“We Created Iconic Looks Out of Thin Air”: How The Doom Generation Changed Underground Style Forever

After the first day of shooting The Doom Generation, Gregg Araki’s acid satire of LA slacker youth, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley. Its reverberations reached as far away as Las Vegas, and while the 10 freeway collapsed in Culver City, the director hit the gas on his sex-and-murder road movie that would soon become the visual lingua franca for generations of alienated teens. Read more at i.D.