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Highlights from the world’s first Juggalo art exhibition
12.08.2014
10:17 am
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British artist Lucy Owen put herself through a crash course on America’s most amusingly violent subculture, the magnet-bedazzled Juggalo “family” that regularly congregates around events run by Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, better known as Insane Clown Posse. The annual convention of the band’s facepainted fans has become a riotous annual tradition in the Midwest known as the Gathering of the Juggalos, complete with bands, standup comedy, Faygo, wrestling, helicopter rides, crystal meth, and, at a guess, third-degree burns? 

Owen became intrigued by an online forum encounter with a self-identified Juggalo who claimed to be ridiculed and mocked constantly—something I just did myself. Quoth Owen:

“The negative reaction from the other people on the forum was so intense, I was wondering if he’d just admitted to being a child molester or a mass murderer. ... So I started to research it. What I found was a subculture so profoundly bizarre—at times shocking, and other times plain funny—that I felt compelled to start exploring it through my work.”

Owen immersed herself in ICP’s music and headed for Detroit, the band’s home base, and not only attended the Gathering but also followed the band on tour for dates in the Midwest. The fruits of her research can be seen in the 27 paintings of Where the Juggalo Roam, a show that opened last Friday at Start Gallery in Detroit; it runs until December 20.

I have to say, these paintings are quite deftly turned out, a darn sight better than (no offense) whatever image the phrase “Juggalo paintings” was likely to call up.
 

Psychopathic (detail)
 

America’s Tortured Brow
 

Abomination
 

Fuck Gainsborough
 

Poster Boy
 

Paperman
 

Murder Is to Crow as Family Is to Juggalo
 

New Gotham
 
More Juggalo masterpieces after the jump…...

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Posted by Martin Schneider
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12.08.2014
10:17 am
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‘March of the Juggalos’ narrated by Morgan Freeman
07.28.2014
11:58 am
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Obviously this video was made from a mishmash of different footage and Juggalo documentaries like American Juggalo. It’s still very funny nonetheless with Morgan Freeman doing the voiceover (and no, Freeman didn’t do the voiceover for this, it’s from March of the Penguins, but it works.)

It seems appropriate to post this today as the annual Gathering of the Juggalos has taken over Thornville, Ohio. Those poor, poor souls who live there. You’re in my thoughts.

The video below is NSFW. You’ve been warned.

 
Bonus: Someone used a GoPro in the pit during Cannibal Corpse’s performance. I’m just tryin’ to give ya feel for the Faygo-chugging festivities. Don’t hate me.

 
via reddit

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.28.2014
11:58 am
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TwiztidAsh’s Intro to the Juggalo YouTube Channel
05.18.2010
03:07 am
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Another high water mark in the saga of Juggalokind. YouTube Juggalo TwiztidAsh tells you about, but does not demonstrate, his many talents. Riveting.

(Via EncyclopediaDramatica)

Posted by Jason Louv
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05.18.2010
03:07 am
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Switzerland’s Evil Clown Service
04.15.2010
01:33 am
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Calling all Juggalos:

A Swiss actor is carving out a new career as a sinister-looking clown—terrifying children’s birthday parties.  Dominic Deville had the brainwave after watching his favourite horror movies and set up his Evil Clown service in Lucerne.  And he says his unlikely new venture is going so well that he’s laughing all the way to the bank.

After he is hired to scare a birthday boy or girl, he first contacts his ‘victims’ to tell them they’re being watched.  Then he taunts them with texts, phone calls and booby-trapped letters warning them that at sometime in their party he’s going to smash a cake into their face.  “It’s all in fun and if at any point the kids get scared or their parents are concerned we stop right there,” he explained.  “But most kids absolutely love being scared senseless.”

Evil Clown is a Scary Success

 

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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04.15.2010
01:33 am
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Juggalo Baby Funeral
03.26.2010
07:41 pm
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Posted by Richard Metzger
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03.26.2010
07:41 pm
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Jugalette Throwdown
03.14.2010
11:03 pm
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03.14.2010
11:03 pm
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Female Juggalos in the moshpit
12.28.2009
07:25 pm
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The gals in the moshpit at the Gathering of the Juggalos, 2009. Oh my.

Via @ericwareheim on Twitter

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.28.2009
07:25 pm
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Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009
08.12.2009
11:12 am
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We’re big fans of artist Derek Erdman here at Dangerous Minds (his painting Fortunate Teens Party With Morrissey (1994) hangs in our office). Derek made a trip (dark pilgrimage?) to The Gathering of the Juggalos (i.e. fans of The Insane Clown Posse rock group) and he’s put up an appropriately insane photo gallery of what he found there. Here are some of our favorites.

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Charming, eh? Here’s a group shot of some Juggy buddies and a couple of Juggettes:

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Her sign reads: “$2 to see nice big ole titties” but offers a dollar discount if you happen to be a “down ass Ninja.” Another sign, on a food truck read “Show us your tits or dick for a free drink”!

 

 

And there is the video version. Reminds me a lot of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, obviously.

DARK CARNIVAL OF SOULS: The Juggalo Gathering 2009 by Derek Erdman

Thank you Chris Campion!

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.12.2009
11:12 am
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