Stuck In Manny Jail

📷 via @latenitestars

SHIT’LL BUFF is a fire new homie video by Andrew Bawtinhimer. 80% New York spots, 20% …Georgia / Florida? (Could be off.) Lost of crust, lots of bangers. Josh Baker has an absolutely incredible ender section. The closing noseblunt, the ConEd trick, and the fact they managed to go through all that trouble to unlock a new route at Chinatown Manny, only to have the camera pan and you realize after all that, he’s still landing in cobblestones? Brilliant.

Young legend Eddie Vargas Jr. spoke to Skate Jawn about his switch ollie over the Copley Square Library Gap in Boston.

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Lambo To Sombrero

History’s three most important skaters.

The goat was on The Bunt last week 🐐 (The goat is Zered.)

Screamed at the screen on the Terminator ollie attempt. (27th + 1st for those whom “Terminator” might not mean anything.) Australia’s Hoddle Skateboards ripped through Toronto, Montreal and New York to bring home an exceptionally fun trip edit by Majick Templeton. Shaun Paul does the Mariano Mouse credits trick, the boys skate a ton of diamond-plate in New York rather than the obvious stuff, and is that the first Times Square trick since the pandemic footy deluge from there?

Skate Jawn interviewed our dog and future beekeeper, Brian Scherer. (Loosely-related reminder for everyone to read the 2018 New Yorker article about the guy in Red Hook who manufactured Maraschino cherries and what happened after the local honey turned red 🐝)

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Better Extremely Late Than Never — Frozen in Carbonite Presents: Song of the Summer x Video Part of the Summer 2024

📝 Words by Frozen in Carbonite

As you might have read on this platform, travel is huge these days. Along these lines, this summer traveled hard as fuck. I drove to Myrtle Beach not once, but twice – shoutout Kenny Powers. I vibed out at the Outer Banks for a week. And most importantly, I bookended summer 2024 with two trips to New York [Fuckin’] City. The second, you can read about here. The first one was my annual sober-versary trip. When booking the hotel, I made sure to get a place with one of those rooftop pools. I mean, you never know – east coast weather is crazy [like]; in early April, it could be 85 or a blizzard might attack the city.

There is no middle ground.

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Recording the Ride — A Visit to Opening Night of the Museum of the Moving Image’s 90s Skate Video Exhibit

📝 Words + Photos by Frozen in Carbonite

Circles, bro. Life fuckin’ moves in circles.

June 1993: I purchase the VHS cassette of the Plan B skate video, Virtual Reality from Classic Boards (R.I.P.), ride my bike over to my friend Seb’s house, and promptly view the film. It is hard to describe the sensation of seeing the triple-screen intro for the first time. The only comparison I can think of is the phenomenon drug users speak of when their first hit is so mind-blowing that they spend their whole life chasing that same high. Or so I have read.

September 2024: I sit in a movie theater inside a museum in New York City – still the Greatest City in the World™ – anticipating a one-night-only screening of Virtual along with a gang of nineties pros and skate industry veterans. Eyes lock on as the triple-screen explodes.

How did I get here?

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Quiet Days

📷 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.

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