“So maybe the meaning behind all this is to listen to blues music to figure out what not to do in life.”
-Gordon Holden
Words & Photographs by Gordon Holden
Gordon Holden is a conceptual artist and photographer. His work captures visual and tactile expression through the backwards mitch mash of an osmosis of past and present pop culture.
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When you’re young you do things that you’re told to do, mostly because you don’t know any better. But when ...
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“The feeling of freedom coats my paintings. Aside from the fact that I have chosen to feature the human form as a centerpiece, I have yet to really establish a concrete direction. My tentative plan is to use my freedom to attempt to show the world how I perceive it.”
-Houston Christopherson
Introduction by John Dominguez
Interview & Photographs by Theo Constantinou
Houston Christopherson, is for lack of better words, working out the kinks. From one painter to another, ...
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“…It is the most accessible inroad into your mind, which– as sincere and honest as you are– is still veiled in mystery. Your paintings, to me, speak to your love of your fellow men and women and to your love of God.”
-Angie Chung
Letter to Bart L. Brooks by Angie Chung
Photograph by Theo Constantinou
Dear Bart,
I remember my very first encounter with you. It was back in July 2010, during the first month of my employment at ...
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Poem by Gus Laessig – Original Artwork by Ann Ernandez for Paradigm Magazine
Today, my knee hurts forever
My knee’s been sore
for a week or so,
it aches me today
and my walk has slowed.
I’m twenty-five today,
and I’ve lived
a third of my life.
I take it like gray hair
and wrinkles.
My knee tells me
that I’ve lived.
I slid through school,
tapped backboards,
and kicked asphalt.
I ran from troubles
and I chased girls.
My knee hurts badly today.
I’m limping and it’s
just getting worse.
It hurts because
my first two ...
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“Different things at different times in life make you happy. Life never leads to a plateau of happiness, that doesn’t exist. The only thing that happiness is, for me, is to enjoy my work and be at peace with my family.”
-Jason Adams
Introduction by Adria Leeper-Sullivan
Interview & Photographs by Theo Constantinou
For Jason Adams there is pride in fulfilling duties and following love. While he craves solitude, he can thrive in the world of professional skateboarding and ...
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“Drawing became my primary escape from all the feelings that I really didn’t want to experience. I would create these drawings that were essentially subconscious illustrations of my life, without realizing that these were expressions of my life and emotions at the time.”
-Mike Stilkey
Interview & Introduction by Theo Constantinou
On the bio-page of Mike Stilkey’s website, his work is illustrated as “using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and ...
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Art,
Chad Muska,
Danny Gonzalez,
Jenkem Magazine,
Joe Strummer,
Roberto Clemente,
Shepard Fairey,
Skateboard,
skateboarder history,
skateboarders becoming artists,
Skateboarding,
skateboarding history,
skater,
Skating
“Everything I am is due to my family.”
-Danny Gonzalez
I was recently asked by a dear friend of mine, “Do all skateboarders become artists? Or is it two concentric circles that intersect like a Venn diagram?” I have asked myself these same questions and pondered how skateboarding has cultivated so much creative talent both on and off the board. I believe it stems from childhood, when the mind is developing and skaters are looking at the ...
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On the edge of North Philly lie a few square blocks of some of the most intimate concert venues in the country. The particular venue this past Friday was KungFu Necktie featuring NewVillager. I have a tendency to show up to concerts way too early, finding myself passing idle time by partaking in vices that are synonymous with drinking establishments. I digress. As NewVillager set up their gear I noticed an elaborate set-up being constructed in ...
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“We are acutely attuned to the differences between people, especially the sexes, but the differences are nothing like so interesting and useful as the similarities. We are driven by this contradiction. Looking at other people is a way of looking at yourself. The other aspect to this, of course, is the curious relationship between men and women, locked in a perpetual dance of intelligence and need.”
-Harry Holland
Introduction by Adria Leeper-Sullivan
Interview by Theo Constantinou
***Harry Holland is ...
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“I was hired to really make the classes I taught MINE, I started to love it. It’s a way to reach and affect so many people on very personal levels. I like working with students individually and helping them to find their own ways of working and thinking. I think that for even those students who won’t continue after my classes as artists (many of them won’t make art after class ends), I can give ...
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