Writing and Visual Art
In the summer of 2005, Cooler released his first cookbook The Hungry Truth: Recipes from the Cooler (NFJMPress). The book quickly sold out in a few weeks and was critically acclaimed in such magazines as Arthur. The Hungry Truth... was an expanse on his high school zine, Day The, of which he has released six issues since its start in 1998. In Summer of 2006 the past two issues were put on display at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Concluding his twenty month world tour for the last Hawnay Troof album he self released The Dollar And Deed Photobook, which sold out online in one hour. The one sheet describes it as:
| “ | The Dollar And Deed Tour (2005-2006) dynamically captures Vice Cooler's (Hawnay Troof) turbulent 20 month world excursion; Taking him to perform in such unconventional and diverse places as Egypt and China to playing to a crowd of 550,000 proletarians at festivals across Europe. Armed with not much more than a camera and his backpack, he travelled solo across the planet successfully capturing the most fragile and awkward moments that come with being a modern touring artist.
Correspondingly the books themselves are just as intimately assembled, taking over 5 hours a piece to print, and then carefully bound afterwards by hand. Consorted with the book is a twenty minute disc of VC explaining each photo with compelling wit and a sometimes confusing banter. |
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He is also a contributing photographer and writer for such magazines as:
- i-D Magazine
- ANP Quarterly
- The Wire
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- The Kim Gordon Chronicles
- Punk Planet
- Maximum Rock N Roll
- The Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journals
- Rolling Stone
- Vice
- Venus.
A set of his photos and collages have been shown in galleries across the world, including at Austin's 2005's Rawk Show.
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“For your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist’s presence makes itself felt above that of the model.... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul’s style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.”
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“There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different face to each man who holds it in front of him. The same is true of a work of art. It has no proper existence as art until someone is reflected in it—and no two will ever be reflected in the same way. However much we all see in common in such a work, at the center we behold a fragment of our own soul, and the greater the art the greater the fragment.”
—Harold C. Goddard (1878–1950)