Images by David Black All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects & feelings which motivated it. At the time the artist, poet, playwright and cultural renaissance man Jean Cocteau uttered the above statement in 1918, “music” usually meant the ragtime beats and upbeat lyrics of Irving Berlin [...]
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A Moment with Gerri Noack
October 6, 2011 – 8:56 am
Gerri at home in Bushwick, wearing Jill Sander. Images by Benedict Brink. Styling by Clare Byrne. Name: Gerri Noack Age: 27 Hometown: Portsmouth, New Hampshire Occupation: Chef Salt Baked Whole Black Bass with Parsnips and Baby Carrots simmered in Milk and Honey Salt baking is an easy and rather effortless way to roast without creating [...]
Dossier in Conversation with Dusen Dusen
July 19, 2010 – 8:49 am
Ellen Van Dusen, the 23-year-old creative force behind rising Brooklyn label Dusen Dusen, graduated the same year I did from Tufts University. And although we had concentric social circles, we didn’t meet until last winter. I always knew of her as the cool girl who created her own major (an amalgam of art and psychology) [...]
Dossier in Conversation with Aesa
April 26, 2010 – 8:26 pm
Looks from The Messenger collection Just a few years back, Randi Mates was a historian with a master’s degree in Material Culture, researching obscure topics like the green imperial paint that might have killed Napoleon. Now she’s the designer behind cult jewelry line Aesa, named for the Greek personification of fate or destiny. And there’s [...]
