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I NT R O W e Wer e Were a decade into the 21st Century now, and just d ec deca de i nto th e 21s t Cen tury now , an d ju st look at e n nt t h s C entury ury a nd j u s l ook t how much has changed since the Millenniu k h ow m uch h as chan ged sinc e th e Mi llen nium . There was w ch ha ch an e s ce i n i m. Th ere no Facebook, Twitter or MySpace in 2000. F aceb ook, Twi tter o MySp ace i 2 000. ace ook k w itter tt r t yS e 00 00 Digital came ra wer b u l k y a nd h ugel y ex pens ive, ev Digi tal cameras were bulky and hugely expensive, everyone i t a l ca ras e r bul ky n d ugely x p s i v e, eve ryon ta a r a ameras l sive, ryone had a Nokia 3310 (at best) and the most powerful y e ha d a Noki a 33 10 ( at b est) o oki ok 0 t est st th mos powerf l g ames con sole t he mo s t po werf ul games console was the Nintendo 64. m o os p we r e erf s onsole t Nintend Nin tend o 64 . A computer en end comp uter omp ter m p was a set of bulky beige boxes, a portable music w se t b l y bul ky b eige box es, g ge e s, , portab po rtab le m usic player was a CD Walkman and the idea p o rta b us i pla yer w as s pl ye a W al km Wa kma Wal kman nd t he ide a of making a film, learning to k man d h de d e o mak ing ak ng k n g fi lm, lear ning t o beatmatch songs, or communicate l lm lea nin g l ea n beat matc h so ngs, o comm unic ate in a m at ma a s c omm uni c e n mmunic i realtime o n the wor ldwi de w eb mor o r r l t real time on the worldwide web more or less unthinkab e w orldwi e r ld b or s u nt i abl ss unt hink able . t bl le. y en j oy r enj oyin g r t a rea ng rt, a d pla y, f or c reat ing art, for enjoying w ork s es i v es, ur liv e s, o wor k r int r ma i teg a d l lic il ili con. We silic n We k d l hoo ked o n s ilic on. Wev e in tegr ated l man ner f g ear i t d e r 2 0 1 0 , t 201 0, a nd w ere Now its 2010, and were all hooked on silicon. Weve integrated all manner of gear into our lives, for work and play, for creating we , H, RUBBI SH, a I N E ISN T R UBBISH, an wer e a M D R N I FE ISNT RUBBISH, and were at w ow th h v sh are, oversha e ov e sha rl t l ver ital overl ad m e te t h th i w i t h u r ri o s r n a music and for sharing all of this with our mates. Far from digital overload and life overshare, we know that MODERN LIFE mu ic musi c an d fo r sh arin g al l o f thi s wi th o ur m ates . Fa r fr om d igit al o verl oad a nd ife ove rsha re, e k now t ha MOD ERN IFE w e low-te lo w-te ch t tle tt l f r er ogether tog her his l ittle fan zine to toge ther thi s li ttle fanzine as a low-tech ded d d e id ed de ide a ng me t o met i g ma zing o a f ily -a ff d l e a ak an ta ke e a sily-aff rda le ec a c a n tak e ea sily -aff orda ble t e h an mak e so meth ing amaz ing ou o i t. S o w dec ided h e r stage wher e s t a e wh er a st age where we can take easily-affordable tech and make something amazing out of it. So we decided to put together this little ve i v iv r ea ive r i ves o re rea tiv ly liv es m ore crea tive ly. ve ive y e w a case s d l o e ech iz e te l h e i -te h gizmo t h a t e celebration ce b rat i on cel br io n f a ll t he h i-te ch g izmo s th at w e lo ve a nd t o sh owca se h ow t hey he p u s i v cele brat ion of all the hi-tech gizmos that we love and to showcase how they help us live our lives more creatively. W l ook t h ow t ech an b e u sed t c reat e fa ntas tic, bea utif ul t hing s li ke i nter net film s di rect ly f rom scri pts We look at how tech can be used to create fantastic, beautiful things like internet films directly from scripts or perfectly-mixed DJ sets. With the ok o h n ed d rea r eat f nta ti ea e fantas tic t i ic ea ut a t thing l i k hi i in ternet fil er et il t l d re ct y ro e ect o c p t s p erfe ctly -mix ed D J se ts. Wit erf ctl -mi rfectly mi s e s . help of our coverstar, Nev Schulman - the subject of smash documentary Catfish we assess the impact that Facebook has on our r eal- life relationships. e u cove rsta r, N ev S chul man ove rstar, e ve st e ch l ma n a th e su bjec t h subjec j c sm ash o cumenta y Catfi h sma sh d ocum enta ry C atfi sh m ma s oc m entary at t w asse ss t he i mpac t th at F aceb ook as s e e mp p t a ceb o ok a b o ur real-life rel atio nshi ps. eal ife l l- if l tio s hips. t i h i p s . We do some interviews over new media comms, our tech addicts reveal what makes their chosen platforms so compulsively moreish, and we collate all the e d o so me i nter view s ov er n ew m edia com ms, o ur n te vie o r e d i di a s u r h add icts rev eal d t s e l t mak es t heir cho sen plat form s o com puls ivel y mo reis h, a nd w e co llat e al l th e a s hei ch ei eir i n p lat fo a at o c om lsivel o ve o i n c late a l weird, wonderful, hi-tech and low-tech gubbins weve come across in the making of this supplement. weir d, w onde rful , hi -tec h an d lo w-te ch g ubbi ns w eve com e ac ross i , o nd de l hi-tec a n l w-t h tech low-te w bbi n s b bi e co ros h maki ng o f th is s uppl emen t. i g h s suppl me l men o ov e r ove r l e m mu muc h o o ur liv es are interwove so much of our lives a re i nter wove n ed N a ned No e nt tai ne wo u d a ve en e t i s so thing th at f ew o f u s wou ld h ave ente rtai ned. Now , some thin g that few of us would have entertained. Now, h ch king ut g ek d h 9 k n t he 90s , th e id ea o f g eeki ng o ut o t ech w s something Back in the 90s, the idea of geeking out on tech was p pu npu t inpu ts inputs ed t i t w t s ti m ula te d o u y ly if ily l i f e . e re our o u r yo ur d aily lif e. H ere s wh ats sti mula ted our f : w ay o f li fe: i t i s your daily life. Heres whats stimulate a o m ore tha c w N ow t ech i l il y asi da ily basi s. Now tech is more than a way of life: it is eek l no nol t ec n o g th with technology that we all geek out on a daily basis. w it h tec hnol ogy t hat e al ge e o y urs l f u ll uc i t erf es ucc ssf ull y h op ho hop e i t int erfa ces succ essf ully wit h yo urs. y ly ntly; n tly recently; we hope it interfaces successfully with yours. recently rece ntly ; DARE TO TRANSFORM NEW STYLE CONNECTION surface shifting stylers Unleash your creativity. New Style Connection complements professional cuts through pioneering textures and high-fashion finishes. Cutting-edge products for surface transforming hairstyles. Do you dare? NEW VELVET GELATINE 07 cushioning blow-dry gel LIGHT, AIRY GEL MELTS INTO HAIR FOR A CUSHIONED FINISH WITH A NATURAL SHINE Insider hints on how to get the best out of Style Connection products. Ever-changing inspiration and clever tricks for your hair. Full guide to the Style Connection product rang 49 CONTENTS 46 FEATURES 046 / LYKKE LI / GHOST OF LOVE When the object is gone, youre still FASHION 100 / MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK / AUDREY ANGS BEAUTIFUL JEWELLERY FRONT OF BOOK 022 / DAVE I.D. / NOTES FROM NOWHERE 023 / LOMOGRPAHY GALLERY STORE EAST LONDON 024 / HIGH SOCIETY THE 56 in pain. The 49 MASTHEAD EDITORS LETTER Swaddled in the sweet concrete embrace of das Capital, I always presume we are insulated from the ravages of weather. Not so, it turns out. During this deadline snow caught us a cropper, leaving our Art Director stranded in Barcelona without a laptop. (Imagine! The pre-95 Dialogues Some brief accounts of our recent encounters with artists and other interesting people of note. Field Notes 1 . Between the time of this article being written and going to press, Esben & the Witch were named on the longlist for BBCs Sound Of 2011 poll. Well done them. Heres hoping they don HASAN HEJAZI ALEXA HALL chats to the pinker-than-thou designer whose unadulterated luxury is wonderfully pre-recession Its time to bid adieu to androgyny and ditch deconstructionism. Like Lanvin, with its unfinished hems and Comme des Garcon with its polka dots, Hasan Hejazi has already developed hi Dialogues Later on the day I meet them, the Heartbreaks will be supporting Carl Barat at the Scala in London, the last gig of their tour with him. There are almost too many enjoyable comparisons and metaphors which can be spun from this, but Ill suffice with one: for the Morecambe-bred band whose id Dialogues Field Notes SANDER EXPLAINS ABOUT HIS OTHER LOVE - VJING I worked really hard in developing video DJing which I thought was a great tool to have with you when youre on a bigger stage. I felt really frustrated playing other peoples records to 5000 people. Sometimes the records everybody wan FRONT OF BOOK A SELECTION OF IDEAS, IMAGES, INDIVIDUALS AND ITEMS WE HAVE RECENTLY THOUGHT INTERESTING, NOTEWORTHY, OR APPEALING, OFFERED UP FOR YOU APPRECIATION. WORDS: Kara Simsek (KS) / Rob Dabrowski (RD) / Sebastian Law (SL) / Michael C Lewin (MCL) James Lachno (JL) / Loredana DAndrea (LD) / Max DYED & PREJUDICE WWW.ROKIT.CO.UK It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a single man in Lomography is the umbrella term for the artform happened upon by two young Viennese students in the 80s who started using a cheapncheerful old Russian camera to take experimental snapshots with. In the ver FOB HIGH SOCIETY AT THE WELLCOME COLLECTION Amongst our generation of hooray hedonists, where anything less than excessive is considered excessively dry, who better to consider the perpetually brilliant museum the Wellcome Collections new offering about drugs through history and culture than our tea FOB GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FEST One of the best ways to ride out gloomy February is with a trip or two to the flicks. Handy then that the Glasgow Film Festival is back in 2011, providing a cinematic haven from grey skies and drizzle. As well as a selection of films old and new, theres a special musi / LAYO & BUSHWACKER / Notion MUSIC the nights proceedings, poppy synths with a slightly avante garde, Gang Gang Dance-esque twist. The crowd was definitely wowed. The band took their name from an Arthur Russell track, and state that the music they want to bring to the table is that of the late disc FOB PLASTIK MAN ARRIVES Love Richie Hawtin? Then youll love this. Arkives is a new boxset that groups together all of his Plasktikman material from the last 17 years. Theres a substantial amount of techno here, including remastered versions of all six previously released albums plus rarities, unrele FOB MEANWHILE , IN CAMBERWELL... ARTS COLLECTIVE EFDEAY CONTEMPLATE WORLD DOMINATION What if your friends actually helped you work rather than distracted you from it, spurred you on and gave you inspiration when you most needed it? What if a trip down the pub didnt just result in banter and a dented Ok so this is very boy band question; what makes you feel guilty? We might have to pause for that. *(Joe cuts in with a cheeky line as soon as I turn off the Dictaphone)* EFDEAY has brought you a lot of work then? Yeah more than I think we would of achieved on our own. We can bounce our ideas off ea FOB COME FLY WITH ME WWW.FLY53.COM Fly53 is all about winter hijinks this season. The latest campaign, fronted by kids who look like theyve broken into a stately home, is all about the winter INSPECTOR NORSE WWW.BJORGJEWELLERY.COM An ancient Jaguar wheezes into the drive and Inspector Norse steps ou FOB Momo Eat Cake which opens in December. FYI the title was spawned by our cake stealing studio dog, who is called Momo! Aside from all the work stuff theres been a whole schedule of action and randomness going on... My first day in Japan saw me donning a Peruvian poncho and parading around a party treasures to furnish Buckingham Palace with so I have to whip out my phrasebook and figure out how to ship the goodies back home! So far I have purchased 27 pairs of novelty socks and to be honest I dont even wear socks too frequently...I much prefer a good pair of tights. Even a visit to the conven F O B WHY THE 90S WAS Oh, codswallop. good for your sex drive. (cue weird guitar twang). By ELIZABETH SANKEY THE BEST DECADE EVER DONT LIVE IN THE STINKY OLD PAST, EMBRACE THE MOMENT. LIVE FOR NOW, LOOK AROUND YOU AND APPRECIATE WHATS HAPPENING THIS SECOND. Its absolutely fine to romance about the p FOB JAJAJA NIKI & THE DOVE / CHAMPAGNE RIOTS MEANWHILE, IN NORDIC-NORTH LONDON... The brilliant Nordic countries music showcase JA JA JA hosts an evening involving much-buzzed about blog-pop artists NIKI & THE DOVE and CHAMPAGNE RIOT. Michael C Lewin charts their mixed luck over the course of an eve (Cf. Niki & the Dove song, DJ, Ease My Mind). Neither act, refreshingly, is afraid of making electronic pop thats intelligent. I have the answer; if they were offering the handsome nature of Norse people for export, Id be buying. There are pockets of rather pungent smell and the DJ one are lovely: c FOB CONNECTION FRANÇAIS WWW.FRENCHCONNECTION.CO WEAR A STORY WWW.QUIKSILVER.COM Inspiration comes from many places. One of the more curious weve come across in recent times is the tale of Benji Pierson, an illustrator who at the age of three took to drawing because suffering from epileptic seizures FOB AWAY WITH THE FAIRISLES WWW.FARAH.CO.UK The only knit to be seen in this winter, darlings, is a Fair Isle. Ive been running around the office in one my fabulous Mum knitted (for herself) back in the early 1980s. After she recently saw one of my Tweets lusting after a Fair Isle jumper, she presen head-over-heels - big cliché, Jim - but the dark, off-kilter wooziness of the music and his hushed intonation bring the words to life and give them a genuine feeling of intoxicated disorientation, which is lacking in the i-D article. Fast-forward from Jim Whites 2004 track to the present day and the FOB TIRED OF TWEE OWLS WWW.STRAIGHTRACER.COM Its the same old story: we were tired of being unable to find tshirts we liked, or paying over the odds for something simple and classic like a navy pocket on a decent grey cotton tee. And we were tired of twee owls playing backgammon with Rainbow Brite, Top / Nsha Atelier WORDS / Michael C Lewin PHOTOGRAPHY / James Moriarty ART DIRECTION / Hidden Agency STYLING / Alexis Knox MAKE-UP / Debbie Gallagher Using Mac 060 HAIR / Sunanda Mesquita Using Loreal t Pro No ion LYKKE LI Every true artist has their own wound that theyre trying to heal... I wrote from a wounded place and thats what came Wounded Rhymes. Epic personal dramas form the backdrop to Lykke Lis comeback record, full of hurt, hope and soul: an exploration of whats left when the loves gone, what it i When the object is gone, youre still in pain. I feel like the ghost is the thing that stays when the love is gone, that haunts you when youre sleeping. Right & Above Top / Horace Boots / Dr Martens Top Right Shirt Dress and shorts / Ksubi Top / Nsha Atelier LYKKE LI as hungry anymore. When you want other things. I would love to live on a farm, with the countryside. A very quiet life where I just, like, cook and potter. Like, the ideal of being in your bed and in the house, and making films and not getting out of bed. Thats my ideal. Whats striking whe Top / Nsha Atelier I feel like dancing is good for your soul, yknow? To connect, to let go and meet. Its like having sex with clothes on. I feel like we need to do that more, Lykke says. I really wanna dance while I can. Left Shirt Dress and shorts / Ksubi Above Top / gemma slack Shorts / ksubi LYKKE LI comes at them from every angle, creating something with as many thrills as it has aches, which struts more often than it sighs. Its produced again by Bjorn Yttling, of Peter, Bjorn and John, who I called the day after interviewing Lykke. He offered as great a description of the records vari ANNA CALVI STRINGS ATTACHED Delving into the world of Anna Calvi, an accomplished musician with an arresting voice, Seb Law discovers why she wears her heart on her guitar strings. Words / Seb Law Photography / Michael Heilgemeir sublime. The quietly-exploding track finishes with a climax of tightly-wound guitar chords and a double pizzicato pluck. Deft playing would be putting it mildly. Annas intimate knowledge of the instrument is singularly unusual and striking in the modern land of music, and befits that rarely-used ter ANNA CALVI arresting performer that this does seem at odds. As we talk, after the shoot where we all had to leave the room, she is quiet and replies with short answers. Looking back over the transcript, its surprising just how little she speaks. It is obvious from what she says and how she says it t J A P A N O I S E - M O N G E R S B O N I N G E N A S P H O T O G R A P H E D B Y S O C R A T E S M I T S I O S BO NINGEN BLACK MASS Photography / Socrates Mitsios Art Direction / Actually Huizenga Hair / Louis Byrne Make-Up / Megumi Fuku Using Mac Make-Up Assistant / Yuka Hirata Location / The Swedenborg Society When Notion first encountered Bo Ningen, it was in a particularly unusual but enjoyable setting Sexton described their set to us as a few minutes of auto-destructive heaven hopefully we woke up some angels today. What a manifesto! Were happy to describe their debut album in similar terms: 9 tracks of auto- destructive heaven which deserves to be played loud enough to give those angels no rest BO NINGEN THE ADVENTURES OF NO ONE PT2 I have two choices. I can lick their shoes and stroke their fragile egos, I can say everything they want to hear and live my life quite happily. (As happily as one can be when theyre shoving their principles under the bed every night, sleeping in a well of their own shal toilet. I decided to ignore them, but when she called again in the afternoon I grudgingly picked up, Where did you goooooo? she whined, Home. I replied. why? you and youd gone. I laughed in a way I hoped was mocking, I abandoned you? You left me on my own all night NFBF did not respond well to my ne w w w . p l a n e t n o t i o n . c o m Our Digita l Disco verie s For Your Delec tation Music: Exclusive downloads, lush videos and in-depth record reviews Fashion: Bespoke shoots, the hottest trends and the most unusual stores Culture: Avant art, riotous gigs, hidden bars & secret clubs Interv 10p st C entur y Liv ing N otions Gu ide to 21 FEATURIN G THE FO LLOWING! Ho w & why we suckle fro its om information-filled teat s THE INTERNET Documentary star Nev y Schulman tells us how social media imitated a c life imitating art FILM: CATFISH DJING IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND S EX ANDROIDS A DDIC I NT R O W e Wer e Were a decade into the 21st Century now, and just d ec deca de i nto th e 21s t Cen tury now , an d ju st look at e n nt t h s C entury ury a nd j u s l ook t how much has changed since the Millenniu k h ow m uch h as chan ged sinc e th e Mi llen nium . There was w ch ha ch an e s C O N T E NT S 68 INTRODUCTION 70 CONTENTS & MASTHEAD 72 MAKE: Or, how we use tech to fill our lives with lovely things 74 THE X-FILES We get our creative on, and turn Spielberg for the day with script-to-film webservice Xtranormal 74 SETTING THE PACE XFMs Queen of New Music, Sunta Templeton, roadte O r, h o w w e u s e t e c h o u r l i v e s w i t h l o v e l y M A K E t o f i l l t h i n g s We love a bit of YouTube at Notion, and after looking around for a way to squeeze it into this here Tech guide, we thought wed get someone in to write a short scene for us. We crowdsourced a scriptwriter //BIT.LY/XTRANOTION CHECKOUT PATRICKS VIDEO AT: HTTP: R WITH LAB PATRICK MCKEMEY IS A FREELANCE WRITE PRODUCTIONS AND 19 ENTERTAINMENT. H E T E S I L - F X 073 N otion M A K E Setting WORDS / Sunta Te mpleton The Pace resident Queen of New Music, Sunta Templeton, for We dished out a swish DJing device, the Pacemaker, to XFMs her to roadtest and let us know how it worked outside of the confines of the Notion stereo. Heres how she got on. Ive been DJing since I was BL OOMING MARVELLOUS Like the Stephen Fry of the music world, Brian Eno is always tinkering with gadgets. However, unlike Fry, B y t e s youll rarely find him endorsing products. He has however, created an iPhone App. Its called Bloom, and with the assistance of musician/software engineer Peter Chil I V E Or, the impact of tech on our Cummins has all the latest. Oooh and theres some of our favourite fashion/tech crossover finds too. y daily lives We all live our lives online now, dont we? Hell, even my Gran is on Facebook (on limited profile settings obvs). How true to your real life is your r when I dont have my phone and Im not near a computer Im always happiest 077 Notion te he te the an an w i an w i and wri go ac k t go ac t go ac t o go bac thing t ing do every d ev ry eh d eh d We had basically basica ly ov , a d ov , a nd ov , a movie, a rds rds backwa bac w IVE C a t f i s h B T H E W t E so many p eo p le who y e o e ic tance th give s a vo he accep d t can WERE NO T SHARING EXPERIENC ES WITH EA OTHER, WE CH RE JUST O BSERVING EACH OTHE R AND HAVING OU R OWN EXP ERIENCES personality. If shed done this in a book, she would have been praised. However, in this case, it was somewhat socially unacceptable. Having been forced to ponder over the state of the I V E DO I Like The WAY YOU MOVE ? WORDS / Matt Cumm ins decision. Instead of trying to compete with Sony When Nintendo released the Wii in 2006, they made a bold and Microsoft over graphical aptitude in an overcrowded market, they chose to create their own audience. Their solid implementation of mo B y t e s TECHNICAL TECHNIQUE Theres technical fashion, then theres Hussein Chalayan. Over the past few years, hes experimented with everything from self-powered mutating dresses (a la Transformers) to dresses covered in crystals and packed with lasers. Tech plays a big part in Chalayans approach to mu n i c at ion ea sier r O r, h o w t e c h m a k e s c o m Its Its good to talk, rasped Bob Hoskins a (worryingly long) while back. Little did Hoskins - or any of the rest of us, come to think of it - realise e how h ow many different ways there would be to have a natter in 2010. We decided to te C o m e o n , y o u c a n d o b e t t er w h e n t h a n t h at, y o u n g , a n y t h i n g ! e v e n g a d g e t s f r o m y o u w e r e I used to have a pair of Lock Ons, its like Lazer Quest, but in your garden! N o w t h a t s c o ol ! o W h ats y o u r s et u p l i k e n o w f o r y o ur l i v H A R E The Nerds Shall Inherit The Decks When it comes to amazing bass-heavy nights, Urban Nerds are a force to be reckoned with. Having been invited back to host an arena at Snowbombing 2011, Ka Kara Simsek had a quick gmail chat with out how important the Internet was in ree James Benenson, one o THE TAPE CRUSADER When we found these on the internet just the other week, gasps of excitement were heard in the office; theres not much that inspires 1980s nostalgia like Back to the Future. I would have given anything for a ride in that DeLorean. The backstory of the DeLorean company is also a fas L O V E O r, h o w w e e n j o y ( s o m e t i m e s t o o t e c h m u c h ) We left the brief for this section wide open; after all its each to their own, enjoyment-wise, no? We tracked down some entertaining ways in which enjoyment of tech can be taken to extremes. Gasp at the sex androids (from A OK, De l v in g S i ms ek CUPID of onlin e dating, Kara way to find the one. Of course in our busy modern lives its often hard to find the rn n into the m ysteries new decodes the W eve Weve been led to believe that the aim in life is to pair off with someone and breed. believ e v im i n li fe i s t L O V E C o n f e s s i o n s g a m i n g o f a d d i c t a Let me paint you a picture: Its 16:55 on a seasonably frosty Saturday afternoon in late November. The city throngs with masses of day-trippers on their collective festive pilgrimage to empty the capitals shops of shiny baubles. Further out DUNK TO THE FUTURE When we found these on the internet just the other week, gasps of excitement were heard in the office; theres not much that inspires 1980s nostalgia like Back to the Future. I would have given anything for a ride in that DeLorean. The backstory of the DeLorean company is also a fa 20/02/10 It was great. In 1995 Britain experienced a surge in home- grown talent, in all creative sectors, their own. So you werent all hanging out in the Good Mixer swapping touring tales? Generally we were quite competitive of each other. You just wanted to crush the other bands. So who THE IT GIRLS WORDS LOUISE WENER 094 Notion SO WHO DID YOU MOST WANT TO CRUSH? ECHOBELLY AND ELASTICA. THERE WAS EXTRA COMPETITION BETWEEN THE FEMALE BANDS BECAUSE YOU FELT LIKE ONLY A FEW OF YOU WOULD BE ALLOWED. AND HOW WOULD YOU CRUSH FRISCHMANN AND MADAN? OH, I JUST USED TO FANTASISE ABOUT HAVING THEM ASSASSINATED. sex symbol on several o YOUNG LEGIONNAIRE IN THE STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY / RISHI MULLETT-SADONES Ah, the studio! Where, as they say, the magic happens. Who has not seen Godards iconic Stones piece Sympathy for the Devil and not considered that hermetic hedonistic life of creativity to be the apogee of frittering time? No one is ILL BE SO HAPPY WHEN I C A N WA L K I N T O A S H O P A N D S E E I T O N T H E S H E L F. T H A T S T H E T H I N G I M M O S T L O O K I N G F O R WA R D T O R I G H T N O W. 097 Notion YOUNG LEGIONNAIRE Whats the studio like? Any eccentricities, petty annoyances or surprising benefits? Were at Sub Bubble in London, which seems really new and as a result were feeling a bit spoilt. Theres loads of things here to make a bands visit more than comfortable... although the shape of the c 099 Notion MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK The Wonderful Jewellery of Audrey Ang PHOTOGRAPHER MAKE-UP MODEL HAIR DAMIEN FRY DEBBIE GALLAGHER USING MAC JOSH GOODWIN AMANDINE DECROIX PROFILE MODELS STYLING AUDREY ANG WORDS SEB LAW A ccessories are always a toughie. 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