THE SPACECRAFT PROJECT FOR SOME/THINGS CHAPTER006

Since CHAPTER005, SOME/THINGS has had a close relationship with creative duo DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD and NICHOLAS ALAN COPE. After first featuring their PUTESCO series, SOME/THINGS collaborated with COPE and ARNOLD for THE SPACECRAFT PROJECT in CHAPTER006, in addition to two exclusive articles for the upcoming CHAPTER007, for which more details will be released soon.

Based on a concept by Monika Bielskyte in collaboration with art director Dustin Edward Arnold, with photography by Nicholas Alan Cope, THE SPACECRAFT PROJECT reinvents the language of sci-fi using computer graphics and digital image manipulation to create otherworldly vehicles with an aesthetic scale that is rare even in motion pictures. A PREVIEW OF the feature is ONLINE / ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLY IN THE PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 / THE DARK LABYRINTH

SOME/THINGS COLLABORATOR NICHOLAS ALAN COPE'S NEW BOOK

'I moved to Paris from Los Angeles 10 years ago and haven’t been back since. But this is exactly how I remember it. Bright hot incessant clear light, casting blackety-black shadows from Brutalist blocks that take the history of architecture and silently reduce and contain it like lunar tombs. Or Aztec temples morphed into foam-core cartoons.

This kind of light makes decisions easier, more black and white. Good vs bad, pure vs impure, aspiration vs collapse. Determined grim optimism vs self indulgent despair. The suggestion of an old Hollywood monolithic black-and-white movie set encourages self invention and self consciousness as you make your way down an imaginary long white staircase. There’s not another living soul on the set and the spotlight is on you, wiping out any flaw or imperfection, hallucinating yourself into who you wanna be...

Exactly how I remember it...

/ Rick Owens, November 2012


Los Angeles-based Photographer and regular SOME/THINGS collaborator NICHOLAS ALAN COPE's new book, WHITEWASH, captures the contrasts of the city through stark black and white images of L.A's architectural landscape. WHITEWASH, which is published by POWERHOUSE BOOKS and includes a foreword by Rick Owens, is available now through select stockists. For more information, visit cope1.com.

/ WHITEWASH photographed by MATTEO CARCELLI at SOME/THINGS SECRET.

ALEXANDRE PLOKHOV SPRING SUMMER 2013 LOOKBOOK APOSTATE / ACOLYTE

APOSTATE / ACOLYTE EXPANDS ON ALEXANDRE PLOKHOV'S SS13 RUNWAY PRESENTATION, WHICH WAS INSPIRED BY XAVIER ZIMBARDO'S DOCUMENTATION OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX MONKS LIVING ON MOUNT ATHOS.

The lookbook features model EFREN GARZA photographed by SOME/THINGS contributors DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD and NICHOLAS ALAN COPE, in collaboration with design director AARON SHINN, and styling by PLOKHOV's jo jo asuncion. An initial edition of 50 books has been distributed to select retailers, and an edition to be made available for the public is under consideration. inquire at apostate-acolyte.com.

For more information, visit alexandre-plokhov.com / cope-arnold.com / aaronshinn.com

EXCLUSIVE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH INTEL IN CHAPTER006

FOR AN EXCLUSIVE COLLABORATION TO COINCIDE WITH THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MICROPROCESSOR, SOME/THINGS AGENCY WAS COMMISSIONED TO DEVELOP A NEW WAY TO PHOTOGRAPHICALLY REPRESENT ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, EXPLORING INTEL’S HISTORY THROUGH VISUALLY ARRESTING IMAGES OF NEW AND ARCHIVE WAFERS AND CHIPS [SHOT IN PARIS, SILICON VALLEY, AND LOS ANGELES] AND EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THEIR ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND FUTURISTS, INCLUDING WITH STEPHEN L. SMITH, BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON, & GENEVIEVE BELL. PUBLISHED IN SOME/THINGS CHAPTER006, THE FEATURE WAS THE RESULT OF GAINING UNPRECEDENTED COOPERATION FROM INTEL’S R&D TEAM



[...COMMON DENOMINATOR VS INDIVIDUAL / history has always been a dialogue between moments of extraordinary bravery and courage and brilliance and full-heartedness on the part of people who, for a better world or a different world, had a vision of how things could be. And then moments where it’s, in fact, a whole group of people standing up and saying it’s going to be something— whether they stand up and say it’s going to be the end of 30 years of rule in Egypt or we’re going to attempt to change the Chinese government or we’re going to overthrow the French aristocracy.

I am aware of people standing up to say ‘we like reality TV’ and the brave individuals and the full-hearted ones have run the gamut too— from politicians and activists and visionaries to pop stars. And you know, you can say, probably not unreasonably, that Elvis Presley changed the world. Would you argue that he was a visionary or a fine human being or that he had a fine vision? Maybe not, but I think it has always been a tension between visionaries and people who imagine other states and who are willing to just get up there and push for them.

I think we go through moments of lamenting the common denominator but we forget sometimes that when a country or a culture or a group of people decide to do things en masse it has an amazing impact. Whether it’s for good or for bad I think is a different question, but for me personally, you have to strive for excellence, you have to have a big vision. And I think you have to make room for there to be lots of points of view. I’m less interested in an elitist thing that says, ‘I know what’s best for everyone’. I want to make it possible for everyone to have something. But those things are always in tension...]


/ EXCERPT FROM A TEXT BASED ON A CONVERSATION BETWEEN GENEVIEVE BELL & MONIKA BIELSKYTE. ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLY IN THE PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 / THE DARK LABYRINTH












/ photography by DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD, NICHOLAS ALAN COPE, & AIGA OZOLINA
SPECIAL THANKS TO mikael moreau & julien laval

A PREVIEW OF the feature in SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 is ONLINE.
FOR MORE, SEE THE SOME/THINGS AGENCY PORTFOLIO

PREVIEW OF THE ALEXANDRE PLOKHOV SPRING SUMMER 2013 LOOKBOOK

For his Spring Summer 2013 menswear collection, titled APOSTATE / ACOLYTE, ALEXANDRE PLOKHOV has created a 52-page book, measuring 285mm [11.25in] by 420mm [16.5in], printed in Los Angeles in quadtone black and white, bound by hand with black thread, and wrapped in an unprinted foil-stamped cover.

Featuring model EFREN GARZA photographed by SOME/THINGS contributors DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD and NICHOLAS ALAN COPE, in collaboration with PLOKHOV and design director AARON SHINN, the book will be distributed to select retailers, with a very limited number made available for sale to the public beginning February 15th, 2013 via apostate-acolyte.com.

For more information, visit alexandre-plokhov.com / cope-arnold.com / aaronshinn.com












Since CHAPTER005, SOME/THINGS has had a close relationship with creative duo DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD and NICHOLAS ALAN COPE. After first featuring their PUTESCO series, SOME/THINGS has collaborated with COPE and ARNOLD for THE SPACECRAFT PROJECT in CHAPTER006, in addition to two exclusive articles for the upcoming CHAPTER007, for which more details will be released soon.

INTEL PROJECT BY SOME/THINGS AGENCY FOR CHAPTER006

A SPECIAL COLLABORATION FOR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MICROPROCESSOR, WHICH EXPLORES INTEL’S HISTORY THROUGH VISUALLY ARRESTING IMAGES OF NEW AND ARCHIVE WAFERS AND CHIPS [SHOT IN PARIS, SILICON VALLEY, AND LOS ANGELES], AS WELL AS EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH INTEL’S ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND FUTURISTS— THE RESULT OF GAINING UNPRECEDENTED COOPERATION FROM THEIR R&D TEAM.











/ photography by DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD, NICHOLAS ALAN COPE, & AIGA OZOLINA
SPECIAL THANKS TO mikael moreau & julien laval

A PREVIEW OF the feature in SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 is ONLINE.
FOR MORE, SEE THE SOME/THINGS AGENCY PORTFOLIO

SOME/THINGS AGENCY PORTFOLIO HAS NOW BEEN UPDATED

SOME/THINGS AGENCY, which was established in 2010, offers strategic and creative consultancy, photographic and communication services, and artistic direction to develop brand identity for those in creative, design, media, and technology industries.

SOME/THINGS AGENCY is closely interlinked with SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE, producing the publication while also creating commissioned editorial content, which makes no distinction from the exclusive artist features. Through working closely with companies/brands and collaborating together on the concept, SOME/THINGS has been able to create a coherency between a diverse range of contributors and clients, presenting the technological developments of INTEL and the advanced engineering of ASTON MARTIN for example, alongside the work of Australian artist BILL HENSON and revered French architect CLAUDE PARENT.

for more information, including the agency portfolio and services list, visit
someslashthings.com/agency




IMAGES BY SYD MEAD, HIDEAKI UCHIYAMA, MONIKA BIELSKYTE, MICK ROCK, DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD, & NICHOLAS ALAN COPE

THE SPACECRAFT PROJECT COLLABORATION WITH DUSTIN ARNOLD & NICHOLAS COPE

Conceived exclusively for SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006, the spacecraft project reinvents the language of sci-fi using computer graphics and digital image manipulation to create otherworldly vehicles with an aesthetic scale that is rare even in motion pictures. The story, based on a concept by Monika Bielskyte, was created in collaboration with art director Dustin Edward Arnold, with photography by Nicholas Alan Cope.












A PREVIEW OF the feature is ONLINE / ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLY IN THE PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 / THE DARK LABYRINTH

/ PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEXEY BLAGUTIN, SOME/THINGS AGENCY

40 YEARS OF THE INTEL MICROPROCESSOR IN SOME/THINGS CHAPTER006

A SPECIAL COLLABORATION FOR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MICROPROCESSOR, THE FEATURE EXPLORES INTEL’S HISTORY THROUGH VISUALLY ARRESTING IMAGES OF NEW & ARCHIVE WAFERS & CHIPS [SHOT IN PARIS, SILICON VALLEY, & LOS ANGELES] & EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THEIR ANTHROPOLOGISTS & FUTURISTS— THE RESULT OF GAINING UNPRECEDENTED COOPERATION FROM INTEL’S RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT TEAM.











/ photography by DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD, NICHOLAS ALAN COPE, & AIGA OZOLINA
SPECIAL THANKS TO mikael moreau & julien laval

A PREVIEW OF the feature is ONLINE / ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLY IN THE PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 / THE DARK LABYRINTH

CHAPTER006 IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE VIA OUR ONLINE BOUTIQUE, with deliveries arriving in stores soon. TO SEE THE FULL LIST OF STOCKISTS, VISIT someslashthings.com/worldwide distribution

LOS ANGELES ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHED BY nicholas alan cope

/ photography by CHAPTER005 & CHAPTER006 contributor NICHOLAS ALAN COPE.
SEE MORE OF NICHOLAS'S WORK AT http://cope1.com/

SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER006 / THE DARK LABYRINTH INCLUDES NICHOLAS ALAN COPE & DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD'S SPACECRAFT PROJECT, CONCEIVED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THIS ISSUE IN COLLABORATION WITH SOME/THINGS AGENCY. TO ORDER ONLINE, PLEASE SEE THE SOME/THINGS BOUTIQUE