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Loose Trucks Max in WHATSSAMATTA TWO (#tumblr)

Daily News February 27th, 2014 · 4:05 pm · 13

Our premonitions regarding the Tumblrness of skate videos’ collective future are now being confirmed. WHATSSAMATTA TWO is definitively more Tumblr-as-an-adjective than its predecessor, which was deficient of #electro, #seapunk and #trippy aesthetics. (If you are in your thirties and don’t hang out with people under 25, thus are at odds with the concept of content-platform-as-an-aesthetic, keep this in mind: Someone born in the nineties who didn’t know who Kevin Durant was once jokingly-but-also-honestly told me they wear Bulls gear “because it’s Tumblr.”)

ANYWAY, Loose Trucks Max A.K.A. Max Palmer A.K.A. the Quartersnacks office’s favorite midwestern-born skater has a part in the aforementioned project. It’s an iPhone affair half-edited to a track off the “IDGAF about French Montana but he picks good beats”-camp’s favorite Coke Boys project.

The one here must be over a year old, but are tricks on televisions still #relevant in the Tumblr era? Has anyone wallied a Macbook propped up by a brick yet?

And since this post has been heavy on Tumblr-isms, here is a .GIF illustrating how one earns the title “Loose Trucks Max.”

Previously: Max Palmer Beef Patty B-Sides remix, Max in Mama’s Boys, Max in the first WHATASSAMATTA video

25 & Boomin’

Daily News October 15th, 2013 · 5:00 am · 16

Max Palmer A.K.A. Loose Trucks Max — Bar Ollie via The Local Weather

The no comply into slide game is getting mad real, huh?

Chief Keith, one of the QS office’s favorite skateboarders, now rides for Hopps.

Quim Cardona reveals that he was originally supposed to play Telly in Kids, and then skates around Brooklyn and Manhattan in this “Asphalt NYC” clip.

Gino, Kenny, Koston, Stefan and Zered doing skateboard tricks in New York for fifty-four seconds. Gino even pushes in it!

The Alex Olson picnic table .GIF round-up.

Two of these things are skateable. Get on it, IBM.

Take a trip back to New Jersey and Philadelphia in 2005-2008, and realize just how long Brian Wenning’s impact on fashion in the region hung around for.

Some of the sickest-looking skateboarding continues to come out of Pittsburgh.

Is house music in bro cam clips featuring mostly skaters who are 25+ going to turn into a “thing?” and the new Diamond Days clip might technically be more #street than the one that was supposed to be their return to the streets, provided we are still treating Fat Kid Spot as a #street spot.

Snack Skateboards (no affiliation obvs) comes through with one of the better “Summer Trip to NYC” web clips to come out this year.

Boil the Ocean makes the case for the frontside noseslide being the most “picture-esque” of slide tricks, via a recent example by Brian Clarke. Though not a slide, we’re partial to the frontside noseslide’s cousin, the backside 180 nosegrind.

Kukunochi Corp. has some scans of a Swedish magazine article about Polar’s 2012 trip to New York. Lots of cool photos, though no English translation.

Sigh: Part Two.

QS Sports Desk Headline of the Week: Iman Thug shaved his flattop off. End of an era. (Does anyone else have a horrible feeling that Dolan is going to force some moronic trade that involves Iman this season?)

[Anonymous] Quote of the Week:
“Yo ____, can I borrow $5?”
“I’m an illegal immigrant with no job. I’m the last person in this car you should be asking for money.”

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Thanks to everyone who linked up the Brad Cromer remix. Have a good week.

Loose Trucks Max: Remixes & B-Sides

Daily News September 19th, 2013 · 2:10 pm · 2

Photo by Colin Sussingham

Coda Skateboards has a new “remix” edit up of some Loose Trucks Max footage, which is actually a bit more like a minute-and-a-half Coda promo, followed by a four-minute Max part with guest tricks from all the Beef Patty dudes starting at the 1:55 mark. It features a good bit of footage that didn’t end up in Beef Patty, a replay of many analysts’ leading contender (see 3:15) for “Frontside Flip of the Year — 2013,” and is oddly edited to Billy Rohan’s song from the 2004 ABC skateshop video.

Since the sun is crossing the equator and stuff soon, summer “officially” ends on Sunday. So, it would probably make sense to put our “End of the Summer” clip online tomorrow, huh? It’s not as good as this Max part, but it’s okay.

Previously: Beef Patty, Max Palmer in Mama’s Boys, Max Palmer in Wassamattayou

Beef Patty is Now Online

Daily News September 2nd, 2013 · 3:15 am · 8

beef patty

For the second week in a row, we are going to postpone Monday Links until Tuesday in order to feature an excellent New York-based skateboard video.

Johnny Wilson’s new video, Beef Patty, is now live on Vimeo. It’s from the same crew behind Video and Space Heater, and somehow on a whole level better than those past videos, which were both quite good themselves. All three came out in the past year-and-a-half, so how these dudes manage to get so much footage while avoiding familiar Manhattan trappings is pretty absurd (always nice to see a New York video without a single trick at the Courthouse Drop.) Add it to the rotation along with Solo Jazz, and pass the link on to any of your dumb friends who have ever given that “The skateparks are ruining skateboarding” speech.

New parts from Cyrus Bennett, Paul Tucci, Andrew Wilson, Loose Trucks Max, no apparent Corey Rubin sighting :( and appearances from a whole bunch of others. If you need an explanation as to how Loose Trucks Max got his name, please consult the close-up of the boardslide at the beginning of his part (15:30.)

You should also probably follow Johnny’s Vimeo account because he has a throwaway reel live on there every week or two.

Weekend Viewing: Loose Trucks Max in Mama’s Boys

Video & Remixes June 14th, 2013 · 4:12 am · 3

Gap to backside 5050 on Washington Street — Photo by Jordan Zuppa

Aaron Randi and Sean Dahlberg, the creators of Mama’s Boys, had been uploading sections from the video online, but seemed to have slowed up before getting around to Max Palmer’s part. Here it is in all its pivot cup-less glory. Has there ever been a video part, aside from maybe that batch of Jake Johnson footage Brengar shot in 2007, where the skater was in more desperate need of new pants? It’s not even due to any sort of pant biases (e.g. people mostly on message boards who vehemently oppose high waters, DGK jeans, etc.), but just because he really needs a new pair. The link to buy a download of Mama’s Boys is no longer working, so that means the new pants for Max fund is also no more. It also means you’ll have to wait until they start uploading parts on YouTube again to see Cyrus Bennett’s part.

The whole part is sick, but the line where he skates half a block through Flatbush traffic to do a 360 flip is particularly great. Have a good weekend.

Previously: Max’s part in Whassamattayou

P.S. Check out the Bum Rush the Spot event going on this weekend.