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thoughts eileen ormsby eileen ormsby is a freelance writer and journalist who blogs about the weird, disturbing and downright bizarre corners of the internet at allthingsvice.com. you can usually find her hanging round in the murky bowels of the dark web. balazs pakozdi balazs pakozdi is a hungarian digital artist, designer and concept artist based in worcester, united kingdom. he studied graphic design and multimedia with an emphasis on drawing and painting. he is also a self taught illustrator who works in digital media. his aim is to create dynamic and visually attractive portraits that immediately draw the viewers’ attention visuals deb melbourne-born painter, deb, is one of australia’s leading contemporary artists. her instantly recognizable fine art and murals are splashed across the breadth of australia and beyond. deb works with many different materials, across a multitude of surfaces, from aerosols on the street and selected interiors, to acrylics, oils & gauche on wood or canvas, digital design, illustration and sculpture. her art is a mixture of fantasy and fiction; the fusion of reality and a fairytale world that exists in her mind amongst thoughts and emotions from present and past lives. deb is currently based in san francisco. the international reggae poster contest the international reggae poster contest seeks to build positive awareness for reggae music and celebrate the global achievements of reggae and its impact on the world. the founders of the contest are michael thompson, a jamaican living in the united states, and maria papaefstathiou from athens, greece. recovering the classics recovering the classics is a crowdsourced collection of original covers for fifty of the greatest books in the public domain. all books are available for sale as both digital and softcover editions to support the artists involved. recovering the classics is a project of the creative action network, a marketplace for connecting artists with the causes they care about, and dailylit, a platform for delivering great fiction in short installments. russell king russell king is a new york city raised and based artist. working in a range of mediums from stenciling, silk screening and oil painting to photography and computer prints his work is found mostly on the landscape of the street. over the years he has become most known for bringing a classic style to the urban-scape. style cinder and skylark michelle oberholzer is founder and editor of cinder and skylark; the site has been going since november, two thousand and nine. michelle is a creative, photographer and lover of music. dancing brings her great joy. she loves personal style and documents how people express themselves by how they put their daily outfits together. she delights in meeting new people and learning new things and loves exploring the deeper mysteries of life. lee nutter lee nutter is a fashion photographer based in sydney, australia. he enjoys telling short photographic stories that suggest a lot but explain very little. he is forever inspired by sydney's under-appreciated creative community. check him at leenutter.com and lee nutter tumblr lionat natalia petri, also known as lionat. this self-taught photographer, invites you to go into a world inspired by dreams. starring mostly women immersed in a timeless context. words vinny bambora vinny's been a very naughty boy for a long time. he can't help himself. breaking the rules, he thinks, is paramount to gaining enlightenment. so he spends all his time trying to strip away those boundaries... sometimes, when he's really out of it, he kids himself that he's already found nirvana. louise carter louise is a writer who once spent an entire year writing one poem per day – an experience which, while worthwhile, is not one she would recommend. at the moment she is working on her first verse novel, called warm in the belly of a monster. when she’s not writing, louise can be found baking cakes and talking to cats in the street. she lives in sydney. maru delgado multi-award winning writer, maru delgado has published in utero and el autoeclipse del espejo. she's translated the poetry of plath and vivien with maria miranda for the collection lady lazarus. she has taken part in various international magazines, directed two urban intervention projects and studied at the school of literature and linguistics at the universidad nacional de san agustin in arequipa. nimmy joshi nimmy is an architect and writer from bangalore. when she's not tapping on those keys or drawing up plans she likes to dabble in a bit of everything... especially travelling to far off places and trying exotic food. paulina noir paulina's mother used to read her de sade at bedtime. she fell in the street early on and her mind has been in the gutter ever since. she grew into one of the most stunning specimens and helps cuties with their relationship problems. donné restom having just returned to australia after three years of research in los angeles into how much soul one has to sever in order to become a pop star (the answer: too much), donné is now working on a fourth album while diving headlong into the novel that may or may not ever be finished. gina tron gina tron is a writing robot. she is the features editor for ladygun magazine and has contributed to such magazines as vice, bullet, and the daily beast. she is editor-in-chief for williamsburg fashion weekend magazine. gina doodles up quick drawings designed for entertainment on her tumblr and is working on finishing her first book. shots peter lee i've been a fan of cinema, especially movies that are dark and moody. that has a big influence on how i approach my photos. i really started getting into photography about four years ago. that was when i moved to guangzhou, china from los angeles, california. being in a completely foreign surrounding gave me the urge to wander, and wherever i went i carried a camera with me. one thing i find interesting about asia is that it's alive, even more so when night falls. with that thought my photos became more night oriented and i developed a way that i see colors and light. i like to think of pictures as a time machine, a way to capture and review the past and evoke emotions and feelings. shirren lim born in penang, malaysia, shirren lim, would find herself moving cities over the course of her life; and now finds herself based in jakarta, indonesia. shirren took up photography in two thousand and nine. what she thought would be an interesting habit, she later discovered was to become a passion. her main subjects are portraitures and now slowly landscapes. shirren’s work has appeared in several web and printed magazines. sagar shiriskar the first camera i ever picked up was my father’s old yashica which had been lying neglected in a cupboard in our house for years. the beauty of seeing the world through a viewfinder, even though the camera lacked a film roll, was an exciting experience through my childhood. since then it has evolved into a love of storytelling through photography. it is fascinating to note the interaction of a person with the space around him and the elements that make up this space. sometimes these come together to result in an image that is poetically beautiful. the camera is simply a tool that brings out that poetry. models naomi wilson naomi wilson is a sydney-based fashion model. interviewer maria papaefstathiou graphic designer, art director, blogger, photographer lover, art lover, etc... owner of graphicart news. co-founder of the international reggae poster contest. art director at stamoulis on cover design and coffee table books. curator and art-rep of freestylee (michael thomspson). i adore minimal design as much as vibrant and bold. the ultimate desire is to constantly inspire people and expand their work all over the world, part of our plan of catalystIdeas©. |