The Internet’s Finest Purveyor of Three-Stair Sets

September 4th, 2010 | 1:41 pm | Footage | 11 Comments

It’s only the ‘end of summer’ in terms of the cultural calendar, not the scientific one (or the weather-based one.) And this photo has been used around here before. It seems relevant, so it’s being used again.

Hopefully, we’re not getting ahead of ourselves by laying claim to such a lofty title. But we are the only assholes on the internet willing to have an ender on a two-stair (spoiler alert!), so it’s probably true. This one is for the token embittered New Yorkers upset about watching skateboarding on a daily basis that doesn’t involve three-up, three-down or Matthew Mooney this past August. Strangely enough, it might not even be a “real” Quarternacks clip because there is no midtown footage in it. But Soho seems to be the new midtown. Just with a lot more women. Everyone went out of their way to make the filming particularly bad. Anything that’s not filmed terribly is filmed by contributors Justin White, Paulgar, and Jeremy Elkin.

Mandatory warning label: Involves Waka Flocka for 35 seconds (we already apologized for this), NPBS, slow motion (used appropriately of course), Paulgar, and camo pants.

Features Switch Michael Strobert, some idiot in a fur, Matthew Mooney, Black Dave, Kurt Havens, Paulgar, Tyler Tufty, Danny Weiss, Ty Lyons, Dennis Feliciano, Josh Velez, DJ Roctakon, Galen Dekemper, Billy making it rain, Miles Marquez, Geo Moya, Torey Goodall, Kevin Tierney, Pryce Holmes.

Have a safe, and possibly irresponsible long holiday weekend.

Vimeo / YouTube / End of Summer 2010 – Direct Download [45MB / 4:25]

Midnight Links

July 20th, 2010 | 12:08 am | Daily News | No Comments

Photo by The Sweiss. (Sway + The Weiss = The Sweiss.)

The Cooper Union bank spot is a wrap.

“Tied Together” montage featuring Ty Lyons, Kevin Tierney, Black Dave, and a few others. Most importantly, it contains hood legend Geo Moya, so its worth going through all the footage of people talking and running through London with matching tee shirts. Next time you rip a pair of laces mid-session, drop the extra $4 and spend it on a good cause.

What happens when you breed an iPhone 4 with a VX1000 via RB Umali.

Danny Weiss AKA Sweiss once said that “The Philosopher is literally one of my favorite people in New York City.” After watching this clip, it’s unlikely anyone could disagree.

Here’s some more circa-2008 footage of Loose Trucks Max. If you missed the initial post, you can catch up over here.

Dylan James is sick. Jersey Dave is backing him.

Everyone’s seen it, but the Billy-Rohan-goes-to-Iraq story is the skateboard headliner of the summer. “Take the hottest day in New York and put a blow dryer to your face – that’s how it feels in Iraq.”

Even though it’s out of our jurisdiction, everyone should check out Grey Skate Mag over in the UK. I’ve never really been up on Euro skate mags, and the only European skate institutions we tend to be closely familiar with on this side of the pond are PWBC and Cliché, but these dudes have some great photos, especially the black and white ones in the Jensen interview, so they’re well on their way to joining the ranks.

If you didn’t grow up listening to Hot 97 in the late-90s / early-2000s, you need to get over to Cipha Sounds’ list of the top 75 Greatest Tunnel Bangers. Pretty much the best rap music in existence, aside from maybe UGK and Raekwon’s first album.

Quote of the Week: – Young Geographically Astute New York Female: “Where do you live, anyway?
- T-Bird: “145th and Eighth.”
- Young Geographically Astute New York Female: “Really? I thought Manhattan, like, ended at 125th.”

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The Great Dannys Have Been Weissed

February 17th, 2010 | 10:19 pm | Features & Interviews | 5 Comments

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Around halfway into the decade, an oft-discussed Quarter Snacks personality, one who has been an integral part of this website’s existence both in its current incarnation and various other forms of existence it had taken up in the past, by name of Danny Weiss, took up the hobby of photography. He recently released a wide array of photographs dating midway back into the long-forgotten 2000s, an era when the TF reigned supreme and youthful possibility seemed endless until the sun began to pierce through the darkness and the sweat started to dry into uncomfortable crust at Union Square.

He has a website called The Great Books Have Been Written, which I have deliberately neglected adding to the links section after all of these years, partially because of its absurd and overlong name that has been the a part of various explanations all rooting back to the way Danny wishes to present himself as an artist, but otherwise due to the often imbalanced relationship that I have had with Danny Weiss over the years. Perhaps I don’t exactly know how to wrap my mind around his standing as an artist. He’s a total sweetheart either way.

I have included several selections from his website to entice you into going there. The selections tend to lean in favor of content over composition because this is in fact a skateboarding, southern rap, New York lifestyle, etc. website, and they seem more relevant than mandatory Robert Frank homages and pictures of cops and snow.

So without further ado…

Quartersnacks Celebrates the Decade: Volume 10

December 31st, 2009 | 4:36 am | Features & Interviews | 15 Comments

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Hopefully you didn’t expect the most important event in New York City skateboarding history of the past ten years to be lumped in with everything else. All but one…

Quartersnacks Celebrates the Decade: Volume 9

December 30th, 2009 | 12:35 pm | Features & Interviews | 22 Comments

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It has been a long trip, but we are finally down to the top twenty…