Jim Jinkins
“I’m happy to have been a pre-computer kid…There was a whole lot of down time when we had to entertain ourselves, and I think that’s what helped me think of these stories.” An awkward edge around love interests. A wild imagination. A desire to fit in. A penchant for adventure. There is something we...
Tosh Gitonga
“What people love about (the film) is that’s it’s so real and authentic…People who have never seen that life now understand it.” Nairobi really is a tale of two cities. On one hand, it’s an economic power house and a business hub for the region. It boasts super highways, pristine shopping centres, and...
Jill Greenberg
“Political art, or any art, that has a message isn’t going to fix anything, but it might remind people that these things are out there.” Few artists get to toggle a line between working for the man and working against the man. Photographer Jill Greenberg, however, has built a career around...
Milton Glaser
“The best artists work out of the desire to produce beauty, otherwise it’s not real and something else. This intertwining of money, power, and status is a corruption of purpose.” You may not recognize the name Milton Glaser, but you would most certainly recognize his art. In 1975, Glaser created what is,...
Sheila E.
“I used to play until my hands would bleed… It got to the point where I had to warm up on a concrete wall, or a surface that was very strong, so that I could numb my hands before I went on stage because it was that painful.” Her hands are...
Shad
“Any life that revolves around me, inevitably makes me sad. That’s one curious thing I’ve noticed…What that tells me is that, most times, happiness comes from being able to forget yourself.” Within today’s mainstream hip-hop culture Shad K is an outlier. He shy’s away from the spotlight, he refuses to compromise his religion in...
Malice
”Who wants to do this? I never wanted to put out my story like this … but I was so convicted by this experience I knew it was a must. I’d much rather look cool to the public, but I had to take my cool off and say, “this happened to me.” By profession and...
Henry Rollins
“My prolific and deeply flawed utterances over the decades may have perhaps found a resonance with others who can sift through the run-on sentences, and tense inconsistencies to dig where I am coming from. Perhaps they can see that they are not the only one who feels frequently out of step with the rest of...
Andrew Scott
Artwork by: Graeme Kennedy “When you’re young and impressionable, you pick your models…It’s like a candy store. There’s no such thing as originality. If you’re striving for it, you’re a bloody idiot!” Save for a number of African dictators, hardly anything seems to last more than 20 years these days. However, there is one other...
David Bazan
“The pretense of it just makes it false. That it is ostensibly promoting Jesus’ teaching makes it even more laughable. The commodification of that message in a really unimaginative way, in which it gets sloganized over and over again, is just pathetic. I just don’t even rate it. It’s the lowest form of expression, I...
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