Merry Christmas

December 25th, 2010 | 3:12 am | Footage | 21 Comments

Here’s the annual jazzy mood piece. Filmed throughout the past three months. Twenty-percent of the total eleven minutes was filmed on one miraculous twenty-five degree night in Midtown, something that is otherwise unprecedented in all of our over-eighteen-years-of-age existences. Complete Christmas miracle if there ever was one. Thanks to everyone who supported, visited, and spread the word about Quartersnacks this past year. First person who points out the grape soda BGPs gets a free Quartersnacks tee shirt (when the second batch comes in, which should be relatively soon.) Somebody please buy Josh a set of white wheels for Christmas, the lime is really starting to offend everyone. He’s “dreaming of a white-wheeled Christmas.”

Features: Jason Lecras, Tyler Tufty, Connor Champion, Max Palmer, Dennis Feliciano, Josh Wilson, Jersey Dave, Shawn Powers, Matthew Mooney, Billy McFeely, Torey Goodall, Vladamir Kirilenko, Thando Beschta, DJ Roctakon, Ted Barrow, Ty Lyons, Emilio Cuilan, Gabe Tennen, Pad Dowd, Galen Dekemper, Miles Marquez, Alexander Mosley, Josh Velez, Andre Page, Kevin Tierney, Geo Moya, Isak Buan, some lil’ kids, Pryce Holmes.

Big thank you to the contributing filmers: Andre Page, Dennis Feliciano, Paul Young, Joe Bressler, Martin Wilson, Larry Bao, Paulgar.

“What’s the song for the Christmas clip?”
“John Coltrane. Nothing too crazy.”
“That’s corny.”
“The last clip I made was to ‘Fly Like a G6,’ give me a break.”

Here’s an external link to download the clip as an .M4V for iPhones and iPods. 147.8MB. YouTube version here.

Gone So Long

May 28th, 2010 | 7:11 am | Footage | 18 Comments

The QS3 companion piece. The spring collective. The-skating-in-SoHo-at-2-AM-and-getting-eggs-thrown-at-you documentary. The tradition of dirty lenses. Doing this for Memorial Day weekend, whether you’re spending it on your board, at your grill, or in Seaside Heights with the homie, The Situation. The 48 hours promise was a bit off, but you know how that goes. There’s another one around the corner (ok, well maybe not around the corner, but a few blocks down. So if I have footage of you, and it’s not in here, it’ll be in the next one. You know who you are.)

Miles Marquez, Josh Velez, Pad Dowd, Galen Dekemper, Matthew Mooney, Jerry Mraz, Jason LeCras, Justin White, Ben Nazario, Thando Beschta, Brian Clarke, & Watermelon Alex.

Contributing camera-holders: Justin White & Jake Hanly.

Quote of the Week: “Some guy slipped me a $20 bill to play ‘O Let’s Do It’ last Wednesday.” – Canadian Connor

Download link and embedded clip after the jump.

Merry Christmas

December 25th, 2009 | 9:38 am | Footage | 5 Comments

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Usually, I start these things some time around the 20th or 21st of December and see how I like them over the next couple of days before Christmas. This time around, I started about 2 hours before midnight on Christmas. So, a lot of hours in FCP, a few dozen cross dissolves, and three or four coffees later, this is what I came up with.

Its a typical QS December 25th / End of the year mood piece with pianos and shit. Handycams, flip cams and some three-chips here and there. Dusty and dirty lenses and bad filming on my part included of course.

You know the drill — part one is the homies, part two is the roster. It is the fifth year anniversary of QS Christmas clips and I think next year is bound for a full-scale Weiss comeback to his former 2005 glory. Hopefully they re-model Lincoln Center with something that he can kickflip nose manual this time next year.

Features: Adrian Vega, some Boston dudes, German Nieves, Allen Siegler, Ian from Union, Dennis Feliciano, Keith Denley, Jersey Dave, the Gothic Raver, Alex, Shawn Powers, Staten Island Adrian, Tohmi Shiroyama, Ty Lyons, Aaron Szott, Danny Weiss blowing it as usual, Isak Buan, Francesco Pini, Taji Ameen, Kevin Teirney, Ian Reid, Pad Dowd, Galen Dekemper, Miles Marquez, Thando Beschta, Benjamin Nazario, Matthew Mooney, Vladimir Kirilenko, DJ Roctakon.

Thanks to everyone who contributed footage: Justin White, Jimmy Marketti, David Spodofora, Dennis Feliciano, JP Blair, Anthony Beckner, Alex Rialdi, Pad Dowd, Joe Cups.

12 Days of Quotes-mas

December 24th, 2009 | 6:21 pm | Daily News | 4 Comments

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Taking a day or two off from the countdown. Will be back on the 26th.

1. “It’s almost 2010, that flannel shit needs to die out.” – Roctakon

2. “What’s that website again? Quarter skate?” – The Detective in charge of the Jake Johnson case from September

3. Chris Brown [attempting to get into Supreme after closing time]: “Yo, I just want to buy one thing, real quick.”
Geo Moya: “Sorry Chris, not today.”

4. The Beady Eyed Gangster: “Moya, can we talk man to man?”
Geo Moya: “No, if we’re going to talk, it’s going to be man to boy. ”

5. Sneakerhead girl with her boyfriend: “Fatass!”
Fat Johnny: “Shut the fuck up before I eat your pussy in front of your fuckin’ boyfriend you stupid bitch!”

6. “That guy has a Mexican girlfriend, he’s biting my steez.” – Matthew Mooney

7. Inquisitive Gentleman: “Have you seen that new skatepark at McCaren Park?”
E.J.: “Yeah, I’d rather skate Tompkins all day.”

8. “I’m working at Jamba Juice on 59th Street making that legal money.” – Little Matt

9. “That’s when you know it’s hood. They don’t even have iPod headphones out here. Just the ones with the fuzzy ears from the nineties.” – Thando Beschta upon entering the Greenville section of Jersey City

10. Galen Dekemper: “Whatever, England isn’t even a real country.”
Drunk girls in front of Corner Bistro at 4 a.m.: “We’re Australian.”
Galen Dekemper: “Ugh, that’s even worse.”

11. “Yo, you’re from Germany bro? Bro, Germany is the fuckin’ shit! That’s one of my favorite cities. Germany is like one of the best fucking cities on earth bro.” – Guido on the Corner of 14th Street & Ninth Avenue. November 25, 2009. 11:25 p.m.

12. “Cuisine in Italy is the shit that sustained fascism.” – Barry Livan

The mandatory list of links I post every year of Christmas clips past…

A Quarter Snacks Christmas (2008)
Quartersnacks Christmas 2007
Quartersnacks Christmas 2006
Quartersnacks Christmas 2005
5050skateboarding Christmas 2003
Metrospective Holiday 2002
Metrospective Holiday 2001

And from the QS Rap Desk — Clifford’s coming home for Christmas!

New York, I hate you.

October 12th, 2009 | 5:26 pm | Daily News | 11 Comments

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1. I think we all spent last Halloween in long sleeves. This winter is going to suck.

2. Quote of the Week: “I fucking hate New York sometimes.” – Thando Beschta

3. New clip on deck. Filming deadlines all past. Christmas clip filming begins now.

4. Random footage re-edit of Black Dave, Joseph Delgado and others by Martin Wilson.

5. Autumn Bowl Jam footage by Jimmy Marketti.

6. Mountain Dew (really) clip featuring Eli and a bunch of Euros who insist on over-accentuating 5-0 pivot to switch crooked grinds on ledges as if it is somehow possible to make it overlook the fact that it will always and forever be one of the ugliest tricks known to man.

7. The official video for the aforementioned kinda-sorta summer 2009 anthem that won by technicality came out last week.

8. The realest video on the internet right now. This is the reason there is a “sometimes” implanted in Mr. Beschta’s quote in bullet point number two.