Needed This! — Jeff Cecere’s ‘This Is A Window’ Video Is Now Live

Just as Mind How You Go served as a soothing reprieve from Skateboard Oscars Season™ last December, Jeff Cecere‘s This Is A Window is the comfort-viewing we all need right now. Still got a queue of S.O.T.Y. contender parts since the last Top 10 got filed, but this was an immediate click and watch-through-the-whole-way experience. (Raise your hand if there are any 4-5 minute parts from the past few months that still took two sittings to get through ✋)

Jeff & co. are in that proverbial “window” (sorry, too easy), where each video compounds in quality from the last one. Both the skating and the craftsmanship behind the video are already somehow greater than they were in the already-great Mind How You Go. It’s a phenomenon we all witnessed while watching sequential videos from Bronze, Johnny & co. and the Duplex dudes over the years — which makes it all the more fitting that pretty much all of them come together under one umbrella in this one.

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Monday Viewing — Sexhippies’ ‘Sexwax’ Video

“Sexwax” is the latest video from Sexhippies and Orchard Skateshop videographer, Ted Purtell. Filmed in New York, Albany, and Springfield, Massachusetts, it’s the follow-up to this past winter’s inaugural “Hi” video with a small parts’ worth of footage from Eddie and Jojo Vargas + appearances from Cooper Qua, Zac Gavin, Jasper Dohrs, Carlos Kanter and Colby Strong. Fence scrapes seem to be on the rise (that ender spot is some shit you’d expect from a video out the northern U.K. crust), and there’s a tre in there worthy of the pantheon of emphatically rotated Photosynthesis tre’s.

And if you’re just joining and wondering “wtf is Sexhippies?” — Village Psychic got the backstory a few months ago re: the origins of the brand and how the crew came together.

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Holiday Viewing — Jeff Cecere’s ‘Mind How You Go’ Video

Jeff Cecere’s latest feels like a nice palette cleanser after the onslaught of Skateboard Oscars Season™. Mostly filmed in New York, with lots of deep dives for spots, the continuation of the Polish Ledges’ 2022 Renaissance, and banks protruding from places you hadn’t even noticed had banks — Mind How You Go is a perfect way to close the lid on a month of skate videos worthy of a ESPN 30 For 30.

Features parts from Zac Gavin, Max Maffucci, Nate Grzechowiak, Tristen Ramirez and an incredible ender part from Johnny Cumaoglu (not to mention a surprise Bronze section held down by Mark Humienik, Dick Rizzo, Josh Wilson and Grady Smith.) Filmed and edited with precision by Jeff Cecere.

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Swing Slow — Bluecouch’s ‘GROUP CHAT’ Video

Avid Monday Links readers have no-doubt been catching nods to Bluecouch edits for years now — from 2016’s “Yeet,” to 2017’s “Washed,” all the way to “Prolouge,” the one from last December that began to tie together this current roster.

Like so many crew projects, this one snowballed far beyond what anyone first intended. What started as an Insta edit, became a montage, until ultimately becoming “Group Chat,” the four-part video you see here today.

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