Culture
Hamburger Eyes head honcho Ray Potes on barfing and the things he’d do for lust
The Spiel Sesh: No. 2 — The Spiel Sesh is a new quick-fire Q&A series with Huck's indie culture heroes. This time, photographer and Hamburger Eyes mastermind, Ray Potes.
Written by: Zach Sebastian
Five things you need to know about culturehacking
Breaking the beast — Artists and activists are increasingly using culturehacking to challenge the powers that be, whether through jamming the Islamophobic propaganda in Homeland or satirising secrecy culture at government spy agencies. Here’s what you need to know.
Written by: Alex King
Sub Pop Records launches its first podcast
Seattle indie cool straight to your earbuds — Home to iconic music acts including Nirvana, Sleater-Kinney and Father John Misty, among many, many more, Sub Pop Records is morphing its cool Seattle cred into podcast form, with the launch of the new Sub Pop Podcast.
Written by: Adam White
In Pictures: Arresting protest art from 1970s US student activists
Political Poster Workshop — Inspired by the Vietnam draft and the killings of unarmed students at Kent State, the posters are a stark snapshot of student activism – '70s style.
Written by: Adam White
Video: Mad bikers tear it up on the Alpine ice at Snow Quake
Sideburn x Deus Ex Machina — Europe’s finest custom motorbikes go head-to-head around a hazardous icy track high in the Italian Alps. This is the notorious Dirt Quake - on ice.
Written by: Alex King
The time New York's early-90's club kids met Joan Rivers
"Meet five people with a dream, and a wardrobe from hell" — Buried in the deeper recesses of YouTube is a 1993 appearance on The Joan Rivers Show by an array of iconic New York club kids, a couple of years before the scene imploded in bloody violence with the now infamous murder of Andre 'Angel' Melendez. Leigh Bowery, Amanda Lepore and Kabuki Starshine are just some of the NY legends talking the scene and parading their pioneering fashion on daytime TV.
Written by: Adam White
Video: No-bullshit New Yorkers searching for solitude in the madness of the Big Apple
In glorious black and white — Inspired by everyday, take-no-bullshit New Yorkers who hustle through life and fight to survive, documentarian Alexander Hankoff has launched NYChapters, a new short film series about New Yorkers finding their own small spaces of peace and creativity.
Written by: Adam White
Virtual Reality: the indie filmmakers putting you at the heart of the story
Sundance embraces VR — Mainstream studios are already exploiting virtual reality, looking for the next big thing. Now indie filmmakers at Sundance have begun using the technology to enhance hard stories on social conflict, including police shootings and sexual harassment. But is VR just another gimmick?
Written by: Adam White
In Pictures: New York City's long-lost graffiti culture
Subway Art — Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant were among the first professionals to seriously document the burgeoning graffiti scene in New York City - one that created havoc for panicked city officials but went on to define an era. Their resulting 'graffiti bible', Subway Art, has just been reissued.
Written by: Adam White
The prisoner who found freedom behind bars by becoming a painter
An unexpected creative spirit — Artist and writer Chris Wilson educated himself on the mean streets of 1980s San Francisco, landing in prison when he was sixteen. Change, he says, is not a single turning point. It’s something you channel and work on for life.
Written by: Zach Sebastian