I’m not a skateboarder, but a lot of the guys I’ve dated in the past were either skateboarders themselves, friends primarily with skateboarders, or admirers of skateboarding culture (so, they wished they were, but didn’t have the hand-eye coordination). I’ve picked up on some snippets of the sport: I laugh at jokes about Chad Muska, swoon over Dylan Rieder, and tell lies about being Mike Carroll‘s cousin. Still, as far as impressionable cultural consumption goes, skateboarding videos are some of, in my opinion, the most unimpressive and uncreative of all filmic ventures, repeating the same elements over and over (Pennywise, fisheye cameras, ugly neon Osiris shoes, and mook Jackass bullshit). Of course, there are exceptions to this rule.

The following video, released in 1995 by Supreme New York showcases the youth culture that was flourishing in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. It’s less about lusty rail grinding and more about New York’s aura, making it, for me, the most inspiring skate video ever created. It’s also quite telling that the boy who showed it to me was not a skateboarder at all; he was just a super progressive aesthete.

A Love Supreme features the incredible musical stylings of of John Coltrane and the skateboarding prowess of Aaron Suski, Danny Supa, Keith Hufnagel, Quim Cardona, and (the infamous) Mark Gonzales.

FYI, I don’t date skateboarders anymore.

A LOVE SUPREME from MoFoViSiON on Vimeo.

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Jessica Carroll is the Toronto Standard’s editorial assistant. She writes a daily column about stuff she likes on the internet and twitters at @jssckr.