The Jake Johnson Files – Part 3

November 18th, 2011 | 10:05 am | Time Capsule | 9 Comments

Ok, so, there’s no interview this week. Does the interview actually exist? Yes, it does. Will it be up next week? Probably, but you’ve heard that one before. Like last time, it was 65 degrees for half of this week, and web content creation took a backseat to enjoying what was the best weather New York will have until March 2012. Things still had to be edited, followed up on, etc., and that takes time. To quote a popular rapper that we don’t particularly even like for the second time this week, “Sorry 4 the wait.” (Don’t click that last link. That mixtape is pure garbage.)

As a consolation prize, here is a gallery of photos taken by the homie Zach Malfa-Kowalski from roughly the same time period as those two clips we posted earlier in the month, with some shots even dating back to the Chapman / Short Ends days. No, we couldn’t break into Brengar’s house or bribe him with cigarettes to release any potentially unseen footage that may be buried in a stack of dusty DV tapes from 2008. Big thanks to Zach for sharing these with us.

The Jake Johnson Files – Part 2

November 4th, 2011 | 10:25 am | Footage | 2 Comments

This clip is essentially a remastered version of our November 2007 montage (with a bit of December 2008 sprinkled in), which up until recently, was the most downloaded clip in the history of this website. That is probably because the internet did not have a lot of Jake Johnson footage at that point in time. Unfortunately, we did not begin archiving montages in full quality until like 2010, so a lot of the current uploads of old clips on YouTube and Vimeo are low quality and dark (especially the one in question.) About 75% of the people who go on Quartersnacks now, didn’t go on it in November 2007, so if you’re in the minority, pardon the uninspired-ness of the presentation, vibe, same exact song choice, etc. Once you edit someone’s skating to “Put On,” it’s hard to get more inspiration afterwards. So, it’s the clip from four years ago, but in 720p, with some bonuses attached.

All in New York, all filmed by Brengar, who probably has ten more minutes of unseen footage like this that will never witness the light of day. Maybe we could borrow his uncaptured DV tapes in exchange for eighteen cartons of duty-free cigarettes. A lot of this stuff was supposed to go towards an Autumn video in 2008. It’s about to be 2012, so you can guess how that turned out…

Interview next week. Have a good weekend.

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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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Battery Park Roll-In

September 19th, 2011 | 6:49 pm | Quarter-Diary | 3 Comments

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J-Jon stupid flexin’ like he got a new connection

July 28th, 2011 | 9:18 pm | Quarter-Diary | 2 Comments

Switch backside noseblunt with an unnecessarily complicated curve-in runway that photos and videos never do justice to.

Your chick at the steakhouse, right wrist a lighthouse.

Spotted via Hella Trill

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