Both these vids are great montages of archival video and super-8 film. They would appear to be made by the same person, but according to YouTube, Let’s Build a Car was compiled by Karth Granger, and Midget Submarines by Nik Coleman. Hmmm, a doppelganger, perhaps?? Both clips, it is also noted, are included in Secretly […]
I’ve always lived – sartorially, at least – by one of my favorite Genet quotes, “To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.” Growing up with a German mother who had very good taste when it came to clothes, I often received compliments from my grade school teachers on my refined outfits […]
LARISSA, NO LAST NAME PLEASE: The Coco Chanel of Rock and Roll (from patricia field.com ) Larissa was born in Russia to a furrier father and housewife mother, who became a corsetiere and dressmaker when finances demanded. The couple were political refugees after World War II and moved the family to Brussels, Belgium shortly thereafter, […]
If you’ve never seen one of Kalup Linzy’s campy send-ups of soap opera stars and music divas, you must! Riffing story lines from classic programs like As the World Turns and General Hospital, these video works splice together drag performances with footage from actual episodes in spoofs only a devoted soap fan could concoct. Linzy […]
