Refreshing Authenticity: A Conversation with Levi Maestro of Maestro Knows

Call it a merger of movements– the unstoppable takeover of the web as the revolutionary key media outlet and changes in consumption of entertainment fostering a proliferation of reality television. However, what skateboarder turned videographer prodigy, Levi Maestro, brings to the table is a fresh level of…

More than Skin Deep: Legacy of Horiyoshi III

The art of Irezumi (入墨), Japanese term for “tattooing”, also literally meaning injection of ink, can be traced back to Japan’s Jōmon period (approximately 10,000 B.C.). The craft of body branding with ink by hand had since then segued through countless social stratas and donned numerous cultural…

The Market Makers - A Conversation with Fraser Cooke and Hiroshi Fujiwara

“Influencers” worked within the perimeters of a market, setting trends based on predetermined standards. “Market makers”, on the other hand, established new markets with ease. Breaching against tested trend formulas and creating genres unlike others in the marketplace. One example is Fujiwara’s Fragment…