Typographer/Illustrator Karol Gadzala, Hamburg, Germany.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

F.

MASSIVE ATTACK // The Spoils
DIRECTOR John Hillcoat
PRODUCED BY Jonathan Pavesi & Taylor Steadman

Mint Julep is Hollie Kenniff & Keith Kenniff (aka Helios, Goldmund).
On their second album Broken Devotion, Portland-based duo Mint Julep instill their lush and gauzy, synth-centric brand of pop music with a raw and powerful emotionalism.

Vacaliebres, Genoa, Italy.

It is sometimes argued that civil disobedience is illegitimate in a democracy or that it displays the “totalitarianism of the left,” to use the fashionable phrase.
The argument is that the democratically controlled institutions of American society have determined that the war must continue; therefore, a commitment to democracy requires that we obey this decision, refraining from illegal behavior designed to impede the operation of the American war machine as it proceeds to destroy helpless people.

N.C.

Christian Schmidt, Stuttgart, Germany.

The US-UK invasion of Iraq alone displaced some 4 million people, of whom almost half fled to neighboring countries. And Iraqis continue to flee from a country that is one of the most miserable on earth after a decade of murderous sanctions followed by the sledgehammer blows of the rich and powerful that devastated the ruined country and also ignited a sectarian conflict that is now tearing the country and the region to shreds.

N.C.

Kristoffer Lislegaard + Burial + Johnny Rock + Braden Deal.

My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise them.

L.T.