TOO WARM FOR THE INTERNET

March 25th, 2012 | 4:59 pm | Daily News | 1 Comment

“YO WHY DIDN’T THE SITE GET UPDATED FOR LIKE A WEEK BRO? I GOT TIRED OF LOOKING AT AN OVERHEAD SHOT OF PARK AVENUE.”

It was a combination of backend administrative nonsense and because it was 70 degrees out for a straight week. Last night, we listened to 2 Chainz for four hours and logged all of the footage since Christmas (mad Tompkins cone sessions), so there’s that. Also coming soon — an interview with the internet’s PUBLIC ENEMY #1, Lurker Lou, which touches on Iron Claw, Phil Rodriguez, the already-forgotten mess of a One in a Million series, and other notable topics. Just need to transcribe that one. All the other junk you expect to see here will continue as well.

It’s cooling down today (low for tomorrow night = 28 degrees), so the dream is over. In the meantime, here’s a reminder of what last winter looked like (remember, March was still winter last year.)

Last but not least, #FREEMOONEY.

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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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