“‘The EP me and Thug [are going to] drop? The hardest duo since Outkast.’ The interviewer’s eyes widen. He starts to push back (‘Now that’s—’), but Quan cuts him off. ‘I’m not being funny.’ He presses. ‘I’m not putting too much on it. Hardest duo since Outkast.'” 💔 💔💔
“Every Saturday and Sunday morning I drive around drinking coffee and looking around the city. I’m always looking for a spot where you could put a little piece of concrete and see if it stays.” Skate Jawn interviewed our good friend John Cruz about life after Shorty’s, and the D.I.Y. scene in Newark, New Jersey.
Day one rider for Travel Skateshop [Rahway, NJ], Derek Patterson, dropped a new part for Bronson Bearings. Mainly NY + NJ clips, with a wild ender and an incredible hardflip on that drop-in gap over the street behind Pyramid Ledges.
Jermaine Whittaker has a sick new part out over on Vague, filmed and edited by Blaine Williams. Lots of Seward Park ledge tech-ery and great switch front shove form at the end.
Free has a new part + interview with New England crust evangelist, Conor Noll.
“In this bold and bilge-pumping year of 2024, with skating’s low-hanging fruits decades ago plucked from the great tree of tricks, Fitzcarraldo-style ordeals are becoming more commonplace in the hammer chase.” Boil the Ocean pontificates on Werner Herzong, Burden of Dreams, Ethan Loy, and white whales.
“They call me Takeshi 6ix9ine the way I skate Brick 9.” Pedro Delfino vlogged the end of a Deathwish trip that wrapped up in New York. Tekashi has his own set though, only it’s a ten.
“As a filmmaker – it’s kind of a toss-up between Shackle Me Not and Memory Screen (‘91), they really cracked open the format and tone and made a young kid and the culture think differently about the presentation and progression of skateboarding.” Mackenzie Eisenhower interviewed Jacob Rosenberg about the new exhibit at The Museum of the Moving Image about the history of skateboard videos. Now open to the public!
Kanin Garner and Shawn Powers shared a quick part filmed entirely in New York by Portions videographer, Austin Bristow.
ICYMI: Brian Panebianco has a new video live on Thrasher that’s effectively a who’s who of Philadelphia skateboarding, right down to the Kalis cameo ❤️
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Four minutes of loose Yuto Horigome raw files.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “My girlfriend’s dad just told me at the bar on Google Translate that whoever pisses first, pays.” — Dylgar on Lithuanian Drinking Etiquette
Rest in Peace Rich Homie Quan, one of the greatest bluesmen to ever do it ❤️
rip rich homie
rip quan music lives forever