17/08/2020 Escape visual culture
Once a thriving forest spread across 2,000 miles of Brazilian coastline, The Atlantic Forest is the most abundant biodiverse land in the nation, but also the forest most in peril. Farming and logging are soaring at an alarming rate while politicians fail to pay these actions the attention it’s due. Social commentator Renato Stockler has been documenting local communities resisting deforestation, but fears it may already be too late for the forest.
Read more 13/08/2020 design & fashion
Hip-hop culture has had the most significant influence on street culture, informing plenty of the trends and clothing brands that rose to prominence. In just a few decades, it evolved from a fringe subculture to the most dominant force in mainstream culture. Highsnobiety’s Jian DeLeon delves into hip-hop’s influence on streetwear.
Read more 11/08/2020 visual culture
At the turn of 20th-century England, a stretch of coast from Skegness to Southwold became a glistening vacation destination that was romanticized in popular culture, but the arrival of budget airlines accelerated the East Coast's economic dwindle. Labeled as forgotten and divergent from the cities, photographer Max Miechowski shines his lens into these communities.
Read more 10/08/2020 Little Gestalten
The feelings we share, desires that compel us, and emotions that rouse individuals, they are all feelings that are experienced by others. From a warm sense of adoration to unsettling loneliness, from angry to laughing, regardless of religion or ethnicity, we all share the same feelings as other humans. Argentine graphic designer Marcos Farina is the playful illustrator behind You and Me and Everybody Else.
Read more 06/08/2020 Escape travel
With a history of mining, tiny Makatea in French Polynesia hopes to use climbing and other forms of ecotourism to grow and rebuild its community with a sustainable focus. Once a population on the brink of extinction, Julie Ellison explores how a tiny, former mining island in the South Pacific Ocean carved a new culture from its rocky forms.
Read more 05/08/2020 Escape travel
Situated on a lagoon, overlooking Mayan ruins, the thatched-roof property is lush and jungle-like. There are only four rooms, adorned with agave-fiber linens, minimalist stone bathtubs, and breezy hammocks for swaying away the day. Kari Molvar on a hammock swinging retreat that overlooks an ancient Mayan ruin, as told in Be Well.
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