In the first of the “Launch Week” letters, it was said that three letters would be published & sent that week. Here we are today, at number 2.
While not publishing here, I was published places like here, & here. Where I interviewed filmmaker Rob Roth on his Tribeca Film Festival selection concert-doc, Blondie: Vivir en la Habana, & also wrote about nostalgia watching horror films like Nightmare on Elm Street..
Long before making the Launch Week announcement or reaching out to the editors who made the stories linked above possible, I spoke with Bekah Maloney of Dublin-based creative agency Caught Up Creatives. Recording (& more recently retrieving) the audio was a struggle. We tried everything from Zoom to Instagram to make the call happen & when I look back on that call, I remember a certain drive & energy attributed to a person much more than I do details of any specific project.
Not that there aren’t several impressive ones to speak of, including the first music video created for Caught Up Creatives repped singer & rapper, Celaviedmai. Directed by Maloney, the video for Celaviedmai’s HEAL, is intimate, & reminiscent of the visual storytelling viewers may be familiar with from wide ranges of media like perfume ads & independent youth-focused films from the ‘90s.
There’s also been a recent announcement of an upcoming video for Caught Up Creatives artist Tomike, who Maloney excitedly spoke about months back.
The styles & sounds of both artists go a long way towards Maloney’s goal of expanding the global perception of Irish music.
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DO IN NYC | Inspired by a recent visit & pending return to NYC, shopping & dining recommendations from the mostly sort of open city seem appropriate.
L Train Vintage is a favorite of Caught Up Creative’s Bekah Maloney (she discovered it while living in NYC, shooting influencers, & developing the idea for what would become her full-scale, independent creative agency) & savvy vintage shoppers all over the city. Get in on it.
Bar Camillo - & you must search for “Bar Camillo” not “Camillo” while searching for the address - is the perfect place to go with friends or alone. Personal experience says going alone can easily turn into leaving with new friends, & it’s a perfect place for intimate indoor, cute backyard, or shaded sidewalk seating over shared small plates, wine, & Aperol Spritz.
LISTEN | This one feels a little obvious, right?
Tomike, in anticipation of that upcoming music video debut.
WORK | The next newsletter will be widely dedicated to sharing work in the arts as well as art adjacent fields. This is an extended part of my mission as a writer, to provide access through the sharing of information. I do this on a quarterly basis for a limited amount of individuals, creating custom bi-weekly job boards at a rate of $15. There is also a regularly updated list of grant & residency opportunities on Postmodern Indigenous (free of charge).
For now, check out the details for jobs like this editing position with TheGuide.art, & this cultural writing job looking specifically for the voices & knowledge of writers from Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Japan, South America, etc.
COLLECT | I, the creator of both this newsletter & the digitally distributed art-focused publication Postmodern Indigenous, have recently partnered with select galleries & artists to introduce Postmodern Collector, a new path to art collecting. If you would like to see the current offerings or be considered for representation, send an inquiry to curator@postmodernindigenous.com for access to the site.