[Less] Red Plaza via 📷 @dancercph
The Do Or Die D.I.Y. in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn is holding a GoFundMe for their next series of builds. If you don’t know about the space, Jenkem did a video profile of the crew earlier this year.
You gotta wonder what the reply rate would be if you hit your widest-spanning group chat suggesting you skate a …concreted-barrier-turned-spine under a bridge in Pittsburgh that you gotta shovel snow off of — at night. Those are the sorts of lifers found in Wyatt Nicholas’ One Jagged Loaf video out of Pittsburgh, with parts from Jay Pitser, Alex Nivison and Eli Campbell. Love the nollie flips in this one.
“This may be my least favorite spot of all-time.” You and everyone else, Josh. People will still insist on skating it at 4 P.M. on a Friday, though! Get inspired to get varial heels back in Skate Jawn‘s latest “$100 Chill” installment with Josh Sabini.
“I was heavily influenced by Mindfield. There were a couple of East Coast independent videos, Outdated and The Meadowlands, that I also took a lot of inspiration from.” Skate Jawn also interviewed Jacob Pulumbo, the architect of the new Dylan Jaeb Quasi part, which we now know was built on New Jersey inspo :)
That’s the third Skate Jawn link in a row, so if you haven’t realized yet, they’ve been doing some fantastic work over there lately ❤️
“I remember someone came up to me in New York and was like, ‘Dude, you’re the reason I moved to New York,’ and I’m like, ‘How do you know what I look like?'” Jenkem interviewed Nick from LurkNYC about his journey, move to Portland, and his new video, ULTRAMAN.
Added the Berlin Philharmonic section in Dan Schulz’s Berlin scene video, BACK THEN (16:55 mark) to the QS One-Spot Part Map 📍 Our friend Roland from Place says it’s been a bust forever, at least up until recently.
Naquan Rollings put together an edit of his extended crew skating Foy’s park.
Non skate-related, but if you care anything about the history of this city, go see Philip Hartman’s No Picnic (1986) at Film Forum, which was filmed in the East Village in 1985. It is playing until the 7th. Screen Slate has an interview with him looking back on the film 40 years later. “New York is all about change. Sometimes I’ll hear a young person complain about the change and I’ll say, ‘Move to Vienna if you want to live somewhere that doesn’t change.'”
Spot Updates 📍 — Looks like they wasted no time in knobbing the bump-to-rollercoaster thing at Battery Park’s new Wagner section.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — YouWillSoon compiled a mix of people skating in the Vans Valient in the mid-90s, all in the iconic white and black colorway (man, that Stevie line at Astor Place might as well be 100 years ago) + Brad Haze compiled a bunch of mid-2000s Alex Olson clips. Never really took him for a front board 270 out-er.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Jamal Cain over Jalen Duren.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “I always fall asleep watching Forensic Files around the first commercials. I’ve been waiting seven years to find out who burned the house down with grandma still in it.” — Bob Reynolds
Rest in Peace HavinMotion 🕊