Baltimore Report — Gang International’s ‘CMON YO’ Video

Esteemed QS readers will be familiar with the Gang International think-tank from their deep coverage of the Pulaski scene, and troves of footage from office favorites like Bobby Worrest and Kevin Augustine.

Jeremy Knott and Gang’s latest video finds them sixty minutes north of D.C. — in Baltimore, digging for more crustaceous, under-seen spots than the wide granite cathedrals offered by the nation’s capital. (Anybody pulling up to Baltimore looking for a nice lil’ ledge with two ends on smooth grounds is liable to find themselves a bit disappointed.)

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70 Peanut Butter, 30 Jelly — A Web Premiere of Mike Sassano’s ‘PFP6’ Video

📷 via John Vetromile

Mike Sassano and his crew have been making videos under the PFP (“Picture Fucking Perfect”) umbrella for fifteen years. Originally based in Westchester, and expanding their imprint into the city itself, PFP6 is their first video since 2018. (For any foreign readers: those are the immediate suburbs just north of New York City, about 30-45 minutes out with no traffic.)

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The POP Trading Company Crew iPhone Mix by Sneep

Back in pre-historic times (the early-2010s), when we were first making our cute lil’ tees ‘n beanies ‘n stuff, the crew at Pop Trading Company reached out to us, asking to be our first distributor in Europe, covering the Benelux zone (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) — and effectively helping propel QS goods beyond our local shop homies that were down to take the gamble on it. In the time since, they’ve pivoted away from distribution and into becoming a formal brand themselves, producing great videos featuring skaters from a pocket of Europe that might not get as much shine as some of the continent’s mega-scenes.

2024 brings them to the premiere of their first full-length video, POP.

QS is hosting a premiere of the video at The Palace Bar in Greenpoint this Thursday, August 1st @ 8:30 P.M. 21+ only. Thanks J.D!

To get hyped, Jan Maarten Sneep, also known as the mastermind behind the Memory Screen remixes, put together this iPhone mix of the POP crew for some B.T.S. from the full-length.

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Pour que tu m’aimes — ‘DEMBANDZ’ by Pagaille

For years, there’s been this “rule” in the QS charter that we won’t host any video over thirty minutes in length. It was a simple way to set a boundary on the amount of time we could spend vetting videos: a few hour-long videos is a pretty big chunk of the workweek, yaknow? But all rules meet an eventual exception, and today, the board of directors signed off on us presenting DEMBANDZ to the QS viewership.

Max Wasungu had mentioned that him and his Pagaille crew had been working on a full-length project — one that would feature his first proper *part*when we interviewed him back in February. It’s eleven minutes over the “limit,” but it’s so beautifully fried that it didn’t feel right to just cut a part out of it as a standalone thing.

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