Drunk as Paul McCartney, I’m 80 Bottle Shorty

July 31st, 2010 | 4:55 pm | Daily News | 5 Comments

Mike Gigliotti > Russell Brand. Katy blew it.

For something that wasn’t all that popular or great of a skate spot, they really went all out in knobbing the flat rails on Metropolitan and Driggs in Williamsburg. The knobs are welded in, so even if you wanted to take them off, you’d be wasting your time. Watch Rodrigo’s part in the LRG video because he skated that place better than anyone.

Jersey City never ceases to be one of the most amazing places on the east coast. No set of Avalon condos or poor attempts at high-end hotel chains downtown can stop that.

If you haven’t already voted for Zered in ESPN’s real street contest, you need to do so while there is still time (tomorrow is the last day.) And if you haven’t seen his new footage, well then you’re just not really in the conversation.

New Jake Johnson footage quickly becomes old Jake Johnson footage because the internet so lovingly re-posts it everywhere (by the internet, I mean Slap), but he wears a snackman tee in it, so it’s more than enough to merit a re-post of something you’ve seen already.

Next time you buy a skateboard, support Rob Campbell’s new company, New Breed. For all the years Rob was on Substance, they never gave him the promotional push he deserved, since they seemed predominantly concerned with a bunch of rail kids, so hopefully this new company is a good shot at all of us finally seeing the full Rob part we’ve been waiting for all these years.

Random throwback link of the day: Danny Supa’s 411 “Wheels of Fortune” section. They really love giving New York footage the “video art” treatment.

Parks being infested with rats is news in New York now? Really? The first skatepark they ever gave Lower Manhattan is a rat colony to this day. Maybe they should go get some footage down there so people can think twice before using that “Isn’t there a skatepark you guys can go to” line again.

Quote of the Week: “Skateboarding is not a crime but it should be. Misdemeanor at least. what kind of city/society lets grown men run around attempting skateboard tricks on streets and sidewalks where people are trying to walk. I’m fine with skateboards as a general thing, but do it in a designated place. I love golf but I don’t go teeing off golf balls down 2nd avenue. Yeah you can accuse me of being the decrepit, get off my lawn guy, but I am from OC, california and I have hated skateboarding and its dumb culture since I was a kid.” — Anonymous Commenter on an East Village neighborhood blog’s re-post of the QS post on the Cooper Union bank being knobbed.

What’s worse: Being a decrepit get-off-my-lawn guy or being from OC, California and thinking anyone in New York cares about your opinion? Grand Torino was great, so you know what side I’m on.

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Trying to Buy a Lamborghini This Summer

July 29th, 2010 | 12:05 pm | Footage | 8 Comments

How do you feel about Thando’s homage to you?
Is it a homage to me, or a homage to looking good?

Unlike previous summers, when we’d weave up and down the Northeast and the possibilities for new bad spots and whimsical adventures seemed endless, we’ve been stuck here for the past few months. Partially due to increased unemployment, but largely because of the overall expenses that coincide with the one sketchy place you’ve been renting cars from all these years catching on to the fact that every time they rent to you, they get the car back with an extra 800 miles on the odometer. How exactly the acquisition of a Lamborghini will go is anyone’s guess, but it would widely increase productivity in terms of skateboarding outside of this city, which as you know, is a hotbed of doing nothing in this July/August period of the year. Maybe a Paypal donate button on the side with a long dissertation as to why its a wise investment. Maybe rig a way to make it tax-deductable. Do you think making songs where you copiously repeat that you’re trying to purchase something actually yields an acquisition?

Below is a new clip that features Dennis Feliciano, Isak Buan, Matthew Mooney, Ty Lyons, Josh Velez, Watermelon Alex, Torey Goodall, Aaron Szott, Negative, Rich, Grandpa, Galen Dekemper.

Vimeo / YouTube / Lambo This Summer – Direct Download [70.3MB / 3:12]

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Lurkers 1 Screening This Thursday

July 28th, 2010 | 9:18 am | Daily News | No Comments

On Thursday, July 28th at 8 PM, they will be showing the original Lurkers video from 2003 at Mollusk Surf Shop on the corner of Metropolitan Avenue and River Street in Williamsburg. It is meant to accompany a screening of a surf film called Sea of Joy, and will also include a few other videos Joe Cups and Sam had made throughout the years. It’s an outdoor environment that is open container friendly insofar as you’re not waving it at cops. There will be some a barbecue to go along with it as well.

The version of Lurkers being shown is the original version that was premiered after EST3 at KCDC back in 2003, and not the modified version that was a bonus feature on the second run of Lurkers 2 DVDs. This version was only available on VHS from Autumn and Supreme and is widely under-seen, especially among those of us who were fourteen when it came out. (No, it is not on YouTube.)

To get there, you can take the L to Bedford Avenue, skate south on Bedford until you hit Metropolitan, make a right, and take Metropolitan all the way west to River Street, right around where you’d hit the water. Map here.

“July 26th, the boy delivered a classic…”

July 26th, 2010 | 8:59 pm | Daily News | 8 Comments

Before you rush to the comments section, and post a snide little “I thought this was Quartersnacks, not World Star Hip Hop” comment, you should know that this very site would not be here today if it was not for this record’s existence. And do not take this for some sort bad attempt at irony, as the music content on this site, in everything from the gayest of Lady Gaga songs, right down to the hoodest of Southern gold-teeth-wearers, has been utilized and appreciated with the utmost sincerity for the artist. Liking music in a backhanded, laugh-at-not-with sort of way is one of the most annoying traits you can ever discover in another person while discussing pop culture, and if you’re over eighteen, and still doing that shit, you need to cut it out. I’d imagine that anyone making songs about lasagna-colored Zondas is a lot more self aware than you’d give him credit for. Or at least a lot more than Nas pretends to be when he’s acting smart and reciting facts about the history of Africa that he had his assistant remember for him off the Africa Wikipedia page.

And it didn’t make sense upon its release, five years ago on this date, as to why this guy who looks like a Ninja Turtle and makes a habit of stretching adverbs to absurd lengths was capable of producing such inspiring sonic landscapes. But it works. Michael Phelps gets it. And if you don’t, well, you’re probably the one that’s missing something, or it’s not for you. That’s fine too.

If I had that “I don’t do concerts, I give motivational speeches” quote properly worded, I’d post it, but I can’t find it. Footage this week. Let’s get it.


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Quartersnaps: Jordan Zuppa

July 25th, 2010 | 10:20 am | Features & Interviews | No Comments

Dave Eoannou – Axle Stall in Buffalo, NY

Jordan Zuppa’s photographs have an admirable concern for Northeastern-esque buildings and scenery to compliment the expected focus on well-formed skateboarding, which of course, comes as a pre-requisite for pointing any sort of lens at a bum on wheels. Buildings and scenery, or “aesthetics,” if you will, are ninety-percent responsible for allowing the Northeast to willingly stay behind the curve on the progression of skateboard maneuvers these past fifteen to twenty years. (Believe me, that’s a good thing.) The backside wallride would have remained a forgotten relic if it wasn’t for the Northeast dragging it out of the otherwise-forgotten recesses of the 1980s, simply so that it could be used to secretly point out how great our rundown buildings look in skate photographs. (Schoolyards, on the other hand, do not come with run down buildings.)

With that being said, Jordan’s photos are complete with the scenery that helped give the Northeast its trademark aesthetic edge that makes it okay to abide by lax technical trick standards (technical in a flip-in-flip-out-to-manual-to-flip-to-manual-to-flip-out-down-stairs sense), along with documentation of the beloved backside tailslide, backside wallride, and backside 5050 maneuvers that we will continue to do and perfect, long after every movie is in 3-D, and some kid who’s in preschool now figures out a way to make Felipe Gustavo’s ledge tricks commonplace on a handrail.

A few favorites are posted after the jump. You can check out the rest on his website.

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