“… 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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
“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. ...
“DJs had to start pandering to the lowest common denominator, like these soulless vapid … you know like iPods. And it became less about selection, less about taste making, less about personal choice and aesthetic, and more about playing whatever pop record it is. That became the norm and that wasn’t the norm. The sounds keep on changing…it’s up to DJs to either change with it, adapt with it, or stay on top of it, ...
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