O.K. Periodicals - Issue 4 - Curiosities by Superpulp

CURIOSITIES ISSUE

Inspiring work by established and upcoming creative talent: Design / Photography / Illustration / New Media / Art / Writing & More FEATURING: Ashkan Honarvar, Matthew Green, Liz McGrath, Sarah Applebaum, Hajime Emoto, Jason De Claires Taylor, Matthew Stuart, Laura Joan, Koen Taselaar, Michael Willis, Nives Widauer, Peter Zwaan, Encyclopedia Pictura and many more...

DEAR READER, every issue of O.K. Periodicals has a different theme. And each time when we have to think of a new theme we ask ourselves these questions: Will this be a good one? Can people do something with it in a creative way? Is it clear what we want to explore? But to our surprise we get so many amazing entries every time from all over the world. For this CURIOSITIES issue we really had to make tough choices. There was way too much nice work to show you. For instance the photographs made by Austin Hargrave of people living in tunnels under Las Vegas (page 47). The story about Esmee whose phone number you can find on a toilet door of a gas station inviting you to call her for a blowjob (page 38). Take a good look at the exploded faces made by Ashkan Honarvar (page 104 or, what else to do with candy). We think this issue is a very good cabinet of curiosities with work made by inspiring creative talent! • Thanks to everyone who joined the O.K. REPEAT releaseparty in Berlin. It was a blast! • This issue is released during the first O.K. Festival / 3 days of magazines. Check: www.ok-festival.com • We’re always interested in meeting people who want to collaborate. So feel free to get in touch! wvg

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About us William and Joost run O.K. PARKING, a graphic design studio based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Next to their ‘commercial’ work for clients, they initiate many independent projects. It started with the O.K. Blog (www.ok-blog.nl). An online source of inspiration where a large community of creative professionals publish inspiring articles every day. As a result of this blog they started this independent magazine. Using a team of great editors, opencalls-for-art and crowdsourcing to curate some of the best contemporary projects in the field of design, art, photography, illustration, new media, writing and more. Opposite to the online world this magazine should be a timeless document you can consult for inspiration over and over again.

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â&#x20AC;&#x201C;COMMON KNOWLEDGE This section shows a selection of all kinds of found curiosities, obscure artwork, historical & general facts you should know. They are in some way related to the theme of this issue.

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Jhator or Sky burial was once a common funerary practice in Tibet wherein a human corpse is cut in specific locations and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements and animals – especially to birds of prey. In Tibet the practice is known as jhator which literally means, “giving alms to the birds.” Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Kunstkammer, Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Wonder, or wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world. Besides the most famous, best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe, formed collections that were precursors to museums.

“There’s a real Snow White in the park. Only the real Snow White can dress like this, you can’t.” “Yeah I didn’t think of that… I thought the real Snow White was a drawing.”

Pilvi Takala was banned from entering Disneyland because she was dressed as Snow White. The guards, when explaining why she couldn’t enter, said they didn’t know what she was going to do and it might be ‘something bad’ www.pilvitakala.com

COMMON KNOWLEDGE This Teslatonic Feline Statisizer is part of a collection curated by mr. A.R.M. and his Secret Society of Odd Acquisition www.thessoa.com

Insect Noise in Stored Foodstuffs is an industrial document produced by the 5th International Working Conference On StoredProduct Protection. The CD presents the sound investigation of the French team of Bunsel and Andrieu who used sensitive microphones with narrow frequency responses made to detect and identify the sounds of insect larvae which may be inhabiting otherwise quiet containers of grains and cereals. A handful of examples of the sounds including the grain weevil, the Indian meal moth, and the Lesser mealworm are accompanied by a running narrative both explaining the techniques used and the identification of the insects.

These two bullets, one French and one Russian, supposedly collided in mid-air, back in 1854 during the war in Russia at Crimea peninsula.

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This photo was published by the North Korean government in response to the book The True Character of Kim Jong-il, in which Japanese professor Toshimitsu Shigemura states the North Korean leader is actually dead and has been so since 2003. He claims to have spoken to anonymous witnesses according to whom Kim Jong-il died as a result of his diabetes. This photo shows Kim is alive and obviously a competent leader of the North Korean forces. Although it is a bit strange Kim’s shadow seems to be different from those of his generals. And shouldn’t there be a black line behind the great leader’s legs?

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In the 1940 motion picture Experiments in the Revival of Organisms dr Sergei S. Bryukhonenko shows an experiment in which a dog’s head is kept alive on a primitive heart-lungmachine. The film shows the head responding to touch, sound and taste.

“The artificial blood circulation ensures the metabolism necessary for the life of the head.”

CHINESE CENTURY EGG RECIPE 2 c Tea, very strong black 1/3 c Salt 2 c Ashes of pine wood 2 c Ashes of charcoal 2 c Fireplace ashes 1 c Lime 12 Duck egg, fresh Combine tea, salt, ashes and lime. Using about 1/2 cup per egg, thickly coat each egg completely with this clay-like mixture. Line a large crock with garden soil and carefully lay coated eggs on top. Cover with more soil and place crock in a cool dark place. Allow to cure for 100 days. To remove coating, scrape eggs and rinse under running water to clean thoroughly. Crack lightly and remove shells. The white of the egg will appear a grayish, translucent color and have a gelatinous texture. The yolk, when sliced, will be a grayish-green color. To serve, cut into wedges and serve with: Sweet pickled scallions or any sweet pickled vegetable Sauce of 2 tablespoons each vinegar, soy sauce and rice wine and 1 tablespoon minced ginger root. Recipe from “The Regional Cooking of China” by Margret Gin and Alfred E. Castle

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CHURCH OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER “I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.” Bobby Henderson www.venganza.org

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A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter, 2009, is a black, acrylic box that places itself for sale on eBay every seven days thanks to an internet connection, which, according to the artist’s conditions of sale, must be live at all times. Disconnections are only allowed during transportation, says the creator. www.caleblarsen.com

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Web worms (Gypsy Moth Caterpillars to be exact) live in colonies usually in trees where they spin a protective barrier of silky threads to protect themselves from predators.

TUPAC SHAKUR: THE 7 DAY THEORY Tupacs last album recorded before his death was entitled The Don Killuminati: The 7 day theory. Tupac was killed on the 7th of September. Tupac survived the shooting exactly 7 days Tupac died at 4:03, 4+3=7 Tupac died at the age of 25, 2+5=7 Tupac died in 1996, 9+9+1+6=25, 2+5=7 The gunman shot 12-13 times, 1+2=3, 1+3=4, 4+3=7

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Scattered about the desert of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley California are large rocks with mysterious trails left behind them. The trails show that these rocks have rolled and zig-zagged across the ground, sometimes for as long as 860 feet. Yet no one has ever seen the stones actually move. The trails last for years before fading, so it is almost impossible to predict when the stones will move or how fast they move. A team of scientists set out to find the answers. They named a group of stones, and did surveys of the area over a sevenyear period. A 700-pound block dubbed Karen, which didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move at all while under study, was entirely missing when they returned years later. A sighting of the 700pound Karen was made over half a mile from the survey site.

Strange things happen on Google Street View

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This microwaved Elite White XBOX 360 with prosthetic eyes is for sale at eBay for US $ 31.002, of which half will be donated to CAIR-CA, The Council on American-Islamic Relations in California

“Now is your rare chance to own a piece of game system microwaving history” The Dutch Academy for ‘Pataphysics or NAP focuses on the dissemination and collection of imaginary solutions in the Netherlands. The French writer and creator of the concept of ‘pataphysics, Alfred Jarry, defined ‘pataphysics as “the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments” The NAP states ‘pataphysics is primarily a science, or even the only real science, and states: 1. ‘Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions. 2. ‘Pataphysics is the science that searches the rule of the exception with particular interest in the epiphenomenon and the deviation. 3. ‘Pataphysics is the science that explores the universe parallel to the officially recognized world. Blood pen by Bob Partington www.bobpartington.com

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Fig. I Pappeltalks by Hubero Kororo After tearing off the seal, the outer minimalistic graphic of the snow-white package is irretrievably disturbed by a stain, which turns to the colour of the inner content.

Fig. II Tour des convoyeurs by AntiVJ A very cool looking projection on a building in Montreal. Sound, image and atmosphere come together perfectly in this 3,5 minute video of the installation.

Fig. III No one knows about Persian cats by Bahman Ghobadi Impressive docu/movie about the underground music scene in Iran, how less is possible and how far people go to be able to perform their music.

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Fig. IV Stepping Off by Betsy Walton Her art exploits the delicate nature of the medium, while subverting expectations and ignoring tradition in order to create uniquely beautiful work that presents compelling questions. js

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Fig. VI Dear Lulu by James Goggin & Frank Philippin Lulu is a print-on-demand resource that puts every graphic aspect of digital printing to the test through a Do-It-Yourself presentation. st

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Fig. I Neonsign Boneyard by The Neon Museum Las Vegas This museum exhibits neon signs from long-gone casinos. wvg

Fig. II Bare by Bare Conductive Ink Bare is a conductive ink that is applied directly onto the skin allowing the creation of custom electronic circuitry. This allows users to interact with electronics through gesture, movement, and touch. wvg

Fig. III Cars by André Gottschalk This is just one of many other fantastic illustrations from André’s sketchbooks. js

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Fig. IV Balancing act by Walter Wick This image shows 117 objects balancing on a single Lego block. No adhesives, glue or hidden supports were used. wvg

Fig. V Exhibition liebling by Bureau Mario Lombardo In this exhibition everything is wrapped in newspaper.

Fig. VI Cannon Magazine by Phil Baber A stencil print, superbly designed and fantastically Typeset magazine!

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Fig. I The Marshmellow Experiment by Walter Mischel Leave kids alone in a room with one marshmallow and tell them ”Don’t eat it while I’m away and you get one extra!” Can they resist?

Fig. II My Portfolio by Katja Mater She emphasizes things to make us rethink the nature of photography and the place it has in our image culture and everyday life.

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Fig. III Black And White Period by Vasarely jvds

Fig. IV Performance Hotel by Christian Jarnowski A performance hotel in Stuttgart Germany. Pay for your accomodation with an art performance - dance, sing, paint - do whatever you want, but please don’t pay with money. js

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Fig. V An Opera in Flatland by Steve Tomasula & Stephen Farrell This is such an innovative project. They experiment with ways of storytelling in beautifully made graphic novels. Text and image complete each other in the reading experience. Unique stuff! mp

Fig. VI Maifly by Birgit Woehlbrandt These photographs explore the idea of Paradise. Surreal and dreamy. js

Fig. VII Calligraffiti by Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman Pretty awesome lettering works, which define ‘traditional writing with a metropolitan attitude’. It’s true: his pieces are at once elegant and balanced, bold and spectacular. mp

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Fig. I Untitled by Niek van Woert Plaster bust and plastic: Fantastic! mp

Fig. II Kolumba Building by Peter Zumthor Kolumba Museum in Cologne, Germany shows seventeen galleries of different proportions and with different lighting on three floors with a total floor space of 1,750 square meters. jvds

Fig. III Piano Staircase by The Fun Theory ”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better.” wvg

Fig. IV Treadmill by OK GO The band’s video for “Here It Goes Again” won a Grammy Award for “Best Short-Form Music Video” in 2007. jvds

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Fig. V Mechanical Dragon Clock by Michel & Jean-Pierre Hartmann Every hour the facade of a villa in Blois, France transforms into a mechanical clock. Against a backdrop of eerie music, six golden dragons emerge out of windows, snapping their jaws and giant claws crush balcony railings. sr

Fig. VI Balancing act by Walter Wick This image shows 117 objects balancing on a single Lego block. No adhesives, glue or hidden supports were used. wvg

Fig. VII Air triangle hero by Esther Aarts This Dutch illustrator makes wonderful images with beautiful type.

Fig. VIII Industrial Palace by Henning Lederer Explanation of the human body as industrial palace.

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Please briefly introduce yourself: ASHKAN: My name is Ashkan Honarvar, born in Iran, raised in The Netherlands. I studied illustration in Utrecht but decided after my graduation to focus more on art. HANNAH: I am a 22-year-old full-time student from a little town in Germany. So far I’ve studied graphic design in Cologne for two years. Two days ago I moved to Hamburg to start my illustration studies at HAW Hamburg. I’ve always wanted to do that, so I’m really excited about it and living in a new city. LAURA: Who I am... My name is Laura Jouan, I’m a young graphic designer and illustrator from Paris (France). I graduated from LISAA Paris in June 2009 after which I worked for the studio Rita for a little while, a design studio based in Montreal. At the moment, I’m back in Paris and I work freelance. If I had to describe me in one word, I’d say I’m like a sponge. Everything is interesting for me and helps me to do my work.

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Ashkan Honarvar Hannah Dunkelberg Peter van der Heijden Paul Graves Linda Maissan Laura Joan

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LINDA: My name is Linda Maissan, I live in Maastricht, the Netherlands. I’ve studied at the art academy in Maastricht and had training at Li Edelkoort studio in Paris. After that, being interested in design and the making of magazines in particular, I applied (as an artist) to the design department at the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht. I was extremely lucky that first year: “magazines” and especially “artists- and designers magazines” were the main themes. Because my work is varied - it includes works on paper and collages, but also fashion and photographs - for me a magazine is the ideal platform. I’m very much into second hand material, because it already has its own story. In my studio I have piles and piles of books and magazines waiting to be altered, cut up, carved and drawn on. PAUL: I was born in 1969 in America, and lived all over the world. At the moment my time is split between Paris and Berlin. I did a fine art studies in Vienna in the early 90’s. I would call myself an all around “trouble maker”: I’m an artist, I’ve directed music videos and commercials, started a fashion label and for the last ten years I’ve been working as a still life photographer and doing my own personal work. Two different book projects are waiting for a publisher to step up and make it happen. PETER: I work and live in an old warehouse in the centre of Amsterdam. Since 1975 I’ve made collages and assemblages using different materials and different media. I also make larger installations, often based on one of my collections, and

Is it possible for you to live off your ‘art’? ASHKAN: For the last two years I have been granted subsidies from the Foundation BKVB. With this funding I had the chance to work on different personal projects. LINDA: Next to my own work I have a part-time job as secretary and graphic designer for an architecture office. Maybe a strange combination but a nice one, because it’s varied. Occasionally I work for an artist initiative called Hedah, which means an enormous amount of work but I get so much in return, like meeting interesting, inspiring people. PAUL: My art work and the commercial work often are very close to each other so I can say I am lucky to get paid to translate my ideas. This also comes from working with great creative agencies that support freedom and vision that help their clients find new ground.

site-specific work for public space. I don’t have a specific art education. I visited the Rietveld academy in 1969, but found the whole atmosphere terribly lazy. So I quit after one year and went to the University of Amsterdam, sub faculty Andragology, and rented a studio with some friends. Just before finishing my studies, I had my first successful exhibition and my son Boris was born. I couldn’t combine all these different activities anymore and decided that one way or the other I had to earn my money with what I could create in my studio. That’s what I’ve been doing since, in a chaotic but well organized diversity.

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Why do you do what you do and for whom? ASHKAN: In all my work I try to find / understand the roots of evil, try to understand where hate comes from. The human body often reflects this hatred. For me the human body is a canvas that shows the effects of hatred. HANNAH: I always had a great desire to draw or create. It just comes up. It is something like an urge to realize my ideas. Mostly they become paintings, drawings or photos and sometimes they turn into poems, furniture or clothing. I admit that I often do things for myself, especially clothing, but I like to make little self-made gifts. LINDA: For me most important is how to do what I love and to love what I do, if that’s the case it automatically goes beyond the “for whom” question. PAUL: Continuity of output is the why and what I do. The who is the future. PETER: “Anything, anytime, anywhere, for no reason at all” is one of my favorite Zappa quotes which fits for my way of doing things. OK you need to make a buck, your children have to be dressed properly, but for the rest, I mostly just choose out of interesting opportunities and make the best of it.

PETER: Yes, most of the time I can live off my art. Besides my work as an artist, I work as a freelance advisor/consultant specialized in art in public space, mostly in Amsterdam. I develop strategies and plans, form art commissions, select and coach artists in the inner city and city development regions like the Bijlmermeer.

PAUL: Every image is built around an idea or concept. I try to make things that have a twist. They can look rather obvious but if you spend some time with them they tend to unfold into multi layers of irony and perspectives. PETER: My fascination for natural history in the 19th century way of observing is a constant in my work. Last year I worked as an artist in residence in an old cheese factory in a small village in Drenthe. I worked on an installation and presentation in direct relation with the natural life forms in the waters surrounding the village. I have been fishing in the ditches and ponds for algae, small organisms and snails. I determined and scanned them and created a databank of the many different species. Some of the organisms were magnified in life projections, using well-cooled slide projectors. On different walls I projected the living and swimming organisms such as daphnia, small leeches and tiny snails. The choreographic quality of the water flees and mosquito larvae is magnificent, but snail eggs and worms also play their part in the performance. Smaller works I make all the year around in my studio, often using some kind of collage technique. I use my scanners as a microscope for all kinds of naturally growing stuff like fungus and crystals. In fact my studio is an old-fashioned laboratory. With the results of those scans I make my montages.

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“The choreographic quality of the water flees and mosquito larvae is magnificent.”

Peter van der Heijden

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Tell us something about your work process: HANNAH: Form and duration definitely depends on my mood. But for example the five little linear black ink illustrations I did for this issue like most of my other drawings consist of heads, hands and other strange extremities often combined with patterns. My work is often very dark yet funny, most people call them creepy. But for me my drawings are just a bare symbolization of my dreams or something quite similar. I don’t know if it’s true but I think my work is often inspired by my dreams and vice versa. I think my work doesn’t exactly reflect my dreams, rather the action and atmosphere of drawing instills a similarly calming, subconscious mood in me. When I start drawing there is no concrete picture in my mind. What influences me the most is my mood. So every picture is a new little story of me and the little world I am living in. No matter if the work is successful or a failure, it fascinates me each time and gives me a light- heartedness as if I have just woken up and have discovered something new, something that I would compare to the inimitability of a dream. Somehow everything takes its course. There is a great urge in me to visualize something, so the pictures just come out of my head and my hands. You see, drawing will always arouse my curiosity and hopefully other people’s too. LINDA: In the following order: watching, picking, transforming and revising images, taking a few minutes up to a day, to be sometimes put aside to be revised again when necessary. What do you do when you’re not working? ASHKAN: Researching. HANNAH: I guess relaxing. But I’m always musing about my art, what to do next, catching ideas, observing everything. I love to spend all day roaming outside, accidentally finding new interesting places. LAURA: I go out, I like taking pictures so I do that sometimes. Other than that I don’t really stop working... or rather I continue to think !

What is your greatest influence? ASHKAN: Ernst Friedrich and Jens Bjørneboe. HANNAH: Most of all people and feelings, pictures (in reality and in my head), new impressions (seen, heard, felt or even smelt), experiences (bad and good ones), philosophy, psychology, music, traveling, different cultures, lyrics, poems, and of course love and misery. LINDA: It’s not one thing or one person in particular, I’ve never been a “fan” for example. It can be nature, or a walk through a museum, a city, a book, a song, seeing a beautifully and skillfully made garment or object, a photograph, a piece of art... PAUL: All people who break rules and don’t accept the status quo. PETER: Nature, 19th century natural history books, Cuvier, Charles Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, Gustave Eiffel, El Lissitsky, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, George Herriman, Boris Vian, Frank Zappa, Don van Vliet, Wim T. Schippers, Dada, Constuctivism, Fluxus and so life itself.

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“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.”

Paul Graves Most curious moment in your life? ASHKAN: Witnessing a ritual sheep offering in Iran at the age of 4. HANNAH: Although I can’t really remember, it must have been my birth. PAUL: Watching the Twin Towers attack from ten

What’s your studio space like at the moment? HANNAH: Empty, all my stuff is in a mess, wrapped up in a van moving northwards towards Hamburg. LAURA: My room! LINDA: A lot smaller at the moment but much more comfortable and warm. PAUL: A courtyard studio in the heart of Paris. PETER: At this moment it is quite a mess. I’m between two projects so still unpacking lots of objects and trying to find the stuff I need for the next exhibition and a next commission.

LINDA: Taking the Eben Emael route or the Land of Hervé route by bike but only when weather conditions are mild. PAUL: Eat, sleep, play, sex. PETER: Most of the time there is not a big difference between work and life. I have my studio in my house and can realize a lot in between daily life activities. Most things I read are important for my work. When I surf the web and Ebay, my search is mostly based on my fascinations and related to my work. In my studio I carefully select the music I want to hear. Cleaning my fish tanks and taking care of the livestock is part of my life and work.

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Laura Joan

Linda Maissan

Most bizarre fact about you: ASHKAN: I have a fascination with prosthetics. HANNAH: Maybe that I have one vertebra too many. LAURA: I have ten fingers! LINDA: Even the smallest earplugs and earphones don’t fit me, to my great frustration they keep popping out... And I can flap my ears. PETER: When it is important, during holidays for instance, I always have very beautiful weather.

Tell us about the latest conspiracy theory you’ve heard: ASHKAN: Michael Jackson and LaToya Jackson are the same person. HANNAH: There was a documentary on TV, in which they reported on a clan in the tropics that believes in trees’ inner lives. Although I don’t agree with this I somehow started to like the idea and their respect for life and nature. LAURA: My latest theory of conspiracy is about my mom. I think she has paid all the studios which I am interested in (especially those in New York) in such a way that it’ll delay my departure from France. Either that or it’s all because of the crisis and people trust in you only when you are older and skilled. LINDA: Lately I’ve heard conspiracy is a hoax.

blocks away live with my own eyes holding my morning coffee in my hand. PETER: All the moments I seriously fell in love and that love was answered.

What makes you suspicious? ASHKAN: Tell Sell. LAURA: I’m clean and I smile when you look at me. :-) LINDA: Ultra expensive art and cheap food. PAUL: I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. PETER: Clinic clowns.

Which animal would you want to be? HANNAH: A seahorse, for being male and female at the same time. Apart from that I would rather like to be a lemur. LAURA: Cat, it’s an independent animal that can live with others. PAUL: Happy to be the animal I am. PETER: After doing serious research during my whole life I choose for the swallow, especially the barn swallow. A beautiful bird, fast, smart, maneuverable, skillful catcher of mosquitos, good architect and house builder, nice and easy social life and a friend of man, which is of great importance for survival in this hard world. I can imagine myself, flying from my nest and leaving my kids behind for five minutes, and going high up in the air with loopings and those kinds of things. In real life I don’t even have a driving license.

O.K. CONTRIBUTORS

Paul Graves

Curious tip of the day?! ASHKAN: Don’t stay indoors too long. HANNAH: Have the heart to get more of my pictures. LINDA: Designer Boy Bastiaens. PAUL: Wash your hands. PETER: The medium is never the message.

What makes you happy? ASHKAN: Finding the right source of materials for my collages. HANNAH: At the moment, the smell of springtime. LAURA: Being with friends in the garden of the Louvre in summer and drinking a bottle of wine. You should try!? LINDA: Good food. PAUL: Confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. PETER: I am a notorious collector in very different categories. When I am searching for fossils in the field with my sons, in a beautiful landscape, finding the best object of that day, that makes me happy.

What would you whisper as the first sentence for a grapevine? HANNAH: Maybe that Michael Jackson is still alive. LAURA: Sorry, I don’t understand... I’m French! LINDA: Lullabies. PAUL: For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Your famous last words: ASHKAN: “And in this lunatic world between the deadly cold and the foaming sea of fire there lives – logically enough – a lunatic humanity.” Jens Bjørneboe HANNAH: This is terribly cliché, but believe in what you love to do. Life is too short. LAURA: Morrue. LINDA: Everybody can’t be on top. But life it aint real funky. Unless it’s got that pop. Dig it. PAUL: I will see you tomorrow.

SPOTLIGHT

O.K. CONTRIBUTORS

–THE CURIOSITIES 35

ENCYCLOPEDIA PICTURA – WANDERLUST

ENCYCLOPEDIA PICTURA – VARIOUS WORKS

These guys make amazing creatures for their videos and are searching for ‘computer graphics people’ to collaborate with. www.encyclopediapictura.com

CHRISTOPH BRACH & DANIERA TER HAAR – 100%SAP

RAW COLOR cards A visual research about vegetables and their powerful color. Vegetables are dismantled and purified to their visual essence ‘RAW COLOR’. The harvested color is captured by a new process preserving their intensity on color cards. Categorized by shades and families a new map is created which shows their beautiful diversity. This projects reinterprets the vegetable and puts it into new context.

100%SAP is a project about the power of natural color. Vegetables are transformed to a natural ink to feed a new printing process. This process enables the viewer to watch the poster’s print slightly grow. A 3-D ingredient returns as 2-D icon. Caused by the irregular juice flow, the ink jet creates a unique stripe pattern in every print. The examples shown are the very first try outs.

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DARIA RYCHKOVA – MONST

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ISAAK LESSING – ESMEE

She told me her name was Esmee. It didn’t please me much, a bit of a disappointment really, but from far away she seemed rather beautiful. I watched her through the rear window of her red car, while she did her best to hide the fact she was on the telephone by hiding it behind strands of brown sleek hair. She pretended to be scratching the side of her head, a disguise a trained eye would have easily been able to see through. She wasn’t the kind of girl who would own a hands free telephone set. She probably thought it was useless, and a waste of money to boot.

‘But why aren’t you called Miranda or Marie-Antoinette?’ ‘Because my parents didn’t like French names, are you going to drive behind me?’ ‘Yeah, in a bit’

In 2009 the name Esmee was given to 208 newborns in the Netherlands, placing it at number 66 in the top 100 of popular girls names.

A4 font by Russian graphic designer Vladimir Tomin

I had found her phone number stuck to the toilet door of a gas station on the A4 highway. No name noted, just the simple line I’ll suck you till you cum, so call me. Personally I would have chosen a more poetic line, but who’s being picky. At first I thought someone might have stuck it there to piss her off, some ex or something. But that simple line did something to me, making the urge to call the number compulsory, and quite unstoppable. So, of course, I called. Answerphone, computer voice, number spoken. Followed by a demanding peep.

‘Hi I read your message on the door of the gas station ***** on the A4.Well, maybe I’ll hear back from you or something.’ Just a few moments later a text message came bleeping into my attention. The words asked me if I felt like driving over to the gas station where I had found her trail. She would be there at four o’clock and wait in a red Peugeot 205. I was then asked to follow her from there. Kisses Esmee. I sent a text back telling her »

that I’d be there at four, and as coincidence would have it, driving a red Peugeot 205 too, smiley. See you soon. Kiss.

‘Hi, so I’m Esmee’ Her hand slipped inside my car though the open window.

‘Crap, rush hour, we should have met up later’

‘Rutger’ I mumbled.

I told her I didn’t mind, that I found it exciting to be driving after her like some kind of a voyeur. I could watch, almost smell, her every move. But it did matter though, to be honest. I had taken an afternoon off work without telling my wife. I had agreed to pick our daughter up from her friend’s house at six thirty, go home and cook, and spend some quality time with my family. Esmee was obviously tense. If a car offered so much as an inch in room, she’d rev up the engine and screech by, only to have to jam the brakes a moment later. Brake lights. She manoeuvered her wheels like an experienced speed car racer, through the waiting lines that jammed her in, right on to the emergency lane, pumping on the gas as she went. Now was the moment, now was the time to hang up the phone, say I didn’t want to risk a ticket, or something of the sorts.

‘We’re taking the next exit, it’s a few kilometres up the road’ 42

This was it, I was a puppet, and she was the puppet master. Two red Peugeots steamed up the emergency lane, to find themselves at a stand still some 3.4 kilometres from where they started, parking under a tree that stood at the end of an A4 truck-stop. I waited in my sticky leather seat, and watched her slowly get out of the car and walk towards me. She was well dressed. No red lipstick or fish net tights, not even a short skirt. Just a nice simple summer dress. I opened my window, trying to play it cool.

Judge Charles J. Hearn, a Texas state judge, has a smiley as part of his signature. As a result there was a happy face on an execution order he sent to a state prisoner, informing him of the date he is to be put to death.

‘You weren’t so quiet a minute ago Rutger, are you gonna get out or what?’ I nodded nervously, unbuckled my seat belt, and opened the door. So there we were, Esmee and me, all alone, on a grey and humid day with thunder in the air, a strange rendezvous on some sticky parking lot hidden behind the A4 freeway, in the middle of the afternoon. I had no clue what to say. I opened my mouth, only to hear a mess of words fall out.

‘Perhaps we should move over to somewhere with a little more shelter, its awful weather out here.’ She laughed, probably because I was so clumsy. Nice teeth. I followed her to a patch of grass that ran along the side of the truck stop. We passed a dirty little dried up creek, and a couple of depressed looking bushes. I gave a passing thought to my family, and then thought more about Esmee. She guided me to a fat oak tree; she then leaned against it idly, shifting the weight off her back and bottom. So there I stood, directly across from her, boyishly, like a foolish virginal schoolboy, waiting for his first kiss.

‘Why did you call me?’ ‘Intuition’ ‘My ex is the one who smeared my number across that toilet door you know’ ‘Oh’

Developmental dyspraxia is an impairment or immaturity of the organization of movement. It is an immaturity in the way that the brain processes information, which results in messages not being properly or fully transmitted. Dyspraxia affects the planning of what to do and how to do it. It used to be known as Clumsy Child Syndrome

The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space.

So I had it right from the start.

‘The bastard couldn’t stomach that I left him. He was the one who cheated, mind you. I don’t like men who cheat.’ ‘I nodded agreeing, stupidly, as if I understood her point. ‘What do you want from me? Do you want me to do what the note promised?’ She gave me a challenging look.

‘Um – well – yeah – maybe- what do you want?’ ‘I could suck you off if you like, I don’t mind, but you’ll have to lend me your phone after, I’m all out of credit.’ I didn’t think people still used prepaid phones, but it seemed like a reasonable deal. My first extra marital sexual experience lasted one and a half minutes. Esmee removed the evidence with the simple ease of a professional. Wiping off leaves from the knees of her summer dress as she rose to her feet, and asked to use my phone. I handed it to her, with a head full of haze, pants in one hand, and started tucking everything away neatly again, as if it had never been touched. She walked off, my phone in hand to speak in private. Walking back to our cars later we said our awkward goodbyes. She handed me back my phone and told me she had enjoyed it thoroughly. I in turn, told her I would call her, and meant it. She laughed sharply; something strangely vicious seemed hidden in her smile. I didn’t think much of it then. I kissed her hand goodbye, ushering her back into her car. And at that,

my long since secretly kept sexual fantasy, drove away, and disappeared in between the honking horns of an afternoon traffic jam. Stepping into my car and buckling myself in once more, I heard my mobile vibrate against my sweaty car seat. ‘Home calling’ the screen told me, as my pulse quickened and my mouth ran dry. I looked around me neurotically. Did anybody see me; did my wife see me somehow? Small drops of sweat started to emerge from the pores of my forehead. I answered as normal as possible.

‘Hello Honey.’ ‘Hi darling, I just saw that you called, but I couldn’t come to the phone, sorry, I was in a bit of a rush.’ The rest I didn’t quite grasp, my head zoned out. I definitely hadn’t called her, I couldn’t have called her, Esmee was on my phone at the time.

‘Are you still there?’ ‘Yeah, I’m still here’ ‘Anyway you know, work, work. But how are things with you dear. Everything going well? I bet you wanted to hear my voice after such a boring day at work, being stuck in traffic jams and all. Or are you still at work?’ ‘No I…’ ‘Oh wait a sec babe, the answering machine’s flashing like mad. Call ya back in a bit… Bye!’ I tried calling Esmee a couple of times after that. She never answered the phone. •

In order to simulate the beginning of a traffic jam Japanese researchers put 22 vehicles on a 230-metre single-lane circuit and asked the drivers to cruise steadily at 30 kilometres per hour. At first the traffic moved freely, but small fluctuations soon appeared in distances between cars, breaking down the free flow, until finally a cluster of several vehicles was forced to stop completely for a moment. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas you can date up to six girlfriends at the same time. For successful dates you have to find the places they like to hang out. But the most important thing is keeping an eye on your sex appeal. Most of the sex appeal is achieved through clothing, tattoos and the right haircut. Or you can use the following cheat to maximize your sex appeal: During gameplay press Circle, Triangle, Triangle, Up, Circle, R1, L2, Up, Triangle, L1, L1, L1

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GEORGE SPRINGER – PATRON OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

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HANNEKE WETZER – HAIR EYES

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MATTHEW GREEN – ARGUMENT

MATTHEW GREEN – GROW YOUR OWN

MATTHEW GREEN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ORANGE

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AUSTIN HARGRAVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; UNDERGROUND TUNNEL LIVING

Hundreds of people live in a secret community in the dark and dirty underground flood tunnels below the famous Las Vegas strip. Despite the risks of disease, highly venomous spiders and flooding washing them away, many of the tunnel people have put together elaborate camps with furniture, ornaments and shelves filled with belongings. Austin Hargrave is a British-born photographer living in Los Angeles. Âť

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LIZ MCGRATH – DIORAMA & SCULPTURE

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PETER VAN DER HEIJDEN – FOLKLORE

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INGE TER SCHURE – THE MATING DANCE

The animal kingdom knows many curious rituals. The one that fascinates me the most is, without a doubt, the mating dance.

The mosquito has it easy. Their irritating buzzing isn’t meant to keep you awake at night, but made for attracting a partner. Mosquitoes in love buzz at exactly the same pitch as each other. Within seconds of their first encounter, an interested mosquito will match its buzz frequency exactly to that of the partner it wishes to attract. If that isn’t efficient dating, I don’t know what is.

The male hippo on the other hand has a slightly different strategy; when he eyes himself a potentially interesting female he makes a large poo. Using his tail as a propeller he spreads his distinct dung odour into the air, and into the nostrils of the female in question. To the lady hippopotamuses this is a most irresistible smell. Hedgehogs also use their own method; male hedgehogs stand back at a distance and literally pee all over their females. A parrot tops everything: they exchange a French kiss before proceeding to puke into each other’s beaks.

...male hedgehogs stand back at a distance and literally pee all over their females...

These rituals can be found curious, fascinating or even disgusting, but on one point we must all agree; at least it’s a clear message. In the animal kingdom the rules consist only of marking ones territory and mating. The opposite seems to be the case for us humans, and I should know. I have just embarked on the beginnings of a mating dance. And to be honest, I don’t understand one bit of it. The start is still easy to follow. The male circles around the female, often in some busy bar, and offers the female a drink. After a drink or two, some compliments, a wink of the eye and a gentle touch, the male is ready to ask the females phone number. Up till here all is clear. But it’s all down hill from this point on. The invention of the mobile phone made the mating rituals of the human species almost completely impossible to master or grasp. Especially the text message. During the first physical part of the process, it’s not so much about the words that are spoken. But more about the smiles, casual touching and lingering eye contact. Text messaging offers no body language to mediate, or hang on to. There is no space to feel mutual tension, let alone to drown in each other’s lingering gaze. The receiver is completely surrendered to his own interpretation of the 160 characters on the small-lit screen. It is because of this that I have been unable to sleep for the last two weeks. What am I supposed to do with the text ‘Your such an interesting girl’. Does this mean that the male in question doesn’t find me attractive and only wants to have deep delving conversations with me? Or does it mean that he finds me so completely compelling that he wants to meet up with

me as soon as possible, to get to know me better? When someone sends “Would be nice to meet again”, does that mean that he would fancy bumping into me in a bar some time? Or does it mean that he would like to see me as soon as possible?

...they exchange a French kiss before proceeding to puke into each other’s beaks. I just don’t get it! And as a result I end up with sleepless nights, tossing and turning, trying to come up with the right answer to send back. Once I’ve got that stage conquered finally, its time for the nerves again. As I end up looking at the screen of my mobile every 5 minutes, to see if I’ve finally received another confusing message in return. So the whole thing starts all over again. The human mating dance messes with my nervous system. I can’t take it any more. It is with this in mind that I am forced to appeal to every male out there: When you find yourself an attractive female, buzz in a high pitch, poo on her feet, piss all over her, give her a nice French kiss and puke in her mouth. It might be a bit curious, but at least it is clear. •

Dragonflies are among the world’s most ancient creatures and have been performing the mid-summer mating dance that I have observed almost every year of my life for 300 million years. That’s more than 100 million years before dinosaurs appeared.

“As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren’t cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.” Martin Cooper

KATHERINE PATRICK – REDUCE YOUR ODDS OF DYING IN A PLANE CRASH

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SARAH APPLEBAUM – CONJOINED YETIS

SARAH APPLEBAUM – PADDEDROOM

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MICHAEL WILLIS – FANTASTIC VOYAGE

During the 1960s Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner & Richard Alpert conducted experiments using psychoactive drugs.Trying to achieve new levels of consciousness they created a manual entitled The Psychedelic Experience, heavily influenced by the teachings of the Tibetan book of the Dead.The manual set out to guide the voyager as they transcended through new dimensions of space and time. Fantastic Voyage is a visual journey through these new realms of consciousness guided by these teachings.

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MARIJN GODFRIED-KEJA – NOSTALGIA

Today everything is different. The world is no longer the same. The tide has turned. I awoke this morning and, as always, began my morning routine. I took a shower, brushed my teeth, put on some music, did my exercises, and read the paper over breakfast. Not much noticeable effort, simple done, my head bowed by routine. One does as he does; what he wants to do or has to do. There is not much more to it. That’s it. But somehow, now, something changed… You’re wrapped up in some activity, busy being busy. You flow and navigate. Blind movement through functional space. Accompanied by responsibilities and wants, assignments and necessities. But then, all of a sudden, someone taps you on the back, and interrupts you with a kind of nonchalant “Hey, whatcha up to?”. The taps repeat themselves over and over, multiplying. Now it’s your turn to speak a hazy “What…?”

Sunlight now. Rays of light that pierce my cany curtains. My room seems on fire, a warm yellow glow beaming through the entire space. (Not blind, but blinding luck forces itself in.) For a moment everything is alight, the world around me alive with energy. ‘Dearest light, wash me with your warmth”. My body is in ecstasy, and I take a shower with a sense of great passion for this sudden luck. Only windows to be found here. Nothing is allowed to block out this light. There it is, one space of glass, amidst a collection of streets, buildings and walls (always these walls, mankind locks itself up as if it were his passion).

Although the sentence “Beam me up, Scotty!” has become irrevocably associated with the Star Trek series and movies, the exact phrase was never actually spoken in any Star Trek television episode or film.

“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.” Bertrand Russell

My mind drifts off to Charlie and the chocolate factory, those where the days… Fantasy’s a funny thing. You can build your world, make it just as you like it. The power of imagination knows no boundaries. What depression? What fear? I color them in willfully, with a great multicolored marker through the space of my mind. Golden rooftops, purple, green, yellow, red, pink and blue houses (how we surround ourselves with endless grey and beige!) a wild and playful jungle I draw, a place full of funny and wonderful objects, a flying tram…

and discovery, I walk, in between curtains that air softly, blown from the ground. It is exciting and fresh up here. I can go everywhere I want, whenever I want, where ever I go. There is no need to tell me twice! I levitate from curtain to curtain. Fantasy world after fantasy world reveal themselves to my senses. Everything, completely everything, happens here. It is a fairy tale that has never been seen or heard of before. (With my breath held tightly and in great anticipation, I amerce myself in the wonderful world of these soft clouds.)

A flying house! This glass frame of my house leaves the city block that holds it in. Away from the city, the people, the structure, the straight jacket of civilization that confines me. Away from restriction, away from the walls that endlessly surround me, away from a life I never chose for. I want to be free, finally free!

All the while the sun shines beautifully still. The road along curtains and ever changing scenes is taking shape. I walk, walk and walk some more. After a long journey through beautiful places and exciting scenes, I can hear music. The music grows as I draw closer, picking up pitch, as I go, demanding attention. It’s louder now. Joined with voices. Voices of laughter and people: A great mass of people. Shyly I take a peak through some bushes. In front of me is the widest of open plains, filled with a grotesque mass of swaying people… A party!!! A gigantic never-ending, and everlasting feast. Here the people dance wildly together, beautifully driven insane by the suns ever flowing energy that beats down on their backs. Energy, energy, ENERGY! Everyone laughs and dances boldly, their body’s rolling over and over each other in purest ecstasy. And the music, a collection of the most divine 69 tones and voices that spread themselves lightly through our kingdom of clouds. It’s magical music, music of everything, music of life, of love... Outside, far above worldly hurt, is a beautiful floating land of clouds, with evergreen trees and moist branches, a collection of all the natural beauty that earth has to offer. There is but one difference between up here, apposed to down there on land and ocean. Here the sun shines, gives its warmth unconditionally. Here it is safe, soft, cosy, pleasant and beautiful. Here it is SUMMER! •

Guided by the sun, my glass cabine rises slowly into the vastest heights of the sky. An everlasting journey, to unknown and untouched lands. To passion, lands of endless Dionic parties and all encompassing chaos… We float through a kingdom of white clouds. The sun will not leave us now. The clouds float like weightless puffs of cotton wool around me, shining with luck and warmth. (The sun is back! The news has spread like wild fire, it’s on everyone’s lips, a communal and massive change of mindstate is taking place, and the excitement the sun has brought back with it, knows no bounds.) It is about time to remove the glass dome, the only barrier left between me and the world. Simply removed by one push on the button. I jump elegantly out of my old home into a soft world of clouds that surrounds me fully. Walking like a moon man, I jump and dance through space. The clouds are like an humongous pillow of air, moving me up and down bobbing as I bound across this new unknown world. It is a soft world, beautiful and warm. In this maze of mystery

Dionysos is the ancient Greek god of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy. Painting by Guido Reni.

There are still some 100 tribes in the world that never had any contact with the outside world. Around 50 percent is said to live in the isolated areas of the Amazonian rainforest.

Flying tram during the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.

Britney Spears Straight jacket doll.

LAURA JOUAN – ANIMAUX, ANIMALS, ANIMALUS.

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KOEN TASELAAR – THESE MODERN BUGS 2.0

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ERIC BOISSEAU – CARNET JAUNE

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PAUL GRAVES – PINK EYES

LEENDERT DOUMA – CONET PROJECT / A DESOLATE COLLECTION OF DIGITS

Numbers stations are not very well known among the general public. Which isn’t very odd: they were kept secret for quite some time. That changed in 1997 when a small group of radiofreaks brought out The Conet Project. This gave everyone listening a glimpse into the secretive world of spy radios from the age of The Cold War and onward.

The radio world is a strange world. That is, if you turn your dial away from the bits of infotainment and the hit-stations that most of us know radio to be. Move a little further with your dial and you will find a mysterious collection of digits spoken in a ray of different languages. These sounds are produced by so called short wave number stations. But what are those number stations, what do they do? During the Cold War up to the present, informants could send coded messages to their secret agents in the field over short wave radio. These messages consist of a series of digits in different sizes and of different lengths. Each digit was recorded only once, and translated into a human voice. These decoded messages have a strange sound to them, sounding human and incredibly inhuman at the same time. You could compare it to messages you hear at train stations or telephone helpdesks.

“ACHTUNG ACHTUNG” Usually the messages begin on the hour, go on for approximately 30 minutes, and then are repeated for one whole day. Everyone can listen in to them through a transistor, only this is quite useless. A one time decipher code – so called ‘one time pad’ – can not be translated, because only 2 people know their meaning: the sender and the receiver. This antique system is oh so simple and yet completely un-crackable. The spoken spy messages are usually introduced by short pieces of music (that may also contain secret meanings, who knows?). Then a series of numbers are spoken out, followed by an alert like a gong, beep or ‘Achtung, Achtung!’ Following on that comes the – what you are led to believe – core message. It is fascinating and frustrating alike to have no clue what is being communicated through these series of ciphers. Are they personal security codes? An assassination assignment? The whereabouts of UFO’s? And who is sending this information? The KGB, CIA, Mossad, M16 or some other obscure spy group? Drug traffickers or terrorist networks like Al-Qaida? It never becomes clear who is behind these messages. There is not one government that will confirm their existence, or will let so much as a strip of information free about the details. The location of stations on the other hand, can be found out. But who is the mind behind an antenna somewhere in the middle of the American landscape sending out

Country is still the most played music on American radio stations. One in four commercial radio stations in America plays country music. Shortwave broadcast equipment

gut. Auf wiederhören.”

Spanish ciphers, and who are they seeking to reach?

“PHAPHAAH NOTVEMBER”

“READY READY”

Thirteen years ago, an experimental music label named Irdial had the ingenious idea to bring out a CD-box showcasing a series of number station recordings, under the name; ‘The Conet Project: Recordings of shortwave number stations’. The name Conet Project springs from the misinterpreted Czech word ‘Konec’ which translates into ‘end’. A word that always sounds at the end of each Czech radio station broadcast. The box consists of 4 different CD’s with over 150 pieces of code in total. These codes vary in length from several seconds to around 7 minutes. Getting through all the fragments would take you up to 5 hours. But then you are also listening to the finest pieces collected by radio freaks between the 70’s and 90’s, quite the collection.

You are left to wonder what kind of people made these strange but wonderful audio pieces. Were they Russian Carpathians, onion leftovers hanging in their Stalin-like moustaches? Were they stiff upperlip English gentlemen, with a pipe and loafers, sipping whiskey in front of a fireplace? Were they squareheaded German sailors that worked under the light of one harsh light bulb somewhere in a burnt out bunker? Or were they unshaven gringos in some attic above a Tapas bar? Everything idea possible springs to mind.

When I say best I don’t mean the best sounding messages. There are stations that you can listen to without any distortion what so ever. But these are also the least interesting. The CD box is build up of the most exciting and mysterious recordings, and also kept a certain musicality in mind. This means you hear the typical distortions and high pitched tones that radio’s produce when they are just a bit off queue. You’ll find distortion in every form, voices that disappear and later return again. All these effect combinations make for a misshapen and ghostly effect. You can let all your mathematical, historical and political theories run wild on this phenomenon called number stations. But because Irdeal released The Conet Project as an art project, it is looked upon in a more romantic light. And it works: peoples fantasies run wild.

“DIE SONNE SCHEINT ZUHAUSE” Even the tone in which the ciphers are spoken, can be found fascinating. There are women who speak in a severe and punishing tone, with a certain ACHTUNG. But there are also those who speak in a voice that is almost pornographic. Sigh... threeee... sigh... niiiinnneee... sigh... seeeeveeen... (Followed by a sexually charged “I’ll say again”). On a ‘Swedish Rhapsody’ you even hear the cries of seemingly psychotic children. Truly breathtaking is the ‘Tyrolean Music Station’. These are recordings from the South-Tirol in Italy, a group that sought alliance with Austria at the time. Mixed with distorted yodel music and a xylophone, the sounds of cryptically spoken and humoristic voices meet the ear. Messages such as “Helmut grüsst Hanz. Helmut grüsst Franz. Guten Tag. Die Sonne scheint zuhause. Unsere Henne ist dabei ein Ei zu legen. Alles

But the one thing that lingers in the mind the most is the solitary mood that sounds from every recording. Because you never know the surroundings of the the sender, nor the receiver, the sounds you hear seem to be spoken from some desolate desert in the middle of nowhere. There is a defiant distance, hidden somewhere behind a cloak of white noise, humming and zooming. Not only distance in space, but also in time: above all ‘The Conet Project’ sounds desolate, remote and icy cold. It is the sad and wonderful soundtrack of The Cold War. 77

“KONEC” www.irdial.com/conet Czech traffic sign saying End of speed measurement

Stalin and his mustache

Yodeling was probably developed in the Swiss Alps and Austrian Alps as a method of communication between mountain peaks, only later becoming part of the region’s traditional music.

KEETRA DEAN DIXON – ANONYMOUS HUGGING WALL

MARJON ZOMER – PERFORMANCE spectators in the front row sat close to the meat hooks attached through the skin of his back by a without make-up probably prettier girl he hung himself as a pig in a slaughterhouse surprised by the new use of an iron and the weight a scrotum can take much air was escaping in the room Weird John on the posters he already looked scary

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RICHARD DERKS – HOW THE WHEEL WAS INVENTED

HOW THE WHEEL WAS INVENTED I build mouse houses for my tame mice. They live in a collection of aquariums, linked together by cardboard tubes. The little houses inside the aquariums are made out of rubbish: left-over packaging from my kitchen, old boxes given by friends, stuff I find in the trash, old carpets. The rules of the game are clear; I’m not allowed to buy anything specifically meant for the mouse house cause. The most successful mouse houses (the ones the mice favor the most) are ultimately those that have wheels. It took me quite a while to invent the perfect mouse wheel. You can find an overview of all the mouse houses created by Richard Derks at www.kijkdoos.nu

The first houses I put together were rather simple climb and sleep constructions. Little boxes on stilts. »

In the zoo they practice ‘behavior stimulation’, meaning that the food is hidden. This is exactly what I did too. My mice have to climb to the roof to get to their dinner. »

A practice I made more and more challenging with ever new house I built. Over here the mice have to do the rope walk… »

...to reach the meat pots of Babylon: a small trough filled with grain accompanied by a small water tray. »

My first mouse houses were nothing more then ingenious mazes. »

Like this one with zigzagging tubes and piping. I had, as mouse house builder, not yet discovered the wheel. »

My great breakthrough came to me on my tenth house try. The mice couldn’t get enough of it… Mice want to run! »

The pudding cup rotates around a bamboo stick. It had been quite a chore to assemble it trouble-free. »

After my design breakthough on mouse house number ten, the houses I build resembled more wheel then ‘house’... »

But mice don’t fancy running about continuously, they like to have a place to live and rest too. So I started combining wheels with boxes. »

The stiff wheel axle remained a problem. I used bamboo sticks smeared with salade oil, to optimize the turning motion. »

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They scrubbed with their little Back to the proven concept: backs against the cord that kept This model shows one with a the construction up. The following metal axle. » morning they had affectively chewed right through this cord. »

I even experimented with a treadmill for a bit. They’ll really have to do their best to get to the top now, I thought to myself. »

It didn’t work. Too stiff. On top of that the mice simply climbed around the back to find their food. »

… a wheel of carpet between two boxes. The problem with the axles turned out to be very simple: a skewer! •

Another test. A sort of a climb-onhammock. Failed as well. The ultimate mouse house is still this: »

CASUALTY & MICE AND MEN KATE MACDOWELL Photos by Dan Kvitka www.katemacdowell.com

JOJO THE DOG-FACED BOY MARJOLEIN JOCHEMS This son of a superstitious Russian peasant was bright, inquisitive, and hardly the animal-like savage his hairy appearance suggested. He delighted in practicing his English with museum-goers and in signing autographs with beautiful penmanship. Of course, JoJo was still a minor, so his massive earnings – $300,000 by 1889 – were entirely entrusted to his management. www.marjoleinjochems.nl

GENSOU HYOUHON HAKUBUTSUKAN HAJIME EMOTO Photos by Takeo Moriwaki

MONOCHROME ANACHRON & PACK DADDY’S SUITCASES MICHAEL JOHANSSON www.michaeljohansson.com

HANNAH DUNKELBERG – MADAME & HEADAHEAD

LINDA MAISSAN – WHISPERING LULLABIES

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MARIEKE DE KAN – ALICE ON ACID

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NIVES WIDAUER – VIENNA

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MARTIJN BRUGMAN – DUTCH COLONIAL CURIOSITIES

COLONIAL CURIOSITIES IN THE NETHERLANDS

A Chinese hairpiece (in these days called a pigtail) once was captured from a Chinese mariner or pirate by a group of Marines near Singkawang. It’s thought that one of these Marines took the hairpiece as a trophy to the Netherlands where it came to rest in the Bronbeek museum. In 1895 William III, King of the Netherlands, donated the Bronbeek Estate to the State, to use it as a private home for disabled veterans of the colonial army, mainly soldiers that have been active in the Dutch

East Indies, now known as the Republic of Indonesia. Many walls and corridors have been used to exhibit the trophies of these skirmishes and wars, the successes of colonialism. These exhibitions were kept by the higher Indonesian ranks from the East Indies, like the Ministry of Colonies, Royals, retired civil servants and officers from the army. Bronbeek was opened to the public as a museum in 1862. After establishing Bronbeek as a museum it was donated many trophies and artefacts from official

sources like the Ministry of the Colonies. Nowadays it is still a home to a group of retired soldiers as well as a popular museum. O.K. Periodicals put together a small selection of 19th century artefacts and curiosities; the old Dutch texts were taken and translated from the ‘Gedenkboek van het Koloniaal-Militair Bronbeek’, a memorial book on Bronbeek written by the first commander and published in 1881. »

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‘To our readers it will not be necessary to name the weapons and tabards that are pictured on a and b to be of Dajak origin. They were taken from chiefs and kings and hence are more elaborated and expensive then those we have seen in the trophy gallery. Swords, daggers and knives like the kris and the klewang, but also the koppensneller (scalping knife), a machete as well as some tubes that would contain poisoned darts for the blow tubes. The reader should also notice belts made of beaten bamboo and the chastity belts, made of tiger teeth and fangs. These chastity belts should ensure the future groom of his brides’ chastity. A native chief we asked about these curious belts did not display much faith in the effectiveness of this preservative where the teeth are around but the tiger that has to defend the treasure is too far away for certainty. Here also some skulls are displayed. Although it is no strict necessity for a young admirer to impress his future wife and in-laws with some own cut skulls, it sure was a fierce recommendation.’

FIREFLY LIGHT

‘Down in the cupboard (plate XLVIII) some wooden models can be found of Javanese home, garden and agricultural tools, like a gendi and a golok (machete). On the board above it there is a small box with a sliding lid that we could only classify as furniture although it does not really fit in that category. It is a thieves’ lantern. With glue the thieves will stick a few fireflies to the bottom of the box. When the lid is removed the fireflies will radiate enough light for the thieves to do their job.’

THE SWORD OF FAITH

‘Extremely peculiar is the ‘Geloofszwaard’ (Sword of Faith, Plate XIII, b, above the shield), with both hilt and blade completely fabricated from iron. This sword was to be used as a totem, and, to the belief of the Dajak, when it was carried up front it would make them invincible. The results did not match the expectations, Palinghoelo Abdul Rasid and his cohorts were extradited on September the 6th, 1865. His banner now rests here at Bronbeek, mounted above his sword of Faith, with his lance to the right and the lance of Pangerang Maas, also known as Goesti Ketjel, to the left of that palladium.’

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‘Around the skull of the rhinoceros, laid down by the assisting inspector of finance, J. Schenck, some tiger skulls have been mounted (Plate LVI). Hunting a tiger is a royal entertainment, as are the fights between tiger and karbon (a buffalo like animal) that are organized at some religious events. These fights are held in a wooden or bamboo cage where the karbon is held. A tiger then is brought into the cage. The karbon will be driven berserk by beatings and scalding hot water but it usually lost the fight. The Java people often identified themselves with the tiger and the karbon were identified with the Europeans. A typical fight would take some 20 minutes, and, when the tiger has won, it would be ‘rampongd’. This is that the defensible men, lead by their superior, are placed around the cage in two or three ranks. Than the tiger is alarmed by bells, chimes and gongs as well as by fire until it is driven to escape and then to be killed by the mens’ lances. It has happened that a tiger was killed this way without having to fight with the karbon. Whenever a tiger refused to fight for it’s life the king would order six or eight warriors (gaudek) into the cage; these amazingly brave warriors then would kill the tiger in a display of cool bloodedness and an apparent lack of fear. Fights between criminals and tigers have been abolished. (…) To conclude it has to be reported that the Javanese

also enjoy their djangkrih or cricket fights. After their capture male djangkrih are suspended to the ceiling by a silk thread around the middle of their body for some 24 hours. Then they are semi drowned in water and then put in a bamboo tube where they are fed rice. Before the fight they are put into a small cage that is separated in two parts. The djangkrih are then fed with rice, spiced with the mashed nightshade seeds and are tickled into rage with a small brush. When their anger is at it’s peak the separation will be removed and the crickets will attack each other, releasing a flurry of betting. The cricket that is subdued is deemed unfit for another fight, the winner will be treated on djarak leafs, to reduce the pain in it’s jaws and, when it dies, it will be buried with respect.’ •

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JASON DE CAIRES TAYLOR – THE GARDENER OF HOPE

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NICHOLAS DI GENOVA – EXAMPLE OF BIRD / MAMMAL HYBRIDS

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MARTIJN BRUGMAN – THE IMPROBABLE DEATH OF 46 COMMUNIST GIRAFFES

Totalitarian regimes are inscrutable. The wielders of power take decisions without explanation Why should they bother? All the power is theirs. Anyone who utters criticism is locked away, also without explanation. Totalitarian regimes eventually place themselves outside reality. They have themselves driven around in large cars whereas the people still make their way through the streets in horse and buggy. They surround themselves with wealth whilst the people have to stand in line to buy a loaf of bread. Those in power lose themselves in a fake reality. They take decisions that are completely logical in their own reality, yet are incomprehensible to the rest of the world. Incomprehensible and 100 curious. Like the massacre of 46 giraffes in communist Czechoslovakia on April 28, 1975. We know by now the ideal socialist state is a utopia. Just like neo-liberalism, by the way. But that’s another story. The ideal of the socialist state was quite a nice utopia. Everyone’s equal, everyone shares fairly. No poverty. Happiness in abundance. This utopia had also taken possession of Josef Vagner. He was the communist director of the zoo of Dvur Kralove, 150 kilometers east of Prague. What communist leaders wanted with the country, he wanted with the zoo. He would breed a new kind of giraffe, a communist socialist giraffe. They would live together in peace. A communist state in miniature. In none other than the zoo of Dvur Kralove. Director Vagner set to work.

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Because of their large size, it is not necessary for the giraffes to stay in a tight group. In addition, they are tall enough to be able to see each other at long distances. The result is a herd that may be spread out over half a mile.

He left for Kenia and Tanzania and had dozens of giraffes brought over to Czechoslovakia. The breeding program seemed to be getting along successfully. The herd expanded to 46 giraffes, the largest herd of giraffes living in captivity in the world. The director of the Zoo in Dvur Kralove seemed to actually be succeeding in his utopian plans. But on April 21, 1975 an unparalleled decision followed, one of the kind that totalitarian regimes tend to take. The secret police closed down the zoo hermetically. 43 employees were ordered to not leave the zoo. A couple of days later, two hunters were collected and transferred to the zoo. They received orders to shoot all of the 46 giraffes. The massacre lasted through to dawn of the next day. The remains of the giraffes were cleaned up. All the employees of the zoo were told that, from now on, they had to act as if the giraffes had never existed. There are many rumours about why the giraffes were killed. Their death may have been connected to the selling of weapons to Somalian and Ethiopian rebels. One of the giraffes may have had secret microfiche implanted. There’s also a theory that zoo director Vagner had become the victim of jealous functionaries who could not tolerate his successes. Another theory says the giraffes were suffering of an aggressive virus that could have floored all of Czechoslovakia’s livestock business. For director Vagner the massacre of his giraffes was an enigma. His life’s work had been destroyed without explanation. From 1975 onwards, Vagner wrote a letter to the government each year, each time asking the same question: “Why did you kill the largest herd of giraffes ever assembled anywhere in the world and yet I have yet to receive a single document in writing?’ Vagner died in May 2000 without getting an answer to this question. To this day, the improbable death of 46 communist giraffes remains a mystery. •

Map of Utopia, from the book A Truly Golden Little Book, No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining, of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia, written by Thomas Moore in 1516

PHILIP TOLEDANO – A NEW KIND OF BEAUTY

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Philip is interested in what we define as beauty, when we choose to create it ourselves. Beauty has always been a currency, and now that we finally have the technological means to mint our own, what choices do we make? Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Is it defined by the surgeon’s hand? When we re-make ourselves, are we revealing our true character, or are we stripping away our very identity? Perhaps we are creating a new kind of beauty. An amalgam of surgery, art, and popular culture? And if so, are the results the vanguard of human induced evolution? www.mrtoledano.com »

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INTERVIEW WITH PETER ZWAAN

DUALITY VISIBLE IN ART Interview conducted by Manon Vonk

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Changeability, genetic manipulation, animals that take on human behaviour patterns: these are the subjects that Peter Zwaan uses in his work. “The possibilities that have come from genetic manipulation are amazing, but I have no interest in a perfect clone of myself.Though I don’t believe the developments in this field should be stopped, they help us cure disease, and enable us to keep our loved ones around us for longer.The duality and different sides that must be discussed within this subject are what I present within my work.”

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Anyone who takes a look on the website of the The Hague based artist (www.peterzwaan.nl) is bound to have a severe reaction to it, either wonderment or disgust. There does not seem to be any middle ground possible. “I am not searching for a pretty picture, nor a gruesome one. Fascination and surprise are more important aspects to me than the search for beauty. Although I can’t deny a fish is a fantastic looking creature; it has a beautiful skin full of scales that change appearance as the light hits it. On the other hand it’s a beast and

also food. A fish naturally looks quite gruesome with its head lopped off and blood and guts oozing out of it, yet from a painters point of view it looks very interesting and beautiful.” “It is this picture that led to my work named ‘fish on a newspaper’”, Zwaan tells his interviewer. His belief is that an image must invoke associations, but also be interesting as a painting as well. “My work is many three-dimensional but it also possesses a ‘brush like’ finish and quality to it”.

In 1996 Zwaan started working on three-dimensional pieces. “This was merely by coincidence. I had experimented with 3D effects, but only in paintings. I once made a cake out of thick acrylic paints for an old professor of mine who was turning 60.This turned out to be so much fun and so interesting to make, that it got my mind churning, I got many new ideas so I decided to start making different ‘edible’ pieces out of paint, the process continued form there. I even created a pizza of one and a half meters big. After these works came the still lives of ‘fish on a newspaper’.”

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But fish on a paper didn’t take it quite far enough. “I wanted to make things that look very realistic, without actually being so. I’m constantly looking for a possible next step. Looking for variations to my subject matter. One piece of work leads me to the next.The first mutated fish I made weren’t that obviously different. A fish eye made from a beer bottle cap, a bike valve on a mackerel and very subtle a finger in the mouth of a salmon. I keep my eyes open and then slowly things develop during the process”, Zwaan tells us. This is precisely how the fish bone was created, when a mould of a fish head and a raw chicken bone were lying next to each other and Zwaan discovered they looked good together. “Only by looking at the piece one gets a bad taste in their mouth. But my work is mostly about the combination of different structures and substances, and the illusion of this combination.This subject repeats itself within all my work. I try to make each piece as convincing as possible by using many different materials, such as silicon rubber, polyester, polyurethane, acrylics, human hair and odd bits taken off daily utensils.”

DUALITY Surprisingly enough Zwaans fish kept on taking on an increasing human form. “Changeability is definitely a central theme within my work, the human need to control everything is something that is programmed into our brains.We are constantly striving for a perfect world, yet we all know this will never be achieved. I’m not focused on telling a message, but I do hope that people will be so grasped by my images I thereby make them develop their own ideas on the subject. Personally I am left in awe and wonderment, when I see all the things that are possible these days. I don’t want some perfect clone of myself to be walking around,

but I do want diseases to be cured so I can keep my loved ones close to me for longer. It is because of this that I would not want the research and development of genetic manipulation to stop”, Zwaan tells us. “I guess you could say that this is the duality that I wish to present.”

INTENSE Zwaans work is not easy to produce. To begin with there must be the idea. “Without a good idea you’re nowhere, but ultimately it’s about the implementation of the work. My work is definately hard to make, it’s a long process. First I make an original from plasticine - I sometimes use casts of fishparts or fingers in this process. In this manner I can control the shape of the work completely, with every mutation or skin structure malfunctions right where I want them to be.The second step is making the mould.These moulds consist of different colours of silicon rubber, which I use to build up the skin in different layers. After that, it is time to perfect the piece. In this stage I paint, place self made fake eyes and use real human hair to add to the finish of my work.” Zwaan is a perfectionist. Every singular hair is put onto the silicone skin using miniscule tools with complete precision. These tools and many more are to be found in his The Hague work place on the Looierstraat. How long it takes to finish one of Zwaans pieces is hard to pin point. “I usually work on more than one piece at a time.” His biggest project to date is a fish that is 1.85 meters in length. This project took him over three months to make. It is now an eye catching work of art that decorates the wall of a private art collector.

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CHAINSAW Zwaan is not done with his fish just yet. “I am not planning to stop my fish works already, but I did start creating other things apart from fish. Also I do still busy myself with humanisation within my work. For instance I have modelled an apple and an electricity outlet from silicon human skin.Why an outlet? It is a contact point. Just take a look at Frankenstein. Electricity plays a big role in the creation of life.” When asked what he would like to develop next, he answers simply that he would like to make bigger objects. Presently he is busy making a fish with a chainsaw. This work will be approximately 2 meters long and uses a real chainsaw. There is one drawing of this piece on the wall of his work place, and an example model in small on his workbench. But this is still too small for Zwaan, his ambition wills 113 him to create larger pieces. “My dream is to be able to make a piece that is 5 meters or longer in size.” This is a dream that might well become a reality soon, if an assignment from the business world pulls through. • Zwaans work is often viewable at expositions. He works together with Contempo Gallery in Eindhoven and Rotterdam. His work exposed on ART Amsterdam attracted a lot of attention of the Coda Museum in Apeldoorn, where he participated in an exhibition named “The character of the beast”.

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