BollocksCraft Xine Vol. 2
BolloksCraft Xine
Vol. 2
March 2013
Contributors Bender Ryland Fortie Anthony Haley Jessie Kobylanski Woody Lincoln Frank Luca Sean Luciw Simon Mas Ashley Mauerhoffer Bruno Mazzotta Rónan McGrath Stephanie Patsula RRTT Arianne Smith Melaina Todd 3emlya
Edit/Layout Crew Apple Cheddar Muffins... pg 6 Papa T’s... pg 15 In the Dark... pg 8 Maker/Doer Exposé... pg 10 Bread... Back Cover Sriracha... pg 14 Noise Pop... Inside Front Cover Pattern... Inside Back Cover Brush... pg 17 Haiku...pg 5 Haiku... pg 16 Advice... pg 9 The Monocle... pg 14 Note... pg 7 Write-off Review...pg18 Good Gear... pg 19 Illustration... pg 19 Papa T’s... pg 15 Collections... pg 12 Bovary Print pg. 4 Infinita... pg 20
Andrew Dalgleish Jessie Kobylanski Frank Luca Rónan McGrath Stephanie Patsula Melaina Todd
Designers Jessie Kobylanski Frank Luca
Front Cover Frank Luca
THANK YOU BCX Made Possible By: Anonymous Bollokscraft Records Mairi Budreau wiL Shulba
Fudge Yeah The Kamloops Art Gallery Movie Mart Red Beard Roasters
BolloksCraft Xine Firstly, What is Bollokscraft?
How Does a Zine Fit Into Bollokscraft?
Bollokscraft is a lot of things: it’s a collective, a music label, an events co-ordination spot, a distribution point, some folks just hanging out, a hub for makers, and above all, a place for people to connect. We’re a developing community aimed at facilitating open and diverse projects.
Our Xine is a combines the best elements of a classic zine with newspaperly publications. It contains the love for underground, the artistry and the casual creative awesomeness of a zine, but has the consistency and approachability of a newsletter or traditional magazine.
Bollokscraft is all about collaboration and community. Working in good faith with others to gain new perspectives, fill in gaps, learn new things, and just have a good time are tenants we strive to foster in our ventures. While working on ideas under the Bollokscraft umbrella we encourage thinking beyond in-built expectations, embracing new views and practicing new creative methods. We want to tear down the walls between ‘artists’ and ‘audiences’ to nurture an inclusive doing/being community of folks who want to collectively produce and share works that are greater than the sum of their contributor’s particular skills. Participation at Bollokscraft is the process of celebrating the experimentally positive in all ways possible. Bollokscraft produces, publishes, distributes, organizes events, and connects people and points.
Why Xine?
Our really cool X is a crossing and a meeting of different avenues and as such it stands for the freely associated convergence of the principles and values of many forms of publication. Our plans for the Xine don’t fit under the usual headings but allows us to set our own course through that infinite fractal of print media, information and opinion. The Bollokscraft Xine contains a wide variety of article styles and content; from album reviews, to art info, to rad DIY projects, to blurbs on the awesome and inspiring, to comics and illustrations, to tear-out pages of art/photos/origami and more. If you can think it and make it 2D, we will always work to accommodate it.
This Xine monster is maintained by some key people who inexplicably feel compelled to go above and beyond in putting in hard work during their free time (and sometimes even their not-so-free time). However, this Xine is nourished by a community of various kinds of people who submit their art, media, thoughts, insights and considerations for print. The Bollokscraft Xine is a tangible nexus to showcase ideas from the Kamloops doing/making community and beyond!
Submissions Submitting any work to the BolloksCraft Xine means that you understand and agree with the following: You have labeled the document with your name or pseudonym, email address and phone number, title, medium and any special notes (ex. preferred in colour, is time sensitive, contains valuable/delicate material etc.). Text should be sent in a word. doc. If images are to be included, please send them separately as jpeg, tiff, png or bmp files that are labeled with the image title and your last name. Ideally images will be 300 dpi. If you’re unsure about any formatting specifications, please just contact us. We are more than happy to help! Your work will probably see publication. If so, you will be notified by email or telephone. If the editing party thinks changes are required, you will be contacted (if you’re not there) and asked to modify whatever needs work. If an agreement cannot be reached, we will withdraw from working with that piece, but in no way discourage you from submitting other works.
Support If you submit something to us, say a short story, and in the mean time you have also submitted it to a major publishing firm and they decide to publish your piece with exclusivity, it is your responsibility to notify us so we can pull it. We want to keep this legal and easy, so please keep us posted. By contributing works, you will also be encouraged to contribute a very modest sum (around $2) to help cover printing costs. This is not mandatory, but a small donation goes a long way to getting not only exposure for yourself and our community, but in providing a nexus point for doers and makers alike! For any further clarification, please see the mandate/guidelines at bollokscraftrecords. com
Submit Works To:
bollokscraftxine@gmail.com or mail it to BolloksCraft Xine 406 Nicola Street Kamloops BC V2C 2P8
Bollokscraft is a donation and volunteer powered organization and since we prefer our Xine to be ad-free we welcome any kind of support. Obviously, monetary donations are the most direct way you can help out in sustaining this publication as an art/idea sharing space. If you want to send funds directly to the BCX coffers through Paypal, visit bollokscraft.com/support/ If you provide your name and address with your donation, we will see to it that you recieve a proper BCX thank you! (more details on the website) At the moment, the printing cost of every edition of this Xine is covered using the personal savings of our most involved community members. Any donations will greatly reduce that out of pocket expense and ensure the persistence of this thing. If you are more inclined to support this project through volunteering, contact us via bollokscraftxine@gmail.com. We look forward to working with you!
Apple and Aged Cheddar
Muffins
This is a recipe adapted from the Easy Peasy plain muffin base recipe on Attic 24, which is a blog written by a very sweet lady who lives in England. As such, the ingredients are measured by weight rather than volume. For some this will be annoying, but for others it will be a mighty fine excuse to bust out that weigh scale that you have in the back of the cupboard. Either way, these muffins have been adapted to incorporate some nice Canadian aged cheddar, they are very yummy and worth any extra effort the weight measurements may demand. The cheddar is all melty and crisp on the top of the muffin and makes the muffin centre oh-so-moist and soft. Even if you think eating apple pie with a slice of sharp white cheddar instead of vanilla ice cream is strange, you should give these a shot. I strongly advise using the applesauce I have put in the recipe. The original recipe calls for an egg, which you can use in a pinch, but using apple sauce instead makes for a much moister, softer muffin. Makes 6-8 muffins, a mini batch for ultimate freshness.
125 g flour 1 3/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 50 g sugar 1/2 tsp cinnamon 4 tbsp milk 2 tbsp coconut oil (or vegetable oil) 1/4 c apple sauce 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1 grated apple little squares of aged white cheddar, 1 for each muffin Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 1. In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon. 2. In a measuring jug, combine milk, coconut oil, apple sauce and vanilla. Stir to mix it all up. 3. Grate one apple (peel and all) into the bowl with the dry ingredients. 4. Pour the wet ingredients on top and very gently and sparingly, mix the batter. Like only 3 or 4 stirs. Just enough so that it is roughly combined. It’s ok if you can still see some flour, it will disappear once they’re in the oven. Don’t OVERMIX or you will have TOUGH MUFFINS. 5. Plop your batter into muffin cups and add a square of cheddar to the top of each one. I like to do a mix of toppings sometimes, like walnuts or brown sugar instead of cheddar. But cheddar is by far the favourite when there is a choice. 6. Bake in the oven for 20 or so minutes, or until the muffins are golden brown. 7. Eat when fresh! Eat when warm and soft from the oven!
Lusine The Waiting Room From the moment I heard the pre-mastered version of Lusine’s single “Another Tomorrow,” I was hooked. Their latest album, The Waiting Room was released on February 18th on the mighty Ghostly International record label. After listening to the album in its entirety all I can say is that I am completely and utterly floored. The album’s second single, “Without A Plan,” is absolutely gorgeous in every way I could hope a track might be. I listened to the album in its entirety, and with the closing track “February” still buzzing in my mind, I headed over to the Ghostly shop and purchased the limited edition gray vinyl double LP of this incredible album. You should too! I know it’s a bold statement, but I can assuredly say that The Waiting Room will be one of the best LPs released in 2013. I promise you that it will be at the top of my year ender.
Astral Social Club Generator Breaker Astral Social Club - Generator Breaker | Synth-Ascension - Other-worldy sonic scapepainting - Many dreams + To listen to in anticipation of a perspective shift++Breathing in a mountain of sound+++Discerning the deep patterns of absolute motion SeeAlso: Audiophysiopsychics, Growing, Vibracathedral Orchestra —-Write-Off Review—-
Maker/Doer Expose - Anthony Haley I’m an Illustrator based out of Hamilton, Ontario. These pieces are from a series I’ve been working on over the past year and a half: The Hamilton Hip Hop Portrait Series. There is something particular about Hamilton Hip Hop right now that keeps it from being lumped in with the Toronto scene. There are nods to the 80’s, bringing back the block party vibe with a mix of Graffiti, Breakdancing, MCing and DJing in each show. The Portrait Series showcases local MCs and DJs as well as some promoters and radio hosts - pretty much anyone that is involved with the Hamilton Hip Hop community. The series has allowed me to meet many talented artists around the city that I didn’t know about before. As of March, I have roughly 18 more portraits to finish before assembling them into a book. Alongside the portraits, the book will also contain interviews providing context and insight into how the Hamilton Hip Hop scene has impacted the artists.
Stuff We Like: The Monocle 776 College Street, Toronto, ON On One hung-over Sunday afternoon back in December I was walking home from a satisfying breakfast on College Street, slightly in a fog, when I stumbled upon Monocle’s storefront. I almost passed by altogether until I noticed their logo, their choice of typography and the overall sense that this wasn’t an ordinary retail space. For those of you who haven’t heard, Monocle is a London based magazine reporting on global stories relating to international affairs, business, culture and design.
What sets Monocle apart from other zines is its approach to the industry and to its customers. They have storefronts in New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong and most recently in Toronto. Not only do these retail spaces sell very specific products catering to the Monocle reader but they also provide an environment where readers can get a more personal experience with the brand and interact with passionate and knowledgeable staff. After only 10 minutes of being in their Toronto location,
Sriracha On just about everything. It’s a tastier, livelier answer to ketchup. Sure, it’s red too, but BRIGHT red! It’s got bite and tang and zip and a little garlic swish. It also has a complimentary green squirty top that is so pleasing to fire our favourite hot sauce through. As if it didn’t taste and look so good already, its commonish name is ‘cock sauce’ because there’s a big ol’ rooster on the bottle. Innuendos and spicy awesomeness? Yes! Thank you Huy Fong, we love SRIRACHA!
I had a beautifully wrapped issue and the Editor in Chiefs contact information with which I was encouraged to utilize whenever I pleased. I mean, what other magazine is that approachable? These are just a few tidbits as to why Monocle has made it on my love list. Oh! And on a side note, for those art and design nerds out there, the card stock they use is simply delightful. It alone makes the magazine worth a flip through. Cheers!
Papa Tee’s Pizzeria
705 Victoria St, Kamloops, BC
Where to begin? This place is awesome in so many ways: 1. Let’s start with the pizza. This is the best pizza in town. I would even venture to say that it’s the best pizza I’ve had outside of Rome. Oh yes, I’ve been to Rome. What did I learn there? Pizza is a simple and magical thing. It is all about the crust and the sauce and some simple, fresh ingredients. Margherita pizza used to be a mystery to me. Why would anyone want a pizza with nothing but cheese and basil? Well I now know it is because the sauce and
the beer is badass, it’s locally and organically grown and brewed in Sorrento: Crannog Ales). If you get him talkin’ he might send you to a Youtube video of a weird rap song that he made as a joke (I think) with his son. Once we watched him chase a very rude and sassy teen pizza delivery dude off the premises. It was awesome. He is awesome. 3. The servers think less is more and they’re right. They don’t fawn over your children, pretend to be your friend or laugh at your dumb jokes. They take care of you but refrain from trying to ingratiate themselves in some weird insincere dance for a tip.
the crust of a great pizza should stand on its own. Papa Tee’s succeeds at this: the crust is thin, light, crispy, and flavourful. It is the ideal combo of chewiness and flakiness. The red sauce is the perfect balance of rich tomato-ey sweetness and zing, with just the right hint of garlic. But wait… you can also substitute red sauce for white sauce, which is equally amazing in its creaminess with a bit more of a garlic kick. He’s got all the topping combos you’d expect to see, Veggie, Mediterranean, Meatzilla (not the name on the menu, but you get the gist),
as well as some less traditional ones, like a Masala Chicken pizza. But in my opinion, the best ones are the Pepperoni (I’m a vegetarian, that’s how good it is) and the Old Country (olive oil, gorgonzola and artichoke hearts…wow). They’re simple and delicious. There are starters, homemade pasta, gluten free everything, and even some Thai dishes. The whole menu is awesome if you can drag yourself from the pizza list. 2. Trevor, Papa Tee himself, is a real character. He’s generous, genuine, easy-going, heck he might even by you a beer (and
4. There is a Monster Calzone eating challenge!! It’s called the Man-zone or something like that! If you can eat a ginormous calzone in under 3 minutes you get it for free! 5. I don’t know what kind of music source it is, but they roll with a hilarious stream of old classics and Top 30 hits from 12 years ago. You get a bit of the Beatles, then some Swollen Members. It’s all very entertaining and full of weird high school flashbacks. Please flood this place with business so he doesn’t sell it to pursue his gluten-free products business instead!
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