Does art imitate life, or does art imitate ART? TWO very different Hip-Hop artists with ONE very similar video concept released back to back. Both artists come from different extremes of the Hip-Hop spectrum: one part of an underground iconic movement, and the other, a modern mainstream pop culture icon. Watch both videos & tell [...]
November 21, 2012
Lex Pistols
Blog
Earlier in the year, for our summer launch, we featured Dmitry Byalik, a Brooklyn-based artist who gave us a detailed preview to his upcoming catalogue of macabre acuity. This month, he traveled to North Carolina to find the appropriate foliage for the color story and setting of his most current themes. Now, he offers us [...]
November 19, 2012
Lex Pistols
Blog, Fashion-Footwear-Fetish
Lex Pistols and Danilo Parrales, lead singer of New York’s Battery One Dollar discuss Morrissey, literature, film, and Michael Jackson being inside of every child in America. When I asked lead singer of Battery One Dollar, Danilo Parrales, what genre of music they classify themselves as, he offered “Folk” initially, and then Indie, and finally [...]
November 17, 2012
Lex Pistols
Music
Working class, one man army of artistry: Peter Grzymkowski of GRZNYC mirrors New York City’s motto of “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere,” with his nonstop work ethic – meticulously piecing together his own distinct brand of bad-ass. Lex Pistols takes WTP through a behind the scenes tour, and a [...]
November 11, 2012
Lex Pistols
Bad Assery
If you’re trapped outside of Manhattan because of the storm, and you still have power and a good cable provider don’t forget to watch the Halloween TRICK ‘r TREAT marathon on the FEARNET channel!!! Its one of the best movies ever!! What could be better than a mixture of hot werewolf babes, a twisted clever [...]
October 31, 2012
Lex Pistols
Blog
A dark night, for moviegoers at the screening of the Dark Knight… A 24 year old NEUROSCIENCE STUDENT James Holmes, clad in body armor opens fire just after midnight mountain time at the scene of the film where Catwoman enters- shooting 17, 12 of who are pronounced dead and 71 wounded from the rampage, according [...]
July 20, 2012
Lex Pistols
Blog
New York City wreaks of multi-dimensional radiant beings who channel their ideas through various mediums. Hell, to our credit, it is arguable that we’ve given this planet entire GENRES of art and music alone. This month, WTP had the pleasure of capturing New York artist Dmitry Byalik, at the WTP local headquarters: Avenue B’s dimly [...]
Dave Grohl, God-like human, and yet still a regular fan: Ok, so I happened to have been looking for a particular video interview of Kurt Cobain to quote him correctly in a piece I was doing, and I came across this video footage of a SOUNDGARDEN show… and who is in the crowd, just enjoying [...]
July 7, 2012
Lex Pistols
Blog
There’s gotta be a word in the “urban dictionary” for this fuckin sound… It would be like: “VrRrRRrrrrRRRROOOOOOOEEEEEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO” and the definition would be a video link of either of these videos. There’s nothing like the sound (and smell) of burnt tire on asphalt. How the fuck ISN’T that smell a cologne by now??!?!! LOL I [...]
July 7, 2012
Lex Pistols
Blog
Lex Pistols takes a Sneak-peek into the world of Australia’s premiere Sneakerhead aficionado, designer / customizer extraordinaire: Sekure D. Check them out, as they build on graf, kicks, design, style, mass consumer culture, individuality vs machine, and much more. Where people of pop culture are all wearing the same inexpensive, mass consumer, dull-statement pair of [...]
July 3, 2012
Lex Pistols
Bad Assery