Yesterday on QS was a day about celebrating our friends — those special people who bring such eternal warmth to our hearts.
Today, we’re doing the opposite. Like the psalm says, “Fuck everybody” ;)
Jk obvs.
But Josh and Eric Cruz did put together an express version of Josh’s “Quaranteam” part from last month, condensing it down to six minutes, with no footage of Josh’s stupid friends ♥
Happy Thanksgiving everybody, love y’all :)
Anybody selling hard goods can attest to the “skateboard boom” that began in the lockdown months. People who had not picked up a board in years because life got in the way were buying new completes because, like, wtf else was there to do?
But what about those who never let life entirely get in the way of skating? For them, this past spring was a tidal wave of free time that no gainfully employed adult skateboarder thought they would experience until they were retired with bad knees. It was a pass to be 17 again, at least for a bit.
As outlined in 2019’s outing, Josh has been on a half-decade streak of filming parts mostly on his two days off from work a week. For a sizable chunk of 2020, there was no work, so this year’s is an extended edition — complete with cameos from some extended QS family members who haven’t popped up in an edit for deep.
Edited by Eric Cruz. Appearances from Connor Champion, Kevin Tierney, Troy Stilwell, Zach Baker, Kadeem Walters, Ty Lyons, Meatball, Ryan Santiago, Cyrus Bennett, Haffa, Antonio Durao, Ron Parker.
The latest offering from Andre “Actually Everybody’s Father” Page’s Inkwell Commons imprint is a part from Rafael “Haffa” Pereira. I can’t exactly remember how many times I’ve heard Dre scold Haffa for his Grizzly grip, but I guess you have to be pretty stubborn to insist on going to skate fourteen stairs to begin with ♥
Filmed half in/around Boston, half in New York by Andre Page and Gatti.
Edited by Cruzctrl a.k.a. Eric Cruz.
He finally has the Inkwell site/shop up and running after 80 years. Pay her a visit.
Loosely related, but Dre has posting a ton of gems from old QS clips, etc. over on his personal Instagram as of late.
Previously: Josh Velez for Inkwell Commons
Collect anything — records, skateboards, sneakers — long enough past early adulthood, and eventually, you reach a point where you have a big, dusty mass of matter in your apartment. Upon realizing he was a decade into stacking shoeboxes of Jordans in his house, Josh had dilemma. But he was the latest entry on Forbes magazine’s “Youngest Billionaires” list — he wasn’t about to sell his sneakers to a bunch of nerds on the internet. Who has the time for that shit?
And so, he began skating through his collection for this part. (The 5s are apparently the best ones.) Happy 29th Josh ♥
Filmed by Andre Page and J.P. Blair. Edited by Cruzctrl a.k.a. Eric Cruz.
Previously: Wavey Wings, Djosh Unchained
“Wavy Wings” is the new one from Andre Page’s Inkwell Commons imprint. Features Josh Velez further exploring the [switch] slappy and wallie arc of his skateboard career, which leaving quick footed ledge-ry to those two wooden benches in the financial district that are somehow the only subsequent ledges in lower Manhattan that you get time at. However, the spot’s most transcendent moment may be the switch slappy nosegrind pop-out that combines all of the aforementioned ingredients :)
Guest tricks from Nick Nunez, Kadeem Walters, John Diaz, Connor Champion, Tyshawn Jones and Troy Stilwell with reportedly the best clip he ever got in his life.
Filmed by Andre Page. Edit by CRUZXCTRL.
Previously: Josh Velez for Inkwell Commons (2015), Djosh Unchained (2013)
