Here’s a write-up and some photos from the premiere last night of Static III and The Chapman Video. Nike premiere tonight. (90 minutes long, boooooooo).

Here’s Josh Stewart’s mini write-up on last night’s premiere too

The (Drunken) Taji Interview, tackling important issues like alligations of falling victim to the party, favorite spots, Brengar, Danny Weiss, our overall incompetence at giving interviews, the upcoming presidential election, skateboarding in ten years, etc.

Every now and then, we need to depart from the deep, intellectual discussion that we typically engage in here on Quarter Snacks and cede our attention to some high-brow humor.

This says a lot about our maturity level.

As of June 15th, Ian Reid’s Video Remix is available. Instead of writing a review for it, I figured we’d do something else. While all versions of the videos contain similar boobs and ghetto antics, the skating in each one tends to change more than anything else, even though it’s prioritized as third in the Sex, Hood, Skate and Videotape title. The following videos are small sections that were filtered out as the video got cut down or drastically different sections from the first edition of the video, when it was still called Tales From the Hood and passed around on DVD-R, before it became an internet sensation.

Rodney Torres Section
…also featuring Moya, Joey Alvarez and some other people. Pretty much none of this footage saw its was into the video once it saw wider distribution. There’s some gems in there from the late-90s though.

Original Chris Schiafone Part, Lil’ Jason, Charles Lamb & Philly Section
Schiafone’s part in all subsequent versions of the video was about three times longer than it is here, but he didn’t skate to Lil’ Flipper over a Pimp C vocal sample. Lil’ Jason didn’t make it into future versions and a lot of the Philly footage didn’t either.

Kyle James Bonus Section
Dubbed as “A ‘Real’ New York Legend,” you’d have to be an idiot to disagree. Anyone who can do switch 360 flips in Timbs, not to mention somebody whose entire roll of footage is filmed on either borrowed or stolen boards definitley deserves the “legend” title.

Brian Wenning & Ian Reid - First Edit
This is the first edit of their part, when they skated to the “Line ‘Em Up” instrumental. About 25% of this footage made it into the cuts that are around today, which are significantly more updated than this one, granted it’s a lot of Photosynthesis-era Wenning footage. The intro is pretty funny, although R-rated, so I couldn’t put it on Youtube.
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Watch trailer for the remix video

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Make sure you pick up the remix video because Mooney has a trick in it.

But every once in a while, I need to take some time off from talking about skateboarding in New York (since nobody except people in New York themselves, New Jersey, and Japan care about skateboarding in New York these days anyway) and acknowledge some skate videos that don’t suck.

If you make one skate video purchase for the rest of your life, the new Girl/Chocolate boxset should be it. (And notice I said “purchase” not “download” because whatever shitty .mpgs you have of these videos could never amount to actually having them on your shelf.)

Read the full review of the box set here.