That feeling when you got your QS Knicks hat in the first six months they were available and don’t need to send “any restock on the Knicks hats?” e-mails after they won the title • 📷 via Chad Moore
Greg Navarro and Jenkem’s video of profile of Ari Misurelli and Luca Mayer racked up over half-a-million views in less than a week. While it’s horrifying that they don’t have any friends their age who take skateboarding “seriously” — for context, that is about half the amount of views that the reigning S.O.T.Y’s part got in 7ish months. People wanna see the youth skate. Hopefully, that makes more of ’em skate, idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everyone’s favorite skater, Gus Gordon, has a new part out for Pepper Griptape. Best front crook in the biz probably, right?
“Fuck, it’s a lot more than a fucking Instagram account.” Skate Jawn has a #longform photographer interview with the resident Homies Network documentarian, Mark Custer.
Joey Marrone put up an extended GoPro edit of BTS stuff from a recent Enjoi and Jacuzzi tour in the Pacific Northwest.
Duplex uploaded the raw files from Jace Detomasso’s “Miami Leap of Faith” from 2022 + Sci Fi Fantasy uploaded 17 minutes of Jerru Hsu raw files from filming his Endless Beauty part.
“Once these banal liminal spaces and the anodyne suburbs in which they are still found took on an outsized importance to us and skateboarders around the world. And we owe so much of that to Marc.” Shona Sanzgiri wrote an essay for TWS about the suburban banalities in Cupertino, CA that Marc Johnson helped transform into landmarks with his Tilt Mode crew.
“A sense of the magic that can be made rolling and pushing and flipping a skateboard across a parking lot in the afternoon, or in front of a supermarket at night after closing, a school on the weekend in the sun.” Boil the Ocean currently has a Marc Johnson-themed edition of its summertime mixtape series.
The DOT began work on converting Avenue B between E. 4th and E. 12th into permanent Open Streets space last week. (Think like that section of Berry in Williamsburg between the bridge and McCarren.)
Spot Updates 📍 — The two-second bust wallrides at Lincoln Center are rubble now.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Another round of Marc Johnson loosies from 1994-2004.
Quote of the Week 🗣
Abstainer: “I can’t believe 7-11 didn’t have N.A. beers.”
Keith Denley: “I can. 7-11 is for derelicts.”
Dude he’s punk rock.