It's 7 pm on a balmy Sunday night and you're not ready to go home. The subtropical climate suggests paradise; that warmth, open spaces and neverending sunrays. It's a place where youths, often contemplative in nature generate a nonchalant atmosphere and the feeling of an endless summer. Warm skin, disheveled hair, minimal clothing. These are just a few of the…
A topless woman with cat-like shades and a half-smoked fag sits posed and proud. A man with an impressive beard, arms crossed and covered in tattoos gazes candidly back at the viewer. A blond girl dressed in fur appears as though she's ready to cause some trouble. The images you see may appear as photography but take a closer look.…
Spirituality. Nakedness. Environment. Life. When one contemplates the exposed human body in relation to nature, its easy to forget about the ego. In Eastern philosophy, humans are attached to nature. Here, Chinese photographer Chen Chong has combined the two in his series "About Eternity," creating a seamless vision of natures relationship with the human body. Regardless of modern sciences ever…
Lady Liberty, The Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge. These are just a few examples of what one might visualize when asked about New York City. With five boroughs, eight million inhabitants, glitz, glamour, guns and gangs, it holds true that the city undoubtedly never sleeps. Manhattans Lower East Side, once a heavily populated immigrant neighborhood is now reveled as the…
We live in an ever-changing, ever-evolving world yet despite constant adjustment, history undoubtedly repeats itself. Take the Great Depression of the 1930s and the economic crisis of 2008 or the unfortunate revival of U2. Comeback tours, revived acting careers, Bush 1 and unfortunately, Bush 2. Sometimes, things really should just stay in the past. Fortunately, not all revivals send us…