velvet oracleVelvet Oracle started with a question I kept circling on the train to work: who made this first, and who got the credit for it later. Not as a complaint. As a beat worth covering properly.
So that is what this is. A magazine about music, photography, and skate culture that goes looking for the originators before the story gets tidied up around someone more convenient. Reported features. Real interviews. Photography that stands on its own.
Issue 02 is out now. Issue 01 is still around. Between print runs, this site is where the work lives, and where new work tends to land first.
If you make things in the hours around everything else, you are in the right place. That is how this gets made too.
Pascale Arahia, editor