Antonio Durao | Quartersnacks

Better Extremely Late Than Never — Frozen in Carbonite Presents: Song of the Summer x Video Part of the Summer 2024

Features & Interviews October 24th, 2024 · 1:00 pm · 1

As you might have read on this platform, travel is huge these days. Along these lines, this summer traveled hard as fuck. I drove to Myrtle Beach not once, but twice – shoutout Kenny Powers. I vibed out at the Outer Banks for a week. And most importantly, I bookended summer 2024 with two trips to New York [Fuckin’] City. The second, you can read about here. The first one was my annual sober-versary trip. When booking the hotel, I made sure to get a place with one of those rooftop pools. I mean, you never know – east coast weather is crazy [like]; in early April, it could be 85 or a blizzard might attack the city.

There is no middle ground.

IT’S GRANT TAYLOR DUDE — Hjalte & Antonio Bookend the Nike SB x Dancer Video

Daily News October 3rd, 2024 · 4:31 pm · 1

This above iPhone angle screengrab really captures the essence of this sick fuck thinking it’s appropriate to switch flip five feet high in the air to clear a three-flat-three. Throw a police barrier across the flat and nothing changes. Also worth noting the subsequent gash in the ground that he rides through as if directly aiming for it.

Hjalte Halberg — who was missed in SB’s Quickstrike opus — dropped a new edit for his Dancer softgoods imprint to celebrate their collaboration with Nike SB. Features an ensemble of influential Scandinavian swoosh-wearers (Karsten, Ville, Hugo, Vincent Huhta) scouring the corners of Copenhagen that the tourists don’t typically make it to (save a few mandatory clips at Jarmers Plads), with Antonio bringing it back to New York for the switch flip in question + some Bond Street bangers at the end.

A Bad Ledge & A Plate of Salmon

Daily News September 23rd, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

Adjacency Bias, the Pacific-Northwest skate scene platform, has a new video series examining the opportunities / history created by un-used tennis courts that later become skate spots, called “The Courts.” The first episode is about Portland, Oregon’s court spot.

Nelly Morville made an iPhone edit of a Limo trip to Montreal + more. Fingers crossed Nelly’s YouTube page takes the [dormant] torch from Foghornleghorn for iPhone edits from this crew.

“Antonio Durao’s most recent challenge to skating’s understood limitations suggests a new frontier for the wallride grind, though probably one that requires a certain amount of extradimensional thinking.” Boil the Ocean pontificates on a Ben Colen photo of Antonio where he is smith grinding but also …wallriding 🧠

Hardbody’s ‘OD’ Video Is Now Live

Daily News August 26th, 2024 · 12:02 pm

A lot of people seemed to have been expecting a Big Brand Video™. After all, this is a company that announced its first two marquee pro riders back in February.

But OD has all the hallmarks of a scene video — a distillation of the eight years since DANY. You have Antonio’s second part this month, yes, but you have also Kevin Tierney opening it, who is a Static alumn that has been a staple in every 2010s Bronze project. You have Brandon Scott James, with his first-ever full-on part after spending so many years pulling up with some of the best shit in Naquan Rollings’ edits, and being the local that any out-of-towner remembers from their visit to L.E.S. Park. You have a Charles Lamb part, a tech stalwart whose credentials date back to Metrospective and E.S.T videos. You have Josh Velez, who has consistently been putting out parts filmed on his off days for ten-plus years. You got a fuckin’ Billy Rohan cameo. You have Byoun …Byoun’ing.

Hydration Is Key

Daily News August 26th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

Thanks to everyone who picked up a pair of the QS x Vans MC 96 shoes ❤️ Still got 8.5’s in the green pair, a bit more of a size run in the blue ones.

After shelving the plan indefinitely after Tompkins was repaved, the Parks Department announced that it intends to paint the surface as an effort to preserve the asphalt longer. Work is slated to begin this week, but you know how that goes… #tfreport

“As one nerd pointed out, an Olympic-level skater like Yuto films a banger and people clap, because that trick is hard and Yuto did it perfectly. Antonio films a trick and people laugh, because it is so fucking insane that he did that that it may as well be a joke.” Monster Children celebrated Antonio Durao ~~week~~ month by interviewing the man himself.

“I get stoked if I hear someone say ‘Oh shit, I didn’t know he could skate normally.'” Jenkem interviewed another mastermind of third-eye-open skateboarding, Montreal’s Alexis Lacroix.