‘What Did You Expect?’ — A J.P. Blair Video Premiere Recap

📷 Photos by Greg Navarro

The urban legend goes something like: if you say “Fred Gall” in the mirror five times, ten years later, J.P. Blair drops a new video.

Met with some friends to watch the Knicks this past week — many of whom have fallen out of the habit of skateboarding regularly. They had asked what was going on this weekend, and I’d mention J.P. Blair is premiering a video, half-expecting them to maybe not have a sharp mental rolodex of skate videographer names. Everyone would say: “Outdated J.P. Blair!?”

Time certainly flies, but great indie videos endure to the point where people who aren’t on board much these days have fond memories of one of the 2010s’ best — just as much as people still very much in the skate trenches do.

Yesterday, he premiered What Did You Expect, a HD, Jersey-heavy full-length that is due to make its way online this week. (At least that’s what J.P. said.)

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Long Day At The Content Factory

🏀 Knicks x Quartersnacks ’47 Brand hats available in our webstore 🏀

Johnny Cumaoglu with the first Small Banks clip heard around the world DMs + ok, so now we need a Shintaro Hongo one-spot part at the Brooklyn Banks, ASAP + @banks_at_six Small Banks reportage has begun 🧱 (“You wanna skate a curb in Central Park??? We’re going to the Banks, buddy! Six o’clock!”)

We are a long way from “cherry.” Last week coincided with two profiles of its stars and their grown-up lives: Christian Kerr profiled Tyshawn Jones for Hypebeast (“This is probably my last interview for a while. We’re going to let the skating talk. Then when the skating is done, they’ll ask for more interviews”) + Sage Elsesser was profiled by the High Snobiety magazine.

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Hard Reset — An Interview with Quasi’s New Am, Cooper Qua

📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Greg Navarro, Thomas Goldman & Cooper Qua

Cooper Qua is from Albany, New York and is the youngest team rider on Quasi Skateboards. His debut video part for the company is in their latest video, Hard Reset. I sat down with Cooper at Tompkins to chat about the future of Quasi and to hear about his dream of becoming a pro skateboarder as a teenager from Upstate New York.

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Winter X-Games? We Have Winter X-Games At Home.

Max Hull’s Hell Yeahh (Too Nice To Skate) is a masterpiece of unc skateboard cinema. It includes Gabe Tennen[‘s Wonderful Horrible Life], Conor Prunty’s salute to ten years since “422,” a Joe Scordo “My War,” Sadie BGPs, a full Luke Koch part, and so much more. If you are in your unc years or even on the cusp of unc-ness and in the midst of finding excuses to not skate on a weekend or just hit the skatepark for an hour, seeing Gabe shred should be inspo enough to commit to relearning some of your lost tricks this spring.

A reminder that Tricolor Patinetas’ 1999 video out of Mexico is essential viewing. Find your friend with the biggest screen you know, invite some friends over, bring some drinks and watch it together this week.

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