Jenkem took a trip to the foreign land of Jersey City to visit NJ Skateshop to hear from some native New Jersians. The guests go from telling us that Ishod doesn’t claim Jersey enough to saying that Tik Tok is just for single moms in their 30s.
PREMIERE: Orchard Skateshop’s “Angel & Star” – JENKEM
To celebrate Orchard Skateshop’s reopening in Boston, JENKEM is proud to share this new part welcoming their newest riders.
JENKEM – The Early Years of Jackass with Jeff Tremaine
Jenkem joined in on the promo bandwagon and talked through some of the early skits with Jackass’s head honcho, Jeff Tremaine.
JENKEM – Ducky’s Bag of Tricks
Ducky Kovacs is a California native who has been living in the SF Bay Area for some time now. As we all know, SF is known for its hilly streets so you never know when you might be in a pinch for some quick pain relief after getting speed wobbles on a hill bomb or need a hygiene check after stepping in human poop.
He dumped out his bag for us and got a little warm-up in to ham it up for the camera.
JENKEM – Date A Sk8er: Ian & Raven
For the first episode of Jenkem’s new season of “Date A Sk8er,” they set up Ian Ostrowski, skateboard filmmaker, with Raven, a social media manager from Oregon, and let them wander the bars around Jenkem HQ.
JENKEM – Meet the Enjoi Ams: Ryan
To wrap up Jenkem’s series, we have Ryan Connors who’s living out in Clairmont, CA in the heart of the Inland Empire. Louie and the crew take the drive out there to drink margaritas, skate Ryan’s local park, and “get bitten by a rattlesnake”.
JENKEM – Meet the Enjoi Ams: Tony
JENKEM took a trip with Enjoi head honcho Louie Barletta to get to know the newest faces of the team, and prime yourself for the impending new video. First up is Tony Latham, who lives out in Martinez, CA, not too far away from enjoi’s San Jose roots. JENKEM took the drive out there to link, skate, grub, and get to know their fresh blood a little better.
JENKEM – Parts with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.
“For our latest “Parts” episode, we broke the mold a bit and hit up J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. to give us some of his favorites. Obviously, J is no pro skater or even a big skate rat, but he’s played an important role in skate video history through his affiliations with Alien Workshop and skaters like Neil Blender.” – Jenkem
PREMIERE – Ben Koppl’s “EUROPART” for Film Trucks – JENKEM
Ben’s got a free-flowing and improvisational approach that pays no heed to “illegal” tricks. Enjoy his sometimes polarizing signature blend of technical, flowy, and playful rolled into one.
JENKEM – Ground Glass: Mark Suciu
Videographer James Thomson spent a couple of days with Mark filming this 16mm edit for our “Ground Glass” series that ditches the one-upmanship and stair counting, and focuses back on just some of the bits that make Mark special. Don’t think of this as yet another part of his “SOTY run,” but rather as a victory lap, and a showing of Jenkem’s appreciation for one of the best skaters of our generation.
“Okay, Last Try” EP. 7 – Interview with Gifted Hater – JENKEM
Jenkem welcomes back to another episode of their podcast “Okay, Last Try.” For the latest episode, they had the chance to meet the man who has his finger on the pulse of online skate gossip, Gifted Hater. You can usually find him poking fun at the Berrics, reviewing recent videos, or running through the most recent gossip in his segment “Hateline ABD.”
JENKEM – A Look at the Timeless Photography of Mike O’Meally l “Sydney (UN)SCENE”
There can be no serious discussion of Australian skate photography—or skate photography in general for that matter—without the name Mike O’Meally. For anyone that followed Australian skateboarding in the nineties, the little O’Meally credit next to a photo became synonymous with the cool, the avant-garde, and most importantly, the authentic. – James Turvey