Let’s get this most-venerated of QS recap traditions wrapped up.
Top 10 of 2024 + Readers Poll results on the way.
Connor & E.J. @ 20th & C filming for OD 📷 via @jefemixtape
Extending the Labor Day free shipping deal for another day. All goods in the webstore ship free within the U.S., regardless of order value. ❤️ Thank you for supporting QS.
It’s a beautiful day: Skate Jawn “$100 Chill” series is back, and the latest episode is with none other than Mr. P Tricky.
Mark Suciu told the story of his backside 5050 @ CBS Thrasher cover that was shot while Salt Bae was taking a nap. When we dropped the Top 10 that coincided with the week that “Verso” came out, some people were like, “that’s a weird trick to choose for #1 from the part.” Sure, it’s not some spine contorting technical ledge skating, but motherfucker do you want to lock both of your trucks onto that skinny-ass rail a millisecond after you’ve ollied up a ledge? There’s also decades worth of piss and shit in the pit behind the rail. (It was the inspiration behind this Antonio Quote of the Week.)
Theories uploaded Static VI in full.
A lot of people seemed to have been expecting a Big Brand Video™. After all, this is a company that announced its first two marquee pro riders back in February.
But OD has all the hallmarks of a scene video — a distillation of the eight years since DANY. You have Antonio’s second part this month, yes, but you have also Kevin Tierney opening it, who is a Static alumn that has been a staple in every 2010s Bronze project. You have Brandon Scott James, with his first-ever full-on part after spending so many years pulling up with some of the best shit in Naquan Rollings’ edits, and being the local that any out-of-towner remembers from their visit to L.E.S. Park. You have a Charles Lamb part, a tech stalwart whose credentials date back to Metrospective and E.S.T videos. You have Josh Velez, who has consistently been putting out parts filmed on his off days for ten-plus years. You got a fuckin’ Billy Rohan cameo. You have Byoun …Byoun’ing.
Hardbody’s OD video is premiering at Village East Cinemas (E. 12th Street & 2nd Avenue) this Wednesday, July 31. Doors @ 7:45 P.M. No teaser, but you should watch Antonio’s Jefé mixtape from the Museum to get hyped.
QS is hosting a premiere of Pop Trading Company’s first-ever full-length video at The Palace Bar in Greenpoint this Thursday, August 1st @ 8:30 P.M. Flyer here. Teaser here. 21+.
“What kind of person looks at a dusty construction site, shoved under a bridge and controlled by a seemingly impregnable bureaucracy, and thinks: This is a perfect space for a park?” Skaters, for one. Glad she’s onboard, though was reading this Times profile of the woman trying to turn the space under the Brooklyn Bridge (Manhattan side) into a giant park and wondering — how has it taken this long to mention skaters? Because, you know. (They do, halfway in.)