COUNTER CULTURE
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COUNTER CULTURE BY ROBERT MAROHN
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COUNTER CULTURE A counterculture is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of conventional society, often in opposition to conventional cultural mores.
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CONTENTS NICHOLAS MCDONOUGH LANGSTON ALLSTON DALLAS ETZEL ROBERT MAROHN KATRINA TARZAIN CRYSTAL ZAPATA EVAN BROWN
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NICHOLAS MCDONOUGH
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NICOLAS JOHN MCDONOUGH Pilsen, Chicago University of Illinois at Chicago UIC Contax T3 / Contax G1 / Yashica T4
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LANGSTON ALLSTON Urbana, Illinois University of Illinois UIUC BFA Painting / 2014
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I use my work as a narrative tool – a way to draw connections between disparate environments. I’ve found myself falling through the United States pursuing stories and relationships that make up the layered images of the canvases, and the vibrant figures in my murals. Exploring the myriad of bizarre and different ways people make a life in this country has shaped my perspective, shifting my attitude about making murals and paintings from a didactic posture to a communicative one. As a student at the University of Illinois I learned from students in the Juvenile Detention Center, and local schools. I worked with the school to produce murals at community centers and libraries in the surrounding cities, from Decatur to East St. Louis, I understood my art to be a force with which to educate and inspire. While I still feel a strong commitment to both beautification and education, my nomadic life has presented me with situations that have challenged and complicated that outlook. Witnessing heart-wrenching brutality by police in the streets of St. Louis and the growth of a nationwide movement from that spark, taught me the power marginalized voices can have - once there is a platform to speak from. I realized that my work was not to tell other peoples stories for them, or to inform people about a more moral and equitable way to live. Instead it had to serve as part of a conversation within the community that hosted it, and perhaps to amplify those conversations. In grappling with this idea my small scale work has become more complicated. Through it I am able to reflect on the adventures that unfold as I travel and to unpack the often uncomfortable or foreign circumstances I fall into. I build up layers of diverse images, some lifted from art history, others from bars buried in the New Mexico desert, and marijuana farms on barren Oregon mountain tops. Over the past two years I have collided with absurd and intense worlds, and all of those images vie for visibility in my dense layered surfaces. I move through paintings and murals with a fluid freestyle momentum, grounded in communication with the people around me. The images and ideas of my mentors (from Tupac to Klimt, Jack Kirby to Caravaggio) allow me the critical history to put communication into image, and to explore new conversations. Langston Allston 2015 ISSUE 001
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Langston Allston is a 24-year-old artist from Urbana, Illinois. He’s been traveling the country, creating murals and paintings everywhere and building upon the layers of ideas and experiences of the communities that host him.
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Went from wiping my butt with rocks and leaves in the woods for a couple weeks to wiping my butt with a used mummy Halloween costume. Life is exciting. Dallas Etzel November 23, 2015
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How to
THUMBGUN The correct steps and procedures it takes to pop open the bottom of a beer can with your thumb.
Designed and Depicted by:
ROBERT MAROHN
Step 1
SYNTHESIZE AND ALIGN
SYNTHESIZE In order to get the best results, you must combine these important factors. These factors start with the structure and overall design of the can. The point of contact circled is where an airbubble emerges once you dip the can for the pop, thus creating the most pressure. The pressure comes from the carbonation and change in empty space within the can. Just like opening up a soda pop after shaking there’s pressure.
ALIGN Now once you have this point where the most pressure is found, align your hand, directly to the side of that said spot. Familiarize yourself with this spot because your hand should be landing on it everytime you approach the can. Alas, after knowing where to put your thumb, you will then learn the proper hand placement during a thumb gun.
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APPROACH
APPROACH The most formal and appropriate way to hold the beercan while preforming a thumbgun is a lot like an action that is done on a daily basis. Approach the beercan like a hand that you are about to shakewhether it be for a meeting, a deal, or any kind of agreement, greet the beer with a warm embrace. Everyone likes to pride themselves on their confident handshake, but be forwarned- you do not need a firm grip on this step, champ.
If you need help with this step, practice embracing a colleague, homie, or peer. Once you feel that you are confident with the gesture, move on to the beercan. Make sure that when you hold it for the first time that it is at the same contrasting angle that another persons hand is at towards yours when you are shaking. After you have this position -DO NOT- wave the beer around to show off. This can affect the final results.
Step 3
DROP AND POP
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POP
In order to get the best results, you must combine these important factors. These factors start with the structure and overall design of the can. The point of contact circled is where an airbubble emerges once you dip the can for the pop, thus creating the most pressure. The pressure comes from the carbonation and change in empty space within the can. Just like opening up a soda pop after shaking there’s pressure.
The trajectory of your beer will pass an upright 90 degree angle, and follow through all the way passed a 180 degree line parrallel to the ground you are on. Once your hand and beer-can land on or just pass that 180 degree line, thrust your thumb through can as if you are trying to touch your palm on the other side of the beer can. -NOTE- this force and pressure is only coming through your thumb and not the rest of your hand. This can get sloppy or just not work at all.
Specs
FIELD NOTES
NAIL LENGTH As much as some claim that it may help- the fingernail length on your thumb that you are using to make the hole on the beer can does not matter. It may help to have a longer nail if you are more worried on condensed impact, but like most things in life -size doesn’t matter-. If you happen to have a longer nail- hey that’s awesome. Don’t worry about it if you don’t have that length, because all the real thumb-gunning borachos do not depend on that factor.
WATCH YOUR MOUTH Now that you may or may not know how to thumb gun, be aware of what you are doing. If you have a strong firm grip or use a little too much force, you will probably create a sloppy dangerous hole. The torn aluminum of the can take a hold of your lip while shooting the beer, so be cautious for where you are placing that yapper.
RESPECT With great power comes great responsibility. Know that when you explode a beer in the middle of a party, bar, or library, not everyone is going to be as hyped as you are. Don’t be a chad or a kyle and yell after- just like after you land a trick, don’t throw your hands up. Be classy. Compose yourself. Use this skill to help others, to expand minds, and mainly have a good time. Or just be a fuckboy idk.
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Katrina Tarzain is not only a gorgeous, interesting, most original, she-devil-child artist, but she is also a dear friend. She has been managing the band: ‘Hurt Everybody’ since November of 2014, and is still with them to this day. Before that she started as an intern for DO-312, the Chicago branch of Do Stuff Media. Katrina still curently works there as Photo Coordinator and is about the most outgoing person created in the our generation. Anybody who has met this creature before knows of her aura, and can all concur that it is a blessing to have her on this planet.
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CRYSTAL ZAPATA Chicago, Illinois Columbia College Chicago BFA Graphic Design / 2016
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Crystal Zapata is an artist and designer pursuing her BFA in Graphic Design. This body of work was created in the summer of 2015, during which she spent the majority of her time in an office building working as a designer. Spending upwards of eight hours on the computer per day, Crystal sought a physical and visual departure from her daily work routine. While the objects depicted in this work are still in the lexicon of commercial design, they are re-rendered as tactile and textural 2-dimensional objects through simple one to two hour studies. The familiarity of these objects is unthreatening, thus an opportunity to create work in a disparate but comfortable medium.
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