Nelly Morville en route to the throne of best web edits of 2025. The spirit of Foghornleghornn and the sensibilities of today, plus a Logan Lara tech god clip, as a treat. If these don’t want to maker you skate with your friends, you need new friends.
“It seemed like the normal thing to do would be to pick one of those, something from my childhood. I wanted to pick a newer video instead. This video is one that has a lot of the things that I love about skate videos. You know that they’re all friends, that they skate together, and that they really tried to make the best parts they could.” — Andrew Reynolds on John’ Vid + more from Slam City Skates’ “Offerings” series.
Added Session Skate Mag‘s “SKALI” video, filmed entirely at “Skalitzer Straße” in Berlin — a flatbar lover’s paradise — to the QS One-Spot part map 📍 (Plus belatedly added Paul Young’s “Summer Of Philly Step” video filmed entirely at the BP Step in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.) Five more parts until we are at 100 one-spot parts!
A counterpoint to Natasha Lyonne’s note from her Criterion Closet about how you shouldn’t throw on Mike Leigh’s Naked alongside the skater you take home from Tompkins: maybe a two-hour movie of a guy ranting about how life sucks isn’t optimal one-night stand viewing? ;)
“I had shaky knee syndrome, you know, like skating a contest run but except it wasn’t a contest, like that. I was skating with one of the best skateboarders ever, MUSKA!” The Women’s Skate History site has a retrospective on Jamie Reyes, who was recently inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame, and was the first female street skater to be featured on the cover of Thrasher + much more.
“Welcome to the Circus” is the inaugural edit from Tacky Joy Factory, Leo Baker’s new company. Lots of New York clips, lots of Maspeth.
A boat racing / gambling arena in Midori City, two hours from Tokyo, built an exact replica of Third and Army.
Greg Hunt is the latest guest on Living Proof Radio.
“Skateboarding teaches us to accept, even love, impermanence.”
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Eight minutes of loosies from Cody Chapman, who just went pro for Anti-Hero + three minutes of Chris Milic loosies.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Welp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Quote of the Week 🗣
West Village Finance Bro #1: “That would be like …game changing.”
West Village Finance Bro #2: “Low key, game changing, bro.”
West Village Finance Bro #3: “Bro, it would like, change the game.”
(11 years later, we have the male sequel to the legendary “girls leaving brunch in the West Village” Quote of the Week. Yeah, we’ve been covering it being nice to be a West Village girl for years! )