30 Days In The Amazonian Jungles, Snow Capped Peaks and Incan Villages of Peru

Holy Patte, who took us on a tour of Ecuador last week, present one of their most exciting journeys yet with an action packed, 30 day adventure through Peru. Just another long stop on their 4 month long excursion of South America, which has also taken them to Costa Rica and Colombia. On their exciting adventure through Peru, they first took a journey through the Amazon where they slept in wooden huts on stilts, eating piranhas for breakfast and holding wild sloths right from the trees. After trekking through the muggy jungles, it was off to the Huascaran National Park where the pair hiked through the freezing, snowy mountain peaks - camping all along the way. The it was off to a romantic motorbike excursion to the Incan capital of Peru, Cuzco and all the surrounding villages. Stay tuned until next week when we feature highlights from Holy Patte's journey through Bolivia.    

The Other Half of the Antwerp 6: Read About Belgium's Unsung Fashion Heroes That Continue To Influence Today

When it comes to fashion, the Belgians will continue to be a driving, influential force. With a round of fashion weeks upon us in September, there will undoubtedly be a few references to these sartorial geniuses from this unlikely creatively kinetic country. Sure, the Martin Margiela and Raf Simons stars burn the brightest – especially at retrospectives like the one that is on view now at the Bozar Center For Fine Arts in Brussels – but the credit for laying the first fashion stakes belongs to a band of misfit outsiders known as the Antwerp 6. Here, our fashion editor-at-large, Adam Lehrer, explores the life and works of the more unknown members of this fashion collective that may not be household names, but are just as influential and still worth talking about. Click here to read.

How Many Virgins? Summer Sacrifice @ The Ace Hotel In Los Angeles

How Many Virgins? presented their Second Summer sacrifice, an intimate evening of visual, aural, and sensual stimulation, at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Featuring A Post-Mentalpausal Mid-Career Survey by Amy Von Harrington & Mel Shimkovitz: short films spanning ten years of new age-old epiphanies and co-defendant disfunction. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

For the First Friday Autre Playlist We Present a Bevy of Late 70s Art Damaged Punk Rock from Los Angeles →

For the first of Friday Autre playlists, I thought it most appropriate to highlight the quintessential Los Angeles-based punk rock bands of the late 1970s (and some '80s). Perhaps this is a cliché move, but Autre is of course a Los Angeles art magazine. The Hollywood punk bands were decidedly art leaning without exactly aspiring towards art. That is the Los Angeles art attitude; a sort of nonchalance that allows for the word to spin out of control and occasionally achieve the transcendental. Click here to read more and listen to the full playlist. 

The Kids Are Alright: FYF Fest From the Perspective of Young Photographer Genevieve Nollinger

Most of what you'll see from big music festivals, like FYF Fest, are the bands and the badly dressed. Fortunately, young, up-and-coming photographer Genevieve Nollinger was on hand to capture FYF Fest from her own perspective, her friends, and the fans in raw youthful abandon. photographs by Genevieve Nollinger

Read Our Interview of Kristin Prim On Becoming the Youngest Print Magazine Editor In the World and Her New Art Book That Explores Feminism and Spirituality →

Kristin Prim is a freak of nature and she is so wise at her young age that it will astound you. When she started Prim magazine at only 14 years old, she became the youngest print magazine editor in the world. Indeed, Kristin Prim is not your average girl – now woman – but she’s always been powerful and individualistic, which is one of the things that makes her so fascinating. Her first loves were music and art, but when her parents moved to a more conservative town in New York, she turned towards fashion, and publishing, as an outlet to connect with people that were more like her. While many kids were plastering their walls with cut outs from Teen Vogue, Prim was publishing her own glossy mag and distributing it globally. Click here to read the full interview. 

Read Audra Wist's Sumptuous Masturbatorial Meditation on Facesitting →

I just masturbated to the thought of sitting on someone’s face. I figured whatever came to mind I’d write about. And really, what better way to begin writing about facesitting than right after getting off to the thought. What is it about the act? Just a few minutes ago before writing these words, I was lying in bed rubbing myself to the thought of my ass coming down gently on a particular face, me “triumphantly” above him, as he often remarks. The pressure and weight of my ass resting on his face, suffocating him temporarily and squeezing my thighs against his neck and head. I like the way he gasps for air as I release his face from the grip of my derriere. The image alone sets off a fantastic wank — a vision of ivory softness, large and overwhelming, looming above his face, which is soon to be smothered into erogenous bliss. Click here to read more. 

Premier of The First Installment of Haelos' Music Video Trilogy for the Track "Earth Not Above"

Leading into the release of Haelos' “Earth Not Above” 12” on Matador, the London trio -- Arthur Delaney (vocals), Dom Goldsmith (vocals, production) and Lotti Benardout (vocals) -- present their first video, directed by Jesse Jenkins. As part one of a video trilogy, the “Earth Not Above” video carries the mood of the EP, treading the fine line between darkness and euphoria.

The Chemical Brothers Music Video for 'Sometimes I Feel So Deserted' is A Dystopian Mindfuck

Sometimes I Feel So Deserted is the second single from The Chemical Brothers' current album 'Born In The Echoes'. The music video, directed by Ninian Doff, has a distinct Spaghetti Western feel that cinematically lines up perfectly with the "discombobulating Escher-esque rhythm track." At some points during the video it's hard not to wince, but its even harder to look away. 

Eckhaus Latta's New Fashion Film "Roach" Perfectly Captures the Lonliness of A Post-Internet World

Ever wonder what life was like through the hole of a pierced septum? Directed by Alexa Karolinski, Eckhaus Latta's fall/winter 15 collection film is a pastiche of diary-esque snapshots of the human condition in an era where binge watching television is a reality and reality itself is a virtual mirage set against the backdrop of green screens in a darkened room. Eckhaus Latta has a distinct history for pushing the boundaries when it comes to projecting their sartorially visions - each one of their fashion films finds a way to capture the essence of the collection in a distinct thematic way. For "Roach," the label has tasked Dev Hynes to create the soundtrack and Nora Slade to read a poem penned by the designers for a romantic ambiance that has us yearning for shelter as the impending winter gets closer and closer. 

26 Days In The Cities, Indigenous Towns and Treacherous Volcanic Mountains of Ecuador

Last week Holy Patte took us on a tour of their journey through Colombia - and the week before that Costa Rica. This time around, though, they give us a glimpse of their incredible 26 day long journey through the cities and treacherous volcanic mountains of Ecuador. From the capital city of Quito, they made their way to the indigenous town of Otavalo and then to the mountainous peaks of Laguna de Mojanda. Their last adventure in Ecuador takes them to the Cotopaxi volcano, which is still very active and is becoming more and more agitated everyday. Stay tuned until next week when we feature Holy Patte's tour through Peru. Be sure to follow @autrevoyage on Instagram to stay up to date. 

Doug Aitken's Station to Station Monograph Tells The Story of a Nomadic Cross-Country Cultural Happening

This illuminating new book tells the story of Doug Aitken's Station to Station project, a nomadic happening that crossed North America by train and continues to explore creativity in the modern landscape. Doug Aitken's Station to Station project is a high speed road trip through modern creativity. Over a 23-day period, the project crossed North America by train presenting a series of cultural interventions and site-specific happenings that took place in ten cities between New York and San Francisco. The train, designed as a moving, kinetic light sculpture, was at the center of it all, housing the constantly changing group of creative individuals and broadcasting experiences to a global audience. Over one hundred unique projects took place during the journey, created by today's leading contributors in contemporary art, music, literature, and culture. This volume presents the ideas that emerged from Station to Station. Stunning full-color illustrations and multiple conversations with Aitken onboard the train document the journey from East to West. Click here to purchase the book. 

The Little House A Multi-Sensory Experience by Moral Turgeman

"The Little House" is an installation experience by Moral Turgeman with sound by Joe McKee that is on view now at MAMA gallery. This is the first time the true to size mirrored house is shown to the public after a nine-month construction period - with tunnels that lead to a cavernous and cozy interior where you will be able to put on headphones and delve into a binaural sound therapy bath. The Little House can be experienced for a limited time at MAMA Gallery, 242 Palmetto St, Los Angeles, CA. photographs by Sara Clarken

Balkan Pank Explores the Underground Punk Culture of Yugoslavia In The 1980s

Balkan Pank is an original view of ex-Yugoslavia counterculture during the 1979-89 decade, an underrepresented period of punk attitude without the uniform in a non-aligned Communist country, a group of people escaping a dictatorship through their own set of rules. Jože Suhadolnik started this project when he was 13 year old. He was an insider of the 80s punk and squat movement and also an extremely promising young photojournalist, drawn to counterculture, alternative ways of living and genuine rebellion, his curiosity lead us to the hidden corners of in underground labyrinthic squats and illegal gigs where he started documenting the vibrant energy of the nights when bands with names like The Bastards and VideoSex used to play. “We used to travel from what was then Yugoslavia twice a year to Trieste on the Italian border to buy jeans, Brooklyn chewing gum and 20 rolls of Tri-X (they were worth an absolute fortune and lasted at least a few months), and a Yugoslav custom officer stopped you at the border and humiliated you for the next hour. I’ve been to about 1,600 concerts on my count; at my first, Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1981, I was able to walk near Siouxsie on the stage! Can you imagine that today? On the other hand, people were arrested just for wearing a Sex Pistols badge” Click here to purchase the extremely limited first edition of Balkan Pank by Joze Suhadolnik. 

Read Our Interview With Photographer, Artist and Social Activist Jessie Askinazi →

Jessie Askinazi is one of those rare connectors that seems to know or work with everybody - and not just in the art world. Art, fashion, politics, social justice – she’s there. Visit her Tumblr diary and you’ll see excerpts from fashion spreads she has featured on Autre, portraits of comedians, actors and musicians, and nightlife snapshots in black and white. Her photography is real, raw and it tells stories – it’s the opposite of vapid, which seems to sum up perfectly who Askinazi is as a person. She is also the founder, organizer and curator of the #YESALLWOMEN fundraiser, which is a hosting a silent auction and exhibition featuring some of the most exciting women championing women’s rights, like Kim Gordon, Barbara Kruger, Rose McGowan, Mira Dancy and many more. Click here to read our interview with Askinazi, who opens up about her bouts with depression and discusses the importance of standing up for people that need it.  

A Studio Visit With Sculptor and Site-Specific Installation Artist Galia Linn

Galia Linn’s sculptures are translators and communicators of nature’s mysterious and often untranslatable language. As a site-specific installation, they stand as symbolic guardians in the face of nature’s intrinsic fragility, especially in the face of human disregard. Each sculpture is a totem, inspired by relics of the Neolithic era, that communicate deeply complex philosophies about our relationship with nature on a primal and subconscious level. Based in Los Angeles, Galia Linn grew up in Israel,  on the very axis of ancient and modern civilizations. Water, oxygen, fire and earthen clay are manipulated in random orders and machinations to develop her works, which seem almost like timeless artifacts. Autre was lucky enough to pay a visit to Linn's studio to experience her works. Like an excavation site, Galia Linn's work can be touched, peered inside and meditated with – with the intention that the viewer will walk away with a transformative understanding that we are not separate from nature, but a part of nature. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

22 Days In Colombia's Colonial Cities, Tropical Beaches and Surreal Desert Landscapes

Last week, Autre presented Holy Patte’s incredible 22-day journey through Costa Rica. This week, Amaury and Chloé of Holy Patte take us to the cities, tropical beaches and surreal desert landscapes of Colombia. After debating on a method to cross the Darién Gap, which is a dense jungle that separates Panama and Colombia and is still nearly impossible to cross, they decide on the luxury of a quick plane flight. In an hour, they were in Medellin – a city once deemed the most dangerous in the world thanks to the drug lord Pablo Escobar, but is now considered one of the safest. In the tradition of Holy Patte’s mission to search for people working with their hands, they made their way to Raquira, a town known for its ceramics, where they met Maria, who has been working on her clay handicrafts all her life. After that, three days were spent among the colonial architecture of Cartagena. Then it was off to Coralina Island – the Colombian Caribbean – where they floated along crystal turquoise waters discovering the painter Fernando Botero’s seaside home. Soon after leaving the island, these lucky adventurers made their way to Bogotá and then ten hours to the mountain village of Villa de Leyva – and from their they hopped to Tota Lake and the remote village of Aquitania. Lastly, it was off to the beautifully surreal landscape of the Tatacoa Desert where they found shelter in the strange thatched huts of the Penon de Constantino hotel and hiked through the sunbaked, cactus lined hills. Next week, Autre Voyage will present Amaury and Chloé's journey through Peru, so stay tuned by following Autre on Instagram. 

Read Our Exclusive Interview With Alex Kazemi on the Creation of Mudditchgirl91 and the Social Experiment Gone Awry →

A few weeks ago, a mysterious series of short vignettes began arriving on Snapchat under the handle mudditchgirl91. Soon, the vignettes were edited together for a short film called Snapchat: Mudditchgirl91. In the film, mudditchgirl91 pines for a mudditchboy with a string of strange and shocking anecdotes, like wondering if mass murderer Elliot Rodger’s cum tastes like avocado oil. People freaked out. Who was mudditchgirl91? In another week, Marilyn Manson had tweeted a link to the video and the mudditchgirl91 phenomenon went viral. A day or two after that, one more film was released – it was mudditchgirl91’s suicide note. Just like that, she was dead. The real story, though, is that mudditchgirl91 was a character in an elaborate plot filmed in real time on the popular social media video sharing site, Snapchat, and directed by Vancouver based artist, novelist, and boy genius Alex Kazemi. Read our interview with the social provocateur on the true story of mudditchgirl91 - and see an exclusive behind the scenes video of Kazemi directing the actress, Bella McFadden. 

A Pantone Dream In Rib-Knit: Read Our Interview With Designer Giuliana Raggiani →

The turtleneck has had a bizarre reputation. Like a pop star with a long career, it had a murky past (worn by sailors and thieves looks for a warm outfit for prowling in the night), caused a sensation when it first hit the scene, began slowly fading into the background, then started acting strangely in front of the press (think of the beatnik and his beret or Steve Jobs’ monograph wardrobe of Issey Miyake-designed turtlenecks), but now the turtleneck is making a comeback in a big way. This is why designer Giuliana Raggiani is right on the money. Her label Giu Giu’s fall collection is highlighted with classic wide-ribbed turtlenecks that can be layered or worn a la carte, depending on how brisk the weather. Raggiani’s love of turtlenecks dates back to the fashion staple’s glory days – her grandmother, Palmira Giglia, was responsible for the “Nonna Turtleneck,” which sold at her luxury womenswear boutique on Boston’s Newbury Street. We got a chance to catch up with Giuliana Raggiani to discuss her new collection, its inspirations, and her love for turtlenecks. Read the full interview here.