What about the Hummer with wood grain interior?

September 29th, 2011 | 3:11 pm | Footage | 5 Comments

With the summer now completely behind us, here is a quick clip of outtakes from the Heat Wave / End of Summer video. Big thank you to everyone who reposted that clip.

Though this site’s B-footage may be C-footage elsewhere, and our standard for camera-holding (aka “filming”) quality accepts anything with an excess of 20% of the skater’s body in the frame, we are the only skate site on the internet with a Mannie Fresh cameo. This means your color correction, DSL-R handles, and emotional montages are still meaningless by comparison. By popular demand, this clip includes even more footage of Barcelonian prostitutes’ sales pitches, some of Mooney’s more grammatically challenged moments, controversial Google searches, a review of Mulberry Street Turkey Ham, and some second (or even third!) angles. Not to mention Wavy Mike’s suggestions for gender diversification at Supreme.

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The Big Tymers > Radiohead

Meeting of the Minds

September 27th, 2011 | 8:28 pm | Daily News | 3 Comments

Governor Gall recently challenged skateboarding’s resident acne treatment spokesman and Chinatown Park Double-Set/Wall Street Gap Ledge best trick title holder, Ryan Sheckler, to a game of S.K.A.T.E. The game serves as a much-needed breakdown of the increasingly regimented atmosphere that surrounds S.K.A.T.E. in 2011, since no rules were recited prior to play, and the standard “no feet on the ground” rule was disregarded as no complys ran amuck. It’s good to know that the governor is fond of utilizing shove-it variations to weed out opponents’ weak spots at the start of a game. (We’re contractually obligated to mentioned that Mike Wright made it to the final round of the 2004 éS game of S.K.A.T.E. at Tompkins without flipping his board.) Several points of interest:

1. You don’t have to pop fakie shove-its.

2. The “New Jersey Special” is a no comply pop shove-it. Sheckler couldn’t do it.

3. What’s with people that can’t front shove, but can do every other trick known to man?

4. “Now I’m gonna get technical.” [Does a backside bigspin]

5. “Time out.” [Drinks beer]

6. “Where’s all the Red Bull, I need a couple cases.”

7. “Loser’s got to shotgun a beer.”

8. [Sheckler does nollie flip] “Oh fuck!”

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125th Street & Black Donald Trump Boulevard

September 26th, 2011 | 9:20 am | Daily News | 5 Comments

Quartersnacks will soon begin petitioning the city in hopes of changing the Harlem stretch of Seventh Avenue from Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, to Black Donald Trump Boulevard, similar to a ten-year-old HBO initiative of renaming Crossbay Boulevard in Howard Beach to Tupac Shakur Boulevard.

Congratulations to the crew at KCDC on their ten years of business. The shop was featured in the Times this past weekend. The article is kind of corny, but non-corny mainstream media articles about skateboarding are few and far between.

Flushing, Queens, home of the largest post-Hurricane Irene sidewalk bump.

Leo Gutman is one of the best skateboarders in New York. Here’s a sick photo of him doing a frontside 180.

Roctakon was nominated for a Paper magazine “Nightlife Award.” He has a better 360 flip than anyone else nominated for the “Best DJ” category, so there’s no reason he shouldn’t win.

“Mike’s Hard Lemonade, fool.” Early footage of Loose Trucks Max, cameos from Young M Dot Davis, and other clips of interest.

Some scans of a circa 2001 Mass Appeal article about Supreme. The bandana boards and Autumn’s Bradley “Demon Child” shirt are the two New York skate shop artifacts most in need of a re-issue.

Random Footage Bits: “Made in America” by Two Hawks Young, Richmond, VA crew ripping around the city (includes what’s probably the first non-rollerblade trick on that black kinked rail between Battery Park and Battery Park City.)

Below is a compilation clip of largely unreleased footage filmed by Jimmy Marketti throughout the past few years. Features a high volume of noteworthy New York skateboard personalities. And Shawn Powers engaging in a one-sided conversation with an inanimate object.

It’s strange that Brandon Westgate didn’t include YC and Future in his “Top 5 Bands” section for his Focus 10 Top 5′s.

!!!12th & A Update!!!: It’s not “completely done for,” as many have said, just closed for an undetermined amount of time while they figure some things out. Go skate a “real” spot.

Quote of the Week: “Ty, do you think Supreme would be down to put an ATM in front of the shop?” — Fat Billy From Spring Street

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TOSQ-1001: Intro to Tompkins Square Park

September 23rd, 2011 | 10:19 am | Features & Interviews | 40 Comments

Quartersnacks would like to welcome the NYU, SVA, New School, and Pratt classes of 2015 to the great city of New York, and to the most legendary skate spot of modern time, Tompkins Square Park. We wish you luck in your studies, many lifelong friendships, and an education that will lead to a bright and prosperous future, not a life defined by student loan debt and the mercy of tourists’ tipping etiquette at the restaurant you may be stuck working at five years from now, provided the recent graduate (un)employment rate maintains its current pattern.

But as you pursue your dreams in this city, you should be careful not to impede on the dreams of those who came before you — those who merely dream of maintaining a T.F. governed by order. As with every batch of freshmen who arrive in this city, September is a month when the structural fabric of Tompkins is truly tested. Recent transplants impose their own north-south routes, with little regard for the longstanding invisible lanes that exist in this holiest of baseball diamonds. Start points for flatground are disregarded, and end points are never reached. Chaos soon begins.

Strangely enough, for a place associated with alcoholism and dependence on marijuana, Tompkins has a very good memory. Those with poor T.F. etiquette are rarely forgotten, and seldom afforded the luxuries that coincide with civilized New York City skateboard society. A small window for T.F. acceptance exists, and mistakes are often irreversible. If you fail to make the proper impression, well, you may as well never leave Brooklyn again.

You are in luck if you became aware of Quartersnacks before ruining your chances of obtaining Tompkins’ forrest-green-painted embrace. Below is the ultimate guide to help you avoid becoming ostracized from the T.F. The list of exiles is already far too long. Remember our gesture next time you start ranting about New York skateboarders being assholes…

Black Dave: A Young Black Entrepreneur

September 22nd, 2011 | 12:02 pm | Daily News | 6 Comments

“It’s a groundbreaking moment for New York City skateboarding.” — Pryce Holmes

Yaje was the first first-generation Tompkins skater to have a multi-page interview in a major magazine this year, but Black Dave might have just outdone his recent accomplishment by being the first first-generation Tompkins skater to be featured on WorldStar AND VLAD TV in the same day. That’s like having an interview in Skateboarder and The Skateboard Mag in the same month. Probably even better.

Though the video for “Black Donald Trump” may not have enough skateboarding in it to merit “Rap Video Skate Part” status (only a backside lipslide and a bank channel gap ollie at the Tribeca Park), it has plenty of highlights as a mere non-skate rap video. Dave finally puts the rumors aside and goes public about his relationship with Sarah Michelle Gellar, sets a proper example for the Tompkins youth by denouncing cocaine and pill usage, and even tackles racial issues, reminding us that Danny Glover’s days of being discriminated by taxi cab drivers are not yet behind our post-Obama society.

Almost ten years ago, 50 Cent was marketed as a superior product among the hip-hop landscape because he really did get shot nine times. Today, in an age when skateboarding is often Elmer’s glued onto a rapper’s image for a presumed increase in viability, Black Dave will rise above the rest because he really can skateboard. A&Rs, get those contracts ready.

(A remix with Smif-N-Wessun and Raekwon is rumored to be on the way.)

Embedding WorldStar videos sucks, but if you wish to see the video in its intended form, click here. Follow Dave on Twitter, too.

 
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