Life & Style

To create images that have never been seen before, NORMAN KONRAD likes to plan his work down to the smallest detail – only to ultimately recognize spontaneous situations as ingenious opportunities. His situational photographs celebrate that fascinating moment when the actual encounters the incidental.

Grason Ratowsky has worked as creative director for several agencies in New York and spent many years in product design. Today the thirty-six-year-old artist lives on Mallorca for most of the year. And paints. We wanted to know what role the subconscious plays in his work and whether an artist has to be unhappy in order to be successful. Although Ratowsky himself makes a very satisfied impression.

When you get run over although nothing is real, time-use managers can’t manage their own time, and we go around in circles on the dial of a watch, there’s only one thing left to do: drive a decent car. Preferably two at once. By yourself. In a super super super test.

The nineties. When smoking was still allowed, and stage diving was an absolutely normal thing to do. The decade that grunge was born, and rock music was back with a vengeance. And in the middle of it all: photographer Paul Bergen. We show his best pictures.

The typically ethereal sound of Cigarettes After Sex came about somewhat by accident when GREG GONZALEZ was experimenting with his songs in the stairwell at the University of Texas. Then “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” went viral on YouTube.