Tehching HsiehNanjhou, Pingtung County, Taiwan) was a noted New York City-based performance artist; he has been called a “master” by another performance artist, Marina Abramović. Tehching Hsieh dropped out from high school and started creating art in the form of paintings; he went on to creat

Conceptual, Improvised, In-your-face, Kinetic

Hal Hartley is an American film director, writer, and pioneer of the independent film movement, who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase. Though gently provocative and self-effacing, there had been evidence of a radicalized social engagement in Hartley’s earliest features

Funny, In-your-face, Political

Steven Seagal is a striking and somewhat boyishly handsome looking (often with ponytail) and usually impeccably dressed action star who burst onto the martial arts film scene in 1988 in the fast-paced Warner Bros. film Above the Law (1988). The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at

Implosive, In-your-face, Machinistic, Masculine, Pop, Rebel

Led by the vision of Russell Simmons, the founder of the modern day hip-hop movement, Phat Farm, a division of Phat Fashions, is symbol of men's contemporary American culture, mixing the urban aesthetics of the streets and the preppy culture of the Ivy League. Since its inception in 1992, Phat Fashio

In-your-face, Rough, Urban, Wise assy