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Life With No Curfew

Daily News November 11th, 2024 · 12:00 am

Got a few pairs of the QS x Vans MC96 shoes back in the webshop for the holidays 🔵🟢

A behemoth of a Washington D.C. video [Runtime: 51 minutes] from Statue: Public Service 2024, featuring Mason Padilla, Nabeel Nelson, Rashad Murray, Yoonsun Shin, and many more faces out of the DMV scene.

…andddddd a behemoth of a Syracuse, New York video [Runtime: 40 minutes] from Johnathan Edinger: The 9-5, featuring parts from Reed Schuster, Jordan McGriff, Javaris Williams, A.J. DeStefano and many more.

“Fun fact: One of my childhood heroes unfollowed me on Instagram after this interview came out.” Chops shared a list of his favorite interviews that he has done over the course of Chromeball. Ryan Hickey and Oyola almost “coming to blows” over a CBI interview is wild.

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.

In The House Like Cory

Daily News December 19th, 2022 · 12:00 am · 1

Photo via Waxing the Curb

Our collaboration with Classic Griptape is now live on the World’s Best Griptape webstore.

…is it? Can it be? Is it …really? It is! It is! It’s John Choi in the new Limosine edit! “I Just Took A Bite Of Dirt” dropped right after the QS office closed for the weekend. After-black Max Palmer hammers are the best types of after-black hammers.

“Fork Your Former Dinner Or U Cant Have Shit” by Phat House is a New Jersey and Philly video that probably has the deepest dive for spots out of anything to come out this year. Double cellar doors between buildings, stacks of cinderblocks and landings into running water — incredible work from everybody involved.

Dancing in the Street

Daily News November 9th, 2020 · 12:00 am · 5

Kareem by Atiba. Put this in the MoMA.

Phew.

If you have a few extra bucks, please contribute to Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight organization, which combats voter suppression in Georgia — a place that you’re going to be hearing about a lot these next two months. Shout out to our Georgia readers ♥

Nobody will ever back 180 after a tre flip quite the way Huf back 180ed after a tre flip. R.B. Umali and Hanni El Khatib put together a touching video tribute for Keith Hufnagel.

You likely caught this one via Free last week, but Hosea Peeters’ “Interlude” part by Daniel Policelli rips, complete with a Karl Watson nose manny 360 interpolation on Park Avenue, and a 10/10 back 3 down the big steps across from World Trade. Filmed entirely in New York over the course of two summer weeks, with guest tricks from the new gen Chocolate riders.

Sometimes We Skate & Sometimes We Cry, But I Guess You Know Now …Baby

Daily News August 17th, 2020 · 12:00 am · 4

Photo by Wallacavage

“Kareem was right decades before skateboarding was ready to listen – You gotta break out and I gotta break out – from the invisible biases to the literal abusive behavior, the forces threatening to imprison our edits, our stories, our letters from ever being received.” José Vadi wrote an incredible essay on Free about Kareem Campbell, California in the 1990s, the L.A.P.D., Trilogy, representation, and how it all ties together.