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During their New Moon promo tour a couple of months back, the Twilight Trio was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and at the end of the show Kimmel let a few people from the audience ask questions of the cast. A girl came up to the mic with a question for Taylor Lautner. “I really like [...]

At Passover Seder a friend of my mother’s brought me a DVD of the movie Stilyagi (”Стиляги.”)
The movie is about a counter-culture youth movement that took place in mid-1950’s USSR. These kids would listen to jazz, dress in outlandish western fashion, with zoot suit jackets and skinny pants, style their hair into pompadours, call each [...]

A visual guide to your alternative identity fashion options

presented by:
The Alternative Apparel Catalogue

Burner:

(playa dust for your face sold separately)

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Circus:

ahem.

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Hippie:

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Hipster:

also,
Skater, Raver, Goth:
(all separate categories;  you get the idea.)

and here’s a throwback–
Heroin Chic:

Any questions?

Britney Spears has a new album out today, and guess what it’s called:

That’s right!

Britney Spears’ new album is called Circus, and this is incredibly interesting to me.
Once upon a time, I used to be the production manager for a circus called Lucent Dossier–

This troupe is actually part of a whole larger Circus performance subculture that [...]

“Our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.”
President-Elect Barack Obama

516 Years since Columbus discovered America.
232 Years since the first democratic government was established in the United States of America.
143 Years since slavery was abolished.
138 Years since black people got the right to vote.
54 Years [...]

My friends over at Skin.Graft Designs just discovered some way shady thief has been blatantly recreating exact replicas of their original clothing designs and selling them on Second Life.
Skin.Graft Designs Originals:

Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs:

Skin.Graft Designs Originals:

Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs:

This is the first I’ve ever heard of anything like this, though I’m getting the feeling it [...]

“Deal with it. Rock’n roll.”
- The Rules of Attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis

While I was in New York a couple of weeks ago, it came to my attention that hipsters had managed to really piss Adbusters off. If you don’t happen to know what “hipsters” are, or if perhaps you are assuming it’s just [...]

Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
- Andy Warhol

It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The Secret Dialogue [...]

The Do LaB’s longtime friends and collaborators Shrine and TukTuk (who built the wonderful trash teahouse at LIB this year) are the masterminds behind Basura Sagrada, the team building the 2008 Temple at Burning Man, and the name for the temple itself.
This Thursday at DNA Lounge in San Frnacisco they will be hosting a fundraiser [...]

Lucent Dossier’s first night as the house band circus at the Edison goes down tomorrow night.
The Edison is re-introducing and reinventing the spirit of cabaret. Reminiscent of Paris and Berlin of the early 20’s, Wednesday nights the venue is transformed into an exploration of the past — a peek into the decadent, sensuous underbelly [...]