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PREVIEW of 37 selected pages O.K. Periodicals #4 / CURIOSITIES Issue Releasedate April 17, 2010 Total: 112 fullcolour pages selfpublished, no advertising swiss bound, offset printed Support us and subscribe so we can make future issues
Inspiring work by established and upcoming creative talent: Design / Photography / Illustration / New Media / Art / Writing & More Featuring: Ashkan Honarvar, Matthew Green, Liz McGrath, Sarah Applebaum, Hajime Emoto, Jason De Claires Taylor, Matthew Stuart, Laura Joan, Koen Taselaar, Michael Willis, Nives Widauer, Peter Zwaan, Encyclopedia Pictura and many more...
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About us William and Joost run O.K. PARKING, a graphic design studio based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Next to their ‘commercial’ work for clients, they initiate many independent projects. It started with the O.K. Blog (www.ok-blog.nl). An online source of inspiration where a large community of creative professionals publish inspiring articles every day. As a result of this blog they started this independent magazine. Using a team of great editors, opencalls-for-art and crowdsourcing to curate some of the best contemporary projects in the field of design, art, photography, illustration, new media, writing and more. Opposite to the online world this magazine should be a timeless document you can consult for inspiration over and over again.
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窶田ommon knowledge This section shows a selection of all kinds of found curiosities, obscure artwork, historical & general facts you should know. They are in some way related to the theme of this issue.
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This photo was published by the North Korean government in response to the book The True Character of Kim Jong-il, in which Japanese professor Toshimitsu Shigemura states the North Korean leader is actually dead and has been so since 2003. He claims to have spoken to anonymous witnesses according to whom Kim Jong-il died as a result of his diabetes. This photo shows Kim is alive and obviously a competent leader of the North Korean forces. Although it is a bit strange Kim’s shadow seems to be different from those of his generals. And shouldn’t there be a black line behind the great leader’s legs?
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In the 1940 motion picture Experiments in the Revival of Organisms dr Sergei S. Bryukhonenko shows an experiment in which a dog’s head is kept alive on a primitive heart-lungmachine. The film shows the head responding to touch, sound and taste.
“The artificial blood circulation ensures the metabolism necessary for the life of the head.”
Chinese Century Egg recipe 2 c Tea, very strong black 1/3 c Salt 2 c Ashes of pine wood 2 c Ashes of charcoal 2 c Fireplace ashes 1 c Lime 12 Duck egg, fresh Combine tea, salt, ashes and lime. Using about 1/2 cup per egg, thickly coat each egg completely with this clay-like mixture. Line a large crock with garden soil and carefully lay coated eggs on top. Cover with more soil and place crock in a cool dark place. Allow to cure for 100 days. To remove coating, scrape eggs and rinse under running water to clean thoroughly. Crack lightly and remove shells. The white of the egg will appear a grayish, translucent color and have a gelatinous texture. The yolk, when sliced, will be a grayish-green color. To serve, cut into wedges and serve with: Sweet pickled scallions or any sweet pickled vegetable Sauce of 2 tablespoons each vinegar, soy sauce and rice wine and 1 tablespoon minced ginger root. Recipe from “The Regional Cooking of China” by Margret Gin and Alfred E. Castle
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–“I WISH I’D MADE THAT!” This black & white section shows a selection of all kinds of things we wish we made. More detailed information and images about the selected items can be found on the O.K. BLOG. » www.ok-blog.nl/curiosities
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Fig. I Neonsign Boneyard by The Neon Museum Las Vegas This museum exhibits neon signs from long-gone casinos. wvg
Fig. II Bare by Bare Conductive Ink Bare is a conductive ink that is applied directly onto the skin allowing the creation of custom electronic circuitry. This allows users to interact with electronics through gesture, movement, and touch. wvg
Fig. III Cars by André Gottschalk This is just one of many other fantastic illustrations from André’s sketchbooks. js
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Fig. IV Balancing act by Walter Wick This image shows 117 objects balancing on a single Lego block. No adhesives, glue or hidden supports were used. wvg
Fig. V Exhibition liebling by Bureau Mario Lombardo In this exhibition everything is wrapped in newspaper.
Fig. VI Cannon Magazine by Phil Baber A stencil print, superbly designed and fantastically Typeset magazine!
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Please briefly introduce yourself: Ashkan: My name is Ashkan Honarvar, born in Iran, raised in The Netherlands. I studied illustration in Utrecht but decided after my graduation to focus more on art. Hannah: I am a 22-year-old full-time student from a little town in Germany. So far I’ve studied graphic design in Cologne for two years. Two days ago I moved to Hamburg to start my illustration studies at HAW Hamburg. I’ve always wanted to do that, so I’m really excited about it and living in a new city. Laura: Who I am... My name is Laura Jouan, I’m a young graphic designer and illustrator from Paris (France). I graduated from LISAA Paris in June 2009 after which I worked for the studio Rita for a little while, a design studio based in Montreal. At the moment, I’m back in Paris and I work freelance. If I had to describe me in one word, I’d say I’m like a sponge. Everything is interesting for me and helps me to do my work.
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Ashkan Honarvar Hannah Dunkelberg Peter van der Heijden Paul Graves Linda Maissan Laura Joan
Peter van der Heijden
Linda: My name is Linda Maissan, I live in Maastricht, the Netherlands. I’ve studied at the art academy in Maastricht and had training at Li Edelkoort studio in Paris. After that, being interested in design and the making of magazines in particular, I applied (as an artist) to the design department at the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht. I was extremely lucky that first year: “magazines” and especially “artists- and designers magazines” were the main themes. Because my work is varied - it includes works on paper and collages, but also fashion and photographs - for me a magazine is the ideal platform. I’m very much into second hand material, because it already has its own story. In my studio I have piles and piles of books and magazines waiting to be altered, cut up, carved and drawn on. Paul: I was born in 1969 in America, and lived all over the world. At the moment my time is split between Paris and Berlin. I did a fine art studies in Vienna in the early 90’s. I would call myself an all around “trouble maker”: I’m an artist, I’ve directed music videos and commercials, started a fashion label and for the last ten years I’ve been working as a still life photographer and doing my own personal work. Two different book projects are waiting for a publisher to step up and make it happen. Peter: I work and live in an old warehouse in the centre of Amsterdam. Since 1975 I’ve made collages and assemblages using different materials and different media. I also make larger installations, often based on one of my collections, and
Is it possible for you to live off your ‘art’? Ashkan: For the last two years I have been granted subsidies from the Foundation BKVB. With this funding I had the chance to work on different personal projects. Linda: Next to my own work I have a part-time job as secretary and graphic designer for an architecture office. Maybe a strange combination but a nice one, because it’s varied. Occasionally I work for an artist initiative called Hedah, which means an enormous amount of work but I get so much in return, like meeting interesting, inspiring people. Paul: My art work and the commercial work often are very close to each other so I can say I am lucky to get paid to translate my ideas. This also comes from working with great creative agencies that support freedom and vision that help their clients find new ground.
site-specific work for public space. I don’t have a specific art education. I visited the Rietveld academy in 1969, but found the whole atmosphere terribly lazy. So I quit after one year and went to the University of Amsterdam, sub faculty Andragology, and rented a studio with some friends. Just before finishing my studies, I had my first successful exhibition and my son Boris was born. I couldn’t combine all these different activities anymore and decided that one way or the other I had to earn my money with what I could create in my studio. That’s what I’ve been doing since, in a chaotic but well organized diversity.
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encyclopedia pictura – wanderlust
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These guys make amazing creatures for their videos and are searching for ‘computer graphics people’ to collaborate with. www.encyclopediapictura.com
christoph brach & daniera ter haar – 100%sap
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RAW COLOR cards A visual research about vegetables and their powerful color. Vegetables are dismantled and purified to their visual essence ‘RAW COLOR’. The harvested color is captured by a new process preserving their intensity on color cards. Categorized by shades and families a new map is created which shows their beautiful diversity. This projects reinterprets the vegetable and puts it into new context.
100%SAP is a project about the power of natural color. Vegetables are transformed to a natural ink to feed a new printing process. This process enables the viewer to watch the poster’s print slightly grow. A 3-D ingredient returns as 2-D icon. Caused by the irregular juice flow, the ink jet creates a unique stripe pattern in every print. The examples shown are the very first try outs.
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matthew green – orange
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Austin Hargrave – Underground Tunnel Living
Hundreds of people live in a secret community in the dark and dirty underground flood tunnels below the famous Las Vegas strip. Despite the risks of disease, highly venomous spiders and flooding washing them away, many of the tunnel people have put together elaborate camps with furniture, ornaments and shelves filled with belongings. Austin Hargrave is a British-born photographer living in Los Angeles. Âť
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During the 1960s Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner & Richard Alpert conducted experiments using psychoactive drugs.Trying to achieve new levels of consciousness they created a manual entitled The Psychedelic Experience, heavily influenced by the teachings of the Tibetan book of the Dead.The manual set out to guide the voyager as they transcended through new dimensions of space and time. Fantastic Voyage is a visual journey through these new realms of consciousness guided by these teachings.
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richard derks – How the wheel was invented
How the wheel was invented I build mouse houses for my tame mice. They live in a collection of aquariums, linked together by cardboard tubes. The little houses inside the aquariums are made out of rubbish: left-over packaging from my kitchen, old boxes given by friends, stuff I find in the trash, old carpets. The rules of the game are clear; I’m not allowed to buy anything specifically meant for the mouse house cause. The most successful mouse houses (the ones the mice favor the most) are ultimately those that have wheels. It took me quite a while to invent the perfect mouse wheel. You can find an overview of all the mouse houses created by Richard Derks at www.kijkdoos.nu
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The first houses I put together were rather simple climb and sleep constructions. Little boxes on stilts. »
In the zoo they practice ‘behavior stimulation’, meaning that the food is hidden. This is exactly what I did too. My mice have to climb to the roof to get to their dinner. »
A practice I made more and more challenging with ever new house I built. Over here the mice have to do the rope walk… »
...to reach the meat pots of Babylon: a small trough filled with grain accompanied by a small water tray. »
My first mouse houses were nothing more then ingenious mazes. »
Like this one with zigzagging tubes and piping. I had, as mouse house builder, not yet discovered the wheel. »
My great breakthrough came to me on my tenth house try. The mice couldn’t get enough of it… Mice want to run! »
The pudding cup rotates around a bamboo stick. It had been quite a chore to assemble it trouble-free. »
After my design breakthough on mouse house number ten, the houses I build resembled more wheel then ‘house’... »
But mice don’t fancy running about continuously, they like to have a place to live and rest too. So I started combining wheels with boxes. »
The stiff wheel axle remained a problem. I used bamboo sticks smeared with salade oil, to optimize the turning motion. »
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They scrubbed with their little Back to the proven concept: backs against the cord that kept This model shows one with a the construction up. The following metal axle. » morning they had affectively chewed right through this cord. »
I even experimented with a treadmill for a bit. They’ll really have to do their best to get to the top now, I thought to myself. »
It didn’t work. Too stiff. On top of that the mice simply climbed around the back to find their food. »
… a wheel of carpet between two boxes. The problem with the axles turned out to be very simple: a skewer! •
Another test. A sort of a climb-onhammock. Failed as well. The ultimate mouse house is still this: »
Casualty & Mice and Men Kate Macdowell Photos by Dan Kvitka www.katemacdowell.com
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JoJo the Dog-faced Boy Marjolein Jochems This son of a superstitious Russian peasant was bright, inquisitive, and hardly the animal-like savage his hairy appearance suggested. He delighted in practicing his English with museum-goers and in signing autographs with beautiful penmanship. Of course, JoJo was still a minor, so his massive earnings – $300,000 by 1889 – were entirely entrusted to his management. www.marjoleinjochems.nl
Gensou Hyouhon Hakubutsukan hajime emoto Photos by Takeo Moriwaki
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monochrome anachron & pack daddy’s suitcases michael johansson www.michaeljohansson.com
Marieke de Kan – Alice on Acid
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barbican, new bond street &Â oxford street Matt Stuart
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interview with peter zwaan
Duality visible in art Interview conducted by Manon Vonk
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Changeability, genetic manipulation, animals that take on human behaviour patterns: these are the subjects that Peter Zwaan uses in his work. “The possibilities that have come from genetic manipulation are amazing, but I have no interest in a perfect clone of myself.Though I don’t believe the developments in this field should be stopped, they help us cure disease, and enable us to keep our loved ones around us for longer.The duality and different sides that must be discussed within this subject are what I present within my work.�
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