📷 Photo by Norma Ibarra
Poe had some of our favorite clips in Johnny’s “CREASED” video for SB, so we asked Poe what some of her favorite video parts are. The final selection brings it all full circle ;)
Category: Features & Interviews
What Happened to the Tompkins Vert Wall? — A Brief Franco Interview
📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Orlando Asson & Franco
Previously on the #trendwatch, we cataloged the Tompkins Tetris phenomenon that has been taking hold of the T.F. this year. Born from this cultural movement was a vert wall on the west side of the Tompkins fence, which many of you likely know as the Tompkins Hell Ride™.
Just when the excitement of the new obstacle was at its peak following the Jenkem Block Party two weekends back, the vert wall vanished overnight. We had no other choice than to call Franco, the vert wall’s principal architect, to better understand where and when this Hell Ride™ would continue.
Keys To The City — The Making of Palace’s ‘DETROIT 313’ with Lev Tanju
🔑 Story and Art Direction by Farran Golding
📷 Photography by Alex Pires and Polaroids (background images throughout) by Jack Brooks, originally published in the PALACE DETROIT 313 Photo Book
In the summer of 2026, an exhibition on the history of skateboarding at London’s Southbank Undercroft took place in a subterranean venue next to the world-renowned spot. In this corner beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, which was once part of the Undercroft itself, short films from communities connected to Southbank’s past and present played on loop. They were directed by and featured skateboarders the spot had incubated: the professionals whose careers it has been intrinsic to, the filmmakers whose archives present an ethnography of the area, the 100-strong crew of skate moms who meet regularly, and an atmospheric work by Lev Tanju, the founder and creative director of a generational entity born out of the brutalist landmark: Palace Skateboards.
Five Favorite Parts With Dick Rizzo
📷 Portrait by Jersey Dave
With this installment, Dick Rizzo is the first person to achieve what can be described as the E.G.O.T. of Quartersnacks content: a Five Favorite Parts, a formal interview, a Favorite Spot episode, a Deep Dive episode, oh and a #1 on a Top 10 🤝
Check out the obstacle he helped concept and Jerry Mraz built if you’re in Jersey City, too.
New Futures and Distortions in Time — The Mechanics of Skate Magazine Covers
🔑 Introduction, Interviews & Collages by Farran Golding
📷 Headline Composition: Román González by Alex Pires for Free Skate Mag, Momiji Nishiya by Allan Carvalho for Mess Skate Mag, Corey Bittle by Tyler Storm Brady for Skate Jawn, Alexis Sablone for Golden Hour and Brad Cromer for PLANK by Matt Price
Walking around chairs wrapped in merlot fabric, the waiters of L’Entracte Brasserie in Paris went about their morning shift, placing silverware and wine glasses, unfazed by the camera flashes of photographer Alex Pires.
The restaurant faces the Palais Garnier Opera House, a building that is almost two centuries old, and as iconic as other Parisian landmarks such as Notre-Dame and Sacré-Coeur. Outside the opera house, an image of the Palais Garnier’s façade was depicted on a temporary wall, producing an illusion the French call “trompe-l’œil.” It directed visitors to entrances above and below a stairway. Two hours before the venue opened at around 7 A.M. on a damp, December 2024 day, Román González threw himself into the temporary façade of the Palais, clinging onto a frontside wallride down the stairs.