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MFA Class Portraits

Paul Sepuya — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:44:13 +0000

This story will be published in full on Tues, May 29.

What Does Nike Want?

Agatha Wara — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:35:27 +0000

This story will be published in full on Thurs, May 24.

Puppies—They’re Just Like DIS

DIS — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:36:54 +0000

Credits

Featuring Ralph, Eddie, Pie, Singa, Vivi, Angel, Rhea, Petra, Pie

Styling and Art Direction Ruth Gruca
Model Ruth Gruca
Photography David Toro
Assistant Emily Gruca
Special Thanks to Natasha Stagg

Meet Me at Bebe, BB

Niko Karamyan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:07:01 +0000

Credits

Photography and Styling Niko Karamyan
Models Tierney Finster, Juju Sorelli, Kesh, Lauren Avery, and Alexa Demie
Hair Alfredo Llamas Jr.
Song Napolian
Special Thanks to Doctor Tranny

Cruelty-Free Crush

DIS — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:44:49 +0000

In 2010 Obama signed into effect a law banning "crush videos," which often depict acts of animal cruelty committed underfoot. Rightly so.

In 2012, anyone with a computer and Costco card can crush without so much as hurting a fly. Enter our virtual stimulacrum—a private, playful peep show where three ladies are putting their stomp of approval on a fantasia of food, flora, fauxna, and footwear.

Credits

Photography Bijoux Altamirano
Styling Hayley Pisaturo
Hair Shawn Mount
Make-up Michelle Ceja
Prop Stylist David Toro
Prop Assistant Tyler Benz
Casting Preston Chaunsumlit

Spam-erican Apparel

by Babak Radboy — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:15:04 +0000

Do androids dream of ironic tees?

Zazzle: you’ve never heard of it. One of thousands of designer nonsense words necessitated by online commerce, invoking within the reptile mind something ugly, pointless and incredibly popular. And Zazzle is in fact more pointless than Twitter, more popular than Blingy, and it’s ugliness is only exceeded by it’s total, major importance. Not because it is the world’s leading platform for quality custom goods, or for whatever reasons lead Google investors John Doerr and Ram… [read more »]

Lethal Lady

DIS — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:46:42 +0000

Michelle Falsetta hosts monthly wrestling events where men take on trained women. A former professional bodybuilder turned trainer, she's a legend in her own right, and having wrestled long enough to have scissored the sons of men she's wrestled in decades past, Michelle's crossbody pins are also cross-generational. Here she wields her famous locks and holds on three unwary men and proves that muscle has no gender.

Credits

Starring Michelle Falsetta, Daniel McCormick, Joseph Byrne and Kevin Medlin. Photography Marco Roso

Kinæsthetic Companions

DIS — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:44:32 +0000

Fashion magazines, runways, and stylists love fetishwear to a fault. You've been gagging on their bondage-inspired looks for years now—and not in a good way. Meanwhile, to fit into these looks, you've been compelled to forgo meals to afford a gym membership, where the senses are assaulted by hotter and tighter bodies, rancid lockerroom mystery smells, out-of-commission machines, and the cacaphony of jerk jams and juicehead jargon. When will these humiliations end?

With the help of Technogym™, fetish and fitness have finally become domestic partners. What could be more luxurious? Beautifully crafted machines in a beautifully crafted interiors. Low-impact workouts in high-impact looks. Spotting and being spotted by your closest friend. A Mozart concerto on the hi-fi. There's no shame in being (and having) a home body; cross training is a private proclivity.

It looks like working in is really working out.

Credits

By DIS
Photography Marco Roso
Styling Solomon Chase and Lauren Boyle
Production David Toro
Text Nick Scholl
Casting Preston Chaunsumlit
Models Janos @ RE:QUEST, Cesar @ RED
Location Technogym™
Special Thanks to Technogym™ Showroom located at 70 Greene Street, NYC and to celebrity trainer Marcus Eave [Marcus@destinationfitnessnyc.com or 917-468-5741]

Background: Check

DIS — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:57:02 +0000

Social media became a social event when visitors to DIS HQ had their Facebook profile pics taken on one of the office's four environment walls. A smart move—because when it comes to personal branding and online stalking, bad first impressions are no one's default but your own.

Credits

Special Thanks to Marco, Profile Picture Photographer

Plank Girl

DIS — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:28:07 +0000

The aftermath of the streetstyle blogging trend of 2008: the sidewalks of New York are littered with arms, legs, and spines akimbo. But we caught a handful of girls staying ahead of (and instead of) the curve, using the corrective properties of planking to set their bodies right for the best of Fall 2011.

Credits

Models Ruth Gruca, Rachel Lord, Courtney Malick, Analisa Teachworth, Emilie Waterhouse
Stylist Khalid Al Gharaballi
Photography David Toro
Assistant Patrick Oldweiler

Khakiism

DIS — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:30:46 +0000

Credits

Editor Solomon Chase
Photography Marco Roso
Set Design David Toro
Hair Jake Dingler
Makeup Allie Smith
Text Nick Scholl
Casting Preston Chaunsumlit
Photo Assistant Patrick Oldweiler
Kelly Graylien by Shawn Maximo

Featuring Cora at New York Models, Divya Ranganathan, Noriko, John B at Request, Rodrigo at Next, Justin P at Red, Charlotte at IMG, Matheus Strappasson at Next, Gabi Lima, Sanae Marilla Ueyoshi, Mey Bun, Par Parekh, Kelly Graylien, Simon Marty, Irina Cocimarov, Robert Hayden at Djamee, Patrick Oldweiler, Jamie Imanian-Friedman, Quentin Belt, Dina, and Venus Iceberg.

Special Thanks to Khalid Al Gharaballi

Herbalife™

DIS — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:14:04 +0000

Founded by Mark Hughes in 1980, Herbalife is now the number one health and wellness multi-level marketing company in the world. Herbalife is the premiere commercial cult with it’s Nutrition, Weight-Management, Energy-Fitness and Personal Care products available exclusively through more than 2.1 million independent distributors in 75 countries. Herbalife Essay by Alaina Claire Feldman The performance itself was a project of DIS magazine. DIS was invited by Josh Kline, the curator of the Skin So… [read more »]

Credits

Project by DIS
Choreography Richard Kennedy
Featuring Chase AJ Clark, Samantha Cuomo, Danielle Standifer, Adriana Maiella, and Hayden Busch.
TextAlaina Claire Feldman
Editing David B. Field

This event, was presented in coordination with Alaina Claire Feldman and as part of the group exhibition Skin So Soft, organized by Josh Kline for Gresham's Ghost.

ReTween

S. Adrian Massey III — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:00:36 +0000

Tweendom is a critical stage of ontogeny. Developmental psychologist Jean Piaget explained that between the ages of seven and eleven we enter a concrete operational stage. During this stage we develop our abilities to see from another perspective. (ie. to be able to think outside of our own experience) This is also when most of us forget our babyhood and coincidentally our past lives as well.

ReTween Idols The following tweens have openly shared their stories of reincarnation with clarity and honesty. Their journeys are well documented and include extraordinary detail; a previous personality diary to die for. He delayed his birth in August by two months to be born the same day Buddha Descended from Tushita Heaven. Not only did he choose his parents, but his previous personality paired the two for engagement and set the date for their marriage.… [read more »]

Credits

Tucker, Jim B., M.D., Life Before Life: Children's Memories of Previous Lives. New York: St. Martin, 2008.
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/personalitystudies

Stevenson, Ian, M.D., Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Charlotesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.

Thanks and favorable circumstances to Dr. Jim Tucker, Ryan Hammons, James Leininger, Cameron Macaulay, Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, and Nong Namfah

Still Cruising II

By Shawn Maximo — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0000

Kelly Graylien works hard and can hardly stop working. Nights, days, mornings, nooners. She simply cannot resist a call to action. On a yacht or on the rocks, Kelly is a born natural, navigating worlds of business leisure with aplomb. Stepping, strolling, in repose; walking, crawling, surrounded. Kelly Graylien is America's TOP MODEL. Uptown to downsized, Kelly is there......searching for a counterpart to her ambition.

"As every new dawn approaches, the stable is empty and the beast is still cruising."—Fashion's Night Out, Seoul

Credits

By Shawn Maximo
All images are 11x14 metallic C-prints
Edition of 3 + AP

See also: Still Cruising I

Contemporary Internet Lifestyles

DIS — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:22:01 +0000

DIS teamed up with Parker Ito to explore Contemporary Internet Lifestyles. Parker knows that when you spend all day and night surfing the internet, your body needs a special kind of care. He recommends stretching, personal massage tools, lots of pillows, and a comfy wardrobe. Diversifying your surfing accessories is just as important. Mix it up. Desktop, laptop, iPad, flat screen. The lovely Paris Gotti demonstrates how to stay sexy, healthy, and comfortable while being addicted to the internet.

Credits

By DIS and Parker Ito as Deke McClelland Two
Featuring Paris Gotti

Special Thanks to Fit Couture, Eres, Brookstone, Sharper Image, KD Dance, Capezio, and Athena's Home Novelties.