I am well aware of the fact that this is destined to be the most hated-on thing in Quarter Snacks history, but we had to see the dream realized and brought to a reality. The few involved, and the many exposed shall remain unnamed for fear of never being able to have a job ever again. The is a scenesploitation feature of what skateboarding in New York really is..

Handycam Snacks: Volume 1

The preview for Watermelon Alex’s upcoming video, Dos Sandias is up and chirping right now. The video should be premiering with Can’t Ban the Snackman Volume 2 somewhere in Manhattan once we figure everything out in early May. Get the beer ready.

Quarter Snacks has began expanding over the Atlantic and started laying the groundwork for QS International. The first affiliation has began over the Italian border. I wanted to actually get this clip in a Quicktime file, but thanks to the 28k connection that the majority of Italians are equipped with, it began to seem more like a dream that would never be realized. So we had to settle for the next best thing.

QS International: Italy. Check out Eye On Flo for more Italian QS affiliates.

2nd Nature out in Westchester is premiering their video this coming week in several locations, the most convenient of which is downtown on Allen Street at Epstein’s, a mere TWO blocks away from the Fish! That premiere will be happening on this coming Thursday. Click here for the flyer. Also, Steve put a trailer for the video on his website. Watermelon Alex, Jose Pereyra, Steve Marino, Brian Brown and others have parts in the video.

New York montage from FTC 3

Quote(s) of the Week [Deluxe Edition]: “There’s a 35% chance of rain and and a 55% chance of beer.” - Charles Lamb

Gonz: “Moya, could you set up my board?”
Moya: “You’re pro. Go set up your own board. ‘Fuck outta here.”

“Why would you go to a flea market if they don’t even sell fleas there?” - Benjamin Nazario

Thrasher released a book that runs down the 200+ places you need to skate at before you die, or before your knees give out. Or before you have kids and move to Long Island. In honor of proving that we have actually stepped inside of a bookstore in the past fifty years, I wrote up a brief review of it, explaining how Thrasher’s publishing department broke my heart with their laziness.

Handycam Snacks in the making.. New clip in the making..

*I use the word “read” lightly here. I am aware that the majority of skateboarders have not made it past the fourth grade and are generally incapable of reading, so I would never dream of writing about a book that had a whole bunch of small squiggly lines and words and shit in it.

You know how we make a mention of a skateboarding on a professional level about once a year? Well, the time has come. Even though I can think of twenty things that are going to be wrong with this video, mostly centering around a song selection used to appease a bunch of assholes who never heard an 8Ball and MJG album, it still remains to be made by the only company that manages to be “artsy” (translation: compulsively homoerotic) and still get away with it. Because we all know that you transcend the border between “skate-video” and “artsy skate-video” once you add some 16mm of birds and some non-sequitur stock footage talking about hamburgers. I hope Kalis skates to the music of that chick who did the hella fly soundtrack for the movie Juno.

But what I want to know (for future reference)… What screams !!ART!! more — 16mm or Super8?