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Silkscreen by Ken Taylor(Australia)

North Charleston, SC 2013 | Size: 12" x 36"
4 color silkscreen on archival stock
Limited edition of 395 copies Signed and numbered by the artist

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Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:49:56

One of my favorite musicians, Alex Somers

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Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:00:56

Lucien’s birthday countdown pt. 2

We all have our dream places to visit or a bucket list of things we want to do, plans that sunk into ocean because of the pandemic. This is why one of the reasons I love this game is that it takes us to places we may or may not visit ourselves. And sometimes to places we’ve been and this gives us a sweet aroma of nostalgia ^_^

So my number 9 favorite moment happened in one of those places where Lucien showed me a part of his to give my nose a stinging feeling.

Spoilers ahead!

#9 Aurora Borealis

All of our guys have a sad fact about them that makes us wish we could’ve free them of this burden.

In Lucien’s case it is his color blindness, or his monochromic sight to put it correctly.

There are many instances in the story where we witness this and feel sentimental. For me this moment was slightly more powerful than the others by the feelings the sight in “Law of Gravity” MQ:

The auroras are one of the most fascinating sights our beautiful earth has to offer and Lucien cannot see to cherish them. Thinking about this, it is not surprising that he is mesmerized by MC, his iridescent. I mean… How often do we see such a blissful look on his face?

Not only the emotional part of the Date but also the whole MQ is absolutely one of my favorites location-wise. Those glass iglos, the northern lights, the tundra… I am pretty sure that the place they are staying is Kakslauttanen Resort in Finland:

The idea of sleeping with your favorite person under the northern lights and a warm blanket or outside in a jacuzzi amongst bubbly hot water drinking licorice schnapps is just too romantic to bear and here comes the confession part…

The only reason I’m ranking this amazing get-away on number 9 spot is because it’s not with Gavin (´つヮ⊂)

This is the only date/MQ in the whole MLQC universe that I wished was with Gavin. His and MCs connection to Northern Europe, their fascination with the night skies and how they love to soar amongst the stars… I’m going to stop here because this is a Lucien-only list. I just wanted to tell you why it isn’t ranked higher, I hope you don’t mind me ^_^ There will be no other mentioning of Gavin, I promise ✌ (so no Rude Awakening moment in this list ;))

P. S. : We’re just going to ignore that Sigur Rós is an Icelandic band, agreed?

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Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:52:37

Ryan McGinley is a superstar photographer who clearly needs no introduction. Catapulted to fame in

Ryan McGinley is a superstar photographer who clearly needs no introduction.

Catapulted to fame in 2003 at age 25, Ryan became the youngest photographer to get a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work is known and praised across the world as one of the most poignant celebration of youth and freedom in photography.

I first became acquainted with his work in 2008, whilst interning at XL Recordings on the release of Sigur Rós'limited edition book, Hlemmur. The band had used one of McGinley’s photo (‘Highway’) for the cover of their fifth album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. Since then, I have been fascinated by his photographs, which are incredibly poetic, hopeful, and slightly euphoric.

I recently found a great description of McGinley’s work in a 2007 New York Magazine article on artist Dash Snow (read here), which stated that “People fall in love with McGinleyʼs work because it tells a story about liberation and hedonism: Where Goldin and Larry Clark were saying something painful and anxiety producing about Kids and what happens when they take drugs and have sex in an ungoverned urban underworld, McGinley started out announcing that “The Kids Are Alright,” fantastic, really, and suggested that a gleeful, unfettered subculture was just around the corner—'still'—if only you knew where to look.”

Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency had a huge impact on McGinley. He once said “I could relate to it so much - it was about New York, it was about downtown, it was about a bohemian lifestyle and it fel very close to home”. He also drew inspiration from Terrence Malick’s masterpiece: Days of Heaven.

It was quite difficult to choose just ten of his photographs for this post. Luckily he just released his first retrospective monograph entitled You & I.

Also - for those wondering - McGinley shoots 35mm film and makes his photographs using Yashica T4s and Leica R8s.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts makings movies soon… Though when photographer Ron Schuman asked him about his plans for the future, McGinley replied “I think that my ideas will start to change as I do. I’d still like to make a movie, but I don’t think I’m ready just yet. My master plan is to do two more years of these road-trips with some smaller projects in between, and then I’ll start to focus on film. I had a long discussion with Gus Van Sant about making movies the other day, and he said, ‘You gotta do it. Just start looking at the stuff you’ve already done, and instead of having a camera that makes photographs, have a camera that makes films.’ I always film everything anyway, especially photo-shoots, so I think I’ll start by editing that footage and then take it from there.” (Here is the full interview)

Enjoy!

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