THE SPRING ISSUE
Posts Tagged ‘white noise’
Morrissey Country
Text by Amity Bacon A fascination with the cult of the Smiths leads me to Manchester, the city of their origin. It seems the stuff of urban myth that a tour of this post-industrial, northern English town could draw fans from around the world seeking a pilgrimage for an ’80s pop act that only lasted […]
Orchestrated Chaos
Text by Nora Ballard Snow fell in San Francisco on Valentine’s Day. For approximately 30 minutes after 6 p.m., the white stuff came down in Justin Herman Plaza. However, a closer look revealed the fat flakes were in fact goose feathers, the result of a massive pillow-fight organized by an alternative flash mob. About 1,000 […]
B.I.K.E.
Text by David S. Hirschman In slow motion through the fog of grainy night-footage, a girl named Alison races on her bicycle toward another girl as a crowd cheers on the curb in a new documentary called B.I.K.E. Predictably, the two collide roughly and are thrown to the blacktop. When the ambulance arrives a few […]
Grayti in the Heart of Sao Paulo
Text by Matthew Vree So, graffiti has gone mainstream. Companies ranging from Coca-Cola and McDonald’s to MSN and Sony have latched on and sucked much of the rebellion from the formerly underground art movement, turning the vast majority of it into cultural cliché. However, true aficionados are finding inspiration and innovation in a city that […]
Nieves
Text by Mila Zuo The zine is perhaps the last breath of non-commercial DIY sincerity in the world of oversaturated pop literature. Anyone can make one, and attributes that lofty publishers would consider flaws (asymmetry, misspelling, general misuse of grammar and all things linguistic) are revered and treasured in the lo-fi publishing world. And to […]
Documenting the Parisian Ghettoes
Text by Anneloes van Gaalen Long before the global media decided to turn their attention on the Paris ghettoes following the riots last fall, French photographer and street artist JR was already working in the desolate urban spaces of the French capital. The streets are JR’s gallery and source of inspiration, as he takes photos […]
From The Streets to the Surf
Text by Fiona Killacky Khayelitsha is one of the world’s poorest areas. Just outside central Cape Town in South Africa, it houses a township of desolate, poverty-stricken black South Africans struggling for survival with little access to education, employment and healthcare. Khayelitsha is also home to the first black South African surfer to win the […]
