Quartersnacks Summer ’09 – The Ignorant Edit
This is essentially the same batch of tricks as the Michael Jackson tribute clip from several weeks ago, but an overwhelming amount of the “responsible” people I know denounced it as “racist” and “ignorant,” so it underwent some re-editing to pay tribute to the king of pop. Meanwhile, all the degenerates I know who spend their paychecks and/or other assets in Atlantic City deemed it “the best clip in years.” So here’s an off-shoot post in honor of their irresponsibility. I am also predicting an impending trend of editing to Gucci Mane in light of his recent skyrocketing in popularity with white people who found out about rap during their first year of college and deem it a necessary facet of their ironic persona, so if I’m correct, an overwhelming amount of Gucci Mane songs are bound to make their way into skate clip edits pretty soon a la the caucasian Dipset craze of 2005 and 2006. Which brings me to my next point…

“Me, Christina, and Gucci Mane, would do a threesome.”
Now I am sure that these girls have a greater degree of sincerity in their admiration of Radric Davis than the people who had the entire Belle and Sebastian discography memorized before they even knew who Jay-Z was, but this is the sort of thing that will inevitably propel his beyond brilliant musings into a category of material used by kids from the Hamptons to start companies specializing in ampersand tees and re-workings of the Ramones logo in accordance with what’s ironic for that given month.

Nolan Lee’s New Batch of Footage (Stolen from 48 Blocks)
Nolan Lee is the truth, if you disagree, you’re an asshole. Even though it’s a bit disheartening that a spot that’s been skated since the mid-90s needs to appear in two new videos before it becomes trendy enough for people to skate it, resulting in a demo at the Courthouse every weekend, in addition to some casualties, the ender in this clip is a display of heart to the fullest extent possible. Between the fall, and the fact that the actual landing looks like it was filmed on either a digi-photo cam or a handycam when the battery on the regular camera ran out (I could be wrong though), it’s one of the sickest tricks done this past year. The rest, especially the intro and the front 180 nosegrind over the Rector Street gap-to-bench, is great as well. Remember, “Greenhouse on Monday, The Ave on Tuesday, Marquee on Wednesday and Thursday, Greenhouse on Friday, Marquee on Saturday, and The Griffin on Sunday.”

Jimmy Marketti’s Spring 2006 Edit
Rob Campbell footage. I’m not mad at it.

Shawn Manson Powers
Word on Queens Boulevard is that a new Flipmode project is in the works, with an abridged cast to account for the fact that bits of the squad fell off after discovering cocaine. This clip is presumably a throwaway batch of footage, which is essentially three minutes of banching down hills and through the streets, and one of the better attempts at “skating spots that aren’t really spots” to be put out in recent history. The ollie into the bump to hill in Dumbo looks like a cat whisker thin evasion of death.

Stimulus Skateboards Summer 2009 Promo
I forgot that Stimulus was still around, but they are still alive and shredding through the best state in the union.

Quote of the Week:
Matthew Mooney: “I want to get a house in Central California.”
Inquisitive Gentleman: “Ok, well, what the hell are you going to do for work in Central California?”
Matthew Mooney: “I don’t know, horses and shit. Raise alligators. You know, exotic pets. And strawberries.“