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Five Favorite Parts With Matt Militano

Features & Interviews September 11th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

🔑 Intro & Interview by Farran Golding
📝 Photo by Zach Sayles, originally published in Matt and Neil Herrick’s interview for Vague Skate Mag #25

Journeys through cities are a defining characteristic of east coast and independent skateboarding videos. It’s palpable in Matt Militano’s footage, most recently his opener for Zach Sayles’ ethereal production Veil (voted one of the top ten videos of our 2023 Readers Poll and available as a hardcopy directly from Zach for the enthusiasts.)

While skateboarding that is, frankly, very difficult comes packaged with an inherent sense of sincerity, there has always been a playfulness to Matt’s skating — a byproduct of the more unexpected influences he outlines here.

Type of Way

Daily News September 9th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 2

“‘The EP me and Thug [are going to] drop? The hardest duo since Outkast.’ The interviewer’s eyes widen. He starts to push back (‘Now that’s—’), but Quan cuts him off. ‘I’m not being funny.’ He presses. ‘I’m not putting too much on it. Hardest duo since Outkast.'” 💔 💔💔

“Every Saturday and Sunday morning I drive around drinking coffee and looking around the city. I’m always looking for a spot where you could put a little piece of concrete and see if it stays.” Skate Jawn interviewed our good friend John Cruz about life after Shorty’s, and the D.I.Y. scene in Newark, New Jersey.

Day one rider for Travel Skateshop [Rahway, NJ], Derek Patterson, dropped a new part for Bronson Bearings. Mainly NY + NJ clips, with a wild ender and an incredible hardflip on that drop-in gap over the street behind Pyramid Ledges.

Jermaine Whittaker has a sick new part out over on Vague, filmed and edited by Blaine Williams. Lots of Seward Park ledge tech-ery and great switch front shove form at the end.

#QSTOP10 — September 6, 2024

Daily News September 6th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

Some boned out flip trick form, powerful line choreography, and gravity defying nose mannys in this week’s edition. Dylan Sourbeer’s line was also an office favorite, and distillation of all that’s beautiful in east coast skateboarding ;)

We have a shared booth with our friends LQQK Studio at the Vans Block Party tomorrow. Selling some collab tees + odds ‘n endz. 198 Randolph in Brooklyn (same venue as the skatepark.) 3p-1a. Stop by if you’re around ❤️

Have a good weekend.

‘It Feels Like You’re Both Getting The Clip’ — A Reappraisal of Fisheye Videography

Features & Interviews September 4th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 6

📝 Words, Interviews & Top Graphic by Farran Golding

Skateboarding found its first industry standard filming rig when the Sony DCR-VX1000 video camera was paired with a Century Optics MK1 fisheye lens in the late 1990s. Fundamental to producing every tentpole skate video throughout the early 2000s, a precedent for skateboarding’s visual language emerged and footage captured through a fisheye lens became the defining trait of skateboarding cinematography.

Eventually, Panasonic HVX and HPX cameras equipped with an Xtreme fisheye succeeded the VX and MK1. Popularized by William Strobeck during the mid-2010s, this change of filming set-up coincided with long lens videography becoming the zeitgeist. Observing the Quartersnacks Top Ten (our closest thing to a longstanding data set) evidences a decline in fisheye use over the past decade.

You Got A Hundred Dollar Bill Put Ya Hands Up

Daily News September 3rd, 2024 · 12:00 am

Connor & E.J. @ 20th & C filming for OD 📷 via @jefemixtape

Extending the Labor Day free shipping deal for another day. All goods in the webstore ship free within the U.S., regardless of order value. ❤️ Thank you for supporting QS.

It’s a beautiful day: Skate Jawn “$100 Chill” series is back, and the latest episode is with none other than Mr. P Tricky.

Mark Suciu told the story of his backside 5050 @ CBS Thrasher cover that was shot while Salt Bae was taking a nap. When we dropped the Top 10 that coincided with the week that “Verso” came out, some people were like, “that’s a weird trick to choose for #1 from the part.” Sure, it’s not some spine contorting technical ledge skating, but motherfucker do you want to lock both of your trucks onto that skinny-ass rail a millisecond after you’ve ollied up a ledge? There’s also decades worth of piss and shit in the pit behind the rail. (It was the inspiration behind this Antonio Quote of the Week.)

Theories uploaded Static VI in full.