Editor’s note: Good things happen to me when I least expect them. While interviewing Jim Morrison about the second season of his political show For & Against and his life in New York as a former penis contest winner, I slipped the idea of doing a political column on Grateful Grapefruit between the lines. He instantly said yes and couldn’t
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Justin messaged me yesterday on GChat, letting me know that he’s shooting a bearded guy. Knowing me too well, he surely got my attention. I said I want the images asap and here it is – a first look at Justin Violini’s shoot with Levi visiting from Oklahoma. Grateful Grapefruit has the exclusive on the first images from the shoot
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Summer just arrived in Berlin and yet it has to step down for fall and the lurking winter. That’s at least the feeling you get when you flip through the September editions of the most powerful fashion reads on the planet. An undisputed favorite this season is Tim Walker’s “Dame of Thrones” from this month’s W. Featuring Kristen McMenamy as a Joan-of-Arc
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Lately one of my professors has been crowd sourcing ideas for his upcoming classes this fall from his Facebook friends. One of his classes, which I unfortunately cannot fit into my schedule (I’ll still audit the hell out of it), is called Genres of Affect and explores the idea of how affect is seen as a form of power. It’s
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Ever since I quit working as an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent at Darik Radio I’ve also been more or less avoiding politics as much as possible. I replaced reports on politicians with art features and election campaigns with posh press trips and came to realize that I’ve just been trying to avoid the inevitable. I came to that realization more than
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Diana Scherer has a methodical approach to her work, comparable with scientific precision and childish curiosity that makes looking at her photographs both an aesthetic and learning experience. Scherer, born in Lauingen/Germany, studied fine art and photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Since 2003 she lives and works in Amsterdam. With Nurture Studies, Diana Scherer presents an archive of flowers she has grown
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Maybe nothing else will make Bulgaria famous. Ever. Except Azis. DIS had an interview with him and here is what they wrote and asked him: When Vasil Trayanov Boyanov appeared on the Bulgarian pop-radar a decade ago, he rechristened himself Azis. His transgressive image radicalized and scandalized the Bulgarian media. The Chalga industry, which up till then had been dominated
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Interview magazine surprises with a quirky approach on a mens underwear photo shoot placing their models in Grindr profiles. The boys are showing off their Versace, Boss, Calvin Klein, Frankie Morello, Paul Smith, John Galliano etc. briefs and boxers styled by Miguel Enamorado. I wonder if straight men would actually get the Grindr reference and be enticed to buy one of the
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Immaculate perfectly shaped bodies are slowly unveiled by the ultimate seamless shave in designer, animator and photographer Bart Hess’s sleek new film. Inspired by the aerodynamic forms of swimmers currently battling it out in the Olympic pool, Hess was aided by a pair of human shavers manipulating a two-meter long blade in turning a mechanical act of grooming into a
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When Facebook blocks you for the second time and removes your content because it “violates the Zuckerberg constitution” and warns you that the third time will be followed by a spanky, you start rethinking your online behavior. Or you simply show them the finger and move away. Since I’m not that dumb of a businessman to do the latter, I
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So I’m obsessed with this (trigger word) “movement” that James Bridle and a bunch of his designer friends from London have coined: “The New Aesthetic”. Basically at its most essential can be categorized as a melding of the digital realm with the real world. We humans viewing the world through the eyes of our very own technology, and what beautiful aesthetic qualities
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Justin Violini isn’t famous for shooting furry boys, but guess what? There was an exception. And this exception comes right at ya. Meet Simon.
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