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‘Utah, Get Me Two!’ — Andrew Allen’s Movie Matinee

Features & Interviews February 13th, 2025 · 9:00 am · 4

🔑 Interview, Intro & Video Production by Farran Golding

Andrew Allen is practically a longstanding field of study at QS. A few years back he spoke at length about L.A. High for our “Favorite Spot” series, which was followed by a written appendix of other bank spots he has frequented. However, recurring spots are just one aspect in an output with many layers.

Although Allen’s appreciation for Kathryn Bigelow’s surf-action-heist movie, Point Break, is widely recognized, there’s an intertextuality of movie nods spanning the last decade of Allen’s career in the form of video parts, music supervision, board graphics and even a cardigan worn by Ray Liotta.

The 2024 Quartersnacks Cup — Recap

Video & Remixes October 16th, 2024 · 12:00 pm · 1

The first year of the QS Cup Presented by Vans went down in Greenpoint, Brooklyn — just steps away from the onetime home of the world famous Autumn Bowl. Sixteen of the world’s best skaters were paired in an eight-race bracket, racing each other around our specially engineered pump track until only one skater was left standing with the trophy.

The 2024 Quartersnacks Cup Presented by Vans — Official Bracket

Daily News October 2nd, 2024 · 2:15 pm · 3

On Saturday, October 12, we will be hosting The 2024 Quartersnacks Cup Presented by Vans in Greenpoint, Brooklyn 🏆

Sixteen of the world’s best skateboarders will compete in one-on-one races across a specially designed pump track with one objective: making it to the finish line before their opponent. The winners will move on to the next round until there is one champion left standing.

RSVP for the 2024 Quartersnacks Cup here. Entrance is still subject to venue capacity, but RSVP is required for entry.

73 West Street. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Doors open to the public at 12 P.M. First race is 1 P.M.

Below, is the official bracket for the day of the event.

A Tale of a Three-Peat Unraveled — The 2024 Bunt Jam Presented By Vans

Features & Interviews July 24th, 2024 · 5:50 pm

If you’re a fan of one of the other 29 NBA teams, you spend a good portion of your time rooting against the Lakers. In every way: losses, personnel decisions, roster moves. Even if your team is eliminated — or in our case, spent a quarter-century out of contention — you could always root against the Lakers. It is the great unifier for the rest of us.

To some Lakers fans, this is just bitter envy. Classic “we rule, you suck” high school shit. But other Lakers fans find it confusing. Why wouldn’t you root for the Lakers? They’re the Lakers.

‘Why Is Every Skater On Earth In Paris?’ — Tagging Along With the Vans Crew During [Men’s] Fashion Week

Daily News June 24th, 2024 · 7:00 pm

If you follow skateboarders on social media, there must have been a thought of “what the actual hell” when you scrolled through your Instagram feed last week. Every single skateboarder on the planet was in Paris. Along with their corresponding filmers and photographers. And their entourages, love interests, and a gyrating cast of stragglers.

We were invited to tag along on a series of Vans events, not in full grasp that those events were a part of a gigantic event ecosystem called “men’s fashion week.” If we’re being real, I didn’t even know men’s fashion week was a “thing,” compared to, yaknow, the two regular fashion weeks that produce womenswear — an annual $820 billion global industry compared to the measly $465 billion reigned in by the menswear industry.

Well, it is very clearly a thing.