Put Cole Mohr in front of your camera, and we'll surely like the result. Colin Dodgson did this, and (surprise) it turned out well. Born in LA in '84, now living in New York after studying photography in Santa Barbara. His style: Unpolished shots of playful adolescents, with an air of "who cares anyway". Dodgson doesn't seem to try to capture his subjects in their most beautiful way (and neither himself!). It seems like he prefers to snap just when his models don't concentrate on a photogenic face, which only makes his work more interesting to look at.

Want more? See here. Oh, and don't forget to take a look at this super cute ed he did for Contributing Editor.

Mudhoney, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and many more have been shot by Michael Lavine. Now they're all united in a book titled "Grunge", though it's not necessarily about grunge. When Lavine started shooting in Seattle in the 80's, he didn't focus on a particular scene. By naming this series of photos "Grunge", he wants to make us think about that word again. It is noteworthy that back then those kids were called punk. The term grunge came in later, actually as a kind of joke to create a terminology of what those bands where doing that time (via). But whether or not he wanted this book to be about grunge, when seeing Kurt Cobain on the last page, not hearing "grunge, grrrrunge, grungeeee" echoing in your head, is just impossible.

See more of his work here, and get the book here.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the sci-fi art of Japanese illustrator Shusei Nagaoka appeared on numerous album covers and appeared in a variety of advertisements, magazines, and movie posters. This work is very inspiring...

With lots of triangles recurring, Argentinian Antonella Arismendi's pictures have an occult/mystique atmosphere. Not surprising her inspiration comes from spirituality, new world order, 2012 and astrology. (via) According to her natal chart, Antonella plans to blow up everything. Seems like a nice goal in life, when the end of the world (in 2012) would turn out to be just another urban legend. In the mean time she hopefully continues photographing, shooting more incredible eds like this one for Vnfold.

Images via her site.

What captured me immediately in these photos by Niall O'Brien is the contrast between the soft, sometimes almost girly/dreamy atmosphere and the pretended toughness of the boys pictured. But actually, when looking at their faces, you see you can't really speak of a contrast here. Those boys, I don't think they will really hurt anyone. I like the fact that though they dress themselves like punks, O'Brien didn't pictured them like a bunch of tough, fearless rascals. They kind of look cute, but I'd probably better not tell em.

Lina Österman, graduated in 2008 from Central Saint Martins, showed her grunge meets gothic/Victorian romance SS10 collection during London Fashion Week at the Royal Festival Hall. Her design are quite androgynous, it doesn't matter whether the clothes end up on a male or female body. Before starting with this label, she was the creative mind behind Pudel. Back then she focused on more commercially acceptable, comfortable items. LinaÖsterman is darker, moodier, more conceptual and so I would say definitely more interesting. Click this to see some excerpts of her fall09 collection, it would be a miss if you wouldn't take notice of it.

image-source: blow.co.uk

We have featured LEON MARK before, but I'd like to bring him under attention again. Mark is a graduate from Central Saint Martins and got quite some attention on the web for his ed in the April issue of Dazed Japan, where he shot 22 male models in his beautifully film-ish style. Besides in Dazed, his work appeared in Vice, Blackbook and Metal among others. In his work -mainly with boys- he tries to focus on "youth and the feelings and emotions that come from this period of time" (via).

What I like about his work, is that although most of his photos are for fashion shoots, the clothes are not the most important thing. Foremost it is about the atmosphere, and the emotion. More can be seen at his website.

In July this year Chrissie Abbott showed her pyschedelic art-design at Downstairs at Mother galery in London (where Valerie Phillips was showing aswell, more on her later!). Her compositions contain typograhpy, nature and milkyway images, old 60's and 70's photographs, all in vivid Technicolors. She has produced commercial work for Virgin, MTV, Nike, Nylon, The New York Times and did the artwork for Little Boots. She is inspired by the apocalypse and tries "to bring a colourful interlude to all the negative imagery that we are constantly bombarded with" (via).

More of her work can be seen here or on her blog.

Fever Ray

The 5th of October Fever Ray's new single, Seven, has been released. This is the accompanying video, directed by Johan Renck. Recnk also directed "Daniel" for Bat for Lashes (listen that song if you don't know it!), Madonna's "Nothing really matters" and New Order's "Crystal" among others. Fever Ray's videos are all kind of confusing, slightly unheimisch, taking you to an airy world filled with puzzling creatures. That is, they are perfect for her music. Other video's can be seen at her site.

Like a ghost

This video is out of this world. I'm glad that filmography is taking us places we have never been before and creating something completely fresh and unusual. I am in love with Marco Brambilla's work and so should you. Check out more of his work here.

models.com presents an exclusive excerpt of the Marco Brambilla / Muse Magazine video: Ghost (Natasha Poly: Multiple Exposure) 2009

Gregory