Photo via Louie Lopez
The latest installment comes from the architect behind Converse’s Purple video, the people’s favorite masterpiece Looks OK To Me, and the two montages that get at least one or two replays in the QS office as inspiration anytime we have to edit something ♥
Related: An Interview With Ben Chadourne (November…err..2016..)
Been a bit slow around here on the front end of things — but we’ve had a good deal of stuff going on in the background that should bubble to the service sooner than later. There’s fifty Drought Is Over mixtapes, so we can afford to take a drought week here and there from regular programming…hopefully ♥ ;)
This week is dedicated exclusively to Ben Chadourne’s Purple video. All due respect to Yaje’s new part, the DC South America tour vid, and Tao’s new clip from Marseilles, but like the Login Lava edition that went live last September, the video is special enough to deserve its own episode.
(And even then, we couldn’t fix close to enough in there. Leave all your “What about ______?!” to yourselves.)
((Jk, you can complain in the comments all you want. Have a good weekend ya.))
Original Clips:
All clips via Converse’s Purple video [link] 10) Kevin Rodrigues 9) Zered Bassett 8) Brian Delatorre 7) Aaron Herrington 6) Sage Elsesser 5) Mike Anderson 4) Eli Reed 3) Louie Lopez 2) Bobby DeKeyzer 1) Jake Johnson
Previously: May 4, 2018
Words & Photos by Zach Baker
It is wild to me that a person could ever get to a point in their given field where they could even consider the idea of making something perfect. In skating, I’m reluctant to say that it is even possible, given the subjectivity that is part and parcel of anything creative. Be it the way a person holds their arms, or the viewer’s disapproval of whatever “bullshit fuckin’ trap song!” was chosen — in 2018, considering the our varied and fickle tastes, no video is going to make everyone happy. I doubt that the people involved in the making of Purple had any delusions in this regard.
Via Charles Rivard Ph.D.
We should be caught up with shipping all orders from last week by the end of today. If you ordered before the weekend and didn’t receive a shipping confirmation to the email address you ordered with, feel free to check in with us. Otherwise there are some loose sizes and hats left. Available at European accounts now. Arriving in Canada and Australia this week ♥ Thanks everyone for the support.
Josh Velez has a quick interview over on the Air Jordan blog.
“You want a toke?” “I don’t do drugs.”
Frog posted the raw footage and B-sides to Hjalte’s guest board part.
…and Ben Chadourne posted the full battle behind Franco’s nollie cab flip.
“Is the speed of Jamie Foy’s ascent, from amateur to pro and SOTY the same year, a reflection of or reason behind the breakneck pace driving skate media these days?…Could the nod to Jamie Foy also serve as a quiet acknowledgement that it shoulda been Fred Gall one of those years?”
Iron Claw is [not] having a premiere for their new video this Wednesday, December 13, at 122 Meserole Street. Two showings: one at 8 P.M. and another at 9. Teaser here.
L-O-FUCKING-L at your poor ass life.
Though Ride doesn’t do much these days apart from continue to ask us why Chicago isn’t a bigger deal in skateboarding, Slap brought back the article predictions thread for 2018. “Shake Junt hires Ty Evans for next video: Chicken Drone Nowison.”
Here’s a new one from Jake Kuzyk and all the Vancouver boys.
Theories is posting raw files from Elkin’s videos. First episode is fall 2010, and features Aaron Herrington, Leo Gutman, Quim, and Vert God before he started to GRoE.
Tony Manfre and Pat Stiner look back at Static 3 for its ten-year anniversary.
“Like the flow of posts through social media, skateboard graphics are inherently ephemeral. They are destined to be worn and scuffed and distorted until all that remains is smeared paint and exposed wood. But some images are designed to linger, if only in the imagination.” On the ascent of Polar Skateboards…as a menswear brand.
Jeff Lenoce still has that flick. Go make a stack or something ;)
New Bunt with Hermdog. You think the guy in the comments found the song by now?
Harry Bergenfield filmed a two-minute Carlos Mendoza part in L.A.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week: The end of Clippers-Wizards was a little nuts.
Quote of the Week: “Marriage? Fuck that. I’ll never get married. Unless she’s rich as shit.” — E.T.
Jamal Smith tweeted this one yesterday. Probably, haven’t watched it this decade, but remember that finally tracking down that Diamond D song was a pivotal prepubescent moment. Also, shout out to all the 2017 Kasperholics.
Photo by Manuel Schenck
Words & Interview by Zach Baker
It seems like yesterday that we were blowing on cassette tapes and using t-shirts to dust DVDs off. Even shitty 240p YouTube videos feel like they weren’t all that long ago. Technology has evolved at a downright sketchy rate over the past couple decades, and it’s fun to watch society transform in its effort to keep up. The ways in which we waste money, photograph our own genitals and ingest media have changed drastically, and both we, along those in charge of doing the creating, have found ourselves adapting alongside them.
Skateboarding’s past couple years have been defined by the Vimeo auteur’s surge in popularity. Guys like Johnny, Peter, Nick Von, GX — without sponsorship from a larger company or any real promotion — have been able to go out, film their buds and throw original, quality edits up on the web for anyone to see. Skaters meritocratically recognize what’s tight and show these things enough love that it has gotten to the point that these guys are actually turning their creative side projects into full-blown careers. They have not only shined a light on lesser-known scenes, skaters, spots and tricks, but in using the tools at their avail, upheaved the traditional means by which a skate video is made and watched. The industry has been forced to keep up with them, and shit, even hire them.
Ben Chadourne has been on a serious tip lately — belting out HD edits of the Blobys, the Converse team and most recently, the Bobby Worrest/Hjalte Halberg edit for Nike SB, a love letter to skateboarding’s greatest plazas by two of the best ever to skate them. And Chadourne, with his admittedly useless art school degree, taste for Rod Stewart, and familiarity with the state of New Jersey, couldn’t be more on-brand for this site. We FaceTime audioed all about it while he paced up and down his street in Bordeaux, watching the people pass by and being self-conscious about his English, which is nearly perfect.
What’s the last trick you learned?
Damn, I haven’t been skating that much anymore, that’s not good. I don’t know. Fuck. I’m doing the same. I’m working on my v flips because they’re trendy now.
What’s your favorite trick?
Fakie flips and ollies!
You’re from Bordeaux?
Yeah, it’s like a little Paris. It’s southwest, forty five minutes from the coast, three and a half hours train to Paris. You can refresh really easily compared to Paris; you can escape. That’s why I stay here.
What are a couple of your favorite French films?
You know this movie called L’Argent? It’s five short films in a movie, from different French directors. I like that, and La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz. I like Raymond Depardon as well.
When did you start skateboarding?
I started at a skate spot called Malraux, it’s like a skate plaza. I started with guys who were way older than me: I was 13 and they were around 20. They helped me out all the time, gave me boards and stuff.
Weren’t you sponsored?
Yeah, I used to ride for Nike SB and 5Boro. The first time I came to New York, I was 16 and I went to Tombo Colabraro’s house in New Jersey — the big skater house with the Ax Throwers, Andrew [McLaughlin], Willy Akers, Danny Falla.
