This cover is so important to me in that Monster Children was the first magazine to ever publish my photographs and they gave me a cover when I was essentially a baby who had just moved to New York. The most insane feeling and really put some fire under my ass to keep going, and it didn’t hurt that @hedislimane (whose gold Dior Homme 2005 boots I still adore) had the other cover. I would still love some in size 46 for anyone reading.
This photograph is of my friends @adriennecdillon and @itsjulidillon they’re twins - I think I met Adrienne at our friend’s bar Victoria. I used to really make fly on the wall photos, but as Ive gotten older, I’ve started to ask to photograph friends in a certain scenario; let them interact within it. This is on a roof next to my studio. I’m an only child and I feel like I became really obsessed with taking pictures of people with their siblings as some like weird fake memory. Anyways MC 4 lyfe < 3 - @chadmooreholla_
@mikeyfebruary on the cover of @monsterchildren issue 74.
I grew up reading MC, it was a curated highlight reel of the subcultures that existed beyond this amazing little island I call home. It introduced me to different artists, surfers, musicians and all sorts of interesting ideas that didn’t always feel accessible or tangible back then.
A few months back @campbelljmilligan hit me up asking if I had anything to contribute to the new issue after their long break from print. I was already stoked just to be involved, so finding out this photo ended up on the cover was a pretty wild, full-circle moment.
Funnily enough, I’ve always felt pretty removed from these worlds, more of an observer than a participant, so it’s a real honour to see my work printed. When something ends up on a page, it feels intentional, and as a kid, that intention shaped a lot of how I see things now.
Thanks for being the king of style Mikey & thankyou Monster Children for keeping print alive.
For anyone who connects with this image, I’ve released a small limited-edition print of it on my site.
Last year we asked you to email us your problems to be answered in our issue 74 advice column, and boy did you. We have quite a surplus of user-submitted woes, and so every month or so we’ll find someone special to work their way through them. Artists, musicians, contributors, skaters, surfers - people who’ve been through a thing or two and can tell you a thing or two. This month, our infrequent contributor and more frequent tattoo artist, @gracekgardiner . Link in bio for the full thing.
Got a problem you’d like answered by the MC fam? [email protected].
I remember seeing Hole back in ‘95 pre internets and phones - having only seen images of the band in magazines and the occasional tv thing, felt surreal seeing these mystical angsty humans in real life exuding a calm rage like I’d never seen before. @xmadmx the bassist of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins has an amazing memoir out now called ‘Even The Good Girls Will Cry’ that captures this moment in time perfectly from her perspective standing in the calm centre of a tempest - within that book is this playlist of her 90s music, listen to it in the link in bio - it’s really good.
If you answered our survey a couple weeks ago, that was very cool of you. In regard to the ‘Anything else you wanna tell us’ question, you took that question very seriously. It was mostly love, but included some confessions, some advice, some harassment, and some paragraphs-long rants - one person copy-pasted an entire article they wanted to pitch. We appreciate the overwhelming enthusiasm, here are a couple of our favorite replies.
‘When I think about making things - music or film
- friendship is the most important part’. We couldn’t agree more.
Jack Johnson’s quote at the start of the trailer to he and Emmett Malloy’s new film, Surfilmusic, expresses a theme that is recurrent if not the distillation of the film’s essence: making things with your friends. We spoke to Jack and Emmett after their screening at SXSW. Link in bio for a good chat.
‘Surfilmusic’ - the new documentary by @jackjohnson and @lazyeyephone - is more a film about a good surfer who makes music than a famous musician who surfs. It’s a film about surfing, creativity, the North Shore, and the powerful joy of making things with your friends. We caught up with them in Austin at their SXSW showing. Link in bio, and see the film at the Sydney Film Festival this June.
In the 1990s, @pavmodern not only attended some of the best shows, but toured some rock and roll royalty - the likes of Elliott Smith, Bikini Kill, Foo Fighters, Pavement - all throughout Australia. Pav saw and did so much - and kept every piece of everything as seen above - that there’s now a documentary film about it directed by Tamra Davis playing at the @sydfilmfest next month. Link in bio to see our feature on Pav’s collection at the link in our bio.
At twenty two, @xmadmx was headlining Reading Festival with Hole and shooting photos all along, realizing even then that she was experiencing a bit of history. Her new memoir, ‘Even the Good Girls Will Cry’, chronicles the heyday, bliss and tragedy of 90s rock and roll. Link in bio.
✍️ @blurred_visionary
