After 15 years of Blue Skies and LULZ, Sega fansite UK Resistance has shut down. While that probably doesn’t mean anything to 99% of people reading this, UK Resistance (and its founder, Gary Cutlack) actually had a pretty big impact on the dumb shit we post here and the way we post it. We just wanted to take a moment to honour the site in a way UKR would have wanted … the closing credits for Streets of Rage 2.
Fumio Watanabe is from Japan. He’s an illustartor. His work is totally ‘book’… and that’s pretty much all I know about it. Seriously though, the artwork is amazing. #DoWant.
Spank Rock are back! Sort of… Modrober is a new project featuring Spank Rock (and some other bros) playing homage to famed Italian producer Giorgio Moroder. Francisco Soriano directed the video and it’s pretty much brilliant. Hella 80s. Um, yeah.
MOBRODER – RUSH from 35east on Vimeo.
**Everything here is numbered. The Monster is Zero**
Long story short: In 1988, a group of kids who called themselves the ‘Lo-Lifes’ almost single-handedly brought Ralph Lauren Polo Sport [aka, ‘Lo’] from the suburbs to the projects. They would catch trains into New York City and run up in stores selling Polo Sport; either shoplifting or just snatching as much stuff as they could carry. They wore nothing but Polo Sport, all day, every-day.
Why a bunch of poor kids from the inner city decided to dress exclusively in Polo Sport is the sort of anthropological question you could write a book about. Or at least a decent size article – which you can read here. And also here. We’ve just chopped out a few quotes and thrown some pictures up. Suffice to say, early 90s Ralph Lauren Polo Sport was incredible and the Lo Lifes were fashion pioneers.
“When we travelled, we would roll at least 50 or 60 deep and could be recognized by the rainbow of Ralph Lauren labels. By 1989, we grew and had members in the “90’z” (East Flatbush) and East New York. We would get all dressed up just to go out and commit crimes. Sometimes we would go to clubs wearing like 5 different polo shirts each.”
“We would terrorize 42nd street on Friday and Saturday nights. We were always so deep we would never pay to go into movies. There was so many of us, you would be stupid to try and stop one. Even at the stores in the same area, we would steal every 40oz of Old English 800 by just picking them up and walking out. We would be responsible for 75% of the crimes committed up there.”
“There was at least 40 or us in the middle of the day at a skating rink wearing bathrobes. Of course, we always got the girls. They even got with the program so we had Lo Wives. Stealing was a sport and a source of income and from the way some turned our 10 years later, it is all they may ever know.”
A friend forwarded me this short film about greasers – The Ghosts. I know pretty much nothing about it exept it’s really good. And the soundtrack is great. I guess I could do some research, but it’s like 3am and I gotta be up in 4 hours 
Sometimes I think it would be kinda cool to be greaser. Leather jackets, flick knives, cool rockabilly girls, a nice car. Then five minutes later I think it would be cool to focus all my efforts boosting Ralph Lauren Polo Sports professionally (more on that tomorrow). Not convinced either of those are good ‘lifestyle choices’.
FYI: “Greasers are usually characterized by their cuffed blue jeans, pompdours, flanel or white shirts, switchblades, dr martins, chuck taylors, pre 65 cars, and fondness for rockabilly music and other related styles of music.”
The GHOSTS from Eddie O'KEEFE on Vimeo.
Too busy to update this site at the moment. Working a 9-6 day job, freelancing across a bunch of websites, writing corporate copy for various clients, going overseas in two week and trying to date this girl. *sigh* Anyway, here’s a thing from Team Evil #3. It’s illustrated by Ben C. The MySpace / Bebo references should give you some idea how old it is. I’ll post up the rest of the cartoon over the next few days.
The title is pretty self explanatory. Meanwhile, I’ve forgotten how to write. Here are some video snippets instead. Also, teenage suicide – don’t do it, k. thx.
Is it just me or does the post below (about the Gold Coat Indy) seem kinda out of place around here? Anyway, here are some 8-bit videogame mash-ups. These feel a lot more ‘Team Evil by numbers’.
Incidentally, the artists is Aled Elwis. I tried contacting him about a feature in a proper magazine but he never responded
I deleted this beause it was dumb and I didn’t like it. Basically, no one reads nothing these days and being a sports journalists is for assholes. The End.
