Teenage train wreck are the words that can be found on his about me section. In the 20 years young but crazy life of Kris Kidd it´s mostly all about writing as it´s something that requires his whole self. His life, parties, drugs, family – the Y generation. His book ”I Can’t Feel My Face” – which is presented by The Altar Collective and available at createspace - is a small collection of essays and personal narratives written by himself autobiographical, reads as a satire on Los Angeles and its relationship with pop culture. The book was also picked up by Marc Jacobs’ Bookmarc at the end of January and is currently being sold in both Bookmarc New York and Bookmarc Los Angeles. Having a few film projects lined up with Dazed Digital the young model, photographer and writer brings some light into the darkness of a 20 years social kid mind but also raises a number of questions. We wanted to know what was the main reason he was writing ”I Can’t Feel My Face”:
“You know, my generation has been a topic of discussion for a long time. We’re the millenials, we’re generation Y, we’re generation WHY ME? We’re lazy, we’re entitled, and we’re self-obsessed. The discussion about my generation and all of our negative attributes has never upset me nearly as much as the people who are discussing it has. I feel like it’s always someone too old— someone too incredibly detached— to paint the picture clearly. When I was approached to do “I Can’t Feel My Face,” I thought it was a great opportunity to go through my older essays and use them to discuss the idea of the millenial-gone-wrong in the first person. I am, and always have been, a parent’s worst nightmare. These essays gave me the ability to counter all of the “millennial pieces” written by out-of-touch shrinks and assorted senior-citizens over the past decade, not by disagreeing with them, but by giving a backstory to the hollow image they’ve been portraying for years.”
Photography by Ari Abramczyk
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