We have shared some of Brendan Gilliam‘s moody autumnal edits in years back, but Pissing In The Ocean is the first full-length from his crew. Elisa Martini joins Gilliam video fixtures Nick Lane and Jacob Campbell for a video that bounces between a nebula of Ridgewood/Bushwick/Queens, industrial New Jersey, and a crew trip to Barcelona. Friends pull up along the way, and in the theater of the mind, it’s nice to think that some of these dudes just texted Gilliam on a Friday night, being like, “Yo meet me at this industrial park in New Jersey tomorrow at noon and I’ll try to film as many tricks as I can before I gotta go into work later.”
Beyond that, as the first generation of the QS office owes a minimum 20% of its flat and ledge tricks to Zeigfeld 1.0, it’s beautiful to see newer generations figure out ways to skate Zeigfeld 2.0, despite it only being 20% of the spot it once was. (The flat’s still nice though.)
And shout out to Campbell for managing to 5050 into the fountain made out of …rocks at Collect Pond Park (the park between the regular court and the Family Count on Lafayette and Centre), unequivocally one of the ugliest public spaces in New York City.
Vegetables are dope.
Previously: “Videobrain” (2022) “Life Starts Tomorrow” (2020)