Eddie Vargas Jr. Archives

Stellar Regions

Daily News January 19th, 2026 · 12:00 am

This deserved its own post but dropped on a travel day: 10/10 style-out on that opening switch ollie, they got …graced with enough time at the Grace building 🥁 to get a line, and OMG @ that inward heel in “Double E,” a new Orchard Skateshop edit starring Eddie Vargas and Eamon Durkan, filmed by Ted Purtell. Mostly Mass spots, but they make it down to New York a few times. (That impossible in the West Village, too!)

Xavier Holte skates through the rock salt in a cruisey, all-NYC part for OJ Wheels.

Jenkem has a great feature on the next generation of skate videographers from around the world, including the New York-based Alim Orahovac.

Hurry Up Tomorrow — Orchard Skateshop’s ‘Crosshatch’ Video Rules

Daily News January 29th, 2025 · 10:05 am

With the world’s population of skateboarders rapidly approaching one billion, skate videos now, more than ever, are exercises in personnel management. Who gets their shine and for how long before we scroll to a “Pop The Balloon” video?

And skate shops — even moreso than the mega-teams housed under footwear giants — have to toe the line between the kids on team skating eight days a week, the O.G. who’s going for that last big score, the grom who you throw in to be encouraging, and the recovering maniac who’s been skating since the 80s that insists he’s gonna come out and get a clip before deadline. Before you know it, your video is four hours long.

Boston Report — Milan Solonenko’s ‘Dimlight’ Video

Daily News August 28th, 2024 · 4:50 pm

“Dimlight” is a new crew edit by Milan Solonenko and the new generation coming up out of the New England scene that gyrates around Orchard Skateshop. It includes an opening and closing by Jojo and Eddie Vargas Jr. respectively, two perennial QS-favorites who genuinely skate like they were plucked out of the friends montage in Mouse.

Boston is a city well-known for its ledges, technical ledge , and the close-up fisheyes that follow them around Eggs and Financial. Milan & co. seem a bit more interested in cuttier terrain throughout the city (and neighboring cities), with only one Eggs clip and not a Deathlens to be found — though it kinda seems like the QS newsroom’s default position is to be shocked anytime there’s a new Boston video with no Eggs footage in it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bird Needs Another Hour

Daily News May 20th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

Jiro Platt, Noah Pollard and Kaue Cossa go off in Naquan Rollings’ latest edit, “$$$ JAM UP EDITION.” Pretty much all New York clips.

“America’s biggest pastime is baseball, and we have a baseball field that changed over to a historic skateboarding spot. That says a lot for the future.” Jenkem wrote The Oral History of Tompkins Square Park.

“When the news first broke about the Malmö project using materials from LOVE, the reporting made it seem as though all the materials that were salvaged were going overseas, so there was some damage control needed there. The reality was that it was only a relatively small amount of granite that made it to Sweden – some tiles and some blocks. All the most significant features were never going to leave Philadelphia.” Free got the full tale of the Love Park marble being taken to Malmö and incorporated into a public plaza.

The Evolution of the Bondo

Daily News April 22nd, 2024 · 12:00 am

Trung Nguyen @ Cadman • 📷 by @rowan.lb

Would love to locate this guy to be the new interviewer for QS. First subject: Max Palmer.

Pete Spooner just dropped an extended cut of loosies from his new video, Sturdy. DVDs of the video are available now. Run back Various Artists while you’re at it, too.

Heckride has the first-ever interview with This Is A Window and Mind How You Go mastermind, Jeff Cecere.

Alexis Lacroix breaks down his signature “ski ride” alongside a compilation of third-eye-open insanity for Skate Jawn.

Stafhon, Diego, Gabe Thompson, Aaron Loreth, and David Stenstrom in Miami for Stussy.