The Jake Johnson Files – Part 1

November 2nd, 2011 | 9:20 am | Footage | 4 Comments

So, we have an extensive interview with Jake Johnson, conducted in early-to-mid October, sitting on the back burner right now. He’s steadily been resurfacing on the radar after a leg injury, is doing switch back noseblunts and skating rocks, and had a lot of interesting things to say. However, the audio for it is about eighty minutes long. As you could imagine, that takes quite a bit of time to transcribe and edit. While we begin that process, we’re going to post some footage from the days when Jake regularly appeared in Quartersnacks clips.

The clip below was filmed by Rob Harris in 2007 and 2008. Some of it appeared here, some of it was in the Rich Mahogany video, and a few of the tricks didn’t appear anywhere. All in New York, raw, uncut, with a Mike Gigliotti cameo. There’ll probably be one more video. It’ll be longer, and actually edited. As far as the interview, expect it in the next week or so.

P.S. Who took that back tail photo? Not trying to let the photographer go uncredited, but a name didn’t come up with it. Credit goes to Mike O’Meally.

P.P.S. This is the worst shit in the history of shit.

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Out of Office Reply

October 24th, 2011 | 12:05 pm | Daily News | 5 Comments

On vacation, not actually skating or anything.

Monday links and everything else will resume on Wednesday.

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Hood Holiday

February 18th, 2011 | 11:18 am | Daily News | 7 Comments

Saturday Update: It’s 35 and snowing sporadically outside. Welcome back February.

Even though there was something scheduled to make it’s way to the front page this morning, it makes sense to hold off on it, as God only knows how long it’ll take for the weather to come around to the absolutely magical condition it has been these past two days (late March would be a safe prediction though.) Two sixty degree days in what is otherwise assumed to be the coldest month of New York winter is an absolute blessing, so today isn’t really about the internet. If you have the day off, go outside.

Quartersnacks tees are finally done (in color!), and will be for sale along with the cruiser boards next week. (And maybe even with the QS exclusive maroon colorway of the new Dylan boot.) Sorry for the delay.

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Could really go for a heatwave right about now…

February 11th, 2011 | 12:57 pm | Daily News | 5 Comments

(Winter = painful. Summer = occasionally uncomfortable. Therefore, complaining about winter = more justified than complaining about summer. It’s not the same thing.)

Updates slowed up a bit due to winter’s cold core getting the best of all productive activity pertinent to this website. However, given the upcoming promise of a forty-degree week, it would make sense to start arranging for content to make its way to this website’s homepage, as statistics tend to indicate a lot of people have been hitting up the front page, seeing the same black and white photo of an early morning coffee cart, and leaving. Some of this irregularity in updating also has to do with Young Jeezy’s ill-advised fifth or sixth attempt at putting his crew on, yielding some rather uncharacteristically, un-motivatial music. This website has always strived to preserve a balance between creating content, and unearthing / aggregating content, and it seems like this absurdly snowy winter (combined with a lack of resources to go to warmer pastures that are friendlier to skateboard content creation) has tipped the scales toward the latter end of things.

Updates resume on Saturday Sunday. In the meantime, here are some past clips to remind us of that wonderful period of existence that needs to arrive sooner than later.

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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.

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