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The exhib alo includes a 1962 Cadilac, Exdorade Birt convert ible featuring the gure of “Ambassador Maga fom (Osamu Teauka's classic ccamic, at once appeasing your finer ofa, mechan and manga fan KRISTEN SOLLEE Jspansocieyorg fe Un [At press tme, some 200 oyelsts have hit the streets for the Tour de France-anong them the insatiable Lance Armstrong. As por usual, i's not just the ride that's on his mind. Ths yee, hia LIVESTRONG. Global Cancer Campaign has teamed up with ‘Supertouchar.com founder and former Juxtapoz teorin-chel Jame O'Shea on Stages, a tourrig char ty an exhibition coincicing with fe Tour He has assem bled 25 ofthis generation's best atts: Bary McGee, Christopher Wool and Aaron Young, to name a few; Damien Hirst, KAWS, Takashi Murckam, and Mare Newson also designed bikes. "Lance Armstrong is 4 perfect example of someone who has overcome ‘cancer and gone on to do great things eaye Shepard Fairey, ho crested a mural in Los Angeles forthe pro ct tink how to represent the struggle to fight can Ceri, artistically, more ofa persona than collaborative fendeavor, bu the cumulative effect ofthese part pnts yells a powerulreau” SG ee airplanes, whales, cardigans, and cartography all demand equal station m my hadgepodge ors Thus, magi my excitement when Rughy by Ralph Lauren invted me to customize my very ovm sweater at their Manhattan store, where patches of animals Crests, numbers, letters, and other ephemera were laid out before ro. I's al part of Rugby’ Make ‘Own Varaty Shop, a program that alows shoppers to personalize a sweater, parte, or jacket of thee choosng, and walk out wth the fished produc Got stage fright? 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IML thus best i explores hat civas these man Tack Wte on his Tennesse bulking & guitar from a chunk of wood, some sinng, and a Botte; Jmmy Page desc nt hat a the Edge in his ol notice Board where Larry Mullen bandmates." hart soen tha” he says, "coud be working in 2 bank night now” MIKE HARVKEY “We wanted a name that symbolized a game of ‘chance? aye designer Michael Verker, whooe ne, Rochamboau, means Rock, Paper, Sessors. So fr, the odds are on his side. Vanker cut his teeth at Marc ‘and Laurence Chandler at Parsons, Tha fo run cre ‘tive solitons company ProofSoven, which comee in handy considecing that designing Rochamibeau's look books ie as much work ae designing the line: One version featuros mages ofthe debut seasca in hyper ‘olor, best vowed under a back light In anothr, he pages between poniair covers have been treated wath gole svr, and bronze, doused in a rst catalyst, ‘and panted on wih passagos from a 18ihrcontury treatise on the occull. "Basically the book i, tko, eat ing tel; explains Venker. wil eventually tur to dust ically, tho concept ofthe collection is pres: fervation-evoskelotons to be exact, Think: androgy nous jersey shirts and droprcretch pajama pants beneath jackets made of recycle, chainmalresque material... should a shark attack ever be a cause for ‘concern in SoHo, SS rachembeauus.com Jacobs and Helmut Lang before meeting Josh Cooper former skater and current strict veg- etarian, has translated his passion for California hardcore music and straight-edge culture into a record ‘and fashion label-the latter of which features tribal ponchos and selvage donim with medallions and tassels this season. Partouche sees his line more as a lifestyle product, and indeed, not only does each piece cone with a vinyl single or a free download from the designer's chosen “band of the month,” but it’s as animal-friendly as he is-the faux- suede cowboy boots April77 and You Must Create just collaborated on included. That the line's signature skinny jeans have covered the bottoms of Iggy Pop and Ronnie Wood doesn’t hurt, either. ADRIAN MOORE april77.tr(grooming) college, when a buddy's ‘dad was suddenly unre: fgrizabe. Enough non rmustachioed time has ppaoeed! to warrant a ‘eomeback fr our fury bookmark; Saeeteee ookmark: fete etn cna’ ae SWEET = Seen ceucpaaes, STACHE — oacoasitciara bly 0 grant anonymi> with Sweat ‘Stache ty. The sole instances (Adams Mec), the defn: those fuzzy facial fea: itive guide to the 50 moet tures were noticed was influential mustaches of when they seemingly all time, We look forws sisappeared, whether to the bearded folow'up, makng acameo on and f Michael Gross ion Friends or curing 2 included, we're gonna be ‘weekend home from fucking pissed. JF In 2000>wieh Givenchy copyrighted the nane “Play” for fa fragranc®, Justin Tinberlake was still a boy-bander, promoting the 'N Syne album No Strings Attached. But ‘the name was shelved, only to be brought back for the brand’s latest launch: a woody oriental blend, which ‘the company created in two incarnations. Play. Intense includes tonka bean and is considered a niche scent, While Play-with a fresher, citrus accord-has more mass appeal. Both are housed in bottles that resemble iPods, a nod to the nane and the famous face. And just think Had Play been released earlier, there's a good chance | § it would have looked like » Discnan. HOLLY STEGEL a SCENTS FOR FALL ineouiant, Ive boone tour torwosta esl ook ‘actually cequies & hell of a good cut. That's whers Sparrow comes in. Stylists Susan Flaga and Sheba Nemerovski opened their Chicago salon in a vacant If aolee vite pace that had housed a barbershop for 40 years, S50) for 2.6 cx Some design elements trom the ight looded space’s history have boen salvaged-lke the wallpa Per-but a minmaist aesthetic keeps things frm looking too Antiques Roadshow: Ae you'd expact in ‘city that isnt preoccupied with being coc, the uo specializes in fuss-roo, low-maintenance cute ‘and color. Tht, plus weekly DI sessions and icy High Ltes, ia making the space a regular stop for the city's music scenesters. Nemerovski herself / plays kaye in Aio-boat group | Kang Kult, and mom Bor VOLUME ene bers of Tortoise have popped in for a trim. was, tevet ue, nothing playing Wileo once, and lef Tweedy came int soya srock ota : Nemeroveh: sas, laughing.“ ad to turn it off? ee te But at $58 for a guys cut, you don't need to have fend cotton beane ~~ ‘a gold record to atford one. ANNIE TOMLIN Ser eee Sparowhaircom, 773-486-0300CONE 060 MINT (eg | = ELON does well: He studied law before turning to fashion; opened London boutique Concrete, then launched his own clothing label Unconditional; and this spring, ‘amid an economic downturn, showed ‘at New York Fashion Week. This is, after all, the same guy whose ear- Liest customer was David Beckham “He was the very first person to buy my jumpers,” remenbers Stephens. Unconditional's state side debut was inspired by John Lennon and Yoke Ono’s honeymoon bed-in and features what the nipple” plocos-ceccon-23ko katt, — : bo ot Ca m p est NDE draped jersey tops, and other Seipeenboraae, tame natty separates. “I saw these ca m7" | KICK UP A STORM. BY BENJAMIN LES7CZ photos of Joha and Yoko doing Orit taaehainch nothing.but doing nothing is aeaeeree SecisTO , Growing up with eight siblings on a farm ouside of actually doing quite a lot!” RWD tinén, Mexico, Roger Orozcs knows there iz no such yspace..com/unconditional_london thrg a9 doposable foctwear toured to respect teat sage te de Brooliyn thased BecfSt (lecfre-Stayvsant n 1995. No Surprise than tal the line's Hertage cllecton, which mcs may, paddock and desert boot, hand Begs | tessa te ree Gsar Wang mt, the ole robiorced vith loramod pose. ‘Poopa 2 tre of false ly! says Orozco. I the long rn, aqualiy preva: Betton AUGUSTA Though Simone Cecchelto named his Rome -besed footwear line, Augusta Shooe, afer his grandmother, the designer finde inepttion in, he aay, "tha beauty of perfomance’-something he likely picked up during a ‘design stint with Rick Owens. Qu the shoes speak for themselves: Styles auch a8 the Oiled High boot, made of dietrased corcovan lasther, and the Dark Antelope High Boot, are hancmade wrth fasticious attention to detail down fo the same, which Cecchelto dascrbee ‘shaving “the appearance of surgical sutures! Shoes.com ABINGTON olor Timberland was renowned brand, & was ‘The Abington Shoo Company, father son out n Massachuselis that produced rugges, hancmade fot en Peranratgeussen® | wosr. Fity-odd yoare later Tmberland is paying ributa femelle Aide BR) (os own history with Abington, a colscton thats 28 : {ashanable a= t's hinctonal Bran Moore vice pres dent of men's product, says th boots are bul last san fea tmomemnuatize | “yocauso back nto day, shove had tobe. 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PAUL CAINE CChet Sam Mason has earned a reputa- ion for pushing the limits of fine dining. How was working at Tailor with hin’? Thal was an incredible experiance. To go to work, act ke an iol witha chon ul cof guys wth attoos, stan o loud mo land make realy avant-garde pletes~and to te chomicale and iquidniogen every cday-was abt of fun Were you ayer worried about intimidat- fg your customers? Definitely, One of the worst things you can do, even subcon souls to meke a customer foo stupid {At Talo, custerners werent aways edt Caled enough about the food, ane then they were uncomfortable asking about i That's diferent than Butcher Bay, hich is a bit more approachable. This s neighborhood restaurant, and when i comes down tof, need to design my ment forthe neighborhod. At fet, [though the stupcest, simplest chest wanted to do might have been pushing but the clencle we'e getting hor is far more cophstcted than | imagined. | just started Sening a covche dsh that's hardly 1 covche. I's raw fish with a white eoy ‘mannade, sake-cured trout roe, pineapple, fnd basi In hint wae gong t el butts been seling out very day How is it having control of your own place? i's hard-my name ison the line Trove the appreciation, but can't get complacent. Whonevor | think I've gat shit figured out, Tm in trouble, butcherbaynyecom know your mushrooms mic books, salt and pepper shakers, sow globse Americans colect a great mary things, but rushzooms rately make the lt. Gary Linco, aoe profes opie” professor of botany, and thes Your Mushrooms, claims t's bacau and Asians are raised witha fim by atcutur documertaran Ron Mann, aims to change how wa vaw the of forgettn fing t accom plches that in the very frst scene, when a peacetl fr filled with sprouting mushrooms suddenly into a swing kaledoscope of coors as the muse 0 ‘he Flaming Lips plays in he background, Yes, KYM delves into the world of psllocybes, aka. magic tushrooms, which were fest used by natives of Mesoamerica fr relgus ard healing purposes, anc contnus tobe 3 sta jarvband shows. But dil you krow thatthe honey mushroom, ound in Oregon's Blue Mountain, the largest organism in word? Or that environmentalist use oyter mush ma, which can bres down oo lean up spe aches? | thought nol. FIORELLA VALDESOLO GORN HUSTLER boana.Case'n point: mel popoam may be ub Pub-Corn, Cary ‘tous hits, but Pub-Com's ‘Siverman loves beer, beer, ih eream, and pita ary Siverman loves colada erations (not up ppopeom, toe. Why rot margarta, appli, and put thom togethor? thought tho Kansas City ‘Aerator com few amateur attempts beer afetase; another (Soaking kernals in beer, citiozed ts tolet paper quiring whickoy nto consistency. JENNIFER rmorowavable bag BETH WILLIAMS, Sierman developed 2 pub-commcompop stars NYLON Gis style director Dani Stahl and ‘some fellow staffers took to the streets of ‘Soho with our current snacking obsession, Ppopchips. While we were out, we made ‘some new friends who love them as much as we do, Here, we attempt to get to the bottom of what's making the chips—that are not baked, not fried, but “popped”-the hippest snack in New York city. Keep an eye out for a NYLON TV promation brought to you by popchips and NYLON Guys ths fall! Pepchis eet) Pir a Kan Ando. Fashion Student What goes best with popchips? eater, soda pop, and girlie 4. Seleem Sammuda Hollister employes Vihat goes best with popchins? A big turkey sandutch photographed by ysa pane064 Mt first, Moncler Ganme Bleu, a dilfaboration between New York meWigwear designer Thom Browne and European mountaineering brand Moneler, seems like an unlikely union: Moncler has been making more for less the same quilted, down ski coat since 1954, while Browne has turned classic menswear on its head with his sharp, minimalist suits “The whole process of creating Moncler Ganme Bleu and my Thom Browne label is so different. It's Like comparing apples with orang es,” says Browne, whose Bleu collection can best be described as prep school-meets-ski slope “This collaboration has allowed me to create a line that ic a juxta~ position of sports and tailoring in the truest sense.” BL. moneler.it ey BOOKMARK: farenheit 451: the authorized adaptation Ht you enjoyed watching the apocalyptic Watchmen, or Frank Miler's Sin Cay anc The Spirt, you realy must ste to your nearest book sore to pick up a copy of the new Fahrenheit 407 For the adaptation of his seminal dystopian novel, futhor Ray Bradbury craft fin ast Tim Hamiton who recanted the nas impossible by tung Treasure Island nto 2 ‘graphic nove. The results ff his tandem are inca fay. Hamiton's uncanny fly t blared vid color wt black and gray per fectly complements the good versus-ev potine in ‘which Montag, a firernar, tdacovers the ils of Big Brother-squeezng the ite fut of society-and fights back The ttle, not jst 2 reference ta Monta pro fession, underscores total bum all books for encour ‘aging “dangerous ind pendent thought. Wh its ‘harp dialogue, powerful message, and stunning imagery, Fahrenhat 451 bums white hot, yy Dalas Austin opened his tst clothing boutique in 1003, Ho was just a scrappy entrepreneur back then, an Atlanta ke with a Texas-size name. He ‘chratered both his record and fashion label Rove. "We took hip:hop stuf anc! skating stu, and mashed it together wth rock’ eaye Austin, who ‘9r6W up on equsl pats Duran Duran and Rur- DM fn! vould blast “loud ass Alice in Chains” thr the store stereo. Tokay, Astin no longer a purk with a dre His music career has boomed: He's worked wit Madonna, Pik, and Gwan Stefan; was inetumental in launching TLC; and just cropped his dabut solo record the urmer, 8 Daze a Weakend-a tippy (CD/DVD that jumps genres and tis brains, by way (of funky hybrid of Prince, Sly Stona, and Digtal ne video component ‘a doctors ofica in a straight ing what looks ike afulody condom. But in 3t least one scene, he's dressed in a black Tshit with at another, wear 1 winged, red-white-and-blue @ across the chest the logo, of course, for Rowdy. After yan of falas starts in the fashion world Austins determined to establish himself as @ ‘esigner. He's preparing to open a flagahip in ATL's ‘swank Lenox Square Mall (ext te Bulgar, across from Gociva, and in the same wing 28 Louis, \uitor. The new space will contain a gol disco ball have @ staff decked out in white shits, beck ties and sneakers, and stock Rowe's “fturitc rmitant fall colecton,* stil havent poppe Austin says. Im slim my pre-game show NICK MARINOWie eee Sete Tyce ee Dy Pad Sevigy “ Pate Seah Aendend | Aura ach Gutzrke | YC erat To all our SoBe fans... thanks for a great summer! ‘06, Lewate and te Lizard Dean ave vagnart fhe Sout Beach Beverage Corpeny ne066 by ryan rayhill MOTORHEAD'S KEMMIKIUMISTER LENDS HIS NICOTINE-STAINED VOICE TO THE HEAVY-METAL-THEMED BRUTAL LEGEND. HERE, HE OPIVES ON MUSIC GAMES, DROPPING ACID, AND THE KING OF POP. ILLUSTRATION BY OWEN FREEMAN You're featured in the new game Brital Legend, also starring Jack Black. What can y your character the Kill Master? | ‘uch about relly laughs]. They asked me todo the ‘ice, andl id Thal abou! it! ‘Are you a gamer? | have an Xbox that play once ina while. The old one. ‘0zzy Osbourne and Rob Halford of Judas Priest have likewise lent their voices to the title. What's It ike to see your old buddies in Brutal Legend? "haven't een those guys in this game yt, but I ucking love Ozzy in that Wareratt commercial. (Impersanares Osbourne] “Sharonannnana! What do you think of bands like Aerosmith, Metallica, and the Beatles getting their own games? ‘Wall, t's about fucking tme-espaciall tha Beatles! ‘Though Im sure [Rock Banal will muckt up somehow. There will be an “Octopus's Garden" setting inthe game. Ah for fuck’ eake Jack Black plays a roadie, who is the game's hero, You started out as roadie for imi Hendrix. Any stories you want to share? Itwas kind af 2 blur Tleughs]. Hendrix used to hand out acid, so it doesn't ‘make for very good memories, docs i? What memories there are, afe good ones. But it was tough getting [gear] in and out of places back then. There were only {wo of us carrying all that equipment. .£ucking murder Do you agree with Jimmy Page and Jack White, who have said it's disappointing that kids are discovering music through games like Rock Band land Guitar Hero? In those gamas, you have a eat lsmount of songs thatthe companies want you ta hear. Like kids need fo be told what fo listen to. I's a shame, but kds wil always find ther own way to [good] music. tater this year. You previous} lity show, 80 why did you ag ipate in this? Docurentaron ra just Realty shows... lasw an episads of Big Brother where they were fling people slesping. Imean, ‘watching people sleep? Are you fucking kidding me? ‘The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said they lost your "Ace of Spades" tour jacket that you loaned them for an exhibit a few years back. Did anyone aver find i? Nah, I'm sure someone's gitfriend « wesring Place lice that don't lose things, man. Somecne steals them. While we're on the topic ofthe Hall of Fame, Michael Jackson holds the rare distinction of being inducted twice: as part ofthe Jackson 5 in'97, then as a solo artist in'01. What are your thoughts on his sudden passing? Oh man, i's shame all around. I think he "was ust as innocent as he looked, He probably just ‘wanted to be around itle kids because he was a kid himoolf. think La Toya said it best: that he would bo the fret to go, that he was too special to stay on the Earth for long,BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM xbox 368, pS3.: WARNER BROTHERS INTERACTIVE Up until now, most of Batman's video-game adven tures have boan faitlyin-yourface arcade brawls. While Arkham Asylum certainly features copious amounts of bone: crunching Batu, the game-more akin to the latest Batman ficks than any predecessor— also infuses heavy doses of actual detective work into the action through hi-tech, CSHlke gadgetry (He is the “Worlds Greatest Detective” afterall) But mostly, youl be doing a lot of what Batman does best: causing fear among the ecoaked by becoming the ullmate liren-the-shacowe vigilante, Featuring BEATLES: ps3, xbox 360, wii : EA Possibly the ultimate coup in music games, th makers of Rock Band scored the Holy Grail ofall music licanses last year: the Beatles catalag. Tho game plays aimilarly to the Rock Band you know ‘and love-except that every nook and cranny ofthis prosentation is dripping with Beatlemania. From viau Sls of the Fab Four in various states o their caroer to songs like “Taxman” and "Day Tripper” (with more tunes promised as downloads) tothe inclusion of Bostles-style intrumenta (ouch ae a Rickenbacker tar or Hofner base, ths tile captures everything reat about one ofthe werls's mast iconic ban both Kevin Gonroy and Mark Hamil (who voiced Batman and tho Jokor rospectivoly in the eominal ‘90s cartoon aman: The Animated Series), Arkham Asylum takes the fight direct to the creeps of sai ‘mental instittion-among them, the Penguin, Kier Grae, and Scarecraw-wio fly the coop aitera Joker led assault overruns the infamous ouckoo's nest Wiha top-notch cinematic feel ane engaging, fuid combat, Arkham Asylum undoubtedly provides the Ggrittiast most completa experience any Dark Kright ‘wannabe could hope for. .grounds~such as Japanese girs ig hormrimmed glasses, equasling in Tokyo's Budokan arena~come alve, reminding us just what tobe. Despite al the above, asi ‘of three-part harmonies tha allows for six gam play at once, Beatles doesn't veer toa far fram the tried-anditrue formula of previous Rock Band incar rations. In the end, i's simply John, Paul, George, clasic tunes-thatll prompt you to come together forthe timate Rock Band jam, PREVIENS HALO 3: DST XBOX 360 MicROSOFT While may not be fulton Halo sequel, ODST twhich stands for Orbital Drop Shock Troop: ‘ar brings more than enough frepowor to sate chehards. With it comes new gameplay, new rmsion mape, an for tho fist tine an allnew hero. Taking the Master Chiefs place a8 protagonst, he Rcokie-a shock lrogper dropped into Halo #2 ‘Altican sting prior to Mastor (Chis amval-ues bth steath land raw exposve force to ves tigate the cisappearance of his teammates va flashbacks in an ‘open word erirorment. Voiced by soi faves Nathan Filon and Trea Heler, ODSTis.a welcome ‘expansion ofthe Haloverae UNCHARTED 2: AMONG THIEVES Psa ‘SONY Picking up. couple year ater fnosoure-hunting bacase Nathan Drake's best sling frst {ure, Uncharted 2 finds our hero illowing Marco Polo's the fabled Shangr La. 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IAN BARRY IS TIRED of people caling his motorcycles anor roling museum pieces” F you meet Barry at a party, and you want to make him grmace ike somacne Sipped yo inhi vodka, jst cal his bkos "ova candy” “That's rot wha his is about. It might 28 wel have the ol laird ard be stuckin someone's living room! he says, leaning againat a gresay welding table m the workshop cf his company, Falcon Motoreyclo, which i located in the industral wasteland of downtowm Los Angeles.“ feel Ike before the bikes become ‘oling poces of at as theyve boon dubbed, they ar, at heart, bull wih one intention: 0 go fast. That wae the pie of Trumphe: to be the fastest. So the whole reason for allthe aesthetic fort 10 reflect the beauty and performance ofthe tngine. All the molding, al he sculpting, al the stolwork tnd welding thats the only reascn any ofthat i thera ‘Bom wih an insatiable deste to take apart everything from rotary phones to early computers, Bary sariod toclng around with his own 1967 Trumph Bonneville titer hgh echocl. At the tum of the milennm, he began focusing on rebulking Triumphs and on a whim, posted ‘one of his creations on eBay. It wae quickly enapped up. “Ithought to myself if can build a bke and soll it and make 8 living off it, thet would be unbelievable’ remembers Bary, I coukin' even comprehend that, and then i happened! Whi he was barely making enough noodles and repay fiends, 10 of his eBay bikes were made and sold, Therm 2004, 8 friend requested be make him a custom bike, and Barry reused. His end jrsited. Eventual, the fret true lon Barry motorcycle wae created ‘But Falcon Motorcycles didi really start until 2007, lwnen actor Jason Lee commissioned Bary to bul him a board Wack racer-a aye of lender ike from the 1070s constructed to race on dangerous wooden planks. That lea yeor, Bany found » cavernous tivated warkshop Siverake to call home (he'd previously been laboring [na tent na fronds backyard) and also met hs parner [= Falcon, Amaryl Kright. After 2 ful year spent building the bike in his new shop, the Bulet-and hence Falcon “Metorcycles-was born Few motorcyces in recent history have had the ‘angular spac ofthe Bult. When it wa fret unvedec, ft fhe 2008 Lagend ofthe Motoreycis Intemational ‘Concours Elegance in Pebble Beach, the bike was ‘warded “Beat Custom Motorcycle” by judge Jesse James, Considering the Bullet isthe anthesis of James’ ‘otorious chopper aasthatic-oversze, over bulgac, ‘ver decorated testament to machisme-the victory was potable. Although widly unique, Falzn bikes are clean Unceretsad, and mest portant, slegantn every respect. Vintage British bkes are sahaged from junk bins fand backyards, and rebul from the ground up~nearly ‘very part. every porion of ame and engine component is romeda,refuriched, customized, and/or atared to Create a wholly new motorcycle, Raw blocs of reclaimed ‘etal are sculpted and machned to form original pats. Muscurrqualty anbques-tke the headlamp Fem a 11920 Rall Rayee Phantom ar tha rvelator fom a 1950 Trumch Speeday-fnd new He on these resurectod vehicles, “The intent lates Bary flatly, “isto make the coolest fucking thing can think of? ‘Bany has committed to making only 10 such Bullets in total each originating from a diferent vintage British brand: Vincent, BSA, Velocett, Anil. Aci aftr that? Who knows “Design-wis, the motoreycle is one ofthe most hhoroat fers of ranopertation thor ia snot tka acer you can't hide a flaw under a hood or behind a door. 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Berlin, c ried past, too bt right here, ction, we dropped in on the East side and encountered folk from aroun o have al settled in Borin the affordable artist lifestyle, the second-to-none dance culture, and of course, the AND. PH PHED BY ALEXANDER CHO) 2.7 geome inert, Keller, while avome! yuan tomeet a humanoid 072 amcor euaie=| The first thing DJ Kaos (eho won't reveal his real ame) wants us to know About him s that he was born and raised in Bede. The fet thing we want you to know about him is that he's one ofthe Best Dis in Beri. Considering dence music was bom in this ty, Ding ie serous business hore. Kaos's sete slice the worst stereotypes of German house music (lly trance and minimal techng) instead, he plays on the Connections between popular and obscure Beats. Siting outside a cafe in Krausbarg, Kaas ‘says that he's been sensing a Renaissance brewing in Berin, one that hearkens back to the late "80s, "The fashion, ort, rmusic-all he creativity feels trendy becaue 1 recycled. Its a re-re Sion of something that already happened: he plains That said, Kaos also appreciates Berin’s intemnational flavor, anc how it nas underwritten the DNA of the cite, Imusic scene. ‘People fre moving here from the US, the UK, Japan, aly, Spain’ he eaye, And, you know, all good” Sjkaos.net One by one, the ladies of The Secret Seduction Seciety file into a smoky room in the rear of a house party in Berlin's Mitte neighborhood. For a moment, it feels as though we've been transported back to the Weimar Republic circa 1928. And that’s t point, When this burlesque group- Germans Miss Julietta La Doll and Else Edelstahl, New Zealander Lady Lou, and Californian Mise Marz Star-performs, ‘t conjures up the city’s heyday, when decadent arts burgecned in Berlin, Star has the 412 How doos Berlin compare to the States? T’ve lived in Hollywood and New York. When I first came to Berlin, it was everything that I loved about those places, but better. I had always dreamed of being an American in Europe. What did your American friends say about that? When I told my friends in New York that I was moving to Berlin, hey said, “You'll love it; ive like New York was 30 years ago.” There is still something new here: T's still being rebuilt and reborn. What's so great about working in Berlin? T have always been in the creative field, but so many artists I know in the States have to hold "normal jobs,” In Berlin, I find it’s possible to be an artist full-time-the government and Society in general are very supportive of artists. Lafete ratIt’s late at night when we find New York-native Hiroshi McDonald Nor: in his cavernous studio. There, he works on arre culptures such as a marble, than-1ife-size reproduction of a lethal-injection table and a tombstone engraved with the Second Amendment (that would be the Right to Bear Arms) in Latin Berlin is prime for artists. Is that why you moved here? I was, always fascinated by German culture and German philosophy-Heidegger ir particular. But yeah, the decision was between working in Italy or Berlin, and I thought Berlin had a much more interesting art center What ean you do in Berlin that can't in New York? Basically, it about the space. And I have access a lot of different art torme—i jery liberal society. Though it's to set up a new business and learn a new Language there is a bit of existential trauma in learning about a new culture hiroshimedonalémord. com difficult for a foreigner ‘TPRARS AND cues eer finer Before we know it's am. The sun has been Ssqueming its way through the gry buldings for afew hours, but were sill ata bar Well in an apartment above one of the bast bars in Berlin, ‘8MM-champagn flute, oleae, hank I's just another day for Dis ‘Annabelle Ellenberg and the perfect Berin ouing 8 “having an afternoon bbarbocue by the river Spree. And when you ‘cide to head home two day lator, tho cab driver puts on a Johnny Cash Song." Elenberg 109, isan unabashed fan of ‘America, “Ihave boon ta 47 diferent states!” she enthuses, “Ireally want Nadine Hartmann, the 9 be an It Gir latter of whom describesJeng Haas, who was born in Germany but grew up in Munich, moved to East Brin afow years ago to open Frmament” ‘The-Glade, one ofthe citys coolest bout Its stocked wih labels like Sophnet, Perks and Mo, ard Vim, ‘What do you find most interesting about Berlin? Probably tha in some ways, Beri i til vide. Tow people who lve on| the West side-many of whem are rich kids who never come ever to the Eastside, How do you think people who live outside of East Bein view this part of the city? What you hoar kom poople i that East Berln is realy ity ‘and that there isa lot ‘of anarchy here, That's ‘ertaniy part ofthe city’s ‘charm, but itcan be tiresome i you ae used toa very organized, Finished ty ke Munich, ‘armfimamentcom 075 wind down from a weekend spent fan to find @ nice spot on the soak up some sun, and sip one more beer (ney, r than coda here). This is here we find Pable Roman-Aleala, a.k.a. Beaner, an American who's lived in Berlin for tive years, DJing what he calls “experimental, after-hours, minimal techno." He adds, “I occasionally play rock, but that’s for my own enjoyment.” When Roman-Alcala first arrived, he was tour-managing new-wave band the ‘thin a week, I had 50 ned friends and Tor rive RECORD LABELS. seenDJ Wool (real name: Glen Brady) was born in Dublin, worked in New York and hes now settled in Berlin—the best place in the world, he says, for a DJ to be right now. Here, joined by friends Leo Olottson (a’ graphic designer trom Sweden who learned Engl Run-DMC records) and Subtitle (an American MC wha’s taken to Berlin's infamous party scene), DJ Wool gives us a quick rundown on Life in Berlin ring Europe with a band called the Glass, and every time we came throug! Berlin, I would stay by the canal in Kreuzberg and really, really Liked it. T wollld go back to New York and think, What an I doing here, when T was perfectly happy there? Two years ag T came back for gocd. Plus, it’s closer to Ireland. Growing up in Ireland was great, but as a music producer and OJ, it's a difficult place to launch from. Going to New York was a great way to start my career, but then I started looking for a place to be really productive. That place, at the moment, is Berlin myspace.com/djwool STAY AT: HOTEL DEROME Location, cation, location. There's no denying that Borin owes te fact that i's one of the most erent Cities n continental Europe to its Mita naighbortiood ‘Ana Hotel de Reme-etps ‘vay from both the center (of Old Town and the Freedom Nonument= ctfers local arts woke fivaing what you'd find in nearby galleries, The ‘uni rooms feature views of tho parks surrounding the hotel, while the furniture ie decidedly modern (pictur a shark fin shaped desk). Rome'a ling point, however, ‘would have fo be the recto bar averlacking the Bebalplat pubic square. hotelderom.comFriedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the second borough of Berlin,” attr arty types. Here, we meet Beyza Osler, a trend spotter at Stylesight, who reports back to clients in ustria, Switzerland, and Italy 4 We forget the rest of the world pays attention to fashion. My high heels are getting dusty ust realized how unglamorous the Berlin look is. I had a meoting with the VP of sales for Hugo Boss in Milan. Him: high-fashion suit and fabulous shoes. Me: vintage Teehirt, worn-in jeans, flip-flops and bed hair. stylesight.com TOBTH REEFASHIDN SESIGNSRE aes Shean aten Yoke Julia Heuser and Benjamin ikke, ho togeth form JULIAANDBEN, make ‘antastic clothes. Like a ‘umber of Bain oaidenta ‘bom elsewhere in Germany Heuser and Klurker found their way to the metropolis like mothe te light. Bern? @=NIAMIN KLUNKER: For me, wo whe space. There are alt of “ascinaling spaces in Berin Thinge are always under ‘construction, and thers ‘lays something happening. JULIA HEUSER’ I wanted 10 leave Cologne and study [ssh design. tough, Ether leave Germany atogathor, or Imove to Bertin Humat about Berlin inspires Yyour work BK: What like bout Bertin is that t allows Nee aie ene parts of Germany, you might ‘wonder, Can! wear this out? In Berlin, when you do somathing extraordinary ppaople notice, Jliaaneloen.com078 nadian artist Michael Young has only spent two years in Berlin, but he can already articulate the art trends in the city. This 1s reflected in his own work-which boul between brightly colored drawinge and dark portraste. Has Berlin lived up to your expectations? Before T arrived hore, there was this huge sence of excitement about what the city would be like, because I'd heard great stories. T haven't been disappointed, Berlin is known for its art scene. Would you say there's fa stand-out mode? Most galleries are just showing @ lot of paintings and drawings. There ara still some sculpture Anetallatione, but wall shows aren't as ae elaborate to install. youngmichaelyoung.com ‘Swede Sanna Berger loves to travel, so she slatted a blog called ‘Thevagabondset.com to document tha art, canes, and fim she checks ‘out on her jaunts from Manchester to Milan, Brussels to-yea-Beri, ‘Sandy Espentrona 2 vaga bond traveler here, was convinced by Berger to move to Batin because, she says, "Berin is where it al happening!” Hoe, Borger’ ide of the story. This isn't your frst time in Berlin, is it? 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(hthe extremely unlkely event thet his pases aneurin ee mT een ee eg cere re ee a at ee eer er ee ene i oer tae Ere ater ear eee ee eee er re eee emer be ty penta tere eer ee ceed Ser emcee es ety Cf photographs by flmmakar David Lynch, And there is a muitmedia gallery Se eee reyes ‘Ask Burton or Linkous what shape thai creative partnorahip may tako in ot eau ee aoa pee ere en ey ee reer) ee eee eee eee ae Pea ee ear ot ee ay ein cs ‘One thing wo probably won't S00, Burion concades, is alva show based Cee enecn Ee tretee eet cae ee er ee are eee a ieee kere Sets eee ee eee eee etn Gerson eee eee rer ees ee eer een)*Ithink we would doit f we dt have to perform? Burton continues. “That'd be great. we could get peopl to play ue~one witha moues head on and the other vith a horsa haad on-and we could st m the audience and just watch, I vould be 0 down for that ‘Ast happens, a lve show minus the projct's principal performers would suit Dark Night of the Soul, which has encountered a patch of legal trouble fois way ta the record store, Because ofan ongoing dapita betwaen Burton and EN-he decines to comment on the mater, but reports have taced it to both The Grey Album, his unauthorized 2004 mash up of music bythe Beatles and Jay 2. and a contract the artist entered into several years ago with the EMl-affiated label Ube Records-Burton says he's unable to commarialy elaase the music ha and) Linkous created together. A blank CD comes packaged inside a book of Lynch's photographs; a sticker onthe ahr wap reads, For legal reasons, enclosed CD-R tanta na music. Use tsa you wl” ’n albu without any songs? Kind of sounds lke something out ofa David Lynch move The seeds of Dark Night ofthe Soul, which is currently avaiable through any number af nontraditional outiats on the Internet, wore sav when Burton wa recruited by Linkous, an enthusiastic Grey Alburn fan, to contribute some production work to Spatklchorse’s tippy 2006 disc, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly (of Mouriain. Burton had buen a Sparkishorse devotee since the lattar’s i's a Wanderfu Lien 2001, 20 he jumped atthe epperunay. When the partnarship| proved trutiul,the two continued to write and recore music together sporadically, fot nowing etacty wha they'd use for. don' know i that's necessary the best way to do things, but i's all we could do! says Burton, acknowledging the sran on his schedule mposed by his work with artista auch ae Beck anc the Black Key Eventually the idea came to them-they'e not quite sure how. they s3y-t0 tend the eonge they'd completed fo a number of musician frend with ietructions to add whatover vocals and ics they liked. Burin insists that ho ard Linkous dnt compose with specific singars in mind: infact, he says, they sant some ‘songs to more than on artist and sent some atsts more than one son, Tho 18 tracks that raul epan quit abitofstyistc ground, from "Pain’ a fuzzy {doorgarage jam with Iggy Pop's bartone bellow, to "Dad's Gone’ a broezy folic pap dust between Linus and Nina Persson f the Cardigans t Lile Girt the album's most immediately appealing cut, in which Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas craons handsomely over a chiming Merseybeat groove Mark tld me he wantod it be lush” says Perason ofthe minimal direction proved to herby Linkous, whom she's known sins he produced the 200" debut by Porsson’s side project, A Camp, “He had laid down some guide vocals and waa kind of emberrassed about tham, which wae strange, because |loved them? Because othe vaisy, there's comething consistent unsatled about the sllbum as a whole. I's a vague spookiness that's certainly teased out in Lynch's Johotegraphe, which a8 youmight imagine, depict fscenes of suburban malaise: a bloody faced [ran being hosed down by three police ofire a fort yard who two kids ook on, laughing 4 bedside table Ittered with preseiption-sug bottles; a dsembociac head bing on a dinner fable Ihe an overstuffed Thankagivng tke was pearing in through the picture window sings alt County eccantre: Vie Chesnutt in “Grim Auguy? one paticulaly evocative tack, sitwas a heartwarming tableau tke a Noman Rockwell painting/Untl| zoomed in ‘Whan the album was nearly completed, Burton decided thal the music seemed focal out for visual accompaniment, so he and Lirkous contacted Lynch, with neither knowing the director personaly beforehand. "That int asem to mate, though? ‘ays Burton, who adds that # Lynch hadnt agreed fo take part, he's not sure they would have solcited the senvons of snyons else In adlition to his photogrephs, lynch contrbutes vocals fo two songs, including the album's title track (which also features a hom arrangement by Scott Spillane ‘of Neutral Mik Hotel; Lynch's unexpectedly igh ‘singing voice isthe eerest sound on the album. "This project is such a great example of the ich layering you get nthe best of art" says Michael Kein, ha frat showed Lynch's work n 1096. "You dont want ito be a one ner you want a depth of meaning. And the way the music and the ‘photographs are pared, # makes each more beautitul land complicated” The gallonst says that th frst time he heard the songs Burton and Linkous had ‘composed, minded him of Tom Wate's versin ‘of Garin Bryars's eatly"7Ds tape loop piece, “Jesus Blood Never Fale Me Yet “t's basicaly part of ‘one song that repeats itself for an hour he says ofthe Bryare composition. “ht drives my wife crazy, but love Tobe able to crea that crt of dark, beaut mood is quite rare” Kahn laughs told Bran, “You're lke Phi Spector without the felonies.” High praise te bo euro, yt at the moment, Burton and Linkous ae just concerned about thei music gating the chance ta be heard. “You ‘make something you care about" says the later, ‘and you want to be able to find an audionce! Espacialy whan, likin a Lynch movi, there's ro taling what the next scan may bringAMP ENERGY ‘AMP rocked it this summer an the NYLON Summer Music Tour. 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The rest ofthe Phenomenal Handclap Band giggle behind their ha confrming pethaps thal the proceeding question-“Exacty how much LSD {quys get through durng the making of ths record?"=might have boon a ily on. ‘Sttng inline slong a bench nthe Backyard of thei Lower East Side rehearsal stucio, the sx members of the Phenomenal Handlap Band present today certainly seem straightedge enough, But witness the tambourne clutching attar-weanng, colecive on stago, and yeu be foxgwen fer thinking that they are actualy some kind of drug guzzing, paychedal cul, In reality, the ony ideology tis curious sect shares i a deep veneration of muse n lite mysterious forme and textures, "We had been really hocoverng lalo-disco and late 70s and early'80a dance music, as well as obscure Eastom Europsan prog rock, and, ofcourse, sau” aays Colle, sxplaning what hand fellow songurter Sean Marquand’s vision hac been belore they sat downto create the band’s aotiled debut sloum, "Plus, no one elae was making music like of he adda, somewhat redundantly. The Phenomenal Handelap Bard began when Calis and Marquand-two Ode, producers, and cbscure soul and Brazen music fanaice~decided they wanted fo bring something now tothe New York band ecane with ther ovm compositions [Aloacy wellrespected faces thanks to tairnumercus cub igh, they set about vwiing the 12 songs with diferent musician ‘rencis and vocalists in mind, each Cf whom weuld be caled upon to tak a tum in their compact, basement stud From tho voodoo, desortprog of “Testimony tothe fate, trumpets, and Curtis Mayfield soul of “Baby” to “16 to 20° whch sounds like Blonco's "Rapture" being performed by CSS at a bleck partyin S20 Pauio the frished record was ‘ways gong to defy any obvious ganre tag. But there were sila few surprises along the way. “All these other people would just crop by Daniel and ‘Sean's place whila we were cecording” explains Wood, ‘and be Hee, Hey, now tht youl her, why don't you do this part?” So alongside the musicians they had ‘n mind, the album also features guest contrbutions from Jalal Bunton from TV on the Raco, Lacy Tigra fom late '80s hip-hop dua Lin, Calla’s Aurelio Vala and...anyone else? | gt called ino play on this Jon Spencer recor!” says (Gols, "50 thought Task him he wanted to come in tnd sing on oure’ Spencer aaic yea, andthe results the slick, organ-fusled funk of “Give ta Rest” ‘And the band's famiy tree doesn't end thre. The only member who ist i atleast four other side projects i anger, percussionist, and recent Paraguayan emgr® Laure Marin Includes in he other members’ resumes fare.a eparee rock re called Treasure (fellow singer and percussionist Joan Tic), faney-dress chicren's band {he FunkeyMlonkaye (gutariat Luka O'Malley) renowned in the Brooldys area for such sas “Td Lke a Banana” ‘Don't Peopy in Your Pant’ and countless more. ‘So, who Cass probably didn't got his wch-doctor rickname ator administering too much pary mecicine during rehearsals, he's stl keeping tight-Ippedt about its actual orgins. I would bo giving up too ezsiy rot to try and solve anther mystery though, 20 here goes. Where cid the band isa get such an elaborate moniker? Not forthe fst tine, the Phenomenal Handclaps look ke thoy havo just bean acked a stupid question "Wel? Cols Srl answers, “lapping isthe boat form cf appreciation tera is, And this band ls phenomenalSee Pate rete! 100809 DALLAS: The Palladium Ballroom De Reel Ua era kos ao hc ha Te) H U MI BUG acd : i THE ALBUM croton ee col 25 AUGUST 2009 aN Rey 2 eoppeesy comet rr ew dminrecrdco.s Bai ba Nivatecmonkos.com Eas]8 eee LaoBOTH ON SCREEN AND OFF, SCOUTHTAYLOR=COMPTON HAS LOOKED DEATH IN THE FACE. BY KATE WILLIAMS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ISA WIPFLI ‘SCOUT TAYLOR. COMPTON wasnt ike othor kids-that much is clear. “Las vory hyper child the 20-year-old actress says.“ od alot. would come up with stories Of the top of my head to try 10 get out oF something, or just because | wanted to Her mother thought acting might be a good oul for the poetic cen her daughter often took with realy, and soon the preteen had 2 resume fll of bst part in indie ‘movies and TV dramas. “We tried 1o do the whole Disney route, but it wasnt me” she recalls. "I didnt grasp that overthe-top sense of humor | always wanted to be ‘setious. wanted fo show diferent emotions” “To dete, Taylor-Compton has demonstrated a talent for one emotion in paticulr: abject tere After she appeared in homer films Wicked Lite Things (2008), about Undead children trapped underground, and An American Crime (2007), in which a ‘suburban housewie tortures a teenage gi for kicks, Rob Zombve cast her the lead in his 2007 reprise of Hallowsen. The baby sister of paychopath Michael Myers, Laurie Stross was onginaly pled by "70s lust abjact lame Lee Curt, nti Taylor Compton ‘camo toil the character's blcoc-splatered shoes. And with even more hort fms on the horizon, sh i et to become her generation's promigr scream quoen. t's tile for hich Taylor-Compton is particulary welhauited. "When | was lite, my mom would always have me watch scary movies" she says. ‘Tm nat realy scared of scary movies ‘Alot of ny trends are, but | eal, reall ike ther. | guess | ike seeing other people (get scared-t have alle giggle, especially when it's my oun movie” ‘Such an atitude may be surprising comng rom someone with a breathless, baby vwice, but not someane who also happens to be an undertaker’ daughter. “My dad needed a job when he was younger, so he stated out sweeping a mortuary oor But he got interested in he field and became 2 corner, then tared his ow mortuary? Taylor Compton is more animated when discussing ths than anything else. “He ceed a mortuay in Bishop [Calfomial, and used to go there all the time. twas relly sad, {especealy when my dad would have to tll the family fhow somebody died] didn't Ike that port of t-but everything ese, ind fascinating My father could figure out who dis the murder or how somathng happened, or get a body to look exactly ike what the person once locke lke [hen they were alvel-ny dad ie amazing" Before actng, she ‘wanted to follow him nto the profession. it was the only thing {knew she says, ‘and [wanted to be ike my dack Some people just don't Ike and | can understand tha [But | thought tas eco), and I think martcians deserve slot of erect. They do alot for people” TaylorCompton has limited herself o horror, taking roles in teen romcoms Love at Fast Hiecup and Love Ranch, the latter with Joo Pest! and Helen Mirren and set in a brotha that has her playing Pese's prostitute lover. Sho also reunited with Zombie 0 fim Halloween 1! n Georgi, a two-month shoot she descrbes as “brutal but exciting” "Vel ike l was bipolaron set she says. *! was always angry of sad or pissed of It was ealy a project for my acting, eepecially becaue Rob knows me and trusts mo te do my avn character development Taylor Compton descrbes Zombie as fami’ "1 wear werd things, Ike Rob”) and reached cut o him to help lend her curent project, The Runaways. "He talked me through and really helped & ot, especially when | had to Yeam bass and guitar” she faye. Before landing the rele of ta Fora Taylor Compton audtaned for Sandy West and for Joan Jett, which famously went to Kristen Stewart. “h was along process” she faye. They really iked me, and were uet tying to find which character ff me. They found out and here am Hor rola n The Runaivays will undoubtedly rekindle intrest in tho fact that Taylor ‘Compton was herself 2 teenage runaway, disappearing for to weoks in 2008, made national headlines. and MSNBC report that sho dyed hor hai lack and slot in a park. Most grown man would be aghast a sleeping alone culdoors. Wasnt she don't rally remembor too much abeut i! she says of “the whole runaway thng” “it was just a mistake, and | leaned trom it” she continues. ‘My parents and Ilaugh about now, but I thank them everyday for not lacking me in the house ater that situation?GET U STAND “SEAWBONES 1s BRINGING REGGAE BACK WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM...NORAH JONES? BY KEVIN O'DONNELL. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ELIZABETH WEINBERG POP MUSIC is littered with artists who've tried to bust out their best reggae moves~sometimes for the boettor (the Clash) and sometimes forthe worse (Seow, anyone?). Sean Sullvan ie ene more dics trying to Ut his own spin on Jamaica's mast enduring style of Tus wih his new act, Sean Bones. And he actually just might pull oft No one 9 more shocked than Sullivan himsel People are generally mystified when Hell them what 'm doing" he says, sipping a whiskey and soda at a New York City dive bar one recent fvaning. “They just con't belive t." For years, the 27-year-old Brooklyn resident tolled as a guitarist for the indie-pop group Sam Champion, wich was widely acclaimed after the release of ts Second alburs, Heavenly Bender Gut when that buzz falecto tum into success, the members decided to put the group on ice. So Sulivan retuned to hs teenage passion: reggae. “Td always played in rock bands, and fe got toa point where | waa lose and loss inforested | would go home after playing arc just siento reggae, W's rough and jagged and soul’ says Sulivan ofhis love forthe genre. "Whenever I heart just makes me mia” His bane's debut record, Ringe ia shockingly Solid party-starter: 10 breezy mellow jams propelled by eyncopated rica, Hammond B3 otaba, and spiky guitars. Is the perloct soundtack toa summor hibachi Barboque on th fre oscape. Sulivan started the group mostl 2s aone-of: He pressed vinj copies ofthe single “Easy Steat to give way as ftoobies wih his burgeoning line of men's Swimsuits called S/S Friends, But the revered ince label Frenchkiss (home to Passion Pit and the Hold Steady) loved hi tracks, and within months Sulivan had acored deal. "That was totally unexpocted! he says. "But i's totaly fecking awesome!” N Sulvans interest in reggae culture rune deep: He's starring in the upcoming ine fick Wah Da Dem, which also features Norah Jones and mombere of MGMT fand Yeasayer. Currently on the festival circut, Wah Do Dam chronicles a broken hearted guy's travels through Jamaica. Wie fiming the movie there last Novernber, Sullivan shoopishly approached Jones about centribuling some vocals to "Turn Thom, the let frack on Rings. "The drectora were tying fe gether to sing a bunch of songs forthe soundiracs," saya Sullvan, “She was really backpedaling, saying, '1do too many cameos, and im just ryng io chil out’ But then they played her my jong, and sho was lik, “ove tia totally do it" Hanging around in Jamaiea, Sullivan felt insecure admiting to local musicians that he wae making a reggae record="I had a complex about what | was doing, he says-but that dit stop him from at least rying to turn some reggae bands on te his cound. "I gave the mombors ofthe Congos my record" says Sullivan. ‘But "have no idea i they ever listened to it. They probably just use tas an ashtray or fa coaster of something,”JOHNNY WHITNEY has alt to explain. As one of the frontmen of seminal Seattle post-hardcore band the Blood Brothers, he screamed his way through 10 yeats of chaos, only to end up ronting a decidedly mare pop-oxented band called, curcusiy, Jaguar Love. “Ths end of ths Blood Brothers wae very complicated and also very personal \Whitney explains. “The thing that mad us great was that we all had very different ‘musical estes and ideas about what constituted good music. Everybody had to Compromise a ite. But when itwas good, the end result was something utterly tiiqus because of our polarized views. The key words there being "when it was good” After a decade of making tliscord sound cool, the band split up when the cifferences between the ‘members proved too great. Thanktuly, Whitney shared a similar vison ofthe future wth Blocel Brothers gutarst Cody Vetolate,and the duo began writing songs in the summer of 2007 for what would utimstely become Jaguar Love's fot album, Take Moto the Sea, which was released by Matadorin August 2008, “The bulk of the inital ideas forthe songs on Take Me tothe Sea were mitten by Cody and me when we vie stil in Blood Brother,” saye Whatnoy was coming up with maybe two or three songs, musically speaking, for each Blood Brothers record. So when wo split, [had a huge backlog of songs that never got used for anything. When Cody and I got together to write, itwas prety easy because alot oft was just figuring out arrangements for those existing song structures.” NNoatl a year later, Whitroy and Votolato reconvened to work onthe follow up record. "We started writing toa drum machine which seemed to suit the naw material beter than a lve drummar’ Witney says, "The new stuff isa lot more dencey” This, of course, i eomething that may require justification to some of his eatlor band’s devoted fans. Are hardcore and ‘dancay" appropriate bedfellows? Hell, why nat? According to Whitney, there has always bean a bit of lash beneath his surface, parnaps best exerplied by his work s the creatorowner of the Crystal Cty Clothing line. Crystal Cty was launched! in 2008 as an bulet for the Blood Brothers (and later, Jaguar Love) merchandise as well as \Whiney’s peripheral ideas. “My design aesthetic has always been weighted MUSIC IS JUST ONE OF THE THINGS THE MEMBERS OF GAGUARILOVE GET UP TO. BY KAREN RUTTER. PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHRIS LANG towards the big, bright, and laa." he says “v9 abwaye lived by the code that you want people to be abla to S20 shit from amile away and instal identify with your band” ‘Thus the pomp and bell ynths of Jaguar Lovste new material should come af no surprise. Also not Surprising the myriad of influences onthe Jaguar Love sound. “Al the moment, my biggest writing influences are Daft Punk, Prince, John Jaca Nios, the Killa, Ne Young, and Li Wayne," he says. And yes, while at ft may seem bizare to namecheck one of America's prolific folk balladeers in the same sentence es Las Voges! finest thestroal rocker, lstening tothe band!’s ‘matenal, makes periect senss. "think everything inopires everything," Whitney muses. "I would count the Nortnest aa the biggest non-muscalinuence on Jaguar Lov. Ithink the overwhelming amount of tees, iresh ir, the constant slate gray sky...t all knits together tomate the perfect envionment for an artot to tive ‘And thrive they do. As the band writes and records, crosses the county on tour and churns out Crystal Giy merchandise, Whiney stilfinds time for another artistic puri. “Tm ofthe opinion thal f you can do one form ofr, you can do them a. started writing @ novel this year, and Ive Been using alot ofthe same ereatve techniques and inspiration acquring methodology that [use fr writing music and designing for wring fction Whitney's inapirations are just aa varied in fiction a8 thay are in his music collection, avidencsd by citing liners including Arthur Rimbaud and Syvia Plath W's {proliferation of ideas that could explain the frenetiiom ofboth Jaguar Love's syle and Whhney's general aide towesrds creation, “Semstimes you just ned to valk ‘away f an ea isnt working’ he says, "Sometimes the ‘momentum ofa ingle moment of inspiration produces btter art than hours of labor and ti.” And thus the secret of his succass-or, more spectically the secret of his ability to abandon one form of success (that would be Blood Brothers) for something eticly diferent hat ‘would be Jaguar Love)-has boon revealed,INTER: GALACTIC ‘YES, THAT WAS KATY PERRY YOU WERE DANCING TO LAST NIGHT. MEET UP-AND-COMING REMIXER STARSWITH, THE MAN RESPONSIBLE. BY KIM TAYLOR BENNETT. PHOTOGRAPHED BY LEO CACKETT JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR, Staromith has nothing to do with Songemih, the Microsoft songuastng application that claims, “Everyone has @ song inside" Unieashed in January, the computer giant's attempt to offer smplitic alternative to Apple's GarageBand radically backired when, insteed of nputing orginal a cappella and letting the computer program music around it, some people be fetering real songs nto the software. A val phenomenon began, a YouTube {quickly became clogged wh videos of hit songs versus Songemith. Thus "Rie the UUghinsng” by Mtaliea morphe from fy lled ravi into amos Hatfiela backed by ‘computer-generated twee pop, and Queen's "We Wil Rock You" goes calypso. “Thasrd about Songamith afte chose the nama, and Iwas lk, "Oh my God, ths isthe worst thing” says gangly Fin Dow Smith (aca. Stars), laughing, “Tim not inpired by orafitated with Micrasoit in any way!" Stl, Smith has mere in common withthe Songsrith meres than he might think ‘The recent musi collage graduate has guid Intemat notorsty with his super slick, synth-slathered remaces, such as a re-working of Katy Perry's “I Kissed a Git ‘which hit the No.1 spot on Hype Machine. But it was entering a competition to remix Kitsune signed German slectro act Digtalsm back in October 2008 that really steep wth 18 remixes, in the past four months for everyone from buzzed about artists lke Little Boot Marina andthe Diamonds, and Paloma Fath to Boy Crisis, Frankmmusik, and Bombay me the go-to guy for emerging acts in sear banger makeover. Taka, a8 an example, Danish band Prvate's amash *My Sacret hd him hookc. Since then, his leaming curve has bes Bicycle Club. Hea be Lover” which he transformed from a louche, funky groove nto an eruption of stttered beats, Wen Smith started his degre, tho rative LLondoner-a sax player from age 10-assumed hold end up a music teacher, butt seeme the unvorse had other ideas “love nol being ble to.eae when my nent day off'3"he says, Judging from his glittering remixes, ¢ would be ‘easy to aosume that Smith isan 80e fanatic, but he's quick to shrug it oft. "There's @ lot of people domg aynthy music that draws inspiration fom tu ‘808 stu, but Gon hhoassers. “My music knowledge of electro ig realy rezent-the last nine years. | was born in 1988, The only musi remember from ny childhood is hore 90s trance!” a9 older brother Jake's love for Digitalism that sparked his interest in Daft Purk and Justice. ‘nd hs frendship with 22:yearcld Vincent Frank better known as Frankmusik-which stared ftom fom a MySpace message, hae proven invaluable, “heard his tack In Stop” athe boginning ‘of 2008 when twas more af a guitar landscape" ‘says Smith. "t sounded! so musical, co synthy, that it mace mo thik differently. Ho was crazy busy recording his album, but he stil 1ook time to send really dataled emails about my tracks, Now, wale ‘ot ust music triends, we're good mates, too" ‘Ata recent shaw epening for Frankmusik, ‘Smith met Imogen Heap, another artist he'd been ‘convarsing witha Tuer. "Shes ons of my ical, ‘and spent the night dancing with her," he says. Fatterwarda, | bought her a kebab!" A Staramith shaped Heap remix may well bein the works With his remaing carear off and running, ‘Smith intends to concent ‘xiginal material; although some performed ive with fiend Seye« {are sil so embryonic there's no trace nine. *Now that ve finished university, hav ‘work out how to balance producing, remix and wrting-finding myself and my sound.” Sill he's recently ound time to produce and write with newcomer Elie Goulding, acing her delicate folkish sound with his own di edge (listen to the fabulous “Starry Eyed"). ‘Would this so proclaimed John Mayer an (yes, really) fancy a Stuart Price-type career? "Tad jove to be him!" Smith says. play one of his romizos from when he was 20 in my DJ sat, 80 'm hoping in 10 years someone wil be playing one ol my mixes. And of course, love to work with big pop stars. Everyone has to start somewhere, but everyone has to be given the chance. One chance Gan make the rest of your career”LAST YEAR, 27 yearald rapper Rob Roy was jabless, staying ata hinds place in North Hollywood, anc living off ha-eaten food his roommate threw In the garbage. Things began lo look up when Roy got a job at Trader Joes, thon his lvig situation fll apart." ended up crashing on the couch of some guy! herely knew who lved in the mile of Mexican ghetto in Van Nu,” Roy recalls cheerfuly, between bites of a panini ata cate in New York City's West Vilage, "I don't have a car, 20 | was biking to work. It took three to four hour” This © usually the part ofthe story when the aspring arta retreats back home, broken, #o borrow money fom his parents, but Roy refused to return to Jacksonvile, Florida, where he grew up.I came to Los Angeles with one pack of Hanes white Tshirts, a dingy pat of jeans, and black Nikes that were so worn they looked ike they wore about fo do one of those hand -puppet gestures,” Roy says. "But knew if put myself the position and did't leave, | woulda’ fail” He was right. This spring, the video for Roy’ frst single, Fur in My Cap ‘appeared featured homemade boats and drawed vocal rominiscont of Roy's hero, Andre 3000, and Roy hamming i up forthe camera. The clip made Kary ‘West's blog, and sucsely everyone frm Justin Timberlake to Crs Brown w expressing interest in Roy's work. The rappers rise is reflective ofa new model in the musi bsinase, one in which you brand youreell rt and worry about thnge ikea recerd doa later, Roy may atilbe shopping fora label to eleasa his debut album, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover whseh features spaced aut R&B. crooning inaddton to more ofthe brash, wey low we heard on the singe, but he already has hi own enoaker, a deconstructed take on the classic Converoa high top. Roy started off asa paitor. He went to art school and was centemplating going for his master's degree when he realized he needed a medium thet could make a more immediate impact. I felt ike what | had to say would hit more people fastr if gave thom music,” the rapper says, then laughs. “Maybe Ijust have a fale sence of importance about wht Ihave to say" Before long, Ray was working two day jobs~stocking clothes at an Express and tearing tickets IT’S A LONG WAY FROM TRADER JOE'S TO PHARRELL CALLING YOUR CELL, AND ROBIROY HAS TAKEW IT ALL IN STRIDE, BY LIZZY GOODMAN. PHOTOGRAPHED BY LAUREN WARD st a movi theater-while playing the clown on stage at night wih his allAsian hip-hop group. Even after he met his producing parner, Luke Walker, and decided to {gt serious, Roy til found hme! lured back into the Sls void of aulaurban 4p in Florida, “it's lke being Stranded on the island of th sirens” Roy laments, "They're lke, ‘Oh, i's cool, stay here! Well provide you with res alcohol, ree antyinta clube res hooking tip’ a very comfortabla ts very famine, and people don't expect you to do anything because they're not doing anything” 'Now that he's finaly out, away from the deachend jobs, catty music scene, and complacency of heme, Roy should be all about celebrating. But when he asks iferdering sandwich now precludes geting dinnor fn the corporate card later, t's clear he sll fels he's {got 2 hustle to survive From the outside, ik Holy shit, the Entourage music producer wants to use *Carmancita’ in one ofthe episodes, and fucking Paral called your phone. Ime back home would have hear those things about someone eee, I would have been ike, Oh, he made,” Roy says. I's funny, with the exception of exe, nating in life ever quite what you imagined it tobe. Everything ele isjust lke, That was #2" 'm not saying Im not stoked. very stoked. But people got crazy. They start trippi’ and [But keep very much to myse. Im not as outspoken as photograph BOBBY RAY, aka, B.., flew from Los Angeles to London for a show last spring, but wher he got there, ane thing was missing. "We did't krow we had ta have visas! he remembers, "We vated in the sirport basement for haute, They searched our luggage, then took us toa holding cel. We were like, "OK, 80 do we get to 90 in?” They did't Ray and hi crow wore shipped back to the States Traveling just one aggravation over which the 20-yearol from Decatur, Georgia, recently contemplated quiting rap. Citing a lye fom Santigola's "LES. Arictes (lean say Thope t will be worth what | give up"), Ray explains: “She's taking about hal you sacrifice to make it Whan | wes going through my frustrating phase, look [St othor artista and be ike, How ean they dt for 80 long” Now, | ty nat fo focus on what | on ko anc jut craate something good out oft? Rey was diacovered at age 114-when he was na group with his cousins called the Klinic-performing the reefer ‘ede "Cloud 0” a T's Cub Crucial in Alana. I 2008, Ray signed to Alans Record, ‘and in“07, croppad the peculiarly ightheerted mintapa,M)..y Name is Bob, He frst Studio album, The Ackantures of Bonby Ray, 8 due out this year on T's Grand Hustla, imprint ara finds him playing guitar and piano, singing, and rhyming lke Andre 3000— wrth ail more weed references, This dveraiy in talent has earned him propa fram Eminem, but Ray remains unfazad. "Really, the only thing tha can do fo change hip haps t ust continue baing mse! he says. photographed by zack ariasSWIM FA ACTRESS SHANTELWVANSANTEN MADE OUT WITH MISCHA BARTON AND ‘YOU DIDN'T. BY DIANE VADINO. PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN MAXWELL IV ‘SWIMSUIT MODELS TURNED-ACTRESSES aren't typically the most sympathetic creatures on earth, but there's something stanly Hkeable about Shantel VanSanton, who stars inthe fourth intalment of the Final Destination franchise. Take har view on that swimsuit modeling debut, on NBL's realty show Sports llustated Swimsuit Model Search. “Iwas 19 when | did tha, and! would go on these websites and read what people wrots and just cry! the says now, n between shooting scenes forthe new season of One Tres Hil, on which shel play Haley's sister Quinn. “They were lke, This gl can't even wear a bathing aut-she hae ne boobs.” Or consider her mistaken identity runving withthe paparazzi: "Thay always think im someone alse ike Ashloe ‘Simpson or one ofthe Olean,” VanSantan aaye.There waa this guy who ran through this laundromat | was at, taking pictures. had no idea what was going on, if he was an art student or something. Five or six more showed up, co! want out the back door, ike, “That was the weirdest thing aver! Later on my friend called me up eaying there was apicturo of Mary Kate Olsen that looked lke me~and it was mein one of those things, lke, “stars ae just Ike us. at the laundromat VVanSanton, who was bor in Luverne, Minnescta, sounds rlioved to be fining One Tree billin Wimington, North Carolina at a healthy remove from the Los Angeles scene. She found even mare distance from the city when she spent ve months in Moscow shooting You and |, whichis due out noxt year. She plays an American tgenager who becomes involved, romantically find creatively, with a Russian-accented Miacha Barton. i's based, however improbably, on the book LAT.u. Came Back, about the sinee-cisbanded Slavic gl group and is rected, equally improbably, by The Kiling Fields' Roland Jota. “tvs a really ruta, sye-opening experience, shooting in Russia,” she says, "Bek Mischa wes great [just wanted to ston and pick her brain about what her ile has been lke. The paperezz rp her to pieces, ‘She'd offer me a shet and be like, "| wear this again, theyre going to destroy me.” VanSanten tried to make the most of her time in Moscow, tagging along with Si. Petersburg-bom castmate Anton Yelchin. "But it was hard. Once, a cab driver and | go into a fight-he ripped! my neckiace off, and | puncned him. | have 8 many stores lke that" VanSanten says. twas a Felict, then, to return tothe States, where she's since shot Something Wicked, with Britany Murphy, and this month's Tha Final Dastinatian, whore at least her violent scenes svete choreographed. "The guy ‘who playe my boyriond ie the ane who has all the ppremonitions, 30 ce in all those cifferent ways” she Saya. it's areal dans, the choreography of those Scones, where youre going todo his, this, this, and this, andin between you're going to need to seream and cry and cough up blocd!" She can vouch forthe firs versie: “They showed me some oft, and "actually threw up,” VanSanton says "1 was lic, wil totaly go to tho promioro, but I don't think | ezn watch that again.”LUST ANU FOUND TAKE ONE GUY FROM VAMPIRE WEEKEND AND ONE GUY FROM RA RA RIOT AKO YOU HAVE DISCOVERY, WHICH SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE EITHER. BY NISHA GOPALAN. PHOTOGRAPHED BY GREGORY LEE LYNCH FOR A BAND to succeed, acortin hermony must exist between the members They shoula ahare common goals, possess a sila ail eet-but mostly, ‘they've got to have chemistry, Rostam Batmanglj and Wes Miles did not have chemistry when they fret met, through Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koong at a Now Yoar's Eve partyin 2004. “We dict get along that wel explaine Batmangh, the giggly, much more tative haf of aynth poppe Discovery, who have ust dropped thei debut, (PI's 11 aim. and the bandmates are siting in caf in Brookiyn-where they ive in separate apartments sipping fn teas with elaborate names ke Drom Mountain White Cloud, There's Brot pause, than a chorus of hearty guffaws. Batmangll continues: di’ ike Wes for long time. ust did't think anyone could be that...incere: Discovery formed two yea later The twosome had eet aside their acur ret imprescions aftr partaking in a singalong at a mutual nds place. Atthat romant, proclaims Batrangli, I knaws we could befriends fora longtime" Over the next thee years the) found success in other acts-keyboarcst progremmar \ocallat Batmanglj with Vampire Weekend, singer Mice with Ra Re Rict-but continued to hammer away at songe under the Discovery moniker, 90 named by Mins because * sounded “swasoma,""l wanted to start a band called Discovery with people playing keyboards," he says shyly a thicket of blond curls ‘obscuring his eyes. “This was probably in 2004, | thought it would have, been neat atthe time." Interjects Batmangli, “That waa before Passion Pit!” ‘That wasn’, however, tore the Postal Service, tha makesh group to \which Discovery are most compared. Whie there are simartias to the ater in P's sweet aynth palpitations, there isa unique restlessness in the vay these tracks trker impiahly with genres: techno ("Osaka Loop Line"), pop ("I Warna Be Your Boytnarcl”fasturing Dity Projectors’ Angel Daradooran, reggae ("Slang Tang"), and hip-hop ("Carb featuring Koenig). “At some point t became berating to aay, "OK, we're going to sing harmonies, use handclaps, fuzzy synths," Batmanghj says, Mention the album's dabt to R&B, and hel ge ful geek, extoling Usher's vocal dextety-before humming “U Gott Bad” to drive that point home. To achiove an urban aesthetic on songe such 38 ‘Can You Discover?” the cua tured o Auto Tune the embattled vocal-ptch-correcting application recentiy dorded by Jay-Z in hs rack "D.O.A, (Death of Auto Tune.” Says Miles, “One of Rostan’s eatchphrases is ‘Shit in, shit out" Huh? “Like, you're using Auto Tunes to Coverup shit, you're going to get shit" They cite Kanye West's 803 & Heertbreak-named efter the Roland TR-808 drum machine, ikewise found on LP fs an example of tachnology’s artiulness (though i ie worth noting that West produced °D.0.A). When ‘808s came out, my haart dropped alta’ eaye Batmangli, "That was the kind of album we were tying fo make" There’ a brie ul uni he ones ut, I Auto ict this be the death knell!” Miles looks at ‘and cracks up. ‘Athoat, Discovery is about stoking curiosities and having fun, 0 the two frontmen wil aocept nothing lass fora lve show. That is also wy they haven" planned ‘on actually performing on stage. (As such, Vampire ‘Weekend are currently inthe studio, and Raa Ra Riot have embarked on a tour) Stil the previous night, they attended a Devid Bye concert thal featured peculiar props and coordinated outfits-and ideas started percolating. "The whole thing wae ike @ spectacie,” Files marvels, Batmangl turns him. "n that =a | ent you, was tke, We can have lasers and dancers: Lots of them: Tightly choreographed to the rhythm. ‘They could all be wearing yellow raincoats,” he says, imagining ther projact finaly coming to Ifa °Mayos well geta chance todo t. At some point.”\ JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITTby calvin klein ol Lip’ Lim‘The former child star, best known to the general public as that wise-cracking, geeky kid from 3rd Rock From the Sun, has since morphed into a rather intense young man-llawlesely playing everyone from a sexually abused gay hustler in Mysterious Skin (2004) to a suicide Iraq War vet in Stop-Loss (2008). He sits down at a wroughtiton table, physically unassuming in a red, White, and blue plaid button-down, baggy jeans, skate sneakers, and a pair of black-tramed, rectangular glasses, The cars whiz by, creating a white roise that makes it impossible to have a relaxed conversation. Gordon-Levitt squints out into the street and says in his gravelly voice, “Wel, there are other places we could walk to-there’s a Subway down the block” What? As in, fve-dallarfootlongs? But just when he sees how excited this writer might bee at the prospect of slumming it-the drinks are sel-service!—with an actor who has a tendency to come off in most interviews as articulate but absolutely no fun, he shifts in his seat and rethinks the plan. ‘I don't know he says, hesitantly. "| ahvays get embarrassed when I read these things back, and it talks about what we're eating” Hmm. “Tm overly sensitive to the ‘emphasis being in the wrong place’ he clarifies. "t's a pet peeve of mine. I'm happy to speak publicly about what I do—meaning the movies I'm in. But |'m not particulary proud about anything else about myself, and don't really enjay taking about it publicly. It comes aff as selfimportant! Gordon-Levitt raises these concerns ina very palit, diplomatic manner, and, in person, he actually has an easygoing way about him that suggests he's open to-a point-counter-point repartee. Once | suggest that writing about what an interview subjact is doing, eating, wearing, whatever, is not gratuitous but analogous to setting the scene in a screenplay, he tts his head and muses, "That's a good point” Cut to him inline at the sandwich shop, ordering cilantro and avocado on his footlong sub two ingredients, he notes, not offered at locations in New York City, where the actor spends ‘much of his time) and claiming a corner table. ‘This summer, Gordon-Levitt stars in two films that, while completely ‘opposite in creative scope-the ant-love story (500) Days of Summer and action smash-up G1. Joe: The Rise of Cobra-add some levity to the actor's résumé of dark roles. In Summer, the audience is even treated to the guy acting downright silly as Tom, opposite Zooey Deschanel's Summer, ‘complete with 2 drunken karaoke version of the Phies’ ‘Here Comes Your ‘Man’ and a choreographed dance number. "The script had a lat more layers than your average Hollywood romantic comedy’ he says. Indeed, the ‘wo characters don't end up together, for one, and gender roles are tumed fon their heads, for another. The guy believes in the concept of a universe- ‘combusting, once-in-elifetime connection with Tne One, while the git views monogamy as a delusional form of codependency. ‘I think, at the beginning, he has an immature perspective on what love is” Gordon-Levitt notes. “He's possessive and puts this girl on a pedestal and thinks tha hs life will bbe meaningful f she loves him. He wants a relationship to fll in as an excuse for what he doesn't ike about himself, and that's not love, To me, love is something a ttle more selfless a litle stronger, than that” The movie premiered at Sundance in January, and if you watch YouTube clips of Gordon-Levit at the festival-where his directorial debut, the short film Sparks, also screened-he looks positively giddy to be in his element. He is also clearly excited about something else: nthe videos, he sports a red“EVERYONE GETS FUCKED WITH IN HIGH SCHOOL. WAS FUCKED WITH BECAUSE | WAS ON TV Obama T-shirt, and when asked by a reporter about the President's, inauguration speech (which had just taken place), he describes watching it as “the most emotional, cathartic experience Ive had since... can't remember" Bom and raised in Los Angeles by liberal, acthist parents—his dad was tho news editor at local racio station KPFK, and his mom wrote the newsletter (which was a bigger deal before...the Internet” he says with a laugh) Gordon-Levit, along with his older brother, Daniel, had a more politically informed upbringing than most kids. "My parente weren't so much into the flower-power thing, but yeah, they definitely wore...er, actually, there are some preity hippievish pictures” he admits, sling. “They taught my brother and me a lot of that stuf-just simple things, like to share? The boys were also encouraged to treat everyone as equals~that no one is “better (or worse for this oF that reason’ Today, Gordon-Levitt speaks knowledgeably ‘about the questionable ethics of megacorporations, and draconian copyright laws, and is especially psyched tha, thanks to Whitehouse.goy, he can look at Obama's financial statements on his phone. "Everyday he shines a light Con eomething that prior administrations~and net just Republicans-would not share with the American people, Or not"—he snaps his fingers in rapid-fire succession-‘so instantly. That's awesome. That's why I'm really excited about being alve right now. We have a new ability to communicate that could really elevate us But don't mistake his wide-eyed enthusiasm for naiveté, “Politics isa show’ he declares, "Any ime I see anything-a debate or a hearing in CCongross—it just reminds mo of what | do [laughs]. Obama is an actor-he's ‘good actor~and I mean that in the best way, | don't think that means ‘that he’s untrue or anything. Is a certain skill to be able to speak and have people understand you" ‘Acting, he says, was an interest thal stemmed from after-school activitos he took part in while in kindergarten. In between playing soccer and doing gymnastics, he enrolled in a musical-theater program, and started going (on aucltions. I actualy was always better at serious stuff when | was young!” he says. Around that time, he sterted studying with an acting coach who, he says, greatly informed his style, even to this day. "it was about realistically being someone else. And you're just going to be exactly that person, no ‘more, no less” But being so young, he had to make do with the famiy-nendly roles on offer, including one as an annoying, clingy kid on Roseanne. Then, at 15, he landed his biggest break-a part on 3rd Rock. He soon branched ‘ut into movies, such as 10 Things J Hate About You and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. He won his first weighty role in 2001's Manic, a drama about 8 group of disturbed tesnagers in a mental facility. “lt fel ike, fucking finally, what Ive wanted to do since | was seven, I'm finaly getting to doit” His, maturity and talent were undeniable; a couple of years eatier, on the The Daily ‘Show, Jon Stewart told him he was "the oldest 18-year-old I've ever met” before adding that the actor made him "more nervous than almost anybody ve ever talked to? “its go funny that | got to go on lthe program] before it really tured into what it is: this kind of enormously important, iconic thing” says Gordon-Levit, ‘who was a harmonal ball of energy in the segment, asking if he could take his shoes off before untying one of them, and also lying down on the chairlke @ psychiatric patient, “That was definitely one of the most fun interviews, ‘over. It fel like, ‘OK, let's have some fun and do a bit” And while Gordon-Levitt, ‘may have had enough savvy at that age to effectively market a movie on a national tak show and keep up with one of the deftest comedians around, his childhood was not spent in a media-trained bubble. Growing up, he made ita point to attend school and be around ather kids as much as he could. He leans into my recorder and says, “f there are any young actors reading this, my biggest piece of advice to you is don't home school” He also recognizes the importance of being made fun of as an exercise in character building, “When you're at school, you get treated differently than when you're with your parents, just being in class having people fuck with you. Everyone gets fucked within high school. | was fucked with because | was on TV. And | think if you're not used to that, the world can be pretty harsh’ he says, crediting his fiends at Van Nuys High~a group he ie sill close to-with eventually making him a “hallway decent guy’ Apparently, he wasn't so nice back than. "I was probably a it of a dick? he says. "I mean, not a dick, but| had very simplistic, land strong feelings about things, and right and wrong, | was not too senstive to things being more nuanced and complicated” Once he graduated, Gordon-Levitt ook a break from acting to attend CColumibia University in New York, where he studied French, Although he went back to work before earning his degree, he struck up an infatuation with French film while he was there. "Atleast half the reasons aren't intellectual? he says of his fondness for le cinema.“ just lke, ‘Ah, that’s $0 cool It looks ‘awesome! And to be honest, | totaly have a fetish for girls who are speaking French-I spend the whole movie turned on” He lists Brigitte Bardot, Anna Karina, and Catherine Deneuve among his favorites. "Or!" he says, suddenly animated. “™ really excited because Marion Cotillard isin Inception [an upcoming Christopher Nolan fim that Gordon-Levitt has a part in). I'm ‘excited to meet her” He then lets out something of schoolboy giggle. *Paris is a beautiful city’ he continues, ‘and look a the city | grew up in? He points through the white window shade, made somi-ransparont by the {gleaming sun-to the barren parking ot outside. "I love LA. for what itis, but it's not Paris” Especially not when you find yourself, ke Gordon-Levitt did the previous year when he last paid a viet to the City of Light, posing beside ‘Claudia Schiffer for a fashion pictorial “It was an unspeakably fantastic suit and pocket Sguare by rag 3 hone, ‘shirt by lova Shoas by repett socks by paul smi! tie by ca‘xporionce twas a crazy, crazy day in my Ie...” He pauses and sucks in is breath, asi stilin awe. “Any time I had a moment alone, I was just laughing tomy, ke, This i realy happening right now! Gordon-Levit is well on his way fo becoming ¢ thinking women's sex symbol, not the least Because, well, dorks don't get to pose with German supermodels, There ae also shirless ‘paparazzi pictues of him al over the web recently, taken on the set of Hesher (whichis produced by and corstars Natale Portma), Tal im that one female blogger labeled him the “uimate man candy’ ard he gets pretty embarrassed. He uters alt of ers and ums and finally says" remember realizing, when | was playing the par in Mysterious Skin, how much overlap there was between 4 prostitute anc an actor. | was puting alt of thought into what it would be lke to have sex for money. I's realy similar ina lot of ways, because you kind ‘of have to play a role and eatisty your audience, And absolutely have thom be attracted to you" ‘That particular appeal willbe a moot point in Gi. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, ‘a8 GordowLevit is hidden behind a mask. “I get in the makeup chaie and a few hours later look in the mirror, andit's not me. That's crazy. That's candy for me. Like, that's what | get off on-being something I'm not, and getting to shift around ad change! Hie translormation ito Cobra Commander proved a welcome break from his more serious fare. “I's the kind of acting where you're not tying to be real. You're tying to be something bigger 0 ‘mote fantastic than realy ls just this really crazy, fun thing” But tho $170 milion blockbuster wll most certainly increase his Caleb prole, disguised identity or not. And celebriy is a word Gordon-Levit loathes.“t undermines \wihat Igo and! do al day he says. "reall try to make movies as good as can, and create a convincing character who means something to me and ‘maybe other people. The notion of celebnty is kind of saying, Al that doesn't ‘matter. We're not interested in tho story yout trying to tll. What interests si you, your name, Joseph Gordor-Levit, uote-unguote, and who you're dating or what you're eating or..." he trails off, “Ard to mo, that’ ke, ‘Wow, ‘8 youre saying what | ove and spend so much time caring about is irelovant ‘and doesn't matter? Fuck you, too.” But alot of people do care~about acting, about directing, about creating in general~and Gordon-Levit isthe frst one in ne to encourage them. He launched his website, Htrecord.org, back in '99 as a pleco for him to post his own stuf, avin discovered Final Cut Pro shorly bole. A fow year later, software was added (brother Danial handles the tech sie) that alowed Users to upload orginal content, ranging from videos to drawings to music. ‘The concept was forthe whole thing to tur into a collaborative art project, with evenone tweaking everyone else's work-adding a soundtrack, animation, Whatever. It tuned out really great, and people wore really cool to each other and supportive and cooperative” he says of the subsequent remixing ‘The site has since grown and evolved, with certain “records* as they'e referred to among users, geting as many as 100,000 hits. But perhaps the ‘mostinspiring, arresting, ard intriguing thing on there isa video of Gordon- Levitt answering the question, "Why do hit record?” in the clip, he sits against a black backdrop, spoaking directly into a camera, eropped trom the shoulders down, i's as good a monologue as he's ever donehis expressions varying widly-lips spread wide into Blisful smile ane second, pursed in cconsteration the next. He works the beats of his words, lets pauses linger inallthe right places. Then come the lines, "Records are a way for me to know that I'm there. Because otherwise | could just sort of exist here in my ‘own head and..how would | ever ebay know that was theo at al” Cynics ‘could view this as pretentious, maddeningly seltindulgent, and affected. But there's a stunning tuthfulness and strking vulnerability to it. And—more than asking him questions at a fat-ood jain for two houro~i reveals the most honest glimpse at who the real, not quote unquote, Joseph GordomLevit is PROSTITUTE ACTORCEAS 90210'S ANNALYNNE MCCORD MAY PLAY A WEALTHY MEAN GIRL ON TV, BUT IN MIND AND SOUL, SHE'LL ALWAYS BE THAT REBEL FROM THE TRAILER PARK, BY CHRIS WALLACE. PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARVIN SCOTT JARRETT 1284© TAIL END OF A DAY IN. MANHATTAN ACH, CALIFORNIA, six days into fiming the second season of the new 90210. The set bathed in sunlight, an equally radiant AnnaLynne McCord, who plays boy-crazy rich bitch Naomi Clark, is skipping lunch to give me a tour of her workplace. Burly grips joke with McCord like protective uncles as she leads me through a beach club, down nondescript hallways, and finally ttt the unfinished set ofthe show's Wilson Jjonen: McCond—weering a silky agua blouse, skinny white jeans and sandals— shepherds me into @ bedroom and hops onto the bed, before declaring in her ‘syrupy Atlanta twang, “Well, come right in!" ‘Though ehe appears ight at home hers, We aciesetet elie aacieot fie eon fefomute Wc har charac worl ba You see, McCord the middle daughter ofa non- Papeete pees sere eee ScMEM ERA amt Hee carertly worted about how, being f evry soene thata shooting today sho heght pias her recreye fall lafee era were to the Hamptons forthe Fourth of uly wookendl OA a ppor ses ane ae ty Ea la Gossip Girl? she muses, rocking with laughter. ‘Atteral hi does sound tke a demand her chactor might make, “God friroaly spotod? eC hen mealies cyte, arosul of saned vlatonehipe wth er poe AO eel eee oeeecl ace God? says McCord, one of five siblings. “It was pide eee elf creel eel builig a relatenehip with ny mommeshe nover Fea eaten ap eget al cara thio lt your, oged ue, Batt alee vs to texparence lite through diferent eyest Frustrated, MoGord di what ary ehorrebelius toon inher position would do: She hastened her way through Rome echoolng, graduated gh echoo by age 18, and fed the household, “twas hard going rbigii Bu tobe abot more Newtere fad havo the mind ofa young woman instead of ali el wo treats a Thera bearg? She dd some modolng in Manhattan, but ects tho barely broke even: Troe years later, at 18, Semone ery aaa a ied thie eee ea stopped booking roles since. Though dreanvike in its immediacy the transition into the entertainment world was at fist rattling to MeCord, who even considered quitting the industry. “twas @ young ile isis’ sho explains. "We grow up in a trailer, we did't have any money at all When we'd goto the movies, we got all dressed Uprit was a nght on the town. So trom the time | was nine years ol, | know | wanted to be an across, one of these poople wha are bigger than life and make you laugh and cry and impact you. But when | moved out here, Ireaized itwasnlt ike that at al I was al about celebrity | hate that word. Everything is me-me-me-me. When 90210 was italy offered (to mel, | didnt want to be {on another show | was thinking about doing fm or actualy, Screw the whole entertainment industry. Let me go get a job at Starbucks in New York and find 8 real passion. Because the people out hove are't my people” So she threw hersef into charity. ‘My friend] started the Bind Project, which raises awareness about sex trafficking, and| said Look, Ineed to get hands-on. I need every day that | get out of bed to mean something’ The timing was perfect” (McCord's interest in huraniterianism hasn't waned since then. She recently spoke ata rally in D.C. for Invisible Children, an orgarization opposed to the recruitment of child soldiers in Uganda) Meanwhile, 9020's producers “came back with a third offer, and I thought, Do | deal with my fear of commiment and sign a sseyear (TVI contract that could be an incredible launching pad forthe Bnd Project” Natural, she di These days, she's cleary pleased with her decision even ater weathering «few unseting frst-season etoalings on 90270, tke sudden cast and plot change-ups. “Im a total Cancer crab ho says." got al connected to my people, and sit there, saying, | don't ke you. You're new: But t's looking Up! This year they've set i up go that we really know where we're going. Last year Ici know from ne to line i was going to end up a transvestite, have a gay lover or what, But now, with Juan [played by Matthew Fidel, knowing where he and Naomi end up this year-ive ean play with that, add litle looks and things to make the audience want them together. Or not” By the end of season one, she was exhausted. "I came straight off of Nip/ Tuck to this show. Nip/Tuck stopped shooting on a Wednesday, and 90270 started the next Monday. Ineeded a break. | randomly told the peeps ther manager and agent] that | was going to Europe fortwo months, and they kinda reaked out’ Nevertholese, she went. Siting ina coffee shop one day, she pulled up a world map on her Smartphone, zoomed in on Europe, and drow a heart as a route. Not long after, she was ina train folowing said route-which included Italy and Greece. "twas so wondertl. No stress-my skin cleared up. Iwas sleeping lke a baby, even got a litle suntan. But it wasn't just a big aze-about. t planned each day, packed Wt fll of everything to 800. | took about a bilion pictures with my now Leica | was non-stop she says. "Im one of those people wha like to blend, 80 I'd lear enough ofa language to get by without ever speaking Engish. No one ever knew | was American’ That is, until she was recognized by 90210 fans in Corsica. “Apparently Naomi is worldwide? she laughs. I was shocked tobe recognized. But now | know, i’ all about wigel” Hor favorite place: Groece. "i got to go to Mykonos, some ofthe islands~did some of the nightie. Which is awesome because the Greeks love to love, and they ove to party and stay up until the crack of dawn” MeCord returned to find that even mom and dad, who “werent so all about the Hollywood stuff? were thiled to see ther daughter on TV each week. “Thyre’on the bandwagon" she cheors. But ane thing, above al, hs made McCord happiest: Ife! very blessed that Ive been able to bring my sisters out here. We got a house. You don't know how i's gonna be-tiving with my siators again after soven yoers apart-butit has been so awesome. For tho fst time in my Ife, | realy ike LA. Home is where the hearts and that's wherever my sisters are, s0 now I'm home. In Bevery Hils” 131SUE UN LSe Rated neem meee SU a Perea INV eae at CO ES MVM Lema) Ce ebTHINKER 49 134 JONATHAN HARRIS IS, inessence,a storyteller. Ask him about the shell necklace that's been tied around his neck for the last eight years, and he'll tell you about the time an Austrian fisherman dropped him on the deserted island Pelorus, off the coast of Australia, where he camped on a mountaintop, among a handful of goats and water rats, with a few groceries and some snorkeling gear. Beyond simpl sharing stories of his own, he’s spent his career uti his artistic talent and computer-programming skills to lend these abilities to others, taking him beyond the realm of just a raconteur and into a less common genre, as a sort of modem visionary, or story-enabler. ing It's difficult to succinctly explain the nature of Jonathan Hartis's work, mainly because it's ooted in a technological medium that reinvents itself So quickly. He's bridged the gap between his traditional skils (up Lunt 2003, he kept elaborate, beautifuly ilustrated joumals about his experiences) and the drastic changes with the Internet in racent years. The result is a series of socially minded, interactive web projects tha aim to reveal and interpret the deeper truths behind the chaotic fagade of the way we communicate today It was his project 'We Foe! Fine” (co-created with Sepandar Kamar) that garnered his work widespread attention, The website captures sentences tn the Internet starting with the phrase “I feel,” then compiles them into a visual representation of the world's emotions. Particles swarm around he screen, symbolizing a wide range of emotions, the shapes colors and sizes constantly changing according to data being gathered in real ime, Since the website's launch, it has collected over 11 milion feelings worldwide. The findings and inner workings of this project willbe published by Simon & Schuster this December in the book, We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Humay “WE FEEL FINE” ray sender) ae Harris's other major works, including “The Whale Hunt” (a site where Harris documented ‘a whale hunt he undertook with Alaskan Eskimos, during which he snapped a photo nutes, with the time between taking photos decreasing as his heart rate increased in the final moments of the hunt) and “Universe’ (a project inspired by Greek mythology, that displays the popular news stories of our time as ‘constellations in a night ky), are deeply rooted in Harie's determination to create technology that reevaluates and changes the way we document four lives, and the way we've come to understand the ives of others. The same goes for his more recent projects, including “Polaroid” and “| Want You To Want Me." NYLON Guys caught up with him at his apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and asked him a few questions You studied computer science at Princeton—did you plan to take this creative route with it all along? Not really, no. And computer science was a bit of a surprise for me. | was going to do English or visual art or maybe architecture. Princeton's very academic~people lke to write titative about things—and p when lhad to do that. | wanted to do something where | could build, So, | just picked computer acer I seemed hike @ new frontier that was totally foreign to me and was also very foreign to most of the wor 3 1998, co the Web wasn't really a thing yet. Not like itis today. Since you really were embarking on a new frontier, you didn't have any obvious reference points. What genres of art did you most respond to early fon? More often | think about connecting things that haven't been connected. But the main thing | responded to was comic books. | ‘a huge comic-book collector. Ihave about 20 fh foot-iong boxes of them in my attic. | always iked this sort of visual storyteling, even before Lstarted working with computers. Then with Eeomputers, it was ike | suddenly had this Zoolbox that | hadr'* figured out how to connect fOatything else yet. I's never a good feeling fo heve two totally unrelated parts of your le You always fee! torn in different dirs Whether i's work and home lite or two friends who don't get along or whatever-you always ‘want to connect things. | wanted somewhere $Oeonnect computer science and storytelling Some of your projects, such as Sie) Feel Fine” and “Universe,” are Pest ly heavy on programming, but She vnale Hunt” is much more based BHiGocunenting personal experience.Do)you tand eather type of work more satisfying? I've igone.back and forthion that. About a year ago, | was realy sick of siting infront of computers andwas propared to totaly give them up. | was ‘going to go onthis|ong, crazy traveling project through 30 countries. Traised alot of money for it, and had this whole concept-and then | Slatted fo become mare comfortable with the idea that this is what Thad to-do proayam, That's my language for specking so | should just ownupitoltand realize that I'm good att, And there's not a lot {91 people who ate, 201 should just euck it up and use it. 'm feeling better about the world we live in now, which is totally entrenched in technology. and trying to work within that as opposed to rejecting it Te seems that af you were to resist the use of computer Progaming and fake the infrastructure of your projects Guay Fromtechnolegy, you would be slowing down the PROgRess OF YOUR Her. Somehow it felt ike | almost had that esponsibility foppush there because I'm deeply unsatisfied with what [people have made using technology today. There's all this talk about how Technology isso centralland connects us, and | think that's largely a lies Ithink i's done averybad job at deepening people's understanding of themselves and of their relationships. think t's led to this soattershot way Cofliving: Butt don thinkit has 10 be that way. | actualy see incredible [potential in technology to deopen the relationships between people, not just to increase the number of relationships between people. But | don't think there are realiany great examples of things that have done that Wyet-lim very interested in trying to show people that technology can be {beautiful thing to mako\ou" lives more meaningful, not more superficial MUniverse” Geeme Like a good example of a project that Makes sence of things that are really scattered. That project Henit as dear to my Heart ergoly because is $0 Cold in the way that news, Js cold. I's notreally a personal project, neither about me nor about the lives of other people. Se in that senso, it speaks moze to the mind and Tess tothe heart, andl find that loss fulfilling than some of the stuff that ‘speaks right to my heart. ike Youve eaid)berore, “If the work is purely Fechnologieal, if Ws11 be lese likely to reach a larger Bidienea." Sedo You consider your most successful works Eb Ge thelones thay require viewers to contribute? There's this story that my fourth-grade teacher Ronald Bazarini told me. Iecently befriended him, he's, like, 86-years-old now, and | hadn't seen him in about 16 year, How did You) tind fim? He had the same phone number. He's lived in the same rent-egntrolled apartment in Chelsea with his wife for most of his aduk life, Hels a playwright and doesn't teach anymore. He said that when he was in his twenties, he was living in Long Island Sith his wife, Corinna. This was a point in his life when ho was young and rambitious. Wittr each oFhis plays, he would take on a big theme that he wanted to tackle. And then he would do it. One day, when it was lunchtime, he came into the kitchen and lay down on the kitchen table as she was ‘chopping tomatoes. And he just started to ory. He'd never broken dow like this before, and he had no idea why. Corinna came over to him, and she just stopped then oe wes sungoine nie" broskayn ‘tude pput her hand on his arm and said, "Baz, don't lose heart" He spent the next few days trying to figure ‘out what had caused him to do that. He realized that he was very concerned with hype then. He was coming up with these great ideas, and he had these beautiful images in his mind af what the play was going to be. The final thing was always about 20 percent of the vision that he had for it ‘And he realized something. He said to me, “t's like this: You go to the movies, you see some Hollywood extravaganza, and you feel great. But a week later, you've forgatien the details, and you just have this vague memory of feeling lated or feeling hysterical, But other films invite you on the screen and ask questions without giving answers. They ask you to participate. Those are the ones that reach deep inside of you because you've been included in the process.” | think that's good insight. People will be astonished and amazed by a great spectacle, but the spectacte typically won't be the thing that haunts them five years late. Do you feel ike you've identified what you need to do in order to feel nore satisfied? Tradtionaly the role of artiste has been to try to get out enough in front of society, in order to look back atit and see some sort of holistic image and then say something ‘about what you see. When things move faster and faster, it bocomes harder and harder to got out enough in front, to be able to look back and see things holistically Now you have to think about yourself as being Within society and saying something from inside. | think one way to do that is to create something that people can interlace with directly, A lot (of my projects in the past have involved passively collecting data, displaying it somehow, and having poople look and say, “Oh, how interesting.” But think to close the loop, you need to say, “Oh, how interesting-and here's how I ft in”ELI ROTH AND B.J. NOVAK BREAK CHARACTER AS INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS IN THE NEW TARANTINO BLOOD-FEST. BY NICKsomebody like BJ. Novak doesn't ordinatily receive phone calls from Quentin Tarantino, But the stand-up comedian, who achieved smal sereon fame thanks to Punk'd and The Office, nevertheless found himself in conversation with the iconic director early last year. Tarantino was. in the process of casting his new film, Inglourious Basterds and, improbably, Novak came to mind. "We met and talked for 45 minutes, initially about The Office, but then we went off on all sorts of tangents" Novak recounts, sitting in the garden of his Los Angeles home. "I never thought hed actually cast me, of course. thought it was just another Hollywood dream=a nice one” But Tarantino did indeed find space for this compact, 30-year-old funnyman in his tale of a group of Jewish-American soldiers (led by Brad it's Lt. Aldo Raine) who spread fear throughout the Third Reich by brutally murdering as mary [Nazis as they can. “Im one ofthe soldiers wreaking havoc on the Nazis” he says, self-consciously flexing his muscles. "t's a small part but, for me atleast, a memorable one!” ii Roth, one of the founders of the so-called ‘Splat Pack (the group of similarly minded directors behind auch horror movies as Haste, also found himself summoned to the court of Tarantino, Roth, it was decided, would be one of the biggest Basterds of them all. ‘My character wants to beat every Nazito death with a baseball bat" says the 37-year-old, ginningin the front room of his home in Laguna Beach. For the physically demanding rove, Rath-no slouch at ‘the best oftimes-had to pile on 36 pounds of pure muscle: "Si meals a day, workouts Seven days a week. I've always been in good shape! he explains, “but I've never pushed myself to this extent He looks out his window at the golden sand and smiles. “Of course, part of the fun of looking like this is that | can show it off down there,’ he says. Alot ssl riding on Basterds for Tarantino, whom many people feared had lost his way after 2007's Grindhouse. Pethaps he felt the prossure too, since according to Rath, he ran a vary strict set indeed. “It was more lke being inthe mltary than in a movie," Roth says. " people didn't know their lines, then their lines were dropped, or they were fired. And two were, But it was great, because we ware all unbelievably commited to it Novak concurs. "almost embarrassed myself by preparing too much," he says, laughing, then jokes that although his Nazi soldier is bul a mere cog in the wheol, he came up with a long backstory and “an intense family history for him But the results have paid of. Ingiourious Basterds was a big hit when it premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival-many crtics called it Tarantino's best work sinee Pulp Ficton—and Novak is convinced that it will elicit strong audience reactions: ‘And that's the only kind of movie you want to be in, nght?” Both actors hope it will prove a springboard for their own careers. While Novak ig about to return fora sith season of one of America’s funniest TV comedies, Roth, primarily a virter and director, wants to develop his acting chops. *Now that I've gone toe-to-toe with Brad Pit it ‘Quentin Tarantino movie, feel Ive proved myself” he says, “I want people to watch it and say, ‘Wow, | had no idea he was capable of that!aT sy eT SRA ane Sp BY SAMANTHA GILEWICZ aSMW 3HL GHUW 310d COLE MOHR is fashionably late. In his defense Texas vaneplant isthe muse of Hedi Slimane, Marc Jacobs, and Christopher Bailey; a show stopper for the likes of Comme des Gargons and Lanvin: and a cover star fot V, Vogue Hommes Intemational and Arona Homme +. W's busy work He's no walflower. My tye’ probably n apocalyptic. vision ofthe future—thrach elegance. I Tke wearing Vary refined things ina very confrontational way, kind of tke Geavving a moustache ona port of royal, He's a piece of meat and proud of it | ccint want to bea model because I didnt also want to bo hooker Vaughs. Bul was homeless in New York and, i tobe a piece © be paid fo be a piece o Sometimes I Yee guilty, ike Fm lng somebody ream, because I never gave ashi about being fashion symbol But. is goo ke, "Aligh,eiherm going to get po ‘of meat, orm not going, He's stil humbled, David Sims shot me when | wat ‘anew face. felt honored that he took an intxest in ‘And same with Juergen Teller: lhave 10 pages inthe new Juergen Tell: Marc Jacobs Advertising b0dk. Tat ‘low my mind=t can't be mo, but ii He's comfortable with his sexuality. My gona) [stylist] Stella Greenspan, and lare one of those same size couples. So swe andro t up: “Whose ‘aughs) Any ‘embarrassed n.Juergen Taller shot me a Marc by Hoy, @vanny's gotta crear, 10! He can’t win ‘em all. ve lvays wanted to work wth ‘Yea Saint Laurent 'm not tying to give Stefano Pkt a bigger ego tip, but isthe chicest ofthe chic. showed woke up and drank a botle of orange juice next to my Spiked! Maybe ths season I won't be of elcohokom by accident. promise fm nota raging hb... just ike magic cigarettes He's got bigger plans, anyhow. The intention w lays to be a designer. Kan Jones has been really supportive of me. He let me design shoes for one of his shows. And Joe McKenna hired me to:do these shes for Quest magazine. Tea Ike Fe also boon pretentious enough to cal myself an artist long before I was a model. have a big old book fullof fucking awesome ideas, 80 my biggest goal is to commit to making tangible wor“FIRST OF ALL, lam a designer! Tetsu “TET” Nishiyama makos plain oaly on. *Othors should decid i'm an iat” Alow us: As the founder of branes Neighborhoed nd WTAPS, creative director of Tokyo stores Black Fag and Hoods, and former edtorin-chiet of Philosophy “Zine, Shbuya's streetwear impresario ie, most defritely, an att. [Nishiyame grew up mare interested! in motorcycles than fashion. But, wasn't unl Japanese graphic artist SKATETHING-who is aleo par of Harajuhu's cotorio of outcast skatere~showed him haw to silkscreen that Nishiyama decided to customize a piace of clothing, as he would a parton his bike, “With proper looks But no sound intornal aspecs, a motorcycles rue featuras cannot surfaca” explains Nishiyams, tho Fidos 2°79 Harley to his ase "Th ie reflected in my design process” Indeed, the designers DIY philosophy, “Craft (With Pride? hase't wavered since the ‘20s when he had 2 Fabit line, 4098 Againt Rights, bul on vival bectlagging. But when it morphed ino Neghberhoees then WTAPS Visual Uparmored in 1896, Nishiyama had an idenity cri, cau [acoepl the great eviews, 0 | withdrew? he says: Nishiyama lft Neighborhood in 2002 ancl went back fo basics with he mitaryinapred \WTAPS. Everything he does now-ftom the curalion of Black Flag to collaborations with Supreme, Stee ke, and Vane~minds his mam, “Pacing things where thay should be? Tis fal, Nishiyama is taking the reigns from Nigo as designer of A Bathing Apes core line, Ursus Bape. ‘hich is ever popuar im the States. “America has erated youth with potential’ he says. “But srt the challeng howto use this potenti?” THE CAMERAMAN PETER ISZUK i CREATIVE DIRECTOR w rs ‘4 NEW YORK-BASED STREETSSTYLE photographer Peter Miszuk scours the sidewalks ofthe world's fashion ‘capitals for unique urchins, I doesnt hur that he has {8 famously fashionable sigricant ater (Kate Lanph ‘syle director of El), either. There's nothing wrong with o slight shoe fetish, | always look at shoes frst-i's really intresting to 906 what people wear on thet fest. | ike weirdness ina picture. There's a crazy pnp who hangs out on Oxchara Street. He wears a ime-green velvet su. He's sort of my white whale, He finds Fashion where you'd least expect It's say to cary a camera around m Reo, but the fashion there = amazing and orgaric. Like, they create thei own fics, People's aves are all ver the place, toc. 's@ dangerous job. One nigh, I brought my camera fut dancinga solid brass Leiea-and it smashed ino my ‘80, breaking open on my hip. had a gash Hell get off the streets one day.tleve Guy Bourin's woth, but | weialy dont want to look at other people's ‘tut too much ‘cause Im ata i slow sink iI dont want to doa shoot, and then in 10 years, someone says, "That locks lhe a Graig MeDean shoot" 143photographed by Betisthonars THE NEXT BIG THING FASHION'S ENFANT TERRIBLE, London-based Gareth Pugh, elt hie sita-hiting labo in two this ‘season, bul none of his theatrical Slosyncrasies wore lost inthe menswear debut that paraded down the runway at Pars’ Palais de Tokyo, Conceptual headpiece? Oheok. Matthew Stone soundtrack? ‘Check Post apacalypic armor? Check: Jackets were covered in a carapace of pin, & a Holhaisor. What is your eetlest fashion memory? The '90e wore a bi of a barren wasteland for music scone ate {nbos in northeast England. It was 2 Unlimited arc ‘Snap! on one side, Tako That and East 17 on the other IMy elder brother was obsessed with labels, 20 l used to steal alot ot his clothes, But charty shops were iny favorites. They weren't allowed to sal x, 60 Fd “donate a tenner and walk away with eight mink coats! What was the frst thing you ever designed? | used to drive my paronts mad making things wih plaster or spray paint onthe ding room lable | got nfo sculpre in college and serously considered itor my degree, Until ques out Iould combine doting and aculture with fashion anal un with it.The fest thing vee dosigned ‘was a curtain ning that | handpleated into three Srajackets, linked athe arms, So tree people would have to wear them sianding ina cicle, facing away from ‘ach other, and could only move they all meved together \What prompted you to move your show from London to Paris? It was viggerse by winning the ANDAM award, but it was also just time to ge. Pars is very ‘ferent rom London, and this newness created a sort ‘of nervous uncertainty, in 2 good way | deveribe i 2s ‘wilfully getting on a rllercoaster it wae a hick up the ass, a kick that | needed. Prior to fall 09, your designs were modeled by both men and women. What inspired your debut ‘menswear collection? There's a rata inclination 9 tihat do towards an androgynous sdnovette. Lwanted to do something very earthy, oly, dity even-sorething that looked! ke had emerged from the ground, rather than stepped of a space ship. With the prs, warted ‘something that looked very Beau from a datanoe, buttumed into something darker up close. So inal this igfitiness there was a certam emi. |just det wart It be too far removed trom what's expected at a men's ‘how. We hal taloring eu, coals. .Bat twa a very me, Who would you love to see-from any decade wearing your clothes? Queen Elizabeth | Ive always loved her steely hardness. She could bust your ball with one look f she wanted to, [AL what moment did you realize you were The Next Big Thing? tam? GARETH PUGHJ U U N J pte THE TAILOR JUUN.J HAS been christened by some as Seoul's answer to Heci Slimane-s lly comparison, perhaps, but one that the designer could have seen coming, Considering the soventy of his androgynous, structural sihouettes. The seascn, he ites Grace Jones 29 an inspiration, *She ea diva and wears very exaggerate, retto futuristic shapes" says Juun.), who jurtaposes angular jackets and PVC stovepipes with baleoning oS ponchos and furfanged capes in hs collection. : ‘But fashon ia’ just fin and games fr Juum J his 4 clothes have a distinctly utltarian aesthetic, an echo of | his compulsory time served inthe Sauth Korean Armed — Forces. Take the military trench coat, with which Jun.) has a preoccupation he can't seem to shake.“ show ‘one every season!" he enthuses. "You can cesigh & rench coat in 20 many déferent waya? Te wk eleevee are slashed off, leather linings are implanted, and one is van deconsinctedinta a kine of distanced man seas ‘Since launching his eponymous label then called Lone Costume) at Seoul Fashion Week in '00-after Cutting his tooth as a design director for Club Mn: hun has received acclaim fom around the word He 's represented by Totom Fashion, a PR frm with an ‘perimental stab of designors that alsa includes Ret ‘Simons, Beenhard Wilhaim, and Marios Schwab, He shows at Pars Fashion Wek, collaborates with such provocative artists as Jepar's NUTS and the UK's Simon Henwood: and last fll designed a pat of Blace Runner bronze higirtops for Reebok." don Hke sing someon dress head to-tos in hip-hop gear Jun eays, "ly mission isto mix classic talorng with streetwear RHYS RIPPER (yes i's is real name) was almost an ‘Australian pop star. stead, he turned hi atantion towards showcasing cther young guns in music, fashion, and art va provocative photography, wity writing, and wwel-desigred layauts as the creative director and editor ixchial of men's onine magazine Academy fr Men. He had a dream. | grvr up on farm inthe mide ‘of nownere~on the outskirts of Echuca, a country town Victoria he's now based in Melbourne. So I cih't wave ary role mocols within reach, l wanted to create 2 magzzme thet provided solid role models to inspire young men, He scouts talent at-where else?the local watering hole. A lot of nding people to feature happens atthe pub. For example, on Suncly, the guy sting net 10 fie turned out to be the designer for Rip Curl and Strangely enough our next issue a a design ‘ue Tas ike, “You're gonna be in my magazine! ‘The word is out Alot of dudes hear about Acadamy for Men and got in touch, and tall me their pial Designers realy want tobe = part of tha Between the Seams section, in which we profile a label and thea let thom style a shoot-pick the model and the pPholographer, scout the locaton He looks at trends, but doesn't necessarily have tolike them. Im seeing alot of drop-crotch pants at the momen, or “poorcatcher’ a we ike to cal them, He likes to pick favorites. Reiss Radvaryi isnot only 2 grea designer wth 2 great name tke mane, but also @ ‘supercool dude. You can always catch me wearing his whit leather high ope and superlong black head, He's proud of his mo’ (but you can see that). 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