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Monthly Archives: July 2012
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Joyriding in Dublin
Ballymun Towers, Dublin. One of the most renowned council estates in Ireland.
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New Age Travelers
New Age Travelers are young people inspired by the traveling traditions of the gypsies and nomads who’ve roamed Europe for centuries; they are idealists looking for an alternative form of living.
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Unaccompanied Minors
Through August 14th, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is hosting a film program titled Unaccompanied Minors, looking at the role of emancipated youth in film history.
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Alive & Kicking
Springtime home movies! The frolicking students of Maryland Institute College of Art in 1986.
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Beat Generation
The origins of the Beat Generation can be traced to a group of students (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Hal Chase & others) who in 1948 challenged their conservative, formulaic writing professors at Columbia University.
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Seventeen Art Stars
In the 1950s and 60s, Seventeen magazine was staffed by some (not yet) superstar graphic talent including Ad Reinhart, Andy Warhol, Roger Weaver, and Sol Lewitt — who drew the illustration pictured above for the magazine in 1957.
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At 13 We Were Nazis
Whoa, now this is a head turning headline, ‘At 13 we were Nazis but then we discovered marijuana and it has changed everything.’
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Sadobabies (1988)
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco (1988) follows a group of San Francisco street kids who occupy the vacant Polytechnic High School and make miniature dolls of themselves.
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Dead Girls Rising
Laura Palmer, found dead in the first five minutes of the Twin Peaks pilot (1989), is one of a countless number of teen girls worshipped post-mortem.