skateboard writing

Apologies for CMOAC but people seemed to enjoy this the last two times.
I picked my favourite 10 videos from Free Skate Mag’s 102 (at date of writing) YouTube uploads and wrote some nonsense about each one.
Big up Arthur for the Spaceman 3 reference too…

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the Ellington rework had me coughing biscuits :rofl:

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Thanks @andy_smoke I was a bit worried that either Dan or Conor would be upset/not find it funny but they did happily. Further confirmation from a stellar human such as yourself is most gratifying.

:joy:

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Repeated [/cmoac] violations from me but some of you might like this article I wrote for Free re Malmo importing LOVE granite and the ongoing redevelopments at Muni in Philadelphia.
Big up all involved.

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You know that shit’s high brow when the word vanguard appears in the first sentence!

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Anon knows his way around a thesaurus like Selley at MK Buszy

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That’s rad.
Pretty funny that Philly threw it all out then did a copy of a copy.

They’ll be asking for the marble back soon like Greece

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Laughs in Frederic Jameson

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Cole Nowicki’s latest newsletter really well handles Christine Flannigan coming forward about Chris Cole’s abuse and delivers a solid account of skateboarding media’s flaws around such situations and in general.

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Mostly Skateboarding podcast had a heads up for Plank skate mag this week, sounds like its gonna have some good writing within

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-SsraaxQXk/?igsh=NXhqdTRtNWRrMXNy

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Interesting piece by our own @PiledriverWaltz giving a potted history of the use of fisheye in skate videos for Quartersnacks.

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Good article, eh. I posted it earlier but couldn’t decide where to put it so stuck it in the camera thread - probably makes more sense here though.

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My mistake - apologies.

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has a posted a slew of quotes from, i’m hoping,
Elsewhere: the story of UK skateboarding

  1. book hype!
  2. it clearly deserves its own thread
  3. incorrectly guessing who said what is amusing me:

Davross?

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That’s a list from after the first year or so - it’s been four and half years now, and I just never added new ones.

That one might actually have been Simon. I’ll check in a bit.

There’s at least one @anonymity quote on there, and possibly a @Mark line.

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When is it dropping @buildafire ?

I’m ordering a signed copy!

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My deadline is in a few weeks, although I’ll still be delivering stuff for a while after.

On the shelves September ‘25.

Also, Curtis just did his interview. Got 5,000 brilliant words from him.

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ah nice - not sure how i missed it before.

the “fuck you give us a magazine” line seems it could be an Anon gem

also, the Sixpack not travelling as one killed me, ahhaha

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So sick

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Been waiting to hear those words for decades

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