Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker’s film about a struggling family in Taiwan

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In 2001, Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker were scouting Taiwan to brainstorm ideas for a film they could direct together. Daunted by the possibilities, the pair instead co-wrote and co-directed Take Out, a 2004 indie set…

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These photos show a ‘profoundly hopeful’ side to rainforest life

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “We must ask ourselves if we can truly fathom the disappearance of something we have never seen,” writes Elaine ML Tam in the introduction to Record, a new monograph by the Tokyo-based photographer Stefan Dotter designed…

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Rachel Sennott: Hollywood crush

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This story is taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. This summer, a video of Rachel Sennott began circulating online. It captured the actor, comedian and writer in…

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Watch: Rachel Sennott on her Saturn return, turning 30, and I Love LA

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I just had my Saturn Return, and at the beginning of it, it was like ‘be prepared to lose everything, change everything,’” Rachel Sennott confesses in her DA-Zed Guide to Being. “I thought ‘OK sure’, but…

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‘This is our Nirvana!’: Are Geese Gen Z’s first great rock band?

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last week, on a balmy November night in Brooklyn, hundreds of people were queuing up outside the Paramount to see Geese play the last show of their Getting Killed North America tour. It’s never particularly difficult…

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