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thoughts arthur arbit arthur arbit was born in ukraine in rovno. he moved to midwood brooklyn in seventy nine. then did a bunch of odd jobs while studying drawing at the art students league for five years. arbit opened one of the first art galleries in greenpoint brooklyn called the state of art with adolph bastendorff. he then started the twisted ones with fitz. he know directs the the williamsburg fashion weekend site and runs chasing tailor. kill murray kill murray is the pseudonym of katie bryer meadows, a twenty-two year old girl from new zealand. she is way too sad for a regular person, which leads her to document nearly every thought in her brain and turn it into something creative. she sees the world in pixels. currently stoned and waiting to be abducted by aliens. mujeres creando mujeres creando is the anarcho-feminist collective from bolivia. the group carries out a range political actions and anti-poverty demonstrations, including graffiti, street theatre and direct actions. they were founded by maría galindo, mónica mendoza and julieta paredes in ninety two. their members include two of bolivia's only openly lesbian activists. visuals michael alan “i am michael alien, an alien who wants good and to exist with a twist of chaos and a big splash of toxic paint!” for michael alan, art is a combination of harmonious opposites, close observation, catharsis, a means of communication and a radical juxtaposition of dimensional elements. he challenges everything: concepts of figure, composition, media and movement, including the language of drawing. exploring the ambiguity of time and history, alan’s work focuses on translating energy into images. alan was born in the summer of seventy seven, in bushwick during the new york city blackout. his work has been featured in nine new york solo shows, over two hundred group shows, and over two hundred living installations. in addition to his work as a multi-media artist, michael is the founder and director of the living installation, where human beings are transformed into unique, living art objects. these happenings are set to alan’s original music, which is recorded featuring artists such as the residents, tommy ramone, ariel pink, and meredith monk. terhor terhor is an australian painter based in sydney, australia. his oil paintings revolve are inspired by video games, internet culture and computer error. working primarily in oils to create textured works that are filled with soft gradients and are vivid with colour. "i like to exaggerate simple three d graphics and pixels into basic shapes. video games, the internet, social media - all of that to me is like virtual hedonism. computers are this gateway to this insane other world where you can do anything or be anyone. "exhibiting in numerous group shows since twenty eleven and recently having his second solo exhibition. terhor continues to refine his painting whilst telling his own personal story through his work. zeso new york city-based graffiti artist, zeso’s spray cans have been adorning the street walls for more than a decade. originally from france, zeso’s pieces mix eighties tagging with cartoonish characters. the vibrancy and otherworldliness of zeso’s works are what make it distinctly his. style marta bevacqua marta bevacqua was born near rome and grew up in a red house in the country there. it’s probably thanks to that house that she started taking photographs. she got her first camera at about sixteen; once she graduated from high school, she was totally immersed in photography. she really started to work one or two years later and then got into fashion in twenty eleven. now she’s twenty five and lives in paris, where she works as a fashion photographer and continues to work on her personal artistic projects as well. eyepissglitter tatiana johnson is the creator of homewear designs, eyepissglitter. she finds herself as the jill-of-all trades when it comes to merging music and fashion. her deep-rooted passion for rap music has lead her to follow the boom of her own bass by creating eyepissglitter, a powerhouse of expression through music, fashion and now furniture! lee nutter leenutter.com 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. words ella black ella black’s a big juicy mouth full of words; ready. she'll set to siege your panty line, pulverise your peach with peculiar passions, voracious verbs and titillating tenses. so, uncross your legs, loosen that buckle, lick your fingers ladies and enjoy. 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. 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. mattias tello mattias tello is a poet from arica, chile. he’s taken part in the poetry workshop ,em>mal. he was in charge of a local magazine for several months in twenty thirteen. he’s studies teaching at tarapaca university. currently he has his own poetry blog we didn't start the fire. gina tron gina tron is a writing robot. she is the features editor for ladygunn 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. karlina veras one hundred percent dominican made londoner. she's crazy about avocados, olive oil, limes and cocunuts too! shots phey palma phey palma is a filipino, who was raised in hong kong. he started photography a few years ago and has never looked back. photography gave him a sense of direction and keeps him me out of trouble. nanihta sol vázquez sol vázquez is a twenty six year old photographer from spain. she taught herself photography, and specialises in portraits and self-portraits. she loves to change her look in self-portraits and looks for unique places to bring harmony to her shots. she tries to prepare a perfect combination of makeup, model, context, clothes and facial expression in every photo. her models are almost always friends and this contributes to the creative comfort and confident mood. her main inspiration is the cinema. she finds that cinema gives her illuminating ideas, control of the color and shows her the right way to place a model in a shot... it has also shown her how to create a story in just one photograph. rosmarie wirz rosmarie wirz is a swiss photographer based in bergamo, italy. her interest in photography started early, as a child, while watching her father working in an improvised darkroom. later, she took pictures for personal use, mainly with the aim of supply stories for family albums and while traveling abroad. but during the last ten years photography has gradually become an important activity, where her range of subjects is much broader. photography is a way of seeing, essentially for its own sake. any fleeting image may attract the eye, become an interesting object, be framed in space and arrested in time, and ideally, transformed into a real picture. |