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#QSTOP10 — May 24, 2024: Guest Curated by Anthony Van Engelen

Daily News May 24th, 2024 · 12:00 am

We opted to try something different this week.

This summer will be the eight-year anniversary (eight!) of when we began doing Top 10. And since debates about what gets included and what order it is in has lead to many chairs thrown and holes punched through walls in the QS boardroom — it quite frankly gets exhausting after a while. So we decided to outsource the countdown, at least every once in a while. Why not have someone else watch all the videos, and do the math?

And for the pilot edition of the guest curated #QSTOP10, we asked a guy who’s had a QS Favorite Spot, a QS feature interview, and a Five Favorite Parts. This week’s Quartersnacks Top 10 is guest curated by Anthony Van Engelen.

(Lol: After like 15 hours of this being up, somebody pointed out he mistakenly says March instead of May 24th. We didn’t catch it either. And we filmed it on Wednesday. D’oh.)

We filed this one a bit earlier in the week, so a few obvious videos are getting deferred until next week.

QS Will return on Tuesday, May 28th, after the Memorial Day weekend break.

Throwback At Noon

Daily News April 15th, 2024 · 12:00 am

Photo via @kings0l0mon

Stingwater’s new video, “SELF PAID,” is live. Includes footy from Johnathan Perez, Carlos Mendoza, Connor Kammerer, Daniel Kim and more. Another Dan Groe production.

Sometimes all you need is …a Philly step and a nearby gas station, and it’ll keep you entertained for an entire summer. Paul Young put together an edit of all the Down By Law clips that feature the Greenpoint Philly step behind Zered Park.

“I don’t know what that guy was on that day, but he looked like pure evil.” Free is hosting Jahmal Williams, Steve Brandi and Aaron Herrington’s shared section from Static VI + has a full interview with all of them about working on the Static series and the time they saw satan in an unmarked SUV.

Any Given Monday

Daily News March 6th, 2023 · 12:00 am · 3

You gonna buy the $990 Celine skateboard?

“Quit Sinnin” is a 15-minute New York video by Stephan Signh, with a bit of S.F. towards the end. Lots of spot inspo for warmer days :)

“It also is a return to form for Mike Carroll’s voiceovering, the years seeming to have slightly weathered his sound but his noun and verb and adjective selection still in top form.” Boil the Ocean weighs in on the Neils Bennett part. Favorite New York trick in that was the switch 5050 into the long steps on Riverside Drive.

You Know The Situation

Daily News January 24th, 2022 · 12:00 am · 3

Photo by Shari White for Mess Skate Mag

In case you’ve been under a rock since last Monday, Neema Joorabachi’s Til It’s Gone video is online in full.

“Oh, I definitely wasn’t cool enough for Zoo York back then. I was just some weirdo out on Long Island.” Long Islander, Frank Gerwer, is the latest to get Chromeballed. Frank’s Number Nine part from 1995 is a great lil’ time capsule.

Jenn Soto and Mariah Duran share the screen in a Hi-8 trip to New York edit for Mess Skate Mag.

‘A Certain Amount Of Suffering’ — An Interview With Anthony Van Engelen

Features & Interviews May 6th, 2021 · 12:00 am · 5

Interview by Farran Golding
Collages by Requiem For A Screen
Original Photography by Anthony Acosta

The amount of people who have been able to pull off skate careers spanning over two decades is low. And in the skateboard-content-creation biz, we often fall on this assumption that these skaters have answered all the questions already, e.g. what can you truly unpack that Chromeball hasn’t?

But that’s false. Because the reason this group has been able to endure through the years is their prolific adaptability. The perspective of someone at the start of their third decade of a skate career is even different than it was when they were headed toward the latter half of decade two.

With A.V.E. on the horn for the “Favorite Spot” segment (thanks everybody for the kind feedback, by the way), not digging a bit deeper felt like a missed opportunity. Farran spoke to him on where his perspective on this thing called “professional skateboarding” stands today, entrenched in the third decade of doing it.