As a part of My First Time interview series by The Paris Review, Sheila Heti talks about how she became a writer .

XS / Single Back Issues of mono.kultur
The perfect little give away for someone you like but where larger gifts are inappropriate – single issues of mono.kultur are still available from us, covering all tastes and inclinations, from the thoughtful (James Nachtwey) to the entertaining (Brian Eno), the quirky (Martino Gamper) to the naturally cool (Kim Gordon).

S / mono.editionen #05: Chris Ware
No one treads the fine line between bitter and sweet as well as Chris Ware, and our brand new poster edition is the perfect point in case. For young and old alike, and they will love you for it.

M / mono.kultur Subscription
Subscriptions are the perfect gift we find, since what is more fun than having a gift arrive at your door not only once, but four times a year? Remind them again and again who thought of it first back in 2012.

L / mono.log #01: Robert Montgomery
Literally large in size (A2!), our first artist book ever still smells of ink it’s so fresh off the press, and contains plenty of food for thought to come back to again and again in 2013.

XL / mono.archiv #02
Okay, now we’re really talking, since 15 issues of mono.kultur with more than 500 pages of conversational quality all contained in one lovely box is well and truly a generous gift that will keep your lucky recipient busy over the holidays and beyond.

“Wildcat is a state of mind; an experiment inspired by the composition and performance of jazz music.
The characters that populate this world are actual – cowboys; and envisioned – angels.
The town they all inhabit is real – Grayson, Oklahoma.”

2012 gave us “Until the Quiet Comes”, the pithy collaboration between filmmaker Kahlil Joseph and musician Flying Lotus. Its difficult to imagine how the two could follow up and overcome the emotional, sociocultural, and cinematic panorama realized in their singular first film. With 2013’s “Wildcat,” Joseph and FlyLo expand on the audiovisual lexicon they formulated and introduced in “Until…”

Again Joseph inscribes the life of all-black rodeo in Grayson, Oklahoma with his semiotically dense montages and dreamlike cinematic gestures, all too sensitive of the sublime. Pun aside, monochrome–sharply contrasting with its predecessor’s brocaded hues–highlights several undertones in “Wildcat”: nostalgia for American romanticism, a Malboro Man stoicism typically associated with the Midwest, and the irony inherent in the existence of a black rodeo. FlyLo’s score holds balance with all these. His track for an alternate American Midwest sounds delicately surreal, but no less majestic for it.

So apparently not one but two wishes came true last week: the amazing Dot Willow shooting a selfie campaign (including that video below), and Fog’s Andrew Broder returning to life with his wicked, weird take on “Wishes”, that song you’ve been watching the whole time earlier last year.