I'MAZINE N°01::CREATION

Issue N°01::Creation winter 2011

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going out of print? september 2010, the chairman and publisher of the New York Times clarified the rumors of its newspaper going out of print by 2015 with these evil menacing words. “We will stop printing the newspaper sometime in the future at a to-be-determined date.� could we be any less humanitarian? cellphones, laptops, e-mails, instant messages, commercials after another. has no one got the time to sit back, relax, have a drink and actually flip through some pages? we do. or more like, we should. so kick back, relax, get your cup of tea ready, and flip.

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sebit min january 2011 creator and designer of i'mazine

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30 “essentials”

30 “essentials”

A List o f 30 “ ess e n t ials” by jack kerouac 05

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30 “essentials”

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17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself 18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea 19. Accept loss forever 20. Believe in the holy contour of life 21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind 22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better 23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge 25. Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form 27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness 28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better 29. You’re a Genius all the time 30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

30 “essentials”

01. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy 02. Submissive to everything, open, listening 03. Try never get drunk outside your own house 04. Be in love with your life 05. Something that you feel will find its own form 06. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 07. Blow as deep as you want to blow 08. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 09. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time 15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog 16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye

On the morning Sooni is due to leave, my silent heart falls heavily like snow. It forlornly covers the fat stretched map outside the window. Peering inside the room, no one is there. The walls and ceiling are white. Perhaps it is snowing even inside the room. Will you really leave, all alone, just like lost history?

Words I should have said before you left, are now written in a letter, but to which street, which village, or under which roof you're leaving to; I do not know- will you remain only in the depths of my heart? Snow keeps falling, covering your small footsteps so I cannot follow them. When the snow melts, flowers will bloom in each of your remaining footprints. Were I to follow them among the flowers, snow will fall in my heart for the whole twelve months of the year.

Snowing Map

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snowing map

Yoon Dong-Ju March 12th, 1942

순이가 떠난다는 아침에 말못할 마음으로 함박눈이 내려, 슬픈 것처럼 창 밖에 아득히 깔린 지도 위에 덮인다. 방 안을 돌아다보아야 아무도 없다. 벽과 천장이 하얗다. 방 안 에까지 눈이 내리는 것일까, 정말 너는 잃어버린 역사처럼 홀홀이 가는 것이냐, 떠나기 전에 일러둘 말이 있던 것을 편지를 써서도 네가 가는 곳을 몰라 어느 거리, 어느 마을, 어느 지붕 밑, 너는 내 마음속에만 남아있는 것이냐, 네 조그만 발자욱을 눈이 자꾸 내 려 덮여 따라갈 수도 없다. 눈이 녹으면 남은 발자욱자리마다 꽃이 피리니 꽃 사이로 발 자욱을 찾아나서면 일년 열두달 하냥 내 마음에는 눈이 내리리라.

눈 오는 지도 윤동주 3月 12日 1942

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jinah kim

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// sam coomes of quasi April 21, 1998

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Youth of America is living in the jungle Fighting for survival with the wrong place to go

I heard a friend describe the Wipers recently as suicidal punk. It is dark, desperate, frustrated, hopeless. Greg Safe did not kill himself, he moved to Arizona. Perhaps the music still reverberates in Portland between the cloudy atmosphere and an oily puddle.

30 years later, the attitude and hypnotic sound still echo here, calling on the youth to rectify.

These "Youth of America" have had their imaginations confused and stifled by a complex and elusive oppression. The wipers knew that the foundations of American society were crumbling and one way to warn people of the mass brainwashing was with guitar, bass, drums, and a voice. Not exactly suicidal punk. Deprived yearning schizoid punk.

Dan Ness Portland 2011

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dan ness

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hom age o f m a r k lo m ba r d i' s narrativ e st ru ct u r es

bob dylan jim jarmusch

dizzy gillespie franz kafka mark rothko

jan tschichold

daniel johnston

josef mĂźller-brockmann

brian wilson

federico fellini

françoise sagan

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mind map

man ray

jean seberg

murakami haruki duane michaels

john lennon

serge gainsbourg jean-luc godard f.scott fitzgerald

thelonius monk henri mattise

oskar fischinger

joĂŁo gilberto

jacques henri-lartigue anton chekhov

antonio carlos jobim

Mark Lombardi was an abstract artist specializing in what he called “Narrative Structures”, which are like diagrams resembling the structures of sociograms—a type of graph drawing used in the field of social network analysis.

However, his structures attempted to document the crime and conspiracy networks of the world collected from news stories from reputable media organizations.

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Lombardi's first sketches were originally not intended as an artwork, but more as a practical tool for himself to comprehend the masses of information more fluidly. Soon afterwards the rough sketches began to develop into a sophisticated network of a combinations of text and image that he felt “really worked for me in other ways as well”.

I call them “narrative structures” because each consists of a network of lines and notations which are meant to convey a story, typically about a recent event of interest to me, like the collapse of a large international bank, trading company, or investment house. One of my goals is to explore the interaction of political, social and economic forces in contemporary affairs…

Working from syndicated news items and other published accounts, I begin each drawing by compiling large amounts of information about a specific bank, financial group or set of individuals. After a careful review of the literature I then condense the essential points into an assortment of notations and other brief statements of fact, out of which an image begins to emerge.

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Working first as a curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, then as a general reference librarian for the Fine Arts department in the Houston Public Library exposed the artists to large quantity of information, and it was his responsibility to collect, separate, and organize the collection. Also, it gave him the opportunity to conduct the research of his interests; from drug wars to bankruptcy to financial and political frauds.

In his artist statement for a show in the late 90s, Mark described his work as follows:

My purpose throughout is to interpret the material by juxtaposing and assembling the notations into a unified, coherent whole. In some cases I use a set of stacked, parallel lines to establish a time frame. Hierarchical relationships, the flow of money and other key details are then indicated by a system of radiating arrows, broken lines and so forth. Some of the drawings consist of two different layers of info—one denoted in black, the other, red. Black represents the essential elements of the story while the major lawsuits, criminal indictments or other legal actions taken against the parties are shown in red.

At the height of his career, on the afternoon of March 22nd 2000, the artist was found dead in his Williamsburg studio.

Autopsy resulted in suicide and since then it has been suggested that a number of frustrating accidents intensified his mental and physical health. However, some of his friends think differently. Perhaps drawing one too many charts dealing with high-profile powers might have resulted him a ‘call’. Whatever it is, there seems to be much more than just the cover.

Every statement of fact and connection depicted in the work is true and based on information culled entirely from the public record.

information gathered from 1 Hobbs, Robert Carleton; Richards, Judith. Mark Lombardi: Global Networks.

2 Wikipedia

the illustration on the opposite page is an homage to the artist and is in no way one of Lombardi's narrative structures.

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PHOTOGRAPHY JINAH KIM

i'mazine is a zine, as it speaks for itself, based on d-i-y indie culture. Restricted number of prints will be distributed throughout local venues of NYC, Portland, and Seoul; and will also be available upon request online.

ILLUSTRATION DAN NESS unless otherwise noted, SEBIT MIN TRANSLATION SEBIT MIN DESIGN sebit min INSTRUCTOR richard mehl TYPEFACES PRESTIGE ELITE BODONI POSTER ITALIC INTERSTATE dioptical

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