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#TRENDWATCH2026 x #TFREPORT: Tompkins Tetris

Daily News May 18th, 2026 · 5:00 pm · 1

📷 via Greg Navarro, Jerry Mraz & Steve R.

It has been a little over a month since a city-approved granite ledge was dropped off at Tompkins. This is, by all objective measures, the most perfect Tompkins obstacle in the history of skateboarding at Tompkins. The marble delivery guy said it weighed 8,000 pounds. It was rumored to cost roughly what a used 2018 Honda Civic would run you today. Nike SB paid for it; it wasn’t heisted from a quarry by a granite Robin Hood. It is the sort of obstacle we travel and play mind games with security just to land ten to fifteen minutes of bliss with. And it was at Tompkins! It was never leaving! We don’t get kicked out of it!

Skateboarders had, in many ways, won.

A Great Use Of Your Time — EC Melodi’s “Wasting Time” Video

Daily News November 7th, 2025 · 1:05 pm · 1

EC Melodi, the half-New York / half-Atlanta outfit that originally started putting out routine full-lengths back in 2019, was always good for at least one sizable project a year. Then, a hiatus began after Break Your Legs over two years ago — even if the secondhand pain of that boardslide sack on the bench remained seared into the imagination (see #16.)

You can always tell the difference when a crew locks in for the video. There is a subtle shift in the end goal: it transforms from “the video comes out when we have enough clips” to “the video comes out when it feels done.” Think the multi-year hiatus away from full-lengths before Bronze’s It’s Time, or the long crumb-trail of Insta edits before John’s Vid.

Wasting Time feels like that new arrival video for Melodi.

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.