Issue #2 > May 2011
LaSalle College Students Magazine
04/11 Contents
UPCOMING EVENTS ............... 4-5 By: Alejandro Palacios
MUSIC REVIEW ........................ 6-7 By: Eyren Uggenti
MUSIC IN VANCOUVER........... 8-9
By: Eyren Uggenti
HOW TO: CUT A T-SHIRT .... 10-11
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A Photo Essay By Danilo Candido
Find out where your favourite bands are playing near you!
Features
SHOE BOX PHOTOS................ 12-13
By: Lucas Dos Santos
INTERVIEW WITH MJ.......... 14-18 By: Daniel Abadia
Take a look at some of our photography students work.
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By: Sarah O’Neil
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PHOTO ESSAY .......................20-23
By: Danilo Candido
Daniel Abadia goes down to Thriller Studio to speak with its owner, Mike Jackson, about his print shop.
Intro
Our Crew Daryl Askey Art Director & Editor of the mag – also educator, designer, music producer, and more! www.askeystudio.com
Alejandro Palacios Digital artist and photo editor extraordinaire.
Daniel Abadia
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t’s coming to the end of another semester. Students are graduating and moving on. Yep – a reflective time. So I’ve been reflecting on my time since graduating and the fifteen years I have lived here in Vancouver. The economy was in a slump (kind of like now), and jobs weren’t easy to find, as “downsizing” was the catch-phrase of the time – hopefully not like now. Good luck graduates!
– Daryl Askey
Details, details: Daniel gets meticulous. (Hard to tell in this photo.)
Sarah O’Neil Loves Photography and using her tablet for digital paintings.
Danilo Candido Very talented drawer we have here, and a pro with illustrator.
Lucas Dos Santos Great at creating and enhancing his own drawing illustrations.
Eyren Uggenti
Sarah shows us how to revamp an old shirt quickly and easily.
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Brings out his inner metalhead in all his designing work.
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Upcoming Events
Orpheum Theatre
Federal Election
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Date: Tuesday and Wednesday Where: Orpheum Theatre Tickets: From $93
Shad featuring Miracle Fortress Date: Wednesday, at 7:30 PM
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Where: Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver, BC Tickets: general $17.50
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The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo
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Where: Vancouver Convention Centre Telephone: 604-695-5008
System of a Down Date: Thursday 12th Where: Rogers Arena Tickets: From $44
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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
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Al Simmons
Date: Thursday 26th Where: Vancouver International Children’s Festival 402 - 873 Beatty Street
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. New York Red Bulls Date: Saturday 28th Where: Empire Field Tickets: from $27.25
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Date: Wednesday 25th Where: Rogers Arena Tickets: from $62
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David Guetta Date: Sunday, May 22nd Where: Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre Tickets: from $27.25
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Music Review * * * * * *
Ronnie Canizaro – lead vocals (2003–present) David Darocha – bass guitar (2007–present) Cameron Losch – drums (2003–present) Lee McKinney – lead guitar (2003–present) Jason R. Richardson- rhythm guitar (2009–present) Joe Buras – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals (2003–present)
Born Of Osiris
is an American deathcore band from Palatine, Illinois. Formed in 2003, the group has undergone a number of name changes including Your Heart Engraved, Diminished, and Rosecrance before finally settling with Born of Osiris in 2007, basing the name off the Egyptian deity Osiris, and the tale of his son Horus. The group is signed to Sumerian Records and has released three albums on the label. Their second release, A Higher Place, reached number 73 on the Billboard 200. Their second full-length album, The Discovery, was released March 22, 2011. The album debuted at 87 on the Billboard 200.
The New Reign
Released: March 22, 2011
The Discovery
First and foremost, keep in mind that this album is not the second coming of Jesus, nor will it turn the music industry on its head. The musical hype train has been speeding off its tracks recently, with Scurrilous, Empty Days and other 2011 albums riding along it at a rather dangerous speed. Born of Osiris have always been at the top of my very small list of melodic metal/ deathcore/progressive shut the***upcore bands I enjoy, and what The Discovery essentially does is make the other contenders null and void. The guitar leads, and instrumentation in general, on the album is phenomenal.
Although this album doesn’t break new ground it definitely is a breath of fresh air in the scene. Being that this was their first take in the genre, I wouldn’t say its to bad of an album at all. The main attraction for me behind the heavily distorted guitars, intense blast beats from the drums and the almost all hell breaks loose vocals, is the keyboard. While it doesn’t make an appearance in every song it seems to bring out a more creative side of the band that most bands coming out nowadays lack. This personally is one of the best dynamics a band in this genre could equip themselves with. Tracks like Open Arms to Damnation and Abstract Art provide catchy and strange sounding keyboard sounds that certainly will catch the listeners interest. This album is the reason I remain an avid listener.
Released: Oct. 02, 2007
Protest the Hero
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Rody Walker – lead vocals Luke Hoskin – lead guitar, backing vocals, piano Tim Millar – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, piano Arif Mirabdolbaghi – bass, backing vocals Moe Carlson – drums
Protest the Hero is a Canadian progressive metal band from Whitby, Ontario. Originally named Happy Go Lucky, the band line-up has remained the same since their formation in 1999. The band changed their name to Protest the Hero shortly before releasing their debut EP, Search for the Truth, in 2002. In 2005, the band released their first full-length album, Kezia, on the indie label Underground Operations. On January 23, 2006, the band officially signed with Vagrant Records for Kezia’s United States release on April 4, 2006. Their second full-length album, Fortress was officially released by Underground Operations in Canada and by Vagrant Records worldwide on January 29, 2008. The band has finished recording for their third studio album, Scurrilous, which was released on March 22, 2011.
to admit that when first listening to this album, I didn’t KeziaquiteI have know how to relate with what I was listening to. The
Released: January 29, 2008
Released: August 30, 2005
musicianship is incredibly impressive, but there are many bands that are on par with the band. It wasn’t until spending some serious time with Kezia that I truly began to appreciate it for what it is. The blend of hardcore, metal, punk and progressive rock will grow on you, especially listening with a creative ear to the story being painted through Rody’s poetic lyrics.
Fortress
Musically, Fortress marches to a much deeper tune than its predecessors. A result of a conglomerating prominent low-end, unrelenting harsh vocals (we’ll get there) and more aggressive songwriting, Fortress is head and shoulders above Kezia in terms of sheer heaviness. It also refines the band’s sound into one that is irrefutably metal. While there’s no shortage of punk and (post)hardcore, calling this metalcore is to ignorantly shove aside all of the other non-metal influences.
Scurrilous
Released:
March 22, 2011
Scurrilous is a whirlwind of an album, showcasing the band’s talents in all their glory, and is a prime example of a band where the members are entirely in sync with one another. The guitars of Luke Hoskin and Tim Millar twist and intertwine, winding their way around Arif Mirabdolbaghi’s fantastic bass work, while Moe Carlson’s drums hold everything together, shifting tempos at the drop of a hat. And then there are Walker’s vocals, presiding over the whole thing, as distinctive and emotive as ever. I’ve been listening to this album a great deal since I got my hands on it, and it’s still one of the best albums I’ve heard this year so far. I guess it just goes to show you that an average album for Protest The Hero is still really, really freakin’ good!
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Music In:Vancouver Rob Zombie - Slayer - Exodus Venue:
Rogers Arena
Rogers Arena is an indoor sports arena located at 800 Griffiths Way in the downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, the arena was known as General Motors Place from its opening until July 6, 2010, when Rogers Communications purchased the arena’s naming rights from General Motors Canada. Rogers Arena was built to replace Pacific Coliseum as Vancouver’s primary indoor sports facility and in part due to the National Basketball Association’s 1995 expansion into Canada, where Vancouver and Toronto were given expansion teams. The arena seats 18,860 for ice hockey and 19,700 for basketball, with 88 luxury suites, 12 hospitality suites and 2,195 club seats. It is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and was the site for the ice hockey events at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The name of the arena temporarily became Canada Hockey Place during the Olympics.
Date:
August 3rd, 2011
3 Inches of Blood - Cancer Bats Date: May 28th , 2011
Venue: The Rickshaw Theatre
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Liam Cormier - vocals (2004–present) Scott Middleton- guitar (2004–present) Mike Peters - drums (2005–present) Jaye R. Schwarzer - bass (2007–present)
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System of A Down
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Venue:
May 12th , 2011
Rogers Arena
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Daron Malakian - guitar, vocals Serj Tankian - lead vocals, keyboard Shavo Odadjian - bass, back-vocals John Dolmayan - drums
Between the Buried and Me Job For A Cowboy - The Ocean Date: April 29, 2011
Venue: The Rickshaw Theatre
Originally named the Shaw, the Rickshaw theatre was constructed in 1970 by the world famous Shaw Brothers as one of their many Chinese language kung-fu action cinemas. The economic decline of Vancouver’s downtown eastside and the Chinese language community’s flight to the suburbs caused the theatre to close to the public in the early 1980’s. It remained empty for over 2 decades save for a few raves in the mid 90’s until in the fall of 2008, new owner David Duprey stumbled upon it while looking for a warehouse space for artists. Realizing its huge untapped potential David hunted down the owners in Hong Kong and after months of negotiations with the one remaining Shaw brother Sir Run Run Shaw through interpreters, bad email translation programs and shark like agents, a deal was struck. A new stage was built and older yet still top of the line sound and lighting systems were bought for cheap from the soon to be bulldozed Richards on Richards. The Rickshaw officially opened it’s doors in June 2009 and has been going strong ever since. In the first year of operation the theatre has had well over 100 live acts grace the stage including local heros 3 Inches of Blood, Skinny Puppy, and Japandriods as well as international artists such as The Bouncing Souls, Propagandhi, Beach House, Dillinger Escape Plan, and New Model Army and looks forward to many more in the years to come.
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HOW TO: CUT A T-SHIRT
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Hope these tips have been helpful, have fun designing your own shirts!
Before
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In a Shoe Box
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An amazing photography assignment to learn more about studio lighting.
Lucas Ademar — Have you stopped to think how the light changes everything that we perceive with our eyes? Well, if you don’t, this assignment might be a good exercise for you. Inside the box, we have no lights getting in, which makes it impossible to see the object, once we can see just what reflects light for our eyes. With a knife or scissors, we can cut holes out allowing lights into the box in order to light the object correctly. Something pretty similar to studio lighting, without the huge equipment and an appropriated location. These pictures around the page show this process developed by the media design students from LaSalle College.
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Danilo Candido
Sarah O'Neil
Eyren Uggenti
LMike Jackson, the owner of the mixed
ine & Sinker recently sat down with
apparel store Thriller, located in East Van. The store specializes in snowboard and skateboard clothing and accessories, and has an overall laid back vibe that is sure to appeal to Vancouver’s ever growing boarding community. The store has something for everyone, whether they are boarders themselves, or just appreciate the style. Jackson is a veteran in the Vancouver clothing scene as far as independent business owners go, but he shows that he is more than aware of what his clientele is looking for: Cool, hip, original garments that represent individuality and creativity, which is what Thriller is all about.
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L&S: When did the store open? MJ: Thriller opened in 1996, in Kitsilano close to West 4th Ave. How many locations have you had? We moved to Main Street and 19th in 2004. So we were in West 4th for 8 years and then on Main Street for 7 years. This is the new place, on Kingsway and Fraser, it’s kind of one of the new emerging areas for places like ours. When was the idea of the store first conceived? I had a small brand, a clothing brand. I was having trouble getting it out to other stores. I wanted to have a store that carried my brand plus other brands. So, eventually when I moved the silk screen shop into the back I produced all my products in-house and put them out in the front of the shop and its all under one roof. So for me it was easy and logical and I was in control. What products do you sell? T-shirts, sweat shirts, denim, hats, socks, wallets, coffee mugs, toques and beanies, we have our own snowboard line called Jackson snowboards. We make Boris Brothers bags out of recycled outdoor billboard vinyl, buttons, stickers. Anything basically that we can get our logo onto. What challenges have you overcome? I think the hardest thing was always getting financing, getting enough money to build inventory to have enough products to show people. So money always seems to be an issue, but as you grow slowly you get more products and building up confidence in buyers and build-
ing a brand, so we tag our logo onto things that we believe in or like or associate with. The other thing is, I think it was just hard to establish a brand. All we have is time, I can keep making my own products. Sometimes there’s a lot of competing against big big brands and it’s really difficult. But people seem to like the independent small brands just as much. Another thing I think it’s hard to do is to create and establish and maintain a web presence for a small company. In the whole process though I’ve maintained good credit, I never screwed anyone over, so I always was able to borrow money. I always pay my bills. What is your job in the store? / What do you do? I do everything. From open and close, garbage, printing, design, taxes, except accounting maybe, but I do a lot of upkeep from the books. Anything about designing the brand from start to finish. From idea to execution / production of whether it be belt buckles or T-shirts or business cards, so everything to do with production. And I generate sales, but sales seem to be just coming to us, so I don’t have to go and find them so that’s kind of good.
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“...if there’s something cool about it, some special feature, the golden ticket, you can spread the word.”
Where do you get inspiration from? I don’t know. It’s not money, if it was about money I would be gone long time ago. I like to be creative and I like to see my ideas come to fruition and people be willing to part with their hard earned money to represent me and I think that’s pretty cool.
I like being independent, so the longer I can be independent and my own boss and not have to deal with anyone else and have a really good life of just being alone mostly or independent so for me it’s probably the creative output and independence. What do you do when you’re not inspired? Generally if I can’t finish an idea, I close the file and make notes on my phone or my Day-Timer book and I always go back to them. That way I always have the original idea and no
matter when the idea comes you have to write it down because you might forget, and then the next morning I can just get back at it. Certainly some my best ideas and the best things I ever try to create I even pulled back from a year ago when I say “hey that was cool” and then maybe apply it to a new design and add to it and produce it and people are like “good idea” and I was like “yeah, but it took two years.” What’s a good way to get your name known? Nowadays if you don’t have a history I think of a brand, obviously social media is pretty big, we have our facebook page (www.facebook.com/ grubwear), and Studiotique twitter site (www. twitter.com/studiotique), and our website (www. thrillershop.com) so all these things… You know once a day I try and tap into and at least launch some sort of news tidbit and get people to like our page and send me emails and stuff. So that kind of a thing alone you know three to five bits of data go out per day. I get that back in public awareness. Certainly I’m not a media guru but I think that it’s really important for a young com-
How to print on a T-shirt
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Get art and or order from customer and help them finalize the design
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Sign off and deposit – based on proof and price
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Output colour layers to vellum paper. Expose new coated screen on light table
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Wash out exposed screen to get image
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pany to get out there and establish their brand and that’s the number one way to do it. Yeah, I don’t know if it works for new small companies but we’ve all seen small brands go huge in two or three years by getting some viral entry. If you haven’t got the root, or have the quality, it won’t go viral. But if there’s something cool about it, some special feature, the golden ticket, you can spread the word. It just works. At the end of the day for me, it’s word of mouth. It’s the only way I’ve stayed in business for 23 years. We don’t do any print advertising anymore. Any money that I could put into that, I’d rather just make products and give them away to people. Get our brand on the back of people, and out there with bands, artists, community events, anything to do with the snowboard or skateboarding industry or the art scene.
The store carries everything from toques to wallets, T-shirts to hoodies, snowboards and all sorts of boarding apparel.
What would you change about your job? I’d clean up my warehouse. Other than that, I probably wouldn’t change a thing. I thought we were starting fresh by moving here but now all
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Prepare screen – block out fluid, tape
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Print!
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Collect dough
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the junk I have, at least I know where it is and what it is, so I just continue to clean my space. I probably wouldn’t change much. I’m pretty happy the way it is actually, it’s a good space to be in.
Any common mistakes for people to know who are new in the industry? Or for people who are starting a business? For graphic designers who are just getting into the industry I would say agree with your clients on dollar value for your services. It’s like a résumé, you need it on your résumé but they need the product, so agree on something that you’re both happy with. That way they know what they’re getting and there are no expectations. Everything on the tables, that way no one gets disgruntled or unhappy. The second thing would be that you probably have to do some free work once in a while, just make sure you get your names and your contact information. Information and knowledge is power so the more contacts you have, you have to make that impression, and keep it. Get in the faces of these people who have the money. Really associate yourself with other cool brands and other people doing things just like you. Even something like doing this interview for me, it’s a privilege for me, if its ten more people in your class that know about me, its great, you guys are the future, and I’m an old man. For me it’s cool, and then there’ll be an article. It’s good.
Mike Jackson | Studiotique – Grubwear Inc. 617 Kingsway | 604-736-5651 www.facebook.com/grubwear www.twitter.com/studiotique www.thillershop.com
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Alumni Radar ‌Tracking LaSalle College Alumni Who are you? Massimo Lanaro, Graduate of Lasalle College International Vancouver, Interior Design, 2005. Where did you grow up? Italy. Why did you decide to go to school at LCIV? Intensive, short program.
Alumni Portfolios to check out:
Where do you work now, and what do you do there? RCA Robert Ciccozzi Ar-
chitecture. I work as interior designer. I started here immediately after my graduation at LaSalle College. Tell us what else you do in your spare time. Sports (run, bike, swim, ski), socialize, entertain, design, travel. Finally, what is your best memory of your time at LaSalle? The everyday learning and socializing, and my graduation, of course.
Chelsea Gibbons, Graphic Design: http://nugzart.wordpress.com
Vitali Poluzhnikov, Graphic Design: http://vitalipoluzhnikov.com/
Sarah Killen, Fashion Merchandising: http://sarahkillen.com/
Mia Jensen, Graphic Design: http://www.mjensendesigns.com/
Also, check www.uxibus.com for more portfolios from LaSalle students worldwide. While there, add your own, and search job listings!
Photo Essay – Construct
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Photos, design, layout by students in Graphic Design Program in Editorial/Publication class. Read issues online: issuu.com/lineandsinker