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The Money Issue January 2010 FREE VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1
CAD MIUM Editor Jordan Charles Bowden Designers Daniel Francavilla Woohee Lyu Cassandra Wesenhagen CONTRIBUTORS Columns Jack Cerre Shannon Lea Doyle Adam Harris Christopher Heller Merrill Liu Edisson R. Osorio Clair Scherzinger Alexandra Noel Sostar Liane C. Vaz Angela Vuong
From the editor; Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii, whats your name? My name is Jordan. Please read our paper. There’s not much to it but chances are you’ll like something.
Photographers Katie Janet Chee Irina Luca
Legacy in Peublications has never been the forte of such a place. Interestingly enough at a time when newspapers are drying up all around the world the Student Union asks me to spearhead a new one for our little school. Celebrate heritage?
Illustrators Kathryn Teodora Balind Sabrina Scott Betty Zhang
“Eat this or I will force it down the gullet of your corpse.” He said, in perfect Klingon.
Featured Artists Camila Marisol Wong Bustamante Dan Doric Chris Kuzma
“This is replicated, right? I’m really craving ice cream.” I replied. Then the name Cadmium appears from the periodic table of elements, it falls as a chemical element. Used as a pigment and for corrosion resistance in steel, it lends itself to permanence, perhaps you’ve heard of it? Cadmium is now decreasing in applications due to its toxicity associated with health and environmental concerns, but like most of the advancements of the twentieth century, the damage is already done. The names Legacy and Peub lost out to Cadmium because of its versatility and, as a ‘once upon a time’ smoker, its in my blood. Mmmmmmmmmm peanut butter fudge crunch.
Cover Awølla Kolodziej www.ocadmium.com publications@ocadsu.org 100 McCaul Street Toronto ON M5T 1W1 superpoop.com
Now this paper is free and monthly, share it with a friend. This month we talk about money$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Help me with the February issue about people and sex. Please send art, comics, articles, testicles to publications@ocadsu.org show to help us grow. Until then, Qapla’! Please enjoy, live long and prosper.
Bowden to enterprise, two to beam directly to dairy queen.
SPACES COMMITTEE The Student Spaces Committee will be focusing on the replenishing of dead spaces throughout the school to bring a more solid interactive space between schoolwork and social mingling. With the help of the Board of directors, the Student Spaces Committee will be firstly focusing on several spaces, which were removed for the sake of the aesthetic of the University. Check your Student E-mail for more updates.
This month from the SU STUDENT UNION Director of Academic and University Affairs Amanda Almeida Director of Operations and Finance Lindsay Denise Director of Outreach and Events Aanchal Malhorta Director of Campaigns and Advocacy Nick Hurtado
GRANT PROPOSALS Just a reminder that OCADSU Grant Proposals are due Monday, January 18th, 2010 at 4pm in the SU Office. We do not accept electronic submissions. If you still need to pickup a Grant Package (boy, you are cutting it close!), you can grab one from the OCADSU Office, or email Lindsay at operationsandfinance@ocadsu.org
TTC PASSES The OCAD Student Union will be discontinuing its VIP Metropass program as of August 31st, 2010. BUT WHY!? During the recent fare increase, the Canadian Federation of Students was successful in advocating for the TTC Student Discount to apply to postsecondary students (instead of highschool students only). The end of August will see the end of our contract with the TTC, and as a result, the end of our cheaper-by-a-dollar discount for a monthly student metropass. Student passes will be $99 from the TTC. Visit www.ttc.ca for more information.
FOODSHARE Student Union Good Food Box Program Get affordable, local or organic fresh produce delivered to you at OCAD. The Student Union co-ordinates a bi-weekly Good Food Box program that delivers amazing boxes full of fruit and vegetables. The box is delivered straight to the SU office and all you need to do is turn up with your bags and take home your groceries. Boxes range from $12 - $32, varying in size and whether you purchase organic or local. How to place an order Orders Monday 11.30am - 4.30pm Pickup following Thursday 12noon - 3pm First orders: January 18th & February 1st Pickup: January 28th & February 11th Eat healthy at student friendly rates!
FEES COMMITTEE The Fees Committee will be dealing with what matters the MOST. Tuition fees, extracurricular expenses and the things we pay for. It is critical for us to be aware of where our money is going and what the University is planning for the upcoming months. The Fees committee is often dealing and clearing doubts about Budgets, Finance, Ancillary fees and the in’s and out’s of OCAD. The main purpose for the Fees Committee is to stay on top of where our money goes and how we can make it fair for everybody.
EVENTS COMMITTEE The Events Committee, we like to call this the Fun committee!! We get our hands dirty planning different events for the student body and the University. The importance of the Events Committee is to provide everybody with different sources of information through: Rallies, Campaigns, Potlucks, Dinners and many more events to bring the whole student body and faculty together. Don’t be shy to participate in any event the Student Union hosts!!
CFS LOBBY WEEK: Drop Fees Follow-Up The OCAD Student Union joined representatives at CFS Lobby Week, where representatives from the Canadian Federation of Students and representatives from other student unions across Ontario met with MPs about their stance on more funding for post-secondary education, and the reduction of tuition fees. The Lobby Week was from December 6th to 10th, with 3-4 student reps meeting with each MP. This week of organized meetings was a follow-up to the November 5th Drop Fees Rally, and helped to demonstrate the extreme need for our government to shift priorities and invest in post-secondary education. Ontario students currently pay the highest in Graduate and Undergraduate tuition fees across the country – which is not matched by quality. Over the past few years, tuition has risen beyond the rate of inflation, while youth unemployment has skyrocketed to over 20% (July 2009). For more information about recommendations that CFS is making to our MPs, check out: www.cfsontario.ca
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Is it not the philosophy that the wises t man is he who knows he knows nothing? Then why in the face of ratio nal criticisms do artists scramble feverishly to make a practical explanatio n for art, when it is anything but? What purpose, in the delivery of essen tial needs to people does art serve? Nothing! Does the impermanence of civilized structures rationalize art’s importance? Jeanette Winterson proposes in What is Art For?, art’s moral and emotional effect on man kind as it transcends what anti-art philosophies see as important for humanity. These two value systems cannot be interchanged, therefore we as artists have to come to terms with our outsider status and be proud of what we create for the betterment of humanity. We should not press our know ledge of art in a political agenda, because it can never change society in the way a rational, conservative government wants to. Any point that Winterson raises in her writing does not refute anti-art, but answers the ques tions it never asked. Winterson’s points make sense but only serve the intellectual and emotional needs of the art world. Art can feed and cloth e through charity, but the buyer is only indulging in owning art or supp orting an artistic institution. We work in a self- propelled machine servi ng our own purposes and it is time we accepted it, rather than trying to find a way of fitting onto everyone’s walls. Those who understand artistic importance and work to support it politically only fight because of supp ression of the idea that art is good, but politicians can only argue its usefu lness not its importance, and in that regard, it will never be entirely accep ted. Art solves the problems political philosophies overlook. Art as Winterson puts it, “leaves us with footprints of beauty” and gives us a window into the existence into something more than the material world. We are dream ers and at best, outsiders, but our art can not solve the problems that conservative political philosophy can, but deliver to the world trans cendence. Transcendence from the oppression of the mind, something rathe r dependent on the preservation of the body, so like darkness and light, one cannot exist without the other.
Critical Response Jack Cerre
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By Claire Scherzinger On the main floor of the Sharp Centre for Design lies a board handcrafted by students and is blooming in yellow Post-its and Sharpie markers. This board represents the simpler times that we students are experiencing as a result of the recent recession. While Bill Gates is guzzling margaritas on the British Virgin Islands, the students of OCAD answer to the call of higher education by complaining about how broke we are and how we can no longer afford to feed our cats. According to the Drop Fees Coalition’s website, many people are glad to hear that McGuinty’s “Reaching Higher” Program is coming to an end since the per-student funding rate in Ontario is so low, and thus is the cause of much discontent. This fact is undeniable, but pinning the blame on the current Liberal government is like pinning the H1N1 virus to a specific swine. Let’s travel back in time for a moment. In this era many first-time mom’s looked upon the government with disdain and cancer patients looked at it with glowing joy. This epoch is titled The Harris Years. Essentially, the Ontario premier in the 90’s, Mike Harris, made the executive decision that health care was more important than education. Health care is certainly important, but Harris simply forgot that Canada needs educated doctors to pull the tumors out of our bodies first. The rest went downhill from there and the current Liberal government is still trying to recover from that era. The message here is simple: Don’t hate. Create. That’s really the only choice OCAD students have at this point. There is a hefty projected deficit after the collapse of the auto sector and without a doubt, that’s where a lot of the budget is going. So, instead of complaining, do your assignments, give your cat to a shelter! And next time you can’t decide whether to buy your art supplies or gorge at the LCBO, I would go with the art supplies.
Camila Marisol Wong Bustamante
Chris Kuzma
Kuzma is associated with the publication Wowee Zonk which is having a book published by Koyama Press in May 2010. http://woweezonk.blogspot.com/
Dan Doric Karton City Photographs by Toby Pikelin
Me, and my faithful companion Tobias Fischer are no stingy travelers as most of our friends assume. No, not by any means do we skimp on adventure. Here is an account of not the usual lush and lavish landscape of exotic distant lands but a more ragged encounter. We undertook a trip of overbearing scope as we decided to hitchhike (stick out your thumb) and Couchsurf (www.couchsurfing.com) around the diverse peninsula of the Balkans last autumn. As you might imagine, we encountered numerous freaks and partook in some grand adventures. We started this Balkan Odyssey in Zagreb, Croatia and worked our way eastward into Bosnia. After dozens of kilometers of dragging our feet, a few weird conversations with truckers, an encounter with a busload of Japanese tourists and spending a frigid night homeless on the streets of a chilly Mostar, we had made it to Sarajevo, the heart of the Ottoman Turk influence left in the Balkans, and a real gem. We immediately fell in love with the Bosnian Kafa (basically turkish coffee), delicious Burek and Cevapcici (local eats), the architecture (dotted with bullet holes), aesthetics and smells akin to Istanbul. After a few attempted pick-pocketings, we most importantly became infatuated with the local pests: the gypsies (more P.C. - the Roma). In fact we decided unconsciously that we would become a sort of Marsh and Cope - a Watson and Crick (passiveaggressive scientists) of the Roma world- thus the gypsies became our subjects. We ventured deeper into the Balkan abyss and into Serbia (being a Croat, mind darkening upon the mere pronunciation of the name), where we found in the capital of Beograd, the largest concentration of gypsies, delicious street meat, cool youngsters and crumbling buildings (some literally rubble from some US bombings). All our new friends sent us to Karton sity. Karton Sity, the shantytown, resembling a Brazilian favela, was downtown for gypsy Beograd and was found in the outskirts of the regular-tax-payingcitizen Beograd. We chose to explore this place, a nefarious yet alluring location of enchantment. Located in the Novi Beograd area, this suburb of Beograd proper was known for its cheap student housing and a recent influx of Chinese immigrants. Tram #9 from the railway station across the Sava takes you straight there. Cutting through a rural-looking unpaved little ‘alley’, it brought us to the Gazella Bridge.
Under the underbelly of this main artery of traffic in and out of the city (which if you travel to Beograd by train or car, you will surely pass) was an area littered with the homes of as many as a thousand gypsies, although the number we got was unofficial as it was an illegal settlement. The Roma gypsies didn’t enter the system nor did they care about how many of them were there (nor can they count). Recently it has been reported that 986 people in 176 families lived in this shantytown. The Beograd neighborhood scheduled as the landing site of a new fenced ‘ghetto’ for the expelled gypsies complained about taking them in, stating that such a ghetto in the area would depreciate their property. After a lot of racial slandering and name-calling, in May of 2009, the Roma families were given a 45-day notice of their eviction out of their homes near city center. The dismantling of the shantytown eventually relocated these Roma families into temporary homes fashioned from shipping Containers scattered around the 5 municipalities of Beograd, or returned to their towns of origin if known. The main concern for the city of Beograd was that Karton Sity was located on prime real estate right on the waterfront of the Sava River. It took the city 4 years to finally go through with the “relocation” of the poor Roma. The Roma that do remain in the Beograd area are offered some social assistance, under the condition that their children attend school. When we finally did start snooping around the settlement, we attracted the attention of some kids playing in the garbage. They waved at us. We had our in! We happily scurried over the street to befriend them, our expensive camera on hand. As we sat down on the ground they laughed that we were sitting in garbage. Their keen senses of distinguishing between “garbage” and “landscape” were definitely much more honed than ours. We talked about such broad topics as hygiene, lice shampoo, drug abuse, infant mortality (most were orphans who lost many siblings to disease), world geography and crime. Vera (12), the eldest, was the leader, and practically spoon-fed us everything we wanted to hear. Social ladders were very well developed, as all the children parented each other -with slaps across the back of the head.
The little children charmed us but we were also aghast at the rift that existed between us. They, not attending school, had no perceptions of the world outside. They knew very little of Europe and labeled us as Germans, not to mention they could not even conceive of where Canada was located. Most amazing was how mature they appeared for little children. On the other hand, they were floored by our old age (24 and 25), and even more shocked that we had 50-something year old parents, the children having very little adult influence. Having to deal with the harsh realities of their environment, made them grow up much quicker. Vera was very familiar and even ashamed of the prostitutes hanging around the slum.
By the end of our encounter, we were so thrilled with the little gypsy children, and they with us, that we made plans to come back and visit again the next day. It was an amazing insight into the very real and harsh lifestyle of the Roma community in Beograd, and really made us appreciate our cushy upbringing and life at home. The Roma laugh at the norms of society, they laugh at schooling, paying taxes, social customs, government laws, and the system in general. I guess that’s why the locals really don’t appreciate them and label the Roma as pest.
Mixed Goods By Angela Vuong
On Monday, November 9, 2009, the OCAD faculty of design presented TyPOLOGY, it’s first ever exhibit featuring selected typography works from it’s second, third and fourth year graphic design and advertising students. Projects at the exhibition proved that the function of typography is much more than being simply reader-friendly, with projects varying from arranging text into an expressive self-portrait to interpreting lyrics to a song. Highlights include a more-than-cool lyrical interpreta-
More... Drawing at First Sight show in the Transit Space last semester. Photography by Katie Janet Chee
tion of John Lennon’s song Instant Karma! by third-year graphic designer Michelle Cortese and fourth-year graphic designer Justin Morris’ politically charged poster, which by imitating a Snellen chart, commands a closer look with the size of the letters on each row growing progressively smaller. It goes without saying that the competition in the graphic design industry is immense. But the designers of OCAD have a lot to say (and type) and their talent, as displayed, makes it that much harder to ignore.
Style Column Spring is here ladies and gentlemen! Um, what? For us Canadian fashionistas, the launch of the spring collections traditionally marks a disconnect between how we’d like to showcase our personal style, and the frigid, snowy weather outside. Sheer, fluttery confections and dainty strappy sandals? I don’t think so. Try long underwear, wool socks and down coats twice the size of a regular person. While flipping through this month’s latest crop of fashion magazines for inspiration, this fashionista was pleased to discover a plethora of utilitarian, comfort oriented, and potentially affordable pieces perfect to compliment any style, or below zero temperature forecast. Working on an equally frigid student budget, this seasons variety of must have wardrobe staples meant to last a lifetime ranged anywhere from tough-chic military jackets to a rainbow of “nouveau prints” in enough color palettes and patterns to inspire the most discerning art student. But nouveau prints? Of course not. The beauty of the season’s best pieces is
By Alexandra Sostar
not only the wide range of choices to fit your own personal style, but the return of real, wearable and ohso-affordable clothes. These are the pieces that make up the bones of your wardrobe, the blank canvas for your constantly evolving personal style. They’re also the styles that, like much of the fashion world, have already been done. They’re already old hat. But as we all know, old hat is affordable, tried and tested. The only question that remains is where to find the best selection, best quality, and best price to add that trendy key piece to your collection? Take a cue from the ever-revolving fashion industry and step back into the past for quality, buildable basics with budget friendly price tags at Kensington Market. Vintage is always in, and so is the wide selection of mix and match basics available at Exile Vintage Clothing. For those of you coveting spring’s gorgeous palette of prints, one step into Ego reveals a dazzling array of textures, colors and patterns sure to satisfy your color cravings and just in time to remedy the dark winter blues.
Socialist Party Crashers Con’t
Overheard at OCAD Created by Paul Chin Security guard over walkie talkie: “Sooo someone decided to shave their head on the 6th floor, and now there is hair all over the place.” Prof: look at this kerning! I can drive a truck through these letters! In the learning zone studying for exams: Girl: Dude, I wish I had studied these. Guy: No you don’t they’re fucked. Girl: I like that. Student to instructor: You know when you were telling me what do..? I wasn’t reallly listening. Prof to student: That cock painting of yours is well hung. Boy: Is Lindsay Lohan in our studio today? Girl: Do you mean (insert real name)? Boy: No I don’t I have a derogatory name for that girl yet. First year girl to another: “It’s true, they’re ALL gay!” Prof to class: “You guys really need to stop sending me ridiculously stupid emails. It makes me want to punch a baby.”
Photographs by Irina Luca
Astrology Capricorn
Leo
This month everything will go right for y—oh, uh...never mind. You will be turned into a mystical creature that springs from the footsteps of those born between November 22 and December 21. Your duty will be to spread the word of their good deeds and beauty. You will create fabulous works of art under the names of these same people. You will pay for everything they need and you will shower them with love and convince others to do the same. Inspiration for January: Giving. It. Your. All.
Your love life has never been interesting. It’s very bad taste to make fun of other people just because they are hotter than you. You’re not fooling anyone. It’s time you stopped that. Sugary-sweetness is messing with your future and its not going to last. But you already knew that, Anastasia. This month you will be tempted to copy and paste blogs. Please refrain from posting any more photos and take down the ones from four years ago. Trust me, his next relationship will go MUCH smoother if you do. The best bet for January: Smug and discreet.
Aquarius
Virgo
Many hands make those damn lights work. Shine them on life models accordingly. If you remember one thing in January let it be this: You can be a lead singer, but your cant make others sick. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t get pissed off when people set up lawn chairs in their front yard. But if anyone brings a rock they have every right to turn on the sprinklers. That friend you need is more than a friend. They know it, you know it, and I obviously picked up on it so stop being so platonic about the way you share your coffee. Inspiration for January: Silent films that focus on the theme of ears.
Move to Australia and have some babies. It will make us all feel better. Pretty hair will carry you as Columbus was carried by doves; not at all. It is very difficult to have such smooth hair in all that heat. When you start carrying kids around it will get even harder. Although you may be sad to leave your friends and family you are going to love the kangaroos. You will look deep into their eyes and hop along side them. They will even put you in their pocket! No one will miss you THAT much, so don’t feel bad. You are really going to love it. You will! I swear! The sooner the better! Inspiration for January: The feeling of a pocket.
Reference a Thesaurus
Button all Buttons
Pisces
On pause through Capricorn... Yes. No. Maybe. I don’t know. Can you repeat the question? Sure thing, here it is: A silly seal will seal the deal if you see it peel a slew of slime and grime from the dime of the slippy hippy’s hips, correct, Pip pip? Phone booths are your new best friends but remember this, we will all end up teaching at OCAD. Inspiration for January: You ain’t got none!
Aries
Look at a Map We love it when you call us up at three in the morning for drinks and pad thai but lets limit it to once a week this month okay? Although your enthusiasm may limit you from getting more than a few hours of sleep at a time not all of us are in the same canoe. Actually, none of us are. We are asleep in a huge checkered house boat and we are unplugging our phones. Stop skipping class. Inspiration for January: Children. Frolicking. In lava.
Taurus
Find A New Way Home Try writing your definition of ‘emotional security’ on a t-shirt and wear it to every party you go to this month. This will help you with your marriage. Yes, thats right, your marriage! Congratulations. Another way to assist with said marriage is to stop being so sulky. Try to be as sensual as possible, just not around sculpture students. Your Next Project: It will all go as planned. If it is not going as planned with fifteen minutes to go, cut it in half and then weld it back together.
Gemini
Try Something Twice Stop making out in Butterfield Park because everyone is getting jealous. If you are not making out in Butterfield Park, hang out there more. Buy a print from a fellow OCAD student. One day it will make you very rich. That is, if you go into business. If you are not going into business, forgo all printmaking purchases. You will need the extra cash. It may be the best of times, your papa shouldn’t preach. But, just to make it clear, you are keeping the baby? Inspiration for next month: White things in snowstorms.
Cancer
Pick Up The Phone! Most of what you say is interrupting someone else. Racing old and pregnant women to the last seat is not funny, no matter how many stops you laugh for. About that thing you saw…You were never supposed to see that. The girl sitting near you had a better idea first. It’s best not to let on to the fact that you’re hoarding all the goods. Stay silent this month until your ingenuity and luck passes. Inspiration for January: That thing on your head.
Seek Alternative Perspectives
Use a $5 Wordv
Libra
Practice Fake Crying Make circles and a five year plan. Because you’re worth it, blonde blonde blonde. Duck! Dive! Into lake Ontario and retrieve the coral necklace and her wild horses. The milk will make you more attractive so splash around in it. The Mule is very wise and although you are young at heart you have no impulses. Your life is like a box of daggers and marshmallows, you’ll never know which will kill you faster. Inspiration for January: Bookbinding.
Scorpio
Stand to the right, literally. Old habits die hard so don’t you dare try to wear that one in the back of your closet. Never lend Rochester a book, he will only give you alcohol. This month promises to be sew much more than a fabric store. Jessica from high school is no longer interested, but don’t let that dictate who you eat lunch with, its never to late to stage a revolution! Your next project: Made out of the hair that is on your jacket.
Sagittarius
Watch For Gum! This month everything will go right for you. When you hand in your projects your teachers will say in hushed tones “My word, I have never been in the presence of such talent”. A new scholarship will be set up in your name and suddenly everything will be free! Love will surround you, friends will call everyday and your family will gain a new sense of your worth and capability. You will shine with beauty and glory among the masses. Inspiration for January: The wildlife and mystical creatures that spring from your footprints.