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Keys To The City — The Making of Palace’s ‘DETROIT 313’ with Lev Tanju

Features & Interviews July 15th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 5

🔑 Story and Art Direction by Farran Golding
📷 Photography by Alex Pires and Polaroids (background images throughout) by Jack Brooks, originally published in the PALACE DETROIT 313 Photo Book

In the summer of 2026, an exhibition on the history of skateboarding at London’s Southbank Undercroft took place in a subterranean venue next to the world-renowned spot. In this corner beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, which was once part of the Undercroft itself, short films from communities connected to Southbank’s past and present played on loop. They were directed by and featured skateboarders the spot had incubated: the professionals whose careers it has been intrinsic to, the filmmakers whose archives present an ethnography of the area, the 100-strong crew of skate moms who meet regularly, and an atmospheric work by Lev Tanju, the founder and creative director of a generational entity born out of the brutalist landmark: Palace Skateboards.

7 Years In The Making — Palace’s “Detroit 313” Video

Daily News June 29th, 2026 · 12:25 am · 5

The “return” of the full-length skate video is something that has been forecasted on such a loop that we can safely conclude it was never at risk of extinction in the first place.

However, in this past month, two of the year’s marquee releases both clocked in at a few minutes shy of an hour.

Palace’s Detroit 313 video is notable because it took seven years to film — an eternity in the social media era, and an echo back to skate videos’ blockbuster “golden age” when two or three full-lengths a decade was a reasonable cadence for a brand.

At a time when everything falls under the label of “content,” it is easy to fall into a routine. We are all guilty of it.

One Fish, One Clip, C’mon

Daily News October 13th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

We built a longass box and are throwing a cash for tricks jam at Tompkins this Saturday, October 18 at 3 P.M. 📅 First person to one-foot crook the entire thing gets a hundred bucks.

Follow Filming, a new YouTube channel that does skate-related video essays, compiled a fifteen-minute dive into the history of something everybody reading this has skated at one point: “The Story of the Element Flatbar.” Farran said “It’s like 99% Invisible for kids who grew up skating in their driveway.”

New fifteen-minute video out of Pittsburgh, forever one of the most unique skate scenes in the country: “THIS PLACE SUCKS” is a new one by Gavin McGinty. Unique spots, thoughtfully put-together, and why do Pittsburgh videos always feel like they skate completely different shit than the last big Pittsburgh video you saw?

Detroit Report — Nick Rainey & Co’s “JonnyCa$hRadio 2” Video

Daily News August 26th, 2025 · 7:00 pm

Despite having only been to Detroit once — in February, amidst a government shutdown, at that — we really enjoy all the skateboarding that comes out of Detroit.

The city strikes a balance between the big midwestern city videos out of Minneapolis or Chicago, and the crustier forays from the Grains, St. Losers, etc. thinktanks. So while the Detroitians really love that perfect black marble manny pad, they’ll also skate a half-collapsed garage door like a bank, back 180 a wooden bump to bar with a literally four-foot runway, and merge into highway traffic after a switch frontside flip.

Detroit Report — ‘the POSE video’ By Cooper Vosburg

Daily News March 3rd, 2025 · 12:00 pm · 3

Trying to think of what’s done more for the aesthetics of the letter M than the University of Michigan, but coming up short.

Anyway!

“the POSE video” is a new project by Cooper Vosburg, the architect behind 2023’s “Can’t Have Shit,” and eminent videographer of all things concerning the current generation coming up out of Detroit, one of the most interesting stateside scenes going right now.