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Name: Mari Gustafson
Age: 42
Hometown: Grand Junction, CO
Current town: Brooklyn, NY
Job description: Clothing designer
Bio: Co-owner of UZINYC, a clothing brand; former seamstress on the set of 24 Hour Catwalk; co-conspirator of various projects, including
Upcoming projects: Preparing for a trade show entitled "Capsule" and Fall Fashion Week
Select links: "New York City craft fairs - your go-to guide for unusual handmade gifts" (NY Daily News); style section feature (amNY); uzinyc.com
Describe your current state of mind.
Distracted because I have two hot Asian girls [a friend helping to make T-shirts, and the interviewer], and a puking cat on the floor.
Name: Jessy Carolina
Age: 26
Hometown: Grand Forks, ND
Current town: Brooklyn, NY
Job description: Vocalist
Bio: Singer and washboard player for the band, Jessy Carolina & The Hot Mess
Upcoming projects: Playing the college circuit; getting married; releasing an album with fiancée, Mario Maggio, in Berlin and Copehagen
Select links: jessycarolinahotmess.com
Describe your current state of mind.
I'm kind of going through a hard time. I had a really good friend of mine pass away a few days ago, and my cousin just got into a motorcycle accident and died on Friday. So I'm kind of grieving, and then mourning.
My friend was a musician also and she lived a musician’s life. She was so fun and crazy. She did drugs and that was her downfall. She OD'd at a very young age, 23. And it was super tragic. But in a way, it’s kind of romantic. It’s like all these other young musicians that died.
My cousin was a motorcycle racer. And then he died in a motorcycle accident. So it’s like you die doing what you love. I guess that’s what it is: If you’re doing what you like but it ends up killing you, it’s romantic and really tragic. They were both really young. I’d like nothing more to do this until I was in a wheelchair, like 80 years old. But sometimes that doesn’t happen.
Name: Boris Klompus
Age: 25
Hometown: Stamford, CT
Current town: Brooklyn, NY
Job description: Musician; fabricator; writer
Bio: Helped construct “a huge, multi-person sized floor step sequencer tied to eight flame cannons” for LEMUR, and a mechanical bull for Red Bull; involved with building jet-powered ponies for Madagascar Institute, where he has also taught shop classes
Select links: borisklompus.com
Describe your current state of mind.
I feel happy. I was just away working for like three months, and that was kind of terrible because I'd just moved in. I'd just gotten set up and I went away to work; I was on tour working with a musician and he has people that have been working with him for like 30 years. Everybody's sort of locked into this sort of...all the energy of the day is devoted to setting up the show. Personal time doesn't really exist and so everybody's kind of miserable. I feel great to be out of that, to be home, and to set up finally. I can actually work on music, which I haven't done for a really long time.
Name: Franz Aliquo
Age: 36
Hometown: New York, NY
Current town: Queens, NY
Job description: Event producer; advertising executive; former securities litigation lawyer
Bio: Co-founder of StreetWars, a local assassination game based worldwide (a.k.a. “Supreme Commander”); hosted “flavor tripping” berry tasting parties; law graduate of Fordham University
Upcoming projects: Guns ‘N Chicken, a project enacting revenge upon pop culture icons, with high-powered weapons and fried chicken; Roman-style party with gladiator battles; 666 satanic burger truck
Select links: "The Miracle Fruit, A Tease for the Taste Buds" (NY Times); "StreetWars Founder Warns Players Will Stop At Nothing to Squirt" (NY Mag)
Describe your current state of mind.
Overwhelming. Confused. And I say that just because I realized that this stuff that I do could fall under the category of art in some way. The confusion is trying to figure out the common strength between all of my projects. That’s really been something that’s taken up a lot of mindset, figuring out what that hell I am on.
I found this recipe online and it's for black chicken soup.
Name: Jason Webley
Age: “I’m older than 11.”
Home/Current town: Seattle, WA
Job description: Performer; songwriter
Bio: Member of Evelyn Evelyn with Amanda Palmer; performed ceremonial deaths on Halloween; founder of Camp Tomato, a parody in response to accusations that he was a cult leader, and Monsters of Accordion tour ("I am not really trying to be a ripping, shredding, amazing accordion player. It’s a very expressive tool that I am clumsy on. Occasionally, I am in situations where I am embarrassed about that clumsiness, but normally I find that it sort of suits what I am doing.")
Select links: “You Only Want Me ‘Cause You Want My Sister” with Sxip Shirey (YouTube); “Sandy Fishnets” (YouTube); “Elephant Elephant” (YouTube); “Evelyn Evelyn: Behind the Music” documentary (YouTube); short stories; jasonwebley.com
Describe your current state of mind.
Content.
You’re on a break from music. Why?
That’s a big one. The simple answer is that I've been doing [music] for a long time and I thought, while I'm still somewhere not so far from having once been a young man, I should try stepping away from it a bit and seeing what happens.
Not because I don't like what I've been doing these last 13 years, but because I think that if I don't pause now, I probably won't ever do anything else.
Name: Pam Grossman
Age: 31
Hometown: Morganville, NJ
Current town: Brooklyn, NY
Job description: Curator; teacher; magical apprentice; healer; herbalist; blogger
Bio: Co-founder of Observatory; editor of Phantasmaphile; apprenticing with Green Witch Robin Rose Bennett; taught Moon Magick Ritual workshop and The Occult in Modern Art 101: An Illustrated Lecture, and curated Alchemically Yours, a show at Observatory, among others
Upcoming projects: Curating Sigils and Signs, a group art show about magical emblems, opening at Observatory on April 27th; co-editing the next issues of Abraxas, an esoteric journal out of the UK; and keeping Phantasmaphile rolling merrily along.
Select links: “Gifts for the Romantic” (etsy); phantasmaphile.com
Describe your current state of mind.
A feedback loop of exhilaration and exhaustion.
Name: Ezekiel Healy
Age: Mid-30s
Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
Current town: Brooklyn, NY
Job description: Musician; freelance carpenter
Bio: Busker throughout New York City; performed at Egg & Dart Club for Liberation Libations; former member of The Boggs
Select links: "Improv duet with Tianna Kennedy at Springtime Unamplified Acoustic Bar-B-Que in Prospect Park" (NME); performing at the Todd P BBQ on Roosevelt Island (YouTube) and with Morgan O’Kane (YouTube); illustration Healy alongside O'Kane and Thomas Jefferson (ukeleleChicken)
Describe your current state of mind.
Self contained. Hopeful. I feel reasonably confident that what I have been doing I will continue to do for while, mostly music, some carpentry in New York, and slowly put interesting things in my brain.
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