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Monday Links on a Tuesday on account of the holiday…

Quartersnacks makes a Knicks hat, and then the Knicks make the Finals for the first time in 27 years. Coincidence? Definitely not.

“If you’re painting in fear, that’s a bad state.” Antonio Durao is a painter.

Jermaine Whittaker has a new part with his 5301 CLT crew down in Charlotte, made in tribute to their friend, Nate Stout. Some New York dispersed between Carolina crust.

Two new ones from the next gens out of Europe: “BUG OUTTA HERE” by Moritz Ueberall and the BUG crew out of Hamburg + “Rustiq” by Stellavision, a young crew out of Paris. There’s some Trung guest clips in there too ;)

Kilian Zehnder’s “4M” part has a good batch of New York footy at the start. Switch flip back noseblunt is a demonic thing to try at Lenox.

“Each hours-long session spent skating around these modernist sculptures was, though we may not have known it then, closer to an immersive art experience. Spending time in or around these works of art, we generated new interpretations beyond the stated goals of these projects. The plazas, none of which was built for skateboarding, each produced new forms of public life, from the ground up, led by skateboarders.” Ted Barrow wrote about S.F’s demolition of the Embarcadero fountain for The Guardian.

Farran Golding was on the Mostly Skateboarding podcast to discuss his piece from last week on the mechanics of magazine covers.

“In 2026, anyone can make skateboards, but that doesn’t mean you have a brand.” Anthony Pappalardo the Writer did a series of case-studies on the last boom period of new skate brands in the early-to-mid-2010s.

Boil the Ocean wrote about the recent expansion of dad shoes, Nike cross-trainers, and ” mullet-era Andre Agassi models as anything designed with griptape in the equation” in videos like Panorama 4 and Hard Reset.

Village Psychic laments the closure of a totally fine Williamsburg burrito spot, which just happened to double as a museum of sorts for skate stickers from the last 25+ years. They still had Autumn and Metrospective stickers up in 2026!

And on that note, R.I.P. to Cozy’s Soup & Burger, which closes its doors next month. (“I am sick of Cozy’s. You order in from there all the time!”)

TWS interviewed Neil of Science Versus Life about his new book, ELSEWHERE, which is a history of skateboarding in the U.K. from 1987 to 2002.

Loosies Corner 🚬 — 20 minutes of Van Wastell loosies.

QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Wemby from half-court in what could non-hyperbolically described as the best basketball game of the 2026 NBA season.

Quote of the Week 🗣 “I never thought Shaggy ‘It Wasn’t Me’ would stick around this long.” — Zimmer on the Zeitgeist

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