Agent Report: Chernobyl

Photos by Daniel Emmerson   High Contrast Review’s wanderlust agents are posted in all corners of the globe under orders to produce reports for you, dear reader.  Nearly all missions, it should be mentioned, are rogue ventures.  Rarely is an assignment suggested.  From time to time, an agent will create and undertake a mission so [...]

Attack! Panic! Recovery!

Please don’t be alarmed.  Sure, High Contrast Review has been attacked by malicious and really sneaky hackers.  If you know them, please give them up.  Not so we can kill them, however, but instead to buy them lunch.  The result of their petty onslaught was that the site, as it existed, had to be rebuilt [...]

lab notes: dream skating

Written by Shannon Driscoll Photos taken at the Berrics by Erin Blinn & Josh Russell Special thanks to UPRISE, the Berrics, Erin Blinn & Josh Russell “i thought, that’s the most stupidest idea i ever heard.  but fuck it, i’m down.” was the first thought of 18 year old angel alvarado when he heard the plan.  the [...]

Unknown Unfair Contest

Photos by Zoe Aparicio with anonymous meditations by a thoughtful  mobile informant I drove through the valley watching the sprayplanes and in awe of the rowcrops as far as the eye could see in the endless valley. Up over the grapevine with all the trucks. It’s an ugly god forsaken freeway, I stopped to pee [...]

Fairy Floss

by Caroline McCarty photo by Sarah Kulla Also known as cotton candy, spun sugar, candy floss, and to many young children- old lady hair. This confection was simply strings of melted sugar, until recently. Now it’s playing an integral role in the development of artificial organs. Scientist Leon Bellan of Cornell’s Nanobiotechnology Center, along with others, [...]

The Deepwater Horizon

by Austin Valley 08-25-2010 126 days after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded off the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, a drastically more dire and ominous reality has now been revealed. What officials initially believed to be a small leak of a 100,000 barrels of oil with estimated pressures [...]