Kill Pretty is now in dirty dealings with everyone's favorite comedy band The Weekend Pilots! Every month we will be writing an article inspired by one of their songs.
This month they threw us a X-mas song and even though we hate X-mas we love evil killer dolls so we went with it.
Read MoreTracksides. Tunnels. Rooftops. Over the course of five days, JURNE caught up with Selina Miles to explore the neighbourhoods, train tracks and underground tunnels found in Oakland, California. 'Science-ism' also offers a glimpse into JURNE's studio output, illustrating the connection between his work on the white walls of a gallery and the concrete walls of the city.
In every city there are writers that affect the world they paint. Some perfect their pieces, others obsess over destroying property and there's a million in between. Not all of them gain world wide success but the savages always have an affect. Kill Pretty loves learning about the over looked writers of different generations. The ones that put in the work, and it that town they are a household name.
MARVEL US was a household name in the Bay Area. More like a legend. 10 years after he stopped writing we would still catch his tags hidden around skate spots and rusty old poles. US had it's own coveted place in the graffiti history of the bay (and still does) and MARVEL seemed to be one of the most prolific and mysterious names in the crew.
Sitting down to talk to MARVEL was like stepping back into the early 90's. Everyone skated and everyone tagged. San Francisco was in the middle of a Renaissance that would last through the decade. Let's sit back and hear what MARVEL saw.
Tell me about writing in the early 90’s. What do you remember?
At the core of it, this is skateboard culture. We were all serious skaters. It’s this culture where you skate and you travel to all these different spots. As you travel to these different spots you hit up a tag. I saw other people doing that in ‘89 and I thought they were total degenerates. I was like, “Oh my god you did that right on that wall, you’re gonna fuck up this whole place for us.” Then later on I saw some more sophisticated graffiti and it was just one of those things. It was a whole new language.
Read MoreDirected by Tomás Peña (Manson) Art Directed by Sawe Produced by Manson and Bonaparte www.manson.st www.saweartwork.com www.labonaparte.com
Pretend Skateboards is a new skateboarding brand out of Los Angeles that makes some of the weirdest shirts and skateboard purses (yeah, you heard me) you've seen in a minute. They are beta testing hover boards right now but in the mean time you should watch the video they just released. It's dope, trust.
Just to set the record straight, we sent Juxtapoz a copy of Issue 2 at the beginning of October 2014. They just released their January 2015 issue (in December?) and what were they thinking?
They say imitation is the best flattery but at least do it correctly. I guess they just didn't have Dave Schubert (our cover photographer) to quite kill it the way we did.
Every thursday we upload a new, weird, underrated movie for you to stream for one week!
This weeks film is Never Too Young To Die about a spy's son (John Stamos) who inherits the case of a heavy-metal he-she (Gene Simmons) out to foul city water with a floppy disk.
Art by Tomas Brewer
I don't like television.
Not just for the usual reasons; 6 corporations controlling the information and trying to sell You stupid shit.
Well, let's start with the stupid shit selling. Commercials are SO INSULTING and NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT! They treat You like You're literally retarded!!
“Good mothers use tide. You’re kind of a piece of shit if You don’t. You don’t have Life insurance? How do You live without the piece of mind? What kind of meaningless black hole of existence do you live in where You’re not enjoy the refreshing taste of a Coca Cola right now? Did You forget that Coca Cola exists? Not if We can help it!”
Before You ever start watching tv, somebody should sit You down and explain to You what's about to happen: "Groups of the most advanced mind benders are going to FUCK with Your head in every way possible to get You to buy stuff."
These are Marketing Samurai dedicated to altering Your mind and they mean business. Making adjustments. Just straight up fucking with Your head. So are You down with that?"
"⚡Fuck Yeah⚡, I did push the button, didn't I? Power on, motherfucker!¡ You wanna activate all Your mental screwdrivers and lasers and weapons systems directly at My fucking mind? Rock and roll! Rock and roll because Barbara Walters looks like she totally just shat her pants at the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. Rock and Roll because the waitress's little angel is watching Robocop II while mommy's friend shows Mommy his new advanced yoga move: "The Pussy-Blaster." Rock and Roll because Lindsay Lohan's asshole prolapsed on TMZ's "Who's that hole?"
My least favorite thing about tv is that it's not interactive!
Someone on tv can say whatever they want to Your face... and You can never punch them in theirs. The biggest most fucked up well engineered weapon of mass destruction of a lie; and it doesn't matter how insulting it is, or how much it flips You the fuck out because it's psycho, or bullshit, or it's condescending. It doesn't matter how much You scream and shout, You can't do anything about it! It's a one way channel, man. They give 0 fucks. They tell You what to think and feel and Your feedback is not welcome, Motherfuckarrr! The medium is the message and the message is a middle finger!
You see them saying this shit on tv, or portraying a flattened and distorted fun-house mirror image worldview of the Universe, and they make it look like it's the one complete, collective, group consciousness, agreed upon stuff; but it's fucking dumb. Duuuuuuuuuuumb! So so very very ♪♫dum, dah-dum-dum, DUMB♪♫. I swear the stupid is highly fucking contagious. The dumb vapid immature view of humanity and the universe rubs off on motherfuckers- because they have to assume that everyone else is operating from the same whacked out view of the world that tv is portraying! So motherfuckers get their worldview pushed around to fit the tv's horseshit hallucinations!
They're always trying to get motherfuckers to hallucinate and be terrified of every stupid fucking statistically insignificant misfortune one could ever befall, from terrorism to heart failure, you know how they are.
They promote such fucking cowardice! Insane cowardice, from “No one will fuck you if you don’t buy our deodorant” to “You’ve been shot, We’ve got to get you to a hospital!” If they had television in Teddy Roosevelt’s day, He’d have never made it to work with all the getting shot and going to hospitals.
"Holy shit there's dudes across the planet in caves with machine guns! We must freak out and pass the new 'National Not Having a Mouth Bit Freedom Act', which will launch a 60 billion dollar campaign to liberate humans everywhere from the lack of a metal bit in their mouth strapped in place at all times by the use of a inexpensive, yet indestructible kevlar face harness, and it comes with a new and improved social structure!"
Actually that's pretty bold and audacious. Perhaps I've been envying the fuck stomp take no prisoners attitude of the creators of television programming. *gasp* I'm pissed off because I'm jealous that THEY get to infect a captive audience of millions of people with THEIR shitty ideas.
I take back everything bad I ever said about the sacred talking box. Just in time to fuck up some 'Bad Judge.'
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