Promotional fliers for rock shows typically end up in the trash. But David Ensminger collects them. He’s stockpiled them for more than 30 years, documenting a Xeroxed history of punk gatherings, an anthropologist of punk rock’s printed images and text. The do-it-yourself tradition of punk-rock fliers are just part of his new book, “Visual...
I met the most polite skateboarders in my life on a cold, windy day in North London in Finsbury Park (Seven Sisters Road and Stroud Green Road/Blackstock Road). Tweens, almost none of them wearing pads or helmets (technically, helmets are required) would call out “S’cuse,” as if to say “Excuse me,” when they wanted...
Watching the film “Beautiful Losers” at the 52nd annual London International Film Festival last week felt like a time warp. The film documents a group of artists, film makers, musicians, skateboarders, and outsiders that documented their lives through art; creativity that helped define, articulate, and give an identity to an entire generation of DIY...