📷 via Liam Glass
For a media conglomerate that has done much travel into Canada for varying Glory Challenges, Bunt Jams and Classic Griptape business conferences, we shockingly have never made it to Calgary. “Not even that one famous House of Vans weekend?!” Nah, we had an event in New York then. Having only experienced Calgary from afar, it must be noted that Ben Blundell’s part in Cory McNeil’s Squad Massage video contains some of the most replayed skateboarding on the monitors of QS HQ, so we always have staff on watch for new rumblings in what has been described to us as “the Texas of Canada.” (Speaking of which, haven’t been to Texas yet either…)
“3wishes” is the new video for Ninetimes Skateshop‘s Calagry-based crew by Quin Ellul. It feels like a glimpse into the younger generation coming out of the city, but includes nods from the O.Gs (Riley Boland, Kevin Lowry, et al.) Like most Canadian city scenes, you can almost feel the mercurial high that the warm months and longer days bring permeating through the screen — a “I gotta get this trick into this roof right fuckin’ now because in two months, I’ll only have seven hours worth of daylight and below freezing temperatures to deal with” -sort of thing.
