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The other popular alternative.

looks at NEON’s festival strategy and their status vis-à-vis A24 and MUBI.

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The state of NEON

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David Lynch and the Trinity test.

on the nuclear blast framed above Gordon Cole’s desk. 

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An appreciation of a beautifully shitty pre-fab skatepark.

on learning to drop in. This is the third dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x [Simple Magic](https://www.simplemagic.ca/). You can read the second dispatch [here](https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/05/paved-with-desire).

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"Skateboarding works in millimeters."

on the embodied practice of skateboarding and moving forward a millimeter at a time.

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The unknown radius

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“Ca-thunk. Ca-thunk. Ca-thunk.”

on riding a skateboard over bricks. This is the second dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x [Simple Magic](https://www.simplemagic.ca/). You can read the [first dispatch here](https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/05/under-the-overpass). 

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Paved with desire

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“A very millennial shot”

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In defense of the underhand serve

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Skateboarding among the dirt and grime, there’s a smell, a feeling divine.

with the first dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x [Simple Magic](https://www.simplemagic.ca/) that takes a look, whiff, listen, taste, and feel of skateboarding’s effect on the senses.

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Under the overpass

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