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Love It When Gus Drops A Part — Gus Gordon’s Anti-Hero ‘VH18’ Part

Daily News March 18th, 2025 · 2:38 pm

Everywhere you look, you’ll see holistic proclamations of what “real” luxury is: peace of mind, fresh sheets, the freedom of choice, et al. [The point being that these are all diametrically opposite of Bugatti and Balenciaga.]

But what if “real” luxury in the Year of Our Torched Attention Spans 2025 — was having a job that you didn’t have to post on Instagram for.

Gus Gordon has been a consistent source of surprise ever since his opener in The Reuben. He inspires awe by throwing kickflip back tails in transition, finding a way to eek a back 180 5-0 revert in before hitting that skinny rail in Williamburg, and is generally one of the more creative frontside nosesliders working today. (Pretzel shuv out in the middle of the ledge while everyone else is waiting for the end? J’adore.)

Holler At The World

Daily News March 17th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

“Wasser has his ax, this is mine.” — DJ Duzit • via @homiesnetwork

“Creative = good? It depends a bit on the definition… If I had to choose, I would prefer simple and functional in form – creative and high-quality in implementation and look, with attention to detail. When in doubt, I prefer simple and reduced – but well thought out and with intention.” Bubble has a roundtable with a bunch of skatepark designers discussing how you balance keeping a skatepark “creative” and still functional. There’s a solid 10% of QS readers sharpening their knives for every designer of a local park that has only curved ledges and no straight ones…

Diet starts Monday. Last one I swear. Maybe one more. R.I.P. Mambo Bar.

Nelly Moreville posted up another iPhone montage. Heavy on skating in the snow.

#QSTOP10 — March 14, 2025

Daily News March 14th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 2

Been a bit of a Monday Links, Top 10, Monday Links, Top 10, et al. rut around here. Usually the start-of-the-year slow month comes in January or February, but those were actually …kinda active? March in 2025 for the rut, whatcanyado, yaknow?

ANYWAY — some backend stuff has been in the works, so things should be picking up momentarily. The later sunset truly does wonders for office morale.

As far as the countdown, we got one bookended by two tre flips, with the #1 easily lofting itself among the greats. (If you’ve seen the video already, you know what it is.) The “don’t post enders!”-crowd can fall back because dude’s board sponsor already hardposted it.

Life Is Just A Moment

Daily News March 10th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

via Tao

Pittsburgh spots make ConEd Banks look like MACBA. Mini ramps with tree branches for coping, banks that need ten sheets of plywood to get to, and cracks obfuscated by six-pack holders all in Justin Funk’s “SCORCHER” video, presented by our friends over at Vague.

“A split second after I took that photo both of those cats, like, mauled Aaron. He was trying to hold them together and it just wasn’t working. They scratched him so hard he was bleeding out of his forearm. He was over rounding them up, like, ‘I don’t think it’s gonna happen…'” Skate Bylines interviewed the mind behind Heckride for some B.T.S. stories and inspo talk around his photo book of skaters and their pets. Wishbone and Hashbrown are really good pet names.

Sk8Diary — Zach Baker’s ‘Baker 3’ Video [No, Not That One]

Daily News March 7th, 2025 · 12:20 pm

Many hands have been wrung about the decline of “third spaces” in America — the social membrane between home and work/school. Some of society’s ghouls have maintained that these interactions now thrive online, and it’s like, get a fucking life you data-mining losers.

For an activity that had bottles hurled at it by jocks in the early nineties, and had to proclaim itself as “not a crime” via bumper sticker for decades, in an age when your average person is afraid to say “hi” to someone IRL because The Algorithm™ has rotted a hole through their medial prefrontal cortex …skateboarding doesn’t look so bad anymore! We socialize! We get fresh air! We have …friends.

But there is another digital scourge encroaching upon skaters, perhaps even more consequential than the widespread breakdown of societal order. There is a disappearance of third spaces for our …footage.