Stroll in the Sun
Photography/Creative Direction: Mona Cordes ( Instagram ) Styling: Alejandra Perez ( Instagram ) Collaboration With: Marcella Dvsi ( Instagram ) MUA: Alexia Caranto ( Instagram ) Models: Alessia ( Instagram ) & Halina ( Instagram ) Halina’s outfits: Red sleeveless jacket: RE:SO, Jumper: Topshop, Trousers: Topshop, Shoes: Doc Martens Top: Motel Rocks, Dress: Urban...
In the Mood for Melancholy
Photographer: Doris Fatur ( Instagram ) MUA: Petra Sever ( Instagram ) Model: Laura Bracun of Talia Models
AZUL
Photographer: Jayme Javier ( Instagram ) Model: Kate Sheepwash ( Instagram ) MUA: Erin Kinney ( Instagram ) Azul y brilliante era el cielo y su mirada When nature calls and the need to explore takes over. Jayme Javier captured the ice cold scenery of Alberta’s Crowsnest area while contrasting the deep and calming blue hues...
Mixtape Monday: Nervous Agitations
Gift Shop – Inhaler Joan of Arc – This Must Be the Placenta Astreal. – Colossal Searmanas – Undo Visiting Diplomats – Let Go The Mad Doctors – Dead Beach Big Bliss – Ponzi Dead High Wire – The Defectors
Sweeter Than A Lie
Photographer: Victoria Gerasimova ( Instagram ) Model: Masha Dobro ( Instagram ) Makeup Artist: Katya Rada ( Instagram ) Stylist: Anastasia Skutar ( Instagram ) Clothes: Showroom & Friends ( Instagram ) Location: Bedford Studio ( Instagram )
Red Curls
Photographer: Alina Autumn ( Instagram ) Model: Galina ( Instagram ) Makeup Assistant and Hair: Tanya Starceva ( Instagram ) Stylist: Olesya Orlova ( Instagram ) We were inspired by a combination of modern and vintage. I think viewers will see in these images something of their own. Someone will feel the spirit of...
SXSW Film Review: The Strange Ones
A thought provoking piece of cinema by co-directors Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff, The Strange Ones sheds a veil over matters of truth and trauma, presenting a subjective reality that keeps you guessing throughout the film’s 80 minute run. Initiated as a short and years later coming together as a full length feature, we...
Poetry by PJ Carmichael
Poems by PJ Carmichael ( Instagram ) PJ Carmichael is a poet, writer, artist, adventurer, and spiritualist from Wakefield, Massachusetts. His work focuses on his interaction with and the contrast between the natural world and the urban environment. He currently runs Mass Love Distro, a multimedia production and distribution endeavor. Sick She mumbles loudly...
SXSW Film Review: Hounds of Love
Ben Young’s Hounds of Love renders as an emotionally staggering directorial debut, illustrating the vicious and cyclical nature of relationship abuse between both lovers and serial killers. Based loosely on true events, the film takes place in December, 1987 in the suburbs of Perth, Australia. Cruising down neighborhood streets, serial killers John (Stephen Curry)...
The Reputations: Begging For More
The Reputations: Begging For More By Jay Armstrong With the psych ship sinking, as the old dogs of sleeze and sweat continue fading off into the sunset, while most nights get spent with our eyes rolling at yet another band to show up sadly trying to align themselves with the 90’s soulless resurgence of disaffected...
Mixtape Monday: SW33T TR34TZ by Cat Tassini
Kelis – Cobbler Mariah Carey – Honey Theophilus London – Wine and Chocolates Lana Del Ray – Diet Mountain Dew Echo & the Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar The Cars – Candy-O Blur – Ice Cream Man Chromatics – Cherry Asobi Seksu – Strawberries Battles – Ice Cream Dead Leaf Echo – Strawberry Skin...
SXSW Film Review: Us and Them
A timely film in our current political wake, Us and Them serves as a cathartic viewing between the marginalized working class and the wealthy elite. With the use of flashbacks and screen title cards, Us and Them plays out in a stream-of-consciousness storyline with Danny (Jack Roth) playing leader alongside his blue-collared friends Tommy...
SXSW Film Review: Game of Death
Vacationing for a weekend getaway, seven teenagers settle at a summer home to partake in drunken shenanigans. Stumbling onto a mysterious board game, the friends read out the rules and we realize something is astray as soon as the game decides to take a pinch of their blood. “24” appears on the board’s counter...
SXSW Film Review: Inheritance
A intricately weaved collaboration between writer and director Laura E. Davis and Jessica Kaye, Inheritance is an introspective look into the underlying traumas embedded within families and the difficulty that remains in attempting to escape them. In anticipation of Mara (Jessica Kaye)’s father’s 70th birthday, she brings her recent boyfriend Aaron (Daniel Ahearn) to...
Dead Meadow Takeover!
Website || Facebook || Instagram Initially forming nearly two decades ago by guitarist and vocalist Jason Simon, Dead Meadow fuses psychedelic soundscapes with fuzzy rock and drone meditations to make for a transcendent aural experience. Drawing influences from classic acts like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, the three piece take things a step further...
SXSW Film Review: The Light of the Moon
All too often films involving sexual assault/rape scenes seem like a convenient plot point to make a female character complex without ever actually exploring its complexities. Jessica M. Thompson’s film, The Light of the Moon, carefully considers the nuances of one individual’s experience without ever asserting that there is one authentic or correct way...
SXSW Film Review: Flesh and Blood
Mark Webber’s Flesh and Blood interweaves both fictional and documentary-style elements throughout the course of his film, succeeding in both an incredibly personal and incredibly political story. Casting his own mother, Cheri Honkala, and his younger step-brother, Guillero Santos, Mark returns home to his family from years in prison only to find Pittsburgh has...
SXSW Film Review: Infinity Baby
Set in the not so distant future comes Infinity Baby, a company initiated by Neo (Nick Offerman) where infants perpetually stay infants due to a genetic modification in their DNA. Less a question of how these babies came to be and the scientific explanation behind them, infinity babies are presented similar to the latest...
SXSW Film Review: Signature Move
Jennifer Reeder’s Signature Move is a refreshing and eye-opening romantic comedy on the interpersonal relationships between women, family, and diverse cultural backgrounds. Inspired by actual events, the story revolves around Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza), a Pakistani lawyer in her 30’s, acting as caretaker to her recently widowed mother Parveen (Shabana Azmi) by day and trains...
CLEAR
Photographer: Aleksandar Gligoric ( Instagram ) Stylist: Srdjan Sveljo ( Instagram ) Makeup: Vesna Gligoric ( Instagram ) Model: Ana Vuksan (GREAT Models Management / Instagram ) shoes MOSCHINO, pants CALLIOPE, bag IKEA, shorts MILICA VUKADINOVIC, skirt CALLIOPE, necklace MIRA POTPARA, blazer CALLIOPE, fur CHEAP & CHIC, jacket CALLIOPE, hat VINTAGE, sunglasses LOUIS VUITTON skirt...
Mixtape Monday: A Dedication
Home – Intro Sea Oleena – Untitled Julian Klincewicz – La Dolce Vita Washed Out – Phone Call Holy Wave – Sueñ os Gold Panda – You SALES – Mondays Deep Cuts – Take Me Back COOltube – Be My Girl (Come With Me) TEEKS – Dead on T.V. Archy Marshall – Bleak Blake...
Standing in the Gap: The Disquiet Vol. 1 Compilation
“In violent times, you shouldn’t have to sell your soul” ~ Tears for Fears (Ian Stanley/Ronald Orzabal) “ Shout”, Songs from the Big Chair 1985 This quote from 1985 is rather poignant in today’s political climate. As the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, scholars, the dispossessed, and those who resist...
Defying Boundaries: Exclusive Track and Show Premiere for Ancient River
Encapsulating sonic soundscapes ranging from My Bloody Valentine’s reverb-soaked shoegaze, Dead Meadow’s psychedelic haze and Temples’ contemporary fuzz, Ancient River breaks from the constraints of musical genres to create an aurally expansive world. Originating in 2000, guitarist and singer/songwriter James Barreto staked a name for himself in Gainesville, Florida, playing with his then...
