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advice to all boys

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Julian Schratter

SV: You walked for Roberto Cavalli this week in Milan, which other shows did you book? Jules: Etro, Vivienne Westwood and Ermanno Scervino. SV: Will you be in New York for castings and shows this coming season? Jules: Nope NY is home so I am busy on the photo hustle… SV: You tweeted “curbed the herb….watchout world” I’ve often wondered how you’re always able to smoke weed and still be proactive enough to get **** done, they seem to cancel each other out, no? Jules: Not for me! I was always very productive but curbing the herb feels great! SV: If we were to sit down and share a joint in the hotel, what would the playlist be called? Jules: I have a hard time sharing Joints SV: You love your hip-hop, what’s good? Jules: hmmm Danny Brown, OF, Casey Veggies…hip hop is making a HUGE comeback. SV: Have you always been confident with your body? Jules: No. SV: When I googled you, the term “model turned photographer” kept coming up they aren’t mutually exclusive are they? Jules: Nope people will do their best to keep you in a box! SV: Has there been a defining moment when you realized “I’m a professional photographer now”? Jules: Nope not yet! SV: If photography was a gateway drug, what would it lead to? Jules: Directing. SV: Do you ever just pull out your phone camera or do you always reach straight for the dslr? Jules: Love my iPhone shots! SV: If the doctor told you you were going to be permanently blind tomorrow and for the rest of your life, what would you point your lens at today? Jules: I suppose it wouldn’t matter because I would never see the photos…But I would go for my nieces and nephew. SV: Do you photoshop your photos after they’ve been taken? Jules: Depends on the photo but yes I think that the editing is all a part of the process. SV: How often do you get someone refusing to be photographed, and do they usually say why? Jules: Sometimes Old Folks don’t like me taking their picture but generally people enjoy being photographed. SV: Everyone has a camera on them now, be it a phone camera, compact digital or a serious rig, when does a ‘happy-snap’ become print worthy? Jules: When you decide you want it on your wall every day…Should see my house! SV: I know some photographers who are generally of a darker disposition and that comes across in their work, you seem to be on the other side of that spectrum, preferring to being bright and cheery. Jules: Yeah I would like to think i capture the positive in people. SV: Any desire to get into the studio and start orchestrating your own editorials? Jules: Just wait and see! SV: What do you hope to get out of the throughwhoselens “collective”? Jules: I would love to have a pool of fellow creatives to work with. SV: Who would contribute to throughwhose? Jules: Anyone and everyone…Providing its good stuff! SV: What with the disposable cameras you have circulating around? Jules: This was a Milan Project I did because over the past few seasons more and more boys have been lugging around Dslrs. I suppose by being the guy to give everyone a camera it cements me as the O.G camera man, but specifically the disposable camera project is for Models.com. SV: In two years, what do you hope your throughwhose will look and feel like? Jules: No expectations just want to let it grow and I think it will. All i am doing is planting the seed. SV: Finish this sentance, Julian Schratter is: Jules: working on it! Word association: SV: -Michael Jordan Jules: 23 SV: -Sid Ellisdon Jules: SOLID DUDE SV: -Travis Davenport Jules: Best Friend SV- Backstage Jules: Photos SV: -Vivienne Westwood Jules: Show SV: -Weed Jules: Herb SV: -Fashion Jules: isto SV-Castings Jules: damnnnnnn

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Peter De Potter - Vape Shop Olympia

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Peter De Potter, 2019, from the series ‘First Rays, 1921′

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Kingsley Ifill

'The biggest piece of sheet I ever slept in' 2014

Acrylic on prison bedsheet

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'consciousness as an existence'

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Micah Lidberg Interview

American-based artist Micah Lidberg creates complex illustrations laced with movement, humour and fanciful characters. 

With a love for nature, colour and the absurd, Micah illustrates hyper-detailed intersections of the world around us, coloured with his unique and often twisted imagination. 

His work garnered the attention of Lacoste, which led to his collaboration on their 2012 summer line, consisting of polo shirts and sneakers. 

His illustrations and commercial works have been featured on everything from the pages of the New York Times and Nylon Magazine to album artwork, posters, book covers and typography. 

Micah’s frenzied, wild characters form twisted tableaus with hidden narratives as they play within the surreal world which the artist has created, coming to life as you dive into his land of complex psychedelia, colour and fun.

Brent Randall: The amount of detail in your work is infinite, every time I see a piece of yours, it’s almost like a Where’s Waldo or Animalia search for hidden gems. Is your process organic in its development or do you set out and plan those hidden, humorous elements early on?

Micah: Well, it’s a little bit of both. Before I set out to start working on a piece, I imagine what the general layout is going to be. In that way, I do plan an environment for hidden gems to live in. However, all the little moments and stories don’t become a reality until I get down to the actual, final drawing. They take form when I begin to address each little square inch of the piece.

Brent Randall: What are some of the challenges you face when working on collaborative projects?

Micah: When two unique parties come together, it can be hard to align their separate visions into a cohesive idea. Communication, both in style and frequency, can either help or hinder the project’s progress. The major challenge is usually time. Everyone involved has competing schedules and I considered it a small miracle when anything is completed.

Brent Randall: Tell me about your process. Do you start with physical pencil sketches or is all of your work digital from the very start?

Micah: My work has two phases, a physical phase and a digital phase. Almost everything I make is completely drawn by hand on paper. All the originals drawings are produced in black and white and then get scanned so they can be arranged, cleaned up, and coloured.

Brent Randall: Do you have any particular typography dislikes or quirks.

Micah: I have a funny and special place in my heart for monospaced fonts. I really like boring, logical, rational systems. If it’s not that, I really enjoy their counter part, like big emotional and illustrative typefaces. Everything in between those two categories often loses my interest, unless the balance is perfectly mixed.

Brent Randall: If you could have one of your pieces printed or displayed on any medium, of your choice, no matter how big or small—What and where would it be?

Micah: It might be rear-projected on to a giant piece of glass. I’m not sure. I see most of my pieces through my imagination. The closest simulation of that would be through the projection of pure light. I would say a hologram as well, however, my work lives in a strange world between 2D space and some implied 3D space. I don’t know if it’d look quite right if it were translated into a literal 3D world.

Brent Randall: Your works are loaded with colour, movement and humour, often set in an acidic kind of wilderness. 

So, Micah...did you take heaps of LSD in the woods when you were younger?

Micah: [Laughs] I’ve been asked many times if I do drugs. And it’s usually by people who’ve had experience with hallucinogens. The boring but honest answer is no. It might be a bad idea for me...

All of my work comes from my sober imagination. I’m not sure what an influenced imagination would be like for me. It might be a little too much.

I think my interest in the kind of work I do comes mostly from my childhood, or at least; the spirit of my childhood. 

I loved going out and playing in the woods and being mesmerised by all the things going on around me. Have you ever turned over a log in the the woods, Brent?

Brent Randall: Yeah of course. I was born and raised in Australia, half of my childhood was spent either running through the bush looking for snakes, catching frogs and poking bugs...Or being bitten, stung or chased by the creatures that I shouldn't have poked, caught or looked at.

Micah: The moment we do, an entire micro-universe of bugs, creatures and life goes scattering everywhere. It’s kind of like biological fireworks. That’s the feeling I’m after in my work.

Interview by Brent Randall | Sketches by Micah Lidberg Micah Lidberg Website

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Peter De Potter

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Im Brent. 

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Column by Chris Nosenzo in Issue #055

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The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Donald Miller (via feellng)

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What are you even like?

wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackhat

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