During the ’80s and ’90s you really had to watch your back in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Alphabet City, the Bowery and LES were known more for their crack than hipster cafes and bars. But like the mucky swamp bottom that nourishes the lotus, the LES also became a haven for anarchists, punks and street artists. It’s still one of the best places to photograph street art. But now if you want to live there and spend $3,000 a month for a closet, probably the only way you could do that is by working for MTV. Lo and behold, MTV has now spawned a virtual LES that is probably the only way chaps such as myself could afford to hang out there. Why the site uses a rat for its logo is beyond me. Why not use a spent syringe instead?
The above intro video begs all sorts of questions of a philosophical sort, but I will close with just one: who programmed those avatar dance moves?
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