BY: JESSICA BEUKER There is a gated community in Florida where 100,000 residents roam freely in an area the size of Manhattan. There are no cars or trucks – instead everyone cruises around in golf carts, many of which have…
Expression & Culture
The 10 winners from Nat Geo’s Traveler Photo Contest will ignite your spirit of adventure
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Armed with endurance, creativity, and a bold sense of adventure these photographers departed into the unknown with the knowledge that the human mind only blooms when exposed to new experience. The marvels experienced while travelling often turn…
The family album of a 2-year-old and her addict parents shows that love exists in dark places
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Wandering the moonlit streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, in search of subjects for her latest project, photographer Irina Popova noticed a young tattooed woman pushing her daughter in a stroller while stumbling with a drunken swagger. After…
Designer suits, inked skin and amputated fingers—inside the Yakuza, the world’s largest crime syndicate
BY: CONNOR BRIAN | Photos by: Anton Kusters The Yakuza are known for their ruthlessness, full-body tattoos, and a strict code of honour, that if broken has a tradition of punishing you by cutting off your fingers one at a time.…
Hipsters, weirdoes and free thinkers—Portraitlandia captures the spirit of America’s most interesting city
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Portland—the original home of gutter punks, hipsters, weirdoes and forward thinkers. In the middle of one of America’s most beautiful and progressive states, Portland is a magnetic core of positive energy, interesting people and free thought, quickly…
With the female body as her canvas this artist blends into famous New York City landmarks
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Photographer Trina Merry uses the female body as her canvas and New York City as her background to create a unique style of art. The portraits range from iconic locations such as the Brooklyn Bridge to vibrant…
These are the strange writing habits of some of the world’s greatest authors
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Hunched over a typewriter in a cloud of cigarette smoke and a bottle of Jameson rested at the corner of a cluttered desk. The lifestyle habits of a writer have long been represented in the caricature of…
One hundred cameras were given to London’s homeless to show us the city through their eyes
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ This past July a project by Café Art supplied the homeless people of London with disposable cameras and the opportunity to show people the city through their eyes. One hundred disposable cameras were given to the cause,…
Meet Claudette, the 76-year-old champion cyclist, husband, and hermaphrodite prostitute
BY: CONNOR BRIAN “I’d rather sell my ass than my soul, it’s harder but much cleaner,” she tells photographer Malika Gaudin-Delrieu. Claudette is a grandfather, award winning cyclist, a campaigner for sex workers’ rights, and a happy husband who has…
Wild land fire fighters tell the story behind the world’s most adrenaline-injected job
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ This past summer there has been a flurry of fires sweeping the west coast destroying everything in their pathway. We watch the news and hear of the flames that are swallowing the west, tree by tree, but…
23 beautifully illustrated letters by Van Gogh, Warhol, Kahlo, etc. show the long-lost art of hand writing.
BY: JOHN DILLON “Letter writing is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations, in fact, it is its finest residue” writes artist John Graham in a letter to his wife. Long before our hours were consumed with texting, tweeting,…
Here is how a face looks when it is perfectly symmetrical… and it might just make you redefine beauty
BY: CONNOR BRIAN How do you define beauty? Beauty is a quality that philosophers, artists, and intellectuals sacrifice themselves for and nearly bleed out to understand. Your conception of beauty drives every sexual tendency and choice of self-expression you will…
This odd bird lives likes a human with the family that rescued it
Penguin the Magpie was rescued as a baby by a boy named Noah and now the strange little bird has become part of the family. It comes and goes like a first year college student living an hour away from…
This artist uses a 200-gallon fish tank to create majestic landscapes
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Artist Kim Keever turns Mother Nature into a fantasy with the use of water, paint and a fish tank. These unique works of art use a 200-gallon fish tank that is filled with water. Keever uses all…
4 best friends started the hippest vintage motorcycle and surf festival in Europe
BY: TYLER FYFE Blatantly ignoring the speed limit on a serpentine stretch of blacktop is the most effective therapy I’ve ever found. It’s a familiar meditation for The Southsiders— a group of 4 best friends who have been driving their custom Cafe…
The 9 most powerful paragraphs in literature will give you a compass to enlightenment
BY: TYLER FYFE Those who read understand— literature is meant to nourish a starved reality with fresh perspective. Because outlook is a fragile thing. The mundanity of work, the blandness of a tired relationship, the familiarity of experience can lead…
Drone footage of unparalleled Serengeti wildlife will get nature enthusiasts hot and bothered
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Filmmaker and photographer, Will Burrard-Lucas, managed to capture this unbelievable footage of the Serengeti’s stunning landscape and unparalleled wildlife in a matter of two weeks—a notion that would surely draw an insurmountable chorus of sighs from the…
I got trashed with a room of writers to see if booze actually improves writing
BY: LISA CUMMING The decade between someone’s late teens and their late twenties is one that is often looked back on nostalgically as a period of great sex and even greater parties. We can drink vodka like it’s water, and…
Bukowski wrote this letter about ditching the 9-5. Thirty years later it’s more relevant than ever
BY: TYLER FYFE Before becoming one of America’s greatest writers, Charles Bukowski was a blue-collar worker with an alcohol problem, acne scars and the dream of writing his way out of mediocrity. Before pissing on literary cliches to bring the…
This artist literally bleeds for his art
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ Most artists are starving, some are bleeding. Marc Quinn is of the latter. Every five years, the British artist creates a frozen solid bust of his own head created purely from his own blood. It takes 10…