Innocnts is proud to present ~ Super Sonido ~ a collection of Cumbia grooves mixed by sound selector Alf Alpha especially for your Cinco de Mayo festivities and beyond.
Some seriously unreal work from Guy Le Tattooer. Have a look at his website or simply Google him to get your mind blown.
A nice piece on public radio about the Mexican American lowrider culture of Los Angeles and its growth in foreign lands. Chicano and Chicana studies
professor (Cal State Northridge) Denise Sandoval grew up near the mecca of lowriding in East
Los Angeles and has been studying its global spread. She shares her viewpoint in this short but sweet radio feature.
Listen to the full story below.
Call it whatever genre you want but Burger Records is doing that genre and doin it rather well with some great bands on the label and a sweet record shop serving as the foundation point. The scene they've manged to engage and support is quite thriving with youth and beauty. Noted Yves St Laurent fashion photographer Hedi Slimane, aware of this, headed down to Burger recently and documented a little of the beautiful madness that is Burger Records. Head over to Hedi's visual diary for more inspiring images from the Burger scene.
Sometimes you just have to go for it. Innocnts recently rented a small commercial space here in Silver Lake with full intentions of showcasing art, installation, music, and retail from identities that resonate with Innocnts. I have no idea where this goes other than forward. Stay tuned for more details soon..
Got to hang and talk surf story with Shawn Stussy and Tom Adler a week or so ago. Shawn's been prolifically shaping heaps of new boards at his studio in Montecito. The boards walk a refined line between nostalgia and modernity. If you're ever in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, stop by the S Double shop in the back Richie's Barber Shop and feel up a few boards.
You can always check the S Double site for other Stussy goods in the meantime.
VEA was a weekly pulp periodical which ran for years throughout the 50's & 60's but was apparently often in trouble with the law, largely due to censorship issues of the times. The magazine was a menudo of news, bullfighting reports, pulp fiction (with illustrations that look like Charles Burns on peyote) and breasts. There is really nothing to compare the magazine to in the states then or now, but it was similar to the Folies De Paris et de Holllywood magazine from France which was running the same time. Some of the Harrison mags like Whisper maybe. Large format, large on style and striking today.
Images and text knicked from here.
Nearly two years after the start of Syria's popular uprising, the conflict has evolved into a slow-moving, brutal civil war with many players and no clear end in sight. Multiple rebel groups across the country continue to fight President Bashar al-Assad's forces, using any weapons they can get their hands on. While the rebels are using many modern weapons, they've also come up with their own makeshift solutions. In these weapons workshops, anti-aircraft guns are welded to pickup trucks and armor shields are attached to machine guns and cars. Mortar shell nose cones are turned on lathes and explosives are mixed by hand. Homemade grenades are launched by jury-rigged shotguns or giant slingshots in the urban battlefields of Aleppo and Damascus. Gathered here are a few examples of the hand-built munitions of the Syrian rebels.
Text and images knicked form here.
