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S US PEN SION Tous droits de reproduction sont réservés. Le contenu des articles n'engage que leurs auteurs. Tous manuscrits, documents, objets, travaux divers envoyés au magazine ne sont pas renvoyés. 4 | DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE

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Editorial. Suspension ... Standing in the air, like a sword, a drop of water, a poster, a ray, a reflection, a fall, a flash, an endless loop, a light, a dress, a game, a film, ... A visual issue for a visual summer. See you in fall ... with style. The Templar.

Cover and opening issue by Jasper Goodall. Editorial picture : Alexandre Gueyton - Glaive dédié à la Franc-Maçonnerie. Photographies of the Subscription/Request section and the 4th cover by Shinichi Maruyama. DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE | 5

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Inside Acolyte Subscription Request

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Shinichi Maruyama

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CWYA Results

Holga Addict Gwen de Skilllab

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ACOLYTE / Dima Boulad

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Dima Boulad.

She lived this experience like no one else.

She saw, she did, she created, she spoke about it and she exchanged with others. She was at OFFF.

She was the right girl for the right review. Thank you for your Offf side Dima.

Special Thanks. To participants, organisators, artists and friends at OFFF. To Leftism for his Puppet in the Airplane. Real Dudes !

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ART

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ART / Shinichi Maruyama

K U S H O by

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Shinichi Maruyama.

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ART / Shinichi Maruyama

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Shinichi Maruyama / ART

Liquid in the air. Shinichi Maruyama started his professional career in Tokyo in 1993, 10 years later relocating his studio to New York City in search of more global opportunities. Specializing in splashing and energetic movements within shots Maruyama has become highly sought after for his expertise in this field expanding his career into Europe in 2005. Shinichi Maruyama was born in 1968 in Nagano, Japan. Surrounded by beautiful mountains, in High School he became immersed in mountain climbing, and wanting to preserve the stunning landscapes began taking photographs. Upon graduating college he joined Ima Co. assisting their 15 still life photographers where he discovered the many different professional facets of creating an image. In 1993, working with an 8x10 camera Maruyama became independent winning the ’99 Japan Magazine Advertisement Prize planning-advertisement section award. He began taking photos for his personal project “Into the Spiti Valley”, a documentary work about Tibetan culture in India, the exhibition later opened in 2001 along with the publication of two books “Into The Spiti Valley” and “Spiti”. DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE | 19

ART / Shinichi Maruyama

In 1998, he joined Hakuhodo Photo Creative and became involved in advertising campaigns for Japanese companies winning the New York ADC Gold Award for an advertising campaign for a satellite broadcasting company. In 1999 realizing the possibilities of digital photography and Photoshop Maruyama began creating his work using digital cameras. Maruyama has been involved in many worldwide advertising campaigns utilizing his expertise in ice, liquid/ splash, and specializing in movement in his works. Years of lighting research and the advances in retouching have made it easy to have a strong idea of exactly how a photo will look even before the shoot begins, but in photographing liquid and subjects in movement, it is impossible to foresee what the end result will be, and it is this spontaneity that enables Maruyama to have more fun creating his work. While Maruyama enjoys the excitement of collaborating with creators from around the world, one thing is always on his mind, that feeling he had back in high school, when he was photographing what ever he wanted to...he is now working on his personal projects and aims to have an exhibition of this work.

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ART / Shinichi Maruyama

Kusho. As a young student, I often wrote Chinese characters in sumi ink. I loved the nervous, precarious feeling of sitting before an empty white page, the moment just before my brush touched the paper. I was always excited to see the unique result of each new brushing. Once your brush touches paper, you must finish the character, you have one chance. It can never be repeated or duplicated. You must commit your full attention and being to each stroke. Liquids, like ink, are elusive by nature. As sumi ink finds its own path through the paper grain, liquid finds its unique path as it moves through air. 24 | DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE

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Remembering those childhood moments, of ink and empty page, I fashioned a large ‘brush’ and bucket of ink. I get the same feeling, a precarious nervous excitement, as I stand before the empty studio space. Each stroke is unique, ephemeral. I can never copy or recreate them. I know something fantastic is happening, «a decisive moment», but I can’t fully understand the event until I look at these captured afterimages, these paintings in the sky.

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ART / Shinichi Maruyama

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DESIGN / Jasper Goodall

Jasper Goodall. Can you introduce you ? I’m Jasper I live in Brighton UK and I’m an artist/designer/ illustrator Can you explain us your way of work ? Many many ways. Photography, Photoshop, illustrator, drawing. Sometimes just one of them, but often all of them to make one piece.

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DESIGN / Jasper Goodall

What is the story behind the serie with the Poster Girl ? Poster Girl is a series of works, that explore themes of fetish and fantasy. Whilst the work itself can be seen as erotic art, it is equally about looking at the world of fetish and erotica with an appreciative yet critical eye. It is erotic art but it is also about erotic art - the images are a result of my musings on erotica and sexual fetish. Some of the pieces are purely about my interest in the fetishisation of otherwise innocent materials like rubber and PVC. Or about how the colour pink has become associated with sexy-ness (along with itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual partner black) and how the shininess of polished latex becomes almost fluid in itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s texture when stretched over a body. The images are made in part from photographs of nail polish, to visually refer to sexual fluids, lubrication, and sweetness as well as referencing glamour and self decoration. 36 | DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE

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Jasper Goodall / DESIGN

The pieces are all of a model holding an image in front of her. This device references peoplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ideas of fantasy and reality. Dressing for sex, and indeed any dressing up - be it for a party or for more kinky reasons, is all about creating an image. With our clothes we create a persona; in sexual dressing that persona more often than not brings the dresser and viewer closer to those ideas involved in sexual fantasy. For a period, the world stops being reality and your fantasy is made real, only to evaporate again in the morning... DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE | 39

DESIGN / Jasper Goodall

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Where do you find your ideas on a project ? They just happen in my head. Tell us your best crazy experience ever on a work ? I had to make an illustration of a strip bar in London for a review, the newspaper I was working for gave me expeses money to pay the strippers so they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get upset when I was taking reference photographs !

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DESIGN / Jasper Goodall

What will be the best work that you dream to create ? I went to the ‘Crazy Horse’ show in Paris recently – I’d love to make promotional material for them, it was so sexy and cool.

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DESIGN / Jasper Goodall

What is the feeling that you want to communicate in your global work ? Desire. Have you got other projects ? Yeah but they’re secret at the moment… sorry !

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

Guidos. Can you introduce you ? I was born in 1966 which was a good year I guess … the number 66 sounds like a good one and in the chinese horoscope I am a firehorse which is a very outstanding and rare sign (every 60 years only !). My parents are german, I feel european but most of the time I am let’s say a worldinhabitant. I never really felt german. Also I think I was black in one of my earlier lifes because there is always some connections I can feel with any black guy I met in my life. Wherever I go they are looking at me like a brother somehow ?! Maybe it’s because I am a drummer. I started to play drums when I was three years old ! My father used to be a jazz drummer all his life. But I never took any classes. I just had it in my blood. Probably that’s the connection …

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When I was a kid I was always drawing and very creative! My mother told me that she could satisfy me with just a handful of buttons. I think it’s all about fantasy isn’t it ? I always loved to be or work with people who have the same ability to see and imagine things as I do. When I was eighteen I decided to become a filmmaker ! I’ve spend all my money for the very first portable video camera and convinced a handful friends of mine to make a science fiction movie. The first thing we’ve build was a future city which was about three to two meters. Done. But now we needed the inside take from the cockpit view which was a litle bit more work. We were building the commando bridge of an spaceship. We used my sister’s room for it who just moved out at my parents’ place. We were using slide projectors to show some outer space images through the windows and invented very simple but effectful tricks to pretend weightlessness. In the beginning we were using tape and glue. We ended up with nailing and screwing and the construction building took more than half a year ! My parents were so cool ! They always supported my creativity.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

Just before we finished the construction a friend of mine told me that he did exactly the same (first encounter with morphic fields !). His spaceship looked even better than ours. The dream was over. The funny story is that when I moved out and the « spaceship » stayed in the room for another year until my parents needed the room once. It took me a lot of work (and drugs) to convince some friends to dismantle it. After that it was stored for another two years at my fathers warehouse on two pallets with an inscription on it which said : SPACESHIP. I always wondered what my fathers employees must have thought about it (laughs) !? I graduated in graphic designs with 21. I was always a very good illustrator and I did paintings as well. With 26 I went to london for a weekend and I stayed one year. I worked as an illustrator, bar tender and salesman and : I started with photography ! Even with that three jobs I lost money each month. After 12 months I was nearly 10.000 (DM) lighter but had a great time ! So I went back to germany where I’ve spend 13 years working in hamburg as a designer, art director and creative head in advertising. I was running two agencies and the night club RANGAVILLAS.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

Six years ago Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sold everything and travelled around the world for almost two years ! I was looking for a new place to live abroad. I have been lived in bangkok for six months and ended up in Berlin where I live and work now. How did you became a photographer and what was your very first influence ? My earliest inspiration were the photographs of david hamilton I guess. His photographs were the answer to my prayers when I was a teenager ! Still I feel a very big simularety in the way he looks upon natural beauty. But there was a certain photo of that photographer will mcbride which inspired me the most in a book my parents had once. It was a huge coffeetable-book from the seventees and the photo was a black and white centerfold. It was showing two young girls standing in front of each other and the picture was taken against the light. I remember it was a photo he shot once for TWEN magazine ! I was only twelve years old but faszinated by that sensuality he captured in it. I never saw something more beautiful before ! Of course I did not know about photography or even the photographer behind it at all.

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Stefan Guidos Stefan Schmidt Guidos / PHOTOGRAPHY

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

Even more funny so that I met Will two years ago in Berlin. I recognized him because my best friend Stefano Boragno used to work for him as an assistent once and he had this fabulous book of him entitled I, WILL MCBRIDE which includes that mentioned picture ! I invited him for a coffee and told him that this single picture of him is one reason for what I am doing now. Life is really funny isn’t it ?! 30 years later you meet that person and even if he is over 70 by now there is no big difference in what we are doing and standing for today. I had the offer to do a group exhibition with him and six other photographers at SEVEN STAR GALLERY in Berlin which I refused because it would have been my first exhibition and I was not happy with the idea not to show more then three or four exhibits. I did not know that he would be part of it. It would have changed my mind I guess because that would have been such a wonderful story how the circle of our story would have been closed by that. But the biggest inspiration have been always belong to the nature beauty of creation ! As a designer I understand the unbelievable perfection and art. I want to capture everything perfect. A flower or a tree, a car or building (even if it’s made by humen it’s made by the same intention of creation) or…a girl ! So I started to documentery those things always for my own sake because nobody captured this certain beauty I saw. Then I met my biggest muse Justina ! Her outstanding beauty and sensuality have been the biggest inspiration for what I am standing for now.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

Also she was the one who forced me to follow my dream and suported me to take photos of other girls. She understood that I needed to live this dream in my life to become a round and happy person. Today what is your most important inspiration ? Women. I could not imagine this life without their magic. But my friends are very important to me and to make new ones. To meet new people all over the world is very inspiring to me. Travelling is my hobby ! My friends are calling me DOC HOLIDAY. But the biggest inspiration of all is music! As a musican I am connected to this wonderful magic, too. I think love, creativity (fantasie) and music it’s one. Made of the same kind of magic or energy which always surrounds us. Music includes all the big answers in life, they can’t be translated. There is no need for it. Art is questioning. It’s like in Douglas Adams Hitchikers guide through the universe : The answer of everything, the reason why we are here etc… is 42. But what we need to know is the correct question to this answer ! If you could translate art you might get an answer. But art for me is a way into another dimension which we still don’t understand to interprete yet. Like love …

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

Can you explain us your way of work ? As I mentioned before my work always is a hommage to natural beauty. So I just use real environments and daylight and no make up at all ! I am always casting the girls I take photos with on the streets wherever I go ! Once I see a person who is inspiring me I start seeing pictures in my head. That’s the sign that this person is made for me. I just failed once. I also work with professional models from time to time. But for me it’s so much more magic taking photos of someone who never stood in front of a camera before. I see myself more as a director. First I have to find my muse, the main character of my movie which I want to get abroad with my photographs. Then I write the script around that person. Who is she, where is she, what is she doing ... that’s the idea of the photo. But for me it’s a whole movie I see and the photographs are just stills of it. I hope i can inspire others the same way while seeing my pictures. Where do you find your ideas on a project ? For the last years I got very inspired by children. They are so natural and not conditioned in their behavings which is wonderful to see. For example I saw a young six year old girl in the underground train in Berlin. The whole ride she was lying up side down on the bench in her summer dress while her long blond hair was hanging down. She was enjoing herself so much and looked so free. I was so fascinated by that ! A great picture …

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But sometimes I love to go into a shooting without any idea or concept. I think there is a very strong power in improvising. Sometimes I get the right idea even during the shoot. Tell us your best crazy experience ever on a work ? Oh, there are so many ! Like when we rented chopper from real hells angels members for a motocircle wear shooting in San Diego. Or taking photos of the ORCHESTRA OF THE NATIONS in a jumbo jet while the sun rised over india. What will be the best work that you dream to create ? To create and publish coffee table books of my work. To do an exhibition in any cool off-location like a public garage in New York. To do a campaign for my own underwear and bikini label I might create one day â&#x20AC;Ś What is the feeling that you want to communicate in your global work ? Magic. Mystery. Myself.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

Can you explain us the story which is hidden behind your special serie for DIGITAL TEMPLE ? The idea of the serie for Digital Temple it’s a wonderful picture which I carry around since two years. One day I found out that I am a hyper visulised person (a 65 year old dutch women who was a buddist in bengkok told me ones) I understood that I see things others don’t. Sometimes there is a picture which I see so clear in my mind that I feel the need to reproduce it within my photography. If the photo comes very close to that picture I can erase it finaly to make space for new ones. It is a kind of relief. Because the picture in my mind is seeming to grow and grow and needs a lot of space until it becomes real. If the photo I take doesn’t exactly transfers the picture it will always stays in my mind until I can fullfil it one day. I am very glad that I finaly shot this photo for Digital Temple. The story behind it is the idea to share something certain with someone you love even if this person is somewhere else. To feel connected to this love without any barriers of time or space. The idea that you would love to share this with someone who is even dead to feel closer to that person makes it such a beautiful one in a very spiritual way. I am not very religious in the christian thought but I am very spiritual. I believe in the energy which makes us and which won’t disapear when you die. I hope that when I die my energy or soul becomes music, a laugh or a magic sunset …

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Guidos

What is your artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leitmotiv ? Love. Have you got other projects ? To much. Like the music I produce under the name RADIO SLAVE TRANSMITER. Or founding an art collectiv with friends in San Francisco which will operate more as an agency concentrating on campaigns and projects which will help others. Your latest words ? All my talent I put in work. All my genius I put in life. (Oscar Wilde)

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Mezzetty

Mezzetty.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Form Throug Formâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; A voyeuristic look at form, light and shadow. I wanted it to feel like peering through an abstract keyhole making the perception of what lay beyond distorted without losing the form. Simple lighting and an untreated look was integral to the finish, making it feel natural and captured. 86 | DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE

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FOLDER / OFFF ’09

Special Folder. OFFF is a cutting-edge festival exploring the latest in digital aesthetics and software language. OFFF festival brings together the artists that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for the international scene of digital creation. OFFF is the only event of this kind. We met wonderful people there and to bring you a better look of this event, we asked to Dima Boulad to explain us her journey in this crazy universe. Here is the story of an OFFFicer ‘09.

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Héctor Ayuso Photography by Roger Rossell.

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« OFFF was great, a celebration of ‘Failing Gracefully’ - those strange experiments which sometimes work, and sometimes don’t, but always lead to new ideas. » ~ Dave Ferner of United Visual Artists.

OFFF ‘09

by Dima Boulad. Only twenty minutes away by train from Lisboa. A great venue for my first Offf. Designers, programmers, artists and dj’s came from all around the world to be part of the 9th edition of one of the biggest post digital culture festivals internationally. Three intense days of presentations, encounters, discoveries, installations, partying and Offf-ing ! This year, everyone gathered to show their dark secrets. The mistakes you are not proud of. The failures you wish to forget. This year, the theme wasn’t about success in design, but rather : the power to pick up a mistake along the way, learn from it and even make it the design itself.

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Photography by Roger Rossell.

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FOLDER / OFFF ’09

« At Offf digital meets real the hottest way. » ~ Xavier Vilar de Paz of Multitouch Barcelona.

Offf 2009 : Flying, Falling, Failing : how to fall gracefully. We had the chance to have Neville Brody open up the festival, to see Sagmeister in a dress lecturing about the importance of never judging people on their apperances, to be inspired by Robert L. Peters’ quote-based lecture on the attitude of being a designer, to peek into the making-of the title sequence of «True Blood» with Digital Kitchen, to dive into the codes of Karsten Schmidt’s hypnotizing work. Even though the sound on the main stage worked at times against the speakers, we had the chance to admire the creativity of One Size with their logo sequence and Kyle Cooper’s official Offf title sequence, to be introduced to many tips and tricks of stop motion animation by PES, to play the biggest game

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Stefan Sagmeister Photography by Roger Rossell.

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Nerdferences Photography by Roger Rossell.

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« Gracefully out of bounds. » ~ Musa Work Lab.

of Space Invaders, to dance to the sounds of many dj’s with their live experimental performances and to enjoy the endless nights in Barrio Alto, the heart of Lisboa’s nightlife. One thing that distinguishes Offf from other digital media festivals is the various disciplines one can be introduced to : you can find webdesign (bleed), graphic design (Paula Scher), motion design (One size), interactive video installations (Multitouch barcelona), live performances (Pixel), or Film Direction (Chris Milk). It was very interesting to see everyone’s work, for once, from a different point of view. We didn’t admire the finished work itself, but rather we admired the process and the importance of embracing failure as part of creation.

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Joshua Davis Photography by Roger Rossell.

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Eva Vermandel Photography by Roger Rossell.

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« Being at OFFF ‘09, presenting my work, has been a dream come true for me ! Thanks to everybody for your support !!! » ~ Director Kobayashi.

My experience of the festival got completed by my attendence to the three day workshop given by one of the masters of dutch 3D animation, Joost Korngold aka Renascent.The first part of the workshop was dedicated to looking into Renascent’s work files, asking him each and every detail about his process, his concepts, his techniques. Surprisingly, Joost channeled all his examples by revealing some mistakes in his work that he ended up using as important design elements. We had a task to come up with a strong concept to animate in 3D the logo of the festival. The whole process was undeniably the most interesting : coming up with ideas in groups, visualising them, excecuting them, facing difficulties, experimenting, almost giving up and then

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Kyle Cooper Photography by Roger Rossell.

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Champagne Valentine Photography by Roger Rossell.

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« A high-energy gathering of thousands of enthusiastic participants to share inspiration and reflections on ‘failure’... naturally a big success ! » ~ Robert L. Peters.

coming up with a final piece the last day. We had the great opportunity to present our animations on the big stage, we all failed gracefully ! A great finale! Who says Offf, also says encounters. Meeting up with people from all around the world who share your passion and your lifestyle is refreshing and stimulating. Seeing where you stand in the creative world, and seeing all the possibilities that you can become, is crucial for every designer’s mind and attitude. And Offf offered me that, even-though I was expecting parties to be organized at the venue at the end of each day, to accentuate the social aspect of the festival and to make everyone meet more and more people from all 3500 of us who were out there !

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Toxi Photography by Roger Rossell.

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« The offf 2009 was hot, uncomfortable, crowded, but still the very best place for inspiration, amazing music and speakers ! That is actually hard to beat. All us at Bleed was very happy ! » ~ Svein Haakon Lia of BLEED.

If I had to sum up in two words these three intense days in Lisboa, it would be : Just do stuff. When you’ve experimented Offf, it becomes so clear that design is not like any other profession, it’s a lifestyle. The inspiration you get from a festival is priceless.

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Héctor Ayuso & Rui Vieira Photography by Roger Rossell.

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FOLDER / Portraits of OFFF

YOU WERE THERE Portraits of OFFF. Fail Gracefully. This is one instant, one second of your experience during the festival. When you see what the others will never see, you are like one unique drop of water in suspension on a rainy day. All these clichés are dedicated to you, OFFF’s people.

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« Create, it’s always speaking about childhood. »

- Jean Genet.

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SERIE / SILENT LIGHT

SILENT LIGHT. Serie made by Guidos for Digital Temple.

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MOTION / Carousel

Stink Digital & DDB Amsterdam for ‘Carousel’. You can watch the movie and have a full experience on the website of Digital Temple Magazine. Title : ‘ CAROUSEL ’ for www.philips.com/cinema

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MOTION / Carousel

Created by Tribal DDB and Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips’ latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9. Since the television’s 21:9 frame lends itself so readily to film, Tribal DDB, Amsterdam commissioned us to create a piece of filmed content that could hold its own with Hollywood’s best.

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Director Adam Berg responded with an idea for an epic ‘frozen moment’ cops and robbers shootout sequence that included clowns, explosions, a decimated hospital, and plenty of broken glass and bullet casings.

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This epic film is the centrepiece of the interactive experience. On its own, it clocks in at a (totally coincidental) two minutes and 19 seconds, but Tribal briefed Berg on an endless loop.

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Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to ‘spin’ through the film’s single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot.

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This constant moving between two layers of reality proved one of the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest and most ambitious production challenges. Other details of the online execution play off the cinematic theme ; the micrositeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loader doubles as a credit sequence, while rich media takeover banners drive traffic to the site by teasing viewers with an original Carousel trailer.

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FASHION / Lü

This is Lü. Can you introduce you ? My name is Ami Lungu and I am the LÜ art fashion label designer. I am 30 years old and I am a Scorpio. I have a lover who looks like a cat and a cat who treats me as his lover. I am an independent artist and I finance my own small studio, set up in Bucharest / Romania. I ride a bicycle, I love lentil soup and I dream of moving to Berlin, Amsterdam or Lisboa. Until that day, you can find me in www.thisis.lu.

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Can you explain us your way of work ? Well, a certain affinity for one idea settles in my heart and there starts the research. There are some questions that I have to answer to myself, like «How do I want to visualize this idea or message?» or «Which are the best colors/ shapes to define these clothes?». And then there is that need to go out into the nature and get connected to higher vast energies. Out there, in the nature, is where my mind settles and inspiration arises. This is how LÜ was created. Technically speaking, the research of the collection took three months and the production took one month.

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What is the story behind the name LÜ ? In ancient tibetan language, LÜ means «body» but it also means «luggage» or «something that you leave behind». I found this phrase written somewhere in a tibetan book about death and life and it struck me. This definition of the body explains a lot about the tibetan way of seeing body, life and death. It was an instant connection and I just knew that I found that this is the name of my label. In today’s Western society we are taught obsessively to deny death and that makes us psychotic, in the sense that we live in a constant agony of trying to be beautiful, perfect, young. This is against the very nature of human and life. And the nature of every composite thing is impermanence. What comes into being will one day die. And this word LÜ says that in such a beautiful and subtle way. At least, this is how I felt it. DIGITAL TEMPLE MAGAZINE | 195

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Where do you find your ideas on a project ? Everywhere. It could be a flower in the garden, a book, a sound, the afternoon rain, an owl or a dream. Life challenges you every moment. And every of these moments could be an idea for a project. LÜ is about humans, consciousness, nature and spirituality. So I dig for inspiration into the human body, in the forests or by the oceans or into spiritual realms. Tell us your best crazy experience ever on a work ? I can name it «trying to catch the light on a cloth in a crazy manner». It’s about one dress that I designed for a personal 2006 collection named «Is It Night or Is It Day?». I took then the spectrum colors and some gold threads and worked on the sewing machine for 16 hours -no pause- in order to create the effect of a pale enlightened surface. I loved those moments of madness and I still keep this piece in my wardrobe, even if I wore it only once.

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What will be the best work that you dream to create ? It’s funny that you asked. Let me think, it could be a «dream coat», realized from a special mix of textures and natural perfumes that allows the person wearing it to access the Alpha wave brain level or even the REM sleep stage. What is the feeling that you want to communicate in your global work ? I want to remind people that things that really matter are peace, harmony and good spirit, no matter what shape they may embody. All the rest is a continue craving for illusions and restless desires. What is your artist’s leitmotiv ? I take human body as my constant inspiration, but this path definitively guides me to a vaster universe, abstract or concrete. I believe that all things are interconnected and they coexist in beautiful diverse alliances.

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FASHION / Lü

Have you got other projects ? LÜ is my personal project that I work on. This label is quite fresh & new and it requires a lot of work and soul altogether. There are also some projects that I work for from time to time, consisting in clothes design and production for various commercial brands. Your latest words ? «Things you own end up owning you». These are the words that keep on coming into my mind lately.

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Y W C COMPETITION

Competition #1 WINNERS of the first global Competition “CREATE WHAT YOU ARE”. Congratulations.

DIGITAL TEMPLE Magazine supports you.

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COMPETITION / Create what you are

‘ILLUSTRATION’ Grzegorz Domaradzki aka Gabz www.iamgabz.com

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