Flaunt Magazine

//POISSON D’AVRIL// Next time you’re getting your gels did, you might try pontificating on how your experience is allegorical of the Internet and its role in society. According to Emilio Bianchic, “nail art as a way to examine identity in the real and virtual world” – makes sense, no? We’d like to offer you further explanation, but we simply can’t. […]

Think of a transcendentally twisted fairy tale from hell in beautiful chaos, and you’re right there with Collapsing Scenery, whose experimental music practices and distorted electronic compositions are on view next weekend with the release of Metaphysical Cops at Dilettante in DTLA. The one-night video and sound installation will be the second in a series, with the debut performance having taken place at NYC […]

Daniel Silver is one of the founders and designers of the acclaimed New York menswear label Duckie Brown. Daniel is one of the panelists for the Fresh Faces in Fashion Selection Committee of GEN ART—an organization dedicated to finding the new leaders in fashion, music, film and art. For its 20th anniversary, GEN ART will offer three finalists a scholarship […]

After 13 years of being on the scene, it’s hard to say if anyone really knows new media and performance artist Shana Moulton. Even her website bio is nothing but a cryptic birth chart handwritten wildly by a mystic uncle. Her most recent short video MindPlace ThoughtStream—at once funny, spooky, lonely—comes to life in the multimedia installment Shana Moulton: Picture […]

Ben Browning is one quarter of electronic pop sensation Cut/Copy and is currently on tour for his solo album Turns. His track “Friends of Mine” has gotten a remix by L.A. duo Wild & Free, premiered above. We put a few questions to the bassist and/or wunderkind. What are your must-have items when going on tour? I like to have a working […]

Dappled light on a still lake, blue skies overhead, a taupe-clad angler on a pine-clad bank, surrounded by a chattering brood of harlequin dressed youngsters, teaching them to cast bait far out into the water. Fishing: the tranquil camp pastime. But activities at camp are echoes of larger social forces, for fishing encompasses not only the serene summer escape of […]

The Zip Line Written by Blake Kimzey — We met at the top of the hill after midnight because Holly wanted to zip line naked. At lunch she asked if I’d join her. It was the end of counselor orientation and campers wouldn’t arrive for two days. We’d spent the week readying Camp Chapawee for opening day. I snuck through […]

A man once reflected upon his time in Paris as such: “We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.” These are the things you go to Paris to do: to love, to live, to eat and to drink. With the charm of the city’s monument-ridden streets so often […]

It’s a beautiful late summer day. As the sun sets, and the hills on Knobs State Forest darken, one of the country’s best bartenders is mixing a Boulevardier (1 part Rye, 1 part Campari, 1 part Sweet Vermouth, stir, strain, serve up with a twist). Only he’s wearing nothing but a Speedo and running through an obstacle course while a […]