Huck’s Most Popular Reads, Feb 15-21, 2015
If you’re still lying in bed surrounded by the remnants of pancakes, squeezed lemons and bags of sugar littering the floor as you breathe heavily through the floury self-induced torture, there’s an outstanding chance that you’ve probably missed quite a lot of what’s happened this week. Did you know John Green has been misquoted for seven years? Or how PhotoVoice is empowering women through photography? What about Spike Jonze movie stills being turned into haute couture at New York Fashion Week? You’ve been missing out. Unless you’re a huge fan of waking up from weeklong pancake benders — in which case you’ve probably been having a ball.
1. That awkward moment when everyone finds out a 13-year-old girl wrote your best quote
Not really the information American novelist John Green was expecting to read this week. Green took his accidental plagiarism well, but there some others that have massaged the truth more liberally than him.
2. Women are pioneering surfing in Iran and smashing outdated stereotypes
A handful of women including filmmaker Marion Poizeau, pro-surfer Easkey Britton and Iranian snowboarder Mona Seraji have set about establishing Iran’s first ever surf club and show you how in new documentary ‘Into The Sea’.
3. Another Home: Life Beyond the Border
Huck Across America is finding stories of struggle and hardship stateside. As the GOP try to quash Obama’s immigration reform, we step into the lives of ordinary people on both sides of the border debate.
4. Haroshi’s incredible skateboard sculptures go on show in NYC
Haroshi, the insanely talented Japanese artist who uses old skateboards to create art, is exhibiting his work in New York’s Jonathan LeVine gallery. Some of his more insane works include an entire merry-go-round style horse and a crumpled car both from glued together skateboards.
5. Bay Area artist Serena Mitnik-Miller on the sanctuary of flying solo
Fresh from a residency with a ton of other San Francisco artists at the Facebook campus, Serena Mitnik-Miller is taking her bay area vibe to New York as she opens her new show SWIRL.
6. Helena Bonham-Carter gets cosy with a giant tuna
Yep, you read that right. Renowned actress HBC cuddles up a massive fish as King Adz runs down the merits and pitfalls of shit advertising.
7. Spike Jonze’s unseen photos transformed into NY fashion week show
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have done something special with Spike Jonze’s work. Taking his archive of photos from a 20-year period covering the mid-80s to 2005, the pair turned photographs into fashion.
8. Huck releases first book Paddle Against The Flow
T-minus 12 days to the release of our first book. Packed with advice to bring out the best of your creative talents, Paddle Against The Flow is a doctrine of inspiration.
9. Artist Hannah Habibi sketches out her alternative page 3
Tired of opening the tabloid pages to be confronted by a pair of tits? Hannah Habibi was so she wondered what a page 3 that reflected real women, and the Venus de Milo, would look like if they took their place inside the paper.
10 Incredible rooftopping videos
If you suffer from vertigo, this one probably isn’t for you. However, if insane feats of nutters defying death do it for you then this will really do it for you.
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Remembering New York’s ’90s gay scene via its vibrant nightclub flyers
Getting In — After coming out in his 20s, David Kennerley became a fixture on the city’s queer scene, while pocketing invites that he picked up along the way. His latest book dives into his rich archive.
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On Alexander Skarsgård’s trousers, The Rehearsal, and the importance of weirdos
Freaks and Finances — In the May edition of our monthly culture newsletter, columnist Emma Garland reflects on the Swedish actor’s Cannes look, Nathan Fielder’s wild ambition, and Jafaican.
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Capturing life in the shadows of Canada’s largest oil refinery
The Cloud Factory — Growing up on the fringes of Saint John, New Brunswick, the Irving Oil Refinery was ever present for photographer Chris Donovan. His new photobook explores its lingering impacts on the city’s landscape and people.
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Susan Meiselas captured Nicaragua’s revolution in stark, powerful detail
Nicaragua: June 1978-1979 — With a new edition of her seminal photobook, the Magnum photographer reflects on her role in shaping the resistance’s visual language, and the state of US-Nicaraguan relations nearly five decades later.
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A visual trip through 100 years of New York’s LGBTQ+ spaces
Queer Happened Here — A new book from historian and writer Marc Zinaman maps scores of Manhattan’s queer venues and informal meeting places, documenting the city’s long LGBTQ+ history in the process.
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Nostalgic photos of everyday life in ’70s San Francisco
A Fearless Eye — Having moved to the Bay Area in 1969, Barbara Ramos spent days wandering its streets, photographing its landscape and characters. In the process she captured a city in flux, as its burgeoning countercultural youth movement crossed with longtime residents.
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