The Politics of…
Words by Will Asbo Photography by Marcel Dagenais The Politics of Boss: Live From The Slave Box The Politics Of Boss is a chain of command not to be rattled. I understood NY had a hire & fire ethos...
View ArticleThe Date Farmers
Words by Megan Martin In junior high there were these handball courts. They were in the very back of the play yard, past the field where we ran the mile and beyond the locker rooms where we discovered...
View ArticleGirl Talk with Britt Lower
Britt Lower is an actress and artist who hails from Illinois and now resides in Williamsburg. She can currently be seen as Tanya Sitkowsky on the CBS drama “Unforgettable.” We sat down over a cup of...
View ArticleDamn, I Wish I Thought of That
Over dim sum shrimp dumplings in January of 2014, a mysterious designer/creative director who wishes to keep her identity hidden started contemplating the idea of a blog to catalog the artists who, as...
View ArticleWC Gallery: Ryan Metke
We may not notice how important stories are to us. Sometimes we come home from a day of work and tell our loved ones about our daily grind. Some of us sit in dark bars and spew our sorrows to our best...
View ArticleTunnel People
As a war photographer, journalist and anthropologist, Teun Voeten has courted extreme circumstances. For How de Body, he traveled to Sierra Leone to report on child soldiers just in time for a...
View ArticleThe Jeweled Bandit
Photography by Tracy Morford Styled by Jessica Soga Hair: Marcel Dagenais Model: Kristy Ann Muniz Retoucher: Jaz Harold Look 1: McTega large gold chuck necklace and mini chunk wrap necklaces worn as...
View ArticleUNTITLED
Arn Gyssels, an underground artist from Antwerp, lives inside of the Roman Colosseum and from his grape-stained throne watches an endless battle. The combatants are beauty and the raw chaos that shapes...
View ArticleBlack Mirror
Fashion magazines have shaped pop culture and the ideal of beauty for decades. Young girls flip through the glossy pages, in awe of the flawless-looking models who line them. Critics focus on the...
View ArticleBaby Alpaca
My first interaction with Baby Alpaca, the band led by singer and songwriter Chris Kittrell, is over email, when he mistakes me for a violin player. He has invited me to their studio to practice with...
View ArticleAt Home With … The Mother’s Worry
Who: Victoria Stevens, Photographer, Zackery Michael, Photographer, Ian Shea, Sound Engineer/Producer Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 5-Bedroom Loft WC: How long have you lived in the space? MW:...
View ArticleAt Home With … Kim Mesches
Who: Kim Mesches, Fashion Designer and Creative Director of KM Collective Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Townhouse with workspace WC: How long have you lived in the space? KM: I’ve been...
View ArticleWC Gallery: Daniel Arnold
“It was the straying that found the path direct.” — Austin Osman Spare On a warm evening in early summer, nearly three years ago, I went to a bar-turned-gallery in the Lower East Side to see a photo...
View ArticleWC Gallery: A Fine Black Line
I’ve known Amit Greenberg for nearly two years, and at no point in that span have I not been impressed with what struck me as his relentless enthusiasm, the steam that powers his lithe frame. Between...
View ArticleMono No Aware
In the film world, the concept of time – and the deconstruction of it – is an artistic opportunity. While in reality, we view it as something inevitable, uncontrollable even, in motion pictures it is...
View ArticleVINYL
Ciara Phelan is a freelance designer and illustrator working from a shared studio in North London. After graduating in 2008 studying Graphic Design at Brighton University she worked as a junior at a...
View ArticleAt Home With … Judith Henry
Who: Judith Henry, Artist Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Townhouse with Artist Studio WC: How long have you lived in the space? JH: In 2006, I sold my loft in Soho where I had lived for...
View ArticleR. Robot
Painter R. Nicholas Kuszyk is plagued by robots. Dancing cartoonish robots, robots that form their own subculture. Robots unable to make an audible sound. Robots that, he feels, resemble humans more...
View ArticleAt Home with … Jared Geller
Who: Jared Geller, Producer at hitRECord Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1 Bedroom Railroad Apartment WC: How long have you lived in the space? JG: Pretty sure it’s been ten years. WC: What did it...
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