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1. Pierre-Alexandre Pestie - 07/02/1907/02/19

   P.A’S TIP: HOTEL BLUE’S ABOUT TIME

   Hotel Blue, Ya Know? If you love New York's tall buildings in the background, flip tricks over fire hydrants, or lines ending between cars on a busy road with the city traffic, you must surely know! It has been a long time since we didn’t have that much news from them, except from the superb tricks of Juan Virues for converse in the "Uphill" video and more recently in his part “Quatro”. So as the title of this new video indicates it, it was about time! And why change a recipe that works so well?

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   Nick Gorham, Kalman Ocheltree, Luke Lenski, Nate Grzechowiak, Juan Virues
2. Aymeric Nocus - 12/12/1912/12/19

   Sirens

   Hotel Blue is skate videographer Nick Von Werssowetz aka. @lurkNYC's company and its newest offering is "Sirens": eight minutes packed with smooth street skating through the cold spots of N.Y.C., filtered through Nick's vision resulting in a style that's only aging like fine wine and bettering itself since, for instance, "Nobody's Alley". The emerging heads at play here: Nate Grzechowiak gets offered a part consisting in a savant mix of technicity and jazzy, as though to ensure that you actually do eventually remember every letter of his name; Ish Dialo, Charles Deschamps, Kalman Ocheltree, Luca Ettore are more names and styles that pop up for some remarkable maneuvers and - last but not least - Juan Virues gets curtains with another part so impeccable, the man's just got to become one of your favorite skaters after this short film, the soundtrack of which itself is - quite logically - riddled with street sounds and sirens to the point where the viewer can just smell the gutter from their seat.

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   Nick Von Werssowetz, Nate Grzechowiak, Ish Dialo, Charles Deschamps, Kalman Ocheltree, Luca Ettore, Juan Virues, LurkNYC, Hotel Blue
3. Pierre-Alexandre Pestie - 23/01/2023/01/20

   Homies bigger network

   When you want quality street skateboarding with a good smell of concrete and cement, obviously the easiest way is to turn to New York. Between Hotel Blue, Gang corp or Frog there is plenty to do. After the rather remarkable "Homies Network" of Kei Tsuruta, it’s Diego Donival who offers us a magnificent full-lenght of the same ilk "Potluck". This one brings together by its casting a large part of the atmospheres and scenes that we can find in New York with for example an appearance of Brandon James among a whole bunch of skaters of another kind like Kyota Umeki and Yaje Popson. As always when dealing with these people, the tricks are good (not necessarily neat, but sometimes it’s better) the atmosphere is very pleasant and it’s good to see so much diversity and originality. In short, skateboarders meet, videos are made, and the network is getting bigger!

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   Sully Cormier, Quinn Batley, Caleb Yuan, Marcello Campanello, Yaje Popson, Kyota Umeki, Isaac White, Diego Donival
4. 23/04/1823/04/18

   All flat

   Note to self: never lend your car to the Hotel Blue guys!

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   Juan Virues, Nick Gorham, Charles Deschamps