📷 Photo by Blake Matthews
Following the surprise release of Gus’ “VH18” part last month, we figured we’d give you a surprise and run down the things that make him tick ;)
Anyone else have or had a pet with a skate-inspired name?
Category: Features & Interviews
The QS Anonymous Skateshop Survey Asks: What’s the ‘Matter’ With Skateboarding?
📝 Words by Mike Munzenrider
🎨 Art by Francesco Pini
Do you remember that demo?
Ben Jones, co-owner of Kinetic Skateboarding, in Wilmington, Delaware, does. It was the early-90s, Toy Machine. Jahmal Williams and Jerry Fowler were still on the team. It was at a metal skatepark in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “It’s seared into my brain how hard Ed Templeton ripped,” Jones says.
Many readers of this article do remember that demo — a flashbulb moment early on in a love affair with skateboarding that really sealed the deal — but such memories are becoming increasingly harder to make. That’s one of the takeaways from the Quartersnacks Anonymous Skateshop Survey. We reached out to 20 shops all over the United States that we have close ties with. We asked five questions, but ultimately, tried to get to the bottom of one. It began as a joke, but maybe it isn’t one? There’s a widespread refrain right now that skateboarding is “fucked.” So, is skateboarding “fucked?” …again?
Five Favorite Parts With Max Palmer
🔑 Interview by Farran Golding
📷 Photo by Zach Baker
One of the most requested installments, for obvious reasons.
And it’s also for those reasons that we included a lil’ bonus for the legion of requesters.
Safe to safe, Max is a DLX head.
Five Favorite Parts With Etienne Gagne
When discussing formative influences, a lot of people have a tendency to shy away from complete honesty and curate a bit too much. But if we’re being real, there are far more people whose gateways into skateboarding were Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, EA Skate, Jackass, Life of Ryan and Rob Dyrdek than those who woke up with a Mind Field DVD under their pillow.
[Not that all Five Favorite Parts installments are exclusively about formative influences, but let’s face it, the majority are.]
E.T’s list is true to a generation defined by YouTube, skateboarding on TV, and skate DVDs plastic-wrapped with Tech Decks.
FWIW, when pressed for comment on who some of his favorite contemporaries are, he said Genesis Evans and Emile Laurent ❤️
‘Utah, Get Me Two!’ — Andrew Allen’s Movie Matinee
🔑 Interview, Intro & Video Production by Farran Golding
Andrew Allen is practically a longstanding field of study at QS. A few years back he spoke at length about L.A. High for our “Favorite Spot” series, which was followed by a written appendix of other bank spots he has frequented. However, recurring spots are just one aspect in an output with many layers.
Although Allen’s appreciation for Kathryn Bigelow’s surf-action-heist movie, Point Break, is widely recognized, there’s an intertextuality of movie nods spanning the last decade of Allen’s career in the form of video parts, music supervision, board graphics and even a cardigan worn by Ray Liotta.