If you’re still under eighteen, and into jumping over stuff, it may behoove you to know that the NYU gap got blocked off with a fence. There’s a gate there, and the gate isn’t locked, so you can still skate it.

Deathbowl to Downtown is playing up at Maysles Cinema on 127th and Lenox in Harlem on Wednesday, July 28th. It has been out on DVD for a minute, but runs for around $25-30, so seeing it once on a big screen up there might be worth a trip. It really should’ve been discussed or at least reviewed around here when it dropped, especially for how many times there have been complaints about the constantly post-poned release dates, but whatever. See it yourself and figure it out. The event page is over here. They’re doing some sort of demo with Shut, Zoo, and 5Boro at Lenox followed by a Harold Hunter tribute at the theater the following day as well.

For something that’s the finest news institution in the county, if not the world, The New York Times is so stupid sometimes.

It’s been a slow week, as you probably noticed by the two almost concurrent random links posts, but I’ve gotten caught up on importing footage, so hopefully there should be some actual videos on here soon.

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How many goths does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

November 2nd, 2008 | 2:17 pm | Daily News | No Comments

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Darkness rules.

This has been floating around for a little over a week, but they finally put up the long awaited clip from the Acapulco Gold / Instant Winner summer tour. Taji, Billy Rohan, and Charles Lamb went through Switzerland, France, and Spain, and all the footage from the trip is in the clip.

BD is one of the top ten skateboarders of all-time.

“Skateboarding For Gym Credit at a Manhattan School”

“stupid shit filmed on a digital camera for the world to hate on”

My hopes have become a reality. A Visual Sound on DVD in December.

There Will Be Blog

October 18th, 2008 | 4:10 pm | Daily News | 12 Comments

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According to the gentlemen from the 7th precinct, Astor Place, in the form that it has been beloved for over twenty years, will soon be altered forever. Some asshole in the city’s public works / parks department had a brilliant idea to put a bunch of sand all over the middle of the street, throw some benches and planters on top of it, and distinctly position these excuses for public spaces in the middle of the street. They already re-did the entire middle of the street areas by the Flatiron building (you could see the sandboxes for grownups to left of this picture, and from an aerial view, also to the left.) Well, Astor place is soon to fall victim to this unbridled act of stupidity. The entire Astor throughway, on the southern end of the cube, relative to 8th Street is going to be closed off and turned into a public park so a bunch of scumbags paying overpriced rent could sit there and drink coffee.

The History of Skate Shoes

Although this has the typical cringe-inducing outsider perspective on skateboarding that seems like it was previously written about some drunk daredevil who jumped gorges in the southwest, The New York Times published an article on Van Wastell.

Transworld likes Kevin

Police Informer posted the original article that accompanied the history of New York write-up from Strength Magazine back in 1996. Features the best olden-days New York photos you’ll ever see.

They also wanted to know what happened to Mike Wright. To answer: he’s at Virgin Megastore across from Union Square selling his footage tape and “I Skate NY” shirts. In the words of Harold Hunter, “My man is thirsty, son.”

Quote of the Week: “I talk to Thando all the time on iChat. He’s always lying there on his bed with his shirt off.” – Danny Weiss
“Ayyyyoooo” – Miles Marquez
“You heard me.” – Danny Weiss

New York Times Article: “Kickflipping Manhattan”

October 10th, 2006 | 4:03 am | Time Capsule | No Comments

I’m sure the majority of you would prefer some throwback photos or something of that sort, but I feel compelled to post this because over the past few weeks, I’ve seen at least three articles about how skateboarders are “hot,” and a fashion trend and all that.

This really is the best article I’ve ever seen about skateboarding by a person who has no clue about skateboarding. It was in The New York Times in May of 2004, written by someone born in 1950s who makes a living off writing about architecture. At the end of the first page, it’s easy to assume that it would be another few pages of conservative, desecrating landmark rants that you would expect from anyone whose dedicated their life towards admiring buildings, but it ended up being, far and away, the most open minded article on skateboarding written by a non-skateboarder, with regard to the generational gap, and the impracticality of a kid born in the late-80s going to Grand Central and staring at the ceiling.

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