If you’re still lying in bed surrounded by the remnants of pancakes, squeezed lemons and bags of sugar littering the floor as you breathe heavily through the floury self-induced torture, there’s an outstanding chance that you’ve probably missed quite a lot of what’s happened this week. Did you know John Green has been misquoted for seven years? Or how PhotoVoice is empowering women through photography? What about Spike Jonze movie stills being turned into haute couture at New York Fashion Week? You’ve been missing out. Unless you’re a huge fan of waking up from weeklong pancake benders — in which case you’ve probably been having a ball.
1. That awkward moment when everyone finds out a 13-year-old girl wrote your best quote
Not really the information American novelist John Green was expecting to read this week. Green took his accidental plagiarism well, but there some others that have massaged the truth more liberally than him.
2. Women are pioneering surfing in Iran and smashing outdated stereotypes
A handful of women including filmmaker Marion Poizeau, pro-surfer Easkey Britton and Iranian snowboarder Mona Seraji have set about establishing Iran’s first ever surf club and show you how in new documentary ‘Into The Sea’.
3. Another Home: Life Beyond the Border
Huck Across America is finding stories of struggle and hardship stateside. As the GOP try to quash Obama’s immigration reform, we step into the lives of ordinary people on both sides of the border debate.
4. Haroshi’s incredible skateboard sculptures go on show in NYC
Haroshi, the insanely talented Japanese artist who uses old skateboards to create art, is exhibiting his work in New York’s Jonathan LeVine gallery. Some of his more insane works include an entire merry-go-round style horse and a crumpled car both from glued together skateboards.
5. Bay Area artist Serena Mitnik-Miller on the sanctuary of flying solo
Fresh from a residency with a ton of other San Francisco artists at the Facebook campus, Serena Mitnik-Miller is taking her bay area vibe to New York as she opens her new show SWIRL.
6. Helena Bonham-Carter gets cosy with a giant tuna
Yep, you read that right. Renowned actress HBC cuddles up a massive fish as King Adz runs down the merits and pitfalls of shit advertising.
7. Spike Jonze’s unseen photos transformed into NY fashion week show
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have done something special with Spike Jonze’s work. Taking his archive of photos from a 20-year period covering the mid-80s to 2005, the pair turned photographs into fashion.
8. Huck releases first book Paddle Against The Flow
T-minus 12 days to the release of our first book. Packed with advice to bring out the best of your creative talents, Paddle Against The Flow is a doctrine of inspiration.
9. Artist Hannah Habibi sketches out her alternative page 3
Tired of opening the tabloid pages to be confronted by a pair of tits? Hannah Habibi was so she wondered what a page 3 that reflected real women, and the Venus de Milo, would look like if they took their place inside the paper.
10 Incredible rooftopping videos
If you suffer from vertigo, this one probably isn’t for you. However, if insane feats of nutters defying death do it for you then this will really do it for you.
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Nick Haymes’s intimate portrait of his family’s life
Chronograph — Over 25 years, the photographer documented his son’s lives as they grew into adults. The resulting photobook is an exploration of the passage of time, as well as the optimism of youth.
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Kristina Rozhkova’s scatty, confronting portrait of captivity
Gut Feeling — The Russian artist’s 2024 arrest and subsequent detention opened her eye towards the omnipresent dynamics of power and control. Her new photobook is a stark exploration of being trapped.
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UK’s first ever Latino film festival is coming to London
LoLaFF — Taking place between October 2-6, it will feature 55 filmmakers from Latin America, with an opening night at the Barbican.
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Shawn Walker’s layered, psychedelic vision of Harlem’s streets
From BeBop to Illusion — Using glass as a means to illuminate the city’s different layers, the longtime photographer and filmmaker is publishing his first monograph at the age of 86.
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Washing strangers’ feet at Houghton Festival
Pedilavium — As part of artist Henry Krokatsis’s performance piece at the weekender, we sat down with over 30 others to clean the dusty digits of passersby, while reflecting on the power of collective ritual and human connection.
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Inside Yoshiwara, Japan’s oldest red light district
Asasuka soaplands — Despite numerous fires and harshening sex work laws, the centuries old area continues to persevere in East Tokyo. Manami Okazaki traces its history and meets people who shape its present.
Written by: Manami Okazaki
