“I just came from my girlfriend’s house, she gave me this tattoo.”

October 1st, 2010 | 9:02 pm | Footage | 3 Comments

Lenox the Menace AKA Lenox the Mennox – Photo by Andre Paige

Here’s a quick clip for the weekend, with slightly higher artistic aspirations than the typical output churned out here on the regular. Filmed with one of the most important media devices to ever be introduced to skateboarding, in the form of a three-inch-on-each-side cube that can be attached anywhere, and retails for a insanely comfortable price point. This thing is better than the Flip cam, given the amount of absurd things you can produce with it. You should buy one right now if you have a few extra hundreds lying around, because the possibilities are endless. Maybe a skateboard-themed recreation of the car chase from The French Connection is next for the assignment list. For now, things are staying relatively tame.

Also threw some night vision footage on there in the event that our intentions are interpreted as straying too far from our low end roots.

Footage by Andre Paige. Features Matthew Mooney, Lenox the Menace, Tyler Tufty, and Miles Marquez at the pre-roofed version of 54th Street.

Alternate YouTube link here.

Stop By For the Lenox Brunch Special

September 30th, 2010 | 7:10 pm | Footage | 2 Comments

The Lenox Brunch Special is a half-eatern piece of carrot cake, sautéed with a can of Pepsi, served alongside a chilled, exquisite “smooth & fruity” Sauvignon blanc wine, “Sweet Bitch.”

Here’s a clip of some footage from an uptown session filmed this past weekend. All the usuals are up there, Lenox, Garvey, Columbia, etc. Includes a cameo from the one and only Lenox the Menace, and a brief shout from the Ruff Ryders circa 2010. The one thing to be said about this clip, even in the context of this website, is that there is a lot of shit on the lens in some of the shots. Usually, we actually do wipe lenses, but on this particular occasion, it didn’t really come to anyone’s attention until after the fact, but what else is new. Hopefully the Biggavelli soundtrack makes up for it.

Features Tyler Tufty, Connor Champion, and Andre Paige. I think everyone else woke up at 5 P.M. on this day.

Got a YouTube uploading for the time being as well. YouTube here. No direct download, sorry.

The Internet’s Finest Purveyor of Three-Stair Sets

September 4th, 2010 | 1:41 pm | Footage | 11 Comments

It’s only the ‘end of summer’ in terms of the cultural calendar, not the scientific one (or the weather-based one.) And this photo has been used around here before. It seems relevant, so it’s being used again.

Hopefully, we’re not getting ahead of ourselves by laying claim to such a lofty title. But we are the only assholes on the internet willing to have an ender on a two-stair (spoiler alert!), so it’s probably true. This one is for the token embittered New Yorkers upset about watching skateboarding on a daily basis that doesn’t involve three-up, three-down or Matthew Mooney this past August. Strangely enough, it might not even be a “real” Quarternacks clip because there is no midtown footage in it. But Soho seems to be the new midtown. Just with a lot more women. Everyone went out of their way to make the filming particularly bad. Anything that’s not filmed terribly is filmed by contributors Justin White, Paulgar, and Jeremy Elkin.

Mandatory warning label: Involves Waka Flocka for 35 seconds (we already apologized for this), NPBS, slow motion (used appropriately of course), Paulgar, and camo pants.

Features Switch Michael Strobert, some idiot in a fur, Matthew Mooney, Black Dave, Kurt Havens, Paulgar, Tyler Tufty, Danny Weiss, Ty Lyons, Dennis Feliciano, Josh Velez, DJ Roctakon, Galen Dekemper, Billy making it rain, Miles Marquez, Geo Moya, Torey Goodall, Kevin Tierney, Pryce Holmes.

Have a safe, and possibly irresponsible long holiday weekend.

Vimeo / YouTube / End of Summer 2010 – Direct Download [45MB / 4:25]

This. Right here. Is my. New Lambo.

August 17th, 2010 | 3:20 pm | Footage | 15 Comments

Ishod Wair – Backside Noseblunt at the World Famous Lenox Ledges – Photo by Zach Malfa-Kowalski

After the rainy Sunday, and these guys having a California-esque experience of driving an hour to a handrail, only to get kicked out in ten minutes, we had one last day before the ways of real professional skateboarding intervene, and demos, events, etc. all take priority. So, Monday was the last day of straight skating around the city, and it was unfortunately marred by indecisive rain clouds, and the fact that it was “a fake nice day” — which is a seemingly favorable temperature that masks the insane level of humidity.

Things got started early at Lenox Ledges, where random crowds of EA Skate fans would intrusively shout their favorite celebrity’s name in the middle of trying a trick, probably because they need to fill the void of rarely seeing Cam’s purple Range Rover up there anymore. The session slowly moved up to the dirty, broken glass ridden, over-the-ledge-down-the-three-block spot that Caswell Berry and Jimmy McDonald skated a few years back, and ended at the newly blown-out (thanks, Transworld, or the QS spots section) Fort Greene Park Monument, where there were three pro teams, five filmers, two photographers, and about twenty people skating right before gigantic rain drops started falling from the sky. Every summer (at least until 12th and A came around), has that one over-blown spot that everyone goes to. For 2010 its looks like the Monument wins the honor. Either that, or it’s just that half of the people in the skateboarding industry are here for Red Bull’s Manny Mania, and can’t exactly skate any of the other things we call “manual pads” in the city too easily.

If you spend a week taking people that are accustomed to Barcelona flatground and Southern California schoolyard asphalt around to New York spots that you think they might like, or be able to skate, only to have the sentiments of the group fall in favor of repeatedly venturing out to the next location, you will slowly start to realize that Jake Johnson is even more of an amazing skateboarder than you previously thought. If you don’t know what that means, or how that’s relevant, then Alien, Quiksilver, Gravis, or Brengar need to arrange for and start raking in the profits from a Jake Johnson reality bus tour. With skate video sales drastically plummeting, reality tours might be the next big money maker for the skate media world.

Daily clip, and more photos embedded below, and it features a Tufty cameo! That’s it for the daily clips, but more info on the rest later.

“All the hip-hop stars come from Harlem.” “Like who?” “Uhh…Alicia Keys. I think.”

August 1st, 2010 | 6:53 pm | Daily News | 14 Comments

As skate parks and their “superior” alternative, skate plazas, begin to eat away at actual street skating, leading us into a path that demands previously unnecessary distinctions like “real street” to be made when discussing skateboarding, we’re losing a lot more than places to be unwanted in. The next generation will probably grow up to become an insanely talented group of skaters, but at a complete loss when they happen to encounter a crack or rough ground, confining them into an institutionalized, synthetic, parks-only existence. There will probably be a flannel-wearing, bearded, post-apocalyptic sect of survivors that strives to preserve skateboarding on things that were not intended to be skated on, and will do so on the four or five remaining metal grate spots in Brooklyn while converging around a campfire to watch dubs of Dan Wolfe videos on earth’s last remaining VCR as well.

But before all of that happens (and idiots from Florida doing ollies onto parked cars in Harlem seems to be expediting that hypothetical situation), we need to take these moments in time and admire our prominent locations today for the unique blends of character that they continue to churn out. Every classic skate spot comes with a batch of stories about entertaining crack heads, wild cops, and entertaining crack heads, and as we slowly dive into a prefabricated world of skateparks and recreations of actual skate spots, we need to remember that no skatepark designer is astute enough to clone the crackheads and ten-year-old scooter kids that listen to too much Roscoe Dash and incorporate them into the design of the park. Some parks in the Pacific Northwest definitely have their token meth-heads that could be seen as distant relatives, but most skateparks don’t seem to be marked with a lifeblood of anecdotes beyond who-did-what, making them pretty boring in the end.

Basically, what all this tallies up to is me having a free thirty minutes on my hands and making a Lenox clip. All of the lines are recycled. Some of the character footage has been used, but it’s mostly extended versions of the aforementioned crack addicts and young Roscoe Dash fans.

Features Miles Marquez, Charles Lamb, Kevin Tierney, Ted Barrow, Ben Nazario, and Tyler Tufty. If you’re from Brooklyn, you might get offended watching it. Depending on how seriously you take ten-year-olds.

And for the record, Alicia Keys is from Hell’s Kitchen.

“Shut up, you gonna get beat up by….50 Cent. So shut up.“