Girls Like Us issue 7
How far does your lesbigay folk memory stretch back?
Direct out of Amsterdam since 2005, the founding editors of Girls Like Us have created a wonderful contemporary--er--rag that doesn't assume the existence of a single and complete lesbian community, but unites women who love women through distinct and sophisticated design and editorially impartial content.
Beneath the Roses
Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses reveals his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs which blur the line between cinema and photography.
His new pictures take place, often at dusk, in unnamed American towns, streets, and homes which show subjects caught in transition and laced with ambiguity.
My Penguin
We're not quite sure how Penguin arrived at this genius marketing ploy, but we can speculate that it was one of the following incidents:
1) The copyright on stock images of neo-classical and renaissance paintings expired.
2) The marketing honchos at Penguin were so obsessed with their Adicolor sneakers that this was the next logical step.
New York Noise
1978 New York was a very different place. Junkies, trannies, punk bands... junkie tranny punk bands.
New York Noise showcases the whole flea-ridden scene in photographer Paula Court's crisp, cool black and white. Beyond the obvious underground luminaries (Haring, Basquiat, Cindy Sherman), there's stacks of snaps of cult faves (Suicide, Jim Jarmusch, Ann Magnuson, ESG) and a plethora of lovable old weirdos to investigate (Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks??)
From painters to break dancers to filmmakers to poets, these photos traverse as many genres as the artists themselves.
Common City Birds – the Jacky Winter Field Guide 2007
Birdwatching is an uncommon pastime amongst the young. But, nevertheless, it is a pastime with countless rewards. Sit long enough by a fencepost, for example, and you may happen upon a Jacky Winter, notable for its solitary lifestyle and cry of "Peter Peter Peter!" If time permits, you might follow this bright Australian ‘robin' to his saucer-like nest atop a forked tree branch, where his offspring - a talented roll call of local illustrators - humbly await your attention.
The Lifted Brow issue 002
It has been said, and perhaps rightly so, that there's not much to do in Brisbane of an evening. Sometimes there's not much to do of a morning either, or even of a late afternoon. This is why we should look twice at the creative output of young Brisbanians for, like so many Huckleberry Finns, they rely on their plucky imaginations in the daily quest for amusement.
THE THING Quarterly
A hundred and twenty bucks doesn't get you much these days in the way of human companionship. Sure, you could wrangle together some stranger for a buck fifty or so, but everyone knows the top shelf stuff starts at four figures, minimum.
It wasn't always this way. Remember love letters? Real ones? Coming home to find an envelope with your name written on it.
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