📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photos by Greg Navarro, Kevin O’Dell & Mike Heikkila
Jeff Cecere is a filmmaker (Triple Or Nothing, This Is A Window, Mind How You Go) from Connecticut and raised in Florida, who is the creative behind the new board brand, Guest Room. I sat down with Jeff on a park bench and made a call to Caleb McNeely, the second part-owner of Guest Room to discuss the origins of their newest project ahead of their inaugural video, It’s All Perfect.
📷 via @latenitestars
SHIT’LL BUFF is a fire new homie video by Andrew Bawtinhimer. 80% New York spots, 20% …Georgia / Florida? (Could be off.) Lost of crust, lots of bangers. Josh Baker has an absolutely incredible ender section. The closing noseblunt, the ConEd trick, and the fact they managed to go through all that trouble to unlock a new route at Chinatown Manny, only to have the camera pan and you realize after all that, he’s still landing in cobblestones? Brilliant.
Young legend Eddie Vargas Jr. spoke to Skate Jawn about his switch ollie over the Copley Square Library Gap in Boston.
Did not want to go overboard on UNC spoilers, but figured three from three favorites that were posted on their respective personal Instagram pages were fair-game. Go grab the video. It is more than worth your five dollars.
Otherwise an obvious exemption to clips from the Primitive Park, a 11/10 backside tailslide, and an absolute sack-factory of a boardslide shove across the street from Essex Street Market that happens to just breeze by in a video like it didn’t defy all physics in 1.5 seconds.
Figure we let the Guestroom vid breathe a bit, right?
Have a good one :)
Guest Room Skateboards is the new venture by Caleb McNeely, Jeff Cecere, and Kevin O’Dell. Following the crew-to-brand pipeline that has lead to the creation of some of the most beloved brands in the QS hallways and beyond, Guest Room is an amalgamation of I-95ers putting in work around the corners of Jeff Cecere’s triple-feature slate from the first half of the decade: Triple Or Nothing, This Is A Window, Mind How You Go. If you were wondering why they didn’t go for four, getting Guest Room off the ground is your answer ;) Starting a hard goods brand is no small lift, so congrats to the crew on getting it done ❤️
📷 via Quinn Batley
Five Favorite Parts is always at its most interesting when it’s a study in contrasts. For instance, the ledge lord being partial to crust and hucking, or the Man With The Beautiful Push curating a slate of transition parts. Efron’s part in Violet’s “SQUEAKY“ from earlier this year was a mini-movie (probably the first time I can recall a theater erupting in applause for flatground lines); Efron’s favorite parts, though …those rarely make it over the two-minute mark.
