Mind Field: The Quarter Snacks Edit

March 12th, 2009 | 4:30 pm | Video Re-Edits | 57 Comments

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After many rave reviews following the circulation of the video on DVD-Rs, it is finally on the internet by popular demand.

Download from Mega Upload You need to sit through about 45-seconds before the link for a regular download appears, but it should download just as quickly as the Sendspace link.

I cannot put it up on Youtube because the majority of the music on it is copyrighted by Warner Brothers, who essentially has Youtube and Google video in a chokehold and disables the audio on pretty much any remotely popular song. And since I am not going to use the old excuse of “boo hoo rights are hard to get so I’m just going to edit the whole video to Animal Collective and singlehandedly the worst rap song ever since they are so down for the cause but at the same time put half of my audience to sleep,” I opted for other, lesser known hosting sites. Once again, you are much better off simply downloading the Quicktime file of the video from the links above.

But if you insist, an embedded video is after the jump.

Aliens & robo-toys & flashing lights & segways & beetles & of course, seagulls

February 4th, 2009 | 2:04 am | Reviews | 16 Comments

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Danny Weiss did not see the new Alien video, but if he did, I am sure he would have this exact list of observations:

1. Dylan has certifiably the best outfits out there. I’m not sure if it is his waxed jeans and tank-top or his ballerina shoes or just how his hair flows so freely in the breeze, but he is just so dreamy. Hi!
2. Morrisey ender parts are the best. They just add such a depth and vulnerability to the skating that is not necessarily there when you don’t skate to a song they play every sunday at Sway.
3. Flashing lights as interludes are so sick!
4. The Flipmode video is better than Mind Field.
5. Steve Berra does a good half-cab flip but Joseph Delgado could have filmed a better part in an hour.
6. The old(er) dudes are still running things in 2009. Even though most of their best parts have already passed (See here, here, or here) the older dudes are still more fun to watch than the dreamy and cute ones. Not everyone can be Carroll and be better than every single one of their teenager/early-20s teammates when they’re in their thirties. Hi Dylan!
7. Photosynthesis will always be the best video that’s not Mouse.
8. Tyler Bledsoe’s song made me want to put on a maroon deep-V and boogie. Tyler Bledsoe also sounds like a snowboarder.
9. Having “every trick be a banger” when its in New York is more of an achievement than having a “every trick is a banger” part filmed anywhere else.
10. Apparently, if you try really hard, it’s possible to switch backside flip over an apartment building.
11. Segways are the new seagulls.

DVD in stores Friday, February 6th, 2009

P.S. If you haven’t seen it, Papparlardo has a five-minute long comeback part. Skating Seaport, the Banks and Red Benches.

HUUUUUMMIDDDITY

June 8th, 2008 | 11:22 pm | Daily News | 9 Comments

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In an attempt to expand QS beyond international borders, we recently made a trip to an underwhelming city known as Montreal, some 350 miles north of Quarter Snacks Headquarters. It made me really proud of America, and made me never want to leave this country ever again, aside from maybe a trip back to the motherland, since they did in fact sustain the longest war with America in its history, making it undoubtedly the only other country I’ll tolerate. Here’s a blogtastic photo update, that should inform you of the horrible food, the really unforgivably sordid hotel rooms, and the country’s habit of serving shots smaller than a child’s dose of robotussin. Best of all, they’re taken on the best forty-dollar camera ever. Your Leica sucks.

Some dude ARTIST named Tom Sachs made just about the most perfect quarterpipes ever in Midtown. The problem (there always has to be one, right?) is that they are located within a gallery space of a bougey Park Avenue office building. Furthermore, they are ART and made out of bronze. Best of all, “If it’s made in bronze, it’s no longer this menacing object of noise and liability but now something that has to be protected.” People who talk out of their ass in the name of “art” are great.

The people responsible for Deathbowl to Downtown told me that the documentary should be available on DVD as late as the Fall, so that would probably be your first chance to see it, if you missed the premiere.

Late, but Police Informer posted this good vintage Thrasher article.

“Quartersnacks is OK, but it Needs More 16mm of Seagulls”

April 9th, 2008 | 3:11 pm | Daily News | 10 Comments

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You know how we make a mention of a skateboarding on a professional level about once a year? Well, the time has come. Even though I can think of twenty things that are going to be wrong with this video, mostly centering around a song selection used to appease a bunch of assholes who never heard an 8Ball and MJG album, it still remains to be made by the only company that manages to be “artsy” (translation: compulsively homoerotic) and still get away with it. Because we all know that you transcend the border between “skate-video” and “artsy skate-video” once you add some 16mm of birds and some non-sequitur stock footage talking about hamburgers. I hope Kalis skates to the music of that chick who did the hella fly soundtrack for the movie Juno.

But what I want to know (for future reference)… What screams !!ART!! more — 16mm or Super8?