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

🔑 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.

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Destiny’s Child Traded Beyoncé To TLC For Chili

📷 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.

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