Belated 2016 dive find 🌴 what a time
Nice to meet you, he’s an artist.
Hans Klein gave Skate Jawn the backstory to Khaw Wangkaji’s tre flip into the escalator bank at the World Trade Center, which was #1 on the final Top 10 of last year. So crazy that enough time passes where it’s just regular “you can’t skate here” security to new generations of skaters. Angry dudes holding machine guns used to kick you out for skating around the building before, never mind the inside.
The Japan-based Jhakx crew dropped their second full-length video last week, and it includes a five-minute opening section in New York that features Neil Herrick, Matt Militano, Chucky Lane, Connor Kammerer and other homies.
Zach Baker interviewed Petar Stantchev for Free. His signature dish is spaghetti carbonara. Don’t tell any of the guanciale purists that I made it with some Chinese sausage and frozen peas that were hovering around the fridge last week 😬
Two IG mixes worth your time: A Max Palmer-heavy dispatch from the Limo-verse via Enzo Kurmaskie, full of filthy snow + Eze Martinez has been posted in Barcelona and no bank is left unscathed in this one.
The front 3 over the Banks 9 rail in Myles Stampello’s Former part reminded us of one of the most underheralded Banks 9 tricks ever: Danny Supa with the elusive switch front 3 to close out his Mixtape 2 part — but it’ll also remind you that Tragedy rapped “Natas Kaupas, who could stop us” on that song. Though if you produced The War Report and were high-key the star of it, you can kinda get the pass on anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Science Versus Life made a massive interview-based book on the history of U.K. skateboarding from 1987 to 2002, entitled Else Where.
Our friend Gabe Tennen, who you may know from his time behind the counter at Labor, was on Jimmy Breslin’s son’s podcast [about Jimmy Breslin] to talk about his research on Breslin and Norman Mailer’s “51st state” mayoral campaign from 1969. Spotify link / Apple link.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Who needs Devin Booker when you have …*checks notes* Royce O’Neal!
Quote of the Week 🗣 “I can’t wait to get the Flinstones vitamins that I ordered while playing poker.” — Charles Rivard
Finally, rappers are shouting out Labor as the premier shopping destination that it has always been ❤️
Wow Angel Ortiz…thats the guy!!!!