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ISSUE NO. 3 / Â VOLUME 1 SUMMER 2017
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guided. EDITOR IN CHIEF / SHELBY BROWN SUB-EDITOR / MY-THY NGUYEN SUB-EDITOR / LIV MARTIN SUB-EDITOR / EMMA HARRIS SUB-EDITOR / SYDNEY BRADFORD ART DIRECTOR / SAMANTHA QUAN ART DIRECTOR / SAVANNAH BRADLEY ALL CONTRIBUTORS: SHELBY BROWN / MYTHY NGUYEN / LIV MARTIN / ELODIE GRAF / ASHLEY TODD / EMMA HARRIS / SAVANNAH BRADLEY / KREENA ANDRA TALUBAN / MORGAN HEARN / SAMANTHA QUAN / MANASA KARTHIKEYAN
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table of contents
editor's letter
03 jaundice 04 yellow flowers 05 an interview with molly mielke 07 in bloom: a playlist 08 rebirth 09 upcoming events 10
golden
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photos via: gurl, claudia kihan
editor's letter June was supposed to be a month of pride, the summer solstice, end of school, summer vacations, and the refreshing of people's minds for the summer. For us at Guided Mag, we acknowledged all of that in the midst of it all, but we gave ourselves new plans, ideas and more. From minor changes to the website, to the amount and content we post on our social media, to EXPANDING our social media (we're on Pinterest!) we're only going up. This month's theme was YELLOW, and sure enough, it did feel that way. Personally, I feel like this hue of yellow could've been a little brighter; a bit more sour; a little more tense. We introduced more content and ideas as we always do. This month was one of the brightest months of the year so far-- even though stars turn to an orange/yellow/red hue as they die down, for us, we're only getting more colorful and out that dwarf stage. .
shelby brown editor-in-chief
a golden state of mind
jaundice a poem by elodie graf
Skin at arms length Hands like a canary’s beak Image result for yellow of the skin She looked like a flame Red cheeks to that golden mane You wanted to give her the sun And seal off the bruise coloured voices Wanted her to know But her love was jaundice, jaundice. The minute your eyes touched her You knew it was over The tongues of doomed skin Whispering your name, Liver failure. Your skin tinged, burnt at the edges Face like old parchment Ghost of her fingers, the paperweight Became faded, faded yellow She was violet’s opposite Most violently so You touched her and felt vibrant That glow reached your cheeks.
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It looked so much better on her You took more, more So that the streets turned black In a good kind of way You would walk into shops down neon lanes Past shelves of the same bleak kaleidoscope All a soup of vague green What are you looking for? Just the next supersaturate train That renders your cold world obsolete Cereal, chips, cigarettes, you trail What is it you want? You want someone’s new glasses You want midnight to be fireworks forever A never ending person The spring that makes summer last forever. It wasn't him, it wasn’t her Maybe next time You’ll find the colour That won’t waste your soul away. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
photography by liv martin
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an interview with molly mielke We interviewed CA based artist, Molly Mielke in hopes to know more about her work, personality, intentions and more.
GUIDED: Who is Molly Mielke? MIELKE: At my core I am an artist. I express myself creatively through my work, primarily cinematography and photography. But I also love challenging the many facets of my creativity by doing fine art on the side, specifically right now I’m really into block printing and letterpress.
GUIDED: What projects do you have going on right now, if any? MIELKE: I am currently working on a couple personal side projects but am mainly focused on getting ready to go to NYU in the fall to study film. GUIDED: What is your favorite thing in the world right now?
MIELKE: Honestly my favorite thing right now is just really focusing on myself as a whole being. This past year has been insane and I feel like I can finally breathe now that I’ve almost finished doing two years of high school in one. For me that means having the free time for lots of creative engagement, yoga, nature, baths, animals, laughing and watching good films like that insane Netflix show The OA.
"at my core, i am an artist." GUIDED: Your Instagram doesn't seem to be up and running, what happened?
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MIELKE: Social media has never been something that I I have had a very healthy relationship with. I’ve been through a lot, and I often used social media as a coping mechanism to seek validation, numb my emotions (see next page)
an interview with molly mielke (cont.) ...and compare myself to others. It tended to feed my inner demons and made me look at other people as competition, constantly setting a steadily heightening standard for myself and my work that I could never attain. The thing about social media is that if you view anothers’ presence as their whole being and compare yourself to that highly curated version of them, it is impossible to ever measure up. Too often we forget that there is so much more to us as a person than our “feeds," which display only the most favorable light. It is the other parts that make us beautiful and human, and as I grew up, I began to notice the almost addictive, self-sabotaging quality of the way I was using social media. Finally, I decided it just wasn’t worth it and focused on channeling that energy into working through the issues I had been suppressing and choosing to better myself and my work. It was honestly one of the best choices I have ever made. I am fully aware that others may have very different relationships to the media they consume, but personally I have learned from plenty of experience my own limits and what does and doesn’t work for me. .GUIDED: Are you a cat or dog person? MIELKE: That is the hardest question ever. I think I like dogs more but I also feel like my personality is a cat. GUIDED: When you're not doing professional work, what else are you doing? MIELKE: I’m still a full-time student even though I don’t act like it because most of my classes are online. But other than that I spend most of my time dancing around to Charles Bradley, working my other jobs, biking about, learning about random things that interest me and reading. GUIDED: What is your biggest goal for yourself right now? MIELKE: My biggest goal right now is to just finish the last couple of weeks of school and then hustle to raise money for Tisch this coming fall. You can see more of Mielke's work at www.mollymielke.com. 06
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june: golden tunes you're not good enough / blood orange elegy to the void / beach house little wing / jimi hendrix lost / frank ocean orpheus under the influence / the buttertones west coast / coconut records ballad of the mighty i / noel gallagher florida kilos / lana del rey hotel california / eagles dreams / fleetwood mac supersonic / oasis girls and boys / blur i am / james arthur more like you / hazel english 07
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The color of new days, Seeping through unwilling window, Be healed from being once held in wearily eyed gaze, You have no need to owe, Bright is this rebirth, Warm custard soothe a soul from hurt, Memories pass which we do not wish to unearth, This is the root of art, Flowers fields are dawn of time, This ember is yours and mine. "rebirth" by emma harris
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UPCOMING EVENTS Shelby Brown, the Editor-inChief of Guided Magazine, will host an event in the Northern Virginia/Washington, DC area in late spring/summer 2017. Details are soon to be released! When: Spring/Summer 2017 Where: Washington, D.C. Who: Guided Mag editor-inchief & contributors In the late spring/summertime GUIDED will visit Girl Power Meetups in Washington D.C./Baltimore to interview the wonderful people attending, the creators, and capture photographs for the public. When: Spring/Summer 2017 Where: Washington, D.C/Baltimore Who: Guided Mag editor-inchief & GPM photos by shelby brown 09
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A state of peace and tranquility you bring me. The sun is shining. Sunflowers are blossoming. Honey is in the making. Lemon trees are growing. Bees are buzzing. With the shade that's in between orange and green, I've never felt more at home. Yellow only exists when I'm with you. For if you weren't here, the world would end. Well, at least my yellow world would. My-Thy Nguyen
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art via mrs. lilien
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WILTING photos by elodie graf
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