A bunch of mid-summer bullshit that is most likely going to make you upset because Mike Mo threw off your standards for skateboarding, and made you jaded to anything that does not involve flip-outs. Now with 95% more explosives.

Featuring Miles Marquez, Pryce Holmes, Isak Buan, Ted Barrow, Thando Beschta, Aaron Szott, Dario Phillips, Ty Lyons, Matthew Mooney, Anthony Beckner, The Vertical Jew a.k.a “I can’t skate because I work thirty days in a row at A.P.C.,” and DJ Roctakon.

Contributing filmers: Michael Gigliotti, Miles Marquez, and Lurker Alex.

Attack of the Vertical Jew

The best video parts of the year are as follows: 1. Ben Nazario in Dos Sandias 2. Little Chris in Dos Sandias 3. Alex Mosley in Dos Sandias 4. Jake Johnson in Dos Sandias 5. Danny Weiss’ line in Dos Sandias

In all seriousness, the new Watermelon video deserves a place in the canon of classic New York City skate videos. There are no handrails or grass gaps. No flashy editing or stupid titles. Just 100% creative street skating and a culmination of what skating in the city is actually like. On top of everything, it is a perfect example of how spot choices can really enhance the enjoyability of a video. This one is bound to send a few people to the Spots board on Official New York. Above all, it contains a line at Lenox Ledges that does not involve skating the ledges.

Copies should be available in the near future. I’ve been put in charge of distribution, so the two places they will inevitably be are Autumn and this website. If you missed it, the trailer can be found here.

While on the topic of videos, the 2nd Nature video is available at Autumn for $8. Contains Brian Brown’s third part this past year, and Jose Pereyra’s anticipated part, which surpasses what you would typically expect from a shop video. All in all, its a solid 25-minutes of skating, without any nonsense sprinkled between.

Speaking of which, Ty Evans is an asshole for the way he put together Lucas Puig’s part in the Cliché remix video. Anybody who says they enjoyed it, or “appreciated” it is an asshole, and a liar. It is never a good sign when you start to fast forward past somebody’s intro, only to realize that the entire part is in slow motion once the credits start to roll and you’re still fast forwarding.

The best eBay auction ever if you’re a fan of 90s skateboarding.

..and for the record, Nas is officially the worst. If he had a decent album to back up looking like a kook, it would be ok in my book. But unfortunately that is not the case. Any artist who wears purple jeans is immediately disqualified from a greatest-of-all-time list, classic first album or not.

For the first time, Zoo York’s original video from 1997, Mixtape is available. We have it stocked in the shop, so you can update your ten-year-old video cassette or stop watching it on whatever crappy .mpg you have of it. Also included on the DVD is the 1999 video, Peep This and Zoo York’s industry section from an early issue of 411. The DVD is done from the original footage, and not just VHS copy transfered onto a disc, so it is looking better than it ever has in the past ten years.

The Quarter Snacks Shop

Yo, Kosta I need you to post something on Quartersnacks
Ok, what?
Watermelon 2 premiere tomorrow. Around ten or eleven. Location undisclosed.
Location undisclosed?
Yeah, those who need to know will find out tomorrow.
So you finished it and everything?
No, not even close, I need to edit most of it today.

Justin White’s magnum opus, New Thirsty is premiering on August 1st and is going to change the way that the whole world perceives skate videos. Click here for the flyer. Keeping checking Popills.com for Thirsty Thursdays.