What a week. Labor announced that it was closing its Brooklyn location, DiVincenzo and Randle got traded, aaaaannnndddd the mayor got indicted.
ICYMI: We dropped a preview of the 2024 QS Cup last week. More details coming this week :)
Diego Najera, Brian Reid and Spencer Hamilton come together for the new Grand Collection edit. It passes as a blip in the edit itself, but everyone agrees that Brian Reid casually mannualing up the bank and over the barrier at the Front Street ledge makes zero sense in physics terms, right?
James from Labor is the latest guest on the Living Proof podcast + German Nieves was the latest guest on The Nine Club.
“You get the sense that he’s a strict adherent to each spot’s phantom ABD list while aiming squarely for the jugular every time.” Boil the Ocean wrote about Frankie Spears’ Honeymoon part, “a classical big-budget production from the early ’00s vintage.”
The big dog Mark Del Negro linked up with the Lookback Library to discuss his two magazine covers. Grom issue!
“In 2024, a few things have become abundantly clear: […] every brand affiliated with skate culture needs to have a metal inspired logo.” For the core-est of the core the Zumiez rack, Village Psychic tracks the proliferation of metal-ish graphic design across skate companies. (Safe to say that if you’re late to this one, you’re probably in the clear to now sit it out ✋)
The Rat Ratz homies are at the helm of the latest Jenkem mix. Still have some loose sizes of the QS x Ratz stuff over on our webstore, btw.
The most satisfying lock-in’s in the biz: some New York bangers in Nikolai Piombo’s five-minute part for Adidas, including likely the best trick ever done at the Wall Street ledge over the dirt.
“Just breathe and try not to freak out everyone because it’s a lot, everything is a lot isn’t it?” Sirus F Gahan, the auteur behind Polar’s Everything Is Normal video, gave a “First & Last” interview to the Slam City Skates blog.
A compilation of all Keith Hufnagel’s appearances in 411VM montages.
Farewell, Solo Skate Mag, which announced their current issue would be their last.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “I looked at the food pyramid they taught us growing up. None of those idiots knew what going on. Was that thing a ponzi scheme?” — Josh Matthews