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The Brandon Westgate New York Remix

Video & Remixes March 28th, 2014 · 11:17 am · 5

Photo by Sean Cronan

The added bonus of watching Westgate barge through the second most populated city in North America versus, say, some desolate residential San Francisco street, is that you can literally see people rushing to get out of his way. Hard to think of a dude (besides Z obvs) who has ripped New York spots as much as Westgate has for the past half-decade, so here is a remix of all his semi-recent New York-set footage. Footage pulled from State of Mind (you video nerds should already know we couldn’t care less about stretching VX footage), his Real Street part, True East, and King of New York. Filmed by R.B. Umali.

We already went the full nonsensical #musicsupervision route by editing his Stay Gold part to 2011’s Song of the Year, so this edition opted for more conservative rap roots. But yeah, it was tough to not just scrap everything and start editing to “Peek A Boo” or something…They investigating like the Blues Clues, btw.

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Also, every person who ever visits New York for skateboard-related reasons should be required to stop by this spot and observe how utterly insane this is:

Have a good weekend. It’ll be rainy, but at least it’s warm. R.I.P. Pichilin.

Kevin Tierney: The Mad Bodied Edit

Video & Remixes October 18th, 2013 · 3:37 am · 3

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Late night Friday updates are turning more into a #thing. This one is for all the people out there getting mad bodied. Switch front shoves forever ♥♥♥

We chopped up Kevin Tierney’s Outdated part and his past three years’ worth of Zoo York footage alongside French (via one of very few notable Washington D.C. rap singles) and Mary J. The Mary part was mostly to pay tribute to the fact that two of the best instances of music supervision in skateboarding — Shiloh Greathouse in Trilogy and R.B. Umali’s believed-to-be lost post-9/11 montage that appeared on Conform.tv — were edited to her music. (If you have that R.B. montage on your computer, e-mail it over and we’ll send you a care package.) Otherwise, Kevin is mad nineties, so we kept the necessary vibez in tact. Shit is mad brolick. Oh, and check his Solo Jazz part for newer footage.

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Previously: Kevin Tierney in the new Skateboard Mag

#TeamSweatpants

Daily News August 12th, 2013 · 12:20 pm · 8

Germany doing cool things with skateboarding is becoming a common theme on QS.

The FTC Book blog has been posting snippets / mini-interviews with various people in the lead up to the book’s release this fall. Huf on his song in Penal Code 100A, Aaron Meza on filming for Finally…

A clip of the Palace and Polar jam in Leeds this past weekend, featuring Danny Brady, Pontus Alv, Benny Fairfax, and…Shawn Powers.

An interview with Manolo, the guy who painstakingly re-dubs sounds and researches the depths of skate video history for all those “Best of” tribute mixtape clips.

Iron Claw Skates with a disco-tuned Daniel Stone in New York mini-part and a trip to Baltimore. The fact that people are editing 4:3 iPhone fisheye footage alongside VX1 clips furthers the equivalency theory. Also, VX1000s are just stupid.

In anticipation of his first work of erotic skate fiction, Roctakon started a Tumblr for his musings. RT if you want to read so the publishers know…

Elijah Cole’s standalone part in Cathode, in which he does a 10/10 hardflip on flat.

Some historic reading for your afternoon: The story of Nimbus skates, the New York company that existed between Shut and Zoo York, and Zoo co-founder, Eli Gesner on skateboarding in New York in the eighties and nineties for Dazed Digital’s 1993 series. (Though this is the far better Gesner-written article on the same subject.)

This was uploaded in 2010, but has been re-making the rounds on Tumblr for the past week: Skateboarding in Brooklyn, circa 1989.

The second teaser for Colin Read’s video, Tengu, which will be premiering later this month.

Spot Updates: 1) The final remodeled version of Bubble Banks = Two two-up-two-down manual pads, and some wooden benches that are going to get knobbed, but that you could still ollie over. 2) One of the few spots in lower Manhattan that you had a chance of not getting kicked out of is, in the best case scenario, not going to be skateable for a long time.

Quote of the Week
Inquisitive Gentleman: “How are you doing?”
Torey Goodall: “Good. Pretty bad.”

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Weird, 2:16 P.M. is also the best time to show up at the T.F.

The Only Zoo York 20-Year Anniversary Video You Need

Time Capsule May 31st, 2013 · 5:23 am

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“What’s in the future for Zoo York? Airplanes? Asteroids?”

Over the past several weeks, Zoo has been releasing videos to celebrate the company’s twenty-year anniversary. Beyond an admittedly sorta sick return to Astor Place since a decade-and-a-half hiatus, a recent episode featured the team visiting the Chapman warehouse, where a lot of their board production has taken place. Considering there isn’t a gallery to browse through early Zoo graphics available online anywhere, it’s a fun trip back to simpler times to when a two-color graphic board was considered an anomaly.

And thus, your average mid-twenties to mid-thirties skateboarder is inevitably left with 411 “Industry” YouTubes as a vehicle to reminisce on old companies’ primes (e.g. this isn’t the first time in the past month where an “Industry” section has provided the exemplary five-minute glimpse of a company we were once in love with.) Who would have thought that the “expanding” promises uttered twenty years ago would amount to such a far-off result? Either way, try and find someone who doesn’t have this section on their shortlist of 411 favorites.

Previously: The Zoo York Institute of Design, Eli Gesner on skateboarding in New York, 1997

Black Dave: Banned From B.E.T.

Video & Remixes February 1st, 2013 · 11:46 am · 4

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We chose to showcase the latter half of Black Donald Trump’s job description.

Since most recent Zoo York video outings have been montage-oriented, and most recent Black Dave video outings have been young black entrepenuer-oriented, we mixed up his skate video appearances from the past ~two years into one convenient part. Filmed by R.B. Umali and Rob Harris. Guest tricks by Yaje Popson, Emilio Cuilan, Stephan Martinez and Kevin Tierney. Music by the best New York posse song of its time. Have a good weekend.

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P.S. February is Black History Month, so it should be noted that the video above isn’t the only “remixed” video part by an exceptional African American skateboarder to go online today.