“They Hollywood as Hell”

May 31st, 2011 | 10:33 am | Daily News | 8 Comments

“Notice the Osiris logo? I’m trying to make it the best selling drink of all time, like the D3. I put an éS logo in there for the skaters, too.” — Pryce Holmes, creator of the “The Pryce Holmes”

Some Norwegians from Matix Clothing flew out to New York, and posted up a well-done trip montage on Vimeo. The most impressive manuver in the video is a 360 flip down that awful double-set on 39th Street and Broadway. Does anyone want to buy Quartersnacks a T2i by any chance?

Seldom-seen footage of the switch big flip over the Fish Gap. Apparently, it was in some Focus video New York montage. If it’s not on the internet, it may as well have never happened. It’s online now, so everyone could strike it off the “heard about it, but never saw the footage” list. Most of that list actually has to do with big flips.

Anyone who grew up watching E.S.T. videos and Metrospective clips definitely looked up to Danny Falla (a back tail backside flip out over the Flushing grate was pretty massive in 2002…there weren’t legions of Europeans flying in to do misty flip crooked grinds over the grate gap back then), so it’s cool to see him getting more coverage these days.

There’s a new, stupid up rail in SoHo. Someone is probably going to get murdered on it. It’s 100 times more dangerous than New York’s original [knobbed] Up Rails, and those were dangerous.

Michael Gigliotti put together one last clip before he says goodbye to New York and skateboarding for quite some time. Features mostly skatepark footage, Little Alex, and probably the last footage of Giglotti until his Mariano in Fully Flared-level comeback part in 2018.

Speaking of Gigliotti, The Shady One, and the Homie Pro, they have the finest section in the 40-minute Diamond Days compilation. Brian Delatorre has the best music/skating combo, and E.J. appropriately has the curtains. ¡TOMA!

“They Hollywood as hell,” says UNIS graduate Joakim Noah. UNIS should have taught him that the proper phrasing is “they are Hollywood as hell.” They probably couldn’t teach him much about being more effective on offense though.

Thanks to 1 Cigarette, Grey Skate Mag, Ethan Evans, Pyrex Vision, Recordings of Boardings, Network Skate, So Fucking Radical, 48 Blocks, Olson Stuff, NY Skateboarding, Kingpin (only ones who pointed out that Billy skates solely in Air Max 90s), Caught in the Crossfire, and Hella Clips for linking up out Memorial Day weekend montage.

Quote of the Week: “The world can’t end at least until the Knicks win a championship again. So we got a long time to go.” — Mike Bloomberg. Not to co-sign Bloomberg or anything, but he’s right on this one.

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Authentic New York Skateboarding

August 24th, 2010 | 6:17 pm | Daily News | 14 Comments

Every Tuesday and Friday, the Quartersnacks Board of Trustees has a meeting around a fold-out, linoleum-topped table weighed down by New York phonebooks from 1992 on the 18th floor of the Standard Hotel. In between eating ice cream sandwiches, the events of the week are discussed: how our visitor count and site ranking is doing, how we can improve search engine optimization, the latest obscure skate spots, who made out with who at password night, what everyone is wearing to Avenue tonight, Twitter trending topics, how to expand into emerging markets, and the like. In the past week, it has been brought to our attention via word-of-mouth, site comments, and text message communication, that our brand image is becoming less and less oriented with embittered New Yorkers than can do good frontside shove-its. As we seem to be losing our stronghold on the demographic that has been so loyal to us for all these years, an outside consultant suggested that we employ some serious damage control, and come up with “some mad authentic shit, yo.”

As we plowed through the contacts in our phones, discussing potential candidates for this job, we came upon one of our most promising employees in Quartersnacks’ (un)vast network of content generators, Michael Gigliotti. What he came up with after the adjournment of our meeting a mere two hours ago is embedded below.

Are you going to Teddy’s tonight?

January 26th, 2010 | 2:21 pm | Daily News | 3 Comments

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Recent college graduate, Michael Gigliotti, has produced a flip-cam clip of the L.A. homies featuring himself, Dylan, the Berrics, surfing, and includes cameos from several non-310ers in like likes of Weiss, Rob Campell, Marquez, Pad Dowd and others.

Mike Gigliotti’s Conflicted Relationship with Rap Music

November 9th, 2009 | 11:46 pm | Daily News | 8 Comments

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Like with most issues and dilemmas in this world, the simple solution is listening to The War Report several times and gaining a much better perspective on the world around us and the conflicts that it could send our way. Anyone whose opinion matters in the world knows that it is the best Queens rap record of all time, regardless of what Nas’ dumb fans might tell you.

Oh! I almost forgot. Mike has slowly been subsidizing my incompetence in making Final Cut sequences and compressing them into Quicktime files with music under them by messing around in Quicktime and yielding some fairly entertaining results.

Features an ensemble of your favorite QS degenerates and one of the most underrated skaters of all-time, Every Trick Andre.

Embedded after the jump.

I see you in the club, you showing thugs love, you’re so beautiful, so damn beautiful.

September 30th, 2009 | 10:46 pm | Daily News | 2 Comments

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Seeing as how the low for tonight is 46 degrees, it is safe to say summer is gone, and its not coming back until April. Also, a lot of the background work I have been attempting to get done on the website has taken longer than expected (colder weather, and the potential demise of the Quarter Snack’s Board of Trustees favorite establishment would speed up the process of that) so I figure I should not refrain from updating at the expense of alienating the homies who come here every day, as QS has already been unfavorably compared to Stick Up Kids notorious update habits.

In turn…

Michael Gigliotti made a clip of the handycam-esque variety (its only in Vimeo format for the time being) documenting that wonderful, warm time of the years that occurred one and two months ago. It has California footage in it, so initially, it took me two weeks to decide whether or not I should actually post it.

Features Max Miller, Michael Gigliotti, Miles Marquez, Geo Moya, Matthew Mooney, Galen DeKemper, Clay Kessack, Pad Dowd, Ty Lyons, a shirtless Danny Weiss, Brendan Lynch, the Greer-minator.

More stuff soon. Seriously. Like, in a day.

Clip after the jump.

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