Someone had it on their harddrive and was kind enough to upload it. Mad curbs and knocked-over payphone footage.
The Shawn “Manson” Powers Clip From 2009
February 16th, 2012 | 12:31 pm | Quarter-Diary | 3 Comments
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An Interview With Shawn Powers
February 15th, 2012 | 9:43 am | Features & Interviews | 17 Comments
A friend recently put Palace’s first (and for now, only) American acquisition in great context: “For a British company that seems pretty intent on staying British, you have to hand it to them. Out of all the Americans they could have put on the team, they chose Shawn Powers.”
The following is an interview conducted with Shawn at Tompkins Square Park late this past fall, by Lev Tanju of Palace Skateboards, with some help from QS. Photography by Brian Kelley and Emilio Cuilan. Videos by the Flipmode Media Empire.
Unlike past interviews from talkative, heavily opinionated individuals, Shawn’s personality yields brief, sometimes bizarre answers. His eccentricities have been well-documented on video, but this is about as close as you can get with words. At least 20% of the things you’ll hear him say in real life are Drake and Big Pun lyrics, so this came out surprisingly coherent.
Where are you from?
Queens.
You lived there all your life?
Yep.
Growing up in New York, who got you into skating? Who were the first New York skaters that you looked up to?
My friend Joey from Queens had a skateboard, and it started there. I’d see Harry Jumonji, sometimes Quim Cardona, Billy Rohan. But it was mostly people in older videos [that I looked up to.] Christian Hosoi, Jason Dill, Lennie Kirk, Fred Gall.
How long have you been skating for?
About ten years. Oh, Rob Campbell, too.
You seem like a lone wolf sort of dude, you keep to yourself. Do you skate mostly on your own or with people?
Both. When I come to Tompkins, I skate with everybody. Usually, I like to skate alone at night, and film with Joe Bressler and Peter Sidlauskas. I wake up at night, I feel more alive at night.
What’s your favorite spot?
Tompkins, Washington Square Park, Flushing, the Triangle in Queens, that’s where I learned how to skate.
What the hell is going on?
February 7th, 2012 | 1:31 pm | Daily News | 1 Comment
First of all…28 points, 8 assists, 2 rebounds, 2 steals from a Chinese Harvard graduate who apparently likes blue Gatorade and is being paid $200K on a team with three guys getting $15mil+. Did the Mayans predict this? Maybe the world is ending.
Then, a day later, we find out there’s a song with E-40, 2 Chainz, and Juicy J all on it. Did the Mayans predict that?
Four .gifs on one page. This is deliberately a bad Tumblr page right now because the world might be ending.
Filed Under: Daily News | Tags: GIFs, Jeremy Lin, QS Sports Desk, Shawn Powers, The Knicks, Torey Goodall
Merry Christmas
December 25th, 2011 | 3:31 am | Footage | 7 Comments
The first QS Christmas clip with no Ziegfeld footage. 2011 had some sad moments.
Let’s start off by saying this clip, and probably every clip that will be posted on this website in the next fifty years, is not as good as the “Best of 2011″ clip. Christmas clips are about capturing the spirit of the season, so our trademark music supervision has to restrain itself (last year’s rift between The Far East Movement and Coltrane was well-documented.) At least until Meek Mill or Future follow in Black Dave’s footsteps and release a Christmas album. 2011′s offering is a big shorter that past years’, but what it lacks in footage, is made up for by more sweatpants, camo pants, yellow track jackets, two (!) lines with just nosegrinds and 5-0s, sketchy landings, nollie tailslides, switch noseslides (both of those tricks are coming back big-time for 2012) than any other clip you may have seen this year. Usually, Roctakon is Quartersnacks’ best dressed (Galen in a 2XL UNLV baseball jersey over a 2XL turquoise Champion crewneck is a close second…), but everyone stepped up their gear in 2011.
Contrary to the mistake printed in the post for the teaser, this is actually our seventh annual Christmas clip, which is kind of crazy.
Features Alexander Mosley, Will Jones, Tyler Tufty, Emilio Cuilan, Andre Page, Matthew Mooney, Bill Pierce, Ben Nazario, Roctakon, Dustin, Kevin Tierney, Ty Lyons, Shawn Powers, Miles Marquez, Sweet Waste, Billy Mcfeely, Josh Velez, and Ritchard Swain.
Contributing Filmers: Goshi Goto & Rob Harris.
It’s nearly 4 A.M., and I have to be at the Garden for the Knicks’ season opener in less than seven hours, so it’s time for sleep. (Predictions for the first day of the NBA? Knicks have a 60% chance of winning if Pierce actually sits out / no chance if he plays, Miami over Dallas because Dirk spent the last six months partying, Lakers over Chicago because Kobe spent the last six months wanting to kill someone, and Oklahoma over Orlando because the Magic are going to be a soap opera this year.) If you have a blog/Tumblr/legitimate website/Facebook page, please re-post the clip if you enjoy it, it would mean a lot. Merry Christmas.
Filed Under: Footage | Tags: Alexander Mosley, Andre Page, Ben Nazario, Bill Pierce, Billy Mcfeely, Christmas Clip, Emilio Cuilan, Josh Velez, Kevin Tierney, Matthew Mooney, Miles Marquez, Ritchard Swain, Roctakon, Shawn Powers, Sweet Waste, Ty Lyons, Tyler Tufty, Will Jones
