Donned with flaws and fine detail, Carla Fuentes’ illustrations pull the eye in an honest direction, accentuating the otherwise lost beauties of an imperfect existence. For the Spanish-bred illustrator, the perceived strangeness of normality has a constant sway on her work, calling out idealism with reality in a surprising and beautiful manner.
Setting soft and supple nudes and unorthodox portraits against seemingly textured backgrounds, Haines utilizes the tension between abstraction and realism to appease his own inner dichotomies and create art that expresses emotional complexities.
Featuring fried eggs on toast, and hip ladies munching on donuts while walking down the street, McRae’s works have a vaguely feminine feel to them and an underlying element of the transient.
Artist, musician, boys club conqueror, Stevie Nicks is a fury of raw emotions, and her refusal to apologize for her imperfections has made her one of the most distinctive female voices that came out of the sixties and seventies.
Australia artist Susanna Rose Sykes bears the female form in an honest and psychedelic style that we simply can’t get enough of. With a schooling in both fashion and illustration, Sykes teams the two with traces of alternative coming-of-age to create ingenious candid characters floating through the void between adolescence and adulthood—that in-between realm of radical ups and downs.
We spent a late August afternoon with Dirty Dishes in Los Angeles; hanging at Ms. Donut – the official site of all Dirty Dishes band meetings – eating grilled cheese sandwiches at Brite Spot Diner, walking around Echo Park Lake, and an enjoying an impromptu jam session on the floor of Jenny Tuite’s quaint abode.
We’re excited to announce the release of the third issue of our quarterly print magazine, Amadeus. The creatives featured in our magazine are no doubt innovator... Read More...
Head to any major city in California these days, and you'll find a local scene of tripped-out music mongers fawning over the newest group of psych-rock revivali... Read More...
Before hitting the road for a west coast string of dates Cobalt Cranes' Kate Betuel and Tim Foley took the time to talk with Amadeus about the musical movement brewing in Los Angeles, writing the new album in a motel in Kansas, and blasting Black Sabbath while driving through blizzards in Colorado.
