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-- NEWS -- "We didn't have a screenplay, we shot in sequence, and we didn't cover shots from different angles. We really didn't know until the first day of filming what actually was going to happen. I'm really going in a weird I-don't-know-where direction." Gus Van Sant commenting on his new film Elephant, which won Best Film and Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival this year. ------------------ -- TEENAGE HERMITS -- Thousands of teens and young adults in America have sealed themselves off from the outside world. In increasing numbers, America's youth have fallen victim to a condition called Acute Social Withdrawal. "It isn't all bad, you know. I mean, I guess it can get pretty boring sometimes, but at other times it's kinda like a spiritual experience," says Andy, a 17 year old boy who hasn't left his bedroom in over eight months. ------------------ -- SANDY BEACHES -- "Oh Sandy, how I thought this day would never come. Quickly, let me devour your tender fruit again. My desire cannot by quenched... it is the love you have always deserved yet have always been denied..." ------------------ -- PAVEMENT STUDIOS -- Zach was sitting on the hood of a Chevy Malibu at four in the morning, in front of the club Twilo. He was 14 then... executive producer ned schenck contributing editors travis jeppesen michael mckee david navarrete kelli bickman c. bard cole pavement studios 172 fifth avenue #125 brooklyn, ny 11217 editor@pavementmagazine.com PAVEMENT MAGAZINE Pavement Magazine is an arts & entertainment publication offering a photography-based medium from which to examine and document the urban cultural landscape. Pavement is published periodically in printed format. >Contact Pavement Magazine Artwork copyright by the artists © 2003, Pavement Magazine, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

- PHOTOGRAPHY - BILL HENSON Teenagers seem lost in an obscure sullenness, their darkest angst tinged with melancholy. People and places juxtaposed between loneliness and desire, as if these youths are drifting mindlessly, perhaps to their destruction. Photographs by Bill Henson TEENAGE LUST Larry Clark is best known for the disturbing images of his book Tulsa documenting heroin subculture, or more recently as the controversial director of the film KIDS and Ken Park. In his lesser known collections of photographs entitled 1992 and The Perfect Child, Clark explores the alientation of youth... > Photographs by Larry Clark MICHAEL MEADS "The area in northeast Alabama where I grew up and where most of these images were made is one of the most beautiful and violent places I know. Photographs seemed like a way to suspend that passing, if just for a while." > Photographs by Michael Meads TOWARD A NEW DEGENERACY Pavement photographer Ned Schenck took over 1,200 portraits documenting youth subculture while living in a studio on Avenue A near Tompkins Square Park. His photographs include portraits of club kids, squatters, skaters, queer youth and punks... > Photography by Pavement Studios - FILM - CHRISTINA RICCI Tom LeGoff photographed Christina Ricci when she showed up with Brendan Sexton during a Pavement Magazine publicity shoot for the film Hurricane. These haunting images capture Christina several months before she filmed The Ice Storm... > Photographs of Christina Ricci HARMONY KORINE "I just want people to know that things need to change. We can make films differently. I am a commercial film maker. I am a patriot. I hide in trees. All right. All right." > The Art of Harmony Korine BRENDAN SEXTON III Actor Brendan Sexton has appeared at the Sundance Film Festival each of the last four years with film credits including Welcome to the Dollhouse, Hurricane, Spark and Desert Blue. More recently, Brendan has starred in the John Waters film Pecker and the art house release Boys Don't Cry. > Portraits of Brendan Sexton MARIE BAIE DES ANGES Vahina Giocante was 13 years old when she was spotted on the beach in Marseilles and director Manuel Pradal chose her from the 7000 girls who auditioned for the part of Marie in the independent film Marie Baie Des Anges... > Vahina Giocante - ART - KELLI BICKMAN Kelli Bickman's work catches the eye with a rare blend of intrigue and charm. She manages to combine found objects - a critter's skull, an insect wing, a guilt angel pin - with a sure sense of composition to build unorthodox icons of the imagination... > Photographs & Assemblages by Kelli Bickman - POPULAR CULTURE - TEEN HERMITS Thousands of teens and young adults in America have sealed themselves off from the outside world, locking themselves in their bedroom. Acute Social Withdrawal is one of the most perplexing mysteries in child psychology today. > Teen Hermits - MUSIC - BATTERY ACID Emmett Tatter, lead singer of Battery Acid, whispers (almost growls) into the microphone. Zach, his twin brother, stands next to him leaning apathetically against an amplifier, playing bass -- very cool, no emotion -- juxtaposed to Emmett's increasing intensity. > Battery Acid GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR "The world we live in is lost, violent, and obscene; that the relations we have with each other and ourselves are mostly alienated... together we need to begin figuring out how to fix ourselves, our communities, our world..." > Godspeed You Black Emperor ANI DIFRANCO "We all need to see ourselves affirmed somewhere in our culture, those of us who aren't on the television or in the history books... I'm interested in subcorporate music that comes from a totally opposite impetus than commercial music." > Ani DiFranco - WORDS - VICTIMS "Alot of readers are going to feel that people like me have no business writing novels. I have no reaction to that, either way. My message to the reader: take it or leave it." > Travis Jeppesen's Victims BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL "The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. Anywhere. It is for you, freaks my loves, I am writing and it is about you." Sarah Schulman discusses Kathy Acker... > Kathy Acker ODE TO MS. SANDY BEACHES "Oh Sandy, you are like no other woman in the world." Photographer Michael McKee explores his unbridled beach fetish in the lust-filled pages of a romance novel on the shore of Santa Monica. >Ode to Ms. Sandy Beaches AMSTERDAMNED "Once you've seen the sights, marveled at the canals and the quaint architecture, and smoked as much dope as you possibly can, there's not much left to do." Travis Jeppesen on the city of gray skies and dead flies > Amsterdamned