“A part of Brooklyn that few people see anymore, it is a battleground for police and young street criminals.”
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Japanese Flash Mob!
One of my favorite films, Sans Soleil (by the late, great film essayist Chris Maker), features the surreal Japanese dance culture of takenoko-zoku.
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AUDMCRS: Mining the Archive with Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel is one of our favorite artists, and his latest online project AUDMCRS is a digital archive of DJ Joshua Ryan’s expansive techno record collection.
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Ilse Bing, Leica Queen
Ilse Bing, known as “The Queen of Leica” was an avant-garde photographer and pioneer of monochrome images, born in 1899 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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High School Hippies
We often hear talk about how popular culture today is so self-referential and self-cannibalizing that it’s impossible to tell where nostalgia ends and creativity begins.
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Those Sounds Teenagers Make
Next time your mother says “How dare you make a glottal stop reduced central unrounded vowel long glottal fricative at me!”
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Altrincham School Feminists Fight Male Oppression
Seventeen year old Jinan Younis recently wrote an eloquent and powerful piece for The Guardian about her experience starting a feminist society at her all-girls school in the UK after being harassed by grown men on a school trip.
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First Teens — Teens in the White House
In the White House today, the Obamas aren’t just celebrating America, but also Malia’s 15th birthday!
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Punk CD Includes “My Sharona” “Mickey” and “Don’t Dream It’s Over”!
These YouTubers couldn’t have said it better
pzeud0nym : “I totally remember spraypainting ‘INXS’ and ‘The Knack’ on the walls, pissing off the establishment soooo much.
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Are You Real Good at Vogueing?
Chicago’s pioneer vogue dancers perform by the pool on a cable access show called “Teenage” in 1990 (same year Paris Is Burning, which showcases vogue dance, came out.)