Youth Happenings
Teenagers and youth phenomena in the news today
Sk8r Boys
April 26, 2012 — by
Parents just don’t understand skateboarders. Photographer Ryan Young documents skaters traveling across America in search of unexpected places to ride, from subdivisions to seaside half pipes.
Hoverboards
April 25, 2012 — by
The hoverboard was discovered by Marty McFly in Back To The Future Part II (1989), the sequel where McFly must travel to 2015 to prevent his future son from making a grave mistake.
A Life On Hold: Story of a Teen Refugee.
April 12, 2012 — by
When war broke out in Libya last year, thousands of refugees from countries including Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea, were forced to flee for their lives. Filmmakers Nick Francis and Marc Silver travelled with Amnesty International to a refugee camp in Tunisia where they met Omar, a Somali teenager. This is the film they made about him.
Good Rats
April 11, 2012 — by
Photographer and filmmaker Niall O’Brien spent three years on and off living alongside a group of young punks from South-West London. In that time he watched them grow from adolescents to young men. Exhibited at Art Work Space in London, 2010.
“There’s something beautiful about capturing the spontaneity of youth. It’s something everyone can relate to on some level, even if they can’t immediately identify with this mad group of punks..”
via Tell/You/Today
Iraqi Emo Attacks
April 2, 2012 — by
Iraqi youth’s adaptation of the emo subculture has resulted in at least 90 deaths across the country. Because of the western origin of punk-rock music and tight jeans, the Iraqi government has allowed the bludgeoning to occur in Baghdad and other cities, calling it “Satanist” and pinpointing the males as being gay. Pictures put up on Facebook are causing widespread fear for students, especially those who identify their style as emo, and in some cases students are going into hiding or cutting their hair short.
These homophobic and anti-western sentiments are an even more extreme case of the Mexican emo backlash. In Iraq, the government has done nothing to stop the death squads or militia from creating lists of young emo’s names and posting them online. Some Iraqi media pits emos as devil worshippers and shows pictures of youth with sharpened teeth, praying to skulls.
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