Griffin’s Skate Video is a 34-minute New York video from the same young crew that brought you the “Return of the Genius” edit from the spring, beautifully filmed on a potato. [And/or maybe a Y2K-era digi cam?] It is a blend of the lovingly absurd (e.g. drop-in’s off U-Haul trucks, whatever 1:35 is) and some incredible skating (that 5050 then wallride line at 135th and Riverside!) And if you’re the old-man-yells-at-cloud type (“I don’t get it! Is it …ironic?!”), please do remember that DLX was doing the same exact goddamn thing twenty years ago ;)
Tristan Rowean dropped a new part for Free by Neema Joorabchi. Heavy on the New York clips, and your legs will feel tired just watching the second-to-last Fort Greene trick. Paine Webber no-push ollie was insane, too.
Jenkem profiled Milano’s Panorama crew in their latest video. It includes some P Tricky wisdom. (That candle store has got to be hyped that bump is done, huh?)
Obviously there is a legitimate civic matter here that needs to be handled by the Parks Department, but it is funny how the L.E.S. Skatepark puddle is approaching niche meme territory, a la how you could just post a photo of Myrtle-Broadway with a sarcastic caption five years ago and get 10,000 likes.
“Simon also went to America early on, but said, ‘The whole place was too warm and smelled like hamburgers,’ so he started to skate less and less.” Monster Children has a bunch of historic anecdotes from Elsewhere, the new Science Versus Life-helmed book about the history of U.K. skateboarding.
Ish Cepeda’s Gas Giants imprint did a road trip from L.A. to New York. Arriving to a Knicks championship is a beautiful thing. Also, John Dilo @ C-Benches is a cheat code.
Justin Drysen is the latest guest on The Bunt.
The Kips Bay AMC theater is set to close at the end of the year :( Shout out to the one homie that watched five of us walk in with a thirty pack to watch Gravity and didn’t say shit. Hopefully those outside beverages from twelve years ago have nothing to do with its closure.
On another note: See you in hell, Tompkins Blank Street #tfreport
Spot Updates 📍 — Maybe it’s nothing, but they locked up the Utica Avenue D.I.Y. Intel via Evan Wasser.
Quote of the Week 🗣
Pad Dowd: “What are you in town for?”
Jesse Alba: “We’re turning Evan pro.”
Pad Dowd: “Oh sick, who’s he turning pro for?”
Jesse Alba: “…Frog.”
It was summer. Now it’s autumn.