The news out of Palm Springs the past few weeks has been all about Coachella, but that’s not all the desert town has to offer. Photographer-slash-musician Clara Balzary shows us the city’s softer side in these pictures she sent us from her recent road trip with her best friend, filmmaker Tracy Antonopoulos. Read about her whirlwind tour below.
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“There is an optimal size of things,” Mårten Lange says. Lange believes in the power of the index. When viewed in sequence, his stark, black-and-white photographs of both natural and manmade phenomena resemble a meticulously assembled catalogue of objects whose common quality remains tantalizingly obscure, despite the undeniable sense that they are, somehow, related.
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Perfume Genius’ Put Your Back N 2 It is as much an exercise in therapy as it is Seattle-based musician Mike Hadreas’ follow-up to 2010′s Learning. Hadreas, whose work as Perfume Genius is built on an honesty that often translates as impossibly dark and depressive, uses his music as a pseudo-therapist’s office, wading his way through personal insecurities, histories, and ambitions over robust, graceful rhythms and melodies.
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We’ve been around awhile now, and we know a lot of our readers might not have had the opportunity to experience our earlier issues. So we wanted to give you the chance to discover one of our favorite stories from our archive every Friday. Some of them feature actors, musicians, or artists who eventually made it big, talents we are proud to have tapped early in their careers. Some have brilliant writing, and some have beautiful photography. Some have both. But all of them are so great we thought they deserved a second chance. This week we present Paola Kudacki’s Spring 2009 editorial featuring a brand-new Liu Wen dressed (and undressed) by Francesco Sourigues in some of the season’s brightest pieces.