A Teenager’s Photo Memoir Of Growing Up In New York’s Famous Punk Underground

Lou Reed, the late iconic rock n’roll outsider once said, ‘I wouldn’t want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba.  It’s very important.  Hip-hop has thunderous bass.  If you don’t want bass it’s like being amputated.  It’s like you have no legs,’ which is how one could best describe New York’s Punk […]

A GIFferent Type Of Riot Ensues In These Living Punk Posters

Once again, photographic duo Meinke Klein + stylist Anna Trevelyan use GIFs brilliantly, in ‘Riot’, part of SHOWstudio’s ‘Punk’ series.  With the help of illustrator Magnus Dekker + sick fashions by designers synonymous with ‘punk’, including Westwood, Hogg + McQueen, the dynamic images beautifully become living punk posters, channeling themes of anarchy through obvious ‘consumption’ of […]

The Met’s ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ Exhibit Lacked Chaos

Earlier this week, after asking the security guard, ‘Is this it?’ – for the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibit ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ – he nodded yes.  At that moment, the much hyped exhibition swelled like a freshly bruised wound.  Not one to truly care what celebrities are wearing, because, let’s face it, the stylists deserve all […]