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Keenan Milton Rest in Peace

Time Capsule July 5th, 2011 · 11:08 am · 4

(As always, thank you to The Chrome Ball Incident for the scans. Enlarge Page 1, Enlarge Page 2)

In most cases, we as the skateboard media consuming majority, only know professional skaters through photos and video parts. We derive great meaning from the images they deliver to us, by allowing them to influence which boards we buy, what tricks we learn, and even how we may dress in our formative years. But our conception of a person is inherently limited to an interview in a magazine, our favorite line in a video, or what we may widely consider one of the finest switch flips ever done.

Though we have this superficial yet significant view, our recollections of popping The Chocolate Tour into our VCRs for first time and hearing “New York Ya Out There” at the start of Keenan’s part will never compare to the memories of those who actually knew him. The above article appeared in Big Brother (of all places), and was not written by a skateboarder. It has no accounts of sessions at Lockwood or growing up in New York. But it is an amazing, highly personal read that is satisfying to an outsider — not because it’s about a skateboarder and his video parts, but an individual and his friends. And that might count for a bit more than some trivia about a picnic bench line.

Love your family and love your friends. It’s way too easy to take them for granted sometimes.

‘Cappadonna kicked everyone out of the studio except me…’

Time Capsule July 1st, 2011 · 1:23 pm

“…I had the goods on me.”

Part 2 deals with Real’s Mike Cardona ad, pre-Ecko-acquisition Zoo York, the creation of Organika, Fred Gall and one of the more memorable contest stories in recent history, and acknowledgement of Shawn Powers’ and Taji’s talents on a skateboard.

“Yo Quim, come take my place [at Maloof], they’ll never know. you have long hair and a beard just like me. You can be my stunt double.” — Fred Gall

“I love that whole Tokyo lifestyle. Just like, waking up at 3, 4 P.M. Going out skating at like 9, making it home at three, four in the morning.”

Need to go to Tokyo as soon as possible.

Trilogy Turns 15

Time Capsule June 24th, 2011 · 10:05 am · 7

The history department over at Frozen in Carbonite made a timely observation that Trilogy turns fifteen-years-old this summer. We are not qualified to dwell on the finer points of this video’s impact upon release (Photosynthesis on the other hand…), as we were not yet skateboarding when it came out. Those of us who started skating after 1998 unfortunately know Kareem Campbell more as a video game character than the guy in Trilogy. Hopefully, the internet’s prevalent cult of Menace nostalgists will seize this anniversary to write something substantial about what the video meant in 1996. It has held up remarkably well, and though much has been said about skate videos becoming more disposable over the past several years, only a few artifacts from the “golden age” of VHS have stood the test of time well enough to inspire nods from the modern era.

The only full, online edition of this video is on Google Video, and the quality is awful. It has been on there for almost four years without deletion. So we’re hoping the folks over at Dwindle do not mind us putting a better quality version online. (Seriously, if you have anything to do with the ownership of this video and you don’t want it here, please e-mail info *at* quartersnacks.com, and it’s gone.) Unicron has the three DVD World Industries box set for $39.99, and mentions that the set is recently out of print. It’s like a Criterion Collection release, but for skateboarders. Buy it while you still can.

Here it is, in Vimeo faux HD. Even with a correct aspect ratio. Watch it, study it, hope Kareem Campbell called back Pat O’Dell to get the Menace episode done, and enjoy the first weekend of the summer. 80 on Saturday, 80 on Sunday. “Where’s your footy at ‘Reem?”

Can’t Go Skateboarding Day

Time Capsule June 21st, 2011 · 4:25 pm · 18

As most spend the first day of summer / “Go Skateboarding Day” at various skateboard industry P.R. initiatives, Quartersnacks would like to reflect on many of the spots that are no longer with us. We would hypothetically love to go skateboarding today, but the ways of the world continue to make the act of riding a skateboard outside of a designated space more difficult each and every year. (All due respect to all those who continue to advocate for skateparks, but skateparks are not a replacement for street spots. Leave that sort of logic to sixty-year-old city council members, not people who actually skate.) Predictably, many of these places have fallen out of the public’s concern since people have ceased skating there (maybe 2 out of 11 had or have a greater general public v.s. skateboarding public occupancy ratio.) It’s amazing just how much people love to complain when you give them something to complain about, and how little they actually care once the end-point for their desired result happens.

Thanks for the memories.

Olde gold in my Nautica

Time Capsule June 10th, 2011 · 12:41 pm

BUH!

The Chrome Ball Incident recently crossed out one of its larger omissions, and hooked up a great Anthony Correa post. Correa was an underrated force in the camo pants scene throughout the nineties.

That ledge spot he skates throughout his footage in Houston (?) looked super fun. Somebody said that it was no longer around though.