The FADER Double Vision Photo Special
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For this year’s Photo Special issue, The FADER showcased the work of Victoria Sambunaris and Peter van Agtmael, two photographers who have traveled the country extensively to document its people and places with exceptional eyes for the details that reveal the spirit of America. Sambunaris’ epic landscapes subtly focus on humans’ necessary struggle to balance preservation of the land with our need for its resources, while van Agtmael’s photos strive to bring us a transparent record of the mostly unseen people and places he’s encountered on his many travels. Although formally very different, both artists’ work is connected by a deep curiosity about this country and its people. In the Double Vision section of our site, listen to van Agtmael discuss his view on America in a randomly ordered slideshow of his photos, including outtakes from the magazine. And take an up-close look at the eagle-eye perspective of Sambunaris’ photos with Zoomify, a digital pair of art binoculars. After the jump, read a conversation between Sambunaris and van Agtmael about their approaches and the current state of documentary photography. We got them some beers before they talked, so you know it’s how they really feel.
The FADER Double Vision Photo Special
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posted on Oct 28, 2009 in ART+CULTURE INTERVIEWS, ART+CULTURE NEWS, Homepage Main Spotlight, Homepage Top Spotlight tags Peter van Agtmael, Victoria Sambunaris
Interview: Bike Snob NYC
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- photo John Francis Peters (F62)
Yesterday’s New York Times piece on Bike Snob NYC, with playfully secretive accompanying photo, served as a not-so-subtle reminder to post our own interview with Bike Snob NYC, with playfully secretive accompanying photo, from last month’s FADER Summer Music issue. Read the interview after the jump and learn some very valuable lessons about sharing the road and not fighting with rollerbladers.
Q+A: Youssou N’Dour on I Bring What I Love
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For four years, Senegalese singer, Youssou N’Dour let cameras follow him. The resulting documentary, Chai Vasarhelyi’s I Bring What I Love is an intimate portrait of the international superstar, one of the most compelling and important figure in the huge slice of culture we call world music. In town for a performance at Brooklyn’s BAM to coincide with a screening, N’Dour sat down with FADER contributor Simon Greenberg at a recording studio where they spoke about the importance of African music’s evolution, of making the film and what makes N’Dour such a fiery performer. I Bring What I Love is playing in cities through the summer, check their site for screening information.
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posted on Jul 15, 2009 in ART+CULTURE, ART+CULTURE INTERVIEWS tags Africa, I Bring What I Love, Q+A, Youssou N'Dour
Q+A: Shannon Michael Cane of They Shoot Homos Don’t They
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In FADER 58 we got deep into gay zine subculture and came out newly acquainted with a colorful genre. One of our favorite zines, They Shoot Homos Don’t They?, particularly sparked a visual interest, so we recently sat down with TSHDT editor-in-chief, Shannon Michael Cane to talk more about the makes and shakes of his glossy magazine and to touch down on a few of the darker questions broached by the mag about the global gay community. Read the Q+A after the jump.
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posted on Mar 26, 2009 in ART+CULTURE INTERVIEWS tags Q+A, Shannon Michael Cane, They Shoot Homos Don't They, zines
Q+A: Medicine For Melancholy’s Barry Jenkins
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Barry Jenkins wrote Medicine For Melancholy in a coffee shop. Then they filmed the movie over two weeks. Because that is what happens when you make a movie and work on the floor at Banana Republic at the same time. Your movie, probably, is also going to be mostly about you. Write what you know, you know? In that spirit, the film is about the night after a one night stand between two people. Set against gentrifying San Francisco, Micah and Jo — both black, both “indie” — are trying to figure out how to move in a world that is predefining, narrow and not particularly romantic. Fortunately they have MySpace and weed to help them out. We spoke with Jenkins, who also directed the film, read our Q+A after the jump.
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posted on Feb 26, 2009 in ART+CULTURE INTERVIEWS, MUSIC INTERVIEWS tags Barry Jenkins, Medicine For Melancholy, Q+A, TV on the Radio
Q+A: Frezno Photographer Tony Stamolis
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Photographer Tony Stamolis grew up like a lot of suburban kids, surrounded by strip malls and spending endless hours thinking up something to do. Years later, Stamolis returned to his hometown of Fresno, California and began work on his photo book Frezno. After the jump read FADER style assistant and Fresno native Erin Hansen’s Q+A with Stamolis.
Q+A: Chris Edley (Weird Music Video Director)
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The talent that brought you the videos for MGMT’s “Time To Pretend” and “Electric Feel” has yet another tripped-out video for eager eyes and ears. With their video for Saul Williams’ “Convict Colony”, co-directors Chris Edley and Rob Leitzell set out to superimpose Saul into mystifying desert landscapes and nightmarish situations involving multiple other Sauls. It took them weeks and weeks to explode our minds with psychotropic images of Niggy Stardust hanging out with his animal spirit, so we figured we’d ask them what took so long. Read up about this video, and other videos produced by these Gondry-endorsed guys, after the jump in our interview with Chris.
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posted on Jul 16, 2008 in ART+CULTURE INTERVIEWS, MUSIC INTERVIEWS tags Chris Edley, mgmt, Q+A, Saul Williams
Video: Zach Galifianakis And Tim And Eric Make A Vodka Commercial Which Reminds Us To Post An Unedited 3,417 Word Interview With Tim And Eric
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What else can we say that isn’t said in the title of this post, other than Tim and Eric appeared briefly in FADER 53 in a Newsprint about their friend David Liebe Hart (who also appears extensively in the interview before the whole thing descends into chaos) and you can find out whatever else you need to know about them here. Interview by Rikki Rozelle. (video via the excellent Golden Fiddle)
Q+A: Estevan Oriol
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Adidas and Undefeated recently released 1979, a limited edition collaborative book with photographer Estevan Oriol, emphasizing the deep relationship of basketball to street wear and culture. The book comes with the purchase of the reissued 1979 Top Ten sneaker. We hit up Estevan in LA and talked to him about the book and some of the stories behind the photos. Check the interview after the jump.
Q&A: New York Underground Film Festival 2007
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This Wednesday (March 28th), the 14th Annual New York Underground Film Festival kicks off with a screening of VIVA, pictured above, a “tribute to the best of vintage sexploitation films” by writer/director/actress Anna Biller. We talked about that flick and the rest of this year’s wild-ass lineup with NYUFF co-director Mo Johnston, and you can read the Q&A after the jump. Also, if you live in New York City: GO SEE SOME MOVIES! We recommend the interactive YouTube/found video throwdown Tube Time, as well as Professor Murder-er Michael Bell Smith’s experimental short film Battleship Potemkin Dance Edit (120 BPM).
