Weekend Viewing: Live From Summer 2006

February 26th, 2011 | 12:46 pm | Daily News | 5 Comments

Over the past four and a half years, Gigliotti has been worrying about a lost line he had filmed in the latter portion of summer 2006. It was a noseslide on a high ledge, followed by a bunch of flatground tricks in the middle of a stylish SoHo street. Despite whatever style points Michael had acquired for this late-night maneuver, he feared he may never see his line, for it was believed to be lost on a DV tape thrown in storage somewhere. The spot on which he filmed this trick was problematic, due to the fact that you had to wait until 3 or 4 A.M. for the restaurant / bar to close before you can skate it, so merely re-filming it was not the easiest of options. Michael kept devising plans to bribe Sam for access to his stored tapes, to little avail. He feared the cause may be lost. But then came today.

This is a clip filmed and edited by Sam Salganik, with most of the footage originating from late summer 2006 throughout the remainder of the year. Pretty much when everyone was a lot more productive on the skateboarding end of things, and Ben was frontside flipping the Wall Street Gap in two tries with like three feet of extra space after the gap. (Some of the footage appeared in this clip from January ’07.) Features Kevin Tierney when he was a few inches shorter and wearing his world renown Corn Pops tee shirt, Matthew Mooney, Pryce Holmes, Ty Lyons, Isak Buan, Taji Ameen, Leo Gutman, and of course, Michael Gigliotti.

There’s also a clean, good quality upload of Gnar Gnar up on Vimeo now as well.

The Events That Defined New York City Skateboarding in 2010: 25-21

December 1st, 2010 | 1:42 pm | Features & Interviews | 31 Comments

These are probably going to run on a once a week basis for the rest of the month. The month is still young, and we are only 11/12ths through the year, so chances for history to be made are still there! E-mail quartersnacks [at] gmail.com if you feel there is something that we may fail to acknowledge, and we will have the event screened before the Board of Trustees.

25. The MTA Discontinues V Train Service
The V train was the MTA’s most self-aware line, in that it proudly wore the title of being the party train. It took you as far as you realistically needed to go, and did not overcompensate for that fact by pretending its duty to the public was anything greater than plopping them off two blocks from the Fish, and five blocks from Lit. It was the train of broken dreams, a route that once seemed endless, but was unexpectedly cut short when an assortment of alcoholic beverages and chances at STDs were shoved in front of it. The V train was special because it was a microcosm for the glimmering road of stardom maligned by alcohol that is New York skateboarding.

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.