Melvin Majors remembers every face he has ever served and only needs four hours of sleep a night. With his alert eyes, soft smile, and shining cheeks, he is a living advertisement for the organic lifestyle. Though he can expound on all the physiological benefits of organic juicing, what keeps the customers coming back is the additional emotional benefits of his juices. “I throw some of my true Southern-roots spirit in there, which makes it more energizing, more electric,” he says.
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Ever since we began back in 2008, we have worked with photographer David Mushegain every issue to bring you a collection of some of the coolest, raddest, hippest people from all around the world. David shoots and gets to know the young kids he meets on his travels, through his friends, or just walking down the street, and we are always happy to share his discoveries with you. Today we begin our weekly postings of David’s Last People, appearing every Wednesday right here.
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In the dark new film We Need to Talk About Kevin, the young actor Ezra Miller plays this year’s best argument for birth control. As Tilda Swinton’s son, Miller’s Kevin is obstinate and unmanageable, methodically tormenting his mother for her ambivalence towards him in increasingly perverse ways that culminate in a school shooting by bow and arrow. “The script was this incredible, beautiful amassment of millions of little symbols and sounds that viscerally directed the reader, and now I feel truly viscerally direct the viewer, in the experience of the main character Eva’s hindsight and her present emotional experience,” he says of the film. “To me, that was a great opportunity to be the most active propelling role in what is essentially a Greek tragedy viewed in hindsight. And to really develop a character that was set to ultimately self-destruct through his own impulsive quest for something that to this day I’m not entirely sure a human being can ever be denied, which is the love of a maternal guardian.”
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Aaron Stern knows his way around a concert venue. A producer of music festivals and shows
for over a decade, Stern found his way to photography a few years ago with an eye to capturing the fleeting moments he was in a unique position to enjoy. Now his concert photography has been collected in one hundred pages of imagery of some of our time’s most exciting live acts, including Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sonic Youth, Grizzly Bear, and Animal Collective. But you won’t find the obvious close-ups of Kim Gordon or Thomas Mars here—instead, Stern focuses his lens on the crowds, the venues, the shifting spotlights. The few times the musicians make their way into his frame, they are often seen from a distance, lost in concentration and a dreamy haze. Stern’s eye adds a gloss of wonder to the tired genre of rock photography, finding the intimate moments in a room full of screaming fans.

Everyone Must Be Announced is out now from S&H Publishers.