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5 Ways Photographers Can Help Occupy Protests

Photographers have always been important to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Photographs depicting police brutality quickly garnered support for the burgeoning movement, as images of protest spread across the internet. After each major event in OWS last year, social networks would be flooded with videos of police over-reacting to the situation, abusing people physically, using unnecessary force, [...]

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Occupy Oakland’s Struggle Against Snitches, Saboteurs & the Anarchist Witch Hunt

Article by: William Dunleavy Superchief Managing Editor & person who hates snitches The ‘Black-Bloc’ of Occupy Oakland, the people who believe in using violent tactics against police and private property are taking criticism from the mayor, the press, and pacifists within the ‘Occupy Wall Street movement.’ Are they justified in their actions? Is the Oakland [...]

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The Guide to North Korean Secrets (Part 1)

The Guide to North Korean Secrets: What Google Maps is Hiding from You By William Dunleavy Superchief Managing Editor North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died on a train on Monday, December 19, 2011. He had been in complete control of the isolated communist nation since his father, and founder of North Korea, Kim Il [...]

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100 RARELY BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS OF NORTH KOREA

THE GUIDE TO NORTH KOREAN SECRETS: 100 RARELY BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS OF NORTH KOREA By William Dunleavy Superchief Managing Editor As I explained in Part 1, I realized that those little squares on Google Earth were geo-tagged photos all along the North Korean border with China. Some of the photos seem to have been taken [...]

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1 LEOPARD MAULS INDIAN VILLAGE, CAPTURED ALIVE – 50 ZOO ANIMALS ESCAPE IN OHIO, SHOT DEAD

Know what really gets my goat? People in America do not give a SHIT about animals. Sure, we “willfully ignore” factory farming, hormonal dangers in our food supply, and sometimes we like to indulge in a little dog fighting – but that’s not even what I’m talking about right now. Let’s consider the examples. Most [...]

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A Peeper’s Guide to NYC

New York City is the greatest place in the world to be a peeping tom. There’s 9 million people all stacked up on each other- all you really have to do is stand on a rooftop at night time and you can see inside thirty peoples’ bedrooms. There’s even a whole economy within real estate [...]

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Liberty Fest 2012 Video Compilation: Interviews and other Shit

Yeah, I know I’m late with this shit, but you’re just gonna have to deal with it. We’ve compensated for [...]

Interview with Nathan Kensinger, Photographer and Urban Explorer

Nathan Kensinger is a photographer, urban explorer, location scout, and director of programming director for the Brooklyn Film Festival. Over the [...]

Artist Interview: ZOO LION Tells Us All About Her Pornography Filled Collages

Zoo Lion is a 19 year old girl who makes collages out of pornography and old issues of national geographic, they are weird and pervy and we kind of love them. We stared at them while asking her about her process, her obsession with porn, her favorite era in photographed fucking, and about a time where she thought she was going to be killed.

(jeez its hard not to just say porn porn porn porn porn porn porn when writing this excerpt.)

Interview with Alfonz Fanon, Our Favorite Communist Indie Rapper

Alfonz Fanon is an independent hip-hop artist and politically concious individual living in Oakland, CA. He just released his debut mixtape, PC Kids in March, 2012. He talked to Superchief about political consciousness in rap, the political situation in Oakland, and Communism.

‘RIOT // CONTROL,’ A Zine on Rioting for Police and Protesters

This anonymous, photocopied zine includes actual scanned pages from police training handbooks on the left side of each spread. On the right are instructions on the same subject for non-cops. It goes into detail with everything from street-level tactics, to making body armor and gas masks, to disabling vehicles.

Lil B Performed at The New Museum (PHOTOS + REVIEW)

There is no words to describe the joy I felt after two days of the Based God. He’s the most charismatic real dude I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. The positivity he exudes is literally infectous.

Liberty Fest Day 2 & 3: Leather, Raw Nerve, Hoax & More (Photos)

Review of Phonographic Arts Liberty Fest Day 2 & 3. Hoax, Raw Nerve, Leather & More

Interview: Jonathan Schipper Ain’t No Technophobe

FEATURED ARTIST: Jonathan Schipper http://oppositionart.com/ (Week 1) Jonathan Schipper is a big fan of destruction, so naturally that’s exactly what [...]

Liberty Fest Day 1: Midnight, Kim Phuc, Cider & More (Photos)

Review of Day 1 Phonographic Arts Liberty Fest: Salvation, Cider, Kim Phuc, Midnight

WE BLEW UP THAT COUCH AT HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S ART SHOW IN CHELSEA (VIDEO & PHOTOS)

Last week Hennessy Youngman, the Philly/Internet Art Personality (celebrity? yeah, we can give him that with a lil “c”, sure [...]

Superchief.tv and Gold Whistle Present Nicky Troubles “Dream City”

Superchief Records and Gold Whistle have come together to release Nicky Troubles’  album, “Dream City”. Below you can listen to [...]

SUPERCHIEF HAS THE BIGGEST WORK OF ART IN HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S CHELSEA ART SHOW/BLOCK PARTY TONIGHT!!! (UNLESS YOU CONSIDER THE WHOLE FUCKING SHOW A PIECE OF ART, IN WHICH CASE… HENNY WINS.)

So the charming Hennessy Youngman, AKA: The Dapper Don Draper, AKA: The Curatorial Oracle, AKA: The Bowery’s WU Museum, AKA: Mistah Chillah Than Yo Sistah, has his opening tonight in Chelsea on West 21st btwn 10th and 11th ave at 6pm. ITS GOING TO BE A FUCKING BLOCK PARTY AND SPANKROCK IS DOING A SECRET PERFORMANCE. (we like to capitalize secrets)

oh and our sculpture is the biggest thing in the room…

On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia

Review: On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia by Niki Schur-Narula Superchief Contributer Tally Beck Contemporary [...]

A TRAVELOGUE OF 1990′S NEW YORK, THROUGH HIP-HOP VIDEOS

Take a trip into the New York of the 1990′s with these Hip-Hop videos shot in the dirty 5 Boroughs. Pop 40′s with the homies, smoke a blunt on the stoop and take a trip back in time; dope stuff.

CULTS OF NEW YORK CITY: OTO (ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS)

In New York I always feel amazed at how many parallel realities and uses of the city as an “arena” are simultaneously happening at once. The guy biking past you might be a weed messenger, the guy sitting on a bench might be an undercover cop, the dude standing right next to you on the train could be on his way to a nudist convention, and the guy at the coffee shop could be a member of a cult or secret society.