The thing about Quartersnacks, and its status as a semi-prominent skateboard institution, is that not that many people know about it. Beyond the infamy it has garnered in the realm of fixing misguided skateboard video projects, and being in the right place at the right time to form an everlasting bond with prominent athletes like Chad Fernandez, the average person outside of Manhattan does not know what it is. It’s not the Berrics, it’s not Crailtap, it’s not 48 Blocks, and it’s not Official New York.

But even taking that into account, we have been able to pierce through various market sectors of skateboard-and-computer-owners that extend beyond our modest niche of hip Manhattanites, cursory “new york skate spots” Googlers, and token Japanese fans that read the site for its occasional photographs of Supreme employees. Nothing has been a better display of this underground permeation of mainstream skateboarding than Patrick O’Dell’s web series, “Skate Talk.” Unlike “Epicly Later’d,” I have never followed this series, due to the fact that the pacing of each episode is sort of like watching Doctor Zhivago screwed and chopped, but every now and then, someone would be kind enough to inform the QS team of a loosely-related reference to this website’s otherwise unheralded antics and how they correlate to the respective interviewee’s career at large. So consider this a behind-the-scenes exposé of a behind-the-scenes exposé.

It’s kind of like the intro from that Three 6 Mafia album: “We’re known, but at the same time, we’re unknown. We got a lot to do with what’s going on in hip-hop today, but niggas don’t realize. Niggas in the streets realize, but the press and the industry don’t realize.” Just replace “Three 6 Mafia” with “Quartersnacks,” “the streets” with “The TF,” and “hip-hop” with “skateboarding.” But like the man said, “It is what it is, I ain’t gonna talk your head off.”

Play them classics!