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An Interview with Brian Kelley
There’s a fine line between hoarder and archivist—but Brian Kelley just about sits in the second camp. From maps to discarded MetroCards, the New York photographer and collector may own a fair bit of ‘old tat’, but rather than stash it all away in shoeboxes gathering dust, he lets it out into the world.
Published by Standards Manual, the two part Parks series is a true treasure-trove of outdoor ephemera, displaying Kelley’s extensive collection of National Park Service maps and brochures—documenting not just the visual history of the US National Park Service, but the evolution of graphic design and the printed page across the 20th century.
His Gathering Growth project applies the same thorough process to photography—as he lugs around a large-format camera into ancient woodland on the endless search for the biggest and oldest trees in the United States. After all, if a tree grows really tall in the woods and no one is around to take high-quality photographs of it, is it even really that tall?
I talked to him about old maps, big ol’ trees and the buzz of going where no one has gone before for outsiders.
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Joe’s Bed Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Spike Lee’s student film. This is great.
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Alain Levitt’s Supercharged Portrait of 2000s New York – AnOther Magazine
New article for Another Magazine online now, talking to Alain Levitt about life in 2000s New York and his new photo book from Japan’s Super Labo.
Recently liberated from storage, Alain’s freewheeling full colour shots crack open a window into the Big Apple at a time when graffiti, skateboarding, art, fashion, music, film and pretty much everything else mixed together in the seemingly endless night.
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Dean Blunt + Elias Ronnenfelt + Vegyn – 9
Full time job keeping up with this stuff.
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Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates – Gown
Song of the summer.
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An Interview with Roman Dial
I Recently had the pleasure of interviewing Roman Dial for the Outsiders website.
Not just an accomplished climber, mountaineer and skier, Roman was one of the first to see the value in the packraft in the early 1980s, crossing raging rivers with a basic inflatable dinghy to string together adventures that had never been thought of before.
The same goes for bicycles—and after realising the potential of mountain bikes in the late ‘80s he pedalled off the fire-roads and into the Alaskan wilderness with a few other brave souls to create ‘hellbiking’, the multi-day off-piste slog-fest which blazed a rocky trail for the bikepacking of today.
This is maybe the longest interview I’ve ever done, and maybe also one of the best. Read it here…
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Great Area – Good Coding
I saw great Area a few months’ back at the White Hotel. For maybe 25 minutes they sang their short, straight-up songs over a backing track while handicam footage presumably filmed in some far off eastern metropolis was projected onto a huge sheet. I know that sometimes people greedily crave the ‘full band experience’, but for a project as mysterious and personal as Great Area, this audio/visual set-up was perfect.
ANyway, Good Coding is their new album courtesy of Lolina’s Relaxin’ Records. Drag the files over onto your Creative Zen MP3 player then take a walk around the city for a while.
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Demon Boyz
Demon Boyz – ’88 – Broadwater Farm. Photos by Normski.
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The Whistling in the Dark – Online Now
A Super 8 visual document from World Force Artifacts.
Filmed from 2014 – 2022. Featuring Gaz Hunt, Addy Snowdon, Clarky, Wozzy, Sandy, Jambul, Sam Waller, Marv, Leo McKenna, Tommy Gore, Jim Newrick, Tim Evans, Feebz, Loz Taylor, Fathead, Minney, Tommy C, Shanky, Cookie and Dan Cox.
Thanks to Jack Dalziel, Luke Waller and Tom Hopkin for their audio contributions.
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The Whistling in the Dark
The Whistling in the Dark is available now on DVD via Central Library. This is a 22 minute Super 8 video filmed on and off from around 2014 to 2022.
Suppose it’s probably ‘a riding video’, but it’s also about buildings, cranes, dogs, cats, scrap cars, trains, sheltering from the rain, cheap holidays to Europe, life in northern cities and the occasional escape to the wilderness.
Featuring Gaz Hunt, Addy Snowdon, Clarky, Wozzy, Sandy, Jambul, Sam Waller, Marv, Leo McKenna, Tommy Gore, Jim Newrick, Tim Evans, Feebz, Loz Taylor, Fathead, Minney, Tommy C, Shanky, Cookie and Dan Cox.
Thanks to Jack Dalziel, Luke Waller and Tom Hopkin for their audio contributions.
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