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There’s a re-up to the Alltimers going out of business sale. Includes $30-35 decks.
“I’d rather watch Dino push.” Not a typo. Real ones know :)
“Some people might not care about architecture and design and that’s fine. If they just like my skate parts, that’s cool. When someone knows the work I do beyond skateboarding, that means a lot because I probably spend more hours of the day with my head within that stuff. As I get older, well, my future definitely isn’t going to be jumping down even more stairs.” Our correspondent, Farran Golding, interviewed Alexis Sablone for GQ.
“By going out and still living, even if the situation is very difficult, it’s like a way to take control of the situation. To say, ‘No, even if there is war, I will still have my youth.’” CNN has a feature on French photojournalist, Robin Tutenges, who has been covering the skate scene in Ukraine since the war broke out in 2022.
Kai Kishi has a wild eight-minute part out right now, with a good batch of New York clips nudged in the middle.
Naquan Rollings has a quick check-in edit from his crew.
“I have noticed filmer friends will tell me their back is killing them these days. My back feels fine.” Must be nice! Andrew Murrell interviewed Daniel Wheatley, whose first solo video project is dropping soon, for Village Psychic.
The Mostly crew chatted about Frozen in Carbonite’s Wire Spot article that we ran two weeks ago. Shout out to the Home Depot scene from season four.
“It is all but certain that people will continue to drop out of school to pursue skateboarding. It is equally certain that others, now, will devote long academic careers to studying it. This bothness, these possibilities, can only happen once a subculture has died.”
Brandon Yuenger remixed the 16-minute Late Nite Stars L.A. trip edit into an express four-minute edit featuring Zak, Trung and them :)
Two-and-a-half minutes of Dan Drehobl loosies pulled from 411 montages.
Hoody hoo! The Skate Muzik podcast has a new episode dedicated to the Chomp On This soundtrack.
Spot Updates 📍— Columbus Circle got sandblasted + they ripped the steel stick out of the main ledge. Siri, play “Wax” by Juicy J. (Song’s not even good, but think of a better call to arms than Juicy J going “Wax! Wax! Put ’em on wax!”)
Quote of the Week 🗣 “I woke up being like, ‘why do my shoulders hurt?’ And then I realized I gave Max Palmer a piggy back ride last night.” — Rowan Zorilla
The QS office August listening, every year:
Love the loosies/compilation stuff lately, to spend that much time going thru so many 411s for the love is
https://www.simplemagic.ca/here-we-are-where-we-have-always-been/
Is skateboarding media only about entertainment? It may be too early too cast judgement on Chris Cole. However, it’s interesting that the skate media isn’t at least covering the story.
Also,I didn’t know until recently that Miles Davis was a terror to women.