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Changming Yuan Photo: Auntie K When I heard that bold yawing Knocking at my double-glazed window A sound in the mind echoed From an unknown voice

Interview by Jasmina Tacheva with Yordan Tachev

Yordan Tachev: “Art is not just a way to escape reality; it’s a way to transform it and enjoy living in it instead of avoiding it.”

Did you decide to become an artist, or did art choose you?

Some people have a gift, but don’t nurture it, and as the saying goes – you use it or you lose it. Of course you have a choice – you can either develop your talent or you can give it up, but once you decide to become an artist, your entire life changes and you become different from everybody else. For many it’s not a proper job, but just a waste of time. Actually it is an occupation just as real as engineering for instance – you have to practice it if you want to advance in it.

Donal Mahoney Photo: zigazou76 The indications used to come like movie fighter planes in break formation, one by one, the perfect plummet, down and out. This time they’re slower. But after supper, when I hear her in the kitchen hum again, hum higher, higher, till my ears are numb, I remember how it was the […]

Interview by Petya Hristova with Robby Cavanaugh Robby Cavanaugh: “A lot of my art addresses the idea of overcoming something negative.” Dear Robby, I am very impressed by your photography! The production process seems elaborate and complicated. Do you have someone to help you with the styling of the models? Thank you! 🙂 Most of […]

Interview of Yana Radilova and Violeta Petkova with Borgore Yana and Borgore Violeta and Borgore Who is Borgore? If you search in the web, you will see that he is an Israeli dubstep dj and producer, the founder of Buygore Records and former drummer of Israeli death metal band Shabira. He also initiates the style […]

Simon Perchik Photo: visualpanic This grass left for dead, the mower idling into its slow descent the way pilots are still trained to roll and up-side-down in the reflection you can recognize the bridge being bathed in a river older than those songs that help you forget

Interview by Petya Hristova with the photographer Shirren Lim Shirren Lim: “I look at photography as a way to express myself, my thoughts and how I feel. I love the freedom it provides me. It’s a reflection of my true self.” How would you describe your art in one word? What is its message? If […]

Photo: jojo nicdao In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971) Foto: Jram23

Kenneth Pobo Photo: oedipusphinx — — — — theJWDban Remember how you cooked up a warm plate of forever, served it with candlelight, and on the porch we listened to locusts warning us Stop! Stop! Stop! But we ate heartily and when you moved in you were already hinting about moving out.

Interview of Violeta Petkova with Albena Markova Translated by Yana Radilova Albena Markova: “Inspiration is love. Love to what you do, love to somebody, somebody’s love to you.” You say that photography is a diagnosis. What were the “symptoms” which made you think it would come into your life and add new meaning to your […]

Photo: XOZ (The REAL XOZ) The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato (424 – 347 BC) Photo: tourist_on_earth He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tzu (600 – 531 BC) Photo: dr_relling I love power. But it is as an […]

Simon Perchik Photo: yourbartender You shave so the rain can’t stop –twice every day as if the sky were twins half shoreless, half too heavy and these rotary blades reaching take-off speed –you climb the way this mirror

Interview by Dessislava Berndt with the musician Jarle Bernhoft Jarle, what does music mean to you? I guess music encompasses everything in my life, thus being the meaning of it all. Photo: Fred Jonny Hammeroe How and why did you get into music? It wasn’t much of a choice really, my parents are both musicians, […]

Interview of Yana Radilova with the sculptor Robbie Rowlands Robbie Rowlands What is your attitude towards objects? Objects to me are in a sense the same as subjects, so when there is something that I want to consider or understand then these two are intertwined. It is hard to find any material that hasn’t had […]

The Power is the handbook to the greatest force in the universe – The Power to have everything you want. Without The Power you would not have been born. Without The Power, there wouldn’t be a single human being on the planet. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible […]

Simon Perchik Photo: exezippdf Half jack, half when the ace finds its way back and the vague stomp each time you deal a spade –you teach the kids dead ends and random turns half cards, half burial grass –you say take the risk bet! and suddenly the black jack will fall to your knees and […]

Interview with Dr. Mel Gill by Mariana Velichkova & Rossitza Yotkovska Dr. Mel Gill is one of the world’s leading experts in Personal Development and a Mentor to countless Speakers, Trainers and Business Owners around the world. He is a Business and Training Consultant and is also known as a Corporate Sage and Advisor to […]

Photo: Christinamari If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell (1903-1950) Photo: Mara 1 Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Man is born free and everywhere he is […]

Interview of Yana Radilova with the photograher Joao Carlos Joao Carlos: “I try to create a narrative where the characters in my images come to life.” Why did you give up painting and decided to take up photography? I have always enjoyed discovering different mediums to express my emotions and portraying my visions. Photography has […]

Erin Chandler Photo: torbakhopper The boulevard of broken dreams is never quite as glamorous as the painting of a handsome James Dean in his long navy coat walking through a colorful puddle. He looks disgruntled but clean and healthy. The real boulevard of broken dreams isn’t so appealing. My friend Sean looks a little like […]