No.14

To continue the list of my favorite albums of this year, here is No. 14:

Unknown Mortal Orchestra-II

It is indisputably the best rock n' roll, psychedelic album of the year.

If you haven't listened to the album yet, please do and listen carefully, Ruban Nielson has some pretty amazing dark tales to tell. 

Favorite tracks: From the sun, Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark), So Good at Being in Trouble, Monki, Faded In the morning, Secret Xtians

Also watch this video. I think is the video of the year!

This ain't Vegas

It ain’t the smell, the color or the touch. It ain’t the way the candles melt when you look the other way. It ain’t the way I let your silhouette stalk me. It ain’t the desperate 3:00 am prayers on the speaker of your phone either. What it is is the pleasure of the act… the thirst for blood… the city. It is the goddamn city I’m telling you.

text: Hussam Taha

photography: nadsat orange

video: nadsat orange

in these pictures: Hossam, Najeeb and Ahmad

music: Perfume Genius-Floating Spit

I had A Dream

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. 

 Martin Luther King, Jr

photos and video by me

assistant: tuktah  (love)

I miss my nieces 

On my way

My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it’s the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke — like the end and the beginning of something all at once.

Lauren Oliver

photos and video by me