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contents EDITORS LETTER

‘YOU WOULD’NT UNDERSTAND

/PASTE X Ýrúrarí

THE STYLISTS SURVIVAL GUIDE

THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE

LIGHTS, CAMERA, INTERN

HEY, VIVIAN FU

YES, YOUR CLOTHES HAVE AN AFTERLIFE

THE ETSY EDIT

DIG FOR VICTORY

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THE GREEN GENERATION

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VINTAGE ROMANCE

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LOOK AT THAT MANFACE

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SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

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ELLO/GOODBYE

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DESTINATION ME

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STOCKISTS / REFERENCES

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BEE VAN DIJK creative director

GRANT HOLMES editor-in-chief

JenNIFER OWEN features editor

ALEX DEACEY fashion editor

editors letter So here we are. Welcome to the first ever issue This season, we’re bringing you inspiration of /PASTE. from the street, with an editorial shot quite literally in the middle of a hurricane (which on The magazine you are currently holding, a side note, makes for incredible hair if you’re or staring at on a screen, or possibly even into that whole alleyway-fierce look). We’ve reading over someones shoulder on a busy also gone international, to bring you pieces commuter train, is the culmination of 6 weeks covering the debate on art school education work, and we couldn’t be happier to have you as well as travel and lifestyle. Any students with us. Here at /PASTE, we’ve been working among you, be sure to have a read of our away in our cave (cosier than an office) to very own Bee Van Dijk’s experiences in the produce an issue jam packed with content to wonderful world of interning, which had all of sink your teeth and eyes into, with everything us in stitches (and we hope will you as well). from interviews and editorials to guides and opinion. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the fabulous team who have made this possible. We want you to think of us as your own little They’ve worked tirelessly over the past scrapbook of inspiration. We are the jump off few weeks to bring the issue together and I point, you are the one who starts connecting couldn’t be prouder of the team and what the dots. We want you to engage with us and we’ve assembled for you. The /PASTE office help shape the future of /PASTE with the things will no doubt be littered with wine bottles and that matter to you: a magazine of the people. party poppers tomorrow… and deservedly so. But all that aside, lets get my drivelling over with and get on with the issue at hand (Or screen. Or over-shoulder-on-a-train). Enjoy, explore and most importantly, engage! Grant Holmes Editor-in-Chief

“YOU WOULDN’T UNDERSTAND”

/PASTE explorES Affleck’s Manchester, the cathedral of alternative northern style words and photography by GRANT HOLMES

lternative is a word that’s passed around a lot these days. It’s always been present throughout most of our fashion history in Britain in some form or another, and yet, alternative has always struggled to define itself in the face of mainstream culture and pop. Yet it persists, a collection of individuals who truly are individual. Often cast aside from the focus of the general population, alternative fashion has turned heads countrywide for generations. Punk, Dandy, Cyberdog, and Drag, all belong to a wider family that has embraced the differences and the odd, pushing the boundaries of what it means to be “alternative” in a modern, fashion landscape dominated by the high street and fast trend driven fashion. It’s a wonderfully bizarre world. Expressive, progressive. Imagination and creativity the most important things. Who cares if you don’t fit in? The very point is to be the square peg in the round hole, to define away from the mundanity and repetitiveness of the world around you. Sometimes for better sometimes for worse.

FEATURE 1: AFFLECKS

‘The very point is to be the square peg in the round hole’ It’s easy to see how alternative fashion has been a jump off point for inspiring the next generation of mainstream fashions. But in doing so, we are now faced with a culture of ‘mockternative’ courtesy of high street super brands emulating the look of an authentic lifestyle choice.

Affleck’s, nestled in the Northern Quarter of Manchester city centre, is quite literally a treasure trove of trinkets, clothing and jewellery. It serves as the go to for much of the alternative community in the north, providing a range of stalls and stores which cater to the more unusual aesthetics of its patrons. It’s quite frankly amazing. It would be easy to spend a whole day inside its doors, and in doing so you might not see the same item twice throughout the whole building. It is vast, set over 4 floors and connected with a maze of stairwells and corridors, giving it a truly original indoor market feel. It really is a community. A prime example of the British ‘nations of shopkeepers’.

The shopkeepers and stall holders themselves are one of the most inspiring parts of Affleck’s. Many have been a part of the market for years and have become so intrinsic to its identity they are now as much as part of Affleck’s as the grand central stairwell, or the mosaic murals that adorn the shell of the building. “It’s not about pushing against the mainstream” tells me one of the more shy (shockingly) staff “it’s about being able to come somewhere where you won’t get judged for that ear stretcher or those platform boots. It’s about being able to say ‘fuck you’ without having to make a song and dance about it” She sums it up quite well for me. And of course she is utterly right. A friend recently put it to me that individuality is dead. She made the point that as soon as we stopped making our own and started buying it no matter how unique it may be, it was still designed by

‘Create you. there’s only one of you!’

someone else and existed in someone else’s mind. But at Affleck’s that’s a concern they brush off pretty quickly. “We’re not saying it’s one of a kind, we’re saying you can use it to create you. There’s only one of you!” And of course she is right again. “The point isn’t to make yourself stand out. I don’t think it should even be called alternative lifestyle. What’s wrong with just lifestyle?!” So Affleck’s is, in many ways quite a contradiction to itself. Alternative yet all encompassing, with an attitude that is distinctly northern. To be alternative is secondary to its customers: the aim is to be true to their vision, and not to the definitions we have come to understand their lifestyle by. Its something the mainstream could take a lesson from. But of course, that would be counter the point.

FEATURE 1: AFFLECKS

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/PASTE X Ýrúrarí /PASTE speaks with Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, the Icelandic artist keeping Iceland cool

words by BEE VAN DIJK

s an island, Iceland produces a variety of talent and inspiration from within its own borders. /PASTE looks at what influences young Icelandic artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, a textile artist from Kópavogur, Iceland. Here at /PASTE we think she’s great. Born in 1992, Ýr grew up with a keen interest in knitting and crafting items from yarn. Moving away from the typical clothing an elderly family member would knit you for Christmas, Ýr’s eccentric designs have done what Grandma never could and made knitting seem cool again. Now a student in Iceland’s capital city at the Reykjavík School of Visual Art, whilst simultaneously being responsible for the label Ýr explains to /PASTE what it was like to grow up as an artist in Iceland, inspirations behind her designs, her fears and plans for the future.

Q: Name? A: Ýr Jóhannsdóttir Q: Occupation? A: Student and textile artist behind the label Ýrúrarí. Q: What in the world makes you the most happy? A: I’m not sure what makes me the most happy. The only thing that comes to mind right now is this gif on the internet, of a big white dog. The dog is really eager to cuddle with a person laying on a sofa. The dog looks like such an amazing creature, it makes me really happy. I would really like to get to know that dog. Q:What is your greatest fear? A:Owls and guns. Q: What do you think is the most important personality trait? A: Not being a moron. Q: What annoys you the most in other people? A: I try my best to avoid letting other people annoy me. One thing that can annoy me are people that are living in their own bubble, ignoring all the bad things they do or the bad things going on in the world around them. Q: Do you have any pets? If so what are their names? A: Yes! I own an Icelandic Sheepdog, we got to know each other when I was 5 years old and she turned 16 last April. Her name is Skotta and she’s my best buddy! Q: Do you have any guilty pleasures? A: I don’t feel guilty about any of my pleasures. Although I do have a new “pleasure”, or more like an obsession with finding things that look like the anus Kurt Vonnegut illustrated in “Breakfast of Champions”. There are so many similar things! My favourite I’ve found yet are exploding fireworks, there’s something really satisfying about that thought. Q: Tell us a joke? A: I don’t know any jokes. Q: Tell us a secret? A: I can’t. Not if it is a real secret. 30

Ýr became most committed to her creations in 2012 when she started her first full-on project, a line called ‘Monsters’. Following this in 2013 Ýr learned to work on an analogue Knitmaster knitting machine from the 1950s which led to her creation of ‘The Hamburger Sweater’, a sweater with embroidery based upon an image of the artist herself eating, you guessed it, a hamburger. 2014 was the year that Ýr received her own sewing machine that she states has helped tremendously with work on her sweatshirts in the recent years. She now studies and creates her work under the label Ýrurari. Moving on to a more serious note / PASTE speaks with Ýr Jóhannsdóttir about her work and inspirations growing up as a young artist in Iceland. Q: Who influences your work the most? A: Basically it’s probably everything around me.

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But I guess the person who has influenced my work the most is Björk. I saw most of her older music videos on TV through my childhood. I’m not sure if I really liked the videos then but they really had a big effect on me. When I was about 15 years was the first time seeing Björk live and it was really amazing. Shortly after the concert I bought all of Björk’s albums in one package with all the music videos in it. I think me and my friend didn’t really listen to anything else for more than a year and we watched all the interviews and everything that came up when searching “Björk” on Youtube. It was first then when I started to come out of this bad teenage hormone box most of us end up in and stopped caring about others opinions and just started making whatever came up in my mind, not thinking too much about others reactions to it. I can feel and see that Björk’s work had and still has a big influence on my work, and I think this influence really helps to kill all the feelings that makes you want to hold back and be ‘normal’.

Q: I see that a lot of your pieces are focused my age, often students that just can’t afford on the body, what is your inspiration behind expensive “luxuries” like buying a fun sweater. Hopefully I’ll start to understand business and that? managing more when I’ve finished school so A: I just think our bodies and the anatomy behind I can attempt to make this Ýrúrarí thing work. them is pretty fascinating. I really like looking at I’m really against this entire textile-slavery thing anatomy illustrations and drawings, but I don’t that is going on in the world now, so it´s not draw that much myself so I put it in my knit going to be easy to make my label work. and embroidery work instead. Then I focus a lot on bodily fluids that are usually thought of It’s always hard figuring out the faraway future, as disgusting. I like to take them out of context sometimes there come days where I really can’t knit or do my work because I just hate it. and make them wearable. Usually it just lasts for a day or less though, but Q: You mention on your website that you’re what if I wake up one day and never want to learning textile design in the Reykjavík knit ever again? What if I just want to become School of Visual Art, can you tell me more a dentist, a nurse or just something completely different to what I’m doing now? When I was about that? little I wanted to be an astronaut or veterinarian, A: I’m studying a BA in Textile Design there, we when I finished high school I wanted to learn went right back to basics in the beginning and icelandic history or science. Then somehow I learned to hand spin yarn. We have mostly been ended up where I am now, so it’s just absurd using sheep wool but also tried other fibers, trying to imagine where I’ll be in the future.

I spun some yarn out of Skotta’s (my dog’s) hair last week! Now we are weaving and then Q: Do you think it’s hard for young people to we work our way to knitting, machine knitting, make a living in the area art and design? silk print and how to work in more depth with A: Yes, at least for artists wanting to work textiles. full time making art. I’m really business blind Q: What is next for you? Would you hope to person, I don’t understand how any business be designing and creating full time when can work unless it’s selling things for basic needs, like food and gasoline and such. In my you’ve completed your studies? mind the only way to make a living out of art A: Now I’m mostly focusing on school and trying and design unless you become well known is to combine it with a business attitude to make to get as much out of it as I can. and sell useful things, but that really inhibits the possibilities that art offers. The most noticeable I opened a web shop in the beginning of October. artists are all the great musicians and bands we It’s great that I can work with the Ýrúrarí label as have, but I’m not even sure if there are many my job with school, I was even able to quit my people that can make a full living out of that. pharmacy job that fitted me terribly. Working as Ýrúrarí is the perfect job with school, but I’m not sure if it will work as a full job. The sweaters I’ve been selling are made from scratch and it can take somewhere around 20 hours to make one. That makes them really expensive as I want to get paid correctly for the time put into my work, of course, and that makes them hard to sell. There are two main reasons for that, people are not used to buying clothes that are fair trade to this extent. Also my target customers are people

Q: What was it like growing up in Iceland? A: It was great! I grew up in a really small suburb where we had a small forest in our garden and we had chickens there and just a lot of space for ourselves. So I always appreciate having space for myself where I can think about everything. Maybe I’m too fond of it, now I live alone in a studio apartment and can’t imagine ever living with anyone else who isn’t a dog or a panda.

Iceland is really small and I mostly appreciate that, still it has its bad sides too. It can sometimes be a bit frustrating and isolating stuck on this island. I’d really like to go and see more of the world. I lived in Denmark for the half of last year though, and realised how spoiled we are with nature in Iceland, it’s pretty inspiring. Q: What are the opportunities like in Iceland do you feel, compared to somewhere like London? A: I’m not really sure how to compare it. We are so small and everywhere else is so big. I think, but I can’t guarantee, that no artist could make a living out of their art only transmitting it to Icelanders. There are many opportunities though, working with other artists and companies. I’m just not really there yet, I’m just a beginner and all this “living on art” stuff is something scary I have to handle in the future. Q: Do you have a favourite piece out of everything you’ve created? A: I can’t choose between my babies! Q: The way you speak about your creations makes it sound like you’re very attached to them. Does this mean that, on a personal level, you find it hard to sell them? A: The pieces I‘ve sold I made for the purpose to sell. I always had it in mind while making them that they were for sale and I couldn’t use them myself. So I’m pleased when they are sold. It’s so nice to know that there are people out there wearing something that came from both my hands and my mind. Then there are the pieces I made especially for people I know. That‘s really fun! My favourite one of them is the wedding jumpsuit I made for a friend. It really was super fun to create an outfit for something special like a wedding. I still have some sweaters I kept for myself. They are mostly sweaters that took a really, really long time in the making, and I just can’t sell them, they are too personal and I really need to keep them near to me, even though I don’t really use them that much. Ýr’s website featuring links to her online store and blog can be found at http://www.yrurari.com/ 36

THE STYLISTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SURVIVAL GUIDE

Whether you are already a professional stylist or you are thinking about beginning your styling career in the fashion industry, Alex Deacey looks at some handy tips that many stylists swear by to survive words by alex deacey

THE BARE ESSENTIALS; As a stylist you will most likely have a keen eye for detail and when it comes to styling a photo shoot, it’s the details that matter. The majority of mistakes can be photo shopped out, however if you have ever experienced a photographer attempting to capture the perfect shot, you will know its important to make sure those little details are perfect and to be prepared to make it easier for the photographer when it comes to editing. So it’s necessary to carry around the bare essentials that will make a whole lot of difference when trying to make sure the model looks perfection (take note): - Hairgrips and hair spray for those little stragglers - A pair of socks/tights, makes the photographers life a little easier, instead of having to Photoshop socks onto a model - Safety pins and grippers to ensure the garments fit the model - An iron, if possible, (it’s a nightmare to Photoshop creases out)

A RELIABLE SUITCASE

Whether the photo shoot your styling is in a glamorous photography studio or out in the sticks, every stylist needs a reliable suitcase. Whatever the weather, you need to be reassured that the garments will be transported to their destination, arriving in pristine condition and ready to be photographed. (Quick Tip: shop around for a suitcase that has 4 wheels as these are usually the easiest to move around, making your life a little easier if you’re late and trying to get to the shoot during rush hour!)

COMFORT IS A MUST As you may know, styling isn’t always as glamorous as it seems. Your aim as a stylist is to ensure that the model looks complete perfection throughout the entirety of the photo shoot; therefore it is essential that you are dressed for any scenario or weather. The perfect outfit for any shoot consists of: a waterproof coat preferably with a hood (this doesn’t have to be an unattractive rain coat), a comfy jumper, skinny jeans and knee high boots. You can still create a fashionable outfit by adding your own accessories. But the key thing is comfort! (Quick Tip: if you have a car, always take a pair or wellies as you never know where the photo shoot might take you!)

ONE MANS TRASH IS ANOTHER MANS TREASURE It’s true, never throw anything useful away out of your wardrobe! As a stylist, you will realise everything in your wardrobe will probably come in handy at some point in the future for a photo shoot. You don’t have to become a hoarder, but just hold onto those unique items that will serve a purpose. You’ll only kick yourself and regret it if you threw away those items you thought you would never use and then a photo shoot arises they would have been perfect for (Just your luck you won’t be able to find anything similar on sale anywhere else!). Also, don’t be afraid to raid through your friends and families wardrobes when they are having a spring clean, you’ll probably find some right beauties.

PLAN B

Always have a back up outfit! God forbid if an outfit gets damaged or lost during a photo shoot, but if it does, it is your responsibility to create a solution and provide an alternative outfit for the model. Even if it is an outfit that you put together last minute, it’s always better to be safe than sorry.

KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN The majority of stylists stay within their comfort zone when it comes to extreme photo shoots. However, building a versatile portfolio is a necessity in the fashion industry in order to set you apart from the typical ‘safe stylists’ and assist in creating a big name for you as a professional. So you don’t always have to play it safe, keep it creative.

AND FINALLY: CONTACTS!

CONTACTS,

The most important tip for any stylist is gaining contacts! Although social networking is the mainstream technique to building your contacts, connecting through social media apps including; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn allows you to discover and monitor professional models and photographers either locally or globally, and also allowing others to connect with you.

It’s true what they say, it’s not about what you know, it’s about who you know. Get yourself out there and make yourself known.

the morning after the night before photography by sarah brown styling by alex deacey Makeup by terri grisdale models: emile garnes & aaron calvert

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The experiences of an over-enthusiastic wannabe TV star words and photography by BEE VAN DIJK

he phrase internship brings up a mixed bag of opinions, especially in the competitive fashion industry. For some this kind of experience opens doors and provides a real insight into the working world, whilst others leave their role feeling cheated out of their time and efforts. /PASTE’s Bee Van Dijk speaks of her time interning at a major television broadcast company. This was it, my first day. I’d recently found out that my application to intern at one of London’s biggest television companies had come back successful and for the next couple of months I would be alongside television presenters, celebrities and those that had made it to the top, working in the contemporary fashion department of a famous television programme. I could see it all before I’d even started. Mornings spent accompanying the head of department to meetings with top PR executives, afternoons in wardrobe, perusing the latest designer gear ready to make apt styling choices. And each evening, being invited for drinks by all the stars that I had been teasing with throughout the day. It’d be, ‘Oh Brad Pitt, honestly I’d love to go out for drinks, but I already said I’d go for dinner with the cast of Harry Potter tonight’. Although my preconceptions were a little misted, one thing I have learnt (however terrible it sounds to say) is not to be too optimistic. My role was the intern, not new star of television wonderwoman extraordinaire. So my first day came about. I remember being led up to the studios, given a brief show around, ‘Toilets are this way, here is the kitchen where you can help yourself to toast and coffee’, trust me, I really did help myself to toast and coffee (I wasn’t being paid after all and had to make up my money somehow). Following on from this, I was put straight into my first job, sorting a rail of clothes into brand order. This may sound easy, but on your first day there are so many questions that you don’t want to ask due to the risk of sounding like a complete imbecile. ‘Has this part been sorted already? I’ve not heard of this brand where does it go?’ and when I thought I was almost finished ‘Good grief, there are two rails?!’

After a number of questions and pointless humiliation I was very ready to move on to lunch. Now, my main point that I want you to remember is that I was interning full time (this means no time for another job) and this work was unpaid. I was in fact, by working this job, losing out on money due to paying my atrociously priced daily £20 train ticket on a journey that takes 40 minutes (from what I hear this is even less time getting into central London than if I were to actually live in zones 5 or 6, but triple the price). So back to lunch; the team led me up through a snaking maze of corridors towards the food hall, the same maze of corridors that had me take a wrong turn and consequently find the longest route possible when asked to bring the team breakfast the following week (even the worst jobs can be easily messed up). Here I was clutching my new identity card with the hope that employees would receive a free lunch as my stomach was rumbling in response to the scents of soups and fresh bread coaxing me into the kitchens. My heart dropped a little when I saw the sign ‘Hot meals £5.95’. A girl who worked on the fashion team walked by me, ‘The cafe up here is pretty cheap and serves great food’ she beamed. I’m sure that she was right and the food was great, but for me it looked like the free toast was going to be forming my three meals a day for the upcoming weeks. As time went on I got more confident within my role and was having some really valuable experiences. One morning, a flustered man walked into the office muttering something about a lack of models and inflatable bike helmets. Before I knew it, I was standing, petrified on live television with an inflatable bike helmet on my head. And honestly, I dare say, it was the number one highlight of my time interning, following this I thought of myself as the next Audrey Hepburn and spent the rest of my time in London waiting for someone to recognise me as ‘the girl from the telly’. It didn’t happen. In opposition to this excitement there was one part of the role that proved less enjoyable. When styling an outfit or a shoot it was apparent that the team were never 71

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satisfied with the garments sent over from PR companies and so my role became making regular trips into Oxford Street to pick up and return hundreds of pounds worth of clothing at a time. This can get pretty stressful, rocking up to shops each day pretending to be someone completely different, regurgitating their personal details that you learnt in the car on the way there. I’d be standing at multiple store counters trying to remember their name, date of birth, address, favourite animal (maybe not the latter, though you get the idea). ‘Yes’, I would say to the people at the tills whilst forging a big-shot producer’s signature, ‘That is my name, I am 36 years old, and my house? Yes, it’s the mansion’. I’m not sure if what they had me doing was fully legal, but I managed to get through this with fewer problems than fetching the breakfast. Plus sometimes I got my own car which would roll up with my name on a placard in the window. This would always make me feel very important, after all I was pretty famous after my debut inflatable bike helmet role. In the long run, although this was an enlightening experience in which I learnt a great deal. I would not have chosen to continue for more than the couple of months I completed. If it were paid then sure, but the reality is that the people partaking in internships are those of us who haven’t yet made it into the well paid jobs we aspire to be in and for these kinds of people, even working for free becomes an unaffordable dream. Nonetheless if you can produce the funds to keep yourself going for a couple of months an internship can be a great CV booster, with a pool of fantastic connections and an overall exciting experience and learning curve. Plus even if nothing else comes from it, you’ll certainly find that you can place yourself as the envy of all your friends on Instagram for a couple of months!

HEY VIVIAN FU /PASTE meets the emerging photographic talent of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative scene words by GRANT HOLMES PHOTOGRaphy by vivian fu

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t’s 4am and I am sat at my desk waiting for a Skype call from Vivian Fu, who after weeks of organising has been able to fit me in for an interview. 4am for me that is, (it is a considerably more sensible time of day her side of the Atlantic). I’m currently panicking at the sorry state of my computer, which has conveniently decided to update and crash minutes before I expect Vivian. Thankfully, things are back on track and after some issues with passwords, faulty internet and what I can only assume is a curse on my household, I am able to make contact with Vivian half way around the world in San Francisco. We chat about our technical mishaps for a while and I’m immediately at ease speaking with her and notice just how fun and down to earth she is... but i’m not shocked. Unpretentious, Vivian Fu has slowly begun to gain attention through internet blogging and the San Francisco art scene with her candid, evocative and at times explicit photography. Her unique eye for capturing non-events sheds light on the most relatable scenarios, framing them perfectly for the world to see. Having explained that at 4am I do a ‘Renee Zellweger’ and look utterly unrecognisable from my daytime form, we get down to the questions...

vivian fu

Q: I’m going to tell you the way that we found There are so many young people and artists you. We were looking for alternative street from all over here. There are so many other people here that I can meet and I find that festivals... inspiring. There are also a lot of people visiting and bringing their stories. A: AHHH... Q: You know where this is going! Your pictures from the Folsom Street Fair (San Francisco’s annual BDSM and leather festival... for the curious amongst you) made us absolutely cry laughing. We adored them! I knew we had to send you an email there and then, it was the best way to find someone! A: Those pictures have really travelled round! That’s interesting. Q: It’s probably for the best I’ve forgotten the Google search that led to them.

Q: So it’s the community that inspires you more than anything? A: Yeah but I also think that a lot of that community is based around the fact that it’s San Francisco. It’s a vicious circle in a way.

‘just because I’m not at school doesn’t mean I’ll stop learning’

A: I wasn’t expecting that to happen at all! I was just having fun eating hotdogs. It wasn’t meant to happen! But it’s so interesting. There’s a grocery store by my work, and I was just shopping and there was a guy in front of me buying eggs. So I just waited till he was done and he turns around and see’s me, and he says “OH! You’re Vivian Fu!” and I was just shocked! All he could say was “I’ve seen your pictures... you know what pictures!” It’s the funniest thing Q: We absolutely love your work. It’s very self to me. reflective. Is that something you originally wanted to do or did the narrative of your life Q: Do you get that a lot then, are people on film develop as you went on? starting to recognise you and your work more, being the subject of a lot of your own A: It’s something that developed. I started work? taking pictures the same way anyone does, and I think it took a long time to figure out why I A: Yeah, so much of my work is pictures of was so interested in photographing mys elf me. It’s easy for people to recognise me. San or my friends. I think that the basis of it is that Francisco is also quite small, so I feel like it it’s so natural for everybody. You want to have makes it easier for word of mouth to get around. pictures of your friends from specific moments, If I was in LA or New York, maybe it wouldn’t times you want to remember, that’s something happen as much. we can all relate to. Q: Being based in San Francisco, and being in just that one place, it’s become a big part of your work. Do you think that’s helped you find your style being based there, as a community and as a place?

Q: You seem to capture the ‘moments in between’. They’re not a particular thing or event, such as the cafe photo included in this photo essay. Is that intentional?

A: It’s not a conscious thing. It’s also ‘when is A: I wouldn’t necessarily say I’m inspired by the a good moment to take a photo,’ I feel like I’m space of the city, it doesn’t make me want to not as interested in ‘action’ based photography, ‘make’ work, it’s more to do with the people. and also those in between moments, there’s 81

more of a mystery to it. It’s more implied than explicit. Sometimes people tell me “your work is very sexual” and yes parts of it are, but for the most part it’s implicit sexuality. Q: Your photos are so different in that they seem to capture so well the line between, as you said, implicit and explicit subjects. So on a personal level, what is your background and how did you get into photography? A: I graduated college, and I’d always liked taking pictures. But it wasn’t something I realised I cared about seriously until maybe my last year in high school. And even then I don’t think I realised just how passionate I was about it till a while into college. Q: How did it feel when you had your first solo exhibition, that must’ve been an amazing feeling? A: I think the first solo show I had was in Santa Cruz. Some of the local businesses would email the art department and say: “Hi, we’re looking for artists to show work”. It’s a nice way to get your work seen. SO a sex shop contacted us and I saw it and thought it would be a good fit. It was interesting. The day of my open reception, it was so nice to have so many friends come and some people I didn’t know, teachers, TAs. It was great seeing it hung up in a space outside of school. Q: Did you feel it validated you and your work? A: I don’t know if I felt that at the time, at the time I think I just felt anxious! There were so many people there all paying attention to me! But it was definitely validating that so many people had come and taken an interest in me, and come to support me. Q: Do you predominantly work in digital or film format? A: I mostly use film, but I do have a digital camera that I’m trying to use more. I’m trying to not feel so controlled by what I’m using. I want to be able to do both. 82

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Q: So now in the digital age we’re in, everyone’s a photographer with their phones. Do you find that detrimental to photography, or do you think it’s good everyone can now be involved no matter their experience or skill? A: I think it’s good! It’s not longer dictated by who can afford a camera, or who can afford to go to school and study it all. I think the more people taking pictures the better! I don’t think that it’s bad there’s so many now, I think if anything it gives a better scope of people’s experiences and different types of people. It circles into discussions like selfies! I think even those are good. Some people feel networks like Instagram are ruining photography, but I just feel like its creating a community of creativity and you can connect with people you’ve never even met through a medium. Like how we found you! Exactly! Q: Do you have a personal philosophy? *struggles to think of an answer*

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YES, YOUR CLOTHES HAVE AN AFTERLIFE

ALEX DEACEY, FASHION EDITOR FOR /PASTE TAKES A LOOK AT UPCYCLING words by ALEX DEACEY

alling all creatives out there who are already into the latest craze of the fashion upcycling movement, along with those who have attempted but gallantly failed and all the non-creatives who have never considered it. Join the global trend now, by reviving your wardrobe and giving your clothes the afterlife they deserve. What Is The Difference Between Recycling And Up Cycling? The majority of consumers, who are not very familiar with the upcycling trend, sometimes struggle to grasp the difference between recycling and upcycling. The simple difference is this, unlike recycling which consists of taking consumer materials, breaking them into base materials and transforming them into new consumer materials – upcycling is taking an item, reviving and refashioning it to create something original. What Is The Fashion Upcycling Movement Anyway? Here is a little bit of background information to persuade you to dust off your glad rags and get upcycling! With the global mission to reduce waste pollution, the world has gone on an eco rampage by demonstrating what really happens to our dirty laundry through disturbing images of landfill sites right outside our homes. This has led to the rising trend of the ‘fashion upcycling movement’, inspiring us to create innovative ways of breathing life into our wardrobes, as opposed to clotting the landfill sites with last season’s fashion trends. Who Is Doing It? People all over the globe are becoming involved in the upcycling movement, choosing to live a more sustainable and eco lifestyle in order to help save the world from being 89

overrun by our unwanted attire. Young professionals in the fashion industry such as Pablo RuizGalán, a Spanish fashion design graduate, are also becoming involved and playing their part in the emerging movement. RuizGalán debuted his Spring/Summer 2013 menswear collection named ‘New Life’ at Madrid’s Mercedes Benz fashion week, upcycling unwanted clothing and accessories to give them a second chance at life. He feels that his collection ‘creates an edgy and eclectic sportswear collection that advocates the practice of sustainable style.’ How Do I Revive My Wardrobe? To those who are not quite in touch with their creative side, the thought of upcycling may be quite daunting. You might think it’s much easier to take a quick trip down the high street to purchase the latest fashion trends, but in actual fact, your clothes are yearning to be dusted off and given a new lease of life. That said, reviving your wardrobe is simple! There really are no rules or boundaries when it comes to upcycling, whether you’re a creative soul or not, tap into your imagination as anything goes! All you need at hand are a few basic essentials; a pair of sturdy scissors, a thread unpicker, needle and thread (or perhaps a sewing machine if your are more skilled than most of us). Don’t forget to have a variety of buttons, studs and pins at hand which will quickly jazz up any tired garment. A few quick tips to breathe life back into any garment instantly: - Dye a tired looking item a different colour to revamp it - Shorten/lengthen sleeves and hems - Stitch old pieces of jewelry or beading around cuffs and collars to accessorise an item - Sew pieces of fabric onto items to create pockets or simply add colour/texture to a dull garment 90

It’s all about reinventing old trends to make them current and adding your own personal style to an item. Help, I have no imagination! If you’re struggling for inspiration, there are numerous blogs and websites whose expertise lies in fashion upcycling DIY. Why not have a peek of the innovative ‘A Beautiful Mess’ blog and attempt turning a tired jumper into a pom pom hat or take ucycling to a whole new level by creating your very own Peter pan costume! Persuaded that your clothes have an afterlife yet? Reinventing last seasons trends is that easy with a little DIY, and on a positive note, by joining the fashion upcycling movement you’ll be contributing to the global mission of saving our environment. So reawaken your wardrobe and give your clothes the life they deserve. A beautiful mess can be found at www. abeautifulmess.com

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THE ETSY EDIT

OUR GUIDE TO ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS words by BEE VAN DIJK

xclusively for hand-made objects or vintage treasures, Etsy is a website that provides a fresh alternative for those of you who are sick of trawling through the same high-street shops. Far too many of us are spending more time than necessary trying to find innovative, refreshing gifts. Yet it seems we are trapped into picking up the same mass-produced phone case, or perhaps a jumper with an artistic print that maybe one time could have been an interesting gift had it not the word ‘hype’ or ‘swag’ emblazoned in all its unjustified glory across the front. Founded in 2005, Etsy hasn’t even hit its 10th birthday, but this hasn’t stopped it from surpassing a whopping 30,000,000 members (that’s more than all the people in Australia and their pet cats combined!) and with Etsy’s 900,000 independent businesses producing items available at the click of a finger, it almost surprises me that people are still leaving the house to do their Christmas shopping. Masses of us enjoy the idea of not having to travel far to Christmas shop, so how about being able to complete the Christmas run without needing to leave the house and additionally, having someone else go through the sifting process to bring you this: The Definitive Best Of Etsy Christmas Gift List.

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‘When I was on my gap-year in Thailand’,‘My dream is to travel the world’, sound familiar? Whether their dream is close to reality or a distant vision, help them prepare for their travels with miscellanies that will fill up their backpack before they can blink. SummerfieldUK If you know someone who may be heading somewhere cold (yes, staying in the UK counts), Summerfield UK provides a wide range of unisex hand-knitted freerange alpaca wool gloves that range between an affordable £5-9. TheMapShop Each priced at £8.27, TheMapStore has an established collection of artistic maps. Alfamarama A notebook is a traveller’s best friend, perhaps this is a phrase that could gain credibility if we said it constantly for 20 years. Check out Alfamarama for a range of hand-printed moleskine notebooks with recycled covers. Our favourite for the journey is the simple ‘my travel stories’. Pick this up for £5. StitchKits Amongst the regular (but oh so adorable) sewing kits, these travel kits will patch up any weary traveller. This one is only £4.99 and will fit handily into a pocket.

RichNeelyDesigns Imagine your favourite book, imagine it with beautiful gold embossed lettering. Now imagine it charging your iPhone. RichNeelyDesigns can hook you up with a ‘Booksi’, a classic book cover combined with an iPhone dock for £30-35. PenAndCandle PenAndCandle produce a variety of candles, each set to represent a different character from a classic novel. This one represents Emma; confident and youthful with scents of vanilla and pear.

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The classic gift of literature, only as a badge, a candle or a laptop case. Wouldn’t Jane Austen be proud. As for the credibility of some of these items, we can’t promise that these are the actual scents of giant whales and turmoil at sea, but perhaps that’s a good thing.

PenAndCandle Despite the name PenAndCandle, having showed you the candle part, we would now like to present...the soap. Nonetheless this makes a fantastic gift at a respectable £2.55. LiteraryArtPrints Hand-printed in Italy onto Cotton Linen Canvas, LiteraryArtPrints has a range of laptop cases printed with pages from classic novels for sale at £29.38 apiece. TangleCrafts For a cheap and cheerful stocking filler, TangleCrafts can offer handmade badges for just £1 each. These ones feature lines from an old favourite, the Borrowers.

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For the child inside of us all, these heartwarming gifts will lighten anyone’s spirit and provide fun alternative gifts this Christmas. WinterPetals WinterPetals can certainly spice up the colder months with their collection of colourful fruit plushes and cushions. For £18.52, you could give someone the gift of a lifetime: A banana cushion measuring just short of 2ft. OzarksDesigns For a slightly cheaper gift alternative to an enlarged banana cushion, head over to OzarksDesigns to pick up a £0.64 pair of earrings. We particularly like these elephants. BoyGirlTees Think of your favourite animal. Was it a dinosaur? It will be after checking out this super cool dinosaur plant pot. Get this and other designs for £10-16 and you’ll be the talk of the town. And guess what? The plant is included! MostlikelyShop All the way from Austria you can order someone a DIY animal lampshade of your choice. We’ve gone for a fox. This will put you back £28.31.

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MossMountain MossMountain has, for £5, in miniature and hand-made out of felt, just about any animal you could think of (unless you are still obsessing about the dinosaur plant pot, in which case stop what you are doing and buy it). Our favourite is this strange yet very sweet albino squirrel; a perfect stocking filler. PinTheSpermOnTheEgg Confused by the store name? Well we’ve chosen to show you their title product. To ensure laughs all around this Christmas, why not pick up this adult version of a typical children’s party game. Gift someone a hilarious Christmas for only £8.27

The Downright Bizarre

Now these gifts you are about to see aren’t for everyone, they may not even be for anyone. But look at them, anything this bizarre deserves its time in the spotlight, right?

The Curiositeer Prepare yourself, we have saved the oddest for last. Described as ‘the cutest thing ever’, The Curiositeer sells a range of necklaces with real squids in. For those of you now feeling panicked for the little creatures, there is no reason to worry. The squids are a byproduct of the seafood industry, so they won’t be swimming around, nor have they been harmed directly for the making of these necklaces. The Curiositeer describes their fate as ‘A much more dignified end for these little guys than being ½ a teaspoon of fish paste’. If you are as curious as I am, or have a friend you’d like to surprise, you can pick one up for £21.72.

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DIG FOR VICTORY JENNIFER OWEN TAKES A LOOK AT THE NEW GOOD LIFE

words by JENNIFER OWEN PHOTOGRAPHY by Rachel Abraham makeup by Rhiannon Morrell model: Elena Burykina styling by Bee Van Dijk

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f you’re anything like me, then the closest you’ve come to growing your own fruit and veg is the pot of cress you cultivated in year two. Proudly, yet carefully, carrying it home envisioning it in egg and cress sandwiches feeling like Alan Titchmarsh- a total pro! Realistically, the cress was crap and it went straight in to the bin! Traumatic to say the least. Over the years, I accepted the fact my fingers were not green in the slightest and let the supermarkets worry about how to source my potatoes and pears. It wasn’t until the economy challenged my savvy side that a friend suggested I grow my own food and benefit my health in the process.

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After initially laughing it off due to the fact I didn’t have a clue let alone a garden, I found myself intrigued and wanting to know more about this new found trend. What I discovered was quite surprising. Britain’s teens and young adults are now flocking to allotments all over the country! They’re growing everything from organic apples to zesty zucchinis whilst taking satisfaction in the fresh taste, and comfort in the knowledge they’re combating rising supermarket food prices. A new wave of ‘grow your own’ enthusiasts are benefiting from fresh fruit and veg without the pesticides and supermarket price tags. Allotments are no longer somewhere Granddad goes to escape Granny, that’s for sure! This sudden surge in popularity stems from a new found concern for our health and the environment we live in. Thousands of plots have become so exclusive they have waiting lists with The National Allotment Society recording 78,827 people waiting across the UK for a slice of the peat pie! Allotments can be rented for a small monthly, or yearly fee and sharing with a friend can cut the cost even further. Don’t let the small issue of not having a garden or nearby allotment disillusion you. Communities are starting to join forces in growing their own food with people volunteering their gardens and

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anywhere else a plot may fit. Restaurants and eateries are following in their muddy footsteps with certain places boasting a menu of home grown delights from private seasonal allotments. Tim Bilton of ‘The Spiced Pear’ restaurant in West Yorkshire has been encouraging locals to muck in and bring their home grows to him in exchange for a free meal. Tim creates feasts from allotments all across Kirklees and indulges his own passion through his business, which has a vast menu to feast your eyes upon. Tim, who trained under Raymond Blanc, said: “I want to celebrate and promote the joys of growing your own and spread the allotment agenda.”

‘Not only is growing your own food beneficial to you health, but it’s never been easier or more rewarding’ What could be better than a free meal prepared by a talented chef with your own fruit and veg? It’s only a matter of time before more restaurants follow suit across the UK and intrigue us with their unusual culinary delights. Not only is growing your own food beneficial to your health, but it’s never been easier or more rewarding. You can pick up a pack of baby carrot seeds for 25p, which will give you 1kg of carrots compared to the supermarket where 1kg of the exact same carrots will set you back a whopping £3.30! It’ll not only save your pennies but will challenge you to dream up unusual recipes and interesting ways to gobble your garden grub. 113

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Believe me, it’s not rocket science (get it? Rocket? No? Ok, just me). The seeds are relatively easy to grow and maintain with most people visiting their allotments a little and often. Every successful allotmenteer will tell you your allotment, garden, patch, or wherever you choose to grow, should provide you with your own little sanctuary to escape the monotony of day-to-day life. Many believe it partly comes down to trial and error allowing you to experiment and develop your skills over time in perfecting your parsnips. Most burgeoning enthusiasts buddy up with someone when starting out to learn the tricks of the trade before venturing out in to their own plot of yummy heaven. The future looks delicious for the new generation of aspiring allotmenteers with many even calling it a lifestyle choice. If you can benefit your health whilst saving money, what have you got to lose from giving it go? Saying that, if it does turn out crap like my cress, you can always throw it in the bin and beg Jamie Oliver, who is a self proclaimed lover of ‘grow your own’, to come and teach you the basics.

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The Green Generation

Has the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attitude finally progressed from greed to green? /PASTE explores 4 alternativeapproaches to food waste

From the misbehaving children ditching greens from plates into bins when their parents turn away, to the major corporations casting aside tonnes of food to landfill, food waste has been a consistent problem throughout our lifetimes. The severity of the issue has really hit home on UK consumers in recent years as not only companies, but also our own neighbours are under direct fire for wastage. However, in contrast to the usual confrontational eruptions that spark up when problems occur in our society, it is overwhelmingly positive to see some of the work and efforts that people and companies alike have been putting in to combat food waste from all over the UK. /PASTE takes a look at a curated selection of these projects, systems and the people involved in them from all around the country. 120

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The Real Junk Food Project, based in Leeds The Real Junk Food Project is a volunteer run network of restaurants across the UK. Formed in Armley, Leeds, an area which is renowned for high poverty levels, crime rates and levels of drug abuse, the project operates a pay as you feel system. This allows anyone to visit the restaurant and donate an amount they feel comfortable with. Additionally, to avoid pressure, the amount donated is kept completely anonymous. One simply places their donation into a collection box. This doesn’t only limit the restaurant to those who suffer to get a good meal; as a community based project, The Real Junk Food Project explain that visitors from all ages and backgrounds regularly attend, from middle aged women, to teenage boys to Leeds’ homeless communities whom occasionally, when times are hard, will exchange food for their services, helping to tidy or clean the restaurant. But if The Real Junk Food Project doesn’t have a minimum charge, how can they afford to keep running? This is what makes the project so special. First of all, the project is completely volunteer run, with teams of trained chefs and waiters. Secondly, a keen emphasis is placed on the phrase ‘food interception’. This means that rather than buying and reselling food as a regular restaurant would; Food instead is intercepted by the team, from where previously it would have been thrown away. There are a surprising number of sources providing food to the project. When /PASTE spoke to Adam Smith, Co-Director of The Real Junk Food Project he enlightened our team on the varying produce sources ‘The Real Junk Food Project intercepts food from such varied sources i.e. Foodbanks, allotments, food stylists/photographers, households, events, restaurants and approximately 5% from supermarkets, and majority of that is from their bins!’ The Real Junk Food Project then produces a tailor-made menu each day according to the recent interceptions. Having been a great success in combating food wastage and bringing communities together, the project has now spread its roots and pop-up restaurants have been emerging across the UK. When asked about the expansion of the project Adam explained, ‘Personally, I believe, in order to tackle national food waste issues, we should (and could) have a pay as you feel concept cafe in every town and city, nation and European-wide. We now have 47 members of our network which is growing weekly all the way from Brighton, to Bristol, to Hackney, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds (which has 4 established cafes, and more in the pipeline)’. Check out The Real Junk Food Project’s website to see if one will be opening up near you! therealjunkfoodproject.co.uk/ 121

As a consumer, I would take one look at the chocolate cake sat on my shelf, see that it is past its sell by date and think of this as an excuse to eat the whole thing in one go. I’m sure many of you would be with me on that one. But food waste from homes is still a major issue. On average UK households throw away 7 million tonnes of food a year, half of which could have been edible. Our main wastage? Fruits, vegetables and bread. Perhaps when a cucumber, a banana or a loaf of bread is passing its sell-by date the excitement to eat it is slightly more subdued than that of a sweet treat. Additionally, I know I’ve been guilty of truly overestimating portion sizes and passing off food close to its sell by date for something tastier that could’ve lasted for days to come! According to the UK’s ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ project, the two main reasons we throw away food are that we prepare more than we need and what we don’t eat, we don’t use in time.

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So what can be done to combat the huge amounts of food being thrown away by households in the UK? The Casserole Club is a new start-up project that allows people to share their extra portions of food with their older neighbours and people that are unable to cook for themselves. Based in Staffordshire and a number of boroughs in Greater London, the project has already got people from all over the UK signing themselves up as a cook willing to share a meal with someone in need. One of the sweetest parts is that you can even find out the favourite meal of the person you’re sharing with. To share a meal, simply visit www.casseroleclub.com and go through the simple registration. To project high standards, the project require cooks take a brief criminal record check and food hygiene quiz, and then following on, The Casserole Club will connect you with someone in need that is living in your area. The Casserole Club acts as an altruistic way to prevent food wastage and help a neighbour out, strengthening community relationships with every mouthful. If you, or someone you know could benefit from the programme, The Casserole Club welcomes recommendations just send them an email at: hello@casseroleclub.com 122

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Skipping, a nationwide concept. For those that like to tackle food wastage head on, skipping is a concept that has been around for years. It involves taking food from supermarket bins and wherever else edible food may be thrown away. There is much controversy over skipping due to the legalities of the activity, if caught taking from bins, it can be considered theft with the culprit liable to a criminal record, yet the question is who is the real criminal? The person taking a the bread rolls, or the companies sending these edible goods to landfill rather than to those of us willing to risk our necks to save money and reduce wastage? /PASTE is lucky enough to speak with Amy, an experienced skipper from London. We ask her about the process and she explains, ‘I first got into skipping because London living is expensive enough as it is. There’s such a lot of food being wasted, it seems ridiculous to buy it when it’s sitting there perfectly fine to eat’. On how she got into skipping Amy explains ‘Some friends of mine had been doing it near where we lived in Kings Cross and I joined them one day. Now I’m always on the look out for potential places to skip. There are lots of people trying to get food - often homeless people but also students and young people who can’t afford to keep up with the rising food prices and hate to see the waste that goes on.’ Amy explains the injustice she feels is committed by larger companies ‘A lot of companies say they have policies on giving unsold food to night shelters, but in reality they still throw a lot away. We once went into a fairly upmarket organic supermarket that we could see were bagging up ready meals for the bin and so we asked for it. They said they were giving it to a shelter, but later on we checked their bins and found the exact same stuff going into landfill; I think they just want people to buy their produce, they don’t really care about the waste.’ With the tackling of food wastage becoming such a major part of society perhaps laws and regulations surrounding skipping will lax in future, but for now skipping remains one of the more controversial methods of tackling food waste.

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Rock Abundance, based in Cambridge

There’s something special about home-grown fruits and vegetables. Rock Abundance is a great project that has been set up in Cambridge encouraging people to share their home-grown foods. Whether you’re the producer or you simply would love to nab some proper veggies, these sorts of projects are something we hope to see a lot more of in the years ahead. Anyone who has grown their own food will know that seasonal really does mean seasonal. One minute you may be scouring your garden for any signs of greenery and the next have an uncontrollable number of courgettes (really, speaking from experience, it can be unruly). Rock Abundance encourages the set-up of ‘help yourself’ boxes across the city in which people can leave the home-grown foods that they cannot manage themselves to be snapped up by those that perhaps don’t have the luxury of their own garden. These sorts of schemes are popping up all over the UK, check out ‘Apples For Eggs’ in Manchester and ‘The Natural Veg Men’ in Cheshire. rock-abundance.squarespace.com

The level of commitment invested into start-up projects and tackling food emission makes it clear that the UK is ready to move on and stop the unnecessary wastage of foods from our homes, corporations and communities. Each small step taken bridges the gap between saving our foods and feeding the nation. It’s time we all stopped to really think about food waste, to play an active part in the fight against overconsumerism and become a member of what could turn out to be the green generation.

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/PASTE sits down with MΔNFΔCΞ himself, Thom Watson words by GRANT HOLMES

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‘I like working with people, although I pretend otherwise!’

hom Watson, the brains behind MΔNFΔCΞ mens cosmetics blog, is sat with me in Cafe Nero preparing for an interview into what it is to blog in the modern world and his experiences in industry. Thom came from a not so unrelatable background, and yet at only 23 years old has done what most bloggers, starting out with columns in the so called ‘blogosphere’, dream of. Thom has in recent years migrated from being a blogger to what is more easily defined as a freelance journalist. His site (manface.uk) has gone on to become one of the leading chronicles in cosmetics for not only men, but an increasingly wide audience all around the world. We sit down with Thom to find out a few personal snippets of information about himself, and just how he has built his ever growing review empire. Thom sits down after arriving before me and assures me he is usually early. Mortified, I launch into the chat: Q: Hi Thom, you didn’t even let me buy you coffee! Let’s get straight into the basics: when did you get into blogging? A: 2010. Q: What made you get into it?

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THE CHEMICAL EDIT

salicylic acid

Salicylic Acid is a highly effective synthesised organic acid used in many cosmetics for the face and body.

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A particularly effective treatment for acne due to its anti-inflammatory properties, salicylic acid. As a keratolytic and bacteriostatic agent (big words for something really quite simple). salicylic acid opens up the skins pores, neutralising bacteria and shedding old skin cells with increased effectiveness. It also has the added benefit of reducing pore size during this process, preventing excess build up.

Hyaluronan (hyaluronic acid)

Hyaluronan, more commonly known as hyaluronic acid in cosmetics, is an acid mostly found within the medical sector. Its talents lie within its abilities to kick start cell and tissue healing and regrowth, which has led to its increased use as a filler in cosmetic treatments. The acid can now be found in many anti-aging creams and is a fabulous and effective moisturiser.

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Incredibly similar to salicylic acid and works in much the same with similar effects and properties. However, LHA is more specifically targeted towards opening up and clearing out the pores. It is also a super effective exfoliant even when used in very low concentrations, refreshing the upper layers of the skin, to which it has a very similar PH balance (5.5)

Silicone

Not as alarming as it sounds, silicone has in recent years become a widely used delivery system for chemicals in to the skin, owning to its cleanliness and ability to vanish from the skin without leaving a trace. Extremely effective and pipped to be the next big advance in creams and skin care.

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‘If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got’

It’s a full time job for me now, especially with the rest of ‘The Face Collective’ (Thom’s digital and consultancy services). Google keywords are essential for a blogger. Now it can take up to 4 hours for one simple article. You have to think of how it’ll be found as well as read. Q: Finally then, give us an inspiring quote to take away. Cheese we know! A: “If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got”

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/PASTE SPEAKS TO ONE YOUNG AMERICAN ARTIST AND EXAMINES A STUDENTS PERSPECTIVE ON THE ART WORLD

rt is a difficult topic. It’s been a part of our culture for millennia, yet people’s perceptions as to what art really is have shifted and redefined more and more frequently with time. Graham Feyl, a 20 year old art history student in Chicago, has agreed to speak with me and give me his views on the art world from a student’s perspective in America. It’s a unique vantage point into the subject. The future of our creative and artistic communities are now produced in art schools, not in the bohemian back rooms of Paris. So does this new ‘trained’ eye signal a change in the way even the artist themselves are now viewing art? An interview at 2am gets underway...

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A: I study art history. I haven’t decided what I’m going to focus on yet, but I really like modern art. Then again I really enjoy pre-historic art. If you can call that art, most of it was so religious. Q: Like cave art? A: Yeah, I just love how primitive it is. They just thought “yeah we’re gonna slap this on the wall right here, looks good”. It’s only a modern concept that we call that art, because back then it was religious, or had some spiritual aspect. I suppose to them it wasn’t art. Q: So you’re at a community college. How does the American system work, is that like university? A: It is like university... kinda. We have horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE student loans here. In America it takes 4 years to get a bachelors degree, and usually the first 2 are for general education classes like English and maths and the sciences. Things you could do in high school, but you pay more! Community college offers a lower fee because I take those general ed classes. Having that will allow me to then go on to a university with those requirements in place. Q: How difficult is it studying an arts degree in America? A: It’s hard. It’s really hard because obviously, the market is just utter crap right now. We’re coming back! But it’s not the best because there are no job opportunities. A lot of kids are graduating and we have so much debt attached to us and you’re immediately expected to get a job! But, me for example, I want to work in a museum when I graduate... but the problem is in that field most museums wait for someone to die before they have a position. Or you wait for someone to leave. It’s so competitive as a market. It’s hard because people will say “follow what you want to do” but, in America, it’s hard because those jobs aren’t there. A lot of my friends are pursuing photography, or dance, or musical theatre. They have this burning passion for it, but they know they face graduating and having nothing, because our job market just

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doesn’t offer that. Unless you’re really Jesus when you’re dancing and someone notices you. Networking is SO important here I need to know someone in a gallery, only then I can weasel my way in. Q: So do you feel it’s an unfair system based on who you know and not what you know? A: Yeah. I just feel it’s very unfair. It’s being told do what you want but there’s a backhand to that decision! Q: You’ve been doing quite well yourself, haven’t you? A: Yeah, I’m interning at a little gallery right now in a city called Barrington near me. I intern with this adorable European lady who is mad for art. Yeah, us Europeans love us some art! Yeah, you’re all so classy, Americans are more “What’s that?!” I also volunteer at the Art Institute of Chicago, because it’s my way of getting my foot in the door, literally. So hopefully when I graduate they’ll be able to see something in me. Q: You also are an artist yourself. Tell me about your personal style. Do you think studying art has given you more of an eye or was that there before you started? A: I have an uncle who is an artist, so my family has always been very creative. I loved colour when I was young. I think studying it has really influenced me to look at certain things. For example, I adore Keith Haring with my entire being. He is by far my favourite artist, and he does so much with a line. It’s through reading him I’ve realised just how important the line is. I can’t draw. Yet I appreciate just how powerful the line can be. So studying artists from different movements has really given me a different way of looking at things and how I then do things. If I didn’t know about impressionism my work, to me, wouldn’t be acceptable. It’s developed me. Q: How do you see yourself progressing? A: It would be nice one day if I could have some of my own work shown in my gallery. I do lots of 156

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Q: How do you feel about what we’ve now come to define as ‘celebrity artists’? A: Someone like Damien Hirst, I have a little bit of an issue with. I think it’s good work but it’s very commercial. Q: So do you think commercialism in art is bad? A: I think it can be good in one way, because it gets an artist known and their work gets shown, they get to leave their mark. But at the same time, I can see it being very negative for the artists, because they’re almost fooling themselves as to who they really are. They know they can make something silly, and someone will pay millions. They might have a true reasoning for it, but when there’s no intent it’s not art, it’s money. And that’s when you lose yourself as an artist and become a puppet for the art world in a way. Art should be for everyone. Q: Which is your favourite piece of art? A: That’s SO hard. I can find one painting in every gallery I love. I adore ‘The Death of Marat’ by Jacques-Louis David, because he captures that in such an amazing way. I can’t pick though. I guess I’ll always have an affinity with Picasso’s ‘The Weeping Woman’ because that was one of the first main paintings I was every introduced to. The first I remember seeing and being wowed. Q: Do you have a personal saying? A: I am the 1%. Because I was part of that whole Wall Street protest thing back in the day. That was my saying.

‘Art should be for everyone’

abstract work. It’s very ‘Gerhard Richter’ in a way. He made me realise that stuff can be shown! Even if it’s just a nice local gallery. I just want to be in the arts, I just love art so much. I want to take that passion to people. Even if it’s through teaching, art is a shared experience for everybody. I’d love to stay within curating, maybe working with under privileged children so even they can share in it. We all do art in some way.

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THE FUTURE OF ELLO, THE NEWEST PLAYER IN SOCIAL NETWORKING words by Grant Holmes

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ocial networks are a bitch to break into.

They’re not only hard to start, but also blighted with problems ensuring they remain relevant. The latest buzz-worthy network to launch is Ello. You might’ve heard of it. You might in fact be jealous of people who are wasting their days on it. That’s because Ello has one key difference that has allowed it to sky rocket to the forefront of popular online sites, that being it’s not an ‘open network’. Users cannot simply sign up, instead having to be referred by a presumably narcissistic friend desperate for your gratitude having sent you a gold-dust invitation code. Ello itself is actually a pretty well put together machine. It’s clear to see from its bareminimum interface that it was designed to be a culmination of the most popular aspects of other social networks. A Twitter and Facebook like feed, coupled with the scroll-ability of Tumblr (which for arguments sake is perhaps

the most addictive and entertaining of all networks lets not lie to ourselves) It’s also pretty darn gorgeous. Pure brilliant white and pure no-fuss black with slick interfaces that might be perhaps too simple for even the most minimalistic of users. The site states that it plans on funding its expansion without any advertising now or in the future, instead preferring to charge users for as yet unnamed premium features that can be purchased for “a very small amount of money” in exchange for lifetime usage. Sounds kinda peachy right? I know from personal experience just how creepy it is having logged onto a website only to be blitzed with advertisers cashing in on your visit for months to come. Data mining is a rife disease on the internet: you can easily be a victim, the government won’t care till someone dies and it’s gaining momentum, with more and more of your perfectly innocent web searches logged every day. Ello however, is in trouble. Recent searches for the network have plummeted and it’s believed that the network is hemorrhaging

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users. And I can relate to them. I don’t know what it is about the site. It should, in theory, be wonderful. No adverts. Simple. Clean. No spammy pages about “Only generation __ kids will get this”. And yet, It just doesn’t grab me. It’s as though the initial thrill of being invited launched me into a frenzied internet spree, spending quite literally a good few hours creating a profile, only to write a single solitary status that will be lost to the ages. The whole exercise just seemed futile. It pains me to admit it, but all the while I just felt like I was wasting my time when I could be on Twitter, or at the very least, writing an awkward status on Facebook that everyone would scroll past. There seems to be an inherent issue with new social networks. Often, the very niche or gimmick they’re founded on is their downfall. Saying that, in Ello’s case all the components were there. It’s surprising Facebook or Apple or maybe even the fiasco that was Google + didn’t try to swoop down and buy it as soon as more than 20 people signed up.

Its failure can be summed in the very act of having to talk to a friend you already have on Facebook to swap details via Facebook so that you can both join and talk to each other about it: via Facebook. The key word being: Facebook. There might be hope yet though. The site is still only in beta with a raft of new features tipped to be in the works and coming within the next few months. It might be critical in ensuring Ello has a fighting chance against the mammoths of the social networking sphere, which is increasingly seeing a shift toward personal based platforms like Tumblr: utterly customisable and open to interpretation on use. Perhaps MySpace was just ahead of the times. Perhaps Ello is behind them. 163

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/PASTE discovers what it’s like to forge new experiences travelling the world and exploring unknown territory in exchange for a less complex lifestyle. We meet Karen who has taken the plunge to share herlife altering experiences words by JENnifer OWEN

You’ve taken a gap year, finished your degree, now landed your ‘dream’ job but you still don’t feel completely satisfied. Sounds familiar? Waking up to the sound of a ringing alarm is something most of us have become accustomed to on a daily basis: the tedious repetitiveness of getting up, going to work, coming home and waiting for the weekend to come and pre-booked holidays to arrive. We attend meetings so lacking in excitement that we lose the will to live. We dive out of the office at lunchtime and force down a Tesco sandwich, rushing back to the office to meet the stern disapproving stare and twin set and pearls of the office supervisor who has never set foot out of the town of her birth. Sure, jobs are vital for survival in today’s society, as depressing as it may sound, but what if you can’t shake the feeling of ‘Is this all 164

there is to my life?’ It’s easy to get caught up in the latest fashions, celebrity gossip and tangle yourself up in the social media web, but many are starting to question what sort of existence this is. We crowd into the underground texting people whilst barely acknowledging the human beings sitting opposite. We check our phones as soon as we wake up like they’re the morning newspaper, we ask siri for answers instead of asking a person and for many, enough is enough. A new generation has materialised with many deciding to drop it all, jump on a plane and live a much simpler, more rewarding lifestyle on the other side of the world. If you have a thirst to explore and broaden your horizons, it’s never been easier to step out in to the unknown and change the way you view the world and your place within it. Whether you choose to travel alone or in part of a group, one thing is for sure - you won’t look back. Karen, from Ireland, decided to do just that and follow her heart on a quest to discover what she really wanted from her life and the most rewarding way to spend it. Having a good graduate job, she started saving immediately with the intention of leaving hastily with nothing more than a backpack and passport. She knew the monotony of day to day life wasn’t for her and decided to do something about it. We caught up with her somewhere in Colorado to see how it’s going so far. Karen explained to /PASTE why she decided to take the plunge and leave the city and country she called home. “I decided to follow my unknown and I haven’t decent job but it wasn’t for the rest of my life. It

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was miserable getting up for work everyday, Karen intends to head to Central America and even the weekends and holidays felt like after Christmas and has no plans to go home it was the same thing over and over again.” any time soon. She is not only soul searching but has learnt to teach yoga after taking a She decided to leave her job, country, family training course in Peru. She can also practice and friends in exchange for a travelling Reiki and Deeksha after taking courses extravaganza. She started last September whilst volunteering at Healing House. She travelling alone through Argentina and made has gained skills, insight, and feels so much her way through Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, more gratitude and appreciation for life than Bolivia and Columbia to name but a few! she did before. Although she misses friends and family, everything else, she has learnt Immediately she felt the weight of the world lift to live without and doesn’t crave her old life from her shoulders and a new sense of calm whatsoever. surrounded her. She was free and enlightened for the first time in her life allowing her to live “I feel an inner peace now that I’ve never by her own schedule even staying at places experienced before. Special occasions for unplanned lengths of time doing volunteer usually involve a shared meal, either at a fancy work learning along the way. restaurant or cooked among friends. Both at Christmas and New Years for example, I “I’ve been to so many incredible places it’s shared dinner with about 30 people at Healing difficult to pick just one. From the whole trip House. I just want to keep on doing this for as so far, probably Cusco in Peru as I spent long as I can” almost 5 months of my time there. I didn’t intend on staying so long but there was and It’s easy to see the pull of travel by enriching still is something so enchanting about Cusco. yourself with new experiences and meeting During the time I was there I volunteered at lifelong friends along the way. The stresses ‘Healing House’, which became my home and of day to day life can sometimes get on top a place where I never stopped learning.” of us but you are in control of your own lifedo something about it and change the course Not only is Karen getting to explore the world, of your life by discovering who you really are. she is learning so much about inner peace and Karen has set an inspiring example of what is even says she has reawakened her inner spirit possible at this key stage of your life. Break through different forms of meditation. She free from boring convention and discover recalls one experience being particularly mind something about the world and yourself. blowing where she claims to have gained a whole new insight in to her life using the plant If any of this appeals to you, remember to plan medicine ‘Ayahuasca’- a psychoactive brew carefully when setting out, research different used by the Shamans of the Amazon. Along routes and places to stay, and most of allthe way, she had met lots of people all doing keep an open mind! the same thing as her with plenty of solo travellers from all over the world. You can find information on Healing House at healinghousecusco.com. “Everyday can be completely different, which I love. When I can, I’ll get up early to meditate and do yoga, but the rest of the day could be anything. If I’m on the move I might spend the day sightseeing or out in nature, other days I could be travelling on a bus for 24 hours, it all depends. Whatever I’m doing I’m usually sharing it with the people I meet along the way.”

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