For this shoot, we had to change plans as the weather didn’t help us that day. We had to adapt the concept on the spot. Now I look back and see how things happen the way they’re supposed to.
Meg’s song says, “It’s my party and I cry if I want to,” which is a sentence I have related to before. This shoot translated that feeling.
The melancholy and the sparkles sometimes do belong together.
@megmac featured in @draftmagazine
Creative Direction and Photography @macami__
Producer @tristanjcharles
Interview @arca_____________
Styling @joelymalcolm
Hair @georgie_allthingshair
Makeup @laurendrazenovic
Digi @ren_fler
Photo Assist @ainas.album
Wearing @rabanne@kazmexico
The Scourge Of Allegory: Genesis Owusu Finds Home In Reality @genesisowusu
For years, Genesis Owusu has been building worlds to help make sense of this one.
Black dogs. Roaches. Characters that could carry the weight of real life without ever naming it directly. Allegory gave him distance from reality, a way to make it more surreal and, in some ways, more manageable.
But for his new album, REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, that distance is gone.
Sitting down with the Ghanaian-Australian artist, the sincerity is palpable. “I honestly felt like in this time and space, I didn’t have the privilege to be ambiguous anymore”, he explains. “It felt like there was a wave washing over the world. Hatred, greed, far-right ideology becoming cool again. Washing over like a plague. A worldwide scourge. The album is about the here and now, the trials and tribulations and the chaos and the paranoia, but also about community, and regaining our ability to see the humanity in one another.”
Full interview
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Words by @rlcln
Editor in Chief @macami__
Managing Director @ngowyn
Visual Director @davzzzon
Creative Direction @ngowyn
Photography @macami__
Producer @byshaz_
Styling @stylewithsig
Makeup + Hair @mua_felicity
Makeup assistant @thatmakeupboy
Genesis Owusu wearing
Chainvest - @tobiassangkuhl
Jewellry - @dinosaur_designs@70harley
#genesisowusu #editorial #draftmagazine
YOU’RE INVITED: Meg Mac’s Surprise Party @megmac
50 kilos of confetti, best laid plans, and singing for its own sake
Meg Mac hadn’t used a loop pedal on stage in more than ten years. At soundcheck she’d nearly pulled it from the set because she was, in her words, wussing out. “I don’t know guys, I don’t know if I should do this song.” She went for it anyway, hit record, but hadn’t cleared the test run from earlier, so the whole thing came blasting out at once and she swore at the room, started over, lost the timing, got about halfway through, stopped, and told the audience she was going to try again. It was an unexpected crowd pleaser. “Everyone’s favourite thing was when I fucked up something so bad and I just went fuck!” she says, laughing about it now, just a week out from that first date on her national theatre tour for It’s My Party, her fourth album.
Full interview
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words by @arca_____________
Editor in Chief @macami__
Managing Director: @ngowyn
Visual Director: @davzzzon
Project Manager: @tristanjcharles
Content: @ngowyn
Creative Direction and Photography @macami__
Producer @tristanjcharles
Styling @joelymalcolm
Hair @georgie_allthingshair
Makeup @laurendrazenovic
Digi @ren_fler
Photo Assist @ainas.album
Wearing @rabanne@_aje_@kazmexico
#megmac #creativeheartbeat #draftmagazine
