Artist Spotlight: Ellen Rogers
London-based fine art/fashion photographer Ellen Rogers has managed to breathe new life into an industry dominated by digitally-enhanced image-making. Her dreamy, lo-fi photos reveal a world in which "temptresses seduce and lure [the viewer] into unknown, dark lands."
Rogers is a firm believer in the art and craft of analog photography; she does not utilize any digital equipment or…
Bite Beauty
Susanne Langmuir is making waves in the organic beauty industry with her new all-natural makeup brand Bite Beauty. Not only is Bite Beauty lip-specific, but all of its products are infused with the powerful antioxidant red-wine resveratrol. While the use of resveratrol in skincare and beauty products is nothing new, Bite Beauty marks the first time that resveratrol has been used in lip stains or…
Bryan Adams
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THE Bryan Adams, a photographer? Yes, the very same. If you, like me, are one of the people surprised to hear that the Canadian musician has a penchant for swapping the guitar for a camera now and again, it could be suggested that we have been living under a very large rock for the past ten years. Because, fact fans, Adams has been honing his skills for a…
ARiNN ALDO
FAULT: You describe you sound as / Acoustic / Hip Hop / R&B
How do you keep your sound so unique?
AA: I grew up with a mother who is was a performer and is a music teacher, so I think it's only natural that she would make a point to
ensure that I was well rounded, as far as my musical influences (plus I was a nerd who loved summer music camp). I find my music to often have a dramatic…
Sylencer
FAULT: You describe you sound as Metal / Rock / Thrash. How do you
keep your sound so unique?
To be honest, those three genres are essentially forced labels. Everyone demands an artist has to be unique, but in the next breath, everyone wants to put a label on the artist’s music. In the world of heavy metal today, fans and artists alike are very genre obsessed. To some people we’re a metal…
Artist Spotlight: Ian Francis
UK-born mixed media artist Ian Francis has officially made his stateside solo debut with the opening of Fireland on March 3, 2011 at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City. Utilizing a mixture of ink, oil paint, pen, charcoal, acrylic paint, and graphite, Francis' new body of work takes his usual blend of abstraction, alienation, and eroticism to a whole new level.
Francis graduated with…
Darshana Congreve
ENERGY GIRL
FAULT: You describe you sound as Folk Rock / Rock. How do you keep your
sound so unique? Like sex, I’m making instinctive music. I don’t have any ideas of what a musical style is. I think sounds are universes you can call “Classic” “Rock” or even “Folk” but all this is only the genius brother of noise. Music has success to transform noise into beauty and this is the only thing I…
Mary Quant