Pat Hoblin

PREMIERE / "Hot Plate" / Marshall Nicholson

It is no less than six years that Marshall Nicholson spent restlessly working on his second independent, full-length skate video (after "FEED YOUR HEAD", and shorter clips such as "JIVE"): "HOT PLATE", a few parts from which had already found their respective ways online before - notably via Theories of Atlantis and Vague Skate Mag. Talking Theories, they are still hosting this interview with Marshall by Mike Wine where the approach for, and process behind the piece were discussed in length; Vague, on their end, had Dom Henry take over the interrogation room, which resulted in even more commentary from the author.

Now, Marshall is a full-time father and still undertaking new projects, be it video-wise or not as he's also been busy managing Palms Skateshop; and yet in spite of such an intense schedule, today, he's delivering and serving us the full "HOT PLATE" - now watchable in one shot fired from Fort Myers, Florida but also, by extension, N.Y.C., Baltimore, Chattanooga and Tokyo. A whole universal story wrapped up within exactly forty-two VX-1000-driven minutes; Douglas Adams himself never was this correct at estimating the meaning of life.

Romantik Salganik

If the name of Sam Salganik doesn't sound familiar to you, then maybe his work does, as the man is responsible for some of the best Krooked videos, most notably "Gnar Gnar" and "Gnaughty" (both must-haves in the pre-skate rotation). And if that doesn't ring a bell either, well, you're still in for a world of discoveries...

For a few years now, Sam has been working on Becky Factory, and their last video production (to date?) is, quite logically, one more instance of his output. As one should have expected, "Swan Song" is more experimental than your average skate commercial and comes with romance, messages, classic Dinosaur Jr. tracks that could have been very, very easily ruined, and immaculate performances by Yaje Popson, Igor Veyner, Tyler Golden, Eli Reed, Cambryan Sedlick and the homie Pat Hoblin, who runs Pats Pants.

Around Midnight

Yoan Taillandier's visual craftsmanship and sharpest fish-eye skills than most is what you can thank for - amongst many other influential video pieces - the first "Minuit" video, as early as 2011 - the underground hit that shook the world, and made refined street skating presented well a focus in the whole Western skate world again, all the while itself being directly influenced by the minutiae of a sophisticated Japanese skate scene. Word on the street is that whoever it is that the relevancy of the aforementioned film may have flown over the head of at the time, due to being spiritually phagocitized by the hottest Californian trends and accustomed to a religion of wooden skatepark-based podcasts, is still trying their best to recreate that video and instill it with just as impactful long-term significancy to this day, and that's eight years later...

Anyway, even though Yoan, the filmer, never really left anywhere himself (as can be attested by his works for clothing brand Futur), this new edit displays the willpower to bring Minuit altogether back in full force, notably by the means of a new series of web clips this piece is the first installment in, so far; consisting in footage filmed from Paris to Italy, going through Marseille and exploring even the cuttiest spots, then consequently experienced by Pat Hoblin, James Coleman, Yaje Popson, Logan Lewis, Yensi Lama and Evan Kinori - more European than ever for the most part, and even in broad daylight, much to our delight!

Funky Pat(-hs)!

Always where you do not expect him, that Mister Hoblin! At least when it comes to the precarious lines he decides to negotiate, between tightrope walking and straight danger. On the other hand, you do know he will have picked the "comfy option" when it came to decide on pants to wear that morning… The kind of skating that makes you want to think more on your environment and how you deal with it, while working on your pop at the same time!

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Meanies

Many new heads in this new LurkNYC prod', in between up and coming kids and summer tourists. Where we note a very mean featuring from the Place heads! Nice one!

Mean meat

The LURK are here, with a Max Garson featuring, and a Shanahan that is single handedly bringing back the early 2000 / fat shoes look back…

Nobody's Alley

The Lurk NYC, heads, we follow them like all of you, for their little edits full of that NYC streets flavor, but here, they step it up! The skating is top notch, on a large palette of super urban spots, John Shanahan confirms his recent exploits, and this could be a lost B-side of a certain Mixtape that came out in 1998.

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