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Jesús Madriñán

Jesús Madriñán has created an improbable hybrid: he has taken conventional portrait photography and transposed it into a nightclub setting. Spanish-born, Madriñán grew up with antique-dealer parents, surrounded by artifacts and classical paintings. Later, he studied fine arts in Barcelona and London. In his photography he reaffirms the nightclub not just as a place to party but also as a place to simply be — which was key for Madriñán himself as he was coming to grips with his identit...

Newness

Drake Doremus has become one of the indie film world’s constant observers of disconnected romance, from his breakthrough debut “Like Crazy” to “Breathe In” and the Kristen Stewart-starring “Equals,” and he continues firmly in this wheelhouse in his next feature, “Newness.” The romance drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and reunites the director with his “Equals” leading man Nicholas Hoult.

We should all be feminists

What if, in raising children, we focus on ability, instead of gender? What if, in raising children, we focus on interest, instead of gender?

Full transcript here.

Paranoid Android

Mirror People - Paranoid Android (From Radar's OKC20)

Dara Wier - An Ant in the Mouth of the Furnace

Sorrow likes itself most when it’s
At its best being
A barrier
Impenetrable. An obstacle.
A veil that can’t be torn.
When beyond its deckled edges
sorrow won’t let you see.
As if you were a blue blur on paper
intended to be a child’s image of heaven.
And it takes more bearing
because more of it is always coming.
And it takes up space where space has never been.
Where there is no space.
Where no space has ever been.
And it will not move.
And brings all else to a standstill.
To no longer be in a state of grief...

Damunt de tu només les flors

Victoria de los Angeles sings "Damunt de tu només les flors" by Federico Mompou

Federico Mompou, piano - Barcelona, 21.I.1971

Super Dark Times

A harrowing but meticulously observed look at teenage lives in the era prior to the Columbine High School massacre, SUPER DARK TIMES marks the feature debut of gifted director Kevin Phillips, whose critically acclaimed 2015 short film "Too Cool For School" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Current Mood

Receiving dept. 3 a.m.
Staff cuts have socked up the overage
Directives are posted.
No callbacks complaints.
Everywhere is calm.
Hong Kong is present
Taipei awakes

 

All talk of circadian rhythm
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored headache gray
Daysleeper

 

The bull and the bear are marking
Their territories
They're leading the blind with
Their international glories
I'm the screen the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night.
I see today with a newsprint fray
My night is colored head...

It isn't that you don't like boys, it's that you only like boys you want to be.

"It isn't that you don't like boys, it's that you only like boys you want to be."

Andrea Gibson's powerful new spoken word poem "Your Life" is both a love letter and rallying cry to anyone currently struggling with their own identity. Check out the exclusive video premiere right here.

Howl

For Carl Solomon

 

I

 

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,

who bared their brains to...