Tag Archives: 2000s
The Lollipop Generation
February 22, 2012 — by
The Lollipop Generation is the first feature film by the Canadian artist and musician G.B. Jones. It follows a runaway teenager named Georgie (played by Jena von Brücker) and three friends as they encounter a world of punk and perversion while roaming North America. Shot on Super-8 and video, The Lollipop Generation is equal parts fictional diaristic narrative and a document of the underground characters who Jones met while travelling. Vaginal Davis, Calvin Johnson, Jen Smith and a bunch of other awesome performers, musicians and artists make guest appearances. It was composed over a period of 13 years, stopping and starting whenever the director could afford to buy another cartridge of film.
Boxer Babe
February 7, 2012 — by
Claressa Shields is a sixteen-year-old boxer from Flint, Michigan. Next week, she and twenty-four other women will compete in the first ever women’s boxing Olympic trials for the upcoming London games.
“I plan to be a world champion by the age of 19, 20… and if I can do it before then, that’d be great too.”
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.
Iris von Wunsch Teruel: Esperanto Youth
January 5, 2012 — by
Esperanto is a universal language that was invented in the 1870s by the utopian idealist Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. He believed that a common language with no cultural or national boundaries could foster global harmony. And to some extent his wish continues to be fulfilled by an estimated 10,000 to 2 million fluent speakers around the world. Every year since 1905 there has been an annual meeting of Esperanto speakers at the World Congress of Esperanto. Some young people have been attending these conferences all of their lives. Since Esperanto isn’t taught in school, it’s the role of youth to keep this idealistic language alive in their families and amongst their friends. Filmmaker Sam Green has made a new documentary called The Universal Language about Esperanto, and he introduced us to Iris von Wunsch, a fluent Esperanto enthusaist and teenager. Read our interview with Iris after the jump.
Head of the House
January 4, 2012 — by
Photographer Annabel Werbrouck documents the lives and homes of young Ethiopians who lost their parents to AIDS, struggling to raise their brothers and sisters.
My photographs offer a look at the daily lives of Ethiopian families where the first-born child has become head of the family following the premature deaths of their parents. This is a growing phenomenon across Ethiopia, due above all to the AIDS epidemic.
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