Alien Beauty Is Making Waves | ‘Friends’ for Modern Orthodox Jews

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Thursday Jul 18, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [Alien Beauty Invades World of Fashion]( Growing up in rural Wales, Salvia (who was assigned male at birth), never had any exposure to fashion outside of music videos and movies. Everyone around her told her that expressing herself through fashion was “stupid, self-absorbed and unnecessary,” she says. At 14, Salvia — who goes by that name on Instagram and doesn’t want to reveal her real name for privacy reasons — shaved off her eyebrows and then her hair. Now 18, Salvia wears extreme makeup and often uses prosthetics to create an otherworldly look in the photos she posts on her feed. It’s her way of subverting the idea of traditional beauty that she was once bullied for. She’s not alone. Salvia is among an increasing number of fashion influencers and drag performers worldwide who are posing the latest challenge to the straight-jacketing prevalent in the beauty industry by popularizing a less human-looking aesthetic, bordering on typical Hollywood depictions of aliens. [READ MORE]( 2 [Opinion]( [Opinion]( [Was America Afraid of Marshawn Lynch?]( Why didn’t Marshawn Lynch, one of the best running backs in the NFL during the 2014 season, get the ball on second-and-goal from the half-yard line in Super Bowl XLIX? Was it a conscious choice on the Seahawks’ part — the offensive coordinator or head coach Pete Carroll, who was perhaps bent on “outcoaching” the Patriots’ Bill Belichick? Whatever play was called, certainly the Seahawks’ star quarterback, Russell Wilson, could have audibled and handed the ball off to Lynch. It didn’t happen, of course. Welcome to America. Lynch: A History, the 94-minute documentary that I wrote, directed and produced, is more than just a celebration of the former Seahawks running back; the film shows how difficult his journey to a Hall of Fame–caliber career was and the unique way he went about the business of playing football — and dealing with the media — while being a Black man in America. [READ MORE]( 3 [Rising Stars]( [Rising Stars]( [The Filmmaker Creating 'Friends' for Modern Orthodox Jews]( “It’s totally normal to talk about values on the first date,” says Leah Gottfried, a 28-year-old Modern Orthodox Jewish filmmaker. “There’s a literacy of values,” her husband, Isaiah Rothstein, pipes up. When he speaks, Gottfried squints and moves her face closer to listen: They respond, almost involuntarily, to each other’s movements. The couple, who married four days earlier, sit side-by-side at the kitchen table in their new Harlem apartment. Rain slides down the window overlooking a courtyard of snaking vines that makes the place feel far from the hustle and bustle of New York City. Most Orthodox Jews date explicitly for the goal of marriage rather than for personal exploration, Gottfried says. Navigating this paradigm while chasing a film career supplied a gold mine of artistic fodder for a web series shedding light on a group that rarely gets screen time. [READ MORE]( more from ozy, below [Advert]( [Advert]( 4 [Good Sh*t]( [Take Your Taste Buds Around the World at OZY Fest 2019]( From Mexican hot dogs and baos with a twist to pizza pockets and eggloos, here’s what your mouth is waiting for in Central Park this weekend. 5 [Acumen]( [Who Still Wants to Come Study in the UK? Chinese Students]( Despite Brexit uncertainty, students from China applied in record numbers this year. 6 [True Story]( [I Punched the Singer of My Band Onstage]( There are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed regardless of where you are when the crossing happens. 7 [Flashback]( [Moscow Was Home to Tetris Until a Bidding War Made the Tiles Fly]( The game was born in a Soviet computer lab, but this is how it became an international sensation … 8 [Fast Forward]( [Why the Coffin Industry Is Dying for Disruption]( The funeral business is in churn, but the big players aren’t hurting — they’re consolidating their monopoly. 9 [Rising Stars]( [His Land Mine-Hunting Robot Digs Communities Out of Danger]( Richard Yim has built the first humanitarian demining robots to tackle a global crisis underfoot. 10 [Immodest proposal]( [Time to Snub the Snubbers and Throw Out Your Michelin Guide]( With conflicts of interest rising, the famous Red Guide is no longer authoritative. You Should Know This [Listen Now to the New Season of 'The Thread': Let Us Play]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](