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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

CONTRIBUTORS STAFF LIST

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IS THERE A GOD IN THE DIGITAL WORLD?

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CAN OUR DIGITAL LOVE BE REAL?

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HOW CAN WE UPROOT THE VIRUS OF ISOLATION?

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IS IT FAIR TO ASSUME?

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The digitization of our world codifies our addiction to stimulation. To fill the void of unintentional seconds and unwanted emotions, we opt for an endless consumption of media. This immense amount of content makes total recall impossible. We are a society standing at the intersection of the encouragement of mindfulness and the expectation of multitasking. Given the jumble of information we learn, videos we watch, conversations we hear, and words we read, how do we choose what is worth remembering? Is it even up to us, or are we simply at the mercy of strategic marketing? Why do we hold such vivid memories of seemingly insignificant moments but fail to remember an assignment that was due tonight? If this process is completely beyond our own volition, how do we make a conscious effort to recollect significant events?

Upon reflection of what has meaning

in our lives and how the internet has shaped a vast majority of it, we sparked a debate about what, among our culture, should be preserved for future generations. As the world continues its rapid acceleration amid a digital transformation, our values will be persistently challenged by the threat of endless change overtaking our lives.

The best way to combat this phenomenon is to preserve the essence of cultures, moments, and ideals through artifacts that take the shape of stories, objects, photography, print, film, and music.

This issue aims to unearth these artifacts through narratives that recount a special chapter of our lives. The stories and photographs that fill these pages are a reflection of our creative expression, showing a progression of relics—past and present—that are worth preserving. We hope to highlight discrepancies within our society alongside an appreciation

for the valuable ideas and memories that will be ingrained in us forever.

Composing this story for Strike has been a stark reminder of the influence of one’s environment on artistic expression; nevertheless, our experiences shape our perception of what deserves value.

All of us share experiences that can hold very different meanings for us. We leave the interpretations of our experiences, as influenced by the digital world, up to the eyes and ears of the reader. We invite you to decide what all of us deem valuable in our culture. What do you think deserves to be preserved? What experiences or ideas will you drive forward into the next generation?

ISAIAH SCARLETT JULIA WILCOX

ABOUT

STRIKE

Strike Magazine embraces individuality and appreciates the growth of creativity. This publication was founded in 2016 in Tallahassee, Florida, and was brought to Notre Dame last spring.

With a focus on culture, lifestyle, art, and fashion, Strike has grown quickly over the last 6 years. Today, as the largest student-run publication in the United States, Strike continues to

cultivate creative communities across college campuses; it allows students to gain professional experience in all aspects of content production. Here at Notre Dame, we have a talented staff of students from around the world.

As editors, we want to thank the entire staff for all of the hard work that they devoted to this issue. We

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take pride in pushing boundaries and unapologetically being ourselves.

As the only publication of its kind at Notre Dame, we are motivated to continue expressing our individuality and doing what we love. Strike Magazine is growing as you read this issue, and we are excited to see what the future holds.

Executive Board

Co-Editor-in-Chief Isaiah Scarlett Co-Editor-in-Chief Julia Wilcox Creative Director Kenzie Phillips External Affairs Director Madison Wagner Creative Director Assistant Luke Thornbrue

Writing Team

Writing Director David Kramer Blog Director Helenna Xu Content Editor Mary Clare Cameron Content Editor Kimani Krienke Content Editor Natalie Daskal Writing Staff Member Francesca Masciopinto Writing Staff Member Victoria Dominesey Writing Staff Member Katie Sharp Writing Staff Member Shane Stanton Writing Staff Member Maddie Arruebarrena Writing Staff Member Isabelle Grassel Writing Staff Member Ashlley Castillo Writing Staff Member Abby Wager Writing Staff Member Maddie Schleubler

Design Team

Design Director Khang Chau Phuoc Layout Assistant Liyanna Baloca Layout Assistant Kevin Hsu Layout Assistant Kathleen Mark Layout Assistant Madison Syufy Graphic Designer Jane Archibeck Graphic Designer Grace Archibeck Graphic Designer Kevin Greyson Peoples

Beauty Team

Beauty Director Caroline Meuth Beauty Team Member Alexy Monsalve Makeup Artist Skye Sharp Hair Stylist Karleigh Osborn

Fashion Team

Fashion Director Billy Allday Fashion Designer Rose Hsu

Stylist Megha Alluri Stylist Lauren Murphy Stylist Eno Nto Stylist Mary Kate Temple Stylist Madeline Farmer Stylist Holland Hiler Stylist Esther Lynch Stylist Sophie Burke Stylist Ibrahim Bah Stylist Ava Olson Stylist Elle Akerman Stylist Chloe Mann Stylist Lydia Wordlaw Stylist Laura Miller

Production Team

Production Director Joyce Fu Production Assistant Angela Li Production Assistant Jacqueline Cox Production Assistant Arabella Baker Production Assistant Emma Solferino Production Assistant Analiese Tisa

Videography Team

Head Videographer EJ Kelly Videographer Christian Ramos-Ambriz Videographer Ryan Vigilante Videographer Henry "Hank" McNeil Videographer Drew Braaten

Photography Team

Head Photographer Katherine O'Neal Photographer Leah Ingle Photographer Lily Ricci Photographer Ian Baker

Marketing Team Member Peyton Amelia Stearns Marketing Team Member Quinn Hogan Marketing Team Member Olivia Fabry Marketing Team Member Grace Kanehann

Social Media Team

Social Media Director Taylor Dellelce Social Media Team Member Elizabeth Perna Social Media Team Member Laura Rosiles Social Media Team Member Ashley Cho

Public Relations Team PR Director Annette Lee PR Assistant Anna Kulczycka PR Assistant Sarah Chon PR Assistant Cleveland Sellers IV PR Assistant Isabel Mahoney PR Assistant Logan Mendoza

Booking

Booking Director Lindsay Skold

Merchandise Team

Merchandise Director Gracie Simoncic Merchandise Team Member Connor Bergin Merchandise Team Member Sarah Flight Merchandise Team Member Maggie Marinovich Merchandise Team Member Nicole Leon

Finance

Finance Director Ana Sharbaugh

Marketing Team

Marketing Director Mackenzie Murphy Marketing Team Member Damiana Bertin

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hy aren’t we satisfied with the world we know?

God made rules, the universe, Heaven and Hell, so why were we compelled to create our own?

And Eve in the garden knew life was at stake, but still she relished the apple, and Adam could not resist having his own choice to make.

Pride, our human curse, yearns to rewrite the stars.

If we have power to create, even flawed, why not recode a world to be fully ours?

The mortals seek out a God in places He doesn’t belong. Forever in the search of redemption, no clue of what it means to be saved, received, admired—the things from above, fruitlessly thirsted, right below the nose of the empty one, just needing any love.

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here— terrifyingly alone, and seeking to enable only completion to appear.

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Little satans spawned as online referees of what is and is not beauty, cool, enough.

Profiles that don’t care, façades that don’t see the corrupted souls who mimic the fake love these devils advertise. Sold their souls for clothes, filters, likes, fake love—breaking us for no love.

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here— seeking to subdue realness and truth, forcing us into darkness and fear.

Eager to promote reluctance for those who desire to reveal their true being, coercing them back into the shadows— The shadows, comforting those who are shunned from the spotlight, welcoming with open arms the scarred: Those others, tired of becoming instead of preserving their identities in that tiny glass box where the devils dwell and guard with their likes.

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LIGHT FROM DARKNESS

SUN, MOON, AND PLANETS

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Heaven is empty, and all the angels are here.

Terrifyingly themselves and breaking through digital temptation, the apples somehow clear.

Social media’s saints—influencers? She, he, they don’t think so. These people with a shove for something real in a space of falsity.

Flawed skin, flawed lives, flawed trust, but enough courage to allow mortal souls the chance to grow, know, remain imperfect without a Transfiguration.

Heaven is empty, and all the angels are here.

Released from the shackles of the shadows, living their lives not fazed by the Deceiver.

Associated, but only where it matters, treating the world as a means to connect instead of an assignment with a deadline never met.

You little gods, lazily swiping your thumb, cry your judgment, a trend, as digital law: deify your idols, cancel lives for fun.

Who will you hail when your world betrays you?

When your platforms and likes begin to destroy all human connection, to turn all loves untrue?

Written by: MARYCLARECAMERON ASHLLEYCASTILLO VICTORIADOMINESEY

Will you regret leaving the home of Our Nativity for cold, coded illusions within a screen, without any God to save us from its sin?

Together we await, create our shared fate in a purgatory of our own design, between the real universe that gave us life, and the life that we sacrifice to lies online.

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nline, we choose our character. Like avatars in a video game, we select exactly what we want others to see. Even if the pictures we choose don’t authentically represent us, we gravitate towards them if they paint us in a desirable light.

But what we think will help us make stronger relational bonds actually does the opposite: We become surrounded by others playing the game of fakes.

Instead of the true love we hoped to find, we feel lost.

Millions of these polished profiles span the internet, and hardly anyone has resisted the itch to create an online identity. With this shift toward online dating, there is a whole new set of rules for falling in love. There is no love at first sight, no giddy feeling when you lock eyes across the room, no rush of dopamine when you brush hands on your way to the bar. Online, there is no such thing as chance—all we have are choices.

The “next big thing” is the metaverse: a three-dimensional arena of digital interaction.

This arena turns online dating into a game, where people have access to six billion

potential partners in the form of perfectly curated avatars.

Will we be able to edit our appearance in real-time, putting further distance between who we are and who we present? One psychological study revealed that longer periods of computermediated-communication (CMC) resulted in less satisfactory face-to-face interactions.

People overanalyze social cues over CMC, and the face-to-face meeting that follows becomes an underwhelming first date. Will the metaverse exacerbate this phenomenon? Will we ever be able to separate ourselves from our avatars?

Imagine a date in the metaverse… you meet “face to face,” as it was once called. Your conversations flow naturally as you and your partner come to understand each other’s deepest thoughts and feelings. You spend day and night absorbed in virtual reality, grasping onto the sound of each other’s voices. Hiding behind manicured chat messages is no longer an option. In the metaverse, you reach a new level of vulnerability, as if every first meeting is a first date that leaves no time for fabrication.

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PLAYER 2 [ONLINE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CHANGE, ALL WE HAVE ARE CHOICES]

PLAYER 1 [INSTEAD OF THE TRUE LOVE WE HOPE TO FIND, WE FEEL LOST]

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E D O C AWAY? Imagine a date in the metaverse…hundreds of avatar couples at virtual tables in virtual rooms. Everyone connects in digital earshot, with the buzz of voices permeating an overwhelmingly vast online space. In the metaverse, your conversations aren’t private anymore. You wonder if there’s anywhere you can go to escape eavesdropping bystanders.

In a space for six billion, finding a quiet place seems unimaginable.

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Imagine a date in the metaverse…leaving the room, you see yet another avatar with no apparent physical flaws. Absolutely airbrushed and unreal, you wonder what they’re attempting to hide. In the metaverse, all imperfections—crooked teeth, pimples, wrinkles—are concealed.

When everyone looks perfect, though, how do we establish trust? Trust is built on authenticity, but the metaverse doesn’t embrace this notion. Instead, we turn inward, scared to be vulnerable and yearning to look perfect.

Imagine a date in the metaverse…you feel like you know everything about the other person. You even believe that you might love them, and yet, the two of you have never touched. When your avatars lock lips, intertwine hands, or wrap their arms around each other, you feel nothing. This digital touch inspires no spark, no warmth, no bonding connection. You struggle to feel loved as you miss out on these fleeting moments of intimate expression.

We are advancing toward the metaverse, whether we choose to accept it or not. The most salient element of this world will be the sheer amount of avatars that inhabit it. How will we sift through six billion choices? We can either be paralyzed by choice or learn to adapt.

Every journey into this online world will be an overwhelming one, laden with idealized avatars and endless possibilities. In this new world, love will be redefined, but our human nature cannot be redefined with it.

Relationships have an innate requirement for physical intimacy that the metaverse can’t simulate. Dating without intimacy is unnatural and uncomfortable, and the metaverse brings no solace. With no way to replicate physical connection, we will feel only a fractured love. Will we become numb to an emptiness that we can’t quite place? Is there even a future for love at all?

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Data. It floods our devices, flows between the people closest to us, and pours us into new relationships entirely. We beckon endless branches of data and information to our hand in a second...

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Written by: Maddie Schlehuber, Isabel Grassel, Natalie Daskal

Impressive, yet intimidiating.

Invasive, yet welcome.

For us, growing up amidst this fresh field of technology put these digital dichotomies into our curious grips at an early age.

Childhood was precious. It was a rambling journey, an unrushed experience, allowing us the space to breathe in a day’s last rays of the sunset before returning indoors to find comfort in the pages of our favorite novel. Today, the simplicity of those youthful memories is dim in comparison to our ceaselessly fluorescent screens. Technology has fallen into sync with our daily routines, so that even the innocence of childhood is permanently altered by the effects of our self-created technoverse.

As we grew, so did technology. Girlhood converged with the dawn of social media, and we navigated difficult times in our teenage years while trying to create an authentic sense of self online. While we have so much to take for granted with tech, I wonder if the next generation will miss out on the unbridled euphoria that came with playing like a child, reading like a child, just looking at the world like a child. All of it felt so easy back then.

branched to other humans via a mundane software-turned-rot-inducing-platform that we formally call Zoom. “Relationships” with peers, mentors, and family members through virtual messaging, curated photos, and occasional phone calls have, at times, felt far more parasitic than mutualistic. It’s painfully easy to feel completely alone, apart, isolated.

Virtual relationships have been awkward, difficult, and inauthentic.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we piled a semblance of relationships with the people that we saw on-screen atop our more traditional social media connections. During the days of being alone in our rooms, we didn’t feel alone. We had the people who populated the little squares on our screens, the people on our feeds. But when the time came to venture beyond the screen and into the real world, we felt very alone. The familiar faces hid behind their masks, and we realized how isolated we truly were. None of our virtual relationships were real enough to even share a wave, let alone a high five at a football game.

The virus of isolation infects us in a very backwards way. We heal from its symptoms through a retreat—physically isolated yet virtually connected…but the lingering side effects are scarring when we’re physically present with others. Like any infectious virus, the virus of isolation is much better kept in quarantine.

For the past two years, we have spent our days on our computers and our nights on our phones; virtually rooted to meetings, classrooms, events, and conventions;

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our people This isolation—this virus that makes us feel so alone—is a circumstance of our own creation.

Therefore, it is up to us to escape this entanglement of virtual vines.

We have become so rooted in this virtual space, so planted in the feeling of watery connection. “Our people” are just within our reach, yet we don’t even realize that these connections can not merely continue in a virtual space, but also thrive beyond one. To plant a true reality while standing on virtual ground requires us to look at each other, to see each other, and to say hello. We need to acknowledge each other’s sunlit presence as we attempt to navigate this fresh and complex matrix of virtual reality.

This exposure (nothing oversaturated or filtered) requires us to put ourselves out there, look up from our screens, and show people the authentic person that sits behind the metal curtain.

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We must branch out.

While such a simple initiative in theory—to look up from our screen and acknowledge the presence of another person—it is one of the scariest things to do in practice. With nowhere left to hide, we can no longer seclude ourselves in virtual reality. “Hello” holds the immense power to uproot someone’s day for harvesting. “Hello” affirms that our virtual connections can be real, but only if we bring it to the forefront of our everyday lives. “Hello” is the simplest, most powerfully infectious interaction that propels us to grow our virtual connections into something beyond an Instagram follow or likes on a photo.

We are not hardwired to solely exist in a virtual space. We are not alone in the crop.

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Written By: David Kramer

*A freshly set table. A fire crackles, almost dimly.

Enter ALL and CHORUS from center upstage.*

For this issue of Strike Magazine, we invited several student leaders to strip themselves of identity, raise the curtain, and muse on our generation’s most pressing questions over breakfast. Mishawaka’s own Beiger Mansion welcomed a philosophical melodrama into its darkest corners, a tragic comedy into its most weathered seats.

Real conversations from our Morning at the Mansion write the script, but the actors beckon for you to set the stage for yourself…the way that you label them is left for your assumptions.

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PARROT: We only have so much control over what we remember.

MAYFLY: Does it happen over time, or does it just happen in an instant? At a certain point, you just die. You don’t decompose here.

ME: If you fuel your own ego, and if you move toward this very self-involved lifestyle, you’re actually going to end up disappearing. There’s nothing that we can do here for ourselves that is going to create meaning beyond that moment.

BRUTUS: Like Julius Caesar. He was killed by his own ambition.

BOWERBIRD: But the things that I do for the longest and try the hardest—they’re always with other people!

ELEPHANT: If you can’t sit there and be fine for a little bit, by yourself…it’s just constant stimulation. I’m in the grocery store line, and I say, “Is this span of 18 seconds good enough for me to take out my phone? Is it worth it?”

MAYFLY: It separates us from the fact that the world is not about us. There is so much more than us here. “What do I want now? What do I want next?” ME, ME, ME, ME, ME. ME: I don’t know. Maybe I don’t know myself very well.

PRAYING MANTIS: If I could change anything about my childhood…I wish I didn’t grow up in a “religious family.”

ELEPHANT: (whispering) Though, if life is about relationships, how other people think is really important. The idea that the value of your life is not really in your own control?

That can be frightening.

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But I’m more of a head person. . .

PRAYING MANTIS: I told them I was staying in, but I had someone over— BRUTUS: How could you do this to me?!

AFTER EVERYTHING WE’VE BEEN THROUGH???!

WHISTLEBLOWER: Some sexual acts are morally better than others. It’s more about the intentions with which you approach the act as opposed to what you’ve done in the past.

BOWERBIRD: My parents could have done a better job setting an example as to how to love someone instead of shutting other people out.

MACHO MAN: I deserve to wear a skirt. Honestly, it’s my first time wearing a skirt. It’s kind of nice. I feel free. It definitely shouldn’t be gender-based.

WHISTLEBLOWER: I don’t naturally trust people.

Sometimes, people will screw you over. The easiest thing to do is follow your head.

PRAYING MANTIS: The last lie I told? I was going on spring break with solely girls, for my Mother’s sake, for her own sanity, when there were 10 guys in the house.

ME: The inconvenient truth is the easiest to ignore. It takes more work to consider yourself.

BOWERBIRD: My own art is being diminished with other artists who have more…conventional art styles.

MACHO MAN: It taps into more senses than language. All five, depending on what medium!

There needs to be an impetus, because language and communicationweren’t sufficient.

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WHISTLEBLOWER: Now, we see that those opinions are persecuted by the public for being politically incorrect, and that whoever said them would get canceled. The public has such an important say nowadays.

BOWERBIRD: But if not the public, then who? Art is, really, a unique form of expression that naturally faces outward. When you release your art, you have to release it to that interpretation.

MAYFLY: WE TRY TO ASSIGN VALUE TO ANYTHING. THERE’S A beauty AND importance TO THE FACT THAT THINGS JUST DON’T HAVE AN ANSWER. ELEPHANT: Morality is definitely objective…besides that, moral tenets don’t really exist.

ME: Then again, the answer in terms of human rights is in human character. How can we maintain respect for the self without encroaching on others?

PARROT: There’s obviously such a limited amount of space in your head… *ALL slowly exit from center upstage. The fire roars.*

CHORUS: (in unison) But otherwise, I don’t really have much of an answer to that.

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Anita Feng Ashley Maul

Student Activities Board

Catherine Prather

Gender Relations Center

Erin Pfeifer Juan Llovet de Casso Julie O’Grady Marcello Olivares

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In reminiscence of the “good old days,” we often forget the very roots that underpin that invitation in the first place. We cherish the personal narratives of former selves and lasting memories, yet the tangible cultural artifacts that wrote them slowly degrade beyond the pages of our story. Our forgetfulness comes with a desire for progress, no doubt, but the blinding notion that novelty always translates to improvement often leaves us with very few souvenirs of past generations to clutch.

So what, among our generation’s culture, deserves timeless preservation? We welcomed a wonderful array of art submissions from South Bend talents to seek the answer.

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BoyBath Malachi Snyder @m.snyder “This painting (“BoyBath”) is part of a series that explores the the construction and socialization of Western gender ideologies. It depends my friend, Rey, a boy, in a bath. The painting is trying to depict a moment of vulnerability and intimacy with oneself, and the chosen subject is male since there are a lot of existing misconceptions/stereotypes/stigmas surrounding the realm of masculine self-care. Almost like one who identifies or presents as masculine isn’t supposed to have a softer side, isn’t supposed to take care of themself, isn’t supposed to even take (nor enjoy) a bubble bath.”

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In My Dreams I Fly Away Anna Schroedel annapepper.com “Sort of inspired by elements of the Hawai’i rainforest (past - where I grew up), reminiscent of a present chaos and a desire to escape. Titled 'In my dreams I fly away.'"

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Invictus Travis Stombaugh @t_smedley “This mixed media painting symbolizes my relationship with my mental illness.

Like the namesake poem, ‘My head is bloody, but unbowed.’

I come from a family with a history of mental illness. In my life, I’ve come to learn it is important to know where you come from and who you were, but it is also equally important to know who you are. These pieces remind me that even if it’s difficult to exist in the measure of a moment, you can still endure and achieve.”

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Flower Power Austin Hanley “Flower Power is inspired by counter culture movement/anti war/psychedelics.”

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Things In The Past Drew Braaten @smallest.boy “I was thinking about what we will remember in time and bits and pieces of memories came to mind, but the process of recollection was deep.

With this piece, I didn’t seek to answer the question. Instead, I sought to capture the complexity, richness, and expansiveness of memory.”

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Remember Lady “Caitlin Regan” @ladycregan “It doesn’t matter if “we” or “you” or “I” remember this. What matters: someone will remember, no matter what.

The essence of our being, AKA the general basis of remembrance, bleeds into everything each individual does. Every word… every greeting… every step… every choice… leaves a mark on something or someone.”

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Renaissance Man Julia McGibbon @juliamargotart “This was an oil painting I did from life of a lovely Italian man named Freddy. After completing the work, the painting reminds me a bit of Poseidon. “

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IS THERE A GOD IN THE DIGITAL WORLD? Creative Director Creative Director Assistant Layout/Graphic Designers Design Director Fashion Director Fashion Designer Stylists Production Director Production Assistants Beauty Director Makeup Artist Hair Stylist Photographers Videographers Models

Kenzie Phillips Luke Thornbrue Madison Syufy, Liyanna Baloca Khang Phuoc Chau Billy Allday Rose Hsu Eno Nto, Madeline Farmer, Sophie Burke, Lydia Wordlaw, Ibrahim Bah, Taylor Dellelce Joyce Fu Annalise Tisa, Kate Donohue Caroline Meuth Sarajane Smith Karleigh Osborn Katherine O’Neal, Leah Ingle, Ian Baker, Lily Ricci EJ Kelly, Drew Braaten Gareth Spiteri, Taylor Dellece, Anna Schroedel, Saachi Kumar, Victoria Tontcheva, Lydia Wordlaw, Vikas Miller, Deion Colzie, Jason Onye, Jimmy Mooney, Bella Prince

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CAN OUR DIGITAL LOVE BE REAL?

IS IT FAIR TO ASSUME?

Thank you Generations Adventureplex!

Creative Director Creative Director Assistant Layout/Graphic Designers Design Director Fashion Director Fashion Designer Stylists Production Director Production Assistants Beauty Director Hair Stylist Photographers Videographer Models

Kenzie Phillips Luke Thornbrue Kathleen Mark Khang Phuoc Chau Billy Allday Rose Hsu Megha Alluri, Ava Olson, Sophie Burke, Laura Miller, Mary Kate Temple, Lauren Murphy Joyce Fu Angela Li, Jacqueline Cox, Arabella Baker, Emma Solferino, Annalise Tisa Caroline Meuth Karleigh Osborn Ian Baker, Lily Ricci EJ Kelly Aaliyah Jones, Robert Corrato, Ashley Zolfaghari

Thank you Beiger Mansion!

Kenzie Phillips Luke Thornbrue Jane Archibeck, Grace Archibeck, Kevin Hsu Khang Phuoc Chau Billy Allday Rose Hsu Madeline Farmer, Lydia Wordlaw, Sophie Burke, Ibrahim Bah, Taylor Dellelce Joyce Fu Angela Li, Jacquelin Cox, Kate Donohue, Taylor Dellelce, Mackenzie Murphy Caroline Meuth Karleigh Osborn Katherine O’Neal, Leah Ingle, Lily Ricci EJ Kelly Mary Elizabeth Stern, Eno Nto, Ibrahim Bah, Cleveland Sellers, Mary Kate Temple, Tereza Nyirabwiza, Thinh Vu, Lilly Olsick, Jan Jhaveri

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Early Bird Eatery (@theearlybirdeatery) Alec Hoogland (@alechooglandceramics) Kenzie Philipps Luke Thornbrue Kathleen Mark Khang Phuoc Chau Billy Allday Rose Hsu Chloe Mann, Esther Lynch, Sophie Burke, Lydia Wordlaw, Taylor Dellelce, Lauren Murphy Joyce Fu Kenzie Murphy, Angela Li, Jacqueline Cox, Connor Bergin, Taylor Dellelce Caroline Meuth Alexy Monsalve Karleigh Osborn Katherine O’Neal EJ Kelly Patrick Lee, Sofie Stitt, Katherine Prather, Anita Feng, Marcello Olivares, Juan Llovet de Casso, Julia O’Grady, Erin Pfeifer, Ashley Maul

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