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One Fish, One Clip, C’mon

Daily News October 13th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

We built a longass box and are throwing a cash for tricks jam at Tompkins this Saturday, October 18 at 3 P.M. 📅 First person to one-foot crook the entire thing gets a hundred bucks.

Follow Filming, a new YouTube channel that does skate-related video essays, compiled a fifteen-minute dive into the history of something everybody reading this has skated at one point: “The Story of the Element Flatbar.” Farran said “It’s like 99% Invisible for kids who grew up skating in their driveway.”

New fifteen-minute video out of Pittsburgh, forever one of the most unique skate scenes in the country: “THIS PLACE SUCKS” is a new one by Gavin McGinty. Unique spots, thoughtfully put-together, and why do Pittsburgh videos always feel like they skate completely different shit than the last big Pittsburgh video you saw?

Detroit Report — Nick Rainey & Co’s “JonnyCa$hRadio 2” Video

Daily News August 26th, 2025 · 7:00 pm

Despite having only been to Detroit once — in February, amidst a government shutdown, at that — we really enjoy all the skateboarding that comes out of Detroit.

The city strikes a balance between the big midwestern city videos out of Minneapolis or Chicago, and the crustier forays from the Grains, St. Losers, etc. thinktanks. So while the Detroitians really love that perfect black marble manny pad, they’ll also skate a half-collapsed garage door like a bank, back 180 a wooden bump to bar with a literally four-foot runway, and merge into highway traffic after a switch frontside flip.

Detroit Report — ‘the POSE video’ By Cooper Vosburg

Daily News March 3rd, 2025 · 12:00 pm · 3

Trying to think of what’s done more for the aesthetics of the letter M than the University of Michigan, but coming up short.

Anyway!

“the POSE video” is a new project by Cooper Vosburg, the architect behind 2023’s “Can’t Have Shit,” and eminent videographer of all things concerning the current generation coming up out of Detroit, one of the most interesting stateside scenes going right now.

Detroit Report — Nick Rainey & Friends in JORP’s ‘Johnny Ca$h Radio’ Video

Daily News March 12th, 2024 · 4:29 pm

QS (and Free Skate Mag!) favorite Nick Rainey starred in and masterminded a new video for his crew’s JORP imprint. Minus a few Chicago clips, the entire video is filmed in Detroit at the sort of spots that a U.K. skater would feel at home at. Perhaps that’s why there’s such a high affinity for Mr. Rainey’s work at Free HQ. Prop grate ingenuity, absolute dogshit asphalt (honestly, who thinks, “yeah, I’m gonna try and ollie into that“) and signs serving as micro-rollaways are the terrain at hand, while everything from Kingpin Skinny Pimp to classic rock radio standards soundtrack a good time from the new generation coming out of Detroit.

Every friends section from now on is required to mimic a movie studio logo animation like the one above. Those are the rules.

Shout out to every town’s local seven set. You know the one.

Great Weather For D7

Daily News June 5th, 2023 · 12:00 am

🧢 Classic QS arch caps available in the webstore 🧢

Congrats to Aaron Loreth on going pro for Limosine Skateboards ❤️ Aaron has a new part by Benny Maglinao out. As an added bonus, Farran Golding chopped up the audio of Trung Nguyen talking about Aaron’s 917 #2 section over the original part via Trung’s Five Favorite Parts installment.

Hugh O’Hare + some of the Travel Skateshop heads have a New Jersey-based montage out featuring a bunch gentleman who are exceptionally talented at manuals 📍

EC Melodi has a new one out entitled “Break Your Legs,” featuring favs like Akobi Williams, Coles Bailey, Myles Underwood, and more. Also includes maybe the most insane minute of slams in recent memory towards the middle.