• Mavica disc

    Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 – Where’s my Floppy Disc?

    Add some flare to your silly hipster outfit!

  • Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library

    Memoirs of a Geisha

    If you are going to shape America’s future, let them know it’s okay to do a pirate impression once in a while.

  • Ecuadorian Flag at the Presidential Palace

    Middle Earth II

    In the second installment of his series, Kip Sikora shows us more of the facets that make Ecuador.

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    Retrospect

    So. It’s been a good year! At least we think so. As it’s only appropriate, we’ve decided to remind you of our favorite stories of 2011.

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    21st Century Vikings

    “A friend’s a friend who knows what being a friend is talking to a friend.” – Ween

Feeling optimistic?

We are seeking submissions* for our upcoming print edition. Send your optimistic black & white visual works or prose to submit@highcontrastreview.com with the word optimism in the subject line. Don't delay! While there is no deadline, submissions will close when we receive exactly what we are looking for.
*Guidelines: For visual submissions, send the highest quality files you have. For written pieces, the same standards apply. 3,000 word limit please.

Music

ASonjupicJan

Ghosts/Memory

Poem and photo by A. Sønju Track: Marin Marais, 1717: Rondeau le Bijou (This is an mp3 of Hille Perl and Lee Santana palying Marin’s ‘Rondeau le Bijou’ which is track 10 on their CD ‘Marin Marais: Les Vox Humaines’; it’s a little over 2.5mins long; one of their shorter pieces, which fits the tone.) [...]

photo by Erin Blinn

lab interview: taber maine

An interview with Taber Maine by High Con Lab Specialist Shan Driscoll with three previews from El Nudo se Deshace. Track: Drinkin on home “For those of us confident that the human condition is boundless, that it strives moves and grows only with the strivings, movements, and growth of those individuals that comprise its global [...]

Brushfield Spots

Brushfield Spots

An interview with Nathan St. Onge of Brushfield Spots by Austin Valley Brushfield Spots of Portland, OR, should be in your CD player, your record player, tape deck, me-pod, ringtones; your kids shoes should light up in tempo with their drum tracks. They’re that good. I mean it. They’re that good. Their music should consume [...]