New York Moves

Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Actor/Novelist and founder of Black Veil Brides is ‘one of the 50 greatest rock stars in the world today’* Music has been everything. Everything. Like more-than-half-his-life everything. Biersack founded Brides in Cincinnati at the tender age of 14 in 2006. The past 15 years has brought much underground success for Biersack and Brides so he finds it refreshing to see new fans discover the band, as well as other underground acts. “It’s a fun thing for people to discover and find these bands and artists that maybe they didn’t know about and then you find this huge bevvy of information and history and fandom. The viability of so many bands that are my peers and artists that I came up with have such incredibly vast and you know, not just…

*shampoo - uk slang for champagne Many fine creations were invented quite by accident: potato chips, the slinky, penicillin, and the microwave. Champagne, too, is on this list of elite, serendipitous inventions. Champagne is a sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France – 90 minutes northeast of Paris. The French are so protective of the bubbly beverage’s namesake, that sparkling wines produced outside of the region can only be called just that; they cannot be labeled “Champagne” as outlined in the Treaty of Madrid and reiterated in the Treaty of Versailles. Here in the US, we recognize such exclusivity, but laws in many states allow for the use of the term “champagne” on labels in some cases. Popular belief is that the French monk Dom Perignon invented champagne…

TONY GALE is an award wining NYC based photographer, in addition to working with Moves he shoots for a variety of editorial, corporate and advertising clients. He is a Sony Artisan of Imagery, a Manfrotto Ambassador, an X-Rite Coloratti and the APA National President. For fun and work he travels and has been to all 50 states and all over the world. Born and raised in Los Angeles, STORM SANTOS has been a creative his entire life. He was a touring musician with a band as a guitarist before graduating with a degree in Cinematography and TV/Film. His degree naturally transitioned into a passion for photography. Storm frequently shoots celebrity editorials. ROBERT ASCROFT’s work is crafted and precise with an innate sensibility to capture an intimate moment. His work appears…

Brit expression: a person who has interesting qualities or abilities that most people do not know about; a previously unknown and unexpected winner in horse racing; a quiet and unassuming person who exhibits true grit unexpectedly. I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was “timid and shy” but had “the courage of a lion.” They were full of phrases like “radical humility” and “quiet fortitude.” What does it mean to be quiet and have fortitude? These descriptions asked implicitly. How could you be shy…

I am a statue. Stoic and silent. Perfectly poised, standing ageless atop a loaded pedestal. I am waiting. Waiting to be touched, not felt. Seen, not stared at. I am objectified by the masses. Immobilized, I am frozen in time by the artist who created me. Trapped by the museum who curates me. And judged by the audience who pays to bask in my muted presence. I am a still performer, constantly on display. I long to hide. As a woman, I am not a person per se, more like a figure of speech. I’m just a common phrase that everyone tosses around and misuses, but no one seems to understand. “The Average Joe.” Except, I’m not Joe. I’m nameless. Voiceless. My face and mind are of little consequence, as…

Whenever I walk around my parents home on Long Island, I’m constantly reminded of my mother’s anger; unhappiness abounds in the form of “projects” around the house that were never fully completed: a silverware drawer that falls out at you when you open it; a screen door that has a broken latch; a bathroom window that uses a metal rod for a handle; or the crème de la crème of all “projects,” the ceiling fan that has not yet made its way to the, uh, ceiling. I sometimes think my father leaves these things broken out of spite, so sick of the nagging that he must therefore plant his own bombs of contention. Now you might think I grew up on the set of Sanford & Son, and that my…