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Noah Sheldon
Luc Carl grew up in Nebraska raised on heavy metal, Chef Boyardee and the smell of peroxide wafting up from his mother’s basement salon. This shaped him into an avid rock and roller, touring in bands you’ve never heard of. He landed in New York City, gorging on it’s nightlife and with his long shaggy locks and spandex pants quickly becoming a permanent fixture on the scene. But one day he realized that an extra forty pounds filled his signature spandex. Slippery slope to permanent obesity and health problems? Hellz yeah. Decidedly unsexy? Most definitely. This is New York fucking City, not Nebraska. We don’t do heavy –unless it’s metal.
But can a die-hard hard rocker become fit and still lead a life of rock and roll? In his book The Drunk Diet: How I Lost 40 Pounds Wasted Luc Carl shows us that this is absolutely possible. He defies the stereotypes that rock and roll = unhealthy and that fitness fanatic = douchebag. Going from fried chicken and cigarettes to fresh fruit and marathons wasn’t easy but The Drunk Diet makes Luc’s journey an enjoyable and informative read. It’s also slyly inspirational. There are no platitudes or “shoulds” in this book. Simply by example of his own transformation through trial and error while staying true to who he is, Luc makes you realize that the change is there for the taking.I stopped by St. Jerome’s recently and talked to Luc about his book, New York and Rock and Roll.
What inspired you to write the book?
I read a bunch of diet books and they all pissed me off. I wanted to shove it up the doctors asses…all these “experts” that wrote all these diet books. I wanted to show how you could have my kind of schedule and still party and still get in shape.
Something unique about your book is that you say you can get in really good shape – and in fact you have – and you don’t have to give up drinking. Why do you think so many people think that you have to stop drinking to get in shape?
Well I think if you have to give up drinking completely then you probably have a problem. Two glasses of wine on a Saturday afternoon is not a problem. It’s all about moderation.
You made major lifestyle changes in terms of your health – did you do it pretty much on your own?
I read a lot of books and learned a lot, but like I said before they also really pissed me off. Things like “The Cookie Diet”! That’s not going to lead to permanent changes. So I used that as fuel. There’s nothing like being pissed off to wanna kick somebody’s ass. That’s the whole point. You get pissed at a guy you wanna fight him. I was pissed at a lot of people and I wanted to fight them. I wanted to be like Rocky Balboa and win.
Did you lose friends through this process? Sometimes when people are trying to make changes their friends feel threatened or whatnot. There were a couple guys who went to rehab – actually a few times – but they’re in completely different places right now…but other than that I still talk to all my asshole friends and we still go out drinking all the time.
You’ve become an avid runner. What do you love best about it?
It makes me normal it makes me sane. Everyday I wake up I work on the website… and everything builds up in my brain like a game of Tetris and I go for a run and it sets me back to normal. It get rids of my crazies
Sex or running? If you had to pick one?
I can’t answer that one…laughs…I’ll go with sex!
What do you value the most in your friends?
Honesty
In your girlfriend?
A beautiful ass.
Do you plan on staying in NYC?
Oh yeah, at some point I‘d love to have a small ranch in Wyoming but I’d still want to have a place here. This is definitely my home and I have no plans on leaving anytime soon!
What do you love best about New York? It’s like a giant ball of fire. Lets say you go out of town to the Catskills or a bed and breakfast. And then you come back to the city and when you’re at the edge you can feel that energy and then at some point you become a part of that energy –and the inspiration completely surrounds you at all times and it’s an amazing thing.
Are there any current rock and roll bands you like?
Very Few! Of course locally there’s The Dirty Pearls. Then there’s The Sword from Austin TX, Airbourne from Australia…I’m really into -they’re working on their third album but the first 2 were really killer. Eye On Fire from San Francisco. There are very few. I don’t like rock bands that try to sound “new” instead of like rock and roll.
It’s kind of like how there’s a certain kind of country music that sounds the same…
Exactly! And classical. And jazz. I don’t know why rock bands think they have to reinvent all the time. It’s like they’re afraid the record company will get bored. It’s why all the bands I like from the last 10 years just sound like Metal. Not like they’re trying to be from the future or some bullshit. The futures already happening don’t bother to try and reinvent it.
Other than St. Jerome’s if people are interested in hearing rock and roll in the city where would you recommend.
Three of Cups on 1st ave. It’s the shit. Other than that there’s a place in Williamsburg called Duffs…that place is amazing. If you can stand going to Williamsburg. Which I can’t! Also MotorCity kicks ass too!
Last question! Anything you’ve learned from running?
Every morning I have to achieve a goal that no one gives a flying shit about and it’s all a personal goal and that plays into my everyday life. Just walking down the street I feel like a much more accomplished human being because I achieved my goal in my running shoes. Or even if I have a really bad day and I can’t achieve my goal at least I tried…yeah, running makes everything in life better.
Pleasure Principle and friends a concept shop at Eva NY will be hosting a cocktail reception, in celebration of the unveiling of an installation by ffiXXed (Shenzen, China). Come join us!
Thursday, May 10
6-9pm
Eva
335A Bowery
(between 3-4th Street)
Founded in 2008 in Berlin, ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project by Australian artists/design duo, Kain Picken and Fiona Lau. Their focus is the production of a unisex, prêt-à-porter fashion label, which develops between a range of other art and design related activities. The imagery from the SS12 collection “Customized Interdependencies” was printed (large scale) onto a vinyl fabric.
Fashion in Film is an exhibition, research, and education project based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. The festival is supported by the London College of Fashion.
Opening to the public May 5, 2012, the exhibition Helmut Lang: Sculptures will present a series of enigmatic recent works from the artist’s ongoing explorations into the liminal realm between abstraction and figuration. Co-curated by Mark Fletcher and Neville Wakefield, the exhibition will go on view at 24 Washington Square North and include more than twenty new sculptures by the artist.
Helmut Lang works with form, volume, light and the material history of objects. His materials, including rubber, foam, plaster, sheepskin and tar, often have served previous functions that remain legible in the surfaces of Lang’s art. Discs of rubber that once provided protection are here assembled into a vertical language of figuration. Their softened edges record both the process of erosion and their progression from industrial object to gallery artifact. In Lang’s work the distress of found objects becomes the starting point for a larger meditation on acts of creative destruction and the gestures of reassembly and renewal that attend them.
In a series of white fragmented wall works, Lang achieves pictorial complexity through extreme restraint. The artist heightens the viewer’s sensitivity to subtle variations in the surfaces and materials employed for these objects, as well as the relationship of surface to structure. Lang deflects attention from the ‘picture plane’ of these pieces, de-privileging one side as the face of value: Fleshy bits extrude off the edges of the picture plane of the works, which rest at an angle on visible supports extending from the wall.
With a group of freestanding monochrome sculptures, Lang presents his most figurative work. Stacked into unstable totems with undulating skin-like cracks, sags and folds, these works are unified in a light-absorbing, chalky darkness. Their psychosexual content appears formed on the border between the biology of the body and our experience of it, and their priapic tendencies appear at odds with the gravitas of the dark matter from which they were formed.
Clic Gallery
255 Centre Street, NY, NY
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 6-8pm
May 3 – June 3, 2012
By the end of the 1950s, the static and chaste status quo that had come to dominate fashion photography was usurped by a new, freewheeling mode of documentary fashion photography. Fashion bibles like Vogue and Elle, responding to the times, began zeroing in on what was hip, young and “prêt-à-porter” — replacing the untouchable debutante of the 1950s with the energetic, playful every-girl who would come to exemplify the 1960s. Kinetic, sexy, and cheekily humorous, this new photographic sensibility helped reinvent London as Swinging London and give a visual identity to mod culture. At the forefront of this new wave were three British enfant terribles named David Bailey, Terry Donovan, and Brian Duffy — all irreverent, working class lads, contemptuous of the norm, who sought to rest the scepter of fashion photography from the grips of so-called ‘gentleman’ photographers such as Norman Parkinson and Cecil Beaton. The three, dubbed “The Black Trinity” by Parkinson, ushered in a new era where youthful vibrancy trumped old-guard patricianism and fashion photos coursed alive with devil-may-care attitude and guerilla-style candidness. The three inspired a new cult of the cool photographer which culminated in Michelangelo Antonioni’s worldwide smash hit Blow-Up about a jaded young fashion photographer working in mod London — a film still considered an artistic high water mark of the Swinging 60s.
Brian Duffy, known simply as “Duffy”, was a wildly inventive and acid-tongued photographer — the most technically sophisticated of the three — who was responsible for some of the era’s most iconic images. Up until his premature and dramatic departure from the world of photography in 1979 (in a fit of disenchantment he burnt up many of his negatives before turning to a career in furniture restoration), Duffy was a major force in both fashion and commercial photography whose editorials, advertisements, and album covers are responsible for the way that the 1960s and 1970s are still perceived in the popular imagination. During his brief reign as a voice of his generation, Duffy churned out an elegant and uncompromising body of work: the cover of Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane”; two Pirelli calendars; game-changing spreads for Queen, Vogue, and Elle; celebrity portraits; Smirnoff and Benson & Hedges ad campaigns; as well as more experimental personal photographs. Luckily, many of his negatives were salvaged from the fire and are now being exhibited for the first time, memorializing a legend whose output changed the course of fashion and commercial photography for the ever after.
More than an art show, more than a party, and more than just a scene:
this is Something New. Something New is a monthly creative showcase curated
by fringe art-happening mavens The Lowbrow Society for the Arts (The Gowanus Art
Fair, SMUT!) which brings New York City’s best underground creators to the surface for
a night of non-stop inspiration. The introductory Something New event, Dress Up/Get
Down, is not a fashion show, but a show about fashion. Check your laminated badges and
notions at the door, and prepare for a night that explores the other side of wearable art.
