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Graphic Design // July 2013
Kristina Baker
Third Wave Save Ferris
The Resignators
REEL BIG FISH
r o t i d e e h t m a Letter fro Third Wave was created by a bored teenager that just so happens to be a fan of ska and punk, and thought the two combined was pretty awesome. This magazine contains interviews with bands, news on tours, etc. Hopefully it’s cool to look at, too. Enjoy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS News ....................................................................02 Save Ferris ..................................................... 03 Rock Lobsta ................................................... 05 The Resignators ......................................... 08 Reel Big Fish .................................................. 10 Skashank Redemption ............................ 15 Ska Punk History Lesson .......................... 16 01
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Less Than Jake has partnered with VHX for the release of six full live concert videos. Each concert features a separate set of the band playing one album in its entirety - Pezcore, Losing Streak, Hello Rockview, Borders and Boundaries, Anthem and In With the Out Crowd. Individual concert videos can be purchased for $5 each, with the entire six-video set available for $25. Fans that purchase all six sets will receive bonus content. from thepunksite.com
New Jersey’s own, Streetlight Manifesto, has recently said that they will be going on an indefinite touring hiatus after 2013. In light of the announcement, the band kicked off their The End Of The Beginning tour in Albany, NY on June 19th. The cross-country three week tour continued until July 13th, ending in Providence, RI. from thepunksite.com
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Not quite a reunion Save Ferris sues Save Ferris singer for booking Save Ferris reunion without Save Ferris No one ever said being in a band was easy. Sometimes it’s even hard to have formerly been in one. Take, for example, the story of Save Ferris, a prominent band of the third wave ska revival of the mid-’90s: they came from Orange County, had a couple of near-hits (the 1995 ska cover of “Come On Eileen” being the biggest) in the wake of No Doubt’s ascendancy, showed up in a film (“10 Things I Hate About You”), and broke up in 2002, having distinguished themselves from their bro-centric contemporaries (Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, et al) mostly via the presence of a female in the group, singer Monique Powell, whose glamorously rowdy style made her the band’s most recognizable member, as is often the case with singers.
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Flash forward to April, when the Orange County Fair announced that its summer concert series would include Powell. a Save Ferris reunion show July 27 at the 8,500-capacity Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa, CA. Nothing terribly noteworthy there: bands reunite all the time (the series will also include shows by the Go-Gos, the B-52s, X, Three Dog Night, the Grass Roots and, opening for SF, the English Beat). But this was not to be a typical reunion—or rather, it was to be an increasingly typical one. Turns out Monique Powell is the only member of the original band who will be participating in the show, much to the chagrin of her former bandmates, who posted the following denunciation to the Save Ferris Facebook page:
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ORIGINAL “SAVE FERRIS” BAND MEMBERS DEBUNK ANNOUNCEMENT OF “REUNION SHOW” Anaheim, CA, April 9, 2013 - To Our Fans: It was brought to our attention that on or about April 8, 2013 Monique Powell, the former singer for the band “Save Ferris,” announced that a Save Ferris “reunion show” would be taking place at the Orange County Fairgrounds on July 27, 2013. We feel it is important that fans of the band Save Ferris know that this is NOT a reunion show and the show will NOT include any original or former Band member other than Monique Powell. We have not authorized Monique Powell to perform under the name Save Ferris and the original and former Band members regret any confusion to our fans that may be caused as a result of any misleading statements or marketing materials disseminated by Ms. Powell or any other parties connected to this concert engagement. From what we can infer by the marketing and advertising materials we have seen thus far, this engagement is simply a Monique Powell performance of Save Ferris material accompanied by various musicians, who are unknown to the Band. Due to the large number of inquiries we have received about this subject matter, we felt it was appropriate to release this statement to better clarify the participants of this event so that the public and our loyal fans can make an informed decision regarding whether to attend the event. Although we would like to perform an actual “reunion show” at some point in time featuring the original and former Band members, we would like to take this opportunity now to thank all of the Save Ferris fans who have continued to support our music and the Band over the years. Thank you!
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Save Ferris But the show remained on the schedule, so the chagrin became something altogether more aggressive. The OC Weekly reported last week that the former bandmates were suing Powell. Save Ferris frontwoman Monique Powell could find herself in legal hotwater over the decision to do a reunion show at the OC Fair without any of the other original members. The singer was recently sued by her former bandmates for falsely promoting what’s been billed as a reunion show at Costa Mesa’s Pacific Amphitheatre on July 27. A conversationwith the band’s original guitarist Brian Mashburn confirmed that he and his former bandmates Bill Uechi, Eric Zamora, Brian Williams, Oliver Zavala and Evan Kilbourne were definitely not happy about the announcement about the show back in April. Now, they’re seeking unspecified damages for promoting the Pacific date as a proper Save Ferris appearance and an injunction that would prevent Powell from using the moniker ever again. Harsh? Eh, not really, according to Mashburn, considering Powell never even told the band what her plans were for the show. “On [April 8] we found out that Monique Powell scheduled a Save Ferris “Reunion” show without inviting or telling any of the original band members,” says Mashburn. “And because word spreads so quickly on social media these days and pre-sale tickets were going on sale Wednesday, the band wanted to do the responsible thing and inform the public
and its fans before they purchased tickets that this wasn’t a “reunion” show and didn’t involve any band members other than Monique.” Powell joined the band in 1995 after original singer Adrienne Knolff quit. Mashburn says that most of the songs likely to be performed at the OC Fair gig were written either solely by him or as a collaboration between him and Powell. The band--still considered heroes in OC’s Third Wave Ska scene--rose to prominence after 1997’s ska-style cover of “Come On Eileen” by Dexys Midnight Runners but split in 2002 after two albums. The remainder of Save Ferris went on to perform as Starpool with lead singer Alan Meade. As with recent stories about Stone Temple Pilots and Queensryche, this saga brings up interesting questions about who retains the legal, ethical and (dare one say) spiritual rights to a defunct band’s name and image—the original players or the face and voice most closely associated with the group’s notoriety. To date, Monique Powell has only made one statement about the fracas: “While I had hoped this could be a reunion of sorts with all, or some, of my former SF band members, unfortunately that isn’t the way it looks to be turning out.” But a post on her Twitter feed two days after the lawsuit news broke seemed to indicate her position, albeit obliquely (and self-aggrandizingly) :
@Monique_Powell: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~Mahatma Gandhi She is a lead singer, after all. Save Ferris performing. Photo posted on the band’s official Facebook page.
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Hot lobsta
Mahiki goes punk with Carl Clarke’s new restaurant Mahiki, the Mayfair club once beloved of Prince William, has gone a bit punk. Having suspended its usual no jeans and T-shirts door policy the club is now serving chips with a side of “edible spliffs” (no drugs, just celery salt and chilli). It’s all down to DJ-turned-chef Carl Clarke, 45, who has brought his team from east London to “stir s**t up in Mayfair” with his restaurant Rock Lobsta. Planned as a permanent addition to Mahiki, the menu will be familiar to those who visited Clarke’s east London ventures, including Disco Bistro, where former drug baron “Mr Nice” Howard Marks does a quiz night. There’s a mix of luxurious and downright trashy food. That means the delicate fresh Cornish lobster
has been fried and turned into corn dogs, Clarke’s favourite dish there, and there’s something called fried beer cheese. The music is a mix of dub reggae, punk and ska. “I was nervous initially,” says Clarke. “I thought, ‘I’m exposing myself doing this in Mayfair’, but I’ve had a great reaction. My east London mates came to our opening, to christen it.” It’s all very well doing that sort of thing out East but how has he got the more traditional part of the city to take note? “I suppose they’ve seen it’s fun. It all started because I decided food needed a more left-field moment, with the same approach as club nights. I used to DJ at
Turnmills so I used the same approach. “Food is part of a night out now. It needs a soundtrack, art, great kitchen. Who cares what you wear as long as the food is good? “Now there’s a great scene, with cool people like the Young Turks at The Clove Club. Kids want more. The table might be wobbly but as long as there’s soul it doesn’t matter. London’s food has never been better.” Clarke’s first venture was two years ago, when he brought lobster to the East End. “I was in the pub with my friend and we thought of lobster rolls. We started the Twitter hashtag KlackKlack to get discussion about lobster and suddenly everyone was talking about it.” This led to their first pop-up (or “ad hoc itinerant restaurant” as he calls them because “I hate the word pop-up, it’s been bastardised”), in Calvert Street. “We were totally inexperienced but picked up momentum and sold around 100 kilos of lobster in three days. Our first customer came from the City in a limousine and bought us out.” Although he loves Hackney and its environs for work, Clarke admits: “I’d die if I lived East.” He prefers Kensal Rise, where he and his wife, who works as a manager at the Fairtrade Foundation, have lived since he came to London from Birmingham in 1994, to DJ. “All my friends live there. It’s like grown-up east London.”
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He’s excited about Rock Lobsta but admits at the moment his ideal night would be “at home, with a curry and a Guinness”. How about a curry version of Disco Bistro? “Who knows what will happen next?”
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The Resignators emba Chances are very good you don’t know diddly about the Resignators. Unless, that is, you come from the land Down Under, where the seven-piece Melbourne skacore crew has developed a fiercely devoted following for its hot-rodding, skanking sounds. Also, those in the ska scene probably have caught the crew on one of its five cross-Canada tours tearing up venues from coast to coast with various acts, frequently labelmates on Montreal’s celebrated Stomp Records. The Resignators’ Francis “The Captain” Harrison, who describes himself as “vocalist and all-round nice guy,” was nice enough to take time out of the band’s very busy tour schedule to answer a few questions for us.
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The Province: Truthfully, nobody much knows the Aussie ska scene. Is it big, little, local to one particular city or what? The Captain: Really, nobody knows? Well maybe that’s because it’s a well-kept secret. Currently there’s a small yet enthusiastic ska scene in Australia, based mainly in the major cities of Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and our home town of Melbourne. All different styles of the genre are covered, from traditional Jamaican, blue beat, dance hall, 2 tone, lovers rock, rock steady, third wave, ska-core, ska punk and reggae. Interestingly enough Australia played a role in the early Jamaican ska scene when in the late 1950s a band called the Caribs were called upon to play backing tracks on many of the early ska hits. An Australian guy named Graeme Goodall also engineered on a lot of these recordings. Q: A 40-year age difference between the oldest and youngest members of the band is unusual. Who schools who in what? A: Nobody really schools anybody in anything. Steve, the elder statesman of the band, has a keen interest and sound knowledge of traditional Jamaican
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sounds, but that hasn’t stopped others from researching the genre and bringing in their own ideas and concepts. It really is a joint project. Some of the younger members also bring a more modern element and point of view to our music. Q: And if that wasn’t weird enough, you have the original guitar player from GWAR in the band, too? How did this crew ever come together in 2005? A: Steve, the original Ballsack, Jaws of Death from GWAR, didn’t join The Resignators until 2010. He had been living in rural Australia with his Australian wife, and now our keyboard player, Stacy. He had grown up in the Caribbean learning his trade from two voodoo princesses. It’s interesting at shows when people find out, we are about as far from GWAR stylistically as you can get. Steve is happy to chat to the fans about his time with GWAR. Steve comes in very handy at Halloween with his knowledge of costume and makeup. Q: With Down in Flames coming out on Stomp in North America, the band is heading over here to tour. Is this the first time to our shores to play?
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A: This will be The Resignators’ fifth tour of Canada. The first was in 2009 when we were lucky enough to cross Canada with The Creepshow from Toronto. We love coming to Canada and with support from our label, Stomp Records from Montreal, we try to get a tour there once a year. It has, however, been two years since our last visit. Now, armed with our new record Down in Flames, we promise to bring our Australian antics, good humour and great skankin’ tunes as we play across Canada with a bunch of amazing bands including Suburban Legends and Canada’s own king of Jamaican ska, Chris Murray. We can’t tell you how excited we are for these shows! Q: What makes the Resignators stand apart from other bands in the genre? Besides those ridiculously pro-U.S. and Canadian tour promo videos? A: The Resignators stand out because of their energy, it’s pure and simple. Great music, hot-looking individuals out of Melbourne, Australia, combined with one of the most energetic shows you’re ever likely to see. If I wasn’t in the band I’d still be at every show, buying their records, wearing their T-shirts, drinking their beer and having fun. from theprovince.com 09
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Reel Big Fish OCEAN CITY — About 16 years ago, Aaron Barrett penned lyrics that warned of the potential ills upstart music artists might face from major record labels.
“They tell me it’s cool ... I just don’t believe it.” Reel Big Fish chester Academy
with frontman Aaron Barrett, performing at Man2 in February of 2011. Photo by Giles Smith.
Then, the Reel Big Fish frontman watched as the words from “Sell Out” came to life — for his band. The 1997 hit looms as the band’s biggest commercial success, and its short-lived run on a major label lingers as a forgettable footnote in Reel Big Fish’s history.
“It is kind of funny how the lyrics ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. It was kind of a joke when those lyrics were written. But I think it was weird at the same time because we had a sense of, ‘We know this is what’s going to happen.’” Poster adverstising Reel Big Fish’s tour for their newest album, Candy Coated Fury, with Pilfers and Dan Potthast.
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Reel Big Fish, from left to right: Ryland Steen, Dan Regan, Aaron Barrett, Scott Klopfenstein, John Christianson, Derek Gibbs
“But as a young band, at that point all you can do is enjoy yourself as much as possible, because it could be a short ride. Luckily for us, it’s been a very long, enjoyable ride.” As it turns out, “Sell Out” was far from the pinnacle of success for Reel Big Fish — it was just the beginning. Reel Big Fish remains perhaps the most viable band that spawned from the 1990s Southern California-bred ska-punk era thanks to a relentless touring schedule and a steady stream of projects in the recording studio. The group played Seacrets in Ocean City on Monday, July 8, on what would otherwise have been a day off between its Vans Warped Tour dates in New Jersey and Virginia.
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Reel Big Fish “The band had a taste of being played on the radio — we had that commercial push when the whole punk-ska thing was happening,” the singer-guitarist said. “When ska crept back into the underground, what kept us alive was the constant touring.” The band marked its 20th anniversary in part with the release of “Candy Coated Fury,” its seventh studio album, as well as continued touring galvanized by a fan base full of diehards whose loyalty hasn’t wavered, and a new generation of younger fans who have gravitated to Reel Big Fish’s style. Barrett said the band thrives when it has a jam-packed touring schedule — it is on the road a minimum of six months per year — and its latest album seems to suggest Reel Big Fish is at its best when it has the liberty to produce music on its own terms.
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Barrett said Reel Big Fish has enjoyed its artistic independence since going the indie route for “Candy Coated Fury.”
“Luckily, we had already built up this amazing, loyal fan base, who didn’t care that we didn’t have a song on the radio. They just kept coming to the shows anyway.” - Barrett
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Meet the Band:
SKASHANK REDEMPTION Ah, ska. That bouncing, brassy, bass-heavy music of decades past (remember Reel Big Fish? Mighty Mighty Bosstones?) is still alive thanks to a central Ohio bunch. That said, “our focus isn’t necessarily preservation,” said saxophonist Joe Brenneman, 26, whose ensemble — the tongue-in-cheek Skashank Redemption — would rather kick back than make a statement. Ska, he said, is “energetic, brings people together onto the dance floor, and isn’t preoccupied with trying to seem cool.” Skashank
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Q: How do you define your music? A: Ska is a label that covers a lot of mileage. We play fast, upbeat rock with an in-your-face horn section. Think punk meets reggae. Q: Some people associate the genre with a specific time and place — namely, the 1980s and ’90s. Have you always embraced the genre? A: For most of us, ska was something we knew about but didn’t totally identify with in its heyday. Catchy melodies and horns drew us into the genre. Ska represents a historical collision of several disparate sounds that offers a lot of opportunity for us. Q: Are all of you marching-band alumni? A: Nearly all of us were in a school band at some point, and most of us have degrees in music. Music is something that we can’t live without — and something I’d consider to be our primary vocation. Q: Can you explain your involvement with the Dick & Jane Project? A: Last summer, I served as a resident musician, songwriter, producer for their Insteption album release and had the pleasure of working with some of the kids they had shadowing us throughout the entire process. My favorite moment was when I met the girl who provided the lyrics to my particular song and got to talk to her about what inspired her to start writing. Q: Why should someone see your band in concert? A: It’s impossible to leave without feeling exhausted, sweaty and very satisfied. from dispatch.com
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A Not-So-Brief History of Ska
(pronounced /’ska:/, Jamaican [skja])
is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the upbeat. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British Mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads. Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s (First Wave), the English 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s (Second Wave) and the third wave ska movement, which started in the 1980s (Third Wave) and rose to popularity in the US in the 1990s. 16
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After World War II, Jamaicans purchased radios in increasing numbers and were able to hear rhythm and blues music from Southern United States cities such as New Orleans by artists such as Fats Domino and Louis Jordan. The stationing of American military forces during and after the war meant that Jamaicans could listen to military broadcasts of American music, and there was a constant influx of records from the US. To meet the demand for that music, entrepreneurs such as Prince Buster, Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems. As jump blues and more traditional R&B began to ebb in popularity in the early 1960s, Jamaican artists began recording their own version of the genres. The style was of bars made up of four triplets, similar to that of “My Baby Just Cares for Me” by Nina Simone, but was characterized by a guitar chop on the off beat - known as an upstroke or skank - with horns taking the lead and often following the off beat skank and piano emphasizing the bass line and, again, playing the skank. Drums kept 4/4 time and the bass drum was accented on the 3rd beat of each 4-triplet phrase. The snare would play side stick and accent the third beat of each 4-triplet phrase. The upstroke sound can also be found in other Caribbean forms of music, such as mento and calypso. The first ska recordings were created at facilities such as Studio One and WIRL Records in Kingston, Jamaica with producers such as Dodd, Reid, Prince
Buster, and Edward Seaga. The ska sound coincided with the celebratory feelings surrounding Jamaica’s independence from the UK in 1962; an event commemorated by songs such as Derrick Morgan’s “Forward March” and The Skatalites’ “Freedom Sound.” Because the newly-independent Jamaica didn’t ratify the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works until 1994 copyright was not an issue, which created a large number of cover songs and reinterpretations. Jamaican musicians such as The Skatalites often recorded instrumental ska versions of popular American and British music, such as Beatles songs, Motown and Atlantic soul hits, movie theme songs, or surf rock instrumentals. Bob Marley’s band The Wailers covered the Beatles’ “And I Love Her,” and radically reinterpreted Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”
Iconic Jamaican ska band, The Skatalites.
Ska Punk 2 Tone: A Revival 2 Tone (or Two Tone) was created in England in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae and pop. It was called 2 Tone because most of the bands were signed to the record label 2 Tone Records at some point. Other record labels associated with the 2 Tone sound were Stiff Records and Go Feet Records. Within the history of ska music, 2 Tone is classified as its second wave, the product of a time when the New Wave music of the early 1980s stirred nostalgia for vintage music. It is the musical precursor of the third wave ska scene of the 1990s. The 2 Tone sound was developed by young musicians (mostly based in the West Midlands area) who grew up hearing 1960s Jamaican music. They combined 1960s ska with influences from contemporary punk and pop music. Bands considered part of the 2 Tone genre include: The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, Madness, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers. The music term 2 Tone was coined by Jerry Dammers of The Specials. Dammers, with the assistance of Horace Panter, also created the Walt Jabsco logo to represent the 2 Tone movement. It was based on an early album cover photo of Peter Tosh, and included an added blackand-white check pattern.
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Third Wave In the early 1990s, bands influenced by the 2 Tone ska revival started forming in the United States and other countries. This revival included post-punk ska bands such as The Uptones in Berkeley, California and The Toasters and Mighty Mighty Bosstones on the East Coast. Many third wave ska bands played ska punk, which is characterized by brass instruments, a heavily-accented offbeat, and usually a much faster, punk rock-inspired tempo (though the R&B influences are played down). Some third wave bands played ska-core, which blends ska with hardcore punk. However, several third wave ska bands played in a more traditional 1960s-influenced style. On the East Coast, the first well-known ska revival band was The Toasters, who played in a 2 Tone-influenced style and helped pave the way for the third wave ska movement. In 1981, The Toasters’ frontman Robert “Bucket” Hingley created Moon Ska Records, which became the biggest American ska record label. The Uptones jump-started the Bay Area California ska scene in 1981 when the band, consisting of Berkeley High School students, went on to play sold-out shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for seven years. Their 1984 self-titled record was released on Howie Klein’s 415 label. The Uptones’ punk-influenced ska has been cited as inspiration by California bands, Operation Ivy, Rancid, and Sublime. In 2002 The Uptones reformed and continue to record and play live shows on the west coast. Orange County, California had one of the biggest and most influential third wave ska scenes, which originated in the early 1990s. For about a decade, Orange County was the starting point for many successful third wave ska bands. Some of these ska bands had a great deal of commercial success, albeit short-lived. The Hippos and Save Ferris enjoyed commercial success with the albums “Heads Are Gonna Roll” and “It Means Everything”, 18
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respectively. Both acts were featured in several major motion picture soundtracks during the 1990s. The Aquabats have remained one of the few original Orange County ska bands who still play today. However, the band generally doesn’t play in a ska style in their most recent release, Charge!!. The same applies to Goldfinger, who, despite once being an active forerunner in the scene, dropped the ska sound in 2001. In the early 1990s, the Ska Parade radio show helped popularize the term third wave ska and promoted many Southern California ska-influenced bands, such as Sublime, No Doubt, Reel Big Fish, and Let’s Go Bowling. In 1993, the ska-core band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones signed with Mercury Records and appeared in the film Clueless, with their first mainstream hit “Where’d You Go?” Around this time, many ska-influenced songs became hits on mainstream radio, including “Spiderwebs” by No Doubt, “Sell Out” by Reel Big Fish (which reached #10 in the Billboard Modern Rock charts in 1997) and “The Impression That I Get” by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. In 1994, Matt Collyer of The Planet Smashers’ founded the third wave ska label Stomp Records. In 1996, Mike Park of Skankin’ Pickle founded Asian Man Records, which was the biggest west coast United States third wave ska label. Also in 1996, the band Less Than Jake started the record label Fueled by Ramen, which featured many lesser-known third wave ska bands, and later became the home of successful pop-punk bands like Fall Out Boy. In 1997, Brett Gurewitz and Tim Armstrong founded Hellcat Records, which mostly featured punk bands, but also featured several ska and ska punk acts. By the late 1990s, mainstream interest in third wave ska bands waned as other music genres gained momentum. Moon Ska Records folded in 2000, but Moon Ska Europe, a licensed affiliate based in Europe, continued operating in the 2000s, and was later relaunched as Moon Ska World. In 2003, Hingley launched a new ska record label, Megalith Records. 19
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SKA PUNK Ska punk is a fusion music late 1970s, by bands such as genre that combines ska The Specials, The Selecter, and punk rock. Ska punk The Beat, and Madness. achieved its greatest popularThe fusion of the two genres ity in the United States in the became more prevalent in the late 1990s, although there 1980s, during the third wave has also been a following of ska. Operation Ivy, formed worldwide. Several ska punk in 1987, received positive rebands achieved mainstream sponses in the East Bay area commercial success, which of San Francisco, and were in some cases continued into approached by major labels the 2000s. The characterbefore breaking up in 1989. istics of ska punk vary, due The Mighty Mighty Bosstones to the fusion of contrasting appeared in the movie Cluegenres. The more punk- inless, and their 1997 album fluenced style often features Let’s Face It went platinum. faster tempos, guitar disLess than Jake’s song “We’re tortion, onbeat punk-style All Dudes” appeared in the interludes (usually the chorus), 1997 Nickelodeon film Good and nasal, gruff or shouted voBurger. Save Ferris appeared cals. The more ska-influenced in the film 10 Things I Hate style of ska punk features a About You, and Reel Big Fish more developed instrumentaappeared on BASEketball. tion and a cleaner vocal and Buck-O-Nine’s music appeared musical sound. The common in the films The Big Hit and instrumentation includes elecHomegrown. Between 1999 tric guitar, bass guitar, drums, and 2001, many ska punk brass instruments (such as bands began to break up, trombones or trumpets), and while fans of the genre turned sometimes an organ. Skatheir attention to other music core or Skacore is a subgenre genres. Some bands that of ska punk, blending ska with were originally part of the hardcore punk. One of the ska punk genre, such as The Tim Armstrong (left) and Jesse Michaels (right) of Operation Ivy, argufirst appearances of the term ably one of the most relevant ska punk bands out of the East Bay area. Aquabats, and Mustard Plug ska-core was in the title of continued with less emphaThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones sis on horns and traditional album Ska-Core, the Devil, ska rhythms, and have not and More. Ska and punk rock achieved the same commerwere first combined during cial success that they experithe 2 Tone movement of the enced earlier in their careers.
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Rude Boy Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi or rudy were common terms for juvenile delinquents and criminals in 1960s Jamaica, and have since been used in other contexts. During the late-1970s 2 Tone ska revival in England, the terms rude boy, rude girl and other variations were often used to describe fans of that genre, and this new definition continued to be used in the third wave ska subculture. In the United Kingdom in the 2000s, the terms rude boy and rude girl have become slang, which mainly refer to people (largely youths) who are involved in street culture, similar to Gangsta or Badman. The first rude boys in the 1960s were associated with the poorer sections of Kingston, Jamaica, where ska, then rocksteady were the most popular forms of music. They dressed in
Culture the latest fashions at dancehalls and on the streets. Many of these rude boys started wearing sharp suits, thin ties, and pork pie or Trilby hats; inspired by United States gangster movies, jazz musicians and soul music artists. In that time period, disaffected unemployed Jamaican youths sometimes found temporary employment from sound system operators to disrupt competitors’ dances (leading to the term dancehall crasher). This — and other street violence — became an integral part of the rude boy lifestyle, and gave rise to a culture of political gangviolence in Jamaica. As the Jamaican diaspora grew in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, rude boy music and fashion, as well as the gang mentality, became a strong influence on the skinhead subculture.
Skinhead
A skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youths in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian (specifically Jamaican) rude boys and British mods, in terms of fashion, music and lifestyle. Originally, the skinhead subculture was primarily based on those elements, not politics or race. Since then, however, attitudes toward race and politics have become factors in which some skinheads align themselves. The political spectrum within the skinhead scene ranges from the far right to the far left, although many skinheads are apolitical. Fashion-wise, skinheads range from a clean-cut 1960s mod-influenced style to lessstrict punk- and hardcore-influenced styles.
Current Fashion
Ska fans have three main ways they dress, as of 2010, they will dress in black and white suits, punk-style clothing, or Jamaican Rastafarian-colored type style. The Jamaicans and English made suits, moonstop booths and pork-pie hats trend in the ska scene. Checkered clothing is now widely popular in the punk rock scene. Since the emergence of Ska Punk, the two fashions have fused among young fans.
Artwork illustrating what would generally be considered the “ska style”, created by DeviantART user daskai. from skascene.com
Sadie Calhoun
Table of Contents 4-5 Best and Worst of 1950
6 Best of the Decade: Lord of the Rings 7 Best of the Decade: Lord of the Rings cast 8-9 Best of the Decade: The Dark Knight and Eternal Sunshine 10-11 Best of the Decade: Memento and The Bourne Ultimatum
12-13 Worst of the Decade: Ballistic vs. Sever 14-15 Worst of the Decade: One Missed Call and Pinocchio 16-17 King’s Ransom and National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers 18-19 Upcoming Summer movies 20-23: A Sad Goodbye to Harry Potter
New Brief: Best and Worst movies of 1950
in 1950 there were many different movies that came out, but there area few that have been listed as the wrost AND as the best movies. There may have been something wrong with the movie, but the outcome doesn’t lie. Now lets start the countdown. Starting with the worst and ending with the best, the countdown begins with the number one worst movie from 1950 which was, Rocketship X-M. Most of this generation (to be honest almost all) might not know about this movie,but its been for about 63 years. The second worst movie from 1950 was, the Loony Toons All a Bir-r-rd. Now some of you may remember this movie from your childhood, and you may have you own thoughts of the movie, but todays generation has their own version of the show/ movie and it’s not the best it was years ago. The count down ends for the Worst movies of the 1950s with Cheaper by the Dozen. (remember this is from 1950). We have a newer version that may be better, but it came from this movie and is some how better then this version.
It may have started off on a bad note, but lets end on a good one with the best movies from 1950. So the count down begins with Cinderella (Disney verson). We all know this story and at some point in your childhood or maybe even life you wish you could live a life like she did. Now that the number one spot is done, we have to continue to the second spot with Sunset Blvd. You may have seen this movie, and you ay not have seen it, but it’s in the number 2 spot so it sounds like it should be a classic and a good movie. The worst movies are done along with the first and second movie from 1950, but the third spot was taken by All About Eve. This movie might be number 3, but this is still considered a classic, and might not be around much longer.
The Decades Best:
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is the third and final movie to a trilogy about a dworf who travels to Mordor to destory the remaining ring that’s full of evil. Along the Journey Sam and Frodo meet a creature that’s obsessed with the one ring and tried to steal it back. Gandalf the White helps the two of them on their journey to bring good back to the kingdom. When at Mordor huge events take place. As Sam and Frodo travel to Mordor the king or Aragorm goes into battle to defete the enemys. Many of companions fight through the war along his side. The Return of the King contains many different plots that could confuse some, but as long as you watch the whole trilogy starting with The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and finally Return of the king. Gandalf the Grey turns into Gandalf the White and is played by Ian McKellen has had many different roles in different movies INCLUDING the two part movie of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. “After the galloping intelligence displayed in the first two parts of ‘The Lord of the Rings’trilogy, your fear may be that the director Peater Jackson would
become cautious and unimaginative with the last episode, ‘The Return of the King’ but Mr.Jackson crushes any such fear.” New York Times. The total amount of money that was put into this film was $94 million and had a running time of 3 hours and 20 minutes. The cast and crew had a hard time when it came to an end, but some of the crew member return/ returned to the new two part movie of The Hobbit. Some of the Returning cast member include Ian McKellen, Eliijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, and many others. Through out their times together, they made many different memorys together and might see eachother in time.
Some of the Cast
Eliijah Wood Frodo Baggins
Orlando Bloom Legolas
Viggo Mortensen Aragorn
Sean Astin Samwise Gamgee
Ian McKellen Gandalf
Andy Serkis Gollum
The Dark Knight
“Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper then any Hollywood movie of it’s comic-book kind.” ~New York Times
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind “It succeeds completely that we understand why the director’s muisc videos-- Especially his work with Bjork and the White Strips-- work so well. He can define contradictory emotions with extraordinary clarity. It’s why he’s so suited to handling much of this particular kaufman script.” ~New York Times
Memento
“He’s [(Mr.Dolan)] clearly excited by the way the medium can manipulate time and information folding straightforward into the Möbiusstrips of paradox and indeterminacy.” ~New York Times
The Bourne Ultimatum
“They’re usually smart works of industrial entertanment, with action choreograph that’s as well considered as the difection.” ~ New York Times
The Decades Worst Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
There are two ex goverment workers who have to fight eachother as they search for the most deadly wepon on the planet. Seever who was played by Lucy Liu was a top agent at one point WITH Defense Intelligence Agency, but as soon as her son was killed in the middle of a burgalury orginized by Grant, she swore that she would take revenge on him. The moment that Sever learned that Grant along with his team have a new remarkable wepon. This new microscopic device can be injected into the victom’s bloodstream and will immediately kill them with no trace.
Many of the cast member are people that you know and love like Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, but they had to learn many different moves, lines, and possablly new people. They had to go to new locations and learn many different new things. The training may have been difficult for some of the cast, but possably because of Lucy Liu’s past of action movies like Charlie’s Angels her time training may have been easier. They filmed in many different areas of the world and may have had a fun time while off set, messing up their lines on accedent, and messing up their action parts. The fun they had on set caused them to build many new friendships and cause them to have long lasting friends.
Some of the Cast
Talisa Soto Rayne
Lucy Liu Sever
Ray Park A.J. Ross Antonio Banderas Jeremiah Ecks
One Missed Call
“Early on in “One Missed Call” a snooty cat is yanked into a fish pond by a disembodied arm, unexpectedly following her owner to a watery grave. The moment is wickedly humoros suggests a movie that’s unwilling to take itself seriously.” ~ New York Times
Pinocchio
“This movie is also a chunk of pine,, but it’s still awating the magic touch to trainsform it into a real live movie.” ~ New York Times
King’s Ransom
“Like that spat-out detrius, the movie is so negligible that you barely notice it under your feet until it gets stuck to the soles of your shoes, and you find yourself spending the next hour and a half scraping it off.” ~ New York Times
National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers “This movie made me cry, unfortonately, I’m not talking about the kind of cry you might have after you’ve unburdened your soul, I’m talking about the cry you have after tapping yourself on the forehead with a hammer during a frat dare until you’ve cracked your head wide open and realized you may have done permant, irraversable damage.” ~ MrCranky
Summer Movies 2013: July
The Woulverine Coming July 26, 2013
The To Do List Coming July 26, 2013
Fruitvale Station Coming July 26, 2013
Blue Jasmine Coming July 26, 2013
The Smurfs 2 Coming July 31, 2013
Summer Movies 2013: August
Elysium Coming August 9, 2013
Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Coming August 7, 2013
The Mortal Insruments: City of Bones Coming July 23, 2013
Closed Circuit Coming 23, 2013
The World’s End Coming August 23, 2013
The Grandmasters Coming August 23, 2013
You’re Next Coming August 23, 2013
A Sad goodbye to Harry Potter
Some of the Cast
Danial Radclif Harry Potter
Tom Felton Draco Malfoy
Rupert Grint Ron Weasley
Ralph Finnes Lord Voldemort
Emma Watson Hermione Granger
Bonnie Wright Ginny Weasly
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Chamber of Secrets Prisoner of Azcaban
Half-Blood Prince Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One and Part Two
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ABOUT
selachimorpha the scientific name for Sharks are a group of fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. sharks are a beautiful animal in the sea with over 470 species they range in all different sizes from 17 centimeters to 41 feet.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Top Shark Movies................. Infamous Shark Attacks........... Becoming Endangered.............. Shark Finning.................... Bycatch.......................... Programs in Place................ Shark Week....................... Jacques Cousteau................. Damien Hirst.....................
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TOP SHARK Deep Blue Sea 1999
Searching for a cure to Alzheimer’s disease a group of scientists on an isolated research facility becomethe bait as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
Shark Attack 3- Megalodon 2002
When two researchers discover a colossal shark’s tooth off the Mexican coast their worst fears surface - the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path.
Jaws 1975-1983
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
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K MOVIES Open Water 2003
Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left.
Raging Sharks 2005
Doctor Mike Olsen returns from his oceanic observation station, where his wife Linda feels in charge, when it’s reported in desperate trouble after a sudden shark attack wrecked the oxygen supply. The accompanying ship and even the coast guard are also attacked, and soon other sites in and around the Bermuda triangle. The US Navy sends a submarine, which also carries bureaucrat who berates safety and other violations aboard. More dangers lurk inside as getting out proves physically daunting.
Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus 2009
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
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INFAMOUS SH 10 MOST DANGEROUS PLACES FOR SHARK ATTACKS 10. Papua New Guinea 9. South Carolina 8. California 7. Brazil 6. Brevard County, Flordia 5. Queensland, Australia 4. Hawaii 3. New South Wales, Australia 2. South Africa 1. Volusia County, Flordia
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HARK ATTACKS Jersey shore, 1916
Arguably the most famous shark attacks in history resulted in four dead and one injured, probably at the hands of a great white or bull shark, over a ten-day period. Why the notoriety? The spate of attacks is thought to have inspired the film Jaws.
Matawan Creek, New Jersey, 1916
Just a week after the Jersey shore attacks a 12-year-old boy was killed by a great white in Matawan Creek, prompting a shark hunt by local men. It claimed another victim and wounded a third before being caught, and when cut open the shark was found to contain 15lb (7kg) of human flesh and bone. 7 SELACHIMORPHA
U.S.S. Indianapolis, 1945
Oceanic whitetip sharks are held to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of sailors stranded at sea after the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed. Between 600 and 800 sailors lost their lives but it is not known how many died from exposure and how many from shark attacks.
Brook Watson, 1749
The first known survivor of a shark attack was 14-yearold Brook Watson, a crew member of a trading ship who was twice attacked while swimming in the harbour of Havana, Cuba. His shipmates saved his life, but the shark took his foot and he later had his leg amputated. Watson went on to become an MP, the Lord Mayor of London, and to be featured in one of the most enduring images of a shark attack, Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley, who witnessed the event.
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Rodney Fox, 1953
Fox, an Australian spearfishing champion, was defending his title when he was attacked by a great white which took him around his waist in its jaws. After an epic struggle he was released. He is the bestknown survivor of a shark attack simply because of the extent of his injuries, which required four hours of surgery and 360 stitches, and his miraculous survival.
Bethany Hamilton, 2003
One of America’s highest-ranked s u r f e r s , 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton, lost her arm in an attack by a tiger shark in Hawaii in 2003. She was undeterred by her injury and defied the effect it had on her balance to win a national surfing title in 2005. 9 SELACHIMORPHA
Barry Wilson, 1952
Another case that surely influenced the makers of Jaws, 17-year-old Barry Wilson was killed as he swam with a friend off the shore of Pacific Grove, California, in front of scores of witnesses. One saw him jerk suddenly before being pulled from side to side. The shark then lifted him completely out of the water before dragging him under.
Lloyd Skinner, 2010
A shark described as “dinosaur huge” and “longer than a minibus” killed tourist Lloyd Skinner as he swam neck-deep just yards from the shore of a beach in Cape Town, South Africa. The shark, thought to be a great white, twice pulled him under water, leaving behind no trace of the victim except a pool of blood and his swimming goggles.
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Henri Bource, 1964
In one of the first attacks captured on film, Henri Bource was swimming with two other divers off the coast of Australia when a great white pounced and bit off his leg. His colleagues saved his life by dragging him to safety and giving first aid. Bource later claimed he tried to free himself by gouging the shark’s eyes and ramming his arm down its throat.
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A spate of attacks at the Red Sea resort was thought to have ended when two sharks were captured, and the beaches were reopened. The following day a 70-yearold German woman was killed as she snorkelled close to the shore. The attacks were thought to have been prompted by the dumping of a dead sheep from a ship.
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Shark Attack Survivors enjoy eachothers company.
Paul de Gelder bethany hamilton
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BECOMING ENDANGERED Sharks are endangered because of threats that are the result of human activities including shark finning and getting caught in fishing gear. These are apex predators (at the top of the food chain) and play an important role in the health of the oceans. Without them, the entire food chain can be affected, negatively impacting the entire ecosystem. Sharks are long-lived, mature late, and produce few young making them especially vulnerable to exploitation.
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SHARK FINNING/ COMMERCIAL FISHING
The biggest threat to sharks, skates, and rays is the overfishing and over-consumption of their meat, fins, and cartilage. Shark fins are particularly sought after for traditional Chinese medicine and shark fin soup which is considered a delicacy in Asia. Commercial shark-finning is a practice where sharks are caught and their fins are cut off, then the body of the shark is discarded. Shark finning kills an estimated 100 million or more sharks globally per year.
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BYCATCH
Bycatch in commercial fisheries is also a major threat. Bycatch is the unintentional capture of a non-target species. Fisheries targeting tuna and billfish in particular have a high impact on sharks. Rays and skates are also under threat from unintentional capture in commercial fisheries. They are greatly impacted by bottom trawl fisheries as they are mainly bottom dwellers. Bottom dwelling sharks are also impacted by this fishery.
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PROGRAMS IN PLACE Our trips and expeditions benefit several shark conservation organizations, including: Foundation for the Protection of Marine Megafauna: Created to research, protect and conserve the large populations of marine megafauna found along the Mozambican coastline. ECOCEAN: The ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library is a visual database of whale shark encounters and of individually catalogued whale sharks. The library is maintained and used by marine biologists to collect and analyse whale shark encounter data to learn more about these amazing creatures. Wildlife Conservation Society (Belize): To assess and promote the conservation of the marine environment of Belize, WCS founded the Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve Station. OTHER PROGRAMS IN PLACE Shark Advocates International SeaStewards (San Francisco) Pretoma Shark Conservation Program (Costa Rica)
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SHARK WEEK Every Night, Beginning August 4, at 11|10C SHARK AFTER DARK is Discovery’s first ever latenight live talk show that will be featured each evening during SHARK WEEK. Comedian Josh Wolf will lead viewers through an hour-long celebration of all things shark-related that will include celebrity guests, shark experts and shark attack survivors, among others. Wolf will also look back at some of the highlights from the past 26 years of SHARK WEEK, and look ahead to give viewers a sneak peek at the next day’s SHARK WEEK programs. The show will also give viewers the first opportunity to interact live on-air every night with tweets, questions to the shark experts and more.
Sunday, August 4, at 8|7C Air Jaws programming has pushed and expanded our understanding of Great Whites sharks and has become one of the iconic SHARK WEEK programs. In AIR JAWS: BEYOND THE BREACH, a documentary crew goes behind the scenes to see how Air Jaws has changed what we know about these incredible creatures and to give SHARK WEEK viewers a sneak peek into the next Air Jaws special, Finding Colossus, which will air during SHARK WEEK 2014
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Tuesday, August 6, at 9|8C I ESCAPED JAWS is another SHARK WEEK first as we utilize riveting real shark attack footage captured by eye-witnesses to examine harrowing firsthand accounts from everyday people who stared into the jaws of a shark and survived. These survivors used their wits and experience and all lived to share their chilling stories. Shannon Ainslie faced three Great White sharks throughout his lifetime. 18 SELACHIMORPHA
Wednesday, August 7, at 9|8C and Nicole Moore, a nurse, lost her arm in an attack while vacationing in Mexico and saved her own life by instructing those on the beach on how to treat her wounds. Australian Navy Diver Paul de Gelder relied on his experience as a diver to survive after a shark bit off both his arm and leg.
This special updates the international shark attack files for the 21st century and takes a close look at the sharks you don’t want to meet this summer -- and the ones you’re most likely to encounter. From the weird - the feisty cookie cutter, which bites cookie-shaped circles out of its prey; to the macabre, like the Sand Tiger, whose cannibalistic young devour each other in the womb, to the infamous – Great Whites, Tiger Sharks and Bull Sharks – TOP 10 SHARKDOWN ranks these amazing predators.
JACQUES COUSTEAU The Cousteau Society Founded in 1973 by Captain JacquesYves Cousteau, the Society has more than 50,000 members worldwide. Under the leadership of President Francine Cousteau, the Society continues the unique explorations and observations of ecosystems throughout the world that have helped millions of people understand and appreciate the fragility of life on our Water Planet.
Half a century of protecting water systems has expanded to embrace a wide variety of programs to encourage communities to achieve sustainable harmony with Nature as the Cousteau Label program. Headquartered in Hampton, Virginia, the Society welcomes members and visitors to its gallery of photos and artefacts from a half-century of expeditions. A membership-supported, not for profit environmental
education organization, the Society is dedicated to the protection and improvement of the quality of life for present and future generations.
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SCUBA GEAR “The Impossible missions are the only ones that succeed.” JACQUES COUSTEAU
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac (Gironde) in France. He entered the naval academy in 1930, was graduated and became a gunnery officer. Then, while he was training to be a pilot, a serious car accident ended his aviation career. So it was the ocean that would win this adventurer’s soul. In 1936, near the port of Toulon, he went swimming underwater with goggles. It was a breath-taking revelation. Seeking a way to explore underwater longer and more freely, he developed, with engineer Emile Gagnan, the Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, or scuba, in 1943, and the world under the sea was opened up to human beings. After World War II, Cousteau, along with naval officer Philippe Tailliez and diver Frédéric Dumas, became known as the “ mousquemers “ (“ musketeers of the sea “) as they carried out diving experiments in the sea and laboratory. In 1950, Calypso, a former mine-sweeper, was modified into an oceanographic vessel, endowed with instruments for diving and scientific research, and the great adventure began. She and her crews explored the seas and rivers of the world for the next four decades.
Diving saucers, undersea houses and ongoing improvements to the AquaLungTM showed the Cousteau touch. With Professor Lucien Malavard and engineer Bertrand Charrier, Cousteau studied how to design a new complementary wind-power system, the Turbosail™, and, in 1985, the ship Alcyone was launched, using the new invention. Today, she is the Cousteau team’s expedition vessel.
“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” JACQUES COUSTEAU
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DAMIEN HIRST is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain’s richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
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Death is a central theme in Hirst’s works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved — sometimes having been dissected — in formaldehyde. The best known of these being The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine (clear display case).
In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s by auction and by - passing his longstanding galleries. The auction exceeded all predictions, wwraising £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst’s own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde.
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CBUS STYLE AUGUST 2013
NEW BOUTIQUES, NEW DESIGNERS!
BEST trends IN COLUMBUS,
FOR YOUR STYLE!
LATEST FASHIONS 1
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4....Letter from the Editor
table of contents
What CBUS STYLE is all about.
12....Columbus’ Up and Coming Designers New Designers trying to make it in Columbus
3....News Brief Thread named top women’s clothing store, Columbus 3rd in US for fashion design, and new American Girl Doll store OPEN!
4....New Shops, New Styles!
Your new favorite places to shop in the 614 to get your new favorite clothes.
13....Maren Roth 14....Allison Jayjack 15....Niki and Josh Quinn 16....Top Trends: Columbus What everyone’s wearing in the 614.
5....Ladybird
17....Business
6....Rowe
18....Prep
7....Tigertree
19....Edgy
8....Wigging Out
20....Glam
Columbus model featured wearing four Columbus designed wigs.
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What is fashion? Fashion is whatever you want
it to be. Fashion is an individual’s way of saying something about themselves without having to say a word at all. Fashion is a way of personal expression and without a doubt, a form of art. CBUS STYLE is a magazine based around Columbus fashion, or the personal expression of Columbus. CBUS STYLE is your chic fashion magazine, but with a Columbus twist. What separates CBUS STYLE from other fashion magazines is it’s way of educating readers on highest fashions, but also giving them that community feeling and allowing them to relate to their favorite city. Go Bucks!
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news brief
As a result of the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus was recently ranked 3rd in the Nation for fashion design only behind New York and San Francisco.
Thread on Grandview has been named the
American Girl Doll store is officially OPEN!
top women’s clothing store in Columbus by
The ‘doll sanctuary’ is located at Easton near
Columbus Alive!.
the Northface and Eddie Bauer.
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Ladybird Located at 716 North High Street in the Short North, Ladybird is the perfect boutique for any girl who loves either contemporary or vintage fashion. Opened in 2008, by Allison Jayjack, Ladybird has been buzzing with shoppers eager to get the latest trends. The reason Columbus loves Ladybird is it’s eclectic mix of style. It’s nearly impossible to walk in and leave without finding something you absolutely love. From vintage to rocker-chic, Ladybird has got it all and nearly everything is hand-picked! Jayjack considers her store, “Classic Americana style with a twist.” Not only does Ladybird sell clothing, but also shoes, bags, and jewelries so buyers can put together the perfect outfit. Ladybird’s price range can be considered reasonable for what it has to offer. Although it is definitely not considered cheap, Ladybird is certainly not expensive. So if you’re interested in some new styles, but something a little bit different, Ladybird is the store for you!
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Looking to update your closet? Rowe has got you covered. Filled with choices upon choices of contemporary clothing, Rowe is the perfect boutique that will be sure to give you the fashion forward look you’re going for. Nestled in the heart of the Short North, Rowe is located at 718 North High Street. In 2006, Maren Roth created a small New York style boutique she calls, Rowe. With in the first couple of months, Rowe was a hit in Columbus. Roth wanted to take Rowe even further and decided to begin sharing Rowe all over the country at trunk shows. What sets Rowe apart from other boutiques is its way of giving you a smalltown, friendly shopping experience, but giving you that same high fashion, big city wardrobe you’re going for. Yes, some of the store’s items are a tad expensive, but if you’re in for a splurge, Rowe is the place to go, plus they carry men’s AND women’s clothing! Roth has a strong fashion background and hand picks everything in the entire store. Rowe carries trendy clothing that’s hard to locate in Columbus. Rowe brings a little bit of New York City back to Columbus! 06
Tigertree What’s your style? Maybe a little more vintage yet free spirited? Tigertree is the way to go. Located at 787 North High Street, Tigertree is a quaint little shop opened in 2007. Owners and also spouses, Niki and Josh Quinn, opened the store on their way to California,, but fell in love with Columbus. The name came from the title of the book, Tigertree. Not many clothing stores were in the Short North at the time so tiger tree instantly took off. The Quinns say that the store does not have a specific style, it’s mainly a collection of their favorite things. Tigertree carries a wide variety of funky items- a little bit retro, a little bit modern making it different from other Indie apparel stores. Another perk about Tigertree is that they sell more than just clothing! From paper wallets to vintage tennis racquets, you never know what sort of interesting purchase you’ll walk out with. It’s not just a shopping trip, but a fun experience. Tigertree is on the expensive end of the scale, but what they have to offer is definitely worth it. If you’re looking for a gift, accessories, or an outfit, Tigertree has it.
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Wigging Out: Columbus born model, Chloe Garber is featured in this issue wearing four different wigs made and designed in Columbus by 08
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DESIGNERS
MAREN ROTH
Maren Roth has loved clothes since her
first stroll down New York City’s 5th Avenue at age 5. She knew that one day she would return and immerse herself in New York City’s fashion forward culture. Her journey began, believe it or not, in Madison, Wisconsin where Maren concentrated her studies at the University on public relations and consumer journalism. However, her passion for style could not be sated. She took many classes outside of her major, including art and fashion design classes, quenching for the moment her thirst of all things fashion. Madison couldn’t keep her away from New York for long, though. The summer before Maren’s senior year, she took a much sought after internship at DNR, the men’s fashion trade magazine. After graduating, she began putting her degree and passion to good use, stepping into the NYC fashion world like she had belonged all her life- which perhaps she had. She began her career working on Public Relations accounts for such designers as Perry Ellis, Genny for Byblos, Louis Feraud, Autumn Cashmere and several designer denim companies. As her reputation for hard work, an understanding of the exclusive fashion trade from the inside, and her general knowledge of fashion grew in stature, so did her clients. She began freelancing for Calvin Klein, Emanuel Ungaro, and Leonard Paris. As she had hoped, her love of and commitment to fashion were paying off. Soon, she was handling accounts for Technomarine, Chimento, Ellen Tracy and Amasale. Soon after, she was offered a prestigious position as Director of Public Relations for Simon Showroom, heading up more contemporary accounts and favorites of young Hollywood, such as Paul & Joe, Lauren Moffatt, C&C California, Foley & Corinna, Mimi & Coco and Cristi Conaway. In the fall of 2005, Maren decided to make the move back to Columbus in order to be closer to her family and bring her experience and knowledge to the Columbus fashion scene. In 2006, a small moveable boutique under the name of, Rowe, was born. Article from: http://www.roweboutique.com/maren-roth/
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“I’ve been around retail all my life,” said Allison Jayjack, 26, the owner and creator of Ladybird who is eager to share her sophisticated vintage style with the fashion forward of Columbus. Allison’s love of fashion dates back to playing dress up in her grandma Harriet’s old treasures. Since then, she hasn’t stopped mixing the vintage and the modern, establishing styles and trends in the heart of the Short North. The store is thoughtfully staged with displays, artwork and vintage books and photographs - many of which are original family prints. After graduating from Marshall University with a degree in fashion merchandising, Jayjack, a Dublin native, spent time in New York City before joining Abercrombie, where she opened new stores in Toronto. After returning to Columbus, Jayjack worked and sold jewelry to Grandview’s Principessa. In November of 2008, Ladybird opened its doors to Columbus, Ohio. The shop is the culmination of the vision, travels and life experience of Allison Jayjack (supported by her lovely family and friends, of course). While clothing from upscale designers such as Susana Monaco, Built By Wendy and Charlotte Ronson are a large part of Ladybird’s inventory, the heart of Ladybird is its vintage jewelry, accessories and bits of clothing. “I have always loved vintage jewelry,” Jayjack said. “My grandmother has boxes upon boxes of it and I was always obsessed with it.” Jayjack first started selling her redesigned vintage jewelry at parties and local boutiques, including Ivy Hill, which occupied the space before moving to St. Louis, Mo. The boutique boasts a diverse inventory that includes Alternative Orange Label tees, BLVD signature handbags, vintage jewelry and many lines that cannot be found anywhere else in Columbus, Jayjack said. Because items range from $15 vintage scarves to $370 For Joseph leather jackets, shopping at Ladybird can be a treat even for shoppers on a budget. Article from: http://www.thelantern.com/2.1347/allison-jayjack-dublin-native-opens-vintage-shop-ladybird-1.73526#.UfAd-hj9orc
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Niki Quinn didn’t really have plans to go into business for herself. She had just finished up a dual degree at The Ohio State University in marketing and transpor-
tation & logistics. All logical signs were pointing to her getting a “real job” in a corporate setting, but it didn’t feel like the right move for her. Enter her then boyfriend, and now husband and business partner, Josh Quinn. He was working on his own in Los Angeles and would come to visit her. On one of his visits, he gave her a wallet he made himself out of an old book, Tiger tree (American language today). It was a nice gift, but an even better idea. Of course, being the prototype, it needed some improvements, but it was a good product and a great way to reuse discarded library books. Josh wanted to make more and develop the wallets into a product line and business model. Niki wasn’t so sure. But she’s always been the more reasonable and analyzing half of their partnership, while Josh has been the passionate risk taker. He took the Tiger tree wallet back to Los Angeles, walked into Fred Segal and asked for the buyer. The buyer just so happened to be there, looked it over, and took 20 wallets. “Getting into the best boutique was really lucky for us,” says Niki. “I really credit that moment as what got our business going.” Niki and Josh put together a business plan and Maxine, Dear was born. She moved out to Los Angeles to make things with Josh. Later on they made their best purchase, which was an industrial sewing machine. They needed it to keep upwith the demand for their wallets. After being featured twice by The New York Times, Maxine, Dear received calls from Bergdorf Goodman and Henri Bendel for their product. At one time, the couple had products in 100 stores. It was hard to keep up, mostly because it was just the two of them, but also because their wallets require a specific kind of book, which was sometimes hard to find. Going to estate sales and looking through the remains of people’s belongings was wearing them down. They needed another idea. They started making belt buckles that could be made from other types of books. Living in Los Angeles was fun, but it got expensive. Their dream was to move to the east coast somewhere and open a shop. Columbus seemed an ideal choice− Niki had gone to school there and had family close by. They started scouting for retail spaces and found a spot at 17 Brickel St. At the time (2007), there were not many clothing stores in the Short North. They were opening Tigertree about the same time Maren Roth was opening Rowe Boutique. Niki thought it was something “Columbus was ready for.” It was. Columbus Underground readers voted Tigertree second Best New Shop of 2008 and awarded them with Best Store for 2009 and 2010. Article from: http://www.themetropreneur.com/columbus/work-maxine-dears-pretty-studio-space/
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Top Trends: Columbus What Everyone’s Wearing in the 614 16
business High-waisted hello! Conservative for the office, but accents your curves at the same time! It’s a double wammy!
Peplum! Peplum! Peplum! We love this chic, yet professional look!
Dress up any plain tee with a blazer and some pointed toes! You can’t go wrong!
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Don’t sweat it! Throw a sweater on to give you that preppy and sophisticated look.
Capris please! Capris are the key to classy this season.
PREP Remember: sometimes simple, is better. Prep doesn’t mean all dolled up. Basic is better.
Odds are, if it’s gotta a collar, we’re loving it.
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Tights are your new best friend! Black tights are the perfect ingredient to make an outfit just a little more edgy.
D Can you say cut off? Get that off the wall look with a cut off shirt and some cut off shorts.
Bootilicious. Combat boots are the perfect way to give a girly outfit, that edgy look.
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GLAMOROUS Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. If it’s got sparkle, it’s got glam.
Glamor means pretty and glamor means party. Dress up a simple outfit with a show stopping blazer.
Go hard or go home. Being glamorous is your chance to be a star so think big and think bright! Better yet, think pink!
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B u c k e y e
They may be Buckeye wear, most would say those jerseys definitely aren’t a fashion statement. Try scarlet and grey scarves! They’re adorable and they’ll keep you warm in ‘The Shoe’ during that chilly football weather.
Some call it crazy, we call it Buckeye love! A simple dress turned into stylish, yet authentic Buckeye wear.
Comfy and cute?!?! We found this adorable sweater at Columbus born, Homage. Be comfy, cute, and still be a Buckeye! It’s a definite winner!
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Simon Lowenstein
about Venture is an art, skateboarding, and music magazine all rolled into one. It features new artists, new skateboarders, and music you’ve probably never heard of.
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Black pearl skatepark
Located in the Cayman Islands, Black Pearl is the world’s largest outdoor concrete skate park. This massive park covers over 52,000 square feet 4
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Vans skatepark
This indoor/outdoor skate park was created by Vans Shoe Company. Skaters can have a lot of fun on the concrete bowls and pools outside covering over 20,000 square feet of skateable area.
Marseille Skatepark
An urban skatepark covered in graffiti art work, Marseilles skate park is both beautiful and expansive. As France’s largest outdoor skate park, skaters from all over europe stop by to grind on the various painted bowls and verts. It’s unique style sets Marseilles apart from other parks around the world and offers a new experience unlike the usual terrain of outdoor parks.
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vinyl comeback
There were always record collectors who disdained the compact disc, arguing that an LP’s grooves yielded warmth and depth that the CD’s digital code could not match. But the market largely ignored them. Record labels shuttered their LP pressing plants, except for a few that pressed mostly dance music, since vinyl remained the medium of choice for D. J.s. As it turned out, that early resistance was not futileww, thanks largely to an audience of record collectors, many born after CDs were introduced in the 1980s. These days, every major label and many smaller ones are releasing vinyl, and most major new releases have a vinyl version, leading to a spate of new pressing plants. When the French electronica duo Daft Punk released “Random Access Memories” in mid-May, 6 percent of its first-week sales — 19,000 out of 339,000 — were on vinyl, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which measures music sales. Other groups with a predominantly college-age audience have had similar success: the same week, the National sold 7,000 vinyl copies of its latest album, “Trouble Will Find Me,” and 10,000 Vampire Weekend fans opted for the LP version of “Modern Vampires of the City.” When the Front Bottoms, a New Jersey indie band, posted a photo of their players carrying stacks of LP mailing boxes on their Facebook page recently, their label, Bar/None, racked up what Glenn Morrow, who owns the label, described as “phone orders for $2,000 worth of LPs in 10 minutes.” A growing number of classic albums — including the complete Beatles and early Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan catalogs — have had vinyl reissues in recent years as well. Michael Fremer, who monitors the LP world on his Web site, Analogplanet.com, said: “None of these companies are pressing records to feel good. They’re doing it because they think they can sell.” About a dozen pressing plants have sprouted up in the United States, along with the few that survived from the first vinyl era, and they say business is so brisk that they are working to capacity. Thomas Bernich, who started Brooklyn Phono in 2000, says his company makes about 440,000 LPs a year, but a giant like Rainbo Records, in Canoga Park, Calif., turns out 6
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million to 7.2 million, said Steve Sheldon, its general manager. One plant, Quality Record Pressings, in Salina, Kan., opened in 2011 after its owner, Chad Kassem, grew impatient with delays at a larger plant where his own line of blues reissues was being pressed. His company, which runs four presses — acquired used, but modified to run more efficiently — now makes LPs for all the majors, and lists Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Nirvana reissues among its recent projects. He is currently pressing 900,000 vinyl discs a year. “We’ve always had more work than we could do,” Mr. Kassem said. “When we had one press, we had enough orders for two. When we had two, we had enough orders for four. We never spent a dollar on advertising, but we’ve been busy from the day we opened.” There is a limit to how much the vinyl business can expand right now. When it seemed inevitable that CDs would supplant LPs, the companies that made vinyl presses shifted to making other kinds of machinery. The last new press was built in 1982, so relatively recent start-ups like Quality and Brooklyn Phono searched out used presses (the going rate is about $25,000) and reconditioned them. Most plants have deals with local machine shops to make replacement parts. Some pressing plants have looked into commissioning or building new presses but have found the cost prohibitive — as much as $500,000, said Eric Astor of Furnace MFG in Fairfax, Va. “Since my partner also owns a CD/DVD plant,” Mr. Astor said in an e-mail, “we’ve been testing using the methods used in disc manufacturing to make a new breed of vinyl record, but that R&D is slow going and not looking promising.” How are LPs selling? That is a matter of dispute. David Bakula, Nielsen SoundScan’s senior vice president of client development and insights, said that his company tracked 4.6 million domestic LP sales last year, an 18 percent increase over 2011, but still only 1.4 percent of the total market, made up mostly of digital downloads (which are increasing) and CDs (for which sales are declining). This year, Mr. Bakula said, vinyl sales are on track to reach about 5.5 million. But manufacturers, specialist retailers and critics argue that SoundScan’s figures represent only a fraction of actual sales, perhaps as little, Mr. Kassem and Mr. Astor said, as 10 to 15 percent. They say that about 25 million vinyl discs were pressed in the United States last year, and many more in Europe and Asia, including some destined for the American market. Mr. Bakula countered that manufacturers are speaking of the number of discs made; SoundScan tracks how many were sold. But the manufacturers argue that
Thomas Bernich LPs, unlike CDs, are a one-way sale: labels do not accept returns of unsold copies. Therefore labels and retailers are careful to order only what they think they can sell. Moreover, LP jackets do not consistently carry bar codes — Mr. Kassem, for one, leaves them off his discs because, he said, “they’re ugly” — and therefore cannot be scanned at the cash register. And many shops that sell LPs are independents that do not report to SoundScan, although Mr. Bakula said his company weights its figures to account for that. There are other measures of the health of the field, including figures from ancillary businesses. Heinz Lichtenegger, whose Vienna-based Audio Tuning company produces the highly regarded Pro-Ject turntable, said in an e-mail that his company sells 8,000 turntables a month. And Mr. Fremer has sold 16,000 copies of a DVD, “21st Century Vinyl,” that shows users how to set up several turntable models. Vinyl retailers are thriving as well. Mr. Kassem of Quality Record Pressings also runs Acoustic Sounds, which sells LPs as well as turntables and accessories, including cleaning machines and protective sleeves. Music Direct, a Chicago company that owns Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, a storied audiophile label, has a similarly broad stock, including a selection of turntables that ranges from the $249 Music Hall USB-1 to the $25,000 Avid Acutus. Josh Bizar, the company’s director of sales and marketing, said that Music Direct sold 500,000 LPs and “thousands of turntables” last year. And the buyers, Mr. Bizar said, are by no means boomer nostalgists. “When you look at the sales for a group like Daft Punk,” he said, “you’re seeing young kids collecting records like we did when we were young.” “We never expected the vinyl resurgence to become as crazy as it is,” he said. “But it’s come full circle. We get kids calling us up and telling us why they listen to vinyl, and when we ask them why they don’t listen to CDs, they say, ‘CDs? My dad listens to CDs — why would I do that?’ ”
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AN INTERVIEW WITH MARc
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Marc has been a player in this game for over a decade, always bringing his unmistakable style to the table in ways that have refreshed and inspired many a wood pusher. His uniqueness as an individual is understated, which for me has added to the intrigue of his skating’s many dimensions - power, finesse, technical skill, and a few secret ingredients that no one has yet borrowed convincingly. Doing these interviews can be somewhat awkward in cases where I’ve never met the subject. In this case I was pretty nervous that I might blow it, but MJ handled my questions with his usual grace and offered some rare insights for your reading pleasure.
Q: Your early video parts evoked a unique sense of flow and lightness on the board. The khaki/white tee combo also lent itself to this aesthetic. You were also a teenager at this time - what were some of your early goals for expressing yourself through a video part? Marc: I think that during that time, I just wanted to put out the best footage I could. I was trying to get to the level of skating of the people that I was influenced by, but at the same time I didn’t necessarily want to express myself as this person who just wanted to copy every trick in Gino’s or Daewon’s last part. I knew that people were always working on new stuff for upcoming videos, so that’s what I was thinking about a lot of the time. I love the shock value that new videos always had around that time, and keeping a certain level of that has always been a contributing factor in some of the stuff I’ve tried for videos. I think that most skaters would like to be well-rounded and not paint themselves into one corner or another, so I think I expressed myself based on what influenced me, and a lot of that was outside of skateboarding. The whole ‘Dickie’s with the white tee’ thing came from the fact that both are pretty cheap, and to me they have a timeless quality.
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Q: Another standout feature of your skate persona has been your sense of humor. On the other hand, there continues to be a mysterious element there that is equally intriguing. The skater at home is left to ponder what it might be like to be your friend. Could you speak on friendship and what it means to you? Marc: Friendship can be strange. Proximity doesn’t define it. Mutual history doesn’t define it. And convenience should never even be a factor in friendship. I think that anyone with a good head on their shoulders knows the difference between a friend versus someone who only calls when they want something. Q: Your push and your posture on the board are very unique. I’ve also observed that you wear very comfortable-looking apparel when you skate. What factors, mental or physical, make you feel most comfortable on the board? Marc: I wish I could pin that one down, so I would have something to stick with. I think I find comfort in familiar things like a board that’s a good three days old, or some shoes that are just worn in nicely. Maybe anything, once I get used to it and figure out that it works for me. As far as what I wear, I figure that simple and solid is easier if you’re going to be mopping up a dirty street with your body all day. I don’t really see the point in getting overly fancy in regards to all that, but that’s just what feels right for me. Q: Though your most recent Lakai part clearly featured footage from trips abroad, many of my favorite MJ clips are from little school yards in San Jose or random manual pads. How does environment play into your motivation to do a trick? What is your process for choosing spots to film? Marc: For a long time, filming was something that was almost always an option while just out skating with friends on any given day. If a trick was working out on a particular day, I would ask one of my friends, usually Chris Avery or Matt Eversole to film. I remember in the early days that we didn’t really go to spots just to get one certain thing. The situation was more a question of where we were all going to meet up. If something worked out at the spot, awesome. If not, then maybe I’d try it again the next time we ended up there. For me, the session was the environment. Wherever all the guys were going to meet was the environment. Just skating with the same guys all the time and learning new stuff or finding new spots was pretty motivating. I never tried to pull off an aesthetic for spots I skated, and in more recent years I think I still tend not to exactly choose a certain place for a certain thing. I try to figure out the spot and see what comes out of that. Q: When you first started to gain coverage in the mags, you had moved from North Carolina. What associations do you have with the east coast, particularly where you lived in NC? Did you have many close friends who skated at the time? Marc: Everthing stayed pretty local for the time I lived there. Driving to another city to skate for a day was a big deal for us back then. I just remember being out all day and all night just pushing around and skating a few different spots each day. Mostly curbs and manuals and flatground; the same stuff we’d see in videos. Back then, skating was definitely an outcast kind of subculture, and not many people skated at all anywhere you went. But we had a little posse that met up pretty much every day and made the rounds. It was good, even if we didn’t end up skating, we would usually all be at someone’s house watching videos or we’d be out getting into something crazy. Q: Being a skater is a relative term nowadays. The identity has changed significantly and continues to evolve. Your ties to the skate community partially define your experience as a skater. How would you describe your current place in life as a skateboarder? Marc: I’m happy doing what I do. And I’m thankful. It’s easy to forget about being thankful about everything, about your opportunities. I try to keep myself in check and do what I know I should be doing. That’s the best way to describe it. Q: Your career differs from the mainstream conception of a “job,” and in many important senses deviates from the popular understanding of what a professional skateboarder’s job is. I think most non-skaters today associate it with contests and TV shows. When you meet new individuals, especially non-skaters, do you find it difficult to relate your lifestyle to their’s? Marc: Sometimes trying to explain my lifestyle can be difficult. If someone asks me what I do, what I tell them depends on whether or not I feel like answering the questions that usually follow “I’m a pro skateboarder.” With younger people, it’s easy because they do have that TV frame of reference and it makes better sense to them, in lots of ways, than it does to a much older person that might have no idea what skateboarding is. To someone that I assume wouldn’t understand, I usually say something like, “I do some design work for a few companies in the LA area.” Which occasionally is and has been true. 9
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Q: The more recent move to Chocolate and Lakai almost seemed to symbolize for you a break from the familiar towards a new realm of possibilities. Reflecting on the move, what were some of your hopes, and what goals have you achieved since? Marc: I wouldn’t say that I applied any hopes to those decisions. Well, of course I hoped I could bring something to the table for both companies. That always feels good if you can, right? Those companies were already established and of course really solid, and double-checking almost every single decision someone made for Enjoi if I wasn’t standing directly over their shoulder got really old, really fast. I just knew that Rick and Mike and Kelly all understood what things were like from both sides - being a rider and being involved from a business standpoint as well. As far as goals, I don’t know. I didn’t really set any goals. That sounds weird. Are we supposed to set goals in skateboarding?
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Q: As a final question, what avenues are you considering for your talents as you get older? What are some of your life goals not related to skating? Marc: I was thinking about that recently. The whole ‘future’ thing, and it made me wonder if I’ve done anything good in the past, aside from a good skateboard trick or something. I wonder if what I do or did in the past made anyone’s life better somehow. That’s a rough one. I guess basically the thought goes like, “Okay, so I’ve been skating for this many years, but do I have anything useful to offer outside of skateboarding? Have I learned anything practical in life aside from riding a skateboard? Do I have any value as a person off of my skateboard?” I feel shitty about the answers. But honestly, what can you say about being a pro skateboarder and not learning much aside from that? You’re almost constantly pulled in one direction or another by someone. You spend weeks here, days there, on the road a lot being wherever they need you to be so you can do the job you do. You don’t have large consecutive spaces of time to devote yourself to much else. I went to college for a few years and it became impossible for me to balance that with tours and filming and everything else, but I really enjoyed college. So who knows. I just want to skate for as long as skateboarding feels right for me. Q: Can you please tell me about your accomplished background as a child prodigy on the North Carolina Ping-Pong circuit? Marc: I got pretty good when I was a kid. State champion, 16 and under, when I was 12. I was Forrest Gump before Forrest Gump. Q:: What is hands down the ugliest trick in skateboarding? Marc: The one where you let your head blow up like a balloon, and then you start believing your own hype. I think that’s called the Tightrope or something. No one makes that look good. Sorry kids. Q: If Chocolate toured with Natural Koncept, what NK rider would you room with if you had to share a hotel? Marc: Whoever has the smallest balloon.
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david choe
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David Choe (born April 21, 1976, Los Angeles, California) is an American painter, muralist, graffiti artist and graphic novelist of Korean descent. He achieved art world success with his “dirty style” figure paintings—raw, frenetic works which combine themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation. Outside of galleries, he is closely identified with the bucktoothed whale he has been spray-painting on the streets since he was in his teens. Choe’s work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. For example, he provided the cover art for Jay-Z and Linkin Park’s multi-platinum album Collision Course, and created artwork to decorate the sets of Juno and The Glass House. In 2005, internet entrepreneur Sean Parker, a longtime fan, asked him to paint graphic sexual murals in the interior of Facebook’s first Silicon Valley office, and in 2007, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commissioned him to paint somewhat tamer murals for their next office. Although he thought the Facebook business model was “ridiculous and pointless,” Choe, an inveterate gambler, chose to receive company stock in lieu of cash payment for the original Facebook murals. His shares were valued at approximately $200 million on the eve of Facebook’s 2012 IPO. Those murals were loosely re-created by Choe’s friends Rob Sato and Joe To for the set of the film The Social Network. During the 2008 presidential race, Choe painted a portrait of then-Senator Barack Obama for use in a grassroots street art campaign. The original was later displayed in the White House.
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Leonardo Drew born in Tallahassee, Florida, 1961 Lives in San Antonio, Texas & Brooklyn, New York EDUCATION The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, B.F.A.,1985 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1981-1982
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BRIAN OLDHam
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Brian Oldham was born in April of 1993 in Orange, CA, USA. He grew up as an only child with a thriving imagination, playing elaborate games of fiction and fairytales. Now 19, Brian works as a freelance photographer, specializing in fashion and fine art photography. He began taking photographs at the age of sixteen, and as he experimented with self portraiture and surrealism, his love of photography blossomed as he taught himself how to create freely. Brian keeps his passion of all things beautiful and strange ever present in his work, creating surreal, conceptual images that transport the viewer to new worlds. Brian is currently living and working in the Los Angeles area, and is available for commissioned work internationally. 17
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an interview with the JAPANDROIDS Japandroids an amazing Canadian rock duo from Vancouver, British Columbia. The group consists of Brian King (guitar, vocals) and David Prowse (drums, vocals). Formed in 2006, Japandroids rose to prominence in 2009 following the release of their debut album Post-Nothing. The group toured extensively throughout 2009–2010, earning praise for their energetic live performances. Their sophomore album, Celebration Rock, was released on May 29, 2012 in Canada and June 5, 2012 internationally. Question: When Celebration Rock was announced, a lot of people were like, “It took long enough.” Dave Prowse: That’s how we felt, too. Q: Why the wait? Brian King: It’s basically been three years since Post-Nothing, but two of those were spent touring, and the other was spent trying to figure out how to make another album piece-by-piece. We don’t operate like a lot of normal bands do; we didn’t even decide we were going to do a second record until the start of 2011. I mean, right before Post-Nothing came out in 2009, we decided we didn’t want to be a band anymore. But when that record started gaining momentum, we thought, “Let’s see what happens.” We were just going to do the tours because we always wanted that experience, but it always seemed like we were on borrowed time. DP: After coming back from tour, I thought I was gonna enjoy being back home in Vancouver more than I did. But it’s just very difficult when you’re used to being constantly stimulated and having new places to explore, and then coming back and being sedentary again. It was a weird change, being home wasn’t inspiring the way it once was. 18
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BK: It’s anticlimactic. The band has just spent two years traveling the world playing shows every night, which is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to us, and then all of sudden we’re right back to square one. There are no shows to play, no tours to go on, and we have to make a whole new record before we can do that again. We have a really different perspective than some other bands because making the records is just a formality for us, in some sense. It’s not like I’m this super creative person who needs to express myself musically-it’s more like we just need to record in order to play more shows. DP: I hate being in the studio. BK: Me too. Q: Do you think that wait-and-see outlook has anything to do with the fact that you’re both a lot closer to 30 than 20? BK: It’s more about knowing this is our chance. Most people don’t get second chances, and we were aware that we got really lucky. Doing the new record was no different from the tours: If it got so bad that we wanted to beat the shit out of each other, maybe it’s not worth it. Otherwise, what are we complaining about? DP: Brian and I were friends for a long time before this band and, beyond anything, we wanted to maintain our friendship. That makes us a bit more hesitant than some other bands, in terms of pushing everything to the extreme. The idea of running the band into the ground until we have a fist fight on stage is not something either of us are interested in. BK: We weren’t strangers who met on Craigslist with the goal of getting famous. We started the band for all the right reasons: We liked the same bands, listened to the same music, went to the same shows, and we were just like, “Let’s try to do something like that ourselves.” Then, when it starts to go downhill, it’s like, “Let’s just stop so we can still be friends and hang out.” It’s not like, “Oh, fuck him!” If we think we’re heading on that path, we’ll stop, and it’s fine. We won’t have to deal with all the one-on-one stresses and pressures that come with being a two-person band and having to totally rely on one another for every single thing. At the same time, there’s no point in letting it all be undone because we did actually find some success. Pitchfork: It sounds like you were pretty close to that happening though. BK: A couple times, for sure. DP: Honestly, every band goes through that, though a lot are hesitant to discuss it. BK: If you’re in a five-person band, you can always find a new person to play that instrument. How many of our contemporaries have had the exact same lineup since the day they started? Very, very few. We’ll run into bands we’ve toured with at SXSW a year later and there’s a new bassist or drummer. That’s very common. We don’t have that luxury. DP: We have to work our shit out.
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Q: How was making this album different than making Post-Nothing? BK: With Post-Nothing, we were making it just for us, and we weren’t expecting anyone outside of our friends to hear it. It wasn’t for other people. It never occurred to us that a total stranger would hear the song and it might mean something to them. For this one, we knew there was an audience there waiting and that, even though they live thousands of miles away, it might mean something to them in the same way that we like records made by people from previous generations, or that we’ve never met. Like, I’ll put on a Replacements record that was made when I was an infant and it’s just like: bam! So when I was sitting down to write words, it was a totally different mental process. It’s hard because I want people to identify and relate and feel personally close to what I’m saying, but at the same time I live a life that is now very difficult for people to relate to. You listen to a song like the Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait”-- it never occurred to me that that might have certain ideas in it because they may have written it in a van somewhere. They’re not writing that song at home or at a bar; they’re making it happen out there in the world. Q: It sounds like you’re trying to reconcile how you’re living out this dream on tour, but the realities of touring aren’t exactly what you dreamed of. BK: Or the battle between it being a dream and how hard it is to sustain the dream continuously and indefinitely. It’s hard on the body. All your relationships change; everyone stays at home and you go. And now you’re meeting way more people all the time, but for really brief periods. You’re seeing more than you thought you’d ever see, but at the same time you’re not seeing very much at all. There was no question it was gonna be some kind of influence on the record, because it’s the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to us in our whole lives. The trick is to be able to take those experiences and talk about them in a way that’s not exclusive. Nobody wants to listen to a record of a band talking about touring. Q: A lot of the lyrics on the album take advantage of this universal, mythic rock’n’roll language, like on “Fire’s Highway”: “Hearts from hell collide/ On fire’s highway tonight/ We dreamed it, now we know.” BK: Personally, I really like the concepts of good and evil, heaven and hell-- the extreme boundaries of how people can feel and how fast things can change. I like that that language. I’m not talking about just some night you felt a certain way, I’m talking about the night you felt that way-- that one time. People have always alluded to those extremes as a way of characterizing the most intense feelings since blues and the early days of rock. A blues singer won’t be like, “We broke up.” He’ll say, “Satan stole my baby from me.” You just pick it up.
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Q: The album also reads like something of a redemption narrative, where the beginning is all about “Evil’s Sway”, and that leads to Q: You’ve talked about Guns N’ Roses and the Replacements, two bands from different sides of the rock’n’roll spectrum-- even if Tommy Stinson has been in both of them. BK: Guns N’ Roses and the Replacements do the same thing to me; the Replacements mythology is different from the Guns ‘N Roses mythology, but they’re still rock mythologies. In the small town where I grew up, everyone liked Guns N’ Roses and Nirvana. It wasn’t one or the other. It wasn’t like Nirvana killed hair metal. Everyone still liked AC/DC and Led Zeppelin and the Beatles, too. That idea of the musical historical context of different kinds of rock music just didn’t exist.
Q: One lyric that stood out to me on the album is “waiting for a generation’s bonfire to begin,” on “Adrenaline Nightshift”. What did you have in mind when you wrote that? BK: It’s about the idea of people waiting for something to happen, while everything actually happens while you’re waiting. It’s no different now than it was in our parents’ generation. You can live your life waiting for it, or you can try to make it happen. Right now, I feel like we’re trying to make it happen for ourselves; a lot of people we know are in that waiting stage. That’s a continual theme in our music: Waiting is doing nothing. We have to do something, otherwise we’re exactly like the generation before us. What that thing is, I don’t know. But that idea doesn’t really go out of style, because no one figures it out. It’s like how love songs never go out of style because no one’s ever written one that’s closed the book on the subject. Q: The last song on the record, “Continuous Thunder”, is the closest you’ve gotten to a love song. BK: With thzzat song, the idea was to try and do something that wasn’t what we refer to as a “blitzkrieg” from start to finish. So many of our songs feel like they’re not good enough until they are a blitzkrieg-- we’re like, “This part’s not blitzkrieg enough!” We always need to figure out how a song can be super fucking intense the entire time. Until that happens, it’s not done. But, with “Continuous Thunder”, we wanted to proactively have something that was not this big epic thing. DP: That was a much harder song to write. It’s not a format we’re as comfortable with. BK: We’re still figuring it out. But if the record comes out and people seem to really respond to us writing that kind of song, then I’m sure it won’t be the last one. Q: On the other hand, “The House That Heaven Built” may be the most epic song you’ve ever made. BK: I remember recording the vocals to that because I didn’t realize the melody was just outside my regular vocal range until I was about to record. There are a few notes that I just can’t hit in that song, straight up. [Engineer] Jesse [Gander] was literally standing there beside me, encouraging me to push my voice as hard as it could go, and it created this really raw-sounding, throaty vocal. When I first heard it back, I thought, “This is terrible! I can’t even hit that note! We can’t use it!” [laughs] But Dave and Jesse were really into it, and they convinced me it was really good. Q: Thanks so much for sitting down with me DP: Any time.
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10 albums to listen to
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Steven Wilson Luminol
Yo La Tengo
The Flaming Lips
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fade
The Terror
Mosquito
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Jay-Z Magna Carta Holy Grail
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetics Zeros Self Titled
Grizzly Bear Shields
Dave Grohl
Daft Punk
Fitz & The Tantrums
Sound City
Random Access Memories
More Than Just A Dream
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Annie Noelker
Contents Letter from the Editior
-Teen Visual Artists -Awesome examples of teenage photography.
#tbt to when “3” meant pound iPhone Photography
My Interview with @emmabeiles
The Story of How I Maganged to Find and Take Down a Meth Lab; a Photo Adventure Gone Wrong
My Interview with Kelsey Fitzgerald.
*Collage Page - Artists featured included: @BritneyPanda, @Zooooooe, @October_Owl, @JordanKuder, @EmmaBeiles, @SofieSund, @Herdelicatespine, and @MattiasTyllander.
Letter from the Ed
Dear readers, First of all, thank you for reading this. As you can probably already tell, #Shutter is about photograph mate dream. I hope that this magazine reflects that. The images you see in this magazine are cappt @britneypanda, @sofiesund, @justinkuder,, @fitzylax and @october_owl. I had so much fun creating this! I hope you like it!
-Annie Noelker
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hy. Photography is my passion and to pursue photography as a career and “make it� is my ultitured by teenagers all over the country. Some of the artists include: @emmabeiles, @kelseyb3th,
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When and why did you first start taking photos? When i was 14. Because I broke my ankle and photography was something to do Where do you find your inspiration? From other photographers Do you consider yourself serendipitous in your photography? Or do you plan out your shoots? I do consider myself serendipitous Do you plan to pursue photography as a career? If not, why? I don’t know really. Probably not I want to do something involving engineering Favorite location to take photos? New York What’s on your playlist right now? Daft punk, Built to Spill, An Endless Sporadic, Steven Wilson, Balmorhea Describe yourself in 7 words or less. Fantastical, anxious, over thinker, jewishy, erinaceous, kakorrhaphiophobia. Favorite quote? I hate to advocate drugs,alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone but they’ve always worked for me Photographers you look up to? Cindy Sherman, Bill Cunningham, Ansel Adams What will your last words be? Don’t be an a**hole. Any advice in photography or life in general? Don’t contain yourself to just photography
When and why did you first start making art? Kindergarten - I could f*cking read. It was fun for me. The only thing I would do is draw and my teachers would get mad at me because I wouldn’t do education. Where do you find your inspiration? All around me man. It’s apart of me. Emotions, music. Everything. Do you consider yourself spontaneous in your art? Or do you plan out your projects? I wish I planned, I always end up winging it. Take it one day at a time add what I’m feeling. Do you plan to pursue art as a career? If not, why? What colleges are you thinking about? Yes - don’t know what I’m doing but I know I want it to involve creativity. Columbus College of Art and Design or somewhere southwest - maybe Arizona. What’s on your playlist right now? Growlers, Boards of Canada, Dr. Dog, Led Zeppelin Describe yourself in 7 words or less: Naive, childish, imaginative, irresponsible, don’t stick up for myself. Favorite quote? “I don’t know how to put this, but I’m a pretty big deal.” Any advice in art or life in general? Don’t expect your plans to happen because they aren’t most of the time. Go f*ck yourself San Diego. Have a goodnight.
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gretchen When did you first get interested in art? I became interested in art at a very young age, however I became a bit interested in photography while covering it in my graphic design lab. Art has always been a passion and I would like to pursues it in as many forms as I can. Where do you find your inspiration? I often find inspiration from strange, taboo or macabre subjects. I like to appreciate the unappreciated aspects of life. Do you plan to pursue art as a career? If not, why? What colleges are you thinking about? I plan on making art my career through graphic design and illustration. The colleges I have been considering are CCAD, The Art Institutes, and Pratt. What’s on your playlist right now? Metal, electronic, electro-swing, classical, 80s, 90s, 70s, indie, rock, German dance metal, experimental, alternative, etc. Describe yourself in 7 words: Eccentric, friendly, spastic, orner, scientific, ditzy, dorky Favorite quote? “Anything can be a boomerang if you throw it up.”
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When and why did you first start taking photos? I started taking photos around 5th or 6th grade when my friends sister got her first camera and I would steal it and take photos because I loved capturing a moment. Where do you find your inspiration? In nature. In the world. In the emotion that came with the little things and objects that I wandered upon in my life. Do you consider yourself serendipitous in your photography? Or do you plan out your shoots? Depends on the subject. Do you plan to pursue photography as a career? If not, why? No, however if life takes me there I won’t stop it from happening. What’s on your playlist right now? Flume, Bonobo, Little People, Jack Johnson, Toro y Moi Describe yourself in 7 words or less: Someone with a passion for creating things. Favorite quote? “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Charles Bukowski What will your last words be? Practice love teach compassion. Any advice in art or life in general? Let it happen, don’t try to force it.
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When did you first start getting into art? I’ve always been into art. I stopped until freshman year of high school because I thought I wasn’t good enough but then School of Advertising Art visited my school and thats when I decided thats what I wanted to do for the rest of my life - art. Where do you draw your inspiration from? Everywhere- clocks, cassete tapes, movies, books, everything. ZOMBIES. Favorite music at the moment? Muse, Imagine Dragons, 80s Rock n’ Roll Describe yourself in seven words or less: bubbly, outgoing, crazy, loud, artistic, genuis, absent minded Favorite quote? “Everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to be in pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.” Artists you look up to? Wyland, Banski What will your last words be? “I don’t regret anything.” What is your favorite medium to work with? Paint and weird objects. What is something you strongly believe in? Protecting the manitees, expressing yourself, and of course, art! Any advice in art or life in general? Don’t plan it out. Just let it happen.
When and why did you first start getting into art? I've been making art since I was little, even if it was just bad doodles at that point in time. My freshman year art class was what made me start considering something like that as an actual career. Where do you find your inspiration? The music I listen to influences me in a lot of ways and especially in my art. Lots of times I just make stuff because its pretty but often current political and social issues affect my work as well. Do you plan to pursue art as a career? Definitely. At first I didn't think it was for me because I want to work for a human rights group like Amnesty International, but then I realized that nonprofits need designers too, and that's what I'm good at. What’s on your playlist right now? Michale Graves, Reel Big Fish and Anti-Flag. Describe yourself in 7 words or less. I'm a vegan hippie liberal art kid. Favorite quote? “An eye for an eye just makes the whole world blind.” Maybe that’s corny but its basically my motto. Any advice in art, or life in general? Do what you want with your life. You shouldn't have to live up to the standards that are set by other humans we're all on the same level.
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to when “#” meant pound Remember the simpler days when “#” meant pound? If you answered yes, you’re old. Ha. Just kidding. But seriously - what used to be pound now means “hashtag.” Said hashtags are all over the internet. Especially social media. People love to do #tbt (throw bach Thursdays) or #wcw (woman crush Wednesday) or #selfiesunday (which is pretty self explanatory.) I have this theory about #tbt. See, I think people do this to show how far they’ve come. A very popular #tbt would be some one’s middle school selfie side by side with a current picture. Obviously any picture from middle school is going to be horrid and ugly - so put it by a recent picture and BAM! Instant attractiveness. Below are a few examples of #tbt (hopefully these people don’t murder me in my sleep for embarrasing them...)
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Emma Howie
My Interview with @emmabeiles If you have an Instagram account, chances are you’ve heard of @emmabeiles. Passionate and talented, she shares with us her life through beautiful photos she captures.
When and why did you first start taking photos? The summer of 7th grade Where do you find your inspiration? From my family, from the people in my life, from living Do you consider yourself serendipitous in your photography? Or do you plan out your shoots? I try not to plan out shoots because I think candid photos are the best. To me photography is all about capturing a moment in time, a memory. And even when I do plan out shoots, the candid photos usually come out the best. But at the same time, during shoots I love to experiment with different colors, clothes and shadows. Do you plan to pursue photography as a career? If not, why? What colleges are you thinking about? I’m not really sure yet, but I really love photography, it makes me so happy. I have no idea what college either. I just want to love whatever I end up doing so much that it doesn’t feel like a job, and if that ends up being photography then that would be amazing. Favorite location to take photos? I love beaches, fields of flowers, but most of all I love cities. You never know what you will find in cities, in alleys, the skyline, the art, the architecture, or just on the street, everything just makes such great photos. What’s on your playlist right now? Bastille, Two Door Cinema Club, The Royal Concept, Daughter, Passion Pit, Foster The People, Bon Iver, KODALINE, Coldplay (always), and so many others! Favorite place to shop/favorite brands? I really love FreePeople, Urban Outfitters, LF, and Brandy Melville Describe yourself in 7 words or less. Happy, Cheerful, Imaginative, ahh I really don’t know :/ Nikon, Canon or other? Nikon D5000 Favorite quote? “If you want to be happy, be” –Tolstoy. I also try to always live by and remember “Carpe Diem.” Photographers you look up to? I love Solve Sundsbo, Jessica Drossin, and Nick Knight Any advice in photography or life in general? Probably the only thing is to do what you love.
The story of how I managed to FInd and take down a haunted meth lab; a photo adventure gone wrong
As I pulled up to the abandoned house on the corner in my mom’s 1999 Windstar van with its window that won’t roll down, and door that refuses to budge, a million thoughts were flooding my brain, denying it of any other distraction. My eyes scanned the forgotten building, taking in and memorizing each and every crack and imperfection. Excitement and fear swirled around in my head, fighting and battling each other for the title. The windows were busted in and the curtains were tattered and fluttering in the wind. We peered in and saw random pieces of furniture scattered around the floor. Someone shook the door knob - I half expected it to be locked, but was surprised when it creaked open with ease. The door moaned, almost a warning to intruders, “Stay Out.” The whole situation reminded me of a scene out of a horror movie - the ultimate photo opportunity. We hesitated as we passed through the door and found ourselves in what appeared to be a hallway. We soon spread out, suddenly unafraid. I made my way to the first door I saw, the basement. I turned the door nob and was greeted by an odd smell and a gust of air that blew my hair back, but before I could think anything of it or take a step, my sister was calling my name to come look. Everywhere I looked I saw an opportunity for a photograph. The silhouette of my model in the ancient floor-to-ceiling window. Snap. Lounging in the cracked porcelain claw foot tub. Snap. Looking through the falling-apart-doorframe into the room that resembles Fahrenheit 451, with books from all eras strewn across the floor. Snap, snap, snap, snap. I look for the ugly and
attempt to transform into the beautiful, the unique, the strange. I use the natural light from the windows with the mysterious hand prints stamped on the glass to ignite the photo and give it an edge. I use my model to cast shadows and convey a message and emotions. I use the wide open space to give depth and perception. My photographs are my voice when I can’t find the words. They resemble my thoughts and feelings in that moment. My photographs allow me to be myself when I feel I cannot. Photography is my constant, my passion, and my escape. When my world can’t be perfect, the photo I take is my perfect world. I went back to this abandoned house several times, and each time I tried again to go into the basement, but something always got in the way. We noticed odd little things changing in the house; books shoved against the wall, a shower randomly being installed in the middle of the living room, a broom moved, but we didn’t think anything of it really. We actually thought that the place was haunted because on one occasion we all were upstairs in the room with the peeling floral wallpaper and custom naval coat that was abandoned in the closet, and all of a sudden we heard a door SLAM shut. It was so loud it shook the house and we all froze. Then all at once we were tripping over each other trying to get down the staircase. We reached the only door that would actually open and it was jammed. A headline from our local paper flashed through my mind: KIDS FOUND DEAD IN ABANDONED METH LAB. We all just started pounding on the door and ramming it with our shoulders and finally it gave and we
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ran to the car and got out of there as fast as our legs could carry us. Later, while I was reviewing pictures, I came across one with this weird mist and the mist resembled a face or a wolf of some kind. It was so scary. Despite all this, we still went back... One day, I brought a student and his family to take his senior pictures and I was giving them a tour of the house, when all of a sudden a man burst through the door and started shouting profanities at us. I had never run so fast in my life. After mentioning our experiences to my mom’s hair dresser, she told us she felt certain that it fit the criteria to be a meth house - especially the fact that they were installing a shower. I guess you need that to make it? We never returned, but noticed a few weeks later that the house was gone. A pile of rubble left in its place. I have nothing left of the beautiful old house but the pictures you see in this spread... [and cut the dramatic ending.]
*DEAR READERS, PLEASE DON’T GO OUT LOOKING FOR A METH HOUSE. I KNOW IT MADE FOR A GREAT STORY AND ALL, BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS - ITS DANGEROUS.
KELSEY FITZGERALD
Interview with @kelseyb3th When and why did you first start taking photos? Growing up I always loved to take pictures. I was pretty shy, so I liked being behind the camera instead of in front of it. I started taking pictures because I like to save and cherish each and every moment. Where do you find your inspiration? I find most of my inspiration through my home town beauty as well as two of my uncles who are in the photography business, Robbie George & Jim Noelker.
I love Brandy Melville & Free People. Describe yourself in 7 words or less: Ambitious, caring, shy, smiley, giggily, genuine, & happy. Nikon, Canon or other? Canon. Favorite quote? You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. - Wayne Gretzky
Do you consider yourself serendipitous in your photography? Or do you plan out your shoots? Most of my favorite shoots are definitely serendipitous.
How do you edit your photos? I usually use snapseed & VSCOcam on my iPhone to edit a majority of my photos.
Do you plan to pursue photography as a career? If not, why? What colleges are you thinking about? As of now, I do not see myself trying to pursue photography a career. I’d rather just keep it as a hobby of mine. As for colleges, I am not sure where or what I want to do just yet.
Photographers you look up to? One of the main photographers I look up to is Peter Lik, an amazing inspirational nature/landscape photographer.
Favorite location to take photos? My favorite place to take pictures is around my hometown because of the breathtaking views. I also love taking photos at the beach with the composition of the waves. What’s on your playlist right now? The Fray, Ed Sheeran, The Lumineers, and OneRepublic are the bands and artists that mostly make up my playlists. Favorite place to shop/favorite brands?
What will your last words be? Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. Any advice in photography or life in general? As for photography, go for the serendipitous photos and take a lot of them. It never hurts to have too many photos because you can always delete the ones you don’t like. As for life in general, smile. :)
Annie Noelker
To see more of my stuff follow me on Instagram: @annnienoel
Morgan Ulloa
About Come one, come all to see the biggest competition in history. All different types of art medium brands are going to battle it out to be crowned the winner. Everything from computers to the pencils you draw with are inside waiting for you to choose who wins. Throughout the entire magazine you will see that the title of different brands are in one of four color: blue, red, white, and yellow. Just like in a competition, blue is first place, red is second, white is third, and yellow is fourth. The magazine is designed this way so you can which brands are the top picked and which ones are the least. Artist everywhere and of all ages can be apart of helping other artist pick the right tools to suceed with. The top two to four brands are compared side by side with a personal review by artist. Along with their reviews, these artist will have some of their pieces of work showcased and an interview on what brands they use and why. Stay tuned and maybe one day i will be asking you for an interview. Morgan Ulloa Editor
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Round Two
Round One
Sketchbooks pg.3
Pencils pg.4
Final Battle
Tablet pg.6
News Brief pg.2
Showcase pg.12 My Gallery pg.20
Products I Suggest pg.8
Markers pg.6
Cameras pg.9
Paint pg.10
Brushes pg.11
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Extra Extra! New Products Have Arrived Copic
This year copic is coming out with new colors and sizes of their multiliner pens. They have ten new colors including warm grey and brown and four new sizes to choose from. Copic has also expanded their other pens as well to include new smaller nibs. The pens were released to stores on July,12, 2013. For more information of products go to copic website: http://www. copicmarker.com.
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Prismacolor
I love brush markers so to have a new line released by any company has me running to the nearest art store that carries them. In this case it’s Prismacolor who is releasing their new markers. Doubled ended, the markers include both a fine tip and a brush tip that is great for designing, fashon, and hobbies. The averge pen is three dollars in stores and online you can buy sets of these new markers. To see the new markers and learn more about them go visit: www. prismacolor.com/home
Apple
Apple has done it again. This time they are realeasing two sizes for their Macbook Air, the eleven and thirteen inch. Currently they are having a promotional sale going on where if you buy of these Macbooks for school you could get a hundred dollar gift card. Also they have one for the ipads and iphones where you can get a fifty dollar gift card. Apple is also releasing a new iOS software update this fall so more changes are to come for ipad and iphone owners.
Sketchbooks Strathmore
Strathmore is a good brand of sketchbook for the quality and price that you get it for. I’ve had a few of these sketchbooks and I prefer them over other brands. They have different brands of paper for just about everything under the sun. From drawing to presentations they can sell you anything.
Canson
I have personally used a canson sketchbook and for the most part i believe they are great. They come in all kinds of sizes and all types of paper styles. They have four main categories of sketchbooks/paper. The fine arts types that can withstand different mediums. School paper used for the young artist to practice techniques in different textures, grains and colors. Next they have technical paper which is more designed for the professinal artist. Lastly, the have arts and crafts paper so anyone and everyone can express themselves.
Moleskine
Personally Moleskine is too expensive for me and I don’t understand the difference between that and a Piccadilly. I read over a blog that is called Black Cover and they were very thorough on their review of the difference between Moleskine and Piccadilly. The truth was there really wasn’t a difference. Piccadilly is cheaper so for me if it is the same as a Moleskin then why not buy one?
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Pro Art
These drawing pencils are really nice for the cheap cost that they are sold at. I’ve had two of these sets including charchol pencils and i will keep buying them. They last pretty long so i think they are worth buying. Pro art also offers sets of these pencils that come with charchol sticks, earsers, a sharperner, and a few other items. They are pretty easy to find at most art stores and even some marketplaces carry them.
I have not personally used this brand but it comes recommended by another artist. This brand might be harder to find, just because it’s not a well known brand so i’m not sure where you could find it. The artist told me that they work nice and were a present given to her by her family. I tried them out with her permission and i agree with her. They are fine pencils but still not my favorite.
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Pencils Staedtler
Staedtler is also another brand of drawing pencil that i have used. People have given them to me as a gift and i think they are almost the same as ProArt. The only difference is that Staedtler is generally a slightly more expensice brand. If you don’t mind then i think they are great pencils to have. These also can come in sets with easers and other items, which i really like. Staedtler might be a brand you would have to find at an art store so you might have to search who carries them.
Derwent
This brand also comes recommed by an artist and she said that they are great pencils. Now while i agree with her , Derwent is a more expensive brand and in my opinion not worth the money for pencils. One day i hope to use these pencils but i’m not to keen on spending that kind of moeny on pencils when there are other alternatives out there.
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Tablet Wacom
While using Wacom tablets i have found out a few things about them. At first they can be a little tricky to figure out. I can’t tell you how long it took for me to finaly realize how to properly use it. They are really nice tablets though just a little over senative for my taste. Wacom tablets are also really expensive. The smaller ones can cost you around forty dollars or so, which for me are too expensive for a tablet. It’s all about weighing the pros and cons i guess but i think i’ll hold off on one until i really need to start using one.
Copic
Recently i have purchased a Copic marker and i have to say they are amazing. The downside to Copic is that they are almost six dollars for one marker. On the plus side to that is the fact Copic markers are refillable and have replaceable tips. These markers blend really well and come in over two hundred colors. You can get anything from skin tones to the lightest of blues which is really nice when your looking to buy markers. 6
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Prismacolor
I don’t own any Prismacolor markers but i have used them and they are not my favorite. While these markers come in a lot of colors i believe Prismacolor is getting too big for it’s name. What they charge for some of their products borders on redicious for me. Also some of their markers stink really bad which in my opinion makes it difficult for me to keep using them when they smell so bad. That’s why Prismacolor is not my first pick.
Average Prices 1 Marker
Set of 12
Set of 24
Copic
$5.25
$63
$126
Prismacolor
$4.39
$30
$60
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What’s in my art kit?
Being a mixed media artist I have worked with plenty of products. From the expensive to the cheap I’ve seen which work better and which work just as well as the next brand. The following are some of the products I suggest to use. For acylic paint I use the cheap .99 cent paint because in my opinion, it works just as well as the top name brand. You get more for your money and it comes in hundreds of colors. My pieces come out looking just as well as the higher priced stuff. You may end up going through a lot of it by your done though and that’s the only thing i dislike. I do use a lot of paint on my pieces so i’m not always able to afford the bigger tubes of nicer paint. Still, the cheap brands such as Apple Barrell and others come in colors that would take a lot of paint to make in the more expensive kind. Currently I own a Toshiba satellite 14’ and I’ve grown up using both macs and PC’s. My preference is a mac because the programs such as Adobe Creative Suites works nicer on a mac than it does on PC. Plus Macs have better support and are more user friendly than PC’s are. Another thing i don’t like about PC’s is they don’t last as long as Mac’s do. In past years i know i have had at leas six different PC’s due to the fact they get more viruses in them and tend to run slower and slower as the years progress. If you can afford a Mac i believe they will save you so much money in the long run than having to buy more PC’s everytime one crashes. For a sketchbook I don’t really look at brands. I just open a sketchbook and if I like the paper then I buy it. Most of the time I buy the thicker mixed media paper because it’s easier to work with and to easer along with markers not bleeding through as easily. For markers I prefer copic. They blend
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Cameras Canon
This is another product i have personaly used and i believe Canon to be among the league of great cameras. While some of their cameras are expensive, i think they are worth it. They are easy to use and you can find lens for them in most camera stores. You can even select to do just a body only where you just get the body of the camera without any lens. Canon cameras also last a long time so i believe this puts them at the top.
Nikon
People have recommended Nikon to me but i have yet to use one. Pricewise Nikon and Canon are abou the the same but Nikon is just a little bit cheaper. I think Nikon is another great brand but i guess it just depends on what you need in a camera and what your taking pictures of.
Olympus
I have had one of the Olympus cameras in my family but it was a really old one. I think it was a still good camera and it has lasted about ten years now and works great. This brand is cheaper than Canon and Nikon and also has more of the older style cameras which this camera enthusist loves. Even though it’s not as nice as either of the two brands, Olympus still makes great cameras that can last a long time.
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Liquitex
I have used Liquitex paint and brushes before i think it’s a really nice brand. This paint is definatly my top choice for when i want to buy the nice stuff. Only problem is that it is one of the more expensive brands. Although this paint has a nice consistancy and will spread ono smoothly which is a major plus in my books. Another thing about Liquitex is that they have a line of paint called Basics and it’s a little less expensive but still nice.
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Reeves
Reeves is another brand that i have used and it’s really nice. It’s on the cheaper side which is really awesome. It comes in all kinds of paint types including oil, watercolor, and arcylic. Most people use their watercolor paint but i prefer acrylic so that’s what i use. You can find it at most art stores since it is a cheaper brand.
This is a brand that i haven’t used but i found that other artist give it good reviews. It also comes in different paint types which is really nice so as to not limit themselves. I look forward to using this brand in the future to see if it holds up to the reviews i have gotten about it. I believe it is a little more expensive than Reeves but not by very much. I say it seems worth a try just like any brand is.
P A I N T
Princeton
This brand has to be my favorite. Princeton makes all different kinds of brushes and they can withstand anything you throw at them. These brushes are a little more expensive as in twelve dollars for a large one but in my opninon, worth every cent. You can usually find them at any art store and most of them have them on sale which is really nice because it takes down the cost of the brushes. If you are in need of brushes i highly suggest this brand!
B R U S H E S Pro Art
What is nice about Pro art is that they make so many different tools and mediums. It’s really affordable and are nice quality items. I have a few Pro art brushes and they are really nice. They spread the paint evenly and don’t tend to clump paint up at the base of the brush. They usually come in packs that can be found at most art stores and even at some marketplaces.
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And The Ar Year Awar
Interviews with tw
Over the past few weeks i’ve gotten to know some of these artist and interview them. I’ve known two of them for years now but the rest i just met. All four of these teens have amazing talent that i admire. I asked them all the same set of questions so you can see what brands and products they use. Plus i’ve formed friendships with these girls and learned a lot abou them. I hope their pieces motavate you to create some of your own.
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*Photos were taken by Annie Noelker and Leah Krueger. Pieces were created by each artist and are not mine.
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Leah Krueger I’ve known Leah now for about eight years now and she is one of the most talented artist i’ve ever met. For the past two years i have had art classes with her and watched her work hard to improve. While she might get fustrated with a piece, Leah ever gives up. That is something i admire in her. I look forward to having her yet again in another art class this coming senior year and to have called her a friend for so long no matter what.
1. What product are you using and why did you pick it? I primarily use a Mac to create most of my pieces. I mainly use Mac because I was introduced to software such as; Photoshop, Adobe flash, GIMP, Etc. with a Mac computer. I also use this product more often because it tends to move faster and more efficiently. 2. What other brands did you look at? I previously used HP to create my work. I also have created many works using a variety of medias and products such as; Reeves, Staedtler, Pro Art, Canon and Prismacolor. 3. What inspired you to get into your field? My grandfather inspired me to start into the field of art but as I grew I leaned more towards graphics and digital art. What truly inspired me to go into graphics is probably the passion for creating and moving forward in technology at the same time. 4. How do you come up with ideas for your medium? Yikes, this is the hardest question to ever ask me. My ideas mainly start out as tiny visions of what I want to accomplish. Those ideas come from words, poetry, requests, projects due, and anything else that inspires me. 5. Do you want to pursue this as a career? Yes, most definitely. I want to build my skills in graphic design and hopefully become a skilled enough artist to work with designing for brand name companies or even land some jobs freelancing. 6. If so what schools do you want to go to? My top school on my list right now is School of Advertising Art in Kettering, Ohio. A close second is Columbus College of Art and Design. They both have the field I am interested in and are still near hometown. 7. Roughly how many pieces of art have you created with this product? Completely finished pieces; 20. In Progress; about 10. 8. What is your weirdest art story? Explain. I don’t know if this is considered weird or just bad luck, but during my Junior year of high school I had an accident. I was working with AlChemy and for those who are familiar with AlChemy, you can’t save it and come back to it without it being pixelated. In order to finish this project, I had to create it all in one sitting. I was working on it after school for about 3 hours straight and then I turned it into a JPEG file but the Mac froze. All of the 3 hours’ worth of work was completely gone. I was actually proud of this piece of work, very proud and on top of that, it was due tomorrow. After about an hours’ worth of tears I got home and found out my HP had AlChemy, I was thankfully able to finish it.
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Gretchen Yerian I just met Gretchen during my College Preview experience at CCAD and she has to be one of the coolest people i have ever met. This artist can do just about everything, anyone throws at her and come out on top. She also has an awesome personality to match. I hope to stay friends with Gretchen for many years and see how she grows as an artist.
1. What product are you using and why did you pick it? Gretchen uses paint and prefers oil compare to the rest. She not really sure what brand she uses but her reasons for using oil include takes forever but nice consistency, smells good, and you can create nice movement with it. 2. What other brands did you look at? Liquitex 3. What inspired you to get into your field? Always liked art and realistic paintings. Wanted to understand the technique behind the paintings. 4. How do you come up with ideas for your medium? Human figure, surreal things, painting how I feel with colors, movement, and shapes. 5. Do you want to pursue this as a career? Painting as a hobby but graphic design and illustration as a career. 6. If so what schools do you want to go to? CCAD, SAA, Art institute of Cincinnati and Pittsburg. 7. Roughly how many pieces of art have you created with this product? 10-20 paintings. Freshman year was 20-30 portfolio pieces 8. What is your weirdest art story? Explain. Had to do a distortion project for art class and I laughed so hard almost everyday that I kept having to ask the teacher to let me go to the bathroom and I was crying laughing so hard.
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Annie Noelker What can i say about Annie that isn’t expressed through her pictures? All of her talent is plain to see through her camera lens. Every chance she gets, Annie pulls out her camera or iphone to capture the most stunning photos. She had to be, hands down, the best photographer i have ever met. I look forward to seeing more of her work as she grows into the amazing photographer we all know her to be.
1. What product are you using and why did you pick it? Canon. Her father has all Canon camera lens and didn’t want to buy all new one. Annie also just generally likes canon. 2. What other brands did you look at? Nothing else really, Nikon a little, but stupid to get one when you don’t have lens for it. 3. What inspired you to get into your field? My daddy, and taking pictures with my iphone. 4. How do you come up with ideas for your medium? Just happens 5. Do you want to pursue this as a career? Yes 6. If so what schools do you want to go to? CCAD, SAA, RASD 7. Roughly how many pieces of art have you created with this product? 4,000 pictures 8. What is your weirdest art story? Explain. Annie and her friends were exploring this old house when in the basement they found a meth lab. Not to mention she got a picture of a ghost. Someone saw Annie and her friends go inside the house so they called the police. Later on the house was torn down as a result.
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Olive Edwards Olive is my sister that i love dearly. We may live over two thousand miles apart but that only makes our bond stronger. I love that we share art in common among other things. I can remember drawing with her all the time as a little girl and i it’s also because of her that i ended up being an artist today. Olive is a mixed media artist that works with all kinds of mediums such as myself. My sister is strong willed and won’t lower her standards in order to be like everyone else which i admire in her.
1. What product are you using and why did you pick it? I use generic brand pencils when I draw. It’s cheaper and as a college student cheap is good. Very rarely are “name brand” or “designer” pencils any better than the generic kind. 2. What other brands/products did you look at? I didn’t look at any others. I’ve had pure “lead” pencils where there is no wood and it’s entirely lead but, for some reason, I didn’t like them. I just didn’t. 3. What inspired you to get into art? I’ve always been artsy since I was a little girl. However, when I was in elementary school, my best friend and I used to watch Toonami on Cartoon Network on Saturdays. Our favorite anime was “Outlaw Star” and she and I suddenly decided we wanted to draw. We drew all the time on anything we could get our hands on. Our parents used to get mad because we’d go through an entire ream of paper in two weeks. A ream is 500 pages. We used to go through 500 pages in two weeks.
4. How do you come up with ideas for your medium? Usually music helps inspire creativity within me. I listen to a lot of EDM (electronic dance music) which has no lyrics generally so it allows me to create ideas without being biased. 5. Do you want to pursue art as a career? No art school for me. I’m trying to decide between a teaching credentials program and a degree in mortuary sciences. I have little experience in cutting up bodies but I have hours worth of experience in corrective make up including wound cover up. 6. Roughly how many pieces of art have you created with this product? I have quite a few number of pieces I’ve done. Mostly have finished but I’ll paint or draw on just about anything including people. I also enjoy painting Munnys. That’s a big thing in SoCal right now. 7. What is your weirdest art story? Explain. Oh wow! I was in Theater Make-Up and we were practice gore/wounds. So I made it look like I smashed my nose into a brick-wall. I did bruises under my eyes and everything. I took the nose wax off but I forgot to take off the bruising under my eyes. I had people giving me weird looks all day until I realized I left the bruising.
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Mac
So it’s obvious that Mac’s take the cake when it comes to computers. I think they are generally easy to use and they have great tech support which is awesome. If anything goes wrong (which it usually doesn’t) you can just take it into the store and they will get it fixed up as fast as they can. Mac’s comes in all types. From a desktop to laptop, and in all sizes. Mac is my first choice for computers hands down.
Hp has been coming out with the latest technology that is changing the way people look at laptops. The new laptops that turn into tablets are the bomb dot com. Hp is a little more expensive since they come out with this new tech but they arent horribly expensive. They work nicely for years to come which is a major plus. Hp is my second choice for PC’s.
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Toshiba
I currently own a Toshiba Satellite Laptop and it is one bad ass computer. Out of all the PC computers Toshiba is my favorite. They work really nicely and have a lot of memory space. Most place can easlily fix anything that is wrong with them. Toshiba is really resonably priced so it doesn’t take much to save up for one.
Dell
Ok so onto the very last computer brand that i’m writing a review for. I’ve had several dell laptops and computers. I say several because they aren’t very good computers. They get viruses easy and crash. When your computer crashes they might send you a refurbished computer for your brand new one. Dell also has terrible costumer service including not listening to what people have to say and putting people on hold for almost an hour. Dell is my least favorite out of all computer brands.
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My Gallery
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These are pi
ieces i have created with various products in the magazine
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Gretchen Yerian
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Ceohalopod Scoop
Cephalopod A molluscan class that consists of the octopus (octopoda), cuttlefish (sepiida), squid (teuthida), and nautilus (nautilidae). Cephalopods, depending on the species, may be found in habbitats ranging from the cold, dark water 900-2000 ft. below the surface to colorful coral reefs. Evolution has crafted these creatures into unique, almost alien-lke animals. These bilateral symetrical organisms have fasinated biologists all over the world with their amazing abilities and features.
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Table Of News Brief...
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Information and links to current news related to development in cephalopod research.
Featured Creature: The Octopus...
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Explore and discover fascinating facts about the most well-known cephalopod, the octopus. Learn something new and appreciate these facinating creatures.
Contents Cephalopod Families: Fun Facts...
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A list of facinating facts about each of the families in the class, cephalopoda. Also enjoy anitomical illustrations to further explain these animals.
Cephalopods In History: Art...
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Observe and appreciate historic art feauring the amaing organisms, cephalopods. These pieces either depict cephalopods or are made from them.
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Marine biologist, Roger Hanlon and his team, provide information of their research for the public on their website. http://hermes.mbl.edu/mrc/hanlon/
Deep sea squid caught on film for first time. The footage was aired on the Discovery Channel’s “Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real.”
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Featured Creature The Octopus
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Probably one of the most popular members of the class, cephalopoda. These aquatic organisms can be identified by their large mantle, eight arms, two eyes and three hearts. Octopuses are extremely flexible because the only hard part of their body is their parrot-like beak (made of chitin). This allows the octopus to squeeze through any space it’s beak can fit. Often they are found in coral reefs, and the ocean floor. The two most remarkable abilities of the octopus are it’s intelligence and it’s camouflage. The octopus is the only invertebrate known to use tools. Through experiments, it has been found to
posses a short-term and long-term memory. They can ever distinguish between shapes and patterns.
blind. The octopus can also mimic the movement of other sea life.
The octopus’s main defense against predators is it’s astonishing talent of camouflage. It can change both the color/pattern and the texture of it’s skin. It uses skin cells called Chrometophores, reflective iridophores, and leucophores to manipulate pattern it’s epidermis displays by expanding or contracting the size of the pigment cells. Despite the octopus’s ability to recreate it’s surrounding’s colors, it is ironically color 7
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Cephalopod Families Fun Facts
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Octopus • Most intelligent & behaviorally flexible of all invertebrates • Lives in coral reefs & ocean floor • Venomous • 8 arms, 2 eyes (horizontal pupils), beak (chitin), 3 hearts. • Short-term & long-term memory • Color blind • Camouflage/mimicry
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Liver
Stomach Ink Sac
Kidney
Gill
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Squid • Swimming fin on it’s mantle, uses jet propulsion of siphon • Color changing camouflage • 3 hearts, 8 arms, 2 tentacles, beak (chitin) • Eyes have hard lenses, largest eyes in animal kingdom, focuses eyes like a telescope/camera • Usually no more than 24in long, giant squid may reach 40+ ft. • Suction cups have sharp, curved claws
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Gonad
Stomach
Mantle Artery Liver Heart Internal Shell
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Anus Beak
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Cuttlefish • Name refers to it’s cuttlebone (aragonite) • W-shaped pupils, 8 arms, 2 tentacles • 15-25cm (5.9-9.8 in) • Feeds on small mollusks, crabs, shrimp, fish, octopuses, & other cuttlefish • Predators: dolphins, sharks, fish, seabirds, & other cuttlefish • Are among the most intelligent invertebrates • Have one of the largest brain-to-body ratios of all invertebrates • Cuttlebone provides buoyancy, regulates by changing gas-to-liquid ratio within the chambered cuttlebone • Color blind • Referred to as the chameleons of the sea, changes it’s skin color & texture • Neurotoxins produced by bacteria in saliva 14
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Beak
Ink Sac Cuttlebone Stomach
Hearts
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Nautilus • Primitive eyes, no lenses • 90 tentacles, no suckers, arranged in two circles • Least intelligent cephalopod • Considered a living fossil • Most closely resembles primitive species of cephalopods • Only remaining cephalopod with a shell • The Chamber Nautilus’s shell is a logarithmic spiral
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Crop Gonad Intestines
Gills Heart Kidney
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Cephalopods in History Art 18
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Mycenaean vase or krater depicting a stylized octopus (1400-1300 BCE).
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The Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid off Tenerife in 1861. Illustration from Harper Lee’s Sea Monsters Unmasked, London, 1884.
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Giant squid from Logy Bay, Newfoundland in bathtub, November/ December, 1873.
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Cameo fragment with marine animals, first half of 1st century A.D. Roman Glass
Belt Buckle, 550–600 Visigothic Copper alloy, cells inset with garnets, glass, lapis lazuli, and cuttlefish bone
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Still Life with a Nautilus, Panther Shell, and Chip-Wood Box, ca. 1630 Sébastien Stoskopff (Alsatian, 1597–1657) Oil on canvas
Stirrup jar with octopus, ca. 1200– 1100 B.C.; Late Helladic IIIC Mycenaean Terracotta
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This nautilus cup (one of two in the Royal Collection) was purchased by George IV from Rundell, Bridge & Rundell in December 1826
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