Poster Youth
January 27, 2012 — by
La Raza Community Centre offered a variety of activities and support for local youth of San Diego during the late 70s–early 80s. La Raza Silkscreen Centre taught kids the skills needed to design their own posters. Powerful prints!
Mid-wink, Mid-gum chew, Mid-hair twirl
January 26, 2012 — by
Take a peek at these disturbingly awkward portraits of teenage girls by Stockholm based artist Julia Peirone. Capturing in between moments of the in between years. Mid-wink, Mid-gum chew, Mid-hair twirl of middle schoolers.
You Can’t Be 20
January 25, 2012 — by
“In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock’n'roll band… he had just newly turned 19, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favorite hangout, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you’re over 18 you couldn’t get in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it’s one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn’t play in this club anymore. But he was over the hill. So he wrote this song that was called “Oh to live on sugar mountain” which was a lament for his lost youth. He wrote it on his 19th birthday… And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 19 and there’s nothing after that, that’s a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It’s called The Circle Game.”
Joni Mitchell, on Neil Young. Joni’s song for Neil, ‘The Circle Game’ after the jump—
Henry Parland: Nordic Rimbaud
January 24, 2012 — by
My lies:
large, red balloons
that I buy on the street
and release into the heavens.
Once I bought a balloon
larger and redder than the rest.
It pulled me along.
Henry Parland (1908-1930) is regarded as a poetry prodigy in Sweden, even though he never even stepped foot on their soil. Born in Russia, Parland was exposed to the Russian language at school and German at home with his family. As the 1917 revolution intensified, he fled with his family to Finland, which had recently gained independence from Russia. Parland began attending a Finnish-language high school in the suburbs of Helsinki, but he got bullied so badly that he transferred to a Swedish international school.
Miss 19
January 23, 2012 — by
A 1960s French pollster interviews Elsa, the winner of “Miss 19,” a Parisian beauty queen, about political, social, and cultural opinions. This is a clip from the film Masculine Feminine by Jean Luc Godard, 1966.
Pollster: What does ‘the American way’ mean to you? Elsa: A very fast-paced life, probably. Very free.
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