NM Special Reports

Continuing our context-focused Ukraine Special Reports, we speak with New Models member @pdthorn, whose career path includes working with Open Source Intelligence. OSINT both describes a field of research and its diverse range of publicly available  information sources. As Russia has escalated its war in Ukraine this week, OSINT — particularly the constant drip of on-the-ground social media updates — has played a role in shaping the public-facing narrative to an unprecedented degree. We ask PD about best practices for intelligence gathering amid a sea of disinformation, as well as his read on possible end-games for what may come in the wake of this war.

For more:
https://instagram.com/pdthorn_osint

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NM Special Report: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) & Ukraine w/ @pdthorn

First released: 22 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

Creative director Katharina Korbjuhn updates NM on Paradigm Trilogy, the mobile-first editorial vehicle she launched in 2021 to address how the fashion-adjacent creative sector is changing. 

As Paradigm’s second release, “Man vs. Machine” is largely set in Berlin and features contributions from several denizens of the New Models sphere, we invited Kat to come on the podcast to discuss the ideas—the state of fashion & media, machine learning, creative agency, and our neo-anthroposophic age—that underpin the issue's concept.

For more: https://paradigmtrilogy.com

Bonus: NMTV goes behind the scenes of Paradigm's "Man" shoot in Berlin, May 2022: https://youtu.be/9M1FpaAvrk4

Unlocked | NM Special Report: Paradigm Trilogy II w/ Kat Korbjuhn

First released: 23 Jun 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

NYC has always been a scene superconductor, replete with an infinite supply of ambitious young bodies and a world class media machine to document it all. But over the past few years, a new strain of #downtown has emerged that incessantly flickers between the physical and online realms. On this episode, NM is joined by three denizens of this New York sphere — novelist and co-founder of Forever Magazine, Madeline Cash; artist chloé waifmaterial; and full stack engineer slash man-about-town David Yoakum — to recap a cluster of events that transpired during Praxis Week, including the premier of Angelicism’s Film01, a reading at the new VC-backed Lower East Side event space Sovereign House, and the sudden onset of a climate event that amplified it all.

For more:
@davidy____
waifmaterial.com & @waifmaterial
madelinecash.com & @madelinecash


Related writing from NM sphere:
- Madeline Cash reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Spike Art Magazine
- Paige K. Bradley reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Artforum

Unlocked | NM Special Report: NY Scene Update w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waifmaterial, David Yoakum

NM Special Report: Digital Resilience & War w/ Cade Diehm
On this episode, we speak with information security specialist CADE DIEHM of New Design Congress regarding digital infrastructure resilience in a time of network upheaval as the world responds to Russia’s escalation of the war in Ukraine.

For more:
Tw: @helveticade
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/

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NM Special Report: Digital Resilliance & War w/ Cade Diehm

First released: 31 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

On Sunday (27 Aug 2023), climate activists blocked the road to Burning Man, demanding that the festival—which was founded on principles of decommodification, radical self-reliance, and civic responsibility—ban single-use plastics and private jets. While the protest delayed a relatively small amount of physical traffic for less than an hour, it seized  swathes of the online space for days given the action's adjacency to so many memetic themes, incl.: #climate, #collapse, #decarbonization, #privilege, #indigenous (land), #police and ofc the punching bag that is #burningman. 

Much of the initial drama played out on the Instagram and X accounts of gonzo journalist Michelle Lhooq (Rave New World) who broke the story while on assignment for The Guardian. On Monday, Michelle joined New Models from Reno to discuss what she witnessed as well as the changing nature of activism’s stage both online and off. 

For more: IG: @michellelhooq X: @MichelleLhooq
https://ravenewworld.substack.com
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/28/burning-man-protest-climate-change-environment

Unlocked | NM Special Report: Burning Man Blockade w/ Michelle Lhooq

Full Ep released to subscribers: 08 Mar 2024 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

// One of the most compelling examples, so far, of media made using AI content generation is the video that artist Jon Rafman created for Kanye West’s new album with Ty Dolla $ign, "Vultures." Rather than aiming for maximum realism in these clips, Rafman leans into visual incoherence, moments where the software experiences a collapse of distinction. This, coupled with prompts that could have gone something like “gang members in balaclavas imploding like the Pruitt-Igoe housing project demolition 1971” with style tags “cult horror, VHS, America 1986, Norwegian black metal” meant the video also conveyed a sense of what we thought might be a Witch House revival. So we called up cultural savant and 2010s historian Dean Kissick to discuss. But Witch House did not remain the central thread of our conversation. Instead, all paths lead back to something more fundamental—the struggle for iconicity in a time of infinitely available content.

// For more: https://twitter.com/deankissick (X)

// NOTE: Dean will be helping New Models resident Patrick McGraw to stage a very special Heavy Traffic reading at EARTH, 29 Orchard Street, New York City, on Easter Sunday, March 31st.

Preview | NM Special Report: Ye and the Future of Content w/ Dean Kissick

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NM Special Report: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) & Ukraine w/ @pdthorn

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