Lope Navo is a fashion photographer whose credits include Esquire magazine in the Philippines, Geil magazine in Berlin, Playgirl, American Rag and others. Born in Manila, today Navo may call many probable cities his home, or no city in particular. While previously based in New York, today he travels the...

The end of September saw The GROUND Collective, an exhibit at Milk Gallery presented by The GROUND Magazine in collaboration with Samsung. Dubbed a "phenomenological exhibit," the show aimed to translate the content of the magazine's second and latest issue into an explorable, breathing space. The...

Lars Iyer's novel Spurious, published by Melville House, is composed primarily of vignettes and snippets of conversation between our conversationally masochistic narrator and his highly critical friend. Topics of discussion between them include, but are not limited to: existentialism, concern for the inevitable apocalypse, one's own inadequacy, poor lifestyle habits,...

Over the past five months, I had been interning at The GROUND, a relatively new art, fashion, music and charity magazine based in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. When I began my work there, the magazine was hot at work preparing its second issue, while I worked to...

The recent news from Pew Internet that e-reader ownership has almost doubled over this past holiday season makes it tempting to say that print books are not long for this world; after Amazon realized that many e-book readers enjoy browsing for titles in a brick-and-mortar store only to...

For the holidays, I was required to step down from the ivory tower in which I occupy here at the Manor and return to my family in the humdrum town of my youth I left behind years ago. As it's been a while, I don't feel so connected to the...