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Digging Through Atiba’s New York Archive

Video December 9th, 2025 · 11:15 am · 2

📹 Video by Adam Abada

Back in 2021, when we did part two of the oral history behind all the skate photos featuring the Twin Towers, we got Atiba on the horn to talk through a few shots from ~1997. In doing the digging for those, he happened to uncover a small cache of unscanned New York photos he forgot about because they didn’t feel like much at the time, but obviously took on new meaning as the years went by and the world changed.

In the midst of Atiba’s monthslong media tour promoting his latest Vans collection, we visited him at his office to see just what else he had in the stash from New York. For a guy who got started working in skateboarding in San Diego in 1995, headed into what can only be described as a “golden age” for print media, we wanted to know what he saw, shot, and remembered from this city that was generally only a novelty in an era dominated by the west coast.

Five Favorite Parts With Will Marshall

Features & Interviews November 12th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 2

📝 Interview by Adam Abada

When we were chatting with Will for his interview that ran back in September, we stayed on for a bonus Five Favorite Parts epilogue to keep on ice. Given Will’s closer in the latest Augustin Giovannoni-helmed Dime video, this week felt as good of a time to drop it as any ;)

Five Favorite Parts With Grant Yansura

Features & Interviews October 8th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 2

🔑 Intro + Interview by Adam Abada
📷 Photo by Cade Meyers

A lot of times, when we first ask people to partake in this series, they clam up; they can’t narrow it down to their actual five favorites. The spirit, however, is not to pin down everyone’s all-times, but get an understanding of influences.

By his own admission, videographer and WKND head honcho Grant Yansura said that if he were to actually pick his five favorites, it would be the same ones everybody says (you could probably guess em all – yes, Jake Johnson in Mindfield was one.) Without any further prompting, however, he coughed up a different set of five parts that he loves equally as much.

An Instant NJ Classic — Matty Hilzenrath’s ‘A 20 Of Regular’ Video

Daily News June 27th, 2025 · 10:21 am

🔑 Words by Adam Abada
📷 Photos by Matty Hilzenrath & Yusef Dwider

It is easy to imagine the title of this video uttered from a driver’s window to a gas station attendant. Twenty bucks can get you a lot of places in the only state where the law requires someone to pump your gas for you. In A 20 of Regular, the ground covered situates it in the echelon of great New Jersey videos. Its textures and rhythm call to mind great independent videos like the Grains series and Rust Belt Trap, but features enough of its creator Matty Hilzenrath’s personal touches to herald a skate videographer coming into his own. The 40-minute video lives and breathes its crusty spots, with extended time given to run-ups, landings, and the in-betweens of filming.

If U Kno — An Interview With Jasper Stieve

Features & Interviews May 22nd, 2025 · 12:00 am · 5

📝 Interview by Adam Abada
📷 Photography by Sam McKenna, Duncan Taylor & Neema Joorabchi

Jasper Stieve dropped one of our favorite video parts of 2025 — one full of some of the most impressive two-wheeled maneuvers that have been done in this city, including an ender that was truly shocking to watch, all the more for the fact that it didn’t involve fifty stairs or him kickflipping off a cliff. We did not give the part its proper due because we were OOO at the time, but after linking what feels like a dozen Jasper parts over just a few short years, it felt worthwhile to hit him up and see how he does all that.