Man, this week would be so funny if Tenzin posted something dope from Tompkins yesterday.
(Filed before the Zion part, yes.)
The 2025 Quartersnacks Year in Review: 15-6
“ME & THE MONSTERS” — A Vietnam Skate Scene Video
On the same day that we dropped Toda Fuerza’s Havana edit, we got an email asking, “We saw you posted a Cuba edit. What about a Vietnam edit, another place where the skate scene is only just now beginning to grow exponentially?”
The two polarities of QS are that we are incredibly interested in what’s happened at the ledge down the street from the office, and we love a video out of a scene that we know next to nothing about. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is certainly one of those places.
Digging Through Atiba’s New York Archive
📹 Video by Adam Abada
Back in 2021, when we did part two of the oral history behind all the skate photos featuring the Twin Towers, we got Atiba on the horn to talk through a few shots from ~1997. In doing the digging for those, he happened to uncover a small cache of unscanned New York photos he forgot about because they didn’t feel like much at the time, but obviously took on new meaning as the years went by and the world changed.
In the midst of Atiba’s monthslong media tour promoting his latest Vans collection, we visited him at his office to see just what else he had in the stash from New York. For a guy who got started working in skateboarding in San Diego in 1995, headed into what can only be described as a “golden age” for print media, we wanted to know what he saw, shot, and remembered from this city that was generally only a novelty in an era dominated by the west coast.
Happy Monday — Hardbody’s “HJALTE, ROSS & ANTONIO” Video
If DANY was the origin story, The Hardbody Video was the proof of concept, OD was the ensemble, “NEVER ENUFF III” was compliments of the house, and “INTERLUDE” was …well, the interlude, Hardbody’s latest is the arrival. In the nearly two years since formally announcing a two-pro roster of Hjalte Halberg and Antonio Durao, they’ve been quietly stacking for this not-exactly-full-length, but effectively three-way shared part between the two of them and AM Ross Berkowitz, who might have the most lawyer-sounding / “I’d trust him with my divorce” name in skateboarding.
A journey through Copenhagen that overshoots a pitstop in San Francisco and lands back in Hardbody’s hometown of New York — right down to clips at E.J’s Avenue D childhood stomping grounds — “HJALTE, ROSS & ANTONIO” is what this city and the rest of the world needed to close out this year on a hype.
Who knew Hjalte was also Jamie Foy?