Fred Muram
Townsend Smells Like Teen Spirit | 2008 | 5:01mins | DV | USA
Fred Muram was born in Ottawa, ON and grew up in a variety of locales in the United States and Canada. His work engages Polaroid and digital photography, animation, film, and new media. He has a BFA in photography from Indiana University and an MFA in photography from the University of Washington.
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Footage from a Pete Townsend and The Who concert in England in 1977 has been masterfully mashed up with audio from Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit. Muram’s concept was inspired by an excerpt from Kurt Cobain’s journals in a passage on how he would rather be dead than end up “old and boring like Pete Townsend.”
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