The Arts Issue

Paco was born and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He is a designer, artist and musician living in Atlanta.
His work is minimalist in nature with bright colors and geometric forms favoring small details such as dots and patterns. You'll get a great sense of his clean lines and direct aesthetic by checking out his site. Paco's box now lives in front of Beep Beep Gallery - 696 Charles Allen...

For this year's arts issue, we talked to seven of Atlanta's most captivating creative minds working in everything from theater, comedy and photography to literature, dance, filmmaking and B-movie style stop-motion animation samurai movies. Plus, an oral history of pioneering underground art and music space Eyedrum and the people and projects to watch in the coming year.

Oliver Cesair is a self-taught artist who listens, looks and learns from other artists. While living in a loft
community with Georgia State and Georgia Tech artists, Olivier was birthed as an artist by picking up a paintbrush after being asked by another painter/published artist to paint.

His first painting is titled “Power,” and was inspired by seeing the pain of other artists selling...

Jesse “Commence” Jager has been part of the Mindzai team for nearly five years and he comes and
goes as frequently as the CSX cars he hops. Although not formally trained in art, Jesse found inspiration
in the urban street art and BMX scenes, and that can be seen in his personal designs, as well as his paid
commissions. Jesse pretty much flies below the radar but has been part of several...

For this year's arts issue, we talked to seven of Atlanta's most captivating creative minds working in everything from theater, comedy and photography to literature, dance, filmmaking and B-movie style stop-motion animation samurai movies. Boom!

Comedian Jamie Ward kills with weapons of mass hilarity.

Filmmaker Eric Haviv conquers Cannes with serious shorts.

Animator Takuro Masuda...