The Good, The Bad & The Knicks

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.

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Miami! — ‘MONEYLINE’ by Justin Stout, A Video Supported By Andrew

Moneyline is the new Miami scene video from Justin Stout, the videographer behind past Andrew projects Rascal and Yastle.

The vid is anchored by heavy appearances from Josh Wolff, Rezza Honarvar, Victor Lustig and Henry Barco, alongside a wide net of familiar faces to anyone who’s gone down to skate Miami in recent years. And as those visitors can attest, stacking for a video in Miami month after month, year after year takes work — fixing spots, keeping an eye open nuggets unturned, and knowing that the best new spot might be some shit that only lasts for a week before construction changes it forever. A Miami video from a few years ago looks nothing like one from today. They skate that marble Brickell fountain that was all over videos in the post-COIVD era zero times throughout this entire video. White blocks? Zero. That gap into the street that was all over the Supreme Miami video? Nope.

So of course you gotta skip town once in while ;)

(And don’t you wish all security guards were like that guy?)

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God’s Hands — Duplex’s ‘SPOT DOCTOR’ Video

As any mogul will tell you: the key to productivity is a fat spot book. How small you can make the gap between “where should we skate?” and an answer will be the secret indicator of where you end up in life. People must see you about your business, commandeering an iPhone full of spot pins, and tell their children, “Now that looks like someone who’s going places!”

The Duplex dudes didn’t arrive at the luxury of being able to drop a whole other video between an oft-recurring Thrasher seriesthe most recent of which dropped three weeks ago — through sheer force or willpower. No. They backlogged every potentially skateable hunk of sun-cracked cement in the southern half of Florida to make the aforementioned gap as small as possible. (Never considered Florida much of a haven for cobblestone spots, but yeah, they found those, too.)

Idk if we’re reading too much into a video called “Spot Doctor,” but it rarely ever feels like they spend much time retreading old ground from past videos.

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‘DUPLEX 4’ Is Now Live

Photography by Scott Brothers 📷

The Duplex dudes out of West Palm Beach have been on an absolute tear these past two years, and still found room to kick 2022 into hyperdrive. DUPLEX 3 dropped this past spring, and in the eight months since, they’ve come back with a sequel, somehow expanding the crew even further — if the increased size of the crowd celebrating at the bottom of each stair-set is any indicator.

With so much of the December conversation steered towards a select few superstars’ productivity over the past year, it’s important to recognize crew efforts, especially when you can feel that giddy love for making skateboard videos permeate through the screen in the final product.

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