Meditations on Crust — Traffic Skateboards’ “It’s Completely Fine” Video

The blue collar skateboarding stalwarts over at Traffic released their latest project, It’s Completely Fine: The Toynbee Project late last night. Features full parts from Kevin Coakley, Chris Teta, Hiroki Muraoka, Luke Malaney, Josh Feist and James Sayres, in addition to appearances from the rest of the crew in between. If you pay close attention, you might even spot a pre-Lasik Keith Denley emptying out his backlog of glasses clips.

Anyone who has seen a Traffic project before knows what to expect: rather than hinging their productivity on the rotation of shit that’s in all the other east coast videos, they find, restore and battle a cornucopia of asphalt inclines and cracked cement. You can practically see the flashbacks of all the attempts it probably took Coakley to roll away from that ender back tail as he’s still rattling down the bank. You’re not going to catch much by way of Big Screen, Muni or Pulaski clips, and when something like the Albany plaza does show up, it’s with a third-eye open.

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Hybrid Learning

2020 Time Traveller and/or Tom Penny in 1993 by Andrew Horesly, spotted via Science Versus Life

HUF uploaded a raw footy diary of a cross-country road trip with Mason Silva, which includes much of the Spitfire part. The New York portion runs from ~6:55 through the end. It’s rad to see him pay tribute to Jake Johnson Mind Field-era spots, and they do a good job of showing why that West Houston Street hubba was an NBD for so long.

Angel Fonseca has a new part out that’ll have you missing summer days at that BAM ledge.

Vague magazine shared Hiroki Muraoka’s part from the new Traffic video, Third Shift. It includes a *wild* keyhole kickflip at the McCarren Park couch.

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