No Spots In Spotsylvania

Adding Ratscavage’s CURB video to the Quartersnacks One-Spot Part Map 📍 CURB is a 27-minute video filmed exclusively at the 12th and Monmouth curbs / D.I.Y. in Jersey City. Heard the spot called Moishe’s ages ago, but haven’t really been tapped in with what’s going on with Jersey City skateboarding in recent times. Calling it Moishe’s on the map because “Oh jeez, I worked for Moishe, I worked for Mayflower…”

Back tail shove sorcery on the ledge between the two banks at ConEd plus more in the new Late Nite Stars throwaway edit — hopefully a hint of a new full-length on the way.

The community board approved the construction of the Brooklyn Skate Garden in Mount Prospect Park, albeit the scaled-down version that is half the size of the original plan.

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Destiny’s Child Traded Beyoncé To TLC For Chili

📷 via @newrosecretspots • Headline is via the best Luka trade joke

Primitive Video by Thomas Albin: one of humanity’s earliest ancestors discovers an anachronistic VX1000, and mankind is immediately advanced hundreds of thousands of years into the future to the partially unknobbed ledge that sits atop a four-stair platform between the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a Whole Foods. Otherwise, a really fun homie video that keeps its sights on the Normal People Spots of this city, e.g. there’s no Courthouse and the biggest set is an eight 💪

Pulling up to the Boston Aquarium ledges [as seen in decades worth of skate videos and The Departed] as an out of towner is a shared experience. Few places have as wide of a disparity between “omg that looks so fun!” when seen on videos, v.s. the “what the actual fuck are these cracks” when you arrive like Aquarium does, so it makes sense that the locals have the best clips there. Jerry Fowler, the Godfather of Six-Figure Ledge Skating™, breaks down the history of Boston’s crackiest ledge spot alongside from a who’s who of the New England skate scene for the latest Jenkins Log.

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Boston Report — Milan Solonenko’s ‘Dimlight’ Video

Dimlight” is a new crew edit by Milan Solonenko and the new generation coming up out of the New England scene that gyrates around Orchard Skateshop. It includes an opening and closing by Jojo and Eddie Vargas Jr. respectively, two perennial QS-favorites who genuinely skate like they were plucked out of the friends montage in Mouse.

Boston is a city well-known for its ledges, technical ledge , and the close-up fisheyes that follow them around Eggs and Financial. Milan & co. seem a bit more interested in cuttier terrain throughout the city (and neighboring cities), with only one Eggs clip and not a Deathlens to be found — though it kinda seems like the QS newsroom’s default position is to be shocked anytime there’s a new Boston video with no Eggs footage in it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Boston Report – Orchard’s ‘Pollen’ Video

“Pollen” is the latest video by Orchard Skateshop videographer Ted Purtell.

Those who were around for a — um, let’s say — “slower cook-time” era of skateboard media, will appreciate what Orchard and Mr. Purtell have done here.

Rather than siphoning all their B-roll into bite-size edits for our most scrollable platforms, they’ve created a video magazine of sorts for the shop that sits at the center of the Boston skate scene.

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