Holly Grigg-Spall
Patrick Hoelck
The Director’s Joyful Voyage into Sadness
Never Let Me Go, director Mark Romanek’s first feature since One Hour Photo, is not a film conducive to a thirty minute press interview tightly sandwiched between 10 others before a flight to the Toronto Film Festival. This is no light-hearted romcom allowing us to quickly whip up chatter about who pranked...
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1. Hand-crafted 18K yellow gold Micro Letters on a 16” cable chain by Marian Maurer from OK, Los Angeles.
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3. 10” tall angular iron wire frame letters from Urban...
Matthew Bedard
Patrick Hoelck
Iconic Director Returns to Form with a Gulag Story of Survival
celebrated film director peter weir may have arrived to this interview via taxi (he’ll share on that shortly), but the journey he’s been on in pursuit of his latest epic, The Way Back, has been anything but mindless stasis while the scenery drifts by. The film follows a handful of men who...
Long Nguyen
The Pioneer Collaborationist
Previous decades—the ‘60s through the ‘90s—fostered enduring style, but what new ideas have fashion designers developed in the past few years that promise to change the face of fashion? “Today, there is nothing equivalent to the hippies or punks who really stood for and against something,” Suzy Menkes,...
Maxwell Williams
A Five Minute Waltz Through the Snapshot Devotee’s Granular Beauty
the first photograph of something in nature using chemical process—considered by photohistorian Helmut Gernsheim to be the first photograph of something—was taken by Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor, in 1826. The image was a...
