The world is a pretty hectic, fast-moving and confusing place at this point in our unfolding history as a species, and I would hardly be the first person to note that our attention spans are ebbing away in an avalanche of algorithm-driven ‘content’ – much of it seemingly without any need for the involvement of the human hand. It’s often distracting, overwhelming, and a huge downer, all at once.

FUTURISTIC DRAGON is intended as a counterpoint to all of the noise you will find on your feed, and all the pretension you will find on most platforms. It’s a place for long, thoughtful interviews with some astonishingly creative people that, hopefully, remind us what is great about being a human being. Having been an editor, writer and sometime creative director for many years now, for various entities, I felt like some people might need a reflective, conversational space as much I do.

With its chief focus on arts and culture, FUTURISTIC DRAGON is a forum to forward ideas and discuss what it means to be alive, and maybe even to try to bring something good into the world – something that feels current without ever being timestamped, and enthusiastic without being saccharine. It’s hopefully, a slightly different kind of editorial, one that focuses on authenticity over celebrity, art over commerce and, quite simply, hope over despair.

If you are looking for entertainment news, clickbait and the usual run-of-the-mill interviews intended to promote product, you will have to look elsewhere. But if you are looking for cultural icons, game-changing contemporary artists from all over the world, innovative musicians and thinkers, and people who, as the late, great Gil Scott Heron might say, ‘bring their own thing’, then you are in the right place.

Today, we are quietly launching to our friends with a wealth of opinion, wisdom and more from trans-generational artists and creatives, as disparate as Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Robert Montgomery, Hikari Omoori, Willie Christie, Gil Button, Rankin, and many more – we hope you’ll take some time to explore the interviews, and join us later in the autumn for our official launch.

John-Paul Pryor. May ‘26.