A lot of homie videos leading up to the most inevitable #1 ever. Knew it was coming the entire time and still laughed out loud when he did it. Holy fucking shit.
#7 is something that if you saw your friend trying it, you’d have to ask, “Um, are you sure?” That drop on the other side makes it so hairy. #3 best sound design in a skate clip 2026. Polls are closed. Congrats to J.P. on logging #anotherone. Everyone have a great weekend.
📷 Photo via Keith Denley
The 2025 Q.S.S.O.T.Y‘s Five Favorite Parts was a bit of a journalistic “My War.”
Not because he didn’t want to do it — he was really hyped to do one — but because he began getting in his head about what to include. Too many parts! Too much stuff he loved. (Speaking from experience, an abundance of beloved parts is better than the opposite experience: getting on a call with someone and it’s, “Umm… uhhh… what was that Jake Johnson part where he skated the thing again?”)
📝 Words by Mike Munzenrider
🎨 Art by Francesco Pini
Stereo Skateboards emerged in the early 90s as a jazzy, loose-trucked alternative to what had come before. Its first video, A Visual Sound, is a classic, but by the end of the decade the brand was showing its age. “All anybody wanted was stairs and cartoons,” says Stereo co-founder Chris “Dune” Pastras, speaking on the phone. His partner at Stereo, Jason Lee, had already departed to pursue an acting career, and the brand’s distributor, Deluxe Distribution, Pastras says, had other companies that were blowing up. “Maybe it was a sign of the times.”
QS goods arriving to skateshops now. Arriving internationally next week. Available via our webstore next Monday, May 4th. Photo via Laaaaabor ❤️
J.P. Blair‘s next video, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT (sounds like a Drake album, tbh), premieres at Cinema Village on May 1, with showings at 8 + 8:45 P.M. Flyer here. 22 E. 12th Street. Not to be confused with Village East, also on E. 12th Street, but further east.
“STAGEDIVE420” is a really sick all-NYC montage featuring a lot of homies and some pro homies by Daniel Star. Gabriel Fortunato’s two pole-jam tricks were beautiful.
Our friend and longtime staple of the Duplex universe, Dan Lundy, has a new five-minute Florida edit featuring Andrew Wilson, some wild Joel Minholz footage, the Andrew crew, and a bearded Pedro Delfino somehow not snapping his board on that final clip.
Slow news week on the front page despite long days logged in the content factory. Back on it next week. Merch arriving in shops now. On our webstore ~next week? Support your local until then :) Arriving internationally soon.
A lot of “CREASED” in here, as is often the case when Johnny drops a new project, but didn’t wanna get overwhelming with it especially after the tour coverage + the potential for an upcoming #trendwatch that maybe originated in it?
Have a good one.
