Love Begins With Self-Love (10 Steps Toward Positive Change)
Love yourself, you are worth it! Love yourself for who you are. Love yourself for what you have been through. Love yourself for who you will become....Love is a language. How long and how much effort would it take you to learn Dutch? Nothing in life is easy. If going to the grocery store and...
Visceral Revelations: An Interview With Dave Depper
Website || Instagram || Facebook || Twitter A driving force within a unit, Dave Depper is no stranger to casting his talents for a host of Northwestern bands. From Fruit Bats, Ray LaMontagne, Robyn Hitchcock and currently Death Cab for Cutie, his multifaceted music career has landed him both in recording studios and being...
Castles in the Sky
Photographer: Griselda Duch ( Instagram ) “Is there a way to describe the aching love we hold for things that cannot reciprocate? The expression to build “Castles in the Sky” means to dream big. To create dreams, hopes and plans that are almost impossible and unrealistic. To aim higher. The series represents a personal...
Valentine’s Day the Alternative Way
When someone mentions Valentine’s Day, you probably find yourself lost in a daze of cheesy heart-shaped boxes full of toothache-inducing chocolates and The Shining-esque maze of overpriced red roses everyone seems to poop their pants over. Or you’re thinking of how you’re going to out-do last year’s $200 dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s place (and how the fuck...
Mixtape Monday: The Valentine’s Edition
I Melt With You – Modern English Punk Rock Girl – The Dead Milkmen Lips Like Sugar – Echo and the Bunnymen There She Goes – The La’s Now or Never – Billie Holiday Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand) – The Shangri...
Intimacy and Distance: Photography by Ophelie Rondeau
Ophelie Rondeau is a French self-taught film photographer from Paris, currently living and working in London. Six months ago she started shooting girls on film as a way to capture her perception of friendship, love, and natural beauty in girls she meets, based on the concept of repetition. She finds beauty in every individual and...
Valentine’s Day Anonymous Q+A
A: What’s your favorite thing about me? T: I can’t name just one! I love how dedicated and committed you are, your sense of humor and the funny voices you make, how you’re always open to trying new things, as well as how caring and affectionate you are. You also rank up there...
Mixtape Monday: A Very Lovely Valentine’s Mix
Mixtape Monday: A Very Lovely Valentine's Mix from anonmagazine on 8tracks Radio. Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley Lovesong – The Cure There Is a Light that Never Goes Out – The Smiths Heartbeats – José González This Magic Moment – Lou Reed Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel) – Billy Joel There She Goes –...
Dating Sucks Ass
We’re not gonna lie. The email attached to this glorious piece read a little something like this, “So I posted this on FB a while ago claiming I read it, but in reality I wrote it about a girl and was just too much of a puss to claim it as mine. But today is...
Happy Birthday, Vivienne Westwood!
Happy Birthday to the one and only queen of punk, Dame Vivienne Westwood! You know how to drape a dress, that’s for damn sure, but you also inspire us to stack our plaid, rip every t-shirt we’ve ever owned, and never underestimate the power of a solid mohawk. This punk goddess has ripped through the...
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
For some of you, sex may be a new thing you’re trying out lately, and that’s cool. But for those of you who have been at it for awhile, you probably know that sometimes it can get dull. So, in order to keep your sex spicy like your personality (yeah? yeah.), here’s some of my...
Order Your Edition of ANON Magazine!
The first time you do anything is always special – if not for the experience itself, than from the knowledge you gain from doing it. Thankfully, this was a bit of both for us at ANON. As we continue to grow and improve, we may look back one day and laugh at where we are...
What We’re Loving: Clashist
The first collage I ever made was for the 100th day of third grade. I (aka my mom) cut out 100 pictures of Elmo and pasted them on to a poster. The second collage I ever made was a deranged combination of Vogue and Tiger Beat cut-outs and Lisa Frank stickers, but mostly just pictures...
Valentine’s Gifts for US.
Typically, in the U.S. we see Valentine’s as yet another holiday to buy your significant other a gift (as if birthdays, Christmas, and anniversaries weren’t enough). Most people even see it as a day where just girls expect gifts and romance and all that garb. It’s a holiday for your girlfriend, right? To celebrate how...
Down the Rabbit Hole: Alex and Wonderland
If Alex is Alice, then that must make R’Bonney Nola the Mad Hatter, Be Radiant Artistry the Queen of Hearts, and Katie Drackert the Cheshire Cat… Either way, we’re dying to fall down this rabbit hole. Won’t you join us? Photographer: Katie Drackert Designer: R’Bonney Nola Model: Alex Zody MUA: Be Radiant Artistry
What Is Love? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)
Love, otherwise known as the infamous “L-Word” has been a mystery to me all of my life. Of course, I knew what it meant when I said I loved my parents or my friends…but what does it mean to love somebody? Somebody else. For me, it meant to love a guy. A guy I’m...
Mixtape Monday: You Have To Set Yourself On Fire
Mixtape Monday: You Have To Set Yourself On Fire from anonmagazine on 8tracks Radio. X – Xray Eyeballs Fuck Her Tears – Times New Viking Sacrilege – Yeah Yeah Yeahs Don’t Give Up – Washed Out A Walk – Tycho Baby I’m Bored – Tijuana Panthers You’re Nothing – Iceage Your Ex-Lover Is Dead – Stars Villains Of The Moon – Cold...
MYTHBUSTERS: Dating a European Man
We’ve all dreamt about it: getting whisked away by a dreamy, well-dressed, heavy-accented European man and touring the continent together. Let’s face it, you’re reading this article right now because you have dreamt this fantasy at least once in your life. For many of us, Europe has been the dream getaway, filed away with exotic...
How To Rebound The RIGHT Way
So, you and your “boo thang” just broke up, and now you are devastated. All you want is to feel loved, and if your ex can’t give that to you, then you will just find someone to take his spot right? WRONG. At least not right away. After much heartbreak, I have come to the...
The “B” Word
Boyfriend. It’s the name of a painfully awful Justin Bieber song, a style of jeans that I like to wear on the weekends, and, in my opinion, one of the most sickening, cringe-worthy words in the English language. Boyfriend. Ugh. Photo Source I can’t put my finger on why exactly I hate this word so...
Diary Of A College Girl
Photo Source “I’m literally this close to going over there and telling them to SHUT THE HELL UP.” “Oh my gosh, quiet down, they’ll hear you!” Lisa was never one for my shameless acts of verbal aggression. “I don’t care! I’m trying to eat my Ihop in peace, and they are being ridiculously annoying.”...
Quote Of The Day
“I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic,...
Mothers of ANON
Today, we are celebrating the most important women on the planet – our mothers. These beautiful women have been here for us from our lowest points to our highest points. They have loved us all the same, no matter what. Although one day will never be enough time to say “thank you,” it is...
The Art Of Moving On
It’s Sunday afternoon, or morning for you, as you are just waking up after a long night of partying and drinking your heartbreak away. You drag yourself out of bed, drink about a gallon of water, and swallow some Tylenol to get rid of your killer headache. You check your phone, and embarrassingly read a total...
Mixtape Monday
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Love Me Tinder?
It has finally happened, and desperation has set in. If you haven’t heard about it, you most likely will, but what I’m speaking of is a new app for the iPhone called “Tinder.” In a nutshell, this app gives you the task of deciding whether prospective men or women in your area are, for lack...
Lessons Learned: A Little More Personal
If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my 19, going on 20, years of life on this beloved planet, it’s that there are some lessons that only your mistakes can teach you. Since I was young girl, I craved affection from the opposite sex. It might have been because of my daddy issues, or it...
A New Take On Valentine’s Gifts
So, it’s that time of year. The big V-Day. You want to get your significant other a gift to brag about that reflects your relationship in a positive manner; you don’t want to be that guy who forgot, or that girl who expected too much and only received a break-up. With this guide, you can expect to...
Tip: Desperate Is Not Cute
As we approach the holiday that is loved as much as it is hated, newsfeeds of social networking sites become more and more dense with lonely souls who only crave affection and love from another partner. When I log into Facebook I stumble upon a damsel in distress who swears that she will never find...
