Lauren Martin

Dec 27, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Claire Biddles |Shaad D'Souza |Jennifer Lucy Allan |Adrian Horton |Lauren Martin | +5 more

Phil Geraldi – AM/FM USAWho could read the description “truck stop concrète” and not be intrigued? The San Diego sound collagist Phil Geraldi’s two-track cassette for Not Not Fun sketches a journey across the American plains in which the glow of a gas station canopy is as integral to the landscape as the dust and cacti.

Dec 2, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lauren Martin

Cameron Leslie, co-founder/co-ownerI was introduced to Keith Reilly [Fabric co-owner] by the landlord of a restaurant I was working with: “This guy wants to do a project in our basement.He’s got some money, but you should go to the bank to get the rest.” We had lunch and sketched down so many plans for a nightclub that we ran out of paper and scrawled all over the tablecloth, which I kept. I admired Keith’s mad genius vision. He needed me to be his “reality-maker”, as he called it.

Oct 2, 2024 | medium.com | Lauren Martin

Lauren Martin·Follow7 min read·--In the year 2132, the world was ruled by a six-headed beast — a government so vast, twisted, and convoluted that its many faces were impossible to recognize. Each head spoke in contradictions, drowning the people in a never-ending storm of commands, threats, and lies. Laws changed daily, taxes rose unpredictably, and the people were left scrambling to keep up. From one perspective, it was chaos — new rules, new restrictions, new consequences.