An incredibly slow week on the QS frontpage, an incredibly Euro-centric week on the countdown, and an incredibly bad week if you’re the body of a New York Knicks player.
If you follow Vague and Free, you’ve seen …most of it.
The pool coping Philly step is at Blue Park. If you grind it, you owe John Cruz a beer next time you see him. Thanks John! Have a good weekend.
Tao Ström dropped a new Julius Rohrberg part for Hjalte Halberg and Anton Juul’s brand, Dancer. Lots of creative approaches to classic Copenhagen spots, in addition to some new ones. Includes cameos from Hjlate, Ville et al. That ender is some real galaxy brain shit. Also spotted a vintage QS tee ;)
Daniel Wheatley posted up the trailer for his upcoming video, Blanket. Tom Knox! Charlie Birch! Nick Michael! Josh Pall! And Mingus Gamble has to be one of the greatest skate names of all time.
As a more grassroots sidebar to “Real Street,” the X-Games is [are?] hosting a bracketed video competition between local shop crews. The first bracket match-up is Baltimore’s Vu Skateshop v.s. Boston’s Orchard Skateshop.
Wilton, Milton, the Carpet vid, and most obvious #1 in the history of obvious #1’s.
Have a good weekend ❤️
According to Jersey Dave, this year was the best one yet, and Dave doesn’t lie.
It was also the first one where it didn’t rain! Third time really is the charm.
Thanks to Vans and Jersey Dave for having us.
🔊 Shout out to LQQK Studio for DJing.
🛠 Thanks to John Cruz for the pool coping Philly step.
🍗 Thanks to Super Pollo for cooking.
🍺 Thanks to Minnows for pouring.
📹 Video filmed and edited by Mike Heikkila.
📸 Photos shot by Johnny De Guzman.
🏀 Some photos of some friends below.
Make skateboards, and people will ask, “who’s on the team?!”
Actually, it’s usually the first thing people ask when you start a board brand.
For the longest time, Carpet avoided answering that question, and kept forging ahead toward becoming one of today’s best brands by going against the grain: hand-printing and numbering every one of their boards that make it to the masses, engineering a custom-blank tee that you can quite literally feel the difference of when rummaging through your local shop’s shirt rack, and sticking to their roots in Baltimore, away from the hotbeds of the “industry.” Hell, they got their own building before they dropped a skate video.
