Le nice issue 2 by Le Nice Magazine

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Contents FlashBack let us take you back...

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Quiz Review - Hounds of Love Fashion Photo feature

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People your compendium of your fellow earthlings.

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The Dreamers Poetry Profile - Maya Deren Writing

Poetry Dream art and playlist Golem: The Production with Absolutely Everything

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Places landscapes, exteriors, interiors, cities, towns - we pack all the places 21-28 into one...er...place.

All about Dreamland Photo feature

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Poetry Dream art Poetry

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Flashforward it’s all guesswork but let’s have a look at it anyway.

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What Ever Happened to the Teenage Dream? Can dreams predict the future? (& quiz answers!)

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One last playlist

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A note from the editor...

ell well well,

here we are, the second issue of Le Nice, finally. It’s taken quite some time getting round to it, for one boring reason and another. Such reasons are not the stuff of magazine editors’ notes, though, so onwards and upwards to my little summation of what you can expect in this issue.

who contributed, in any big or small way. Thank you to anyone who’s offered various bits of reassurance and encouragement along the way, assuring me that this is worth doing - it has been worth doing, it’s pretty natty, actually. Pretty ace. It remains only to thank you, the glorious and always appreciated reader, because there is no point in doing this without a potential reader in mind. It might be a great way to wile away the lonely nights, sure, but that’s tangential. Here’s hoping you enjoy reading and perusing the great work of my talented contributors.

It wouldn’t be Le Nice without a little garishness and so for that we’ve dipped into the year 1985 for the FlashBack section - and it rears its beautiful head again in the FlashForward section, of course. Finally, look out for a puzzle or quix or two dotted around this issue, because what else do you read magazines for? You’ve made a good choice We’ve had some brilliant in reading this one, anyway. poetry submitted for this issue, unsurprisingly since the In the last issue I thanked just theme is dreams. Dreams about everyone who popped have been the cannon fodder into my head in my sleep-deof poets since the beginning prived, crazed state. Hilariof time, because what better ous as it was, lightning nevway to let your imagination er strikes in the same place run free than to write as if twice and it just wouldn’t you’re having a dream? Some have the same banterous ef- ----------------------------------amazing photos and artwork fect were I to reproduce the in this issue, too, and a few list here. But I must pay my Victoria C. Roskams interesting articles which may dues to those who deserve it, take your fancy. naturally, and thank everyone

Credits April 2015 ~ Le Nice ~ editor: Victoria C. Roskams. Le Nice title design: Jones B. Photo credit throughout (excluding original artwork): flickr, unless stated on image

mine Wilkins; Dulcie Ghost; Contributions from: Chloe Jasmin Bishop; Tilly FoulForsting; Moomintroll & kes; Rohini Vatish; Roisin Rozzie Mothgirl; Piper McCann; and one or two Moreau; Solo Curtis; Jas- from Victoria C. Roskams. itself.

NO ADVERT ZONE Le Nice is proud to present to you zero adverts whatsoever. No tiresome glossy pictures of products you’re pretty unconcerned by. No sir. Here at Le Nice the only things we like to advertise are ourselves. So on that note, look out for some shameless self-promotion at some point as you trawl the magazine.

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QUIZ Because who doesn’t like to test their knowledge of a year they didn’t even live through eh? Answers revealed in the FlashForward section. 1. On April 7, which classic 80s pop duo became the first pop group from the West to perform in China? 2. The documentary series 28 Up returned to the BBC this year, catching up with the kids whose lives were being documented every 7 years, who were now adults aged 28. If the show began as Seven Up, what year was it first broadcast? 3. Which film studio was founded in Tokyo on June 15? 4. On July 4 Ruth Lawrence became the youngest known graduate of Oxford University, graduating with a maths degree at what age? 5. The video for ‘Take On Me’ made waves this year for its mix of pencil-sketch animation and live action. But what country did the band A-ha come from? 6. Live Aid was the big musical event of the year, broadcast simultaneously in London at the Wembley stadium and across the Atlantic in which United States city? 7. October 10 saw the death of which film director, voted the greatest of all time in more than one British Film Institute poll? 8. What was the only single released from the original edition of The Smiths’ Meat is Murder, released in February of this year? 9. Which famous television personality made her film debut in The Color Purple, released in December of this year? 10. Another famous television presenter, on July 13, personally f lew Phil Collins to Heathrow Airport in his helicopter, to catch a f light on the Concorde so that Collins could perform at the other Live Aid gig, having already performed in London (yes, really). On the f light, Collins encounterted Cher, who claimed to have no knowledge of the Live Aid concerts, before subsequently taking part in the final performance at the American gig, but that’s beside the point – who was the British television presenter?

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HOUNDS OF LOVE loses no bark nor bite after 30 years...Victoria C. Roskams sits back and listens What

to say about an album

which, back in September

1985, Madonna’s Like A from the number 1

knocked

Virgin spot? Any of my most trusted

intimates will know I love a litle groove to the title track or to ‘Material Girl’, and in the true spirit the media has of pitting female artists against one another, surely I could comment on the differences between the two – the brilliance of one album rather than the other, the sexiness of one singer rather than the other, the lasting impact of one now-fifty-plus woman rather than the other. But no. My only point of comparison would be the similarities – what jams there are on both albums! The cool cats of 1985 must have been bopping non-stop all year. Of course, there’s no point pretending that Hounds of Love is a non-stop party album. The second half is a concept section called ‘The Ninth Wave’ and while undoubtedly someone out there would give it a shot on the dancefloor, it is, shall we say, a touch too sedate for most toe-tappers. But the great thing about this album is that it has a double-edged impact; it includes tracks you can put on while dusting the furniture and happily jump around to, as well as tracks that absolutely insist upon you sitting down and just listening. And with the latter type, there’s always something different hidden under that surface, something different which jumps out at you each time you listen, and that, coupled

with the timeless nature of the album’s hits, is what makes Hounds of Love, thirty years after its release, a bitingly brilliant album. Here’s how Bush conceptualised ‘The Ninth Wave’: “a person who is alone in the water for the night. It’s about their past, present and future coming to keep them awake, to stop them drowning, to stop them going to sleep until the morning comes”. Bear that in mind, that notion of being frozen, and then think of the sheer vitality of the tracks that are not included in ‘The Ninth Wave’ (that’s the five tracks before ‘And Dream of Sheep’). There’s something relentless about ‘Running Up That Hill’ with its tireless passion, or ‘The Big Sky’ with its wide-eyed childishness and incessant drums. Trademark Kate is present in the yelps and gasps which abound. It’s never what you’d call ‘normal’, with the title track utilising barking dog vocals as a kind of refrain, but it’s full of life, a life which then gets suspended in the second half, not in a clearcut ‘lively/dull’ or ‘happy/ sad’ dichotomy, but there’s a definite change after the ice-thawing optimism of ‘Cloudbusting’ (a track which quite amazingly opens the heavens and pours light on the album as a whole – could there be a more optimistic lyric than ‘I just know that something good is gonna happen’?) I don’t need to come up with my own words to describe tracks like ‘Hounds of

Love’, so many others have done it before me, people who were actually there in 1985, feeling its impact for the first time, growing up with music so full of passion and fear, so frantic, with such conflicting hope and cowardice (I can’t remember which talking head on the BBC’s Running Up That Hill: The Kate Bush Story remarked how brave the lyric ‘I’ve always been a coward’ is, how bold and surprising it is for a young woman to sing that, but I totally agree). Can you think of another album where only one half is a concept album, and the other half is just a ‘normal’ album (to whatever extent)? There was always going to be the danger that the first half would just be solid tunes, and the second half would be completely different, developing its own separate ideas through several tracks all

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in the same vein. But the album have addled your brain and made es surrounding you – and then, at feels cyclical, rather than divided. you decide that 5-minute sax solo the crucial moment in ‘Under Ice’, The closing track, ‘Morning Fog’, was musical genius – not faced the solitary Bush wails, through brings us back to the spirit of the with your fans’ stunned expres- everything else, ‘it’s meeeeeeeeee’. album’s first half, the optimism of sions, you are basically free to pro- There are chilling vocals on ‘Helthe pretty guitar line and the typ- duce whatever idea is in your head. lo Earth’ too, muted, Gregorian ical cooing vocals (I also couldn’t And artistic freedom isn’t moans filling the suspended place forgive myself, as a bassist, for the only good reason to make a between Bush’s high-register vomentioning this track without concept album or section, so there cals, the former undoubtedly a commenting on its bassline, an id- must be something else in this. The reference point for certain moaiosyncratic, mannered voice that pop mold is a good one, but mu- ny Yorke parts on Radiohead’s In crawls around under everything sical geniuses with ideas bursting Rainbows. Sustained, atmospherelse going on). Also, although some out of their ears generally break ic chords abound, but it’s not all of the first half ’s vitality seems out of it, and I suppose with Kate slow and boring – just when you to be lost in the freezing second (not that she ever made straight- think you’ve got the measure of half, it’s hardly subdued, and the forward pop, mind) the idea was to how ‘Waking The Witch’ goes, the aforementioned chaos is present test her limits, to explore what she tone completely changes, it’s sinin ‘Jig of Life’’s incessant fiddling, could create and what feelings or ister, it’s electronic, it’s sneering. and the warped, reversed That’s why you should vocals in ‘Waking The “Why bother exploring things when care about the concept secWitch’ and ‘Hello Earth’. you’ve got the perfect unit-shifter tion, not just the hits, which I must confess I if you have any sense, you’ll formula laid down already?” didn’t, on first listen, see like immediately. The conthe value of the concept cept tracks bring new sursection (since I’m still convinced situations she could invoke, sim- prises with each listen – even when it takes tremendous effort to move ply because it’s interesting to do so. you come to expect the change of beyond being simply a casual Kate It is interesting – I don’t pace in ‘Waking The Witch’, you Bush fan). With the singles (‘Run- know if it’s just because my ses- can still be hit by different sounds ning Up That Hill’, ‘Hounds of sions of relistening to the album jumping out anew each time you Love’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘The Big took place on a wintry January listen. It wasn’t until I sat and lisSky’), Bush proved, yet again, that morning, but the concept section tened properly that I noticed the she can write great pop music – so feels chilly, effectively evocative of trains whistling in ‘And Dream of why shy away from that, and go all the icy water that Bush described Sheep’ and ‘Under Ice’, and then conceptual-like? Why bother ex- in the album’s briefing. A fireside re-noticed the same effect at the ploring things when you’ve got crackle simmers throughout ‘And end of ‘Cloudbusting’; or that the the perfect unit-shifter formu- Dream of Sheep’, a track whose characteristic fiddle of ‘Jig of Life’ la laid down already? Well, simple piano/vocal arrangement slips into ‘Hello Earth’ too. It’s not one answer is that by this recalls tracks such as ‘Feel It’ on a collection of strange, inaccessitime, Bush was no longer The Kick Inside, tracks which ooze ble tracks, stranded from the big performing live shows, and raw musical talent. ‘Under Ice’ hits and from each other. They’re if the Beatles’ later years is as frosty as you’d expect, and linked by themes and sounds and proved anything it was that the vocal effects in this track and sensations. Want to tap your foot stopping touring gives the ‘Waking The Witch’, which enacts along and fist-grab? Put on the first artist greater freedom. No its title with various voices whis- section. Want to turn off the lights worries about how the arrange- pering ‘wake up’ at the beginning, and freak yourself out by surroundment will work live, whether can create a mob-like feel; as with ing yourself with odd sounds? Put the crowd will jam to your stu- other songs of hers, the vocal lines on the whole thing, but rememdio ramblings as much as you did layer up and up until you feel you ber, whispers Kate: sit and listen. after hours of gruelling sessions have a whole gang of Kate Bush-

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Left: ‘Celebrating italy’, Vogue US, Septemeber 1985. Photographer: Eric Boman. Model: Isabella Rossellini.

Right: Vogue US, No-

1985. Photgrapher: Sheila Metzner. Model: Brooke Shields. vember

Above: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Stunning jolts of vivacious pink and stunning lime green that make these boxy tops and loose-legged jeans spring to lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Seventeen Magazine, January 1985.

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Above: Stickers with creative 80s ways to tell people to shove it.

Below: Reebok ad, Seventeen magazine,

April 1985.

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Dearly Departed This goes out to everyone who left this earth in 1985. Photos by Moomintroll & Rozzie Mothgirl.

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Above: Stage Makeup (Eighth Edition) by Richard Corson. Published by Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990.

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PEOPLE The • Dreamers

• Matthew • Isabelle Théo (not pictured)

these people are dreamers; they live inside films; in this film, they inhabit only their house; the personality of one bounces off the other; as if in a dream, identity is wobbly, jellylike, changeable, Matthew is formed by Théo and Isabelle; who forms us? Who do we dream of being?

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Ro a d s

She has an architecture that does not know what to do with itself when she is asleep so it builds itself a world and puts her in the middle and dares her to find a way out. She dreams of shopping malls. She dreams of department stores. She dreams of downtowns and the flights between like a nexus, one complex, one ideal for living, one house for her and a million others with all the atriums and grand hallways like a catacomb of the deep soul or a labyrinth to traverse and never solve because all there is to do is find her way making tracks like a lost child anxious for a miracle encounter in a marble museum lobby, on an impossible street corner, in school corridors twisted and packed like the depths of Hell. She buys nothing in her dreams. She steals and she makes do. She loses and gains with no change made. She floats, frictionless and finicky. She slips on concrete and loses keys to classrooms. She is the cars on the highways at night out in the sticks where all the dealerships are empty of wares, just architecture rendered statuesque. She has suburbs all waiting to be filled and roads through pine forests lined with houses for the lonely families. She seeks out the shadows of people she loves for a chance at a happy ending and it is always an accident when she finds them, and they turn toward her in the parking lot of a video store and become full of color and smile and let her into their arms.

Chloe Forsting

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Maya Deren Piper Moreau gives us the lowdown on the dreamy director Deren.

Deren's first film, you think of done in collaboration with dreamlike films, Da- her then-partner Alexanvid Lynch is the first der Hammid, was 1943's thing that comes to Meshes of the Afmost peoples' minds.

1944. Deren washes up on a beach and, like Alice down the rabbit hole, finds herself in a room crawling down a long dining table, past businessmen smoking ternoon (see shots be- and looking at her nonchaI love David Lynch, but like low). The atmosphere is lantly. At its end is a chessmany, many artists, he was immediately strange - shot board, and she looks up into preceded and influenced in silent, stark black and the camera as if to ask us by other filmmakers. One white, the camera shifts what move she should play. of them was Maya Deren. abruptly between first and Born to Jewish parents in third person, panning warUkraine in 1917, she studily around through increas- Her next few films ied journalism and literaingly bizarre and frenzied were far shorter and mainture before moving to New cycles of the same actions. ly concerned with showing York City. For years she This is certainly a film you different film techniques would become a fixture of will need to watch two or she made use of. Her comits emigrĂŠ arts scene, who three or more times to try bination of painstakingdespised Hollywood's moand get your head around. ly edited jump cuts and nopoly of American media. speeding up and slowing She was a staunch Socialdown the film was nearist, active in many demonThis was followed by ly unheard of at the time. strations around the city. At Land, shot over the course of the summer of hen

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Deren spent the lat- every shot meticulously dane. Nearly all her work is ter half of the 1940s composed. The preoccupa- available on YouTube and I and onward travel- tion with simple objects and highly recommend it. Her ling and giving lectures on dance, film theory, and writing. She spent months in Haiti, extensively filming and photographing Voodoo rituals and the local culture. This would be compiled into a documentary

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. posthumously,

Deren's films are short,

the repetition of shots or actions forcing us to agonise about their possible significance. Deren was critical of Hollywood extravagance and its creative constraints to prioritise profit, making her films on a shoestring budget and as independently as possible. Her medium was the world at its most otherworldly and the ordinary at its most extraordinary; small looks into the unexplainable existing alongside the mun-

essays on film theory - Film Poetics, Film Production, Film in Media Res, and An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film - have also been published, and are worth a read for anyone interested in avant-garde cinema, especially from a feminist perspective.

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“You know…You know I just can’t get you out of my head, you’re like a bullet stuck in my skull – I started writing a novel the other day, guess who was the main character? It was you, obviously, it’s always you, under a false name but it was still you, tall and thin and stupidly handsome. I love the night, for it is the only time I can be with you – you always leave when I wake up though, this is the curse of dreams that never last once one has opened one’s eyes. This is all so crazy and hopeless. I know you will never be mine, I know it, but as they say, le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ignore, isn’t it? And what a shame it is, that one can’t function properly in terms of love, that one is always blinded by one’s fantasies and hopes and – oh, the list is too long. But lovers are all the same, misinterpreting tiny details no one else would notice, I am not the exception that proves the rule. In terms of misinterpreting, I even deserve a crown, a big heavy crown of thorns. The Queen of Idiocy, in love with a boy whose name is that of a king… What a fool I’ve been, thinking you were staring at me when you were staring at him! But he doesn’t love you, you know? He doesn’t love you and given a chance he’d call you a faggot and spit in your eye. Then again, the heart and its reasons… Please forgive me for being so honest, but that’s the main purpose of dreams, isn’t it? Do what you want and be what you want. And I have so little time left to be myself… The alarm clock will go off in 5… 4… 3… 2… Goodbye… ”

by Solo Curtis

Crossword Can you solve the puzzle? Look out for the answers later in the magazine.

Across 1. The magazine you are currently reading. (6) 3. A repository for powders, particles, dust, often ashes. (3) 4. Damage inflicted by a bee or wasp. (5)

Down

1. The opposite of short. (4) 2. Delicious traditional accompaniment to a cup of tea. (7)

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Above: ‘Nightmares By The Sea’ by Dulcie Ghost.

Playlist of Dreams A playlist of songs that I listened to so excessively that they entered my subconscious and gave me some wild dreams!

Nightmares By The Sea – Jeff Buckley

This one inspired a rather wonderful dream which triggered my creative side (several attempts at paintings re-creating the experience). Jeff boasts, “I’ve had so many loves and I’ve drowned them all”. These spurned and murdered lovers are understandably incensed: “From the coral graves they rise up when darkness falls. With their bones they’ll scratch the windows, I hear them call”. After a week listening to little else but this, I had a dream that I myself was one of these ill-fated romantic interests, sinking to the ocean floor, drowned. But I was somehow still alive and lay there silently in the sandy mud, getting tangled in seaweed. I also had an endless supply of pearls spilling out of my mouth and I looked up the symbolism of this when I woke up and discovered that there’s a Chinese tradition of putting a pearl in the mouths of the dead as they are a symbol of immortality. So it turns out my subconscious is quite the knowledgeable fellow.

London Loves – Blur

Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and I were taking a night-time stroll by the River Taff in Cardiff central but wait! We’re no longer in Cardiff, this is London, and we’re break-dancing on the banks of the Thames.

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In And Out Of Sight – The Horrors

This song makes me feel slightly uneasy, like some sleaze is stalking me down a damp alley on my way home. This feeling lingered with me, and for several weeks I had a recurring dream set in the 1800s. I was locked in a wood-panelled room in full-skirted Victorian attire, and every now and then a smart gentleman would open a door, peek out from behind it, and roll marbles at me. To my sleeping mind this was dark and sexually sinister but upon waking I could not fathom why. Turned out this Victorian gent was none other than Tom Furse, Horrors synthesist.

Stay – Bernard Butler

Bernard and I were walking through Greenwich Park, several leashes in our hands and several cats on these leashes. We sat down on a bench, the cats crawled all over us, we chatted and I decided I would like to live every day like that one. Admittedly this dream has little to do with the song itself, and more to do with the fact that I was thinking about Bernard Butler a lot after having acquired Stay for a nifty £3.00.

Dulcie Ghost

Below: ‘Sleepwalking’ by Dulcie Ghost.

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other dozen times. The repetitiveness of all the actions mimics modern day life, the characeven the slightest ters all had a certain idea of how my year charm that left you was going to pan out rooting for them and how I was going the whole way. to get from where I May I add quickwas to where I want ly as a side note, to be, all in a mat by Jasmin Bishop that the entire cast ter of mere months. bar one actor was Throughout Novemcompletely female? ber and December The main protagoa journey that took you I saw a number of different pieces of theatre through this eccentric nist, though the character and performance art that yet recognisable world. was a man, was played by a woman and even the direally opened my eyes to how theatre can go from The plot itself consisted rector/writer of the piece certain conventions to of a man and his gadget, was female. Just another the absolute extremes in the gadget being a 6ft way 1927 is sticking it to making audiences feel a tall clay man who obeyed the man and making those certain way. I saw four dif- every single command its middle class, heterosexual ferent pieces of theatre, all master told it to. As the white men at the top of of them at different loca- story progresses we see so many theatres feel untions but none of them re- Golem update to the next easy. Golem is recipe for ally intrigued me as much model, and then the next utter brilliance and gives as a piece I saw in Janu- model and so on and so me hope for more equaliary, simply named Golem. forth. This idea of updat- ty in theatre in the hopeing and wanting to get the fully near future. Every Created by the theatre next model was something aspect of Golem loveable troupe '1927', Golem is a of a sly dig in my eyes, at and through its seemingvisual masterpiece inter- a gadget we are all so in- ly quirky nature, Golem twining animation, live vested in so much of the expresses its anti-capitalperformance and music time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the smart phone. ist message with genius to such an extent that The message was drilled and leaves you captivated audiences will be mes- into you and flashed in big from the very beginning merised and bewildered red letters from the start. to the moment it ends. throughout the entire Though the plot may have You can find out more performance. The eerie been done a thousand about 1927 via their animations coincided ef- times before, no one has twitter: fortlessly with the plot and ever quite done it like this @1927productions every single movement and to such an extent that or their website: on screen or on stage was it leaves you wanting to www.19-27.co.uk a stunning whirlwind of see the performance an-

Being a first year Drama, Theatre and Performance student, I had not

Golem:

The proudction with absolutely everything

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i broke when you kissed me, shattered like the cathedral window. you pierced my neck with your icy vampiric aura. i was left bruisesd and soft, like an old rotten apple. you tasted sour, but i don’t scare too easily. very slowly, you cracked my crooked heart. i’m worse off than ever.

by Tilly Foulkes

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Places

Jon Buckley Typographics

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Above: April Greimanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment, from Freestyle,

1986.

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Entrance to Dreamland. The idea was for Dreamland to have refined archiecture, compared to the noise and chaos of the nearby Luna Park. Fighting the Flames, an amusement which allegedly had 4,000 people working on it, reenacting the work of firefighters by setting a building on fire and putting it out as onlookers watched from a nearby amiptheatre.

Dreaml

Amuseme

Coney

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compiled by Victoria C. Roskams - images taken from http://stuffnobodycaresabout. com/2013/12/16/old-new-york-in-postcards-7-dreamland-coney-island-part-1/

land

ent Park

y Island

Dreamland was in 1903 and was

built in use

until it was destroyed by fire in

1911.

It really was the stuff of dreams, with reportedly one million electric bulbs lighting the place up (quite a novelty at the time - and four times more lightbulbs than the rival park nearby in Coney Island, Luna Park). Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something dreamy about old amusement parks, destroyed ones, abandoned ones, something dreamy about seeing how they used to look. What is Dreamland now? Well, the site is now the New York Aquarium. Maybe not so ambitious as Dreamland, but probably a bit more safe.

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Hell Gate, an amusement ride in which you rode through dark caverns in a little boat. The irony of Hell Gate, as well as the Fighting Flames exhibit, was that a fire destroyed the whole park. What’s more, the fire started - where else? - in Hell Gate, whose entrance was lined with many lightbulbs.

Some of Dreamland’s attractions included an imitation Swiss alpine railway; an imitation Venetian gondola ride; lion-taming by the one-armed Captain Jack Bonavita; the famous Broadway actress Marie Dressler manning the peanut-and-popcorn stands; Shoot-theChute, essentially an early version of the modern water flume; a display of triplet babies in incubators; and, something we would consider quite awful today, a circus of ‘freaks’ or people with physical deformities.

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“I was walking again in Dreamland and a man was walking above me on a tightrope and above him a man was sitting in an airplane spelling letters of smoke in the sky.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn An electrical malfunction at 1:30am on May 27, 1911, led the lightbulbs to explode around Hell Gate, and subsequently the whole park caught fire. No humans died but, despite Captain Bonavita’s efforts to save his big cats, about 60 animals died. The fire was out by the morning, but the insurance was so meagre that it was deemed pointless to try and re-open the park.

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by Rohini Vatish See more at https://www.flickr. com/photos/rvatish/

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“These photos are of Jackson, one of my cats. He always seems like he’s dreaming about something. The gigantic cloud is made out of synthetic cotton and newspaper.” --------------------------

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D etriment S ign An imagined anger, fresh and wildly bright upon your face. Proof that he can be stirred. A sea-water tear, pure and opal in the light; The leaking dam of a soft man. Land and ocean, quarrel like lovers. The goat and the crab, and their emotional possession of the virgin. In love, am I still ill? Am I still ill? Am I still ill?

Student reward stickers from Highlights magazine, 1987 (via Jason Liebig on flickr)

“A poem about a dream I had. Morrissey was in it, singing ‘Still Ill’.”

by Jasmine Wilkins

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fantasy fantasie

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phantasia

imaginative faculty, mental image an idea, notion, image, a making visible

imagination unrestricted by reality

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an involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake

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a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep

dream

by Roisin McCann

(all page

artwork on this

previous page)

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by Piper Moreau

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Pssst......

Here are those crossword answers... but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell anyone.

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Where will we be in 30 years? In 300 years? Why all these questions? Well - is there anything about the future we can be sure of? Other than death, taxes, and memes? Here at FlashForward weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to answer precisely zero of your questions. Enjoy.

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What ever happened to the

Teenage Dream? You saw the stars of 1985 way back in our FlashBack - but where are they now?

After several days off, here’s Matthew Broderick, of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off fame (released in the UK in 1987). He was 23 when he played highschool student Bueller. Now 53, he’s married to Sarah Jessica Parker. He was involved in a rather suspect car crash in 1987, resulting in the death of two people. His appearance in a Honda commerical in 2012 was perhaps not the best choice.

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In younger, more rebellious days: Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall, bonding over mutual lawlessness in The Breakfast Club (UK release 1985). Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve mostly stuck to acting since then, although as they say in the business, some gigs are bigger than others.

Estevez is a close friend of Jon Bon Jovi and has appeared in two of Bon Joviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music videos. Hall diversified his roles to avoid being typecast as a geek, then played Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley, a TV film, in 1999. Nelson has become the author of four Kindle-only books. Sheedy has also written books, and weirdly enough,

dated Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora. Ringwald (pictured left) was a teen icon throughout the 80s, then turned down lead roles in Pretty Woman and Ghost, but has continued acting as well as releasing a jazz record and writing an advice column for The Guardian newspaper.

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A teen star of the late 80s was Winona Ryder, who rose to fame in the dark comedy Heathers (released in 1989 in the UK). Her fame somewhat outlasted that of the three Heathers, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, and Kim Walker. Ryder went on to star in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990), with

her fiancé and the other half of the dream couple, Johnny Depp. The pair were together until 1993, when the breakup rendered Depp’s ‘Winona Forever’ tattoo somewhat sheepish. Swings and roundabouts have abounded since then: continued film success and

Golden Globe and Oscar nominations on one hand, shoplifting prosecution on the other. She has also been open about her struggles with anxiety and depression. Rumours of a sequel to Heathers continue to abound.

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Can

dreams

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predict the future?

Here’s something weird: two weeks before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, he had a dream in which he was viewing a funeral, and when he enquired whose it was, he was told “The President of the United States.”

Was he predicting his own future? Can dreams really open us up to our sixth sense? In the past, many people believed in oracles, which are a kind of dream vision, often a warning about the future. Nowadays the fancy scientific types refer to precognitive dreams, that is, dreams containing knowledge outside of our awareness or cognisance. Quotes, often misattributed, abound about how the best way to tell your future is to create it - take your life into your own hands, and all that. But in sleepy dreams, where we have little or no control over what happens, couldn’t it be possible that we involuntarily see things that could happen to us? Well, sadly, lots of people have proved that anything we see while asleep, which then happens in waking reality, is simply a coincidence. Aristotle’s reasoning behind this was that, if God wanted to give access to the future through dreams, he’d only give it to the coolest, nicest people; and as it was, there were tons of commoners having these supposedly predictive dreams. And that didn’t sit tight with stuffy Aristotle, so he cried “Coincidence!” Another example is the Titanic sinking - hundreds of people reported, after the event, having had precognitive dreams about a sinking ship. But with over 6.5 billion people on the planet having on average 5 dreams per night, the likelihood of multiple people dreaming about something as fairly commonplace as a ship sinking is high. Plus, the Titanic had been all over the world news because of how blooming enormous it was. There’s shared consciousness for you.

QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Wham! 2. 21 years previously, in 1964. 3. Studio Ghibli 4. Thirteen 5. Norway 6. Philadelphia 7. Orson Welles 8. ‘That Joke Isn’t Funny Any More’ 9. Oprah Winfrey 10. Noel Edmonds

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Celia’s Dream Slowdive _ I Don’t Sleep, I Dream R.E.M . _ Dreams The Cranber ries _ We Live As We Dream, Alone Gang Of Four _ And Dream Of Sheep K ate Bush _ All I Have To Do Is Dream The Ever ly Brothers _ A Japanese Dream The Cure _ Dream Captain Deerhunter _ Elegance of an Only Dream Felt _ Dreaming Of You The Coral _ Violent Dreams Cr ystal Castles _ Pinky’s Dream David Lynch; K aren O _ Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams Nico _ Dream Brother Jeff Buckley _ Just Like A Dream Lykke Li _ Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain Sparklehorse _ Nice Dream Radiohead _ Horses In My Dreams PJ Har vey _ Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me The Smiths _ Wildest Dreams Taylor Swif t

one last playlist by Piper Moreau

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