Let’s close this one out • Previously in 2017: 15-6, 25-16
Month: December 2017
Quartersnacks Top 10 — December 29, 2017
This entire thing could have been a top ten of Antonio’s last part, but the dark clips, framerate and Morrissey made it so confusing (promise to drop it after this post) that we had to include some Japanese guys (obvs), some friends, and some kid who did a weird trick on a handrail ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Final installment of the Year in Review series up shortly ;) Bless.
Original Clips:
Spoiler
Intro via @bronze56k on Instagram [link] 10) Pat Hoblin via Goodily [link] 9) Zeb Weisman via Iron Claw’s Not Not A Video [link] 8) Yaje Popson via Goodily [link] 7) Daniel Stone via Iron Claw’s Not Not A Video [link] 6) Yuto Horigome via Nike SB’s “58 Tour” video [link] 5) Dylan Sourbeer via Sabotage 5 [link] 4) Charlie Munroe via Last Orders [link] 3) Shinpei Ueno via The Evisen Video [link] 2) Seimi Miyahara via The Evisen Video [link] 1) Antonio Durao via “Next New Wave” [link]
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Previously: December 22, 2017
Happy birthday Pimp C ♥
Ghosts of Christmas Clips Past
Collage by Requiem For A Screen
This past year, nobody else incited as many smiles and reminders of the glorious escapism that skateboarding provides. Thank you Jamal Smith, 2017’s Q.S.S.O.T.Y., for inspiring us to enjoy the world on a skateboard. Sadly, we can’t fly you to Canary Islands like Thrasher can (…not yet), but just wanted to say thanks :)
Iron Claw’s new 11-min video, Not Not a Video, is now online. Shout out Colombia.
Even as an institution that often gets chastised for Rihanna songs in skate clips and bad filming, we gotta chime in here: wtf is with the choppy frame-rate, wtf is up with the darkass clips, and wtf is up with that Morrissey song in Antonio’s new Berrics part? The skating though…is absolutely F U C K E D.
Oddly enjoyed this way more than expected, probably because they skate a bunch of weird shit that nobody bothers with, e.g. they got two clips at the Gristedes on 96th Street — a Weed Maps “Summer Trip to New York” clip with Jaws, Tommy Sandoval and Boo Johnson. I think we ran into Jaws at a rave when he was filming this.
Rolling Stone has a great mini-doc with Josh Stewart about making independent skate videos in 2017, via the lens of Traffic’s Look Left.
Jenkem has a “Day in the Life”-ish feature with The BX’s Public Housing Skate Team.
Style god Jimmy Chung is featured in the new teaser for Chris Mulhern’s upcoming Love Park documentary, 15th & JFK. Anyone know a release date?
“Mean Streets” volume 10 from LurkNYC with more weirdness at Chase.
Boil the Ocean is on entry #6 of its annual “Top 10 Parts of the Year” wrap-up, and Slam City’s blog has some words on the year’s best videos.
…aaannndddd Village Psychic made a “Best of 2017” mix of the year’s ACTUAL S.O.T.Y., regardless of what the yellow t-shirts may have told you.
“Belgrade is the best city I’ve ever been to in my life.” The Rios Crew continues to inspire skateboard travel dreams far outside the conventional Euro destinations with each new clip. “Dunja,” their latest, hits Serbia’s capital, Montenegro and Croatia.
“Platano” is the new montage from our friends down at Andrew Skate Shop in Miami.
Jason Lee’s Video Days part was a starting point for a $3.6 billion crossroad.
Vol. 4 of Elkin raw files. You think Thrasher is gonna give us a Louie “West End” one?
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week: It’ll never not be funny that Kyrie was just like “nah, I don’t wanna play with this dude anymore.” He lost yesterday, but this was sick.
Quote of the Week: “You should just make Q.S.S.O.T.Y. ‘The Max Palmer Award.'” — John Choi
Official 2017 end credits song ♥
Too Much Convo For 24 Hours — Best of 2017
Having been around long enough to recall the days of the internet not being a legitimate place for skate footage, a smaller, albeit less dramatic shift has been happening. Cue up Pontus Alv pontificating *wink* about the quality of footage merely being thrown on Instagram: “I don’t know if they were showing off or something. Maybe it’s part of a new marketing philosophy that we don’t understand.”
Pulling out the Real Camera™ is a grand gesture in 2017. The level of shit people are ready to throw out there for Instagram has made taking out the R.C™ almost disruptive when people are just having fun. Point three iPhones at it and it’s fine, but the tone of the session changes when it becomes “oh, let me set up the camera.”
“Nah man, I’m just having fun…not saving this for anything.”
2017 saw less R.C™ usage than any previous year. We used it on trips, we used it for night sessions we were able to get a crew out for, and yeah, sometimes we did end up using it instead of an iPhone for something that only took three tries.
It was a fucking amazing year for skateboarding and friends, in this city and beyond. DJ Mustard’s longest-ever streak of a song in a QS “Best of” is officially broken, but you-know-who is now on a two-year one. And you know damn well this would be edited to “Unforgettable” — it’s any human I’ve had a conversation with in 2017’s favorite song of the year — if only we hadn’t used it in April’s Mexico edit.
Sadly, there’s no Andre Page footage in this, as he specialized in 40-second lines this past year, but here’s a good consolation.
Saving the bad news for last: there’s no Christmas clip this year. Between injuries and traveling, fall skating in the city wasn’t as abundant in the decade-plus past. Gonna make a New Year’s resolution of bringing the R.C™ out more, so hopefully we’re back in the swing of our favorite annual tradition by this time next year.
We’ll be back on Tuesday, December 26th. Love you all, Merry Christmas ♥
Quartersnacks Top 10 — December 22, 2017
A bit of a weird one this week — a whole lot of Euros / future Brexiters are involved, plus a guy at number one who probably has a really-difficult-to-guess favorite skater. And while the intro has absolutely nothing to do with skateboarding, it’s the only video of 2017 that I have managed to watch 40x in a row.
See everyone at the Hardbody™ Christmas party ♥
Best of 2017 montage up before lunchtime ;)
Original Clips:
Spoiler
Intro via Twitter [link] 10) Zach Panebianco via Sabotage 5 [link] 9) ? via “Next” [link] 8) Joshua Gregory via “The National Skateboard Co. 2017” [link] 7) David Jakinda via “FRI.day Part 2” [link] 6) Nik Stain via “Nick & Kyle” [link] 5) Kyle Wilson via “Nick & Kyle” [link] 4) Antonio Durao via “FRI.day Part 2” [link] 3) Akira Shiroma via “My City – Cubatao, Sao Paulo, Brazil” [link] 2) Felipe Bartolome via Popcorn Video II [link] 1) Kevin Bilyeu via Sabotage 5 [link]
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Previously: Top 10 of 2017