You realize all that skate blogging was worth it when you see a 2025 teenager skating Reggaeton Ledges to peak Young Jeezy. “A Third Perspective” is a sick 15-minute, all-NYC homie video from Alim Orahovac and the youngs. [Being in a homie video where one of your friends varial flips and another tre flips the Flushing grate is a mandatory rite of passage in life.]
“The video is called ‘Still in Atlanta’ because of fools who moved to New York or L.A. and were on me about staying here, saying shit like ‘Atlanta is dead.'” Jenkem spoke to Atlanta skate scene ambassador, Justin Hearn, about the ATL scene and his new video.
More Sidlauskian spot nostalgia is what we need :)
Lee Madden remixed Sean Evans’ part in Orchard Skateshop’s The Trail video to give it some 4 A.M. in a sweaty Berlin basement vibes.
Skate Jawn interviewed Jersey Dave about his photography.
“By releasing such commandingly massive sweatpants footage so early in a fresh calendar year, is Carlisle Aikens effectively ‘clearing the field’ of potential competitors for the 2025 title? Will the ever-swingy pendulum of fashion once more doom us to suffer through footage in slim sweats — perhaps worst of all, in a faded camo print?” Boil the Ocean weighs in on the state of skating in sweatpants, circa 2025.
A bunch of our MTLien friends have clips in Charles Giroux’s “MÉTROPOLUS” edit, which includes some really sick footage from Alexis Lacroix and Zander Mitchell.
“Kemp argues that the distance skaters are willing to travel to go to the skatepark provides a good way to estimate the value of it […] So, if we consider MACBA a skatepark, which it has become more or less, and how people travel from all over the planet to skate it, the value of that plaza should be through the roof.” Simple Magic has some words about the MACBA renovation situation. Be sure to sign the petition if you have yet to do so.
Who in their right mind at this board meeting thought that putting SPIKES atop MTA turnstiles is going to stop literally anybody from hopping the fare? No wonder nobody believes them that congestion pricing is going to make the trains better.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — All of Andrew Reynolds’ 411VM appearances chopped into a three-minute timeline.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — It’s one big joke: Jokic to Gordon.
Quote of the Week 🗣
E.J: “We should do a trip to Singapore.”
Skeptic Traveler: “Isn’t skating super illegal there?”
E.J: “Everything is illegal there …except skating.”
dam so ur not counting ja over wemby either
A Third Perspective is so good ! ! they’ve been in the streets so much