Letter From The Editor This is Futureclaw Magazine, Issue 1. The idea formed a year ago in the fall of 2007 among a small group of people nestled within the Green Mountains of Vermont to capture the zeitgeist with an international scope. Our goal was set to document this spirit through the most obvious format: the use of lots of very big pretty pictures and the written word. This idea was inspired directly by some of the great international fashion and photography magazines, such as Vs., 125, S Magazine, Muse, and so on. We then went about gathering contributors and collaborators for a magazine, and printed a pilot issue in the spring of 2008. More contributors came aboard after that, and we now have this full-size issue that you are holding in your hand (or are viewing online). We are grateful to all of our varied and talented contributors in helping us create this issue, and would like each contributor’s character to be expressed within the pages of Futureclaw. The energy that exists within the creative mind enables us to create Futureclaw. This energy also defines the culture of the future. The problem for a magazine like ours is capturing this energy while balancing the tension it creates with tradition. Will the ideas we choose to present be acceptable to you? Or even ourselves? James Laver’s law about the timeline of style states that any style or meme that will be popular in one year is by definition daring right now. For a publication such as Futureclaw to be useful, we are required to stay permanently in this zone where we are expected to identify and define culture a year from now. This is always going to be a challenge for a magazine such as this, and will certainly lead to many long nights of frustration within the inner circle of Futureclaw and its interaction with our audience. Thankfully, humans are simple creatures of habit, and being in this tense zone will become second nature to us. We invite you, the reader, to join us in this routine as well. Enjoy. Bobby Mozumder Editor-in-Chief
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Bobby Mozumder CREATIVE DIRECTOR/EDITOR Guy Derry MANAGER/EDITOR Adam DeMartino ART & MUSIC EDITOR Andrew Stock EDITOR/LAYOUT Emma Hazlett CONTACT info@futureclaw.com +1 802.999.4793 113 Church Street Burlington, Vermont USA SUBMISSIONS submissions@futureclaw.com ADVERTISING advertising@futureclaw.com SUBSCRIPTIONS subscriptions@futureclaw.com DISTRIBUTION Ubiquity Distributors +1 718.875.5491 info@ubiquitymags.com © 2008 FutureClaw LLC & Respective Copyright Holders No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission from content holders. SPECIAL THANKS TO Martin Thomas at Isssuu, Shawn and Mary at Greenpoint Gallery Red NYC COVER Photography: Kristiina Wilson Hair: Lacy Redway @ lacyredway.com for bigsexyhair Makeup: Cynthia Rose for Make Up For Ever Stylist: Angela N. Model: Martina @ Supreme Stylists’s Assistant: Todd Jolly Dress: BCBG Max Azria http://www.futureclaw.com