It is safe to say that when a city’s most famous spot is The Wire Spot, and the people who have logged the most clips there still express frustration with it, you don’t have exactly the easiest metro area to produce a full-length video in. And yet, generation after generation, Baltimore continues to produce incredible skaters, incredible videos, and a vibrant scene that shares an ethos with places like Pittsburgh and Detroit where there is this almost artisan quality to every piece of the puzzle — from the rub-bricked ledges to the videographer’s persistence that everybody get something for the video.
Vacant Street Blues is the latest from the Threads Idea Vacuum family helmed by Ben Schmidt. Threads has put in a decade-plus of VX’ing around the eastern seaboard until ultimately tackling the Baltimore full-length we have for you today. In it, you’ll find a world of craggily bank-to-curbs, streetside nuggets that had to be nursed into skateability, and yeah, maybe an occasion lunch-break at a marble monument.
Exemplary outings from Myles Willard (Vague had that one solo a few weeks back), Will Johnson and Josh Ferguson, with appearances from Baltimore fixtures like Chris Teta, Spencer Brown, Brian + Sean Powderly, Jason Spivey and many more ❤️
Myles Willard part (and rest of vid too) is great.