Marcello Campanello by Matt Price 📷, jacked from the 18 East Copenhagen zine. Might be, idk, the “summeriest” skate photo in recent memory, and that felt appropriate as this one closes out.
Tuesday because Labor Day, etc. ☀️
Connor Champion and Josh Velez share a quick lil’ Barcelona part for Grand Collection.
“All I cared about was money…and then I jumped on a skateboard. And I was like, dude, I forgot how much fun this was. What the fuck was I doing? All that fucking money did nothing for me.” V Magazine is probably the least likely place you’d expect to find a profile of Eugene Kang and Terminal Skateshop, the shop he runs in Washington Heights out of his sixth floor walk-up apartment building, but it’s beautiful.
“Our parents always tell us to go on Shark Tank, but they would kick us out in a millisecond. We’re the kings of wasting money.” …aanddd GQ profiled Ayman and Osama from Carpet Company, as they wind down their first summer since opening their flagship store in Baltimore. [*insert obligatory QS idiom about if you can hop a fence, you can hop a paywall*]
Ish Cepeda dropped a quick New York part for Gas Giants since relocating out here. Park Avenue fakie heel was beautiful, and the Rick Owens pad ender has gotta be one of the best clips anyone caught there, especially with the pop right into the curb-cut.
FuckThisIndustry dropped a Cape Cod summer trip edit that includes a stopover at Eggs, F.T.I’s spiritual birthplace. Does it include Kei Tsuruta footage? Yes, it certainly does :)
Our correspondent Farran Golding interviewed videographer Chris Gregson about Marseille’s legendary Prato bowl, known to a generation via its status as a THPS2 level.
Slam City Skates has a #longform interview with new-gen Polar rider, Nathan Clancy, which runs down some of his favorite videos, photos and graphics as part of the their “Visuals” series.
For years, any time I’d have plans to skate someone and it started raining, I’d jokingly send them a link to that Phil Zwijsen rain part with a question mark. Kaede Terauchi’s “Eye of the Storm” part might’ve unseated the long-running joke. Some will call it a conceptual, the curmudgeons will call it a gimmick: everyone will say OMFG multiple times.
Boil the Ocean wrote about the CONS rumors.
David Reyes is the latest guest on The Bunt.
Actually, maybe the Kips Bay AMC is going to stay open? TBD.
Spot Updates ICYMI 📍 — New York’s the world’s most famous ride-on rail is done.
Quote of the Week 🗣
Inquisitive Gentleman: “I couldn’t tell if those guys were trying to fight me or fuck me.”
Jack Sabback: “They’re just surfers. That’s how they talk.”