| September 2, 2006 |
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The Pop Manifesto
Just  two issues of this sleek online magazine have sallied forth, so perhaps it's too soon to celebrate its track record. But those two are enough to make us fans. In the first edition, which debuted December 2005, the manifesto stated its creed: to "focus on key players in the contemporary counterculture." Its offerings included a fashion spread rejoicing in the bodysuit, a profile of an Australian hip-hop beauty, and pictures of one-time golden "boy" J.T. LeRoy. In the current edition, the publication forges ahead with features on a French record label that also dabbles in clothes, Long Island rapper R.A. the Rugged Man, and a furniture designer obsessed with imperfection. But it was in an interview with Gordon Hull, member of the art group Surface to Air, where we found the true heart of the Manifesto's ethic. His group once painstakingly constructed a Hello Kitty crop circle in a field in the U.K. Eccentric, outrageous, and improbably cool—long live the pop manifesto! (in Society and Culture Magazines) |
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