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Idle Moments

Daily News December 23rd, 2024 · 12:00 am

Humidity ❤️ via Greg Navarro 📷

Quick thirty second Hardbody commercial with Antonio + Hjalte is giving video magazine ad vibes. Told E.J. this was too short, and his response was, “Well, the last video was too long.” New Hardbody stuff live on their shop + your local.

“Interstate” is a sick eight-minute video by Spencer Newman and the youngs, based around Stamford, CT, but with a good bit of New York footage in it. Yelled at the screen @ the slam on that new brick thing by Domino Park + it’s heartwarming to see the “Sphere” [Gold & Platt by CIA Ledge] endure through two decades of homie videos. Titles are coming back, baby!

“If you’re listening to all this hip-hop, why the fuck are you editing your videos to Joy Division?” Farran Golding profiled Paul Young for Closer as he was winding up production on Down By Law + included a video supplement on the art of selecting music for skate videos.

World Touring Still Pouring

Daily News December 16th, 2024 · 12:00 am

You know how our twisted reality had to adopt the widespread use of “not The Onion” because real-life gradually surpassed parody? Sometimes it feels like these 2020s skate spots are experiencing the same thing, only relative to their resemblance to a Brother Merle illustration. You really gotta hand it to skateboarders for continuing try to and make the Chinatown Banks “work” for 20+ years.

Still got some loose holiday deals on the webstore 🛍

Max B is coming home November 9, 2025 🌊

“What is this fucking website called? ‘Quartersnacks’? We don’t have time for this.” Farran Golding spoke to Ian Browning for the first episode of the Skate Bylines Podcast, about his 2022 profile of the L.E.S. Skatepark for QS, on the occasion of the park’s tenth birthday.

“Main Character” is a tightly-knit upstate crew video, filmed largely around the Rochester, New York zone. Shout out to to all our people who have warrants from Cornell campus police.

Zander Mitchell and Jake Todd made a new part for Theories’ urethane imprint, Dialtone Wheels. Tons of Philly footy, a lil’ bit of New York. Those Museum lines are nuts.

Welcome To The Ranks

Daily News December 2nd, 2024 · 12:00 am · 2

QS webstore deals continue into Cyber Monday baby! 🛍 Got kicks for under $50, some tees left, beanies, caps, etc. Thanks for the support as always :) $5 flat-rate shipping within the U.S.

Triple or Nothing, Jeff Cecere‘s sequel to This Is A Window and Mind How You Go, is premiering at The Woods (where else?) on Saturday, December 14th @ 8 P.M. Dedicated to Max Maffucci ❤️ Full teaser for the video here + full flyer here.

Do Less did a 14-minute video profile of Jenkem with Ian, talking about the history of the company, the pre-Instagram era, and how the North Star of starting anything on your own is finding what’s missing from the perspective of a fan, which is great advice for any discipline.

Five Favorite Parts With Jacopo Carozzi

Features & Interviews November 26th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

📷 Photo by Alessandro Simonetti
📝 Intro + Interview by Farran Golding

It is funny how a year can feel quiet for skate media, and then kick into gear in just a little over a week. Such was the case in mid-August when Nike SB’s QuickStrike, Daniel Wheatley’s Soul Crusher, Pop Trading Company’s POP, and Hardbody’s OD all arrived within the span of two weeks. But cast your mind back a little further to July and Jacopo Carozzi’s eponymous video part by Spezzatura was the first piece of skate media to sent phones ringing across the QS international news desks with high acclaim and musings of what might stake a claim in this years’ Readers Poll. [Voting opens in ~two weeks, btw.]

With that in mind, as the year comes to a close, we asked Jacopo to take the stand for the final “Five Favorite Parts” of 2024.

Skate Smarter Not Faster

Daily News November 4th, 2024 · 12:00 am · 1

Central Park 📷 via Troy Stilwell

New York residents: You can find your pollsite here if you have not voted yet 🗳 If you live somewhere else, you can find your pollsite here.

“It’s not, ‘I don’t know man, I was just skating.’ That answer drives me nuts.” Our correspondent Farran Golding recently launched what he dubs as the skate-version of Longform.org: Skate Bylines. It is a new platform that aggregates and features works of skateboard journalism, rather than focusing 98% on video, like many of us do. Skate Bylines also creates unique pieces of its own, with the first feature being an interview with Chops from Chromeball about his interview process with history’s most legendary skaters. Also, R.I.P. Longform, but long live Longreads. Haven’t gotten on a flight without loading up the reading list with Longreads links in 10+ years. 🫡