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‘Utah, Get Me Two!’ — Andrew Allen’s Movie Matinee

Features & Interviews February 13th, 2025 · 9:00 am · 4

🔑 Interview, Intro & Video Production by Farran Golding

Andrew Allen is practically a longstanding field of study at QS. A few years back he spoke at length about L.A. High for our “Favorite Spot” series, which was followed by a written appendix of other bank spots he has frequented. However, recurring spots are just one aspect in an output with many layers.

Although Allen’s appreciation for Kathryn Bigelow’s surf-action-heist movie, Point Break, is widely recognized, there’s an intertextuality of movie nods spanning the last decade of Allen’s career in the form of video parts, music supervision, board graphics and even a cardigan worn by Ray Liotta.

The Wharf Report II — Michael Babbitt’s Maine Scene Video, “Idiot Boy”

Daily News February 10th, 2025 · 7:06 pm

You might remember us clamoring on about last winter’s sleeper hit, Sucks To Be You, which was a …portal into the skate scene in …Portland, Maine ;)

Michael Babbitt dropped Idiot Boy yesterday, a follow-up and even more refined portrait of the east coast’s northernmost place that could still be called a city. (69,000ish people.)

Vancouver Report — The Lazer Video by Lazer Distribution

Video & Remixes February 10th, 2025 · 1:50 pm

International distributions are not often the crystalizing forces behind full-length videos. But Lazer Distribution — the Canadian distributor for Limosine, Bronze, Stunt365, Genesis, 2riserpads, and Frosted Skateboards — took it upon themselves to make one showcasing the current generation coming up in Vancouver, B.C.

Destiny’s Child Traded Beyoncé To TLC For Chili

Daily News February 10th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 3

📷 via @newrosecretspots • Headline is via the best Luka trade joke

Primitive Video by Thomas Albin: one of humanity’s earliest ancestors discovers an anachronistic VX1000, and mankind is immediately advanced hundreds of thousands of years into the future to the partially unknobbed ledge that sits atop a four-stair platform between the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a Whole Foods. Otherwise, a really fun homie video that keeps its sights on the Normal People Spots of this city, e.g. there’s no Courthouse and the biggest set is an eight 💪

Pulling up to the Boston Aquarium ledges [as seen in decades worth of skate videos and The Departed] as an out of towner is a shared experience. Few places have as wide of a disparity between “omg that looks so fun!” when seen on videos, v.s. the “what the actual fuck are these cracks” when you arrive like Aquarium does, so it makes sense that the locals have the best clips there. Jerry Fowler, the Godfather of Six-Figure Ledge Skating™, breaks down the history of Boston’s crackiest ledge spot alongside from a who’s who of the New England skate scene for the latest Jenkins Log.

Live From Chicago — Vince Guzaldo’s Uprise Part

Daily News February 8th, 2025 · 7:57 pm · 1

This might be the first Saturday night dispatch from the QS office ever, but this one slipped under the radar before we clocked out yesterday, and is way too good to throw in a Monday Links round-up. Thrasher has it on the sidebar, but not sure why it isn’t all over our other colleagues’ platforms.