SAD Mag
  • About Us JEDI Commitments Contact Media Kit Privacy Policy Board Positions
  • Current Issue Past Issues Stockists
  • SAD Online SADCAST SAD Events Community Events
  • Submit Donate Volunteer
  • Mags Merch
  • Login
SAD Mag
  • About/
    • About Us
    • JEDI Commitments
    • Contact
    • Media Kit
    • Privacy Policy
    • Board Positions
  • In Print/
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues
    • Stockists
  • Online/
    • SAD Online
    • SADCAST
    • SAD Events
    • Community Events
  • Contribute/
    • Submit
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
  • Shop/
    • Mags
    • Merch
  • Login/
SAD Mag

Stories, Art, and Design

SAD Online

SAD Mag
  • About/
    • About Us
    • JEDI Commitments
    • Contact
    • Media Kit
    • Privacy Policy
    • Board Positions
  • In Print/
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues
    • Stockists
  • Online/
    • SAD Online
    • SADCAST
    • SAD Events
    • Community Events
  • Contribute/
    • Submit
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
  • Shop/
    • Mags
    • Merch
  • Login/
October 02, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: Christ Adjacent

October 02, 2016/ Cole Nowicki
Portraits of Brief Encounters: Christ Adjacent

“It’s Christ-like, he thinks. The way he moves over the pavement, gliding up and down hills without expending any energy, just like Jesus did over that lake or whatever. Jesus never exerted himself when going anywhere and neither should he, he thought. All made in his image, right?”

Read More
October 02, 2016/ Cole Nowicki / Comment
POBE
August 21, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: #3 In a Series of Sadness

August 21, 2016/ Cole Nowicki
Portraits of Brief Encounters: #3 In a Series of Sadness

A girl, younger than he, watched confused. She threw her hands in the air as if to say “what’s wrong with you, boy?” She patted him on the head but he continued to sob.

Read More
August 21, 2016/ Cole Nowicki / Comment
Visuals
POBE
June 13, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: Heaven's Gate

June 13, 2016/ Cole Nowicki
Portraits of Brief Encounters: Heaven's Gate

Unfortunately, there was one issue with his tribute: the subject wasn’t dead yet. They wouldn’t be dead for a while either.

Read More
June 13, 2016/ Cole Nowicki / Comment
Visuals, Literature
POBE
May 07, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: Crazy Hot Things

May 07, 2016/ Cole Nowicki
Portraits of Brief Encounters: Crazy Hot Things

"Yeah, cauterized. Whatever. Anyways. So crazy.” You know you've heard that person, you may have even been that person. This week's POBE tackles the loud, hot, and obnoxious.

Read More
May 07, 2016/ Cole Nowicki /
Visuals
POBE
April 22, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: Departures Deep Cuts

April 22, 2016/ Cole Nowicki
Portraits of Brief Encounters: Departures Deep Cuts

The airport’s fire alarm had been going off for nearly twenty minutes before I finally started getting into its rhythm. Not once did anyone around seemed worried by the 90s drum-and-bass styled warning for us to get to safety. 

Read More
April 22, 2016/ Cole Nowicki /
Visuals
POBE
March 08, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: Connect the Dogs

March 08, 2016/ Cole Nowicki
Portraits of Brief Encounters: Connect the Dogs

In January police closed a street in Florence, Alabama, after a suspicious package was found outside of the local courthouse. The package turned out to be a bag of hotdogs.

Read More
March 08, 2016/ Cole Nowicki / Comment
Visuals
POBE
January 24, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: More Knives

January 24, 2016/ Cole Nowicki
Portraits of Brief Encounters: More Knives

One of the tenets of people watching is the search for answers to those wildly inconsequential questions that float on the surface of our daily tedium like lily pads, this particular one decked out in Juicy Couture.

Read More
January 24, 2016/ Cole Nowicki / Comment
Visuals
POBE
January 04, 2016

Portraits of Brief Encounters: Passion, Desire, Etc.

January 04, 2016/ Cole Nowicki

One by one we held the fragrant slips of paper to our faces. With one movement of her brow the woman behind the counter let me know she thought I was an idiot. 

Read More
January 04, 2016/ Cole Nowicki / Comment
Visuals
POBE
  • Next
 

You Might Also Like
Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Joy Gyamfi
May 23, 2025
Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Joy Gyamfi
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
Strollology: The Bipedal Art of Letting Go
Apr 16, 2025
Strollology: The Bipedal Art of Letting Go
Apr 16, 2025
Apr 16, 2025
Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Yvonne Chew
Mar 12, 2025
Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Yvonne Chew
Mar 12, 2025
Mar 12, 2025
What Keeps The Art(ists) Alive?: Reflections on Play It Loud! and Creating Art in Vancouver
Feb 25, 2025
What Keeps The Art(ists) Alive?: Reflections on Play It Loud! and Creating Art in Vancouver
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
Dreaming as Resistance in Ghinwa Yassine’s “Seeing Double”
Feb 21, 2025
Dreaming as Resistance in Ghinwa Yassine’s “Seeing Double”
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025

© SAD Magazine

My Account | F.A.Q.  |  Advertise with SAD | Visit the old site archive here. 

Donate