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Daily News December 13th, 2010 · 10:40 am · 19

R.I.P. OTB

Although hinted at in a post this past summer, you have one last chance to skate the black marble banks on Park Avenue before they re-do the northern end of the building with the new, unskateable high marble ledges. One side has a grate, the other has a barricade that you can move in two seconds.

Throwback clip of the week: The Nollie Flips & Jump Shots Promo. For a video that unsurprisingly never happened, and was destined to be the defining document of Miles Marquez’s confused hick phase in 2006, which was coupled with a chronic case of ADD where he would invite you out to skate and then decide to go play basketball mid-session whenever he passed a court.

What the future holds for the Fish, if and when it re-opens in another location. In the event that The Fish opens in a non-Ludlow Street address, many of the nicknames for the region — The Flood, Floodlow, Thuglow, The Bar-muda Triangle — will no longer be valid.

Below is a Flip cam clip from Matthew Mooney, who no longer leaves his Spring Street apartment. Features Benjamin Nazario, Galen Dekemper, a Jason Dill cameo, and Alexander Mosley, so it is more than worth your time.

Last week’s unforgiving block of February-like weather reminded me that three years ago, under similar conditions, everyone who has ever said the word “skateboard” was watching Fully Flared. It didn’t matter if you were from the east coast, west coast, or Europe, every single person loved at least some part of this video. It has held up surprisingly well, and despite initial skepticism, the intro is actually pretty cool in hindsight. Out of the two comebacks, it is a shame that Rick’s part wasn’t as prevalent among discussion (both then and now), because it has aged better than Mariano’s. A lot of that probably has to do with the overdone slow motion (out of the more prominent skate video guys, Ty Evans is probably near the top of the QS list in terms of the most re-watchable productions, this is an exception to that lofty distinction), but people kind of zoned that out because it had a grand redemption narrative or something. It’s strange enough to think that Yeah Right! is some twenty-three-year-olds’ first video, the fact that Fully Flared is a first video for a whole generation of kids is even more bizarre.

Some hits from the street via Mike Maroza.

Quote of the Week: “Your lips look like Bubble Banks. They’re full of cracks and ashy.” — Tron Jenkins

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19 Comments

  1. def. a jake interview. how about a Moya interview? words from the legend himself Toma

    also a Rob Campbell interview, with his reactions to peoples stories about him, everyone thats been skating for a while in NY has a good RC story

  2. I hate fully flared dude. I just can’t do the slow mo. I just can’t do it. I try to do it, I just can’t do it.

    I just can’t do the slow mo.

    Like, you don’t even understand.

    FUCK

  4. i’m a videographer and its hard for me to look past a lot of ty’s post y2k shit. i can see how he’d be bored with the vx but i feel he is pretty responsible for all this hd bullshit. thats rad big bill is still running the vx1000

  5. Loving Bill’s footage these days compared to the looks pretty much everything else that’s all super polished. But I think HD was going to take over skate videos with or without Ty’s influence – HD has been popular with the mainstream for years, was only a matter of time before it moved into skateboarding too.

  6. hello kids, I’m the worlds foremost ‘assman’, John Stagliano, a virtuoso you might say. So what am I doing here on a skate blog you ask? well I don’t know who this Fat Bill you speak of is, but I’ve seen format change from film to video to digital video and believe me, whatever format the adult film industry is using dictates what the rest of the entertainment industries use.

  7. Ya Rain Man was filmed on a VX. Who can forget Dustin Hoffman’s triumphant comeback. Still watch that one everyday before I go gambling.

  8. Fully Flared would’ve been much better had there been slow-motion footage of a kid eating a worm then vomiting it up at the beginning of the credits. Just to maintain a level of nostalgia and keeping it real. The clean, stylish aesthetic that the Girl/Chocolate camp has achieved throughout the years needs to be tarnished, after all. Those censored swear word boards weren’t nearly enough.

  9. i’m so bummed im not with those dudes on that road trip. they never invite me on any trips. i’m over spring st. will someone call me to go skate.

  13. ha why is it that every “older” skater seems to think he’s the only older skater. i’m 24 and yeah right came out at least five years after i had been skating. welcome to hell was my first video.

    oh and to buttman. incase you didn’t notice, trv 900 is the closest thing to a vx, mr. know it all.

    ha this is why i stay off sites. people are retarded.

  17. my first video was Osiris the Storm. It was cool i got really into wearing convertible pants, with the right leg short. New kids suck, other things that suck: 360 shovs, Fords Theater, The Green Diamond, lipslide combos and Aids.

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