Revisiting the Watermelon Video

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There has never been a Quartersnacks video, and there likely never will be. The closest thing to featuring the entire crew in an all-encompassing project was Alexander Mosley’s Watermelon Video from 2006. Considering most of the people involved with it have misplaced their DVD copies, and if you weren’t around Autumn, Supreme or 2nd Nature in 2006, you probably never saw it, Alex finally let us upload it online. He also made commemorative decks and tees for the video’s web premiere, and is selling them over on his website, Watermelonism.com.

The video was filmed roughly from the fall of 2005 until the end of the summer in 2006. It premiered in August 2006 by being projected on the tennis court wall in back of the L.E.S. Park when it was still a pre-fab wasteland. The video features parts from Ben Nazario, Ty Lyons, Andre Page, Mike Gigliotti, Matthew Mooney, Isak Buan and Alexander Mosley, plus a twenty-minute B-roll after the main video. If you need any further indicators of the time period, look no further than the background of the first few Lenox Ledges lines, or Chris Pierre Jacques‘ A.K.A. then Lil’ Chris’ height in his footage. Filmed and edited by Alexander Mosley.

Go grab a tee and board over on Alex’s website once you’re done with the video.

There’s also the sequel from 2008, Dos Sandias, which I’m sure will make its way online eventually :)

Un Verano en Nueva York

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QS has been down with Watermelonism since day zero and Watermelonism has been down with QS since day zero It’s only right that it was the guy with perhaps skateboarding’s longest standing allegiance to skating in Jordans (both the mall kind and the Black Friday riot-inducing kind), and who says things like “I want to go to sleep, but I also want to skate this bump-to-bar” (note: he did in fact forgo an hour of sleep to try said bump-to-bar at 3 A.M.) In order to commemorate the launch of his website, the Watermelon Man remixed a handful of his QS footage from the past few years.

Support what Alex is doing and buy a board or tee over on his website after you’re done with the clip: Watermelonism.com. He’s learning his social media bit by bit, so follow him on those, too. (Alternate YouTube link here btw.)

P.S. “Day Zero” = the days when skating in the back of Union Square was #relevant ;)

P.P.S. Also sorta crazy that with the exception of the San Juan section at the end, this entire part was filmed in Manhattan.