A CONVERSATION WITH…

A Conversation With is a natural extension of An Afternoon With, my online project that, to this day, is one of my proudest accomplishments. When my wife, Nhi Mundy, created DVEIGHT Magazine, she added this feature in our publication, capitalizing on my constant curiosity on what makes people tick. Meeting these subjects was always so cool, but learning the things that I do from each encounter, is a gift that can’t be measured. Take a few minutes and read these interviews and get to know some truly cool people.

Melissa Auf der Maur, musician

Melissa Auf der Maur never really wanted to be famous. In the 1990s, even as she found worldwide success as the bassist for the bands Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, she kept herself fairly apart from the drama and notoriety that…

Fredrik Bersilius, chef

For Fredrik Berselius, a rising star on New York City’s fine-dining scene, opening his visionary, two-Michelin-starred Brooklyn restaurant, Aska, was a tortuous quest years in the making. Here, the Swedish chef talks about how he integrates…

Todd Oldham, designer

In the 1990s, few names shone as brightly in the New York fashion world as Todd Oldham’s. Along with other style icons of the decade such as Betsey Johnson and Anna Sui, Oldham ruled the city’s fashion scene, sending riotous bursts of color…

Ben Younger, director

Writer and director Ben Younger has taken a long road to get to his latest film, Bleed for This. Along the way, he’s had a political career, worked with Meryl Streep and learned how to race motorcycles and fly airplanes. But most of all, he's…

Marina Abramovic, artist

Marina Abramovic is a Yugoslavian-born artist known as a pioneer in performance art. Her work often involves pushing herself to mental and physical limits—and there’s often no end in sight. In a 2016 interview with The New York Times, she…

David Cross, comedian

Actor and comedian Davis Cross is best known for his roles in Arrested Development and Todd Margaret and his searing stand up comedy routines. With his eye for detail and his unwavering insistence on truth, Cross is someone who doesn’t…

FEATURES // A LOOK BACK

DAVID EUGENE EDWARDS

Text and Image by Michael Mundy for Issue Magazine

It was 1 am Easter Sunday. The band 16 Horsepower had just left the Bowery Ballroom’s stage as I climbed the stairs to the cramped backstage, where the band was catching their breath with a few friends. David Eugene Edwards, Pascal Humbert, and Jean-Yves Tola sat on a couch. In front of them was a coffee table crammed with equal parts of beer, Poland Spring water, and plastic cups serving as ashtrays. Everyone was smoking, drinking, and shaking hands, their relief palpable. Having driven themselves from Cleveland to Philly, where they had played the night before, then on to New York, where they hadn’t played in three years, no one had slept in over forty-eight hours; but it’s hard to tell, as the energy generated in their performance seemed to be carrying them through. > Read More