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Editor in Chief<br />
Assistant Editor in Chief<br />
Editorial Director<br />
Graphic Designers<br />
Photographers<br />
Creative Hand<br />
Makeup Artist<br />
Makeup Assistants<br />
Writers<br />
Contributing Artists<br />
Models<br />
Aryana Gathings<br />
Mackenzie Downs<br />
Megan Rock<br />
Devon Jefferson<br />
Jean Colangelo<br />
Kaitlin Ungs<br />
Ansar M. Smith<br />
SarahNicole<br />
Casey Hinders<br />
Malina Sos<br />
Stephanie Lieu<br />
Jamilah Moussa<br />
Megan Rock<br />
Vanessa Boreland<br />
Mia Choy<br />
Kristina Marsyla<br />
Mackenzie Downs<br />
Claire Kranto<br />
Megan Rock<br />
Mia Choy<br />
Kane Dennis<br />
Lauren Garchow<br />
Devon Jefferson<br />
Jamilah Moussa<br />
Dominic Running<br />
Taylor Samarjian<br />
Alexander Smith<br />
Chloe Wilson<br />
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Hello Reader,<br />
If you have found this publication, please know it is not by chance.<br />
This collection was made for you and every other person out there that can feel<br />
it. Now you’re asking yourself, “What are they talking about? Feel what?” I am<br />
talking about the buzz.<br />
The buzz is the frequency you surround yourself with. The<br />
energies you attract, the vibrations you extend out into the world. Think<br />
to yourself, deeply, about the haze that is your life. Are you present? Is<br />
anything holding you back? Are you living your life the way you truly<br />
want to?<br />
As you skim through these pages, we hope you’ll be mindful of the<br />
work at hand. We are The Indigo Kids, this is our collective. This is not<br />
a traditional journalistic publication. This is a collection of art and ideas<br />
expressed to you through many mediums. You can be Indigo too, for it is<br />
only a state of mind. It is a pledge to yourself, to think, speak, and live with<br />
awareness. Practicing empathy and making a true difference in the world is our<br />
goal. Every person would like to change the world, the problem? They don’t<br />
know how, not knowing is the answer lies within you. The Indigo Kids believe<br />
in a world where people are truly free. Where people are not slaves to money,<br />
insecurities or possessions. Now is the time to open your eyes and see the<br />
world for what it truly is.<br />
We channeled our creative abilities to highlight a few bits of society<br />
we deemed noteworthy for this first issue: homelessness, sustainability, inner<br />
beauty, and the consumption of technology. We are at a point in time where<br />
controversy lies around every corner. As a collective, we wanted this issue to be<br />
about uniting against animosity and negativity. We wanted to use the outlets<br />
we already love to portray these issues in a digestible manner. We want to<br />
be able to start those difficult conversations in order to enable people to talk<br />
about these issues. Without discussion, the tension grows and creates larger<br />
divides between individuals, groups, and even countries. By bringing a sense<br />
of awareness to the public by breaking down communication barriers and<br />
encouraging others to open their minds we believe we can create unity<br />
and respect.<br />
Thinking, speaking and living with awareness is our goal, and we<br />
can only hope to make it more attainable everyday.<br />
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Staff<br />
Opener<br />
Halloween 2016<br />
Sound Bites by M. Downs<br />
The Heartbeat of the City<br />
An Artist’s Corner Collective<br />
For the Humans by K. Marsyla<br />
Artist’s Corner<br />
The Divided States of America by M. Choy and A. Gathings<br />
Modern Masquerade<br />
Peace, Love, & Hollywood Boulevard<br />
Elements & Inner Beauty<br />
The Good Kind of Black<br />
Public Service Announcement<br />
Special Thanks<br />
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THE INDIGO KIDS<br />
Your life will change significantly once<br />
you stop absorbing the frequencies<br />
around you and begin to emit your own;<br />
be yourself.<br />
Aryana Gathings, 23,<br />
Minneapolis, MN.<br />
I have a lot to learn, and the world has<br />
a lot to teach me. But so far in my short<br />
life, I have learned that acceptance is key.<br />
We don’t all have to think, feel, act the<br />
same; we just have to understand that<br />
our way isn’t the only way.<br />
Mackenzie Downs, 23<br />
Lino Lakes, MN.<br />
and succeed in ways you could have<br />
never imagined.<br />
SarahNicole, 21<br />
Palm Desert, CA.<br />
Reach for your dreams & never look<br />
back; but don’t forget to check up on<br />
your loved ones along the way<br />
Casey Hinders, 22<br />
Coeur D Alene, ID.<br />
Accept what is, let go of what was and<br />
have faith in what will be.<br />
Malina Sos, 21,<br />
Laguna Hills, CA.<br />
My life philosophy is that the energy you<br />
exude into the world will make it’s way<br />
back to you. Be considerate and<br />
be bright!<br />
Mia Choy, 19<br />
Irvine, CA.<br />
It’s a beautiful day out, get on your<br />
bikes and ride! There is nothing more<br />
rewarding than working hard to earn<br />
your pay. Don’t waste what little time on<br />
this planet you have.<br />
Kane Dennis, 28<br />
Indianola, IA.<br />
Everything that happens, happens in<br />
God’s plan. And I will go though I do<br />
not know the way.<br />
Megan Rock, 23<br />
Eden Prairie, MN.<br />
I think, so therefore I am. I may, before<br />
I can.<br />
Devon Jefferson, 22<br />
Aurora, CO.<br />
Continue to learn, continue to question.<br />
Jean Colangelo, 22<br />
Northfield, MN.<br />
Go play outside.<br />
Kaitlin Ungs, 23<br />
Marion, IA.<br />
The absurd is what brings me joy.<br />
The intricacies of visual art holds my<br />
ambition. The fear of failure stimulates<br />
my imagination.<br />
Ansar M. Smith, 19<br />
Los Angeles, CA.<br />
In order to be truly successful you need<br />
3 things. 1) Confident identity through<br />
Jesus Christ. 2) A continuous desire to<br />
grow and learn. 3) A strong and guarded<br />
heart. I believe by mastering these ideals<br />
you can accomplish your hearts desires<br />
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I live by Tupac’s words of, “If you can’t<br />
find sum one to live for,you best find<br />
sum one to die for.”<br />
Stephanie Lieu, 20<br />
Santa Ana, CA<br />
What goes around comes around.<br />
Kristina Marsyla, 24<br />
Burnsville , MN.<br />
They day you stop caring about what<br />
people think of you is the day you<br />
become immortal.<br />
Vanessa K. Boreland 22<br />
Minneapolis, MN.<br />
Be the change you want to see in the<br />
world. Follow your heart and your<br />
passions. Life will be filled with struggle,<br />
but stay true to who you are and what<br />
you believe in and you will make it<br />
through. You won’t be here forever, so<br />
enjoy every moment you have on this<br />
planet and surround yourself with the<br />
people you love most.<br />
Claire Kranto, 23<br />
Cedar Rapids, IA.<br />
Live life with compassion, and advocate<br />
for those who suffer from the injustices<br />
that exist in our society.<br />
Lauren Garchow, 22<br />
Grand Rapids, MI.<br />
I believe life is about breaking clichés.<br />
When someone tells you to jump, get up<br />
take a damn swim.<br />
Jamilah Moussa<br />
Rochester, NY.<br />
Just merely a cockroach in society.<br />
Dominic Running, 23<br />
Eagan, MN.<br />
Just ride the wave.<br />
Taylor M Samarjian, 20<br />
Huntington Beach, CA.<br />
Life’s a bitch and then you die.<br />
Alexander Smith, 24<br />
Gilbert, IA.<br />
Life is a beautiful thing that is meant<br />
to be lived with a happy heart. Take<br />
chances, make mistakes and grow. Spend<br />
no time hating people for being different<br />
individuals and more time loving and<br />
accepting all.
Top (Left to Right)<br />
Dress: Asylum by Liz Moerer<br />
Top: Asylum by Liz Moerer<br />
Skirt: Asylum by Liz Moerer<br />
Dress: Josefina Avalos<br />
Vest: Vintage<br />
Bottom (Left to Right)<br />
Jacket: Loser Machine Company<br />
Shirt: East/West Shop<br />
Top (Left to Right)<br />
Shirt: Model’s Own<br />
Jeans: Levi’s<br />
Top: Vintage<br />
Cuff: Marilou<br />
Bottom (Left to Right)<br />
Dress: Josefina Avalos<br />
Vest: Vintage<br />
Jacket: Loser Machine Company<br />
Shirt: Vintage<br />
Jeans: Levi’s<br />
Jacket: East/West Shop<br />
Shirt: Vintage<br />
Jeans: Levi’s<br />
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(Left to Right)<br />
Dress: Honey Punch<br />
Shirt: Vintage<br />
Jeans: Levi’s<br />
Cuff: Marilou<br />
Dress: Asylum by Liz Moerer<br />
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OUND<br />
BITES<br />
Mackenzie Downs<br />
Emotions are hard to gauge. As basic of a statement this<br />
is, it’s true. Often emotions get tied up in things and<br />
places where they have no right to exist. Remember that<br />
first breakup? Maybe it was in middle school, or maybe<br />
you were 30 when it happened. Regardless of the details,<br />
there are some things about it you just don’t forget.<br />
Things like the break-up song. A song with the power to<br />
capture all the negativity surrounding a breakup into just<br />
one hook; think “IDFWU.” In hindsight, it’s easy to<br />
look back and think, “Why did I have to play this song<br />
53 times in one night?!” But in that breakup moment,<br />
and the never-ending days that followed, what was it<br />
about that song, whatever it may have been, that carried<br />
you through heartache?<br />
This article is about that song saved just for the days you<br />
feel like having a serious dance session during morning<br />
traffic? It could be the sound of the song, or maybe the<br />
catchy lyrics that really start the day off exactly how you<br />
want it to.<br />
Writing is an art, and song writing is possibly the most<br />
relatable branch of art on the tree of words. Musicians<br />
pour their souls into a song, capturing the exact pain,<br />
joy and love they feel and have felt, blasting it out into<br />
the universe, not knowing whether anyone will hear<br />
it or not. The notes and words float into the ear of the<br />
listener, emotionally charged, begging to be heard and<br />
understood. Sometimes the song will strike gold, making<br />
its way into just the right person’s brain, speaking<br />
directly to the soul.<br />
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The relationship between a song and a person goes two<br />
ways. Sometimes a song can be picked out of the pool<br />
of millions for a specific purpose. Pump up music for<br />
the pregame or acoustic indie because the words are just<br />
right. Other times, the opposite happens. Emotions can<br />
be manipulated by the song that happened to play. A<br />
song holds the power to instantly change the mood of a<br />
crowded room.<br />
Open up the browse page in Spotify and a seemingly<br />
endless options of playlists sprout up. A playlist for a<br />
pool party or songs heard in coffee shops or for songs<br />
when you are feeling blue. All these songs are categorized<br />
into playlists based on the mood invoked by the tune,<br />
lyrics, and instrumentals. Of course, there are wellstudied<br />
explanations between the various attributes of<br />
THERE’S NO DENYING<br />
THE POTENTIAL INFLUENCE<br />
A SONG CAN HAVE<br />
OVER SOMEONE<br />
music and how they affect human emotions. A fast or<br />
slow tempo, loudness, melody, all influence human<br />
feelings. But even without a formal education in music<br />
and psychology, the connection between listener and<br />
song shines through all types of weather.<br />
Whether a song inspires a new project or career change,<br />
sends a message when the speaker may not have the<br />
courage to speak it out loud. Saves a life; there’s no<br />
denying the potential influence a song can have over<br />
someone.The emotions that become connected to a song<br />
can live there forever with no penalties or consequences.<br />
With song, all emotions are right at home.<br />
A song, in a moment of sadness or desperation, can feel<br />
like a friend. A friend with empathy and understanding<br />
that will never leave you.<br />
A song can replenish a defeated soul with energy<br />
and life, inspiring a new project, a career change, an<br />
emotional epiphany.<br />
A song can send a message that a person may not<br />
have the courage to speak out loud. A song can build<br />
relationships. Think of all the suitors who have ever held<br />
a boombox under the window of their crush.<br />
A song, on every Monday morning to come, has the<br />
potential to put some pep in the step of the<br />
working class.<br />
A song can save a life. Let that sink in.<br />
A song can save a life.<br />
Often emotions get tied up in things and places where<br />
they have no right to exist. But sometimes they get tied<br />
up in all the right places. The emotions that become<br />
connected to a song can live there forever with no<br />
penalties or consequences. With song, all emotions are<br />
right at home.<br />
Find your safe haven in music. Spread it around. Build<br />
relationships. Teach someone. Use it as therapy. Support<br />
independent artists.<br />
Never forget that you can always find a friend in music.<br />
Festering in old wounds and tainting memories of<br />
something, or someone, you once loved.<br />
A song that captures all the negative emotions<br />
surrounding a break up and triggers both misery in the<br />
past and power in the future.<br />
I don’t care what artist corner front<br />
you say anymore<br />
well I’ve been afraid of changing<br />
this is my life<br />
cause I’ve built my life around you<br />
but time makes you bolder<br />
go ahead with your own life<br />
children get older<br />
and leave me alone<br />
and I’m getting older too<br />
billy joel<br />
fleetwood mac<br />
all these places have their moments<br />
with lovers and friends, I still can recall<br />
some are dead and some are living<br />
in my life, I’ve loved them all<br />
the beatles<br />
there’s beauty<br />
in the struggle<br />
ugliness in the success<br />
j. cole<br />
don’t let me show cruelty though<br />
I may make mistakes<br />
don’t let me show ugliness though<br />
I know I can hate<br />
and don’t let me show evil<br />
though it may be all I take<br />
show me love<br />
show me love<br />
show me love<br />
hundred waters<br />
there’s gotta be<br />
more to life<br />
than chasing down<br />
every temporary high<br />
to satisfy me<br />
stacie orrico<br />
i hope you learn to<br />
make it on your own<br />
and if you<br />
love yourself<br />
just know you’ll<br />
never<br />
be alone<br />
big sean<br />
as life gets longer,<br />
awful feels softer<br />
well it feels pretty soft to me<br />
and if it takes shit to make bliss<br />
then I feel pretty blissfully<br />
modest mouse<br />
all I want for you is to be happy<br />
and take this moment<br />
and make you my family<br />
and finally you have found<br />
something perfect<br />
the red hot chili peppers<br />
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FOR THE HUMANS<br />
The concept of being present is a<br />
strange one. How many times per<br />
day are you simultaneously juggling<br />
multiple tasks at once? When was<br />
the last time you can remember just<br />
doing one thing and focusing all of<br />
your attention on it? Take a moment<br />
to gain a sense of awareness in your<br />
life. Where is your body? Is it in the<br />
same place as your mind?<br />
Most of us are distracted by<br />
something almost always, whether<br />
it is our multiple social media pages<br />
or the huge pile of laundry sitting<br />
at home. Our minds drift off, they<br />
need to be constantly entertained<br />
or distracted from reality, letting<br />
boredom or anxiety take us away<br />
from the moment. But what is wrong<br />
with the present? The present is the<br />
moment you are in right now, yet we<br />
are always trying to save it for later,<br />
or worse, for somebody else.<br />
Watching the sunset after a long day,<br />
THERE IS AN INVISIBLE<br />
SENSE OF VALIDATION<br />
THAT WE CRAVE<br />
FROM OTHERS<br />
you find yourself in this moment<br />
and think “what a beautiful life I<br />
have”. However, there is something<br />
in us that wants to remove us from<br />
that and snap a photo for all to see.<br />
It is no longer your moment, for it<br />
has passed, and all you have is a low<br />
resolution photo. You post this photo<br />
online and the “likes” start swirling<br />
around you. “My friends like me,”<br />
you think. However, you knew they<br />
liked you before your social media<br />
post, didn’t you? There is an invisible<br />
sense of validation that we crave from<br />
others. Our self-esteem fluctuates due<br />
to this new drug called, “likes,” and<br />
our constant need to serve others.<br />
What happens when the attention<br />
stops coming your way and your<br />
self-worth plummets to an all time<br />
low? You look in the mirror and feel<br />
overweight, sad, ugly, lonely, and<br />
worthless. The negativity comes at<br />
you to the point where you can’t take<br />
it anymore. What you do not know<br />
OUR SELF ESTEEM<br />
FLUCTUATES DUE TO THIS<br />
NEW DRUG CALLED “LIKES”<br />
is that you are not your thoughts.<br />
Just because you think something<br />
about yourself does not mean that it<br />
is true. These thoughts are what keep<br />
us from reaching our full potential.<br />
Is it then you decide that change<br />
must happen in your life? You think<br />
to yourself, “I want to grow! I want<br />
to learn! I want to be me again.”<br />
Your spirit is strong and willing,<br />
but your flesh is weak. It is easy to<br />
say you will be better, but to do is a<br />
commitment to yourself that takes<br />
time and discipline. Change seems<br />
so fun, it’s a new beginning. What<br />
you do not realize is true growth is<br />
not always an easy route. You wake<br />
up the next morning thinking you<br />
are a new person. You see a homeless<br />
person on the street and give them<br />
a dollar;, you’re a new person now<br />
so you strike up a conversation with<br />
them. They tell you about their<br />
hardships and your true self feels for<br />
this person, so you buy them a meal.<br />
At the end of the encounter, you ask<br />
to take a photo with them and post<br />
it on social media with a sweet little<br />
caption about what happened. The<br />
moment is no longer yours. People<br />
begin to like and comment like crazy,<br />
“you are so nice” “so giving,” “so<br />
understanding.” Your self validation<br />
returns and you think, “I don’t know<br />
what I was tripping about,” and the<br />
cycle goes on.<br />
Now is the time to commit and show<br />
up for yourself every day. Open up<br />
to your inner self that does what they<br />
want regardless of the approval of<br />
their friends or family. This is where<br />
you will find purpose and presence.<br />
Believe in yourself, ruthlessly and<br />
fearlessly, and your validation will<br />
be clear.<br />
KRISTINA MARSYLA<br />
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RTIST’S<br />
ORNER<br />
AARON DEL ROSARIO<br />
HOMETOWN LAKEWOOD, CA.<br />
AGE 27<br />
INDIGO What is your biggest goal in terms of your<br />
art right now? Do you have a message that you want to<br />
send with it? Do you just want people to see it?<br />
AARON I’m curating these art shows. I have done my<br />
third one, and I want to continue to curate art shows.<br />
Finding young and older talent that wouldn’t necessarily<br />
go out and show their stuff. But I meet them through<br />
friendship, not necessarily through art. And I find out<br />
like, “Oh, you do art too, that’s cool,” regardless if I<br />
liked their stuff or I didn’t. I would find that message<br />
that they’re kind of trying to give out; so I would create<br />
their shows. My long term goal is to make more shows,<br />
and then eventually bridge out, I want to go to Austin,<br />
Texas, New York, and then slowly bring it to LA we are<br />
Orange County based right now.<br />
INDIGO Would you say that you are trying to create a<br />
solid group of young artists you can collaborate with?<br />
THE APPAREL FIELD<br />
AFFECTS MY PERSONAL<br />
TASTE - I’M HEAVILY<br />
INFLUENCED BY STUFF<br />
THAT SELLS<br />
AARON Definitely, I mean, I feel like every single<br />
person can bring something specifically talented to a<br />
certain group that can make it a super group. Versus you,<br />
that is really strong in one area, but can’t really make it<br />
all the way to the top on your own.<br />
INDIGO Do you think that working in the apparel<br />
field kind of helps you in your personal work, because<br />
you kind of know how a market works and what people<br />
will respond to?<br />
AARON I think it does because I know what the<br />
market wants and kind of understanding what the<br />
consumer wants. But at the same time, it kind of, it<br />
affects my personal taste and my personal creativity<br />
cause I’m heavily influenced by stuff that sells or stuff<br />
that people like. Vice that I didn’t have a job in the field<br />
and I would just create stuff for what I liked. But I think<br />
it does help. That way people understand what I think.<br />
I’m not 100 percent creative like I used to be, in my own<br />
personal way.<br />
NIKI NEWMAN<br />
HOMETOWN GALT, CA.<br />
AGE 24<br />
INDIGO How did you start your career and what<br />
made you want to go into your field?<br />
NIKI Well, I think it was when I wanted to be a model.<br />
That’s what’s my main thing, and why I came down to<br />
LA to pursue school in fashion and model on the side.<br />
When I began modeling, it put me in perspective the<br />
industry, what’s going on from the inside. I started realizing<br />
holes in the how the industry is viewing beauty. So<br />
it made me want to pursue, let’s say a career in fashion to<br />
change the industry. The industry standards just weren’t<br />
there for me because their expectations are unrealistic.<br />
INDIGO What inspired you to begin Miss Kerve?<br />
NIKI I started looking back at my work as a model and<br />
clothes just weren’t fitting me right at all. They would be<br />
pinning me and padding me to make things fit. Because<br />
I just wasn’t either a sample size or normal size or plus<br />
size. They would pad like your chest and your back.<br />
They would just make you more curvy, basically, if I<br />
weren’t curvy enough or plus size enough. So, I wasn’t<br />
straight size. I wasn’t skinny enough to be in straight<br />
size, and I wasn’t big enough to be in plus size. So, I was<br />
right in between. And, there wasn’t clothing there, there<br />
was a gap in the market. Clothing just wasn’t easy for me<br />
to access at all.<br />
INDIGO Do you know what percent of women are<br />
in-betweenies? Like fall between that.<br />
NIKI There’s 75 percent of women that are size 12<br />
through 14. So, we capitalized on this woman and created<br />
a new of sample size instead of the industry sample<br />
EVERYBODY IS BEAUTIFUL<br />
size. And give her two options up and down in the size<br />
range and kind of is where we got sizes 8 through 16.<br />
INDIGO What is your biggest goal with Miss Kerve?<br />
NIKI I think it would just be to to set a new industry<br />
standard that beauty is everybody. Everybody has a body<br />
and everybody is beautiful. If we can get that message<br />
across that they are beautiful with or without it, then<br />
it’s a win for us. If only your eyes saw souls instead of<br />
bodies, how different our ideals of beauty would be.<br />
FEATURED ARTIST<br />
BRIAN PETERSON<br />
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AGE 29<br />
HOMETOWN MIAMI, FL.<br />
INDIGO Could you talk a little bit about how “Faces<br />
of Santa Ana” itself got started and how you decided to<br />
start working with that project?<br />
BRIAN It’s funny I was sitting, I think, right here. I<br />
was sitting on the couch reading a book called, “Love<br />
Does,” and the book is about just showing unconditional<br />
love to your neighbors. And there would always be this<br />
guy at the base of the building, screaming to the top of<br />
his lungs, just as loud as he can. And me and Vanessa<br />
[WIFE] would always say, “there’s the screaming guy<br />
again.” But in the midst of reading this book and talking<br />
about loving your neighbor I started to realize, “whoa,<br />
that’s my neighbor, and I don’t even know his name.”<br />
So, one day after work, I just made a commitment just<br />
to look for him and find him and I found him one day<br />
and sat down next to him on the sidewalk. And then<br />
just started out just asking his name and where he’s<br />
from, and, that turned into like there was just this just<br />
draw on my heart to just ask him to paint his portrait.<br />
I hadn’t been actively painting. It was just something,<br />
like his story, his face, was so powerful. He carried his<br />
story on his face. I just asked to paint him, and he said,<br />
“yes.” I never knew it would turn into this. I just wanted<br />
to paint his portrait to like put it in my house. But then<br />
someone wanted to buy it. So, I was like, “Okay, maybe<br />
I can use my talents to um give back to the community.”<br />
It’s funny because it started, like, I look back now, and it<br />
started with the annoyance of someone screaming, day<br />
in and day out, but that annoyance turned into like an<br />
opportunity and a call on my life to get out there and<br />
do something.<br />
INDIGO Do you want to talk about what you do for<br />
the people that you paint, and kind of the charitable<br />
side of it?<br />
BRIAN Yes, the charitable side to Faces of Santa Ana.<br />
WHEN I SEE WHO<br />
THEY ARE IN<br />
CONVERSATION,<br />
I START IMAGINING<br />
COLORS<br />
But before that, I think there is a relational side, there’s a<br />
friendship side. I try to do my best. It’s really hard to stay<br />
friends with everybody and consistently meet with them<br />
day in and day out. But I strive to, I want to. And, so,<br />
that’s the first side of it. And then the other side of it is<br />
after I paint their portraits, I sell the portraits for $1500<br />
and $1000 of that goes into what I call a “love account.”<br />
And then we are able to use that money to help them<br />
out. So, we’ve been able to do really cool things.<br />
INDIGO Is there a trust and perspective kind of<br />
barrier when first interacting with a lot of the people<br />
that you first meet?<br />
BRIAN Yeah, what I’ve found through experience is<br />
that people experiencing homelessness have very little<br />
trust for anyone anymore. They’re sleeping out here, and<br />
their stuff gets stolen multiple times a week. So, you<br />
know, they’ve had a lot of organizations try to help, but<br />
nothing has come through. So, they’ve just given up.<br />
They’ve given up on people. And so when I meet them, I<br />
have to somehow convince them that, “no, no, I’m really<br />
going to paint your portrait.” *laughing* And it’s so<br />
cool because,I don’t think trust is built until the portrait<br />
is revealed, and they’re like, “wow, he actually did it.”<br />
Yeah, that moment when they’re like, “whoa, he actually<br />
painted it,”. And then when it sells and, “he actually has<br />
a thousand dollars to help me” you know, so, there is a<br />
level of art being the barrier that breaks down the walls.<br />
In a lot of ways, these paintings are an embodiment of<br />
trust because I’ve followed through on what I’d say I<br />
would do.<br />
INDIGO How do you balance Faces of Santa Ana and<br />
your day job?<br />
BRIAN ’m still figuring that out. It’s, it’s crazy because,<br />
I always have to remind myself, these are relationships,<br />
right? And just like a marriage or a relationship<br />
between your mother or father, there are times when<br />
the relationships need more work and there are times<br />
when they just kind of flow better, right? So, there<br />
HOWEVER YOU LOVE,<br />
SHOW THAT TO<br />
EVERYONE YOU<br />
COME ACROSS<br />
will be times when I’m at work and someone that I’ve<br />
painted either needs help or needs emotional support.<br />
Sometimes I just walk away from my desk, go outside<br />
for a minute and give them call, you know? It’s never<br />
the same. Some days it’s really easy, some days it, like,<br />
bombards you all at once. But I think that’s just life.<br />
That’s part of it, you know? So, I’ve just been working<br />
on shifting my perspective, and understanding that that’s<br />
how it’s gonna be.<br />
INDIGO Do you have a specific instance in Faces of<br />
Santa Ana that you believe directly affects the way you<br />
paint the portraits?<br />
BRIAN I think it’s when I find out who they are at<br />
first. I have to add that “at first,” because usually once<br />
I start talking to them, you can kind of see how the<br />
intended person.. Like are some are very alive and loud,<br />
sometimes the women will be different, and it’s just<br />
like, when I start to see who they are in conversation, I<br />
already start, like, imagining colors. Like, there’s a guy<br />
I meet in the park in the morning, and I can’t wait to<br />
paint him because I already know what colors I want to<br />
do. So, I think it’s when I get to know them, annd what’s<br />
cool is that, as the relationships grow and foster, just like<br />
anything, you get to know them more. And sometimes<br />
I’ll look back at the painting, and I’ll say, “yeah, that is<br />
them.” You know, like, that’s how they actually are, now<br />
that I’ve known them for six months, you know?” Yeah,<br />
so, I think it starts when I start knowing who they are.<br />
INDIGO Do you think art in your life directly affects<br />
different issues in the world?<br />
BRIAN I look at my art as an expression of love. And<br />
I say that because, you know, if you go to my father’s<br />
house in Miami, he has a lot of my art on the wall, art<br />
from high school and college because I love my father,<br />
and so, I give my art as an expression of my love, right?<br />
So, when I’m out here meeting people on the streets, I<br />
just try to find a way to love them. Just like I’d give a<br />
painting to my dad, I say “hey, like the way I love people<br />
is with my art. So, I want to paint you.” So, I just hope<br />
that my art spreads love. And what I’ve found is that it<br />
spreads love to the person when the painting is finished.<br />
It also spreads love to the buyer, whoever purchases<br />
the piece cause they seeing like, “I’ve never looked at<br />
the homeless this way, you know? I’ve always had my<br />
preconceived ideas of who they are, but somehow they<br />
are so colorful, and I can kind of see them that way now,<br />
you know.” And, so, yeah. I think, I think for me, art is<br />
love. That’s, I mean, that’s, at the very basic root in my<br />
life, that’s how I see my art.<br />
INDIGO This is going to be printed for whomever to<br />
see. Is there anything you want to tell whomever is going<br />
to read The Indigo Kids?<br />
BRIAN Yes. I would say that we are all born with the<br />
capacity to show love. You know, I think that is innate<br />
in all of us. We are born with that inside of us, right?<br />
And, um, mine happens to be painting, some others may<br />
be cooking, some others may be clothing/fashion, you<br />
know, we are all capable of showing love. So, I would<br />
just encourage everybody to spread that love. I think<br />
that’s why we are here. You know, I heard once that, uh,<br />
we look at our bodies, and things are meant to come out<br />
of our bodies. Words, sweat, tears. We are supposed to<br />
expel things out of us. And one of those is love. That’s<br />
the first one, right? So, however you love, show that to<br />
everyone you come across. That’s what I’d say.<br />
BACKGROUND: CINDY FRANZ<br />
PAINTED BY BRAIN PETERSON
DIVIDED STATES<br />
OF AMERICA<br />
THE<br />
Left to Right:<br />
Kimono: East/West Shop<br />
Jeans: Levis<br />
Top: Nudist LA<br />
Pants: Nudist LA<br />
Jacket: Vintage Christian Dior<br />
Shorts: Levis<br />
Mia Choy & Aryana Gathings<br />
Can you hear that?<br />
The distant, faint buzz in the air. Always there, pestering<br />
you in class, at work, at the supermarket. Following you<br />
everywhere. Driving you mad, urging you to stop in the<br />
middle of a busy street, get out of the car and scream,<br />
“SILENCE!” Want to know what that buzz is? It’s the<br />
sound of a woman wailing because her child was gunned<br />
down by a police officer on their way home from school<br />
today. A fire crackling in the distance due to gang related<br />
activity. A rope snapping tightly as another transgender<br />
person commits suicide because they are alone, rejected<br />
by the people that at one point loved and accepted them.<br />
It’s the laughter in a schoolyard as the children taunt a<br />
muslim student for wearing a hijab. That buzz in the<br />
background of your life, your beautiful, loving, coddled<br />
and privileged life, is hate.<br />
We are going to break this down a few notches so that<br />
we can get to the bottom of hatred. To so deeply loathe<br />
someone doesn’t equate hate. Just like there are different<br />
ways to love somebody, there are different ways to<br />
hate as well. Rejection is the elephant in the room I’m<br />
referring to. Often there is an ambient “us against them”<br />
mentality. With so much change stemming across the<br />
nation it’s easier than ever to feel uneasy and unprepared.<br />
Who knows what lies ahead?<br />
The future remains undetermined, but why not try and<br />
create an embracing and bright environment to help<br />
invoke change rather than turning a cold shoulder and<br />
narrowing our compassion? In this day and age, we are<br />
striving to move closer and closer to equality and freedom<br />
in all aspects of life. We’re trying to live and create a<br />
nation without gender biases, sexual stereotyping, racial<br />
inequality and prejudices, and severe economic class<br />
differences instead of creating a stampede in a negative<br />
way. As long as these unjust emotions of fear of what we<br />
do not understand and transparent threat to change are<br />
alive, for example money means more than humility, and<br />
biology and personal interests are judged and ridiculed,<br />
there will be no change. If the fear of change, of equality,<br />
of respect, of love, feeds the horrendous divide between<br />
us, we will never be satisfied. Simply put, one does not<br />
DON’T STAND SILENT TO INJUSTICES; WITNESSING<br />
A CRIME AND REMAINING A BYSTANDER IS JUST AS<br />
HARMFUL AS COMMITTING THE CRIME ITSELF.<br />
have to emit hate to be hateful, standing in silence in<br />
a time of injustice reflects as much negativity. Turn the<br />
other cheek, it’s not your business anyway, right? Hate is<br />
a word that is closely associated with evil. The truth of<br />
the matter is, the more hate is a breeding ground for evil<br />
and the more it spreads, the more places evil can find a<br />
place to call home.<br />
for someone else to put it out? It is hard to determine<br />
which evil is more predominant in our society but<br />
having both evils at play is definite. The issue is not our<br />
differences that make us unique. The lack of support and<br />
love we have for one another will lead to our demise.<br />
This day in age, it seems there is much more hate than<br />
love. Is it a failure to change perspective? A fear or threat<br />
to your own outlook? Maybe it’s due to an innocent ignorance?<br />
Whatever the case may be, we need to change,<br />
open our minds, broaden our perspectives, and communicate<br />
with peers, acquaintances, and strangers alike.<br />
Be mindful of those around you, try to show respect<br />
for every being, regardless of their cultural values. What<br />
we emit into the world is returned back. Don’t stand<br />
silent to injustices; witnessing a crime and remaining<br />
a bystander is just as harmful as committing the crime<br />
itself. Every voice matters. Every mind is powerful. You<br />
have the ability to harness and release as much positivity<br />
as you can evil. Don’t stand down to something as<br />
fundamental as equality. Equality not just for all races,<br />
religions, genders, or even social classes. Equality for<br />
every mind and soul-inhabiting body. Equality for those<br />
who never thought they could shine as bright as their<br />
hearts imagined.<br />
Are you an evil? If so, which one? An inflictor, spreading<br />
negativity into the world like wildfire? Or a spectator of<br />
evil? watching the world burn while the arsonists run<br />
free, while you watch the flames grow and silently wait<br />
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Jacket: Vintage Christian Dior<br />
Top: Nudist LA<br />
Pants: Nudist LA<br />
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Top: Nudist LA<br />
Pants: Nudist LA<br />
Vest: Vintage<br />
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&<br />
Peace, LOVE<br />
Hollywood Boulevard<br />
ELSA AKA @AMAZZONKAANE<br />
AGE 22 / REDDING, CT.<br />
JOHN BUCKNER<br />
AGE 51 / LOS ANGELES, CA.<br />
INDIGO What kind of brought you in this work?<br />
ELSA A really bad breakup, I started doing Elsa a year<br />
ago just when I was living in Boston. Just a way to cope<br />
from a bad breakup. I love the design, it was still popular<br />
after two years. This movie, the song, and I wanted to<br />
be Elsa for somebody. I wanted to bring someone a lot<br />
of joy. I had my Elsa costume with me, I needed a tailor,<br />
found one on Hollywood Boulevard, and then I saw<br />
all these characters walking around. So, I asked if you<br />
needed a permit, I was told you didn’t, so I thought I’d<br />
give it a try. The rest is history.<br />
INDIGO Do you do this full time?<br />
ELSA I do, this is my full time job as of right now.<br />
I also do parties, I do extra work. I love what I do, it<br />
offers me a lot of control. As opposed to something like<br />
the Disney parks where you really have to follow their<br />
interpretation of the character, their costume design.<br />
And I find you get a lot of control out here. It’s a great<br />
creative outlet.<br />
INDIGO Is there anything that you want to tell<br />
the world about your life philosophy? About being a<br />
character? About being an artist?<br />
ELSA I would say do it for the right reasons. Do it<br />
because you love it. A lot of people see Hollywood as<br />
a way to get out of a bad life, or a way to make a lot of<br />
money, or a way to get status. But I find that the people<br />
who do make it quote-unquote are the people who do it<br />
because they really want to be here. Who are persistent,<br />
because it takes on average ten years, the statistic I’ve<br />
heard from teachers, classmates, people in the industry,<br />
to that to really be successful.<br />
FREDDY KRUEGER<br />
ITALY<br />
INDIGO And how long have you been out here,<br />
Freddy Kruger?<br />
FREDDY About four years<br />
INDIGO Do you do this full-time?<br />
FREDDY Full time, if I can, yes. As much as I can.<br />
INDIGO Why have you chosen this occupation?<br />
FREDDY I like it. It makes me feel good.<br />
INDIGO When you’re out here do you get a lot of<br />
traffic? Do people really respond well to the Freddy<br />
Krueger character?<br />
FREDDY Sometimes. it’s a very good character. It<br />
depends how you do it. It depends very much how I do<br />
it. If I’m happy, I get good pictures. If I’m not happy, I<br />
kind of push people away.<br />
INDIGO Do have any long term goals with this? How<br />
far do you want to take this Freddy Kruger character?<br />
FREDDY I want to make it as perfect as I can. And<br />
I want to feel as happy as I can. This is a way for me to<br />
feel as I always wanted to feel. When I take my mask off<br />
I lose- unfortunately, I lose 80 percent of my happiness.<br />
Yeah, I go back to uh, pay the rent, this and that.<br />
Trouble with this, trouble with that. But when I do this,<br />
everything disappears. This is my happy place. So, if I<br />
can- my goal is to be happy, as I am happy when<br />
I do Freddy.<br />
INDIGO So, this is your escape from real life? This<br />
is what-<br />
FREDDY Uh- this is how I want to feel everyday. I<br />
want to be happy, I wanna do jokes, I wanna have fun.<br />
I wanna, you know? It’s like being high, but without<br />
any drugs. I do it for myself, okay? When I do it good,<br />
people come around me. That’s what I’m looking for,<br />
energy attracts people<br />
INDIGO I just wanted to know, how did you get<br />
started with your balloon art?<br />
JOHN 25 years ago I was a pastry chef and a chef and<br />
I had to walk away from it. I started doing balloons and<br />
25 years later I was named the #1 balloon guy in LA and<br />
doing balloons ever since<br />
INDIGO You said that you do this all over the place-<br />
what’s the most, like, famous thing that you’ve probably<br />
done? Or do you have any, like, significant achievements<br />
in balloons?<br />
JOHN I’m known for my imagination, but I did do a<br />
six-foot princess in Hollywood here, a few years ago. It<br />
was life-size and stood almost six feet tall. Took me four<br />
hours to do it, but I did do it!<br />
INDIGO Do you have any goals that you feel like you<br />
haven’t accomplished yet in balloons?<br />
JOHN No, just bring out a new movie and I’ll make<br />
them! So, I have an imagination- there is nothing I can<br />
not make! I’ve been doing this for almost 25 years. So,<br />
there’s really nothing I haven’t accomplished with these<br />
balloons. It’s just, like I said, a new movie’s coming out-<br />
making the balloons for those movies, and like I said,<br />
bring it on. I’ll make it!<br />
STEPHEN JONES<br />
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVART.<br />
INDIGO Alright Stephen, and what’re you doing out<br />
here today?<br />
STEPHEN I’m selling art, spreading awareness,<br />
opening people’s eyes to the political times that we have<br />
right now. Well, I was originally selling my artwork<br />
somewhere politically conscious themed and I had<br />
people wanting to take pictures with certain pieces of<br />
mine. And I uh started to sell the pictures and also<br />
display them as a sort of impromptu gallery, on the<br />
boulevard.<br />
INDIGO How long have you been doing this for?<br />
STEPHEN I’ve only been doing this about a week. I<br />
normally play music here on the boulevard, I’m also a<br />
drummer.<br />
INDIGO What kinds of messages are you trying to<br />
display with this artwork? What are you trying to tell<br />
people?<br />
STEPHEN I’m not trying to instill any type of<br />
hostility or any type of extremism in thoughts and<br />
beliefs. Just basically I like seeing people’s reactions,<br />
making people laugh, making people smile. Some people<br />
get angered, which is also extracting an emotion from<br />
them, which is I think a principal value of art.<br />
INDIGO Is there anything else that you want to say<br />
about art? About social issues? That you wanna like<br />
explain to the world?<br />
S: I think art is extremely powerful in this day and<br />
we’re a very reactive society. We are a very fast society.<br />
We make impressions upon images and statements-<br />
sometimes a little bit too much. We can be a little too<br />
vulnerable, but it’s important that our first amendment<br />
rights are always exercised and more is gained when<br />
people speak, and speak their mind. Whether it be<br />
believed or not- It’s a very important aspect and function<br />
of society. And I’m happy to be a part of doing it.<br />
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ZORRO<br />
AGE 28 / SPAIN.<br />
INDIGO What brought you out to Hollywood<br />
Boulevard to do this?<br />
ZORRO Actually I work in the film industry. You<br />
know, I do music and production. So, I thought that<br />
I want to do something like entertaining, you know?<br />
Something like part-time? So, I was here one day, I was<br />
walking around. I said well that looks like fun, you<br />
know? Which I thought, which kind of character can I<br />
play? I thought, well I am Hispanic, Zorro. I’m gonna<br />
play Zorro in LA.<br />
INDIGO Is there anything you want to tell the world<br />
about art? About the world in general? Anything about<br />
your life philosophy that you feel like you should share?<br />
ZORRO Here, you come to LA, you work your ass off,<br />
you know? You will make it happen. Maybe it will take<br />
three years, maybe it will take ten, but you will make<br />
it happen. You know? How to do it, you stay focused,<br />
positive, you know? But also, I wanna say, for the people<br />
that come here, to Hollywood Boulevard, that there is<br />
a few fact that we are good entertainers, we play our<br />
characters, we love them, we love to play them. You<br />
know? So, you can come here to have fun and enjoy us<br />
as you want.<br />
BRIAN KAHRS - CHEWBACCA<br />
AGE 53 / BROOKLYN, NY.<br />
INDIGO Why did you choose to be Chewbacca?<br />
BRIAN Chewbacca was a character that was recommended<br />
to me by some other characters out here, they<br />
said he would do well because people really love him.<br />
INDIGO Are you a big Star Wars fan?<br />
BRIAN No, actually I’m not and I am ashamed of it<br />
too because the kids ask me questions and I will tell you<br />
the honest truth I only saw the first Star Wars movie.<br />
When the kids ask me questions and I don’t know the<br />
answers I just growl<br />
INDIGO Have you figured out your next step out<br />
here?<br />
BRIAN I actually ran away from home three months<br />
ago.I decided it was a way to make good cash while I<br />
figure out what I want to do while I am in California<br />
and I did. I am going to go into building movie and<br />
television sets for a company pretty soon. Chewbacca has<br />
been great at helping me pay my bills for three months<br />
though.<br />
INDIGO Is there anything you want to tell the world<br />
about your story?<br />
BRIAN I was a homebuilder right before the collapse<br />
of the economy and after that I lost everything I owned<br />
and I decided I just needed to live my life. All I have<br />
ever done is work, work, work and I decided to forget<br />
about the money. I ended up traveling all over the world,<br />
starred in some independent films, I wrestled with Hulk<br />
Hogan. I just can’t believe what happened to my life<br />
once I really decided to live and enjoy life. I wouldn’t<br />
have traded it for anything. My friends from my hometown,<br />
they stayed and worked, paid off their houses, and<br />
I just didn’t want that life for myself. You can’t do what<br />
everyone else is doing just because you think it is what<br />
you are supposed to do.
Left to Right<br />
Jumpsuit: East/West Shop<br />
Top: Nudist LA by Olivaceous<br />
Skirt: Nudist LA by Olivaceous<br />
Top: Miss Kerve<br />
Skirt: Josefina Avalos<br />
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THE GOOD KIND OF<br />
BLACK<br />
Vanessa Boreland<br />
“You must be mixed, you’re too pretty to be JUST<br />
black,” some drunk white boy screamed at me over the<br />
shitty music at the crowded bar.<br />
I was at a loss for words. Not only are you implying my<br />
black isn’t beautiful, but that my black is only acceptable<br />
because it’s offset by something more, “appealing.” This<br />
drunk idiot was trying<br />
to compliment me and he had done anything but. As a<br />
biracial woman I am faced with the fact that I’m valued<br />
more because I’m not viewed as, “just black.”<br />
Nowadays we’re living in a climate of complicated racial<br />
relations that we haven’t seen since the 50s and 60s.<br />
Every day you log onto Facebook, Twitter or Instagram<br />
and see another police shooting,<br />
another protest or some other racially<br />
charged incident. Some would say we<br />
are living in a whole new era of civil<br />
rights movements, and I completely<br />
agree. Yet, I walk the line between<br />
parties, white and black.<br />
Between Black Lives Matter and All<br />
Lives Matter; let me tell you it gets<br />
harder all the time. Everyone wants<br />
you to pick a side but you can’t<br />
because every day you wake up and<br />
live in a parallel.<br />
Being mixed has never been easy for<br />
me. Growing up I struggled with<br />
my racial identity. I was never black<br />
enough for the black kids, but I was<br />
too black for the white kids. I denied<br />
my blackness for so long, because I desperately wanted<br />
to fit in with the “cool” kids, and big surprise, majority<br />
of the cool kids were white. Don’t get me wrong, there<br />
were a handful of token black kids that we’re part of that<br />
crew, but almost all of them were biracial.<br />
“ghetto” enough to be entertaining, but not to the point<br />
of being, “ratchet.” The, “good” kind of black doesn’t<br />
take pride in its own blackness, but fits into the mold of<br />
what society has constructed.<br />
Here’s a perfect example of this concept; let us not<br />
forget Feb. 6 2016. A day that will live infamy. The day<br />
Beyonce dropped “Formation.” From SNL to Twitter,<br />
the, “white people<br />
just found out Beyonce is black” jokes ran<br />
rampant and were honestly hilarious. Then<br />
came the Super Bowl, and the shit really hit<br />
the fan. Beyoncé’s Black Panther tribute was<br />
no longer a laughing matter. People (white people)<br />
were actually pissed. For the first time beautiful, light<br />
skinned, blonde haired, Beyoncé was proudly and<br />
unapologetically displaying<br />
her blackness. How could this be? How could this icon<br />
not fit into the mold that was<br />
constructed for her?<br />
by the #TeamLightSkin vs. #TeamDarkSkin hashtags,<br />
the later being the “losing” team. Even within the black<br />
community, it’s still better to be light.<br />
I need to mention the role black men play into this<br />
concept. Every day I’m scrolling through my timeline<br />
and I see an alarming amount of slander against black<br />
women coming from black men. Black men praise<br />
the light skin, the Latino, the, “foreign” and the<br />
white woman while calling the dark skinned female,<br />
“cockroaches,” “ratchet,” “bad attitude” and “angry.” I<br />
wonder why they’re angry? Maybe because since the day<br />
they’ve been born they’ve been pitted against the, “good”<br />
kind of black woman? I’d also like to casually remind the<br />
black men saying these things that<br />
most of them were birthed and raised<br />
from the type of black woman they<br />
find so disgusting…<br />
So what can we do? How do we<br />
move away from this, “good”<br />
black person and just celebrate our<br />
blackness? For me, it happened when<br />
I stopped caring about what other<br />
people think of me. I stopped caring<br />
where people wanted to put me on<br />
this, “blackness spectrum.” All of a<br />
sudden I just started to love myself,<br />
and I refuse to let anyone take that<br />
self-love away from me.<br />
So for all my light skinned, dark<br />
skinned and any shade skinned in<br />
between black people, don’t be afraid<br />
to love yourself. Be as black as you want. Be as white as<br />
you want. Be whatever the fuck you want. We are ALL<br />
the “good” kind of black.<br />
Which brings me to this unfortunate but glaringly<br />
obvious occurrence in our society…it’s okay to be black,<br />
but only if you’re the, “good” kind of black. The, “good”<br />
kind of black has a light complexion; a 2a to 3b curl<br />
pattern and light eyes. The, “good” kind of black is just,<br />
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not here to attack white people.<br />
The concept of the “good” kind of black isn’t only<br />
something that happens between black people and white<br />
people. The “good” kind of black is valued among black<br />
people as well. A few years back Twitter was taken over<br />
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