Although hinted at in a post this past summer, you have one last chance to skate the black marble banks on Park Avenue before they re-do the northern end of the building with the new, unskateable high marble ledges. One side has a grate, the other has a barricade that you can move in two seconds.
Throwback clip of the week: The Nollie Flips & Jump Shots Promo. For a video that unsurprisingly never happened, and was destined to be the defining document of Miles Marquez’s confused hick phase in 2006, which was coupled with a chronic case of ADD where he would invite you out to skate and then decide to go play basketball mid-session whenever he passed a court.
What the future holds for the Fish, if and when it re-opens in another location. In the event that The Fish opens in a non-Ludlow Street address, many of the nicknames for the region — The Flood, Floodlow, Thuglow, The Bar-muda Triangle — will no longer be valid.
Below is a Flip cam clip from Matthew Mooney, who no longer leaves his Spring Street apartment. Features Benjamin Nazario, Galen Dekemper, a Jason Dill cameo, and Alexander Mosley, so it is more than worth your time.
Last week’s unforgiving block of February-like weather reminded me that three years ago, under similar conditions, everyone who has ever said the word “skateboard” was watching Fully Flared. It didn’t matter if you were from the east coast, west coast, or Europe, every single person loved at least some part of this video. It has held up surprisingly well, and despite initial skepticism, the intro is actually pretty cool in hindsight. Out of the two comebacks, it is a shame that Rick’s part wasn’t as prevalent among discussion (both then and now), because it has aged better than Mariano’s. A lot of that probably has to do with the overdone slow motion (out of the more prominent skate video guys, Ty Evans is probably near the top of the QS list in terms of the most re-watchable productions, this is an exception to that lofty distinction), but people kind of zoned that out because it had a grand redemption narrative or something. It’s strange enough to think that Yeah Right! is some twenty-three-year-olds’ first video, the fact that Fully Flared is a first video for a whole generation of kids is even more bizarre.
Some hits from the street via Mike Maroza.
Quote of the Week: “Your lips look like Bubble Banks. They’re full of cracks and ashy.” — Tron Jenkins
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