♫ Wake up, take a sip of Ace of Spaces like it’s water ♫
After a twenty-plus year run on Ludlow Street between Hester and Canal, the photogenic bar that was most photogenically [switch] ollied over by Quimothy Cardona and most recently ollied over by Michael Carroll (also a one-time nearest spot to the G-Man’s circa 2009 flophouse residence, and the ender in the second QS clip ever), has been replaced by a much higher, un-ollieable bar (until Aldrin Garcia shows up or something…) Thanks to James from Labor for the tip.
Speaking of which — a few seconds of new Carroll footage in New York.
This edit was sick… Marshall with a new one featuring Kevin Bradley, Sage, T.J., Troy and the rest of the Hardies Hardware dudes. Skating starts at roughly the 2:30 mark.
This is an incredible undertaking. Over the course of multiple letters sent to him in jail, the Chrome Ball Incident managed to facilitate an in-depth, fully autobiographic interview with the currently incarcerated Lenny Kirk.
Best New Jersey trick of 2015? Via Paul Young’s thoroughly awesome Bleach video.
A heartwarming / potentially tear-inducing Christmas gift from the most astute golden era Girl/Chocolate nostalgists working today: Goldfish extras, remixed.
Village Psychic and Danny Falla did a wear test for one of the earliest non-Dunk Nike SB models. Shout out to everyone who stocked up on $20 pairs of these and E-Cues from Jersey Gardens circa 2003.
Monster Children interviewed the coolest skateboarder of all-time.
Odds & Ends… 1) Jason Byoun sneaks into the Brooklyn Banks. 2) Cell Jawn #19. 3) Raw footage of J John the Don in Philly via Bust Crew. 4) New York edit via Waylon Bone featuring a handful of the names you often see in New York edits. 5) Some new Rich Homie Juan footage in the second “Futur” edit by Yoan Taillandier. 7) Some “Sequence 1” outtakes in HD video blog #17 from Johnny Wilson.
Thanks to the crew at House of Vans for getting rid of the bowl that even people who are good at skating bowls didn’t like (i.e. Corey Rubin…the only person I know who’s good at bowls), and maximizing on all the space it freed up. If you have any New York-based friends who work for Vans, they’re gonna hate you by March ;)
“I even remember being quite shocked at the response during the premiere in Sheffield. I recall that there was a UK DC tour coming through and the same guys that owned the distribution that focused on DC – and all the USA board brands – looked heavily bummed at the impact the premiere made. It seems they might have been right, as the video was the heralding of legit UK companies.” Sidewalk with a detailed oral history on the video that more-or-less introduced an entire post-900/THPS generation of Americans to British skateboarding, Blueprint’s Waiting for the World.
Max Palmer made Skate Jawn-branded sewer caps that are kinda sorta skateable.
The Mira Conyo squad is premiering their new vid and releasing a new Heights-based skate zine uptown tonight. 4447 Broadway, off the 190th Street A train.
Boil the Ocean’s annual top ten video parts countdown is now underway.
Some progress shots of the skatepark being built in place of Fat Kid Spot.
How is this only happening now? Arizona Iced Tea officially has a skate team.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week: Ran off on the plug twice…
Quote of the Week: “Don’t walk up to me pretending like you’re going sober. I don’t care.” — T-Bird
Let’s end the last Monday Links post of the year off with 2015’s drunkest song.
P.S. In anticipation of #another #year, here’s one last chance to take 25% off the remaining goods in the webstore. Enter promo code “anotherone” when buying anything. Expires at midnight. Thanks for all the support throughout 2015.
That Quim photo is one of the best switch ollie photos ever
Yerr hardie gang tight, fuck bronze!
#trendwatch 2016 waaaay more #streetlife and #realhiphop music supervision.
I’m curious as to how many people out there actually give a fuck about Lennie Kirk. Dude was one of the most delusional, hypocritical, piece of shit humans to ever set foot on a skateboard. Seriously, fuck that lunatic.
Lennie was a great skater and he’s a good guy caught up in the system. He so blessed he found the lord. Im gonna pray for you zbornak, you need to quit that hate and judging. Peace.
I’m not one of those fools that complains about the state of skateboarding or whatever but it’s fucking pathetic how much you people let slide because someone is “a great skateboarder”
Not talking about QS specifically just a large majority of skaters who probably would’ve benefited from having a sister growing up
Jason Byoun & Genesis are the only ones who did any night skating this year.
Go ahead and pray for me, @Blessed, if it makes you feel better, but just know it won’t change the fact that delusional religious zealots like Lennie Kirk are everything that’s wrong with our society. Religion rules buy fear, and I don’t buy in to that garbage.
yo zbornak let niggas live how tf they wanna live. U cant control everybody, if someone says they wanna follow Christ then wtf is ur problem?? Stop being a white girl and let ppl live how they wanna live. Especially when its a grown ass man who can outskate you any day. Try listening a little