Yeah, We Still Skate Sometimes

March 13th, 2007 | 12:21 am | Footage | 42 Comments

While all you country bumpkins were thinking you were going to take over the streets, under the impression that we were falling off, we were out there holding down the block (in a legal way).

An interesting fact that all of you might want to note for the Quarter Snacks history books you’re all probably researching for, is that every clip since the middle of summer 2006 was filmed on a borrowed camera. And thanks to the VX1000 being the most unreliable piece of shit on the planet, the past few months have been sort of dry. In between hourly dice games, macking hoes, maintaining jobs, attending school, nights at 205, wasted days in the back of a skate shop with a red logo that shall remain nameless, child support checks, and parole violations, we’ve managed to get out and skate, probably more often than all you other hoes.

Luckily, Ben’s biological father recently let me borrow his GL1. I’m not a huge fan of this device, but it’s better than nothing, and I for damn sure don’t know how to use it, so I’ll tell you now — if you’re prone to vaginal infections at the sight of auto-exposure settings, poorly set colors, or any of that other shit, stay away. Otherwise…

East Coast Boogie, Boulevard Bundle-Up

March 9th, 2007 | 7:03 am | Daily News | 9 Comments

Adrian – 5050 Through Some Kinks – Photo By Dave H.

The previous hood holiday announcement was incorrect. It only reached 58 degrees that day, and the hood holiday cannot officially occur until it hits 60. Plus, it is still colder than a muhfuckah outside. Here’s my semi-every-Friday, link to content everywhere else but here update.

Torey Goodall Baby Steps B-Roll [Download to your harddrive or Stream / YouTube]. Since the Baby Steps video is the only thing still in-stock at the shop, this clip should be some motivation for you to pick it up. I should be getting re-ups on Ian’s video, and some new products up in the near future.

Matt Mooney: Bringing Innovation and Comedy to the Game Since 1987

I have no clue who filmed this video of Miles olling over a drunk girl at Union last Friday, but somehow it wound up on Youtube.

I checked the UXA Blog for the first time the other day, and there are a couple of sick old school photos on there. Seeing the Pang photo at World Trade is crazy. I remember that being one of the first three-stairs I ever ollied one summer before 9/11 happened, and getting psyched after olling off the manual pad around the corner from it.

3rd and Army footage isn’t hard to come across, but rarely is it set to music this brilliant.

Most of the skateboard world has already heard, but in case this is the only skate site you go on, Shane Cross recently passed away after a motorcycle accident. Rest in peace.

This video is old, but it has New York skating blended with Three 6 Mafia blended with 80s music. You can’t lose.

I got crowned king out in Africa Malaysia, out in Nigeria Kuala Lumpur, do you have any idea? When you ten years in, holla back then.

Most of you probably will not understand the importance of this event, but Kill Traitors has a blog. Time to take Eastern ExBROsure off the shelf and get busy.

Skate Videos Online is back.

Daylight savings time comes early this year. That means an extra hour of skating, pardon me, filming, without a light.

“I’m Sitting At Home, Reading a Periodical…

March 8th, 2007 | 7:21 pm | Daily News | 10 Comments

…and this is the call I get? My son is a bootlegger?”

Not really sure how much bootlegging I’m about to be involved in, granted that this video is free in the first place, but let’s just say I’m saving you the trouble of having to leave your house and going down to a shop to pick it up yourself.

This is the New 411 Up For Grabs DVD with the New York City section. Everybody who had seen it before me told me that it sucks. It’s nothing amazing, and certainly isn’t like like the last NYC section they had, but its worth a couple watches either way. The problems in it are mostly in the fact that 75% of the people in it are kids who came here from Cali over the summer, but I guess that’s pretty much more at fault of everyone here not submitting more footage (or saving it for some video thats going to wind up free on the internet anyway). A lot of it is recycled (the last trick is about three years old), and there’s a lot of B-Footage scattered about as well.

Luis, Rodney, Falla, Billy, Steve (for wallriding a chain-link fence…) and Nolan all hold it down though, and Brandon Westgate has a pretty sick line on Water Street. AND THANK YOU, for having the whole montage not be a mixture of the Staten Island ledges (which aren’t in it at all!), Flushing, and Chinatown Manual Pad (also not in the entire thing!). They switched it up on the spots, which is definitely a good thing.

Frankly, they should’ve used this song for it (sooooo New York, right?) instead of some dude nobody’s ever heard of, but we can’t all get what we want. 411 needs some thug motivation

And as for the rest of the video, all I have to say is Nate Sherwood’s intro is bar-none, at the top of the (already really long, pause) list of annoying intros.

Filmed by: Bryan Chin, Steve Marino, Ewan Bowman, Tom Colabaro, Seamus Deegan, Chris Mulhern, Dan Santiago, RB Umali, Justin “Tookie” White

Download the NYC Section to your harddrive [92.9MB]

Watch the NYC Section on Youtube

Download the whole video [287.7MB]

Send me a cease and desist letter for bootlegging a free video

If you want a DVD copy, your local shop should probably have it.

Line ‘Em Up

March 8th, 2007 | 6:58 pm | Daily News | 30 Comments

Sorry dudes, but I can’t update for a while. I’m still on line at Supreme. I’m actually doing this post off a Sidekick that I borrowed from some japanese kid in a 10Deep hoody standing right next to me. But yeah, I’m going to be here all night, because I need a Supreme basketball so I could carry it around to match my Mork & Mindy’s!

On a related note, Old Jeezy’s Traphouse is my new second favorite website (Gossipingbitches.com will always have that special place in my heart). It’s sort of like Don’t Believe the Hypebeast, except a lot more hood and a lot more racist. You will not find better writing with more truth to it anywhere else on the internet.

I have to go clubbing tomorrow night so people could check out all the Supreme gear I waited on line for, plus I’m spending my morning doing re-sale auctions on eBay (I got it for cheap, don’t worry!), so you won’t be seeing much on Quarter Snacks for a while. Frankly, I just quit skating (and writing about skating) for good. The Quarter Snacks Street Wear Blog, coming this Spring!

I wore a collared shirt today.

(For real though, updates in a few. Sorry for two similar posts in a row, but this line is too funny.)

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“I Wanna Skate With Supreme Team”

March 7th, 2007 | 1:03 am | Features & Interviews | 17 Comments

For much of the skateboard population, and the population of those who just carry around skateboards to match their sneakers, Supreme remains an enigmatic force. All of you hate it, citing that it is not a “real” skateshop, yet all of you turn around, lace up your cute “Send Help” Dunks under your size 30 (when you really wear a size 34, it’s just a lot more comfortable to have them sag halfway down your thighs so people can check out the back pockets) Japanese Levi’s and aimlessly walk in a circle, perusing the various “non-skateboard” items lying on their shelves. To most of you “The Back” is a mystery (notice, “The Back” of Supreme constitutes as a proper noun, as indicated by the MLA). “Do you have any more in the back?” or “Is there anything else in the back?” are all phrases etched into your minds, in that they give you a sense of hope, and new beginning, kind of like the American Frontier. When the color that matches your Dunks isn’t out on the shelves, there is always hope in the back, for a brighter future. Why does the store randomly close for two weeks? I recently read on some website where grown men discuss stitching detail on their jeans that it is because the staff takes off to go snowboarding for a week, thus having to close the store. Why is everyone there such an asshole? Why did they diss me when I asked for a discount? Why won’t they set-up my skateboard?

Most of you just hate Supreme because you don’t have answers to these questions. You want to know, but can’t. But you still wait in like in sixteen-degree weather to buy a red box logo tee anyway, even though it’s not a “real” skateshop. The majority of you will never know about the endless line of unreleased Nike SBs, the crackle-print Speedos with box logos at the crotch, the private indoor skatepark, or the A-Bomb factory in the back of Supreme.

This came in the mail the other day. (Yes, it really was on Mickey Mouse paper.)

Do you remember the “End of Summer” clip? At the end of it, there was a young, Asian gentlemen who muttered the immortal words “Poosy ass nigga?” and “Hi! No Homo!” which I’m sure have all been committed to memory. Well, his name was Crazy Motherfucker (self-abbreviated to CMF). I’m not quite sure who gave him this name, I think it was either Pryce or Mooney, but that doesn’t really matter.