// "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil!" | Photo Credit: Branden "Dane" Young
I stopped watching television around the same time I stopped listening to the radio—I got tired of watching and hearing other people’s dreams. No, I’m not lamenting the success of others, I’m no hater, It’s just I realized there’s nothing standing in between me and my dreams but me. I just needed to focus on me—sans the distractions.
“I just needed to focus on me--sans the distractions”
Cut, edit and fast forward to this moment and now I'm realizing my dream of having my own magazine. It’s an accomplishment that the magazine is finished, online and getting interest—but it’s more of an accomplishment for me because it’s the first project I’ve stuck with. I’ve began numerous grandiose endeavors that ended up overwhelming me and sending me curling into a ball in the corner. But this magazine is finished and I do believe a pat on the back is necessary.
Art Nouveau Magazine is for lovers of art of all types. I’m staying true to the direction this magazine will march in because I know there are people out there who feel how I feel and will become avid readers of this publication.
For the first issue I wanted to highlight actors, entertainers, artists, designers and musicians that knock on the door of opportunity, yank it out it's breeches and put it in their back pocket. Musicians J*Davey, PPT, KT Tunstall and Farewell, authors Tao Lin, Ofelia Hunt and Noah Cicero, artists Kris Lewis, Brand Nu, Dave White, Eric Inkala and actors Gabrielle Union and Denzel Washington are those individuals. We are proud to be able to say they graced the pages of our first issue.
After months of nail biting over deadlines, returning unreturned phone calls, late articles, even later photos and countless hours working on this tedious layout—it’s done. I feel like Celie in The Color Purple when she stands up to Mister. I feel like Britney before K-Fed. I feel like 50 Cent back when he was popular. All cheap pop culture references aside, I feel excited, accomplished and ready to get to work on the next issue, which by the way will be so hot it'll make this one look lukewarm.
If scared money don’t make none I was flat broke and scared witless. Looking back, I don’t think I was scared, just cautious. But, now I don’t have a reason to be either. And, if I ever do, now at least I have a consistent place to write about it.
Best,
