above: a rave flyer from San Francisco, early 1990s.
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
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80 Blocks From Tiffanys
80 Blocks From Tiffanys is a 1979 documentary by Gary Weis following the lives of two gangs in the South Bronx, the Savage Nomads and Savage Skulls.
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Uganda Sk8
Ten years ago, most Ugandan teens had never heard of skateboarding.
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Madonna Bar Mitzvah
httpv://youtu.be/I8XDo4lsa10
On March 14, 1992, Shaun Sperling stepped up to the bimah, read from the sacred torah, and completed his bar mitzvah, thus becoming a man according to Jewish custom.
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Philly Girls
1980s sass-a-tude! Rows of Philly brick houses and endless summer friendships.
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Pussy Riots Everywhere
Three members of girl band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail for reciting an anti-Putin “Punk Prayer” to the Virgin Mary last February at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
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Eton Boys
httpv://youtu.be/r75ajf6UEhU
A documentary on the day in the life of an Eton College boy circa 1991.
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Shocking Pink
Shocking Pink was a feminist zine put out by a collective of young women in London.
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Thamesmead Teens
In 1976, George Plemper took a position teaching science at a school in Thamesmead, London.
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Welcome to Wildwood, NJ.
httpv://youtu.be/2eqCBCUawKY
Wildwood, NJ. 1994. Filmmakers Carol Weaks/Cassidy and Ruth Leitman took to the shore of “the last great American blue-collar carnival town” and documented the Jersey girls in all their glory.