New video thing featuring some light-hearted skateboard antics that are whiter than a napkin, harder than a dinner plate. Featuring Taji Ameen, Yaje Popson, Pryce Holmes, Miles Marquez, Alex Mosley, Ty Lyons, Switch Mike and Mike Gigliotti. It contains a few seconds of curbs, so prepare to be offended. Download here.

Young Jeezy x The Economy

Quote of the Week: “Blanson is the reason I am moving to California.” - Taji Ameen.

..but they talking now? They got me circling the block when I’m parking now!

Out late July 2008. Hopefully.

There’s another one of those retro photo things up that everyone loves to glance at for a few moments and reminisce. Features Moya when he was ten, or twelve or twenty years old. Warning, contains “lifestyle” photos.

Tribute Skateboards: Escape to New York Montage

Probably the first and last review of Can’t Ban the Snackman: Volume 2. Yes, I know I am super late on distribution and things, but the information should be up very shortly. The Champan video still isn’t out, so yell at them before yelling at me. Plus, their video is kind of better.

Quote of the Week: [While driving back to Manhattan from Philadelphia]
Geographically Informed Puerto Rican: “Yo, Manny, what did you do? You just drove back into Philly.”
Geographically Retarded Half-Dominican/Half-Polack: “No, this is Jersey City.”

During a minor foul-mouthed late night altercation

Kirsten Dunst: “Like why are you guys so angry?”
Miles Henry Marquez: “Because that dude was talking shit about one of our good friends.”
Kirsten Dunst: [Presumably under the influence of cocaine, and other morally objectionable substances] “You know… in the scheme of life that doesn’t matter.”
Tron Jenkins: “YO! SHUT THE FUCK UP!“

Bosco painted this thing at the contest this past Saturday, which I unfortunately was not able to get Taji to re-cap. I guess I’ll never know who on 5Boro won.

Rob Harris put together this throw away clip for the Rich Mahogany video which is supposed to come out in Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall of this year.

Many years ago, before Switch Mike perfected the artistry of nollie bigflips, he was telling his moms to “Chill wit dat” in music videos for early-1990s B-list rappers.

I have no reason for posting this whatsoever, but this montage from FTC 3 has always been a favorite, and best of all, features the song Danny Weiss was supposed to skate to in my video back in 2004 before he decided he had a better knack for picking out outfits and taking pictures of random people on the street. You know how frontside heelflips typically are ridiculously difficult to do well? The J.B. Gillet one over the jersey barrier in this clip is the best non-Kalis flip trick in skateboarding history.

Rick Ross still kind of sucks, but this clip is pretty good.

No more six stair ledge where the rail was cut off at FedEx anymore.

Vintage Danny Supa part from the Treefort video. (Where do you think that name ranks on the worst-skate-company-name-ever list?)

“Why are we sitting in a skateshop? Let’s go look at tits.”

In between looking at tits during the few breathable days in the past few weeks, we managed to get some footage together, which most importantly features Taji’s first Quarter Snacks appearance since 2005 (contest re-caps do not count). Features Taji Ameen, Charles Lamb, Kevin Tierney, Mike Gigliotti, Galen Dekemper, Russell Smith, Isak Buan, Miles Marquez, Konstantin Satchek, Switch Mike, and Ben Nazario. Contributing filmers: Paul Roura and Justin White. Let’s go look at tits!

Say what you will about Young Jeezy, but had it not been for his brilliant motivational words, none of you would have a clip to watch right now.

Young Jeezy. The Recession. July 29th. Until then..

We rarely run video reviews here at Quarter Snacks, so when one does get put up (a year after the video came out), it’s always one worth recommending. If you like Revisited, this is essentially San Francisco’s equivalent of that video. SF’s Greatest Misses: ‘94-’97

Copyright Mr. Predictor

In response to this post on one of the five skate sites I visit, your wishes have been fulfilled. These samples have been floating around for some time, and are bound to upset all the message board nerds who cry “support the industry” at times like these (comments are off because of them). They are supposedly making skate Chuck Taylors too, but I don’t think there are samples for those yet. YES THIS IS A HYPE BLOG NOW. Half of the skaters in half of the skate videos that invented the tricks you do wore these ten years back. Detail pictures here and here.

Official started posting clips again. We should start posting clips again soon too.

Quote of the Week: “Switch just called me to ask if rice was vegan. This is a day after he had mozzarella and didn’t realize.”

In an attempt to expand QS beyond international borders, we recently made a trip to an underwhelming city known as Montreal, some 350 miles north of Quarter Snacks Headquarters. It made me really proud of America, and made me never want to leave this country ever again, aside from maybe a trip back to the motherland, since they did in fact sustain the longest war with America in its history, making it undoubtedly the only other country I’ll tolerate. Here’s a blogtastic photo update, that should inform you of the horrible food, the really unforgivably sordid hotel rooms, and the country’s habit of serving shots smaller than a child’s dose of robotussin. Best of all, they’re taken on the best forty-dollar camera ever. Your Leica sucks.

I found this text file on my old computer containing this article that I had saved from the original Zoo York website. It’s a fairly detailed and interesting chronicle of the early days of skateboarding in New York City, and definitely worth a read. Especially since it doesn’t claim that Bobby Puleo pioneered skateboarding in New York.

Some dude ARTIST named Tom Sachs made just about the most perfect quarterpipes ever in Midtown. The problem (there always has to be one, right?) is that they are located within a gallery space of a bougey Park Avenue office building. Furthermore, they are ART and made out of bronze. Best of all, “If it’s made in bronze, it’s no longer this menacing object of noise and liability but now something that has to be protected.” People who talk out of their ass in the name of “art” are great.

The people responsible for Deathbowl to Downtown told me that the documentary should be available on DVD as late as the Fall, so that would probably be your first chance to see it, if you missed the premiere.

Late, but Police Informer posted this good vintage Thrasher article.