Eminem covers the up coming issue of the ILLEST hip hop print in America RESPECT MAGAZINE. Which is hugely ironic since the magazine covers artists from the view point of photographers who are of course artists as well. They are the manipulators of image and as such have huge influence in the media crazed entertainment world we live in. Although it looks like in this issue they deviated away from their photographer only format to include hip hop’s dopest white boy ever and arguably one of the best rappers alive. GET UP ON MAGIC!

“The cover sets off the stand-out issue with an image shot for us by iconic Japanese photographer, Yasuma ‘YONE’ Yonehara. This is continued inside with an exclusive 12-page shoot by YONE, featuring his signature Japanese female models in a selection of For The Homies garments.

A limited-edition poster from the shoot will be available exclusively to subscribers and readers who purchase the issue at one of the launch parties to be held in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Magazines purchased at the launches will also come in a unique ACCLAIM & FOR THE HOMIES co-branded tote bag created especially for the issue. These are strictly limited to 150 pieces worldwide*.

The issue contains the gamut of Japanese creative culture, from Cheki cameras to the nation’s unique take on denim and hamburgers. Other personalities and designers featured in the magazine include:

VERBAL & YOON of AMBUSH DESIGN

Satoshi Suzuki of Loopwheeler

Designer BIG-O of PHENOMENON and SWAGGER

Artist Hajime Sorayama

Producers and DJs DEXPISTOLS

G-Shock watch creator KIKUO IBE

Female racecar driver and designer Mai Ikuzawa

And of course our major feature on photographer YONE.

ACCLAIM is available at good newsagents, Borders and Magnation nationally. Get the rundown on our international stockists HERE.”

Giant Robot Magazine reared it’s head about 15 years ago and has been a pop cultural touchstone ever since. I grew up flipping though it’s pages, and I doubt my love for print media would be what it is today had Giant Robot never existed. It’s through it’s glossy pages that I had my first introduction to contemporary pop art, cinema, and inspiring individuals that changed my view on the world and on what I’d do with my own life. There is a time to give folks and this is one. The economy has hit print media terribly, even one as successful and diversified as Giant Robot. They need your help. If you can donate please do. LEARN MORE BELOW AND HERE! (Click This Link)

WAD is a magazine published out of Paris, France. It’s written in French and English and this issue stood out to me because it has been laid out in the most amazing way. The concept is a “Cahier de Texts” or a “Text Book” styled vibe complete with a professor’s red ink corrections. In Europe and Asia most text book paper is what we call graph paper, only overseas they use it for everything from writing to drawing to mathematics. Over the course of this 300 page volume they cover every topic in their tag line. My favorites were the Reebok Pump history, the interview with Jeff Staple and of course a little look into the process of making Japan’s Edwin jeans. Enjoy.

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Respect is the hardest thing to earn in this cannibalistic culture of ours. Every man has to be Duncan Macleod. He has to chop heads and snatch his slice of the ever diminishing cake on the table, but that’s doesn’t get him respect. Respect has to be given and earned. To do that requires one to have a spirit not of selfishness but sacrifice.  Those that receive respect and those that give it know that it’s deeper and more delicate than fear, and that makes it precious comparable to the value of love. That’s why respect and the eponymous magazine I recently copped @ Boarders is so damn fresh. In it’s pages are photos by some of hip hop’s most fantastic shooters that never made it past the editor’s table but are telling, and historic none the less. Check the excerpts from Respect’s premier issue below, it’s a spectacular magazine that you should buy two of simply because almost every page will be cut out and end up in a frame. GET UP ON MAGIC! (And check out Respect’s web site , and shout out Kris Ex the mag’s Editor on twitter if ya feel it. )

Shot Below By: Danny Clinch

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