Shawn Powers

Lurknyc Presents Strangers

AFTER NEARLY A DECADE OF MAKING SKATE VIDEOS shot exclusively on the VHS format, London’s Palace Skateboards have taken a landmark decision to switch it up and ditch this cumbersome, weighty, ludicrously outdated technology—and to replace it with an even more cumbersome, even more weighty, even more ludicrously outdated technology! VHS Palace is dead; long live the new era of Betamax Palace!

A skate video by Palace, filmed in Detroit over a seven-year period (2018–2025).

Winter 2014-15

If you follow skateboarding at all, you may have noticed that the “gulliest skate gang in London” has collaborated with the hippest bolt company in New York to drop a line of ***VERY RARE*** gear and a 20+ minute, cocaine-fueled video that’s sure to make Hypebeasts run to max out their credit cards.

The latest full-length offering from London-based Palace Skateboards.

Not a whole lot comes as a surprise these days, especially in the realm of skate videos. Everything has a year of Insta teasers and “trailers” as if it won’t be forgotten the day it gets bumped five spaces on a YouTube subscription feed. Bronze has been the northeast’s most influential thinktank for over half a decade now, and that comes right down to them not being dicks about “teasing” everyone with an upcoming video. Unlike less #relevant institutions, they didn’t need a decade to drop a two-minute clip of falls. Enron just came out with no hype, on a quiet Sunday night while everyone waited for the rain to start. It’s every bit as good as you expect it to be :) This one is perhaps a bit heavier on the “video art” side of things than even Solo Jazz, but at least there’s a totally *hot* Brendan Carroll part, not to mention some other new faces within the Bronze franchise.

Video features Cyrus Bennett, Jacob Gottlieb, Friends, Adrian Vega, Lunchbox, Genesis Evans, Shawn Powers/ Adam Zhu, and Jason Byoun.