Darkness rules.

This has been floating around for a little over a week, but they finally put up the long awaited clip from the Acapulco Gold / Instant Winner summer tour. Taji, Billy Rohan, and Charles Lamb went through Switzerland, France, and Spain, and all the footage from the trip is in the clip.

BD is one of the top ten skateboarders of all-time.

“Skateboarding For Gym Credit at a Manhattan School”

“stupid shit filmed on a digital camera for the world to hate on”

My hopes have become a reality. A Visual Sound on DVD in December.

Buy New Thirsty - $9.99 with free S&H

Justin White’s New Thirsty video is now available for $9.99 with free shipping within the United States.

New Thirsty is a working-class trip through the plazas, obscure neighborhoods, loading zones, industrial outskirts and boondocks of the Northeast on four wheels. Featuring Bubba Heckman, Adrian Vega, Darren Baskinger, Andy Bautista, Ax Throwers, German Nieves, Bill Spice, Brian Foley, Brendan Granstrand, Matt Daniels, Jersey Dave, Will Nagle, Aidan Granstrand, Scotty Moore, and Brett Abramsky. Filmed and directed by Justin White of Popills.com infamy. Sponsored by NJ Skateshop, Domestics clothing, Stimulus Skateboards, and Number Six Media.

Gas prices are lower, but quarter snack prices keep getting higher. Even moreso out of state. Here’s a short little b-roll clip (although its arguable that the entire site itself is one giant b-roll). Features Ty Lyons, Miles Marquez, Isak Buan falling, and Benjamin Nazario. 59 Cent Snacks [12.1MB / 1:33]. The second-to-last spot is skatestopped like none other, so don’t bother asking.

According to the gentlemen from the 7th precinct, Astor Place, in the form that it has been beloved for over twenty years, will soon be altered forever. Some asshole in the city’s public works / parks department had a brilliant idea to put a bunch of sand all over the middle of the street, throw some benches and planters on top of it, and distinctly position these excuses for public spaces in the middle of the street. They already re-did the entire middle of the street areas by the Flatiron building (you could see the sandboxes for grownups to left of this picture, and from an aerial view, also to the left.) Well, Astor place is soon to fall victim to this unbridled act of stupidity. The entire Astor throughway, on the southern end of the cube, relative to 8th Street is going to be closed off and turned into a public park so a bunch of scumbags paying overpriced rent could sit there and drink coffee.

The History of Skate Shoes

Although this has the typical cringe-inducing outsider perspective on skateboarding that seems like it was previously written about some drunk daredevil who jumped gorges in the southwest, The New York Times published an article on Van Wastell.

Transworld likes Kevin

Police Informer posted the original article that accompanied this write-up from Strength Magazine back in 1996. Features the best olden-days New York photos you’ll ever see.

They also wanted to know what happened to Mike Wright. To answer: he’s at Virgin Megastore across from Union Square selling his footage tape and “I Skate NY” shirts. In the words of Harold Hunter, “My man is thirsty, son.”

Quote of the Week: “I talk to Thando all the time on iChat. He’s always lying there on his bed with his shirt off.” - Danny Weiss
“Ayyyyoooo” - Miles Marquez
“You heard me.” - Danny Weiss

New clip featuring Charles Lamb, Ben Nazario, Switch Michael Strobert, Matthew Mooney, Galen DeKemper, Miles Marquez, ravers, Thando Beschta, Isak Buan, Michael Gigliotti skating flat, Danny Weiss not landing anything and Ty Lyons. Contributing camera holder, Miles Marquez. I think my plug is an alien.. [30.1MB / 3:54]. The clip is a pretty significant achievement in that we did not leave Manhattan once in filming it.

Quote of the Week: “Hooters is stupid, strip clubs are smart.” - Switch Michael Strobert

Billy Rohan vs. Wall Street