Flipside Fanzine and Other Media
X-8 co-founded Flipside, a magazine that covered the burgeoning punk rock scene in Los Angeles in 1977. It was with Flipside he derived his pen name, based on his favorite letter and number.
He designed the logo, created early covers and participated in the various interviews and reviews.
Early Flipside covers were displayed in the Track 16 Gallery exhibit Forming, The Early Days Of LA Punk in Santa Monica. Flipside was also featured in the New Day Rising punk exhibition at the Experience Music Project museum in Seattle.
X-8 was interviewed regarding the early LA punk scene in the book We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk by Spin magazine writer Marc Spitz and Masque owner Brendan Mullen.
His comments regarding Flipside and the Germs appeared in the book Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, published by Feral House.
He currently publishes GODPHOTO, which presents selected images and photos compiled from the World Wide Web and creates photo essays focusing on detachment and escapism.
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