BABI PUNK MAGAZINE #1

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Exclusive works received from all around the world put together for encouraging freedom of thought, choice, and love.

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You are the reason why our magazine exists: so stick around and send us any of your creations. This is the place for you not to be judged.

Your art will be published along with some of our hard-worked articles to make sure that you and your art will get 100% exposure.

Don't forget that we are still a small crew, so it's essential to have patience until we post your work. With your help, we are sure to grow respectfully.

2020

Our publishing project has begun in 2020, based on the need of making worldwide artrecognized.

We publish monthly, receiving submissions from 1st to 25th of that month.

For the moment, we are only digital based, but we plan to print our zine as well.

Still interested?

Get your work done, and send us an email.

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CURRENTLY, WE ARE FOCUSING ON PROMOTING MAINLY: GRAPHIC DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, PAINTINGS, MUSICIANS, ETC.

WE ARE BASED IN EUROPE BUT WE TRY TO MAKE OUR MAG AS INTERNATIONAL AS POSSIBLE.

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"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time.You get the best and the worst as a teen."

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CONTENTS FEATURED ARTICLES AND ARTISTS

08WHO ARE WE Who are we?

Our team consists of three-persons wich love not only art but the act of promoting any interesting ideas related to self-expression.

12 WHERE'S WALDO IHere’s a linocut I did in January 2020 titled “Where’s Waldo?”(ironically because there is no Waldo). Its size is about 60x40.

16 SYDNEY Sydney in the creation of this project, I think it was a meaningful experience for us both!

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EXCLUSIVE!

DEONTOLOGICAL NATURE OF SHIT INTERVIEW 33 COAST RED

Coast Red is an indie California based band formed in 2014. They agreed to do an interview with us and we talked about things like emotional maturity in songwriting, astrology, cool concert stories and more, so read if you wanna hear all about them"

35 BORN IN THE DARKROOM ALMOST LOVE So with this piece, I wanted to illustrate how something that is supposed to be fun and lovely such as spending quality time with someone can turn out to be both mentally and physically challenging, especially if driven by lust and ego.

I was taking my first film photography class where I learned the process of developing and printing in a darkroom. It was required for us to attend nude photo shoots, which was perfect for me because I love taking photos of people!

PIECE BY PIECE .The thought of giving pieces of myself away to others or to give them up entirely frightened me, because who would I be without them? As we grow, our image of ourselves changes, that person that used to make us feel beautiful slowly gets harder and harder to look at in a mirror.

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ABOUT US

WH O ARE WE?

Who are we?

Our team consists of threepersons wich love not only art but the act of promoting any interesting ideas related to selfexpression.

Paintings, graphic designs, fashion, photography, hair, poetry, etc

SUBMISSIONS ARE ALWAYS OPEN FROM 1ST TO 25TH OF THE MONTHÂ CONTACT US VIA EMAIL

anything out of the ordinary is what we love.

Most important we're a mix of 90s zines like Teen Angels'' so naturally we are here to showcase the

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outcast culture, mainly the art of our generation.

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CATCH SOME WAVES IN

The thought of giving pieces of myself away to others or to give them up entirely frightened me, because who would I be without them? As we grow, our image of ourselves changes, that person that used to make us feel beautiful slowly gets harder and harder to look at in a mirror.

PIECE BY PIECE

Maybe that’s why we give up pieces of ourselves, to like what we see in our reflection. Maybe we break ourselves into pieces to be hurt less or to carry less metaphorical weight on our conscience. Either way,

When I was young I was afraid of growing up. Not because of the added responsibility or the extra schoolwork, but rather because I was afraid of losing myself. I had seen so many friends and relatives B yadults Joyce W and onr i gtvh tgive up pieces of Photographs by Mark Halberg themselves to fit into someone else’s life.

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Zara Moffett

Zara Moffett (@dislation) “Piece by Piece”

I’m still growing and I’m still afraid and maybe that will never go away but I know that these pieces we break ourselves into are never really gone. We just need to want to put ourselves back together.

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WHERE’S WALDO? IHere’s a linocut I did in January 2020 titled “Where’s Waldo?”(ironically because there is no Waldo). Its size is about 60x40.

Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed.

The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller, and then impressed onto paper or fabric.

The actual printing can be done by hand or with a printing press.

BY DELIA HRIMIUC.

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Aryanna Salmon

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Zoology of woMan

I drew this couple months ago as a way of expressing femininity and how women are seen as a "joke" (hence the donkey references), and that we are like a zoo animal, exploited for other people to enjoy.This has become a bit more relevant for me recently as I have noticed misogyny has been becoming more and more

apparent on social media, especially TikTok. I feel this piece expresses how the youth today are set up, almost like lambs to slaughter, to the sexist views of society, and how large they're implemented through memes and social media today.

BY ARYANNA SALMON 13

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ISAIAH MIKAELLI . Photog: Robin FultonModel: Janelle TejanDesigner: Crystal Lee / C.R.Lee Designs Stylist: KJ Murphy

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ISAIAH MIKAELLI

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Sydney by Annabel Kuhn Sydney found my artwork through Instagram because I was hosting a giveaway on my page, and the winner would receive a commission from me!

This is a product of that! Sydney and I worked together to create the perfect piece for her. This piece is a result of an ongoing conversation about the pose, outfit, body shape, colors, etc. I had so much fun involving Sydney in the creation of this project, I think it was a meaningful experience for us both!

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DEONTOLOGICAL NATURE

OF SHIT

Thinking of liberty nowadays usually means that you can only choose between oppression or political reasoning over how we all have left is centered upon one's wealth.

We believe that our lives as humans revolve around what others tell us as being fair and naturally most of us strike to one common target: money. I never said that money is bad nor that they would be good either: it is logical the fact that what makes money look good or evil are our actions and means to fulfill most of the dreams we once had.

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Let's go further and imagine a world without political wings: you would say that having politics eliminated could reduce oppression among the population of any kind.

Unfortunately, not only politicians are the issue, the idea which I'm trying to simply refers to all of us as being the problem.

What's happening worldwide is glorifying our biggest insecurities.

Wanna know why? Because through our insecurities most of the industries not only keep on surviving but continue to mark eye-dropping profits.Day after day.

Everyone is affected psychologically in the first place by what democracy turned out to be.

We could inhale the fresh air, but there's no more fresh air left. It's been polluted by ignorance. The first polluted the soil, water, and air and they're gonna pollute us too with ignorance.

Lack of empathy already became normality.

So we have to ask ourselves: Do we have to endure oppression, stigma, fake standards for the rest of our life or o we have to stand up and fight for real freedom?

There is no excuse: our parents fought towards the regime only for us to have a drop of freedom and it went all wrong for the majority, for us, the young ones.

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Dear genevieve, dear genevieve,

stephanie’s hen died and the world ended when i looked in the mirror

burn like my stovetop in paris burn as a daughter burn until they forget your name was ever mine

-BY Frenchie Scott

stephanie named her baby chicks after my friends and i dreamt about hell stephanie wasn’t in hell but the chickens were and i was one of them ~ i’m nobody’s dream girl nor am i a girl but i am a dream and i’ve gone up in flames

I WROTE BOTH POEMS FOR MY CHAPBOOK IN THE WORKS. IN SHORT, THEY OUTLINE THE GROWING ESTRANGEMENT OF MY FORMER NAME AND MYSELF OVER THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS. GENEVIEVE WAS ONCE MY NAME, BUT NOT MY BIRTH NAME. BEING NON-BINARY, MY CHAPBOOK FOLLOWS BOTH MY EVOLUTION IN TERMS OF GENDER AND AS A YOUTH TRANSFORMING INTO AN ADULT, FREEING ONESELF OF TRAUMA AND THE LIMITATIONS THAT COME WITH BEING MORTAL.

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AL MO ST LOVE

It is not news that dating is nervewracking, but it is also known that even tho both taking part in the said scenario is trying to show up as the best version of themselves, there is a lot more pressure put on women to have everything on point than it is on men.

So with this piece, I wanted to illustrate how something that is supposed to be fun and lovely such as spending quality time with someone can turn out to be both mentally and physically challenging, especially if driven by lust and ego.

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THE LOVE LETTER Hello, my name is Patricia Estrada I’m from

We are all beautiful and you should be the first person that you love. My art talk about self-love, mental health, eating disorder (I made 2 zines for each) and it’s available for free on my Instagram @pssstrada. I hope I could help people with my art and my dream is working for magazines and music industry as a graphic designer! I hope you are okay and never forget to love yourself.

the south of France. “The love letter” is a message for saying that everyone should love themselves and take care of them. It can be by taking a good bath or just take YOUR time.

Self-love is really important as I have mental health issues and I’m not the only! So we should prove the world who we are and accept ourselves. I know it’s hard but everyone needs good help and not be ashamed of that.

ILUSTRATIONS AND TEXT

BY PATRICIA ESTRADA

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A N O I N T E D H A U N T I N G S

Hello, I’m Ben Solliday a 16-year-old artist living in New York. I created this artwork as a response to the deaths of both of my grandfathers. As an atheist, I found it very hard to come to terms with the idea of death because beyond life there truly was not any purpose beyond our earthly existence in my eyes. The vacant figures in the back represent me trying to find closure during a dark time in my life. The frontal figure symbolizes my realization that despite my irreligious ideals, there is still an impetus to live happily.

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2EUNITNOC Teri Anderson creates work that looks into the idea of craft in art, textiles, installation, and sculpture to create a linear or surreal environment that the audience has to inhabit. The work links to her heritage and how textiles were key in their family history including sample machinists and pattern cutters. Building on this Teri proposes an art practice that incorporates craft-based techniques into the art based discipline of installation.

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AFTER AN EMOTIONALLY OVERWHELMING NIGHT PART OF A PROJECT FOR UNI, INVOLVING MEMORIES REPRESENTED AS SHADOWS. LAST ILLUSTRATION OF THIS SERIES.DECEMBER 3RD 2019, AFTER AN EMOTIONALLY OVERWHELMING NIGHT, WITH THE GIRL I LOVED.

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BY ANDREEA POSTA

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"She moved" "I don't want to face the camera"

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WHAT IS SO SURPRISING? How is it surprising That there are more BAME frontline workers than white.

Whether that’s as doctors and nurses or shopkeepers and transport workers.

How is it surprising.

Only to the people who used to turn a blind eye to these workers Is it surprising.

Only to the people who voted to kick these folks out of the country Is it surprising.

That now, It’s these workers who decide if these people live or die.

If the very people, who allowed these very workers to be paid minimum wage for the life-line they provide, Who chose to cut government funding which would provide hospitals with equipment

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And give support for the people who put their lives on the line, Are worthy of a life; How is it surprising That the society we live in values the economy over lives, When so many examples provide evidence that this was life for some time.

Like the fact a third of homeless people Die of treatable conditions.

Or that five football pitches every minute of rainforest are cleared Leaving the indigenous tribes and animals, Without their habitat.

Without their home.

How is it surprising That a black man is shot and the white murderers are allowed to walk free In America today.

How is it surprising That people with less privilege are more likely to die from Covid-19.

More likely to suffer.

From not only the virus but the rest of its effects.

How is it surprising That Trump and Johnson are two world leaders of today.

Both racist in their own way.

How is it surprising That a woman earns 81 cents for every dollar earned by a man, How is it surprising That Trans people are having their rights Taken away “due” to this virus.

How is it surprising That people with disabilities are seen as less of a priority to save.

How is it surprising.

It’s not surprising.

It has been this way for too long Only now Have they made those unwilling, see a peek, Of what many unaffected try so desperately Not to seek.

They find it surprising.

We knew it already.

What is surprising Is how long it has taken for them To see What was right in front of them What is so surprising Is how they still sit back expecting us to continue fighting and for them to be entertained Like humanity’s and animals’ and this very Earth’s existence Is just a five-a-side.

What is surprising Is the fact that we as a society aren’t acting Aren’t actually listening We always want to know the truth But only some are supposedly “right” to act on it What is surprising Is the fact they are hypnotised By the thing we seek to correct The very privileges they freak out about and rescue from the Unwanted, prying hands of us The ones they forget That's what is surprising.

Surprising should not be the norm, But it is to the majority.

That’s why it's not surprising.

No matter how much it destroys our brain To think that the world we live in Is this way.

No matter how many people We see dying mentally and physically Due to this world we live in.

When you think about how long it has been this way, How is it surprising?

We all saw it go this way.

We can track almost every decision that led us to this point.

But we also can rise above it.

We can change the system.

We can listen and act.

Let's be “surprising” for once.

So then we are “What is so surprising”.

The title "What is so surprising?" was formed when I was watching the news and the news guy kept saying "a new surprising report finds that there are more BAME doctors and nurses in hospitals" and he kept asking the people he was interviewing "is it surprising?" or something like that, which got me really annoyed as it was obvious that that was the

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BOTANICAL COLLAGE BY

RYAN

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Ryan has been working in the medium of collage for the past ten years and specializes in botanical and conceptual collage and abstract painting driven by a love for nature. Ryan’s art searches for beauty in unusual places and he encourages the viewer to listen to the colors in his paintings and to get lost in the textures and forms and ‘listen’ to their inner sounds.

Ryan often questions happiness and contentment and still maintains that the key to long-term happiness is mindfulness and that ultimate peace of mind can only come from time spent in nature and appreciating its beauty.

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BY HANNAH ROCKETT

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Psychological Portraiture

My images are exploring capturing the unconscious mind through portraiture and how the parts of our mind people don't share with the world can still be seen when observed objectively.

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I specifically look at psychologist Carl Jung's theories on the69 collective and personal unconscious when researching and planning my work to see how this can impact the way it is created and also received.

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INTERVIEW COAST RED 20-year-old Marianne Teigen recently published her first young adult novel, and in only a month, it has reached the New York Times Bestsellers list.

Q: First of all, how did you start making music?

Q: Also, do you have any good luck rituals for going on stage?

*A:J: I started Coast Red back in 2014, and the repertoire grew so much and the people involved grew as well and these guys came in about 2017 – 2018. *A:C: I started playing guitar and writing songs I guess in 2003 or 2004 and I started playing guitar and writing songs, playing piano, bass,etc. *A:M: I always jammed with my sibling and we tried to play Nirvana songs or whatever.

M: Washing my hands after I go to the bathroom. I have two different kinds of rituals, sometimes I"m like completely sober, but then there's another me that’s smoking half a joint or drinking and just getting hammered with Chase before the show, I don’t know if they’re good luck rituals, it’s more of a mood thing.

J: For me, they’re not really like good luck rituals, I pretty much write the setlist for these guys every time and usually I shave the night before a show and have a good breakfast, those types of things, just giving myself a good day.

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Coast Red is an indie California based band formed in 2014. They agreed to do an interview with us and we talked about things like emotional maturity in songwriting, astrology, cool concert stories and more, so read if you wanna hear all about them" Here are some interesting moments from our interview: Q: Also, individually, how was it the first time you performed?

M: I used to do piano recitals when I was a kid and I knew I sucked at the piano so if I could do that I could do anything C: For me, the first time wasn’t even live, I had written my song, I was about 12, and I decided to show my friends and I was like „yeah, I'm gonna show you guys this song I wrote” cause I thought it was sick, but the minute I had to start playing I got so nervous even tho it was about three people.

J: My first time performing was in 4th grade for this kid band I was in and it was 6 guitarists in the band. It started from a guitar class and it was six guitarists and one bassist and one drummer and we had to perform one song and we were the coolest kids in school after that, we played „Good” by Better Than Ezra.

Coast Red is about to release their new, long-awaited single.

It's called ''Yes Man'', and it reflects the idea of being able to have no boundaries towards reaching your dreams.

Or at least, this is what we felt while talking about their new project.

You will deff go wild, go crazy and go bold.

Yes man, we love their New project. How about you?

We can guarantee that you will feel every word and note flowing within this song.

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Q:First of all, how did you start making music? *A:J: I started Coast Red back in 2014, and the repertoir grew so much and the people involved grew as well and these guys came in about 2017 – 2018. *A:C: I started playing guitar and writing songs I guess in 2003 or 2004 and I started playing guitar and writing songs, playing piano, bass,etc. *A:M: I always jammed with my sibling and we tried to play Nirvana songs or whatever.

BORN IN THE DARKROOM

BY ARIANA GIORDANO While this is not my best work (and definitely not the best quality) these photos mean a lot to me. They were taken the fall of 2018. I was taking my first film photography class where I learned the process of developing and printing in a darkroom. It was required for us to attend nude photo shoots, which was perfect for me because I love taking photos of people!

We were told to bring our own props, so I brought in my playboy magazine, and was able to set up the photo exactly how I imagined.

The nude photos with the man and woman were are a real couple The one photo where they are standing side by side was taken in a moment when they weren't posing. I thought it was lovely that their natural state of being was holding one another.

The two photos with the sheet draped over one of them, to me, represents how men and women may mourn in a different way when their lover passes. The photo with the coffee and cigarette is simply a friend of mine. All of these have been taken, developed, and printed by me. I have attached some film sheets as well

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