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‘A Place For The Nerds’ — An Interview With Nick Sharratt of The Palomino

May 21st, 2020 · 12:45 am · 9 Comments

Interview by Farran Golding
Photos by Chris Mann, Rafal Wojnowski & Rich West

As we age, it’s easy to only remember the “big” changes: VX to HD, social media, Thrasher becoming the only magazine. The smaller ones are tougher to catalog, but when you think about it, had a substantial impact. In the not-so-distant past, “raw files” weren’t a “thing.” You couldn’t DM on Instagram. Polar was a small brand selling outline logo tees to the few who could get them. These things changing had huge reverberations, and in many ways, helped make “underground,” independent skateboard brands the dominant brands they are today.

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Hard To Choose One

May 18th, 2020 · 12:00 am · 1 Comment

Summer 2020 QS goods are arriving at skate shops now. Product should be in all of our accounts in the U.S, Canada, Japan and South Korea by the end of this week at the latest, but Europe and Australia will be a lil’ late. Check your Australian and European locals in early June. Please support shops via their webstores or if any are doing curbside pick-ups for product while they remain closed in some areas. Our webstore will relaunch with summer goods on this Friday, May 22 @ 10 A.M. E.S.T. Top spread via Prov Tokyo.

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A Running Tab of Dumb Brooklyn Banks Rumors + What Little We *DO* Know

May 14th, 2020 · 12:04 am · 6 Comments

It is no secret that we are living in a ripe age for misinformation. Though as of last week, when the most startling photos of the construction under the Brooklyn Bridge made the rounds, the publicly available facts about the fate of the Brooklyn Banks remain unchanged.

Unless of course, you want to believe that:

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56 Nights In Quarantine & They Was All Crazy

May 11th, 2020 · 12:00 am · 6 Comments

Photo by @sciencecock, who also has a story about what may have been the last session at the Brooklyn Banks before the pandemic took hold of the city, and construction began to dismantle the bricks. There’s currently a petition to try and save the spot. If you have any memories of the Banks, please post them on social and tag @nyc_dot #nycdot #savebrooklynbanks so they understand this is not just some random underpass, but a landmark to tons of people who have pilgrimaged to New York for it. Also FYI: This space has nothing to do with the Parks Department, so leave them out of it :)

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