If you made your way here, you’re probably just like us. You’re into whatever or wherever is different, you like a bit of culture, but not in the old stuffy way that costs $500 to get through the door. Maybe your culture doesn’t have a door. Maybe you produce a bit of that culture yourself in a warehouse or basement.
We’re for whoever appreciates refinement without excess, whoever moves in the space between experimental and iconic, or whoever is just doing or did something cool. If you’re into informal lifestyles, alt aesthetics, and the darker, dingier, moodier corners of culture (what we like to call Wabi-Noir), you’re in the right place. If you’re doing those things, we want to hear about it.
Either way, we realized we know a bit more than is normal about the finer points of alternative and underground art, fashion, culture, nostalgia, and whatever else we can think of, and after a few errant gap years spent bumming around Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Prague, and beyond, we managed to get together in a room and commit our expertise to (digital) paper.
We just made you read all that, incredible, but let’s not overthink it – we’re just a couple of wayward longhairs writing about whatever we think is cool, and we’re putting together a bit of a guide to it all.
Ex-Plain is that guide. Your guide to the outer edges of alternative culture, art, and ideas. We’re not selling you the underground, we’re the shovel to help you find it yourself.