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Video & Remixes May 28th, 2011 · 1:51 pm · 11

Is this the greatest shirt to ever be featured in a Quartersnacks clip?

This was originally supposed to go online yesterday, but after falling into deep depression at around the 11:15 P.M. mark of a certain sporting event on Thursday night, Friday wasn’t the productive day the Quartersnacks office had envisioned. (To any Chicago readers: Has Scottie Pippen been temporarily banned from the city yet?) But life (barely) goes on, and enough emotional strength was gathered to put together our traditional beginning of summer / Memorial Day weekend montage. It features plenty of diamond plated ledges, long 5050s, a lot of 180s (both backside and frontside), a No Limit classic alongside its respective eastern remix, and even a Brengar cameo.

Features Josh Velez, Alex, Pad Dowd, Matthew Mooney, Galen Dekemper, Alexander Mosley, Billy Rohan, Dave Willis, Stephan Martinez, Kevin Tierney, Shawn Powers, and Ben Nazario.

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P.S. We don’t condone lying on dirty mattresses in SoHo so your friends could ollie over you.

P.P.S. Young Jeezy has a new mixtape out for Memorial Day weekend. Normally, this would get its own, dedicated post treatment, but he has been spending the past year recording Rick Ross bites (things have really changed, huh), so expectations for it aren’t as high as they were in the pre-Lex Luger/Fake Lex Luger beat and celebrity name as a hook era.

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Daily News April 11th, 2011 · 9:30 am · 6

It’s going to be seventy-five degrees today. There’s a theory going around that the new Tompkins box is responsible for warmer weather patterns. The Real video is premiering at KCDC and available for purchase as well. It’s very good.

As the iPhone has risen to be one of the more prominent video devices in the world of skateboarding, it seems relevant to post this infographic of all of the rumors (and their respective likelihood) surrounding new features on the iPhone 5. Full 1080p HD video recording, a 8Mpx digital camera, and maybe the potential 64GB model would really be the only things to benefit our cause. But all of that is merely speculation. Meanwhile, whoever dreamt up a 3D display on a cell phone is an idiot.

Josh Stewart re-edited Brian Delatorre’s ender part in the M.I.A. video to a shorter length, and to the sounds of some 70s sounding rock, as opposed to the hysteric Hindu chants in the original. Welcome to M.I.A. came out in late 2010 (all the publications and blogs had already distributed “best of the year” accolades at that point), so it carries over into 2011, thus Dela’s part will definitely be in consideration for one of the finer instances of skateboarding in the past year.

A set of six original Wu-Tang skateboards is on eBay, and it starts at $950 with a $1,400 Buy-It-Now price. No Ghostface board though. When will an enterprising skateboarder pitch the idea for Brick Squad Skateboards to Gucci? Can’t wait to roll through Tompkins and see some kid holding a Wooh Da Kid or OJ Da Juiceman pro model.

Speaking of Wu-Tang, here’s Billy Rohan skating in black leather Wallabees in the new “Diamond Days” clip.

Speaking of Brick Squad, have you seen the “Grove Street Party” video with the talking Fozzie Bear chain yet? Every time there’s one random white guy in the background of a rap video, I hope it’s Sweet Waste.

Adding insult to injury, they even managed to knob the rails at Ziegfeld. Fairly useless, and certainly negligible, but whatever. You can move the planters with two people, by the way. Push them off the steps if you do.

Already Been Done #4 coming on Tuesday, April 12.

Last but not least, rest in peace Sidney Lumet, one of the great New York filmmakers. Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, etc. are all obvious, but watch Prince of the City if you enjoy New York movies. You need an attention span for it, but it’s definitely one of the best cop films out there.

Quote of the Week: “They’re not hoodrats. Look at them. They’re like, Moroccan.” — Matt Mooney

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Daily News December 20th, 2010 · 9:52 am · 1

The best video of 2010. We’ll even go out on a limb and say it is better than the Dylan Gravis video. It’s impossible to tally the amount of times the phrase “Have you seen the new Ciara video?” was used to start a conversation this past spring.

On to skateboarding…

Brian Kelley interviewed Keith Hufnagel on his blog about relocating to Los Angeles from San Francisco, skating with Ryan Hickey, and a variety of other topics. He doesn’t seem as eager to showcase his storytelling abilities as some of his peers from the nineties are, but still, it’s a Huf interview, so you should read it anyway.

Upon seeing this kid, Christian Willis, skate in real life last week, everyone agreed that it is probably in our best interests to quit skateboarding and gear energy towards alcohol and other depressants. As if that wasn’t enough, this (now viral) video of a six-year-old destroying the Venice Beach Skatepark is only fuel to the emotional burden that coincides with sucking at skateboarding. However, if you’re into the “optimism” thing, you could look at both of those videos as motivational pieces.

Heelbruise Clothing & Chrome Ball Incident collaboration tee shirt, celebrating the rich history of the VHS tape, for all those with dusty shoeboxes of videos tucked away in a basement somewhere.

As you probably know, Billy Rohan, Vans, and the Maloof Brothers gave away a bunch of free skate gear at 12th & A this past Saturday. Taji conducted an interview with Billy about the generous giveaway on the Full Bleed blog to give some background on this high-end, respectable version of a product toss.

While initially skeptical about the Donovan Strain “Murk Avenue” videos, it’s hard to deny that they’re actually kind of brilliant. The latest one gives some sound advice on how the concept of a “front” can be applied to your modern day financial circumstances.

G. Dep confesses to a seventeen-year-old cold case murder and is facing life in jail. The follow-up interview to the confession has him saying that he didn’t know the guy actually died. See what happens when you do drugs? Child of the Ghetto is still on the lower-tier of regional New York classics, and “Let’s Get It” still knocks though. Watch Puffy scrounge together a G. Dep jail album in light of the insanity.

There is going to be a handful of updates this week to accommodate for last week’s general lack of content. Be sure to follow Quartersnacks on Twitter to stay on top of things making their way to the site. Facebook works too.

Big Brother’s Hated & Misunderstood Issue: Billy Rohan Interview (From May 2003)

Time Capsule November 10th, 2010 · 2:22 pm · 10

Billy’s presence in this “Hated & Misunderstood” issue of the much-loved (and unfortunately defunct) Big Brother magazine was brought up in that Slap Magazine questions video from last month. The interview is from May of 2003, some time after Billy moved to New York, when he still rode for Zoo, ABC was still around, and the Koston 3s were among the most popular skate shoes in New York. Billy is definitely a long way from being hated and misunderstood these days, and it is amazing to think he once shared that title in an issue that featured other notorious names like Chad Fernandez. The key difference, of course, is that Billy was more on the misunderstood end of things, and C. Fro AKA “Just call me Hair” is actually “hated,” if you want to put it that way. There was an interview with someone else in this issue who falls under that title, but I can’t remember who it was.

This post is a collaborative effort between The Chrome Ball Incident for unearthing the scans so that we may use them, and Quartersnacks, which has given Billy numerous deserved headlines this year. But not too many, just so that we don’t look like we are losing our focus in being the #1 Dylan fansite and news resource.

The interview sheds light on many of the classic Billy moments (“To show the officer I wasn’t drunk, I ran up his car and did a backflip off of it”), and is all the more reason to start annoying Rob Harris about releasing his documentary on Billy from last year to the public. Plus, that grind on the rail at White Hall Street, next to the Veteran’s Memorial, is tall as hell.

The magazine format has been modified to fit this site’s layout. All of the images are enlargeable.