📷 Photos by Charles Rivard, Esq.
The Dime Glory Challenge turned ten this year.
If you watch that first recap video from 2015, which was in a warehouse — and feels comparatively slapped together like you had a long weekend to bring your drunk, late-night “wouldn’t it be sick if” skate event fever dream to fruition — you get the sense that everyone there knows each other.
As you’ve likely heard, our buddy Nick Michel got the Thrasher cover next month.
We love Nick.
He’s one of our favorite skaters.
In fact, we’ve been on three Vans x QS trips with Nick: to Sicily (2019), Majorca (2022) and Buenos Aires (2023.)
Nick always got really good footage on those trips.
So, to celebrate his cover, here is a raw reel of all Nick’s clips from those “For Nothing” trips.
Because we love Nick, and wish him the world.
🌊 Video by Farran Golding
Skateboarding is in a constant state of reinvention. This is probably twice as true within skateboarding’s professional class, where reinvention is part of the job description. Whether it is recovering from injury, relocation, abilities that shift with age, or simply changing tastes and tides — the 2015 skate career has little resemblance to one in 2025, and you haven’t heard much from anyone in denial of that.
The most successful career reinventions are the ones where the skater leans into who they are, and grows into their talents. As opposed to the, you know, “here’s a dramatically different wardrobe, but let’s all pretend that I’ve always looked this way”-sort of thing.
Since his 2023 “Curren Caples For Vans” part — one of that year’s best — Curren went from a skater still shaking associations with his child prodigy years on Flip, to a permanent presence on pretty much everyone‘s radar. It was executed so well that the long hiatus before the part didn’t even register for many of us.
To talk career renaissances, we got Curren on the line at the tail-end of a media tour for an earnest chat about parts of that journey unknown to the outside observer.
As of this morning, the refurbished big banks section of the Brooklyn Banks — underneath the Manhattan side of Brooklyn Bridge between Rose Street and Water Street — is open to the public for the first time since summer 2010.
This is part two of a three-part effort to restore the spot to the skateable condition in was in before 2004 renovations. (As you may recall, the small banks were supposed to be phase two, but they switched places with the big banks to become phase three once they were only restored to post-2004 condition back in November 2024.)
🔑 Interview, Intro & Video Production by Farran Golding
Andrew Allen is practically a longstanding field of study at QS. A few years back he spoke at length about L.A. High for our “Favorite Spot” series, which was followed by a written appendix of other bank spots he has frequented. However, recurring spots are just one aspect in an output with many layers.
Although Allen’s appreciation for Kathryn Bigelow’s surf-action-heist movie, Point Break, is widely recognized, there’s an intertextuality of movie nods spanning the last decade of Allen’s career in the form of video parts, music supervision, board graphics and even a cardigan worn by Ray Liotta.
