The Countdown Begins…

December 1st, 2011 | 10:19 am | Daily News | 2 Comments

It seems like our New Year’s post went up, like, last week. But it’s that time of the year again when every internet media outlet exhausts its recollections of the past year to compile lists of the best albums, songs, movies, books, and everything else released in the last twelve months. Over here, we’re more concerned with the events that shaped the culture of the T.F., 12th & A’s continuing struggle to stay afloat, who had the best video parts, who staged comebacks, who laid down hammers, who skated the spot that looked least like a spot, who quit skating to start rapping, who quit skating to smoke weed, and the many other other seemingly trivial occurrences that have defined 2011 as it pertains to riding a skateboard in the great city of New York.

Should start tomorrow. Might not though. How the hell is it already December? Feel free to browse the archive so you could remember past instances of greatness.

The 25 Events That Defined New York City Skateboarding in 2010: #25-21, #20-16, #15-11, #10-6, #5-1

Quartersnacks Celebrates the Decade – The 100 Most Important Events in New York City Skateboarding from 2000 to 2009: #100-91, #90-81, #80-71, #70-61, #60-51, #50-41, #40-31, #30-21, #20-11, #10-2, #1

Google Maps and Panoramic [Cell Phone] Photography

June 3rd, 2011 | 5:53 pm | Spot Updates | 17 Comments

Regardless of the fact that there is barely anything to skate in New York, Quartersnacks finally got around to joining the modern internet, circa 2011, where everything location-based is fully integrated with Google Maps. Each of the six pages in the spots portion of the website are topped with a full Google graphic, and now include listings for shops, and places designated for skateboarding. (You know, “skateparks.” Those just have mere one-sentence descriptions though.) If you’re not into the whole modernity thing, the generic list is still below the map, and still organized by neighborhood/region. Nothing new by way of actual spot additions.

And thanks to the magic of the “AutoStitch” app for the iPhone, a few specific listings have panoramic overview photos to give a better overview of the respective spot’s space. Or you can just stare at them for a few hours while you’re doing nothing at work. Some came out better than others, see below:

Slow News Week

November 28th, 2010 | 11:48 am | Daily News | No Comments

Were there really twenty-five? Probably not, but we are going to be generous. In light of the great critical reception we received on last year’s decade countdown list, and the fact that the internet really likes countdown lists, we’re going to give it a fair shot for the year, even though it seems like not that much has happened.

Other than that, the week has been slow due to holiday celebrations (The Dipset Reunion more so than Thanksgiving.) Either way, there are some clips on the way, another interview on the way (no, it’s not going to be as “explosive” as the Kalis one, considering there are morons Googling “Josh Kalis Grant Taylor beef” before they wind up here, which basically means skateboarders have the worst reading comprehension level imaginable), effort being put into skating for the Christmas clip, and some other things that will make December a good month, as it usually is around here.

Here’s a clip that was posted on QS around this time of year, three years ago. Probably one of the finer clips to ever be on the website, mostly due to the ending two-minute tour dé force of a certain skateboarder we have not seen enough of in recent months.

Anyone still seeing these messages?

November 19th, 2010 | 9:31 am | Daily News | 3 Comments

Yesterday, there was a security malfunction that lasted about twelve hours, so if you are still seeing messages that say visiting the site might harm your computer, please leave a comment below, or e-mail info [at] quartersnacks [dot] com. Your computer isn’t going to crash, catch a virus, or explode from visiting the site, and realistically, it was something that was taken care of in a hour and Google just overreacted by blacklisting the website for the remainder of the day.

So please notify us if you’re still seeing similar messages. Make sure you empty your cache and refresh just to double check, sometimes those things linger around longer than they should. Just tested everything on Firefox and Safari, and it should be working it fine.

Updates resume tomorrow (Saturday Sunday.) If you missed yesterday’s post on all the magical things that have been happening between the tall buildings of this city because you thought your computer would explode by logging on, please click here to read it.

Quote of the Day: “You know who I’m excited to see at the Garden this year? Syracuse. Fuck the Knicks.” — Miles Marquez. (Considering we have the same / a worse record than the Nets right now, who are fresh off what was called the worst season in NBA history, there’s nothing wrong with giving up all hope three weeks into the season. It’d be cool if that team’s entire administration got stuck on a raft in the middle of the ocean somewhere.)

Snack or Die III

May 26th, 2010 | 1:25 am | Daily News | 9 Comments

“This is what we’ve been waiting for, a weather widget in the sidebar?”

The extent of QS3 exists behind the scenes of Quarter Snacks. The older version of the website was run on an immensely outdated version of WordPress that was too old to comfortably upgrade, in addition to the fact that the layout was more-or-less stuck in 2002, and the least-flexible thing in the world. So, the changes, while not too immense on the surface, make updates run smoother, all within the confines of one content management system, which yes, will result in an overall more frequent string of updates. Either way:

1. The “Words” portion of the website has been integrated within the standard archive, which is accessible via the category links on the side. The videos can be accessed through the “Complete Video Archive” link or the “Footage” category link if you want to see the clips within the context of their original post. The entire archive was slowly updated to both Vimeo and YouTube, and the direct download links remained. You can find everything on the complete archive.

2. Everything now has tags, so if you’re looking for all of the posts with a “Quote of the Week”, or have a schoolgirl crush on Jake Johnson, you can find their tag and find every post they were mentioned in.

3. The “Complete Text Archive” link has a complete list of all the posts on the website by date (year and then month), so it is a lot easier to find archived posts back to 2006.

4. Same old infamous QS-comment board, but now you can utilize Gravatars, so you can totally have a picture of Lady Gaga next to your username every time you want to post while talking shit about Matt Mooney. Sign up for one here.

5. The Spots section has been completely overhauled. Google Maps, directions-to options, Light boxes (i.e. no pop-ups anytime you look at detail pictures), and neighborhood-based organization included.

6. New clip in less than 48 Hours.

7. A few Saturdays back, I was standing with Boss Bauer in front of Rosario’s at one in the morning discussing the ever-increasing ubiquity of Twitter. His verdict was “the site is good enough as is, you don’t need a Twitter.” I happened to agree with him, but integrated a feature that we have come to love from both Twitter and Facebook Mobile Uploads into the sidebar of QS. Probably the most revolutionary addition in QS3, is the “In the Streets” category, which essentially enables us to upload photos to the sidebar, from our phones, of all sorts of stupid shit from, well, the streets. You can view the archive for it here from when I was testing it out over the past two weeks while finishing up the website.

8. Speaking of Twitter, there is officially a Twitter.com/quartersnacks, but solely for the purpose of subscribing to posts. We cannot simply ignore technology, and a lot of people find their internet content through Twitter these days. So, follow QS so you can get an automatized update every time something new goes up on the site. It is rigged so it posts from WordPress automatically, so no, you will not be getting any opinions on the finale of Lost or Iron Man 2 or “OMG SO BOREEEDD” messages if you choose to follow it.

9. There’s always the Facebook page though. People seem to have less of a moral dilemma with Facebook than with Twitter.

10. IF YOU FIND ANYTHING THAT DOESN’T WORK — I.E. COMMENTS, BROKEN LINKS, BROKEN IMAGES, ETC. PLEASE CONTACT INFO [AT] QUARTERSNACKS [ DOT] COM, OR VIA FACEBOOK, OR YES, USE TWITTER.

“Back off in the kitchen working with a chicken, you get sixty-three grams for like twelve fifty”

Later.

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