Nathan Kensinger is a photographer, urban explorer, location scout, and director of programming director for the Brooklyn Film Festival. Over the past several years, he has thoroughly chronicled and documented abandoned locations throughout the city. He talked to Superchief about his rise to fame as a blogger, getting hired as a location scout for Law and [...]
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LISTEN TO: HALEEK MAUL (AFTER-MIDNIGHT HIP-HOP NOIR DOPENESS)
Haleek Maul is a 15-year-old (yep) rapper from Brooklyn who specializes in brooding, cinematic hip-hop, with command of a flow that you wouldn’t expect from a kid that young (but there’s been stuff going around in the water in NYC for the last 20 years, so kids these days are coming out crazy talented, or blind and without arms, or both. Some shit). He’s got a new single coming out on Mishka, so we caught up with him to discuss all the important shizzzzzz.
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.
SUPERCHIEF EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH LIL B + HIS ENTIRE NYU TALK
Lil B’s visit to NYC last week was legendary, with a lecture at NYU and a show at the New Museum; but the internet millionaires at Superchief were the only ones to get a rare interview with the based god himself. WATCH HERE.
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 he confronts in his work. Schipper’s most recent piece “Slow Motion Car Crash” was on view throughout the month of March in a Newcastle at the Locus+ Archive store/gallery and depicts exactly what the title [...]
Alexander Heir Art Show Opening Tomorrow: Featured Artist Interview
Alexander Heir the founder, owner, manufacturer and everything else of the Death-Traitors clothing brand. I chatted with him about the brand, his artwork, and his opening tomorrow at the Mishka Store.
INTERVIEW WITH STEVE KONG OF THE EARTHWING SKATE TEAM
Steve Kong is a 22-year-old self-proclaimed “shithead skateboarder” from Brooklyn who rides for Earthwing skateboards; he’s blowing up for all the right reasons, and he’d just like you to SHUT UP AND SKATE.
Interview with Miami’s Interdimensional Art Clan: METRO ZU
I value real content, so I Interviewed Metro Zu via Skype this past week. You know what I think? It turned out to be interesting and full of substance, not rambling drivel. Plus, Metro Zu is doope, and they need to get big up in New York, so read this. I’m serious.
Superchief Interviews Zeb From POPO
Zeb is from Po Po, and makes music that is best initially experienced by watching the creepy goddamn video they just made, where he creepstalks a model through the back woods of a small town, wearing ladies stockings on his head. It looks like a fucking nightmare, and its the most romantic thing we’ve seen all day.
His album release party is with Win-Win this Thursday in the back room of Public Assembly, which is both a terrible name for a venue and also a good place to do drugs. We talked to him over G-chat, because transcribing shit is for morons.
Q&A with KR of Krink
Interview by: Jason “BROKE YA NECK” Superchief Contributer KR is the man behind KRINK, a company that makes paint, markers and tools used for graffiti. From the KRINK website: To tell the story of Krink, the world’s quickest growing art supply line, you need to hear the story of KR: a terrible art student, a [...]
Q&A with Jonathan LeVine
Interview by: Jason “BROKE YA NECK” Superchief Contributer Jonathan LeVine is the man behind the Jonathan LeVine art gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Growing in in Trenton, New Jersey during the 1990s, LeVine recognized the commercial appeal of rising countercultural styles like punk flyers, tattoos, graffiti and street art. Originally exhibiting his friends’ art in punk [...]
#The Occupy Interviews: SCOTT CRAMER, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER
#TheOccupyInterviews is a series of interviews with people active within and on the periphery of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Scott Cramer is a documentary film maker living in New York City. He has been working on a documentary about Occupy Wall Street since it began earlier this year. Interviewed by Bill Dunleavy, Superchief Cofounder [...]
Superchief Interviews Yak Films About Bone Breaking and the NextLevel Squad
Here is “Zilla March”, the project that Yak Films made with the NextLevel Squad and Bones. It is a really amazing collaboration, Superchief spoke with Yoram Savion of Yak Films about it. SC: Where/how did you find Next Level Squad? YF: We met Bones, the leader of Next Level Squad, very randomly in the streets [...]
#The Occupy Interviews: C.S. MUNCY, PHOTOJOURNALIST
#TheOccupyInterviews is a series of interviews with people active within and on the periphery of the Occupy Wall Street movement. C.S. Muncy is a freelance photojournalist who has worked for a many of the local papers in NYC, including the NYT, the WSJ, the NY Daily News, Newsday, and the Village Voice. He has also [...]
