Smartcar stereos are a hot item in the West Village.
It’s getting real out here
May 29th, 2011 | 3:44 pm | Quarter-Diary | 1 Comment
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Really?
May 29th, 2011 | 3:43 pm | Quarter-Diary | 1 Comment
They really felt it was necessary to knob this thing?
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From New York to Oklahoma, we don’t care
May 28th, 2011 | 1:51 pm | Footage | 11 Comments
Is this the greatest shirt to ever be featured in a Quartersnacks clip?
This was originally supposed to go online yesterday, but after falling into deep depression at around the 11:15 P.M. mark of a certain sporting event on Thursday night, Friday wasn’t the productive day the Quartersnacks office had envisioned. (To any Chicago readers: Has Scottie Pippen been temporarily banned from the city yet?) But life (barely) goes on, and enough emotional strength was gathered to put together our traditional beginning of summer / Memorial Day weekend montage. It features plenty of diamond plated ledges, long 5050s, a lot of 180s (both backside and frontside), a No Limit classic alongside its respective eastern remix, and even a Brengar cameo.
Features Josh Velez, Alex, Pad Dowd, Matthew Mooney, Galen Dekemper, Alexander Mosley, Billy Rohan, Dave Willis, Stephan Martinez, Kevin Tierney, Shawn Powers, and Ben Nazario.
P.S. We don’t condone lying on dirty mattresses in SoHo so your friends could ollie over you.
P.P.S. Young Jeezy has a new mixtape out for Memorial Day weekend. Normally, this would get its own, dedicated post treatment, but he has been spending the past year recording Rick Ross bites (things have really changed, huh), so expectations for it aren’t as high as they were in the pre-Lex Luger/Fake Lex Luger beat and celebrity name as a hook era.
Filed Under: Footage | Tags: Alex, Alexander Mosley, Ben Nazario, Billy Rohan, Black Dave, Galen Dekemper, Josh Velez, Kevin Tierney, Matthew Mooney, Pad Dowd, Shawn Powers, Start of Summer Clip, Stephan Martinez, The QS Rap Desk, Young Jeezy
Hello Sunday, Hello Road
May 28th, 2011 | 2:03 am | Daily News | 3 Comments
Gil-Scott Heron died at the age of 62 on Friday afternoon.
Although not a massive influence on skateboard video soundtracks over the years, Gil-Scott Heron’s music has adorned both Jahmal Williams Eastern Exposure 3 part and Nate Jones’ Real to Reel part, so that’s worthy enough of some acknowledgement on behalf of the skateboard media concerned with respectable music choices. (Strangely enough, those two skaters were mentioned in unison in a recent post, and have no association with one another beyond the fact that they both had their own Chrome Ball Incident posts last week, and have skated to a Gil-Scott Heron song.) The artsy video for last year’s Me and the Devil also had some weird skateboarder motif and a whole bunch of footage shot at the Banks and surrounding areas.
Familiarize yourself with the man’s music, as he’s responsible for Nate Jones’ song AKA what this website constantly claims is one of the best skating and song combinations of all-time, among a great many other things. There’s way more to Gil-Scott than “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” and more recently, “New York is Killing Me.” Rest in Peace.
Interstates, Training, Getting in Shape
May 25th, 2011 | 10:10 am | Footage | 6 Comments
Anyone ever skate in the middle of I-95 before? We did, mostly as a training measure in preparation for the day we wax up that ledge to parallel bank in the middle of the FDR Drive on 63rd Street, under Rockefeller University. The FDR is usually closed on the 4th of July, so that seems like an opportune time for it. Maybe we’ll film a frontside 5050 or something.
Here’s a clip of what skating in the middle of 95 (New York’s northern pathway to superior skate spots in New England) looks like. See, there are things to do in middle of traffic besides inhaling truck exhaust and listening to the radio play the same three Rick Ross songs over and over. Also includes footage from the Quartersnacks indoor training camp that was featured in the previous video update. The next clip is guaranteed to be 100% outdoors, enough is enough. “Features” Boss Bauer, Ben Nazario, Andre Page, and Josh Velez.
New, longer clip (probably) up this weekend. Here’s the one from last Memorial Day weekend (which accompanied the site re-launch), finally updated to HD quality instead of a 25 MB mov file.
Filed Under: Footage | Tags: I-95, Quartersnacks Athletic Facilities, Skating in the middle of interstates
