Photography: Amanda Leigh Smith
Stylist/production: Rachel Rox Krantz
Images via: Cake Mag
Has anyone else seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot? I think that doco informed most of my fashion choices from the time I was, say, 19-years-old until now (a lot of dark skinny jeans, heavy/platform boots and flannos).
So now that I've got that out there -- the not-so-well-guarded secret that I mostly dress like an eighties burn-out -- I can get on with what this is actually about: Amanda Leigh Smith has (once again) shot something rad. And said rad thing reminds me a bit of Heavy Metal Parking Lot/Detroit Rock City, hence the digression.
But I'm just so continually impressed by Amanda's -- and Rachel Rox Krantz's -- ability to create and capture a mood, an era, a weird isolated-surburban feeling, a wide-wilderness inhalation, or even resurrect a mostly-extinct subculture.
And this shoot is just so irreverent and playful and badass at the same time. Because, beer-can hair curlers? Yep.
Stylist/production: Rachel Rox Krantz
Images via: Cake Mag
Has anyone else seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot? I think that doco informed most of my fashion choices from the time I was, say, 19-years-old until now (a lot of dark skinny jeans, heavy/platform boots and flannos).
So now that I've got that out there -- the not-so-well-guarded secret that I mostly dress like an eighties burn-out -- I can get on with what this is actually about: Amanda Leigh Smith has (once again) shot something rad. And said rad thing reminds me a bit of Heavy Metal Parking Lot/Detroit Rock City, hence the digression.
But I'm just so continually impressed by Amanda's -- and Rachel Rox Krantz's -- ability to create and capture a mood, an era, a weird isolated-surburban feeling, a wide-wilderness inhalation, or even resurrect a mostly-extinct subculture.
And this shoot is just so irreverent and playful and badass at the same time. Because, beer-can hair curlers? Yep.
All artwork/tattoos/illustrations by Minka Sicklinger. Artist portraits by Backyard Bill, Jalouse, Elle Mexico, unknown..
Like Miso, Minka Sicklinger is another artist in whom it is difficult to distinguish the artist herself from the practice of art. Her art and herself seem totally other-worldly, or anachronistic, and there's not much to do but to get lost in it all...
Like Miso, Minka Sicklinger is another artist in whom it is difficult to distinguish the artist herself from the practice of art. Her art and herself seem totally other-worldly, or anachronistic, and there's not much to do but to get lost in it all...
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas...
Mid-week walls are closing in. Daydreaming about escape plans.