lab interview: taber maine

An interview with Taber Maine by High Con Lab Specialist Shan Driscoll with three previews from El Nudo se Deshace. Track: Drinkin on home “For those of us confident that the human condition is boundless, that it strives moves and grows only with the strivings, movements, and growth of those individuals that comprise its global [...]

Unknown Unfair Contest

Photos by Zoe Aparicio with anonymous meditations by a thoughtful  mobile informant I drove through the valley watching the sprayplanes and in awe of the rowcrops as far as the eye could see in the endless valley. Up over the grapevine with all the trucks. It’s an ugly god forsaken freeway, I stopped to pee [...]

Dist by the Hype, Man

An Interview with Das Racist by Austin Valley Hip hop conveys all sorts of life’s truths – truths that run the gamut from “More money, more problems,” to “Hey shorty, it’s your birthday,” to the general observation that one in three people are assholes. Das Racist, of Brooklyn, NY, champions as an absurdist hip hop [...]

Iron Wheel

Photo and text by A.Sønju It is a hard place. You live on the same land for generations and never really know it. It can turn against you. Everything is under the weather, the weather will always win; it is a Big Sky. You can live there all your life and hike over every inch [...]

Tribal Dreams

A High Con interview with Portland, OR artist Brittany Hanson, conducted by Sam Kulla Have you ever fallen asleep among wild animals, or awoken to find them around you? If not, where is the wildest place you have slept as peacefully as the girl in this picture sleeps on the pink bear? I haven’t fallen [...]

The Voice of Your Generation

by Tully Thibeau Being the voice of my generation would be pretty cool, I always thought, until last night, that is, as I watched some seemingly well-intentioned film documentary of the life and time of Mr. Jack Kerouac upon his production of the piece he entitled Big Sur. Jesus, man, for me it turned becoming [...]