Mick Szal is part of New York’s new modelling ecology—not as a breakout story, but as a working presence shaped by repetition, rejection, and creative adaptation. Based in the Lower East Side, she moves through the fashion system with a rare clarity about its mechanics, where silence often replaces feedback and visibility is never guaranteed. Rather than mythologising her career, she describes modelling as process: unstable, physically demanding, and intermittently creative. What emerges is not a traditional success narrative, but a portrait of a model who understands the system from within it—and continues to navigate it without illusion..
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DT500: THE CONFESSION: Art, Identity, and Denim: Cacho Falcon’s Unique Narrative. NYC
Cacho Falcon built http://www.cachofalcon.com not only to showcase his art, but to give strangers somewhere to tell the stories they might never tell anyone else.
The response was immediate and unexpectedly intimate. Anonymous emails began arriving, filled with loss, hope, regret, desire and love. Falcon discovered that people were often willing to reveal their darkest experiences to a stranger — stories too difficult, private or painful to share elsewhere.
Those anonymous voices became part of his artistic vocabulary. Woven together with his own experiences, they evolved into a powerful body of drawings and paintings exploring memory, vulnerability, intimacy and the contradictions of being human.
What began as a website became an archive of human experience — and a new source of material for Falcon’s art.
A razor-sharp portrait of Clayton Patterson and the Lower East Side as a battleground of culture, law, and survival — where art was not a career but evidence of a city in freefall and reinvention. From police surveillance and court battles to the rise of gentrification and curated “authenticity,” Patterson’s archive exposes how urban life is documented, controlled, and ultimately rewritten. A story about New York then — and every major city now — asking a brutal question: who owns reality when the streets are no longer affordable to live in, only to consume?
CREEPER CREEPER BY DAMEHT. NYC
” A NEW VIDEO FOR THEIR SINGLE “CREEPER CREEPER” AND IT’S A CAMPY BLAST. TAKING CULTURAL HINTS FROM THE LIKES OF STEVE STRANGE, SOO THE CAT WOMAN AND NEW ROMANTICISM, THE VIDEO IS A VISUAL TREAT AND AN APPROPRIATE ODE FOR A BAND KNOWN BEST FOR THEIR SECRET SHOWS.” NYLON MAGAZINE
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