Given that most mainstream media outlets tend to make skateboarders look like complete retards when they’re on TV (Dill, Bam, Sheckler, etc.), it is always nice when they don’t fall victim to the otherwise inevitable propensity for fucking up anything skate-related. I say this with wholehearted acknowledgement that skateboarders dominantly are retards, with a select few exceptions, so making them come off as seemingly coherent and competent of existence in modern society at large is a feat in and of itself.

I haven’t seen HBO’s latest show, “How to Make It in America,” largely due to the fact that, like 70% New Jersey-ians, the one cable-having resource I had canceled HBO the morning after the series finale of The Sopranos aired. However, according to what I have been told, it hasn’t really dealt as explicitly with skateboarding as people had expected when they heard Javier Nunez had been casted for it. That’s probably a good thing, as seeing Kid Cudi doing kickturns at the Banks with a film crew would be an unfortunate image to see.

The promotional video for it is great though, and almost the sort of thing that you wouldn’t expect from a network tailored to reaching a fairly wide audience, as I’m not exactly sure how well it would resonate with a audience that doesn’t know who Sean Sheffy is. The whole thing is an account of Javier’s character, who is otherwise seldom seen in the series, but supposedly a very large background player. It’s not hard to figure out what cast of characters is responsible for informing the cocktail of seemingly fictionalized accounts of “Wilfredo” by everyone from Gino to Reda to Luis Tolentino to Koston. There’s a handful of actual tricks in it too, which I’m not mad at. It’s the best thing on TV since Jersey Shore.

Watch it over at HBO.com, The Legend of Wilfredo Gomez.

Around halfway into the decade, an oft-discussed Quarter Snacks personality, one who has been an integral part of this website’s existence both in its current incarnation and various other forms of existence it had taken up in the past, by name of Danny Weiss, took up the hobby of photography. He recently released a wide array of photographs dating midway back into the long-forgotten 2000s, an era when the TF reigned supreme and youthful possibility seemed endless until the sun began to pierce through the darkness and the sweat started to dry into uncomfortable crust at Union Square.

He has a website called The Great Books Have Been Written, which I have deliberately neglected adding to the links section after all of these years, partially because of its absurd and overlong name that has been the a part of various explanations all rooting back to the way Danny wishes to present himself as an artist (he recently suggested the much more favorable “Quarter Snaps” as a name for his website, which I support 100%), but otherwise due to the often imbalanced relationship that I have had with Danny Weiss over the years. Perhaps I don’t exactly know how to wrap my mind around his standing as an artist. He’s a total sweetheart either way.

I have included several selections from his website to entice you into going there. The selections tend to lean in favor of content over composition because this is in fact a skateboarding, southern rap, New York lifestyle, etc. website, and they seem more relevant than mandatory Robert Frank homages and pictures of cops and snow.

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I recently regressed about fifteen years into the past technologically, as I no longer own a computer, or at least a working one. Which you know, means that it is a bit hard to maintain a website. Maybe they’ll orchestrate a fundraiser on password night at the Bowery one day, but until then, we’ll see how this goes.

Speaking of technology, skateboarding seems to be headed fast into two different directions. While everyone is taking out student loans to they could buy the latest HD device for their “film” and/or profound excavation of the beauty and brilliance that coincides with a bunch of skateboarders sitting in a cargo-van littered with McDonald’s wrappers and Coors Light cans, the opposite end of the spectrum is moving in a wholly different direction — the low resolution Flip Cam / Cell Phone Cam / iPhone 3GS. Frankly, this is the more honorable option, but that should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with this website’s aesthetic biases. Long-gone are the days when the VX1 was the sole standard, and you were a failure for owning a TRV or Canon according to a bunch of message board geeks. The real format war has come.

Anyways Adam Abada made a flip cam video, as did everyone’s favorite Nolita degenerate, Matthew Mooney. And here’s one of Pryce and Francesco in Malmo. Where they skate in zero degree weather.

Bryan started posting out takes footage from the mid 2000s over on Official. Luis Tolentino and Jasonwear sections are the first to be up, and they should bring you back to a time when life was much simpler.

Due to a Ryan Hickey thread on the Slap Message board, someone posted a link to this unreleased interview footage of Ryan Hickey that wasn’t included in the DVD release of Deathbowl to Downtown.

Camo pants!

Ty is famous.

The takeover! I can do without the screaming dread though. It only works in Smif-N-Wessun songs.

“I saw her at Lit years later, and she was like, ‘What are you doing here?’ What am I doing here? I’ve gotten into like thirty fights here. What are you doing here?” - Marquez.

Happy February. Doesn’t it feel like New Year’s was two days ago? Oh, did you see the seventy-percent chance of snow for the weekend forecast? Yeah man.

In light of our just slightly-below-freezing but enhanced by wind-chill temperature, along with the impending snow showers, what better way to celebrate than a Hawaiian themed skate clip that was filmed when it was at least eighty-degrees outside?

Put together by Justin White, featuring Scotty Moore, Taji Ameen, Brendan Grandstrand, Negative, Luke Malaney, Jersey Dave, Eby, Jeremy Scott, Mr. Wilson, Isak Buan anddddd.. Justin White.

Absurd Hawaii [84.3 MB / 6:00]. I got a Vimeo upload of this perculating right now, just in case you don’t want 80 megs of Quicktime taking up your harddrive space. Vimeo here.

Chain shining hard, it just gave my neck a tan. It has been over a year, and that song still hasn’t got old.

Recent college graduate, Michael Gigliotti, has produced a flip-cam clip of the L.A. homies featuring himself, Dylan, the Berrics, surfing, and includes cameos from several non-310ers in like likes of Weiss, Rob Campell, Marquez, Pad Dowd and others.

You can watch it here