photography by ROGAN RICHARDS

I can’t even begin to understand that kind of horror in Orlando. but i am very aware of what loss feels like, hurt, frustration and injustice.

What I can talk about is HATE. it’s everywhere, you just have to read the comments on any given youtube post or even in my Ask Rogan segment and you can see how many people love to hate. Why does it take something horrific like the Orlando incident to unite our community? There is so much bitterness, judgement and separation within humanity as a whole. I’m all up for freedom of speech and freedom of choice but if you don’t like someone or don’t understand them why is the reaction hate? what ever happened to live and let live?

Those deaths start with us, every single one of us who has hated someone because we have been jealous of them, didn’t understand them or just didn’t like them. Sure, talking about gun laws is fine and dandy but removing a gun from a haters hand isn’t gonna stop them hating, we need to fight this social disease at it’s root.

We need to start with US. (that’s you and me, not the United States.)

the official blurb; HVNC is a Men’s active lifestyle brand, dedicated to creating premium swimwear for men. The brand is designed for leisure and for the more active demands of the modern man, with a high emphasis on quality and style.

the personal blurb; It’s a rainy day in cold Melbourne, Australia and I am at a dance studio doing a Hip Hop class with my best mate. We were too busy trying to compete with one another to see who was Britney, Janet or even Lindsey Lohan (remember Rumours!) to even pay attention to the teacher. I think freestyle was our forte, breaking into a dance routine at any given situation taking over many a house party. Cut forward a few years and we have both stopped wanting to be pop stars and started working on forging our own music. Though very different styles, mine being naked, sweaty and full of grunt and his clothing, textiles and design. A skip and hop forward again and our lives again intertwine but this time artistically through my video editing and photography and his first swimwear label called HVNC.

We’re still freestyling it but striving to create our own “Rhythm Nation”, with a lot more heart and whole lotta passion.

This is one of the videos i edited for HVNC‘s Solaris Collection.

And recently I grabbed my two besties, B! and IAIN NO.9, my camera and a bunch of HVNC gear and this is what happened…

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HVNC and my web site presents “How many rabbits did you kill?” Easter 2016.

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