Five years in the making. Five cities. Thirteen record stores. One profound question: what does it mean to keep a scene alive? Damien and Gautier Barras went to Japan to find out — and came back with something none of them expected.

Rebecca Manners has been to the volcanic mountain ranges of Java hunting for agatized fossils. She has lived with tribes in the Kayah state of Myanmar. She has drunk gallons of sugary coffee waiting for Master Goldsmiths to trust her enough to begin. She no longer creates large collections. She creates bespoke pieces — each one a living record of the hands and the culture and the place that made it. She calls it the Art of Slow, mindful luxury. It is exactly that: slow, but made to the highest quality. Patience and time is needed.

From Pompano Beach lifeguard to NatGeo filmmaker — Perrin James of Last Breath Film has filmed the first ever freediver interaction with Narwhals, survived the Amazon and the Arctic, and built Project Hiu one dive at a time.

She went to Indonesia to expose a shark fishing market. She went back to offer those men an alternative. Madison Stewart — aka Shark Girl — on Project Hiu, Valerie Taylor, and refusing to lose her ocean home. 🦈

She started as a basketball player and ended up on Harper's Bazaar covers and Paris test shoots with David Bellemere. Estonian model Karina Leps — now an agent, sometime adventurer, and aspiring stunt double — shares what it really means to feel everything deeply.