Obstinate

You know anything Studio drops is gonna be tasteful, and this clip of their pre-Covid trip to Portugal is no different. Featuring new pro Brett Weinstein alongside Frank Nadon, Joey Larock, Andrea Dupre, and Zander Mitchell.

“Which brings us back around to the matter in hand – in today’s skateboarding universe where literally millions of skateboarding tricks are uploaded in real time to the Internet every minute of the day – can a rule such as that tied into the notion of ‘ABD = illegal’ really still hold any importance?” A thought-provoking longform piece on the ABD’s place in 2020 skateboarding, and if the concept holds the same weight it did in years past.

Zach Moore spent much of his quarantine meticulously cataloging and re-editing (almost) every piece of Jake Johnson footage available on the internet into a 27 minute long retrospective chronicling the past decade of his career. 

While the world was focused on more pressing business, Tombo quietly dropped a few episodes of his “Raw Deals” series on Vimeo. Episode 15 is full of New York and New Jersey footage from 2003, and Episode 16 focuses on a 5boro trip to Lima, Peru.

Chris Thiessen uploaded eight minutes of Alex Schmidt raw footage, most of which ended up in Transworld videos or Threads Idea Vacuum projects. Nothing beats VX footage in 720p.

Jacob Elliot Harris on the limits of rigging spots, the inspiration for Atlantic Drift episodes, and the politics of filming clips involving donkeys.

Jacob also built out an edit of a trip to Berlin way back in 2011, featuring a pre-Isle Tom Knox alongside Will Harmon and friends.

-ATM