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Crab Cake Uncle

Daily News October 21st, 2024 · 12:00 am · 2

The voter registration deadline in New York is this Saturday, October 26. Yes, you can register online or in person 🗳

Really enjoyed this twenty-minute dad cam edit from the Quartersnacks Cup. The angle on the last races between Nick and John is especially great for a different perspective from the other HD or iPhone videos you may have seen.

2024 QS Cup Champion, Nick Michel, has a quick new part out for Thunder Trucks, which features a beautiful full cab, among other things.

F.A. and Converse hosted a $2,000 Game of S.K.A.T.E. Invitational at Tompkins two weeks back, and Greg Navarro covered it for Jenkem. Obviously, Tony Hawk won.

Five Favorite Parts With Matt Militano

Features & Interviews September 11th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

🔑 Intro & Interview by Farran Golding
📝 Photo by Zach Sayles, originally published in Matt and Neil Herrick’s interview for Vague Skate Mag #25

Journeys through cities are a defining characteristic of east coast and independent skateboarding videos. It’s palpable in Matt Militano’s footage, most recently his opener for Zach Sayles’ ethereal production Veil (voted one of the top ten videos of our 2023 Readers Poll and available as a hardcopy directly from Zach for the enthusiasts.)

While skateboarding that is, frankly, very difficult comes packaged with an inherent sense of sincerity, there has always been a playfulness to Matt’s skating — a byproduct of the more unexpected influences he outlines here.

‘It Feels Like You’re Both Getting The Clip’ — A Reappraisal of Fisheye Videography

Features & Interviews September 4th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 6

📝 Words, Interviews & Top Graphic by Farran Golding

Skateboarding found its first industry standard filming rig when the Sony DCR-VX1000 video camera was paired with a Century Optics MK1 fisheye lens in the late 1990s. Fundamental to producing every tentpole skate video throughout the early 2000s, a precedent for skateboarding’s visual language emerged and footage captured through a fisheye lens became the defining trait of skateboarding cinematography.

Eventually, Panasonic HVX and HPX cameras equipped with an Xtreme fisheye succeeded the VX and MK1. Popularized by William Strobeck during the mid-2010s, this change of filming set-up coincided with long lens videography becoming the zeitgeist. Observing the Quartersnacks Top Ten (our closest thing to a longstanding data set) evidences a decline in fisheye use over the past decade.

Quiet Days

Daily News August 5th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 3

📷 via @freddygall78

There’s a re-up to the Alltimers going out of business sale. Includes $30-35 decks.

“I’d rather watch Dino push.” Not a typo. Real ones know :)

“Some people might not care about architecture and design and that’s fine. If they just like my skate parts, that’s cool. When someone knows the work I do beyond skateboarding, that means a lot because I probably spend more hours of the day with my head within that stuff. As I get older, well, my future definitely isn’t going to be jumping down even more stairs.” Our correspondent, Farran Golding, interviewed Alexis Sablone for GQ.

“By going out and still living, even if the situation is very difficult, it’s like a way to take control of the situation. To say, ‘No, even if there is war, I will still have my youth.’” CNN has a feature on French photojournalist, Robin Tutenges, who has been covering the skate scene in Ukraine since the war broke out in 2022.

Five Favorite Parts with Ryuhei Kitazume

Features & Interviews June 26th, 2024 · 12:00 am

🔑 Intro & Interview by Farran Golding
📝 Photo by Changsu

Ryuhei Kitazumi had one of the coolest looking and sounding video parts of last year in Tightbooth’s LENZ III. His style and approach were born out of the black marble of the Japanese seaside plaza, Sega Mae, where the local Chatty Chatty crew set a precedent he keenly studied and would lead to finding kindred spirits all around the world.