Welcome to BLAG™, established in 1992.
Real Culture for Sophisticated Rebels and Savvy Individuals by British twins Sally A. Edwards & Sarah J. Edwards.
Available now at http://www.WeAreBLAG.com back issue rarities, art gifts, t-shirts and the 20th Anniversary Special Edition with World Exclusive cover stars Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace. Inside: An interview Battle with Chuck D interviewing Sarah vs ?uestlove interviewing Sally. Phil Frost portfolio + interview, Ioan Gruffudd essay and a whole lot more.
Enjoy,
Sally & Sarah
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Nightvision
Monday: Taiyo Yamamoto
(via handa)
“Introduction to the Pump” 48”x48”, Oil on canvas, 2013
For my upcoming show at J.Cacciola...
Optical Glass House designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & Nap in Hiroshima,Japan
Nø One London: (Next Batch)
By Sally A. Edwards, Tom Hardy & Sarah J. Edwards
Available in: Charcoal & Blood Red, White & Blood Red with inside print
Art: Map, Phrenology and Palm Reading Handprint on back.
Super Soft Organic Cotton & Bamboo
Order Deadline: 31st May / Shipping from 7th June
New Order Deadlines & Shipping Dates
Nø One London: (Next Batch)
By Sally A. Edwards, Tom Hardy & Sarah J. Edwards
Order Deadline: 31st May / Shipping from 7th June
Lucky Sevens: (Next Batch)
By Sarah J. Edwards, Tom Hardy & Sally A. Edwards
Order Deadline: 31st May / Shipping from 7th June
The Shark Shirt: (Next Batch)
By Sarah J. Edwards, Sally A. Edwards & Tom Meighan of Kasabian
Order Deadline: 10th June / Shipping from 17th June
Sophisticated Rebel Baseball Style Shirt (First Batch)
By Sally A. Edwards & Sarah J. Edwards
Order Deadline: 10th June / Shipping from 17th June
Photo: Lucky Seven’s t-shirt by Sally, Sarah + Tom Hardy. With hand signed labels from the three of us. Order here now: http://www.weareblag.com/products/blag-label-item-two
Reserve the second limited edition monthly product designed and brought to you by Sally & Sarah with Tom Hardy here.
Product details to be announced shortly.
Shipping late April.
For those who made it in to the first batch with your Nø One London t-shirt order, you’ll receive your VIP membership information and subscription invitation via email.
2012 | James McAvoy
A rare polaroid of James from a look back at our archives. See the full shoot in BLAG Vol.2 Nø 7
Limited numbers of the original cover photograph are also available to buy – approved by James with a % going to his chosen charity Oxfam.
Photography by Sarah J. Edwards
2012 | Happy Holidays & Happy New Year
Here’s a fun trailer with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Chuck D, Questlove, Sally and Sarah for the brand new App. Release date to be announced soon.
For Sophisticated Rebels and Savvy Individuals. By downloading BLAG’s iPad App, you get to experience our exclusive content in a brand new way, with a refreshed design that could never be printed. See exclusive shoots with your favourite actors and musicians. Read insightful long-form interviews, watch bonus video and listen to audio pieces. By Sally A. Edwards and Sarah J. Edwards.
•Design is bespoke, and you’ll experience the App in completely different ways — just turn the iPad around and get a whole new view.
•Tap the page and press Contents, touch the finger prints to move to the next page, scroll text, press icons for pop-up videos, photography and music.
•Enjoy dedicated horizontal and vertical designs with interactivity video, audio, slideshows, and pop-ups, with brand new text layouts.
•HTML5 searchable content
•Bookmarks
The BLAG Deluxe App was produced in QuarkXPress using Quark App Studio.
Issue Nø 2 Highlights:
— Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Bronson, Mad Max: Fury Road) in a world-exclusive shoot and 11,500 words of wisdom, jokes and inspiration, with a video outtakes.
— Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes, Prometheus) in a world-exclusive shoot and 11,500 word interview about roles, life, decisions and opinions, with video outtakes.
— See Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in a bubble bath put to the test with the BLAG word game. Click on each to reveal how they handle it.
— Artist Stuart Semple and Photographer Matt Holyoak create a BLAG girls poster. Touch the poster for a letter from the artist.
— Chuck D and ?uestlove take on each other in an interview battle, where Chuck interviews BLAG’s Sarah and ?uestlove interviews BLAG’s Sally.
— A 20 year historical BLAG journey with unseen photos, quotes, anecdotes and contributions including; Dennis Pennis, OutKast, Chad Hugo of N*E*R*D, Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four), Common, Andrew Garfield, Aaron Taylor Johnson, The Hives, Rupert Grint, Ash, Joseph Fiennes, Nelly Furtado, Amy Winehouse, The Raconteurs, Cillian Murphy and James McAvoy.
— Phil Frost breaks down his art and find some super hidden content within it.
— A-Z: Our beautiful interactive A-Z features stories including Theo Martins, The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown aka Frank Friction, Sipsmith, Richard Bull, Phil Knott, Pixel Union, Out of the Sandbox, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Rust and Bone, End of Watch, Daisuke Sakaguchi.
2012 | Stuart Semple x Matt Holyoak x BLAGgirls
To celebrate BLAG’s 20th Anniversary, Stuart Semple one of the most critically and commercially successful British Artists of the post YBA generation collaborates with one of the UKs leading celebrity portrait photographers Matt Holyoak with subjects, the BLAGgirls; Sally A. & Sarah J. Edwards to create a unique piece to coincide.
Here’s a shot of Stuart working on the piece.
2012 | BLAG 20th Anniversary | Chad Hugo of N*E*R*D
Big thanks to Chad Hugo for writing a little something for the 20th Anniversary Edition
To celebrate here’s a photo inside from Vol.2 Nø 10, enjoy.
Photography: Sarah J. Edwards - on location at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
I want to dispel that it’s all about celebrity-ism, I’m fucking bored of people looking at whose shoes are interesting and what hat is interesting. Storytelling is very important to people, it comforts them, unites us, cheers us up, we can affect change with these arts. We need to be entertained to connect…
