Fear & Loathing In The Financial District

The Beacon crew has an eight-minute snapshot of the Summer at Tompkins 2k24.

Juan Reyna and his crew have a new 20-minute video out called SMOOCH, which is entirely filmed in New York. Always impressed that the E. 9th Street triangle continued to live on as a functional spot despite the reconstruction that made it fifty times worse.

Jerry Fowler — a late 90s/early 2000s pro who was ahead of the curve on multiple waves of ledge skating — filmed a selfie part for Orchard, his hometown shop in Boston.

Slam City Skates interviewed Will Miles about the making of QuickStrike.

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It Begins — Nike SB’s ‘QuickStrike’ Video by Will Miles & Johnny Wilson

Every month on QS is Antonio month, but this month is REALLY Antonio month.

As you may recall, in 2023, skateboarding collectively decided that its Oscars season — which had otherwise been reserved for October, November and December to mirror the final quarter of Thrasher‘s S.O.T.Y race — now begins in August. When writing about this new phenomenon for QS, Ian Browning imagined “a nineties skater version of the meme about how eating a bag of Takis would overwhelm and kill a child from the 19th century.”

In watching Will Miles and Johnny Wilson’s QuickStrike video for Nike SB — a proverbial “return to the streets” the day after the Olympics ended — it was tough not to hark back on that image.

Imagine a crew of four pimply teenagers in 1993, who had just picked up a copy of Girl’s Goldfish video from their suburban hometown skateshop. They push home as fast as they can, dodging the half-full cans of Yoo-hoo being hurled at them out of a 1990 Honda Civic full of jocks and their cheerleader girlfriends. They stumble inside, push the tape into the VCR, and somehow, QuickStrike plays instead.

What would happen?

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