#tfreport via K.T.
Jenkem profiled the Utica D.I.Y. in Bed-Stuy and the people who make it possible. Anytime there’s footage of dudes buying concrete, I think about the time a Home Depot employee told the Shorty’s Newark dudes that they “look like Kings of Leon” while concrete shopping.
Added the Federal Plaza section in Polymer’s Lighter Than Air video — filmed entirely at the …Federal Plaza in Akron, Ohio — to the One-Spot Part Map 📍 Didn’t know Akron had it like that.
Naquan Rollings’ “$$$nine” edit is an all-L.A. outing with a mini Thomas Dritsas part + a heelflip surprise saved for the end.
ICYMI: Matt Militano and Zach Sayles dropped a new part on Free last week. Mostly Philly with a bit of New York sorcery at the Brooklyn Banks, the Battery Park rock bank, CBS, etc. Speaking of CBS, Matt shared the ender battle over on his IG.
Our correspondent Adam Abada made a part / short film of his selfie-filmed sessions and the interactions that came with them entitled “Earth 2025,” which feels emblematic of what the adult skater life in Los Angeles is like for a lot of people. “Porque no!”
“So he started doing a shit heelflip, then redoing it with a good one. There was a fine line between how shit it could be because there were some where the bad one was just too shit, we couldn’t actually use it. It needed to be an aesthetically shit heelflip, so he actually nailed the one that we filmed.” Slam City Skates is back with our favorite concept for a written piece in the age of endless skate video scroll: “tell us the stories behind the video you spent years working on.” Read “Backstory” with Jude Harrison on the U.K-scene video, Dayrate, released in conjunction with our friends at Vague.
“But Kevin Thatcher’s lasting contribution — the thing that, for better or worse, has made the leap from skate subculture to the mainstream — is probably the logo, which is one San Francisco’s most recognizable cultural exports. It’s a design that, like the famous Joy Division album cover, is endlessly spoofed, remixed and recirculated, far beyond the reach of the subculture that birthed it.” S.F. Gate has a piece about the history of the Thrasher logo.
Evilgiane did the latest Jenkem mix. He wants someone to skate to “Once Before.”
P.O.P. (Paradox of Praxis) is a multi-year spanning video out of the Washington D.C. scene that includes some of the most insane shit ever done at Pulaski.
Ryan Lay was on the Village Psychic “Visions” podcast.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — All boys with a time machine would use their newfound power to tell D. Rose to sub out in 2012, but Kevin Huerter took it a step foward into the future.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “Waxing is a good workout for my shoulder.” — Connor Champion
I lived in Akron 2000-04. Federal Building was usually bust back then, maybe get a 45 minute session on a Sunday evening.
Rad those guys unlocked the tall planters, I don’t remember anyone propping up the tiles before.