"Keep Your Curiosity Sacred"

Issue 4 £4.99

You often find treasures scattered around you when you're not looking, and Oh Comely is one of those magazines you want to savor.  I discovered it while in WHSmith, an English chain of bookstores, and I couldn't leave without taking it with me. Simplicity is more when it comes to it's layout, and grabs you like a handmade zine by one of your friends. 

Within, you'll find stories of geniuses that live next door, and cross paths with you during your daily life. You'll find music suggestions, articles on artists of all trades like Yann Tierson, the 'composer,' and Julia Pott, an animator/illustrator. This magazine prides itself on bringing out the treasures and curiosities of everyday life, like getting to know you're neighbors, and picking the brains of random passersby for the very last thing that surprised them. There are wonderfully random nuggets that will surprise you, and cause you to learn something you might not have otherwise known. The photography throughout is so artful and dreamy! They even provide you with a few recipes of which you can try out to discover new tastes. 

Oh Comely is a wonderful magazine that reads like a letter from your best friend, and encourages you to engage in the world around you, rather than looking to commercial satisfaction. A celebration of quirks and creativity!  Purchase?

On a side note: Let's support independent publishers, because in the end, they go above and beyond to provide you with heartfelt content, unique sights, and the work of artists who are most often overlooked by mainstream entities.  Support your fellow artists! 

P.S.S- And yes, that is Nikki Fierce, my brand new Ukulele making his cameo appearance!

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(Harpers Bazaar December 2009 Issue)

{"The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness."}

-Victor Hugo

his is the very best photo shoot that our own, Edward and Bella, have ever done! I chose the quote to go along with it because they all seemed to have this aura of young love: excitement, romance, exclusivity. The last photograph is one of my favorites of the set, because it has this beautiful gothic atmosphere, imbuing intimacy and secrecy.

I would like to think that new love is characterized both by a sense of personal familiarity and capriciousness. On one hand, you know the color of their eyes, what books they love, the bashfulness in the way they eye you under their lids and turn red. You know the music of their laugh, the tone of their voices at two a.m., how they feel about people and their favorite nooks.

On the other hand, you can't know what they are thinking. You could run away with them, and think you have their movements pinned down, and they turn around and do something all the more bewildering, perhaps beguiling,  than you thought could be.

Remember when you fell in love for the first time? All those emotions that made you feel like a teenager, running through the streets in the rain with your hand in theirs? In that moment, home is wherever their hands were.