You’re a minor celebrity, if you come on the tour, it might create a minor stir

October 18th, 2010 | 12:57 pm | Daily News | 9 Comments

Either the History Channel’s market research indicates that no Young Jeezy fans watch Gangland, or they have a really strict, no exceptions eye-censoring policy.

Lunchtime links.

This year’s Halloween Hellraiser is on Saturday, October 30th, from 11 AM to 4 PM at the school rooftop on 350 Grand Street (corner of Grand & Essex.) $3,000 best trick contest, $100 for the best costume. Click here for the flyer. You can watch the promo video for the course over on the Acapulco Gold site. That “Monster” song is probably going to be second to only “Thriller” for most appearances on Halloween playlists/sets this year. Kanye is still corny, but he’s profoundly good at marketing things. He also knows people are into hearing impressions of Foxy Brown doing a Jamaican impression.

Goin’ Ham is a video from the squad that brought you Film Me earlier this year. Features new, full parts from Ray Macken, Nate Rojas, and Stephan Martinez. You can watch the video-art-inclined teaser here. Premiering online on Monday, November 1st. Two Stephan parts in one year definitely isn’t a bad thing.

Found this circa-2007 piece of QS memorabilia of Marquez skating over some drunk girl in the back of the old Union Square. R.I.P. to the old back of Union Square, by the way. You’re sorely missed.

This dude wears clear contacts, sags his pants, slaps hoes, has a pretty solid kickflip, and can actually hardflip. He’s no Eddie Rap life, but might be one out of three rappers who can kickflip.

Spotted this quick daily log clip over at NY Skateboarding. Nothing too intense in the realm of skating, but a fun dailies clip set to some Charles Mingus that quietly reminds us of the sort of days spent skating that are bound to become all the more infrequent as the temperature starts to decline.

Habitat’s Origin video is now available on iTunes for $9.99 (the link will open in iTunes, not your browser.) It has a Fred Gall part. Any video with a Fred Gall part is worth your ten bucks. QS review here.

Saving the best for last: KYLE ILES: THE LOST HIP-HOP TAPES. An internet event like no other. Even after his magnificent Rich Mahogany part, which potentially left him depleted of physical energy, and currently hiding out at the McCarren skatepark, this earlier version of his skateboard feats, complete with Earl Simmons on the vocals, may be his finest work to date. It’s a shame that it has remained away from society, in a safe deposit box on Park Avenue for all these years.

Thanks to anyone and everyone who showed love with blog links or on Twitter this past week: Platinum Seagulls, IMNOTATOY, 40 Oz. Van, 48 Blocks, and NY Skateboarding.

Quote of the Week: Inquisitive Gentleman: “Can you play rap if you DJ in France?”
DJ Roctakon: “No, the only rap song you can play is ‘Empire State of Mind.’”

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Monday Night Hyperlinks

September 13th, 2010 | 6:46 pm | Daily News | 9 Comments

Some things to keep you busy while wading through this unpredicted rain and preparations for the remaining portions of beloved fashion week.

There are a whole lot of flip cam videos on the list for the week, so we’ll just throw them into one long-winding list. Hopefully, the arrival of more innovative pieces of glass will take up a sizable market share of the acceptable skateboard video production equipment. (Spotted via RE1000.)

- The roster comes first, so here is Mooney’s flip cam video featuring a golden era of New Orleans rap soundtrack, him shooting bottle rockets into Elizabeth Street, and skatepark footage.

- Westchester County’s Second Nature Skateshop grabbed a bunch of Dusty Fingers compilations and edited them alongside a solid six-and-a-half-minute-long montage of their team. Features Burton Smith and Brian Brown cameos.

- A quick digi cam video from New Jersey via the Jaundice Crew / Adam Abada.

- A clip of Yaje and some others skating around places that admirably aren’t 12th and A. This one doesn’t seem to have been filmed on an iPhone, which is probably why it involves actual skate spots. Hollywood skates to the “Pretty Boy Swag” remix, which seems to have taken the title of “song of the summer,” neglecting the fact that nobody really listens to it past the 1:20 mark. Other skateboard related pretty-boy-swagisms.

The Pryce Holmes Super 8 reel.

Ethnically-themed skateboard companies are usually hit-or-miss, seeing as how they can be either the second or third greatest skate company of all-time (I know there are white people on it, shut up), or a bunch of closet white supremacists, but either way, Quartersnacks backs any company that backs Joseph Delgado.

Rob Campbell skates the Banks uphill in his latest Airspeed shoes commercial.

Even though everyone has seen this Japanese Jason Dill video interview by now, he touches upon a very valuable point in it: destroying property. Something so crucial to skateboarding’s heart is doing just that, and it will never be replicated by the Bronx park, the new Westside Highway park, or the Astoria park.

Full Bleed seems to have reached the upper echelons of attention within the journalistic world, because it got a brief feature from The New Yorker.

Element got Danny Barley back on board. If you need a reminder of his status as one of the most well-versed individuals in the art of skating in the middle of street, please watch this. (The picture quality is unfortunately, pretty awful.)

The most important news of the day: Roctakon is on Twitter.

Quote of the Week: “Yo! This is like, my FAVORITE song of ALL-TIME!” – Sketchy-looking white dude from Yonkers who walked into Supreme while this song was playing

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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]

You know I ain’t been on the train since tokens was in

January 14th, 2010 | 4:12 pm | Daily News | 3 Comments

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You can still hop that joint?

Stereo sucks, but they posted some footage of Adrian Vega that is more than worth your time. Perhaps the only redeeming factor of the Union Square demise that occurred last year is the (hopefully) impending trend of propping up tree grates Temple University style over the seemingly useless metal posts scattered about the perimeter of the the park. [*I'm actually not 100% sure that is Union but it looks like it.]

I know people around here tend to get offended whenever there’s a God forbid, non-skateboarding related post, but if you are a fan of Switch Michael Strobert’s work on the Mind Field Re-Edit, you should probably give this a quick watch. If you hate it, oh well.

The previously discussed lack of a rail over the six at FedEX is no longer.

Good luck with this one.

I completely forgot that this was even put online, but watch Can’t Ban the Snackman 2 if you haven’t seen it already.

Quote of the Week: “Only real fucking whores go out in January.” – Roc

Merry Christmas

December 25th, 2009 | 9:38 am | Footage | 5 Comments

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Usually, I start these things some time around the 20th or 21st of December and see how I like them over the next couple of days before Christmas. This time around, I started about 2 hours before midnight on Christmas. So, a lot of hours in FCP, a few dozen cross dissolves, and three or four coffees later, this is what I came up with.

Its a typical QS December 25th / End of the year mood piece with pianos and shit. Handycams, flip cams and some three-chips here and there. Dusty and dirty lenses and bad filming on my part included of course.

You know the drill — part one is the homies, part two is the roster. It is the fifth year anniversary of QS Christmas clips and I think next year is bound for a full-scale Weiss comeback to his former 2005 glory. Hopefully they re-model Lincoln Center with something that he can kickflip nose manual this time next year.

Features: Adrian Vega, some Boston dudes, German Nieves, Allen Siegler, Ian from Union, Dennis Feliciano, Keith Denley, Jersey Dave, the Gothic Raver, Alex, Shawn Powers, Staten Island Adrian, Tohmi Shiroyama, Ty Lyons, Aaron Szott, Danny Weiss blowing it as usual, Isak Buan, Francesco Pini, Taji Ameen, Kevin Teirney, Ian Reid, Pad Dowd, Galen Dekemper, Miles Marquez, Thando Beschta, Benjamin Nazario, Matthew Mooney, Vladimir Kirilenko, DJ Roctakon.

Thanks to everyone who contributed footage: Justin White, Jimmy Marketti, David Spodofora, Dennis Feliciano, JP Blair, Anthony Beckner, Alex Rialdi, Pad Dowd, Joe Cups.