Poppin’ Bottles Up in Sue’s Rendezvous

June 12th, 2011 | 1:53 pm | Footage | 2 Comments

Since today is Puerto Rican Day (“DO YOU KNOW WHAT DAY THIS IS?“), there is no better way to celebrate than footage from one of New York’s greatest Puerto Rican athletes, best known as the elusive Quartersnacks C.E.O., Benjamin Nazario. Here are two of his parts from the first two Can’t Ban the Snackman videos, to compliment his recent generation-defining performance in the Memorial Day Weekend clip. Volume one came out in 2006 (the microphone afro era), volume two in 2008. There is a minor chance of a volume three in 2011, but that all depends on what distractions everyone falls into throughout the year. (What better night for J.J. Barea to pull off a career game than tonight. Please, oh please, oh please…) We’ll resume with non-archivial updates tomorrow.

As an added bonus, watch this circa-2007 Matthew Mooney part. Even though he has a last name best-suited for establishing an Irish pub, it is important that we remember Mooney is also half Puerto Rican. According to him, he has been identifying with his white side more heavily in recent years, but will probably have an outfit consisting only of P.R. flags today.

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.

(Alternate YouTube Link)

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.

End of the Month / Seasonal Depression Links

January 31st, 2011 | 4:14 pm | Daily News | 6 Comments

This forecast is absolute murder. The ghost of winter 2010-2011 is definitely going to leave many reminders in our springtime recovery efforts, as well.

Japanese MTV ran a New York sightseeing bit on Supreme back in 1996. It’s a time warp into what skating seems to have looked like fifteen years ago: World Industries boards still up on the wall, a copy of Mouse in the video display, bulky-ass skate shoes, Triple Five Soul being down Lafayette Street (That actually lasted much longer than 1996, but unless you were trying to keep swooshy cargo pants or army green bucket hats with stash pockets alive, that probably had little bearing on your existence), and Nas in his Raekwon-envying, confused, chipped tooth era.

Assuming you’re like most people who skateboard and check Crailtap regularly, you have already seen this. In case you missed it, the latest Mini DV Drawer features the B-roll version of Mike Carroll’s masterwork of a downtown Los Angeles line from Fully Flared. I wonder what the original fakie flip inclusive rendition was, before it got switched to the switch frontside 180 / backside flip combo.

Although this website has never really been on some naïve message board nonsense by dwelling too hard (or at all) on skateboarding’s duo of most visible representatives (aside from occasionally complimenting Ryan on his New York based skate tricks)… Sheckler and Dyrdek are really fucking these kids up by endorsing something called “Bill My Parents.”

Some late-90s New Jersey footage from Robert Brink over at Already Been Done. It’s an over four-year-old upload, but it’s new to me. Features some raw Tim O’Connor and Pancho Moler footage, plus shots of the beloved Hoboken Ledges.

The Chrome Ball Crack Rock Incident presents the Hubba Hideout photo collective.

A token Norwegian has done his best in channeling one of the more difficult endeavors in Southern California schoolyard bank skating, by skating the parallel six-stair rails at the brick section of Columbia from the actual incline. Well done.

There are some new ledges in Boston, they look beveled, but the good ground would probably make up for that. Hopefully the snow covering the northeast right now thaws out by July.

Howard Glover has uploaded the Brooklyn section of his Pre-2K video onto Vimeo. Half of the four minutes is set at the best spot to ever reside on Kings County soil. Billy Rohan insists that the Parks Department stores all of the marble they remove from renovations in some warehouse, i.e. it never simply gets thrown out. We should write up a letter telling them to keep their skate parks, and just install a few skate friendly plazas throughout the city with already-skated-on marble.

They have security guards watching that stupid wall on Bowery & Houston now. Art game is intense, bro.

Quote of the Week: “Tanqueray is like drinking a Christmas.” — Ben Nazario

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“All the hip-hop stars come from Harlem.” “Like who?” “Uhh…Alicia Keys. I think.”

August 1st, 2010 | 6:53 pm | Daily News | 14 Comments

As skate parks and their “superior” alternative, skate plazas, begin to eat away at actual street skating, leading us into a path that demands previously unnecessary distinctions like “real street” to be made when discussing skateboarding, we’re losing a lot more than places to be unwanted in. The next generation will probably grow up to become an insanely talented group of skaters, but at a complete loss when they happen to encounter a crack or rough ground, confining them into an institutionalized, synthetic, parks-only existence. There will probably be a flannel-wearing, bearded, post-apocalyptic sect of survivors that strives to preserve skateboarding on things that were not intended to be skated on, and will do so on the four or five remaining metal grate spots in Brooklyn while converging around a campfire to watch dubs of Dan Wolfe videos on earth’s last remaining VCR as well.

But before all of that happens (and idiots from Florida doing ollies onto parked cars in Harlem seems to be expediting that hypothetical situation), we need to take these moments in time and admire our prominent locations today for the unique blends of character that they continue to churn out. Every classic skate spot comes with a batch of stories about entertaining crack heads, wild cops, and entertaining crack heads, and as we slowly dive into a prefabricated world of skateparks and recreations of actual skate spots, we need to remember that no skatepark designer is astute enough to clone the crackheads and ten-year-old scooter kids that listen to too much Roscoe Dash and incorporate them into the design of the park. Some parks in the Pacific Northwest definitely have their token meth-heads that could be seen as distant relatives, but most skateparks don’t seem to be marked with a lifeblood of anecdotes beyond who-did-what, making them pretty boring in the end.

Basically, what all this tallies up to is me having a free thirty minutes on my hands and making a Lenox clip. All of the lines are recycled. Some of the character footage has been used, but it’s mostly extended versions of the aforementioned crack addicts and young Roscoe Dash fans.

Features Miles Marquez, Charles Lamb, Kevin Tierney, Ted Barrow, Ben Nazario, and Tyler Tufty. If you’re from Brooklyn, you might get offended watching it. Depending on how seriously you take ten-year-olds.

And for the record, Alicia Keys is from Hell’s Kitchen.

“Shut up, you gonna get beat up by….50 Cent. So shut up.“

On a 24-Hour, Quarter Snack Diet

June 15th, 2010 | 1:55 pm | Footage | 4 Comments

Photo by Jason Lecras

It seems like everybody with an iPhone or an extraneous TD Bank account yielding a free Flip Cam has a video blog nowadays. And while it’s fairly clear that nobody involved with Quarter Snacks is a technology nut (the clips are filmed with a camera that has been more or less out of general use by skateboarders since 2005, so you can draw your own conclusions, plus I was running Final Cut 3 up until a few weeks ago), it is safe to say that the advent of the recently announced savior of the human race (“Oh there’s a new app that stops the BP oil spill”), will only increase the ease with which video updates make their way to the internet. Not that we have ever pledged the infamous “if you’re don’t own an Apple, you’re better off with a pen and a legal pad” philosophy that seems to exist in certain circles, or the Switch Mike equivalent, “any phone that isn’t an iPhone is useless” sort of thinking, but that phone is absolutely insane. If it’s as good in low-light settings as it claims to be (it won’t), there will be a handycam snacks clip every week. I mean, there’s a skateboarder in the picture for it, so clearly, the thing is made for filming skateboarding. Let’s just hope that the 5G has a screenshot of the Black Filmer blog in the ad campaign for it.

Anyway, there’s a new flip cam footage clip up. Filmed by Josh Velez, featuring all the staples of flip cam and cell phone clips: TF footage, 12th & A footage, McCarren Park footage, double angles, poorly lit spots, Billy Dee Williams spewing racial epithets about Italians, and several other pleasant surprises.

Features Matthew Mooney, Ty Lyons, Josh Velez, Brian Delatore, Curtis Rapp, Sweet Waste, Keith Denley, Black Dave, (Andre Paige BGPs), Miles Marquez, Kevin Tierney, Adrian Vega, Andrei Kirilenko, Zerred Basset, Ritch, Alex Mosley, and Ben Nazario.

In addition to that, today marks THE MUSIC EVENT OF THE CENTURY or something like that (at least if you let “leading industry experts” or the kids who shop at Supreme tell it), and it taught me that Drake somehow has male fans. Or, male fans that aren’t Switch Mike. So we had to include something to “fix” one of his songs, since you know, they all sound better when they’re not his songs. Fuck Drake, buy Pastor Troy’s album.

Anyways, the clip and download link is embedded after the jump.