“I think the word happy, like many words, has been perverted. Perverted by a society to some degree, but by a marketplace entirely. I think for me to be happy—which, I think you’re asking me what it means to be happy—is when I’m not thinking about it … I think life is the ideal. The way I’ve always tried to live is just in the moment. Just do my work and just try to deal ...
“… we need to get to the point where we realize we have to save our planet and we have to learn how to live together without killing each other, beating each other up, robbing each other, and taking advantage of each other … But I’m not sure that humans will get there. We may destroy ourselves before that.”
-Hooman Majd
Introduction by Glenn O’Brien
Short-Film by Daniel McLennan
Photograph by Ken Browar for Paradigm Magazine
I met Hooman Majd ...
“My experience is if you work really hard, at whatever you do, you’ll be successful. I’ve always taken that with me to any job I had. Y’know, just, the dumbest construction jobs. Stupid office jobs. Being a bartender, whatever. I was trying to be the best that there was at whatever it was and it’s always worked out. I don’t understand how people can go to a job and not give it 100%.”
-Kristian of El ...
“It’s easier to live life without so much self-doubt and constantly judging yourself and being disappointed in failing all the time. That’s what makes doing this stuff exciting. The moments where it doesn’t work or trying to figure out if it’s worth fixing. That’s like the formula, I guess, being satisfied and finding out where it doesn’t work, where you don’t like it just enough that it’s okay.”
-Austin Eddy
Introduction by Howard Fonda
Short-Film by Alex Curro
Photograph ...
“I think a lot of people’s worry and fear is that they’re worried about the past, and they’re worried about the future. But if you’re in the present it restricts the kind of damage that can be done to you.”
-Glenn O’Brien
Introduction by Hooman Majd
Short-Film & Photograph by Zander Taketomo
Glenn O’Brien
There is little appreciation in America today for philosophers, intellectuals and polymaths—renaissance men (and women) who enrich us with ideas, encourage thinking, and challenge orthodoxy. It’s ...
“The culture of greed has to be exterminated. It wouldnʼt bother me to see a guillotine on Wall Street, I think these people deserve to be punished and white collar crime doesnʼt get punished.”
-Glenn O’Brien
Introduction by Hooman Majd
Short-Film & Photograph by Zander Taketomo
Glenn O’Brien
There is little appreciation in America today for philosophers, intellectuals and polymaths—renaissance men (and women) who enrich us with ideas, encourage thinking, and challenge orthodoxy. It’s a shame, really, in these anti-intellectual ...
“I want everyone around me to aspire to be inspired. I want to contribute. I don’t want to be told how to live. I want to live the way I feel I should live.”
-NoseGo
Introduction by Adria Leeper-Sullivan & Photographs by Theo Constantinou
Yis Goodwin, whose artist name is Nosego, has a limitless imagination. Positive about life, his artwork reflects an energetic mood that has no solid direction. Yis is one of the few artists I’ve researched ...
“It’s kind of this pressure as well when you release a song that’s going to be there forever. In a hundred years that song will still be there. If you don’t put all you can into it, then it’s not going to be significant, or noteworthy. It’s not going to stand the test of time. So when you’re putting out music, you have to make sure that everything you do is the best.”
-Kingston of BSBD
Introduction ...
“And that’s just all there is to it. Don’t care about what other people think about what you’re doing, if you’re inspired to do something, if you want to do something, if you have some kind of feeling that you should do something … then you should just do it; don’t let what other people’s preconceived ideas of good behavior, or whatever it is, limit you to thinking what you should and shouldn’t do.”
-Glen E. ...
“My product is my legacy in this world; it’s what I have chosen to represent me. It’s a singular dedication to a vision of how men should dress and live. It’s all I have. It’s all I think about. I guess you’d call it passion.”
-Craig Arthur von Schroeder
Introduction by Theo Constantinou
My business partner told me that I had to meet a custom clothier based in Philadelphia. He said that his brand and aesthetic were an ...
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