You really gotta admire the commitment to the bit that he fully cleaned up the one he did at first for what sits at #1 this week. Otherwise, we got tricks on wood slats, slides down curved bricks, and a multi-sport line at the Marcy benches.
And to anyone else who went “oh my ribs” at the intro: he was confirmed ok by the submitter.
Our friends at Skate Jawn are hosting an issue #93 release party at the Long Island City D.I.Y. tomorrow. Flyer here.
Tanner Diamond — a favorite videographer in the corridors of the QS office — has a new edit out. It has somehow been over three years since his last one, spring 2023’s “PIECED.” That is enough time for us to have gotten sad about Coles moving away from New York, and to be happy about Coles moving back to New York. (Some of that footy feels like it may even be from before the first one even happened.) If there is one person we have as high regard for in the office as Lucas Puig, it’s Coles Bailey, so there’s naturally one person who should be skating to “West End Girls” again ten years later ❤️
📝 Words by Adam Abada
When thinking of some of the most iconic skate photos of the 2000s, it doesn’t take long to come up with an image by Mike O’Meally. O’Meally has yet to do a big glossy retrospective book encompassing his work, but in going through his archives, he had a different idea. After a 2018 photo show of symbolic imagery from his skate travels – where O’Meally donated profits to the FDNY’s Fire Family Transport Foundation – he decided he wanted to give back more to New York City, a place that helped grow his career and connection to the skate world. Mike had shot six rolls on September 12th, 2001 and thought there might be something there.
Marcello Campanello by Matt Price 📷, jacked from the 18 East Copenhagen zine. Might be, idk, the “summeriest” skate photo in recent memory, and that felt appropriate as this one closes out.
Tuesday because Labor Day, etc. ☀️
Connor Champion and Josh Velez share a quick lil’ Barcelona part for Grand Collection.
“All I cared about was money…and then I jumped on a skateboard. And I was like, dude, I forgot how much fun this was. What the fuck was I doing? All that fucking money did nothing for me.” V Magazine is probably the least likely place you’d expect to find a profile of Eugene Kang and Terminal Skateshop, the shop he runs in Washington Heights out of his sixth floor walk-up apartment building, but it’s beautiful.
We held a staff meeting to see if it was reasonable to give the same guy who backside flipped an insane gap in April a second #1 for backside big spinning the same gap five months later. The meeting lasted ten seconds after a chorus of yes.
There have been too many enders and covers at #1 lately, but in case you haven’t caught them yet, check Koston Eaton’s part in Cage Cocalis’ THIEF OF JOY (the skaters’ names in that video are incredible) + the closer in Augusto Akio’s “Ambiguous” part. All reasonable top billing.
And yes, Thursday’s releases were deferred until next week.
Have a good one ❤️ QS will return on Tuesday, September 8 after the Labor Day holiday.
