“I remember when dinner depended on my fishing rod.”

October 31st, 2010 | 12:19 pm | Daily News | 2 Comments

Did Halloween happen yesterday or is it happening today?

Chris Christie is not the Governor of New Jersey. Fred Gall is. Largely because he is the only one willing to go into illicit portions of the state where the economy is sustained by PCP smoke and crack sales. The last spot in this welcome clip of him and Steve Durante for Orchard skate shop (out in Allston, Massachusetts) and Seasons skate shop (up in Albany) is one one of the more terrifying locations to skateboard at in the entire state. The nineties never ended there. Actually, they probably never even began.

“Knives and Beer” is Pryce Holmes’ short video depiction of a camping trip that was filled with a lot of knives and many cans of beer.

Abada made this two-minute profile of Alex Duke many years ago. You can check out of some of his design work for Consolidated and other companies over here.

“You know them dudes stylin’ in Osiris shoes.” #skateboardrap. (QS has already stated that it is a Nolan Lee-supporting enterprise.)

Someone mentioned this Andy Bautista Logic 6 part in last week’s EST post. And truly, it was a crucial video part to anyone who grew up skating around New Jersey. Even though a lot of it was filmed in Los Angeles, it is done so in the most east coast way imaginable. This is the era that still felt the effects of Osiris’ profoundly damaging Storm project (maybe the 5050 varial heelflip out on Pyramid Ledges was a form of Osiris-isms peeking out from the New-York-est trick ever: the frontside 5050 front shove out), and this dude is filming a crooked grind, kickflip on flat, and frontside 180 nosegrind line out in L.A. and still managing to make it look great. Very few short dudes have great style in skateboarding, but this guy definitely pulls it off. I might still have some poached footage of him doing nosegrind reverts at Hoboken Ledges on a DV tape buried in a shoebox somewhere. Features a German Nieves cameo, and quite literally, one of the most underrated nineties rap songs ever on the soundtrack. As someone who always complains about rap music, Spike Lee managed to have a handful of great rap songs in his movies.

You can see a quick slideshow from Halloween Hellraiser over here if you’re into that sort of thing. I bumped into Billy last night for a second, dressed up like he was in the Nation of Islam, and he goes, “Tyrone Biggums was there.” “What? there’s a kid who looks like Tyrone Biggums?” “No, the dude from Chapelle’s Show.” “Who, Dave Chapelle?” “No, Tyrone Biggums, the character.” I still don’t know what that means.

Oh, and Billy is on Twitter.

Around the time of last Halloween and the proceeding weeks, every individual involved with QS had this song on rotation for at least one-fifth of their day. It’s a shame these dudes suck now and one of them is off making songs about scarves with Kanye West. The song itself has not gotten any less relevant, or pertinent as go-to motivational music for any sort of emotionally taxing task.

Quote of the Week: “If you see a hot girl in Barcelona, she’ll turn around and have dreads down her neck and a Star Trek tattoo on her face.” – Pryce Holmes

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That Pomeranian Flow

October 29th, 2010 | 1:43 pm | Daily News | 2 Comments

Slow update week. It happens.

But for anyone over the age of five, the impending weekend has nothing to do with skateboarding. Aside from maybe treating it as an occasional means of transport from point-A to point-B. Real updates involving real things shall return next week, in November, when the highs begin to slowly crawl down from the life-affirming seventy degrees we have been blessed with this past week.

The clip below was filmed on Halloween in 2007, when the site was in the midst of a creative high-point, and Gigliotti was still a bro (and renter of one of the finest conversation halls in all of Lower Manhattan.) It was a completely spur of the moment thing, and the sort of occurrence that is not possible in 2010 without meticulous planning, coinciding with the alignment of all the stars affecting motivation levels in New York City. Either way, it’s probably one of the best things to ever be on this website. Features Pryce Holmes, Isak Buan, Mike Gigliotti, Dario Phillips.

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2 A.M., on the 91 freeway, lookin’ spooky…

October 27th, 2010 | 1:07 pm | Footage | 7 Comments

In honor of the weather this past weekend, nighttime skateboarding was kept close to home, instead of on a seventy-mile ride north to skate Connecticut’s superior brand of ledges, which is what the typical weekend evening protocol tends to be around here. The night was something special, given that Midtown presented itself in 2003 form, with packs of roaming kids (more than usual for a Saturday) taking turns getting kicked out of Paine Webber and Ziegfeld in five minute intervals. Seeking refuge, we made it over to the eastside, got kicked out of everywhere on Park in under five minutes due to the fact that the other packs of kids put security on their toes five minutes prior, and managed to stay at the chain gap across from the Lipstick Building on the Japanese block for a solid hour. That’s the only spot in Midtown you don’t get kicked out of — the 53rd Street chain gap. Sad.

Oh, there was a mini rave going on at Paine Webber as well.

We made it back over to the westside late enough to not get kicked out and filmed this quick homie cam clip over there. Lots of stock tricks and shaking, but by some miraculous stroke of fate, there is no dirt on the lens.

Features Ty Lyons, Galen Dekemper, Miles Marquez, and Josh Velez. Filmed by Andre Page and Miles Marquez. Photo above by Andre Page.

P.S. We’re looking for a pork rind (or beer) sponsor for a cross-country voyage, any interest may be directed to info [at] quartersnacks [dot] com.

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Previous, related late night clips:
» Financial District and Midtown – Fall 2007
» Upper West Side – Summer 2008
» Financial District – Summer 2008

Why go to a fine restaurant, when you can just stick something in the microwave? Why go to the park and fly a kite, when you can just pop a pill?

October 25th, 2010 | 12:09 pm | Daily News | 4 Comments

If you did not spend at least ninety percent of your free moments contained within this last weekend outdoors, you truly blew it. These are the last days of perfectly magical weather, so enjoy every potential morsel of it while it lasts, because sixty-two degree evenings (probably) aren’t coming back for another six months.

You’ve definitely seen Shaggy around Astor and Union Square for many years, he is a very distinctive character. He’s one of those dudes who has been around forever, and was responsible for some posters at the Banks that upset Ryan Hickey, Mike Hernandez, and others back in the nineties (apparently, there is no photographic documentation of these posters.) He wrote this quick article for Blackbook Magazine about working in the mailroom at Hearst Magazines, and moonlighting as a prominent Union Square skateboard personality. Also, last month, The New York Times did a profile on him and his life-long hobby of writing letters to the editors of various magazines (you may have caught them in Slap back when it was still in print.)

Jimmy Marketti put together this footage reel that covers the past few years. It has no order to it whatsoever, just a random batch of footage. Features Rob Campbell, Taji, Black Dave, and others.

There’s a gorgeous new marble ledge spot on 29th Street. Two backside for regular ledges extending past handicap ramps, two frontside for regular ledges extending way out over sets of three stairs. It’s not in front of a security window, but it will be. And no, this isn’t blowing anything up, because it’ll be a bust by the end of the week, if it isn’t already. Go have fun while you can.

Rob Harris interview via TheseVideoDays.

Here’s a quick edit from the Vans space out in Greenpoint. There is no real reason to go there until the temperature drops a solid twenty degrees. It’s too early to succumb to watching indoor footage, but go for it if you want to check the space out. The song jams though.

“Queens Finest” video via Steve Marino. This premiered back at the Queens Museum of Art event before the Maloof Money Cup back in June. Great montage, even though rap instrumental parts aren’t the best of looks. Play the original song with the lyrics over it and you’ll be good. “…while I be sippin’ gin straight in a plastic cup…”

Even though the Baracka Flaka Flames video is the ignorant viral hit of the week, the “I Go Hard *When* I Paint” video from the summer is vastly underrated.

Quote of the Week: “Do you want to buy a Darkstar helmet for $15? It’s $150 online, you can check.” – Bleeker Street Junkie

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A Look Back at EST Video Magazine

October 22nd, 2010 | 1:18 pm | Time Capsule | 22 Comments

Zoo York's E.S.T. Video Magazine - Issues 1 thru 4"

As hard as it is to believe, nine or ten years ago, an endless stream of New York skate footage available for public consumption did not exist. There was Metrospective, which for all its merits, was updated irregularly. But you’d still sit there on your 56k modem and wait for a minute-long clip to slowly load, because you weren’t likely to catch much footage of any local spots in the latest 411 or Digital video. There were also the four Zoo videos (we’re talking up to around 2001, 2002 here), the INFMS video, Static, 5Boro’s 511, that Blackout video with the New York montage, but definitely nothing like the overload that comes with the autofill results when you type “nyc skateb…” on YouTube’s search bar.

But seeing “pros” (translation: dudes in skate videos) skate your local spots (outside of the Banks and Newport) matters a lot when you’re a kid. And was probably a lot more of an event back then than it is now. Everyone in my little circa-2000 skate crew was psyched when Pappalardo did a nollie heelflip into a sheet of plywood set down the six at Hoboken Ledges in his Photosynthesis part. Not because it was an amazing trick, after all, it was a 16mm artsy cut-in, but a small piece of history of the spot to hold onto, and especially relevant if your local spots weren’t any of the trademarks of the era (again, the Banks and Newport.)

That’s probably the reason why issues of EST were something to look forward to every year when a lot of us were growing up. For the time, it was a great idea. A video magazine in the vein of 411, Logic, or Digital, but with montages segregated by regions on the east coast, and supplementary feature materials. Basically, an eastern vehicle to give career boosts to up-and-comers in the same way a “Wheels of Fortune” segment would for some under-the-radar schoolyard kid out in the Valley. (Not that east coasters never received 411 segments, but they were more of an exception to the rule than the overall norm.)

 
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