NEW YORK - LOOK WHO STOPPED BY

Visiting NYC sometimes seems like more fun than living here. Like when photographer Jaimie Warren and designer Ari Fish and rapper Casey Guest just drop by the office with tales of how they met up recently in Berlin with their housemate Peggy Noland (all four of these girls live together—what a fucking insane dollhouse that must be) and they broke into spy stations and dilapidated geodesic domes. And how tonight Ari has to go to some Marie Claire red carpet event and watch that Project Runway thing she was immediately kicked off of (more on that coming soon) with that crazy hag Nina Garcia and a bunch of people would be watching her watch. Meanwhile, Jaimie will be at the New Museum for that party celebrating the release of Shoot we already told you about, to which she’s contributed. We asked Jaimie more about what she’s been up to.

Vice: Hi, welcome to New York! You were just in Sweden, right?
Jaimie Warren: We did four shows in Malmo…. Loyal gallery brought us over to do four Whoop Dee Doo shows. They were in Stockholm for several years and then moved to Malmo, where we were their introductory project. It was part of a huge music festival that takes over the whole city where like a million and a half people come through.

Holy smokes.
It was kinda crazy because there was a severe language barrier, especially with kids. Most kids don’t know English, and we’re doing a kids’ show. There were tons of kids, if we were able to get them onstage, then we’d have these contests and they’d have no idea what to do. We had the Janet Jackson Nasty Boys Dirty Sock Contest.

Oh yeah, kids love that contest.
[Our friend] was dressed like a really sexy Janet Jackson from the “Nasty Boys” video and there was a guy Chris dressed like a monster with like a million filthy socks all over him and we stained them all with coffee and mud and they were all wet and they stunk! The kids had to, like as fast as they could, put two socks on their hands and then try to get as many socks on their bodies somehow as fast as possible while Janet Jackson was sexy dancing.

Very appropriate for children.
We had another one that was called the Sundae Face-off, where people had to come onstage and we had ice cream sundae ingredients out, like sprinkles and whipped cream and smushed Oreos and stuff, and they had to make the best sundae on their face.

Who ate it off?
Well, part two was they had to scrape it off into a bowl of ice cream and eat it as fast as they could.

Gross. What was the prize?
The winner had to wear a wedding dress. Matt, the cohost, he looks like a werewolf. All of a sudden this white grand piano made out of cardboard with a candelabra on top comes out and the winner had to wear the wedding dress and stare into Matt’s eyes while they re-enacted a scene from Full House where Uncle Jesse marries Rebecca.

A kid won this?
No, a teenager.

Still, probably no familiarity with the scene.
No, none at all. But she did it so well it was almost creepy. The challenge was to stare at him directly for a whole three minutes while “Forever” by the Beach Boys played. And she had sundae shit all over her face too.

Hard to top that. 

Lady Sovereign was playing at the festival so we told everyone that Lady Sovereign was going to be on Whoop De Doo dressed like a giant booger. It was just our friend shaking an eight-foot booger while we blasted Lady Sovereign and kids were dancing.

Kids do love boogers.
Another skit was we had a screaming contest. I have a really, really, really loud scream. The joke of it was that I was going to be the winner, even though I was hosting it. But we only got one kid up there. He seemed totally into it. I handed him the mike to do it and I thought he was all about it but he didn’t do anything. I was like, “Is that the best you got?” and he was just staring at me. So I was like, “OK! My turn now!” I screamed so loud I freaked the whole audience out.

Well screaming is not language-specific, so I think it’s that kid’s fault.

Here's one of Jaimie's photos that's in Shoot. The rest of them are from Whoop Dee Doo.   

 

LIZ ARMSTRONG

Comments

[The Host]

I love how the wolfman's hair is spilling out of his chest pockets.

[Purple Peeter]

So boring.

[Wascam]

Looks like Jamie is trying to scare the living shit out off those kids...

[Sass Mouth]

"all four of these girls live together"

If someone were to blow up their house it would totally be a case of "nothing of value was lost..."