Interview: Ethan Lipsitz of Apliiq

We talk fabric and more with the founder of the LA-based custom appliqué company

By Vivianne Lapointe Ethan Lipsitz founded the Apliiq shop to satisfy his obsessive fabric hunting habit and to encourage creativity in the average shopper by allowing them to apply appliqués to garments. Inspired by popular shoe brands like Nike who offer a personalized experience by letting you customize their shoes, he decided to apply the concept to apparel and invites his customers to adorn their …

The Anonymous Sex Journal

Read people's kinky secrets in a new publication

By Sabine Zetteler Bold, boundary-breaking and wrapped in wipe-clean plastic, a new publication thrust its way into existence on Valentine’s Day this year, promising to arouse, provoke, bemuse, move and surprise its readers. The Anonymous Sex Journal is exactly what it says on the cover: a collection of carnal confessions submitted by strangers. Conceived and compiled by Alex Tieghi-Walker, the new periodical asks the question …

Interview: Christian Patterson

The photographer talks about the third edition of "Redheaded Peckerwood"

When Christian Patterson published his photo book “Redheaded Peckerwood” late in 2011, the immediate and explosive popularity caused both its first and second printings to sell out in rapid succession. Now the book’s publisher, MACK, is releasing a new revised third edition, which expands on the project’s central inspiration: the 1958 killing spree of teenagers Carrie Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather. We talked to Patterson …