📷 via Quinn Batley
Five Favorite Parts is always at its most interesting when it’s a study in contrasts. For instance, the ledge lord being partial to crust and hucking, or the Man With The Beautiful Push curating a slate of transition parts. Efron’s part in Violet’s “SQUEAKY“ from earlier this year was a mini-movie (probably the first time I can recall a theater erupting in applause for flatground lines); Efron’s favorite parts, though …those rarely make it over the two-minute mark.
On Friday, September 18, as a welcome to the Red Bull Origins event at the Brooklyn Banks on Saturday, QS hosted a photo show featuring the ongoing history at the Brooklyn Banks, with photos by Ben Colen, Mike Heikkila, Keith Denley, Quinn Batley, Mark Custer and Greg Navarro — including a prologue from the 90s with imagery by Gunars Elmuts, Giovanni Reda and Atiba Jefferson.
Let’s get our most sacred annual tradition underway: running down the minutiae, tricks, laughs, spots, and bathroom renovations that defined the year in New York skateboarding.
Via @njskateshop
Thank you to everyone who grabbed some of the Krooked x QS stuff from our webstore. It was a hectic week, but we should have everything shipped by today/tomorrow. If you don’t get a shipping confirmation by Tuesday-ish, hit us. We’re out of Snackman boards, but got a few of everything else left. Check your shop for the cruiser ❤️
📅 1) Labor is hosting a photo show of some rarely-seen/never-before-seen Spike Jonze photos at the shop this Friday, November 21st, from 7:30-9:30. Flyer here. 2) Don’t forget: Tristan Mershon’s new video, Singer Tower, is premiering at 1139 Bushwick Avenue also this Friday, November 21 @ 7 P.M. Flyer here.
Jiro, Pero, Suciu and the rest of the Habitat team star in a New York edit before cutting to a new Kaue Cossa part that’s also mostly New York-based. That Sombrero trick was insane.
EC Melodi, the half-New York / half-Atlanta outfit that originally started putting out routine full-lengths back in 2019, was always good for at least one sizable project a year. Then, a hiatus began after Break Your Legs over two years ago — even if the secondhand pain of that boardslide sack on the bench remained seared into the imagination (see #16.)
You can always tell the difference when a crew locks in for the video. There is a subtle shift in the end goal: it transforms from “the video comes out when we have enough clips” to “the video comes out when it feels done.” Think the multi-year hiatus away from full-lengths before Bronze’s It’s Time, or the long crumb-trail of Insta edits before John’s Vid.
Wasting Time feels like that new arrival video for Melodi.
