November 16, 2007
In addition to updating the Wooster website, each year Sara and I write about 10 - 15 articles for various art and culture magazines around the world.
One of our favorite - and we think best - interviews we ever did was with the artist Swoon. It ran in the fourth issue of Roger Gastman and Shepard Fairey's Swindle Magazine. We felt that Swoon's answers were so thoughtful and intelligent that during the editing process we removed our questions altogether and edited her thoughts into on continuous monologue.
Here's an excerpt:
On Becoming SWOON
My boyfriend at the time was very influential in my work. He was born and raised in Manhattan and we were both in love with the city. He woke up one morning and said to me, “I had this dream last night that you were a tagger and you wrote the name SWOON. We were running from the police and all I could think about was how beautiful your name was.”
Later, when I started doing a lot of work on the street, I remembered the name SWOON from his story. I had also read about a time when a woman would wear corsets so tight that she would pass out. They romanticized it and called it a swoon. It was as if the moment overtook her. But in reality she passed out because she was wearing restrictive fashion. And I thought that it was good that women have evolved to a place where we’re not doing this to ourselves anymore. I look at the word SWOON as a body of work, not as my name. SWOON is not me. I’m not Swoon. SWOON is like a way of thinking. It’s a body of work. It’s a series of interrelating thoughts."
Recently Swindle put their archives online, which means that you can read the entire interview by clicking here.
We hope you like it as much as we do.
Posted by marc at 3:09 PM in Magazines |
January 23, 2007
For us, the best magazines are the ones that you open the cover and begin to discover a whole new set of artists and people who you hadn't heard of before. That's why we're huge fans of magazines like Swindle and Theme. Every time we get a new copy we discover someone new. This morning we were paging through a new PDF magazine called 100proofTRUTH and had that same feeling when we came across the photographs of the Polish photographer Witold Krassowski. You can download a free copy of King Adz' 100proofTRUTH here.
Posted by marc at 6:49 AM in Magazines |
January 10, 2007
We've been big fans of John Lee and Jiae Kim's THEME Magazine since the very beginning This week, not only has THEME relaunched their website, but they've also started a group blog.
The new issue features a terrific profile of Tomokazu Matsuyama (aka Matzu) who's work we've featured here on the site many times. You can read the article online here.
A couple of weeks ago Michael Barth spotted this mural that Matzu did on a house in Williamsburg. We think it's really cool.
Posted by marc at 7:13 AM in Magazines |
December 5, 2006
One of Sara and my favorite people in the street art scene here in New York is an incredibly vibrant and always incredibly creative and active young woman named io. (Many of you, I'm sure, know her)
This week io's personal passion, the magazine Overspray, will mark it's fifth issue by going full size (after two years of being in a much smaller format).
Entitled "TheCharacterKings issue" the new issue features articles, interviews, and new work by Elph, The London Police, Fafi, Dface, Lister, Faile and much much more. (Sara wrote the cover piece on Lister)
You can order the magazine on the Overspray website.
Posted by marc at 8:13 AM in Magazines |
April 25, 2006
On of our favorite magazines is Rojo out of Spain. If you've never picked up a copy, be sure to check out the new issue which has over 160 pages of artwork from artists all over the world. The cover above is by the Brazilian artist Bruno 9li. You can pick up a copy here.
Posted by marc at 8:20 AM in Magazines |