Quoted Magazine

“Anyone who’s lucky enough to move here should come. It tests you. It holds up the clearest mirror you will ever see and makes you gaze directly in your own eyes. It’s the best and the worst place in the whole world.”

5 Things that tell a story about Karl (clockwise from monkey)

Monkey- “I was a monkey-boy once... I had the exact same monkey when I was a kid”

Picture 1- “Nothing has changed in the Andersen family in a long time. You see my grandpa in toga. My great granddad playing the ukulele. We’re always doing ridiculous stuff.”

Picture 2- “It was a fun wedding. Deli stand style. Here we are taking our number 13. You see we are so in love and the woman behind the counter is like aha-next.”

Ring- “We decided to get married 3 weeks after we met, skipped the engagement and went to townhall. It was passionate.”

Piano- “I grew up with pianos and spent hours just nailing the thing. It is a gift I’m passing on to the next generation.”

Photographer: Paula Deandra

“You have to have a military mind. You have to execute, stay perfectly calm and not get lost in your emotions. Everyone in their 20’s is a robot. I was guilty of that too. You take Adderall and stuff that will keep you awake. It’s like legal cocaine. It’s not sustainable. You don’t get enough sleep. Not enough sleep causes depression and then you’re in a bad cycle.”

- Karl, Issue 1

Photographer: Paula Deandra

How to be(come) a New Yorker? Learn how to use the damn subway machine before you get here. If not you will piss off every New Yorker standing behind you. I never want to JUST miss another train, while watching twenty bewildered tourists try to figure out how a touch screen works.

- Honey, Issue 1

Photographer: Paula Deandra

“The other day I met this Mexican food delivery guy. I passed him on the street and was like: I wonder if he’s an immigrant, if he got kids, he looks my age. Then he started talking to me because he thought I had a cool bike. We talked for a couple of minutes and it turned out he was a skydiver instructor from the west coast. He was just delivering food to stay afloat. I was like wow- I totally misread your story. That’s amazing to me. You have people from all walks of life here. Everyone’s got their own story.”

- Hiromi, Issue 1

Photographer: Paula Deandra 

“You’re never too old to live in New York. Have you seen these women in their 70’s. They’re walking their ass off and looking fabulous with their fur coats and big hair. I think that NY keeps you young”

- Margie, Issue 1

Photographer: Paula Deandra