O.K. Periodicals - Issue 7 - Thriller

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PLEASANTLY DISRUPTIVE & ALWAYS CURIOUS FEATURING: MARC JOHNS, BART HESS, ASGER CARLSEN, SKYLINERS, ROSA MATHIJSSEN, SEA MONSTER, KYUHA SHIM, PIERRE-PAUL PARISEAU, ANNE-MARIE GEURINK, LAURA CURRAN, SCOTT CAMPBELL, CHARLOTTE LYBEER, ROBERT OVERWEG, AND MANY MORE...

MARC JOHNS – I’M SURE THEY WILL FEAR ME

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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 project, such as their online source of inspiration where an ever-growing community of creative professionals get inspired every day.

Inspired by all the work William and Joost see around them, they started O.K. Periodicals. It is self financed (no funding or sponsor deals) and has pure quality content. Always curious for everything that is amazing and pleasantly disruptive.

Using a team of great editors, call-for-entries, and crowd sourcing, this magazine shows some of the best contemporary projects in the fields of design, art, photography, illustration, new media, literature, and more.

It should be a timeless collectible you can consult for inspiration, over and over again.

To give more insight into the wonderful independent magazine culture, they organized the O.K. Festival. The first edition in 2010 was a huge success (sold out, over 1200 visitors) and turned out to be one of the largest events of this kind in the world. Three days of exhibitions, lectures, presentations, workshops, networking, meet-andgreet, and party gave a lot of energy to all who were there. The next edition will (hopefully) take place in 2012. »www.ok-parking.nl »www.ok-periodicals.com »www.ok-festival.com

EDITORIAL

Of course you know that movies aren’t real. You see the actors entering the house… there’s a thick silence and then… A pounding heartbeat. Faster breathing.

Nervous perspiration.

Butterflies in your stomach.

But whether that fright is caused by watching a nail-biting horror movie, listening to a spine-chilling story, or prowling through a dark-as-night haunted house, some people actually revel in feeling frightened. But why?

A lot of different answers are possible, and some of them you’ll find in this magazine.

Thrillseekers are the kind of people who seem to be addicted to danger. One of them is Tancrède, one of the members of the Skyliners a.k.a a group of people who do a lot of skydiving, base jumping, and highlining.

Sometimes things turn out to be scarier than you thought.

We have a special tribute-to-MJ section, our ‘Thriller’ hero, who became famous not just because of his songs.

Anne-Marie Geurink made a beautiful book about D.I.Y Health and discovered during this process that a lot of people actually make films about their ‘favourite’ recipes on YouTube. Pretty freaky!

Eventually we all like to shiver sometimes. Ruud Linssen wrote a book about suffering voluntarily and the designers of Underware printed it… using the authors’ blood!

We wish you all the best meandering through another great collection of images and stories!

TK

You can find out more about them in the exclusive interview we did for this issue on page 105.

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Hanna Donker - Foxhill

Ok Ok Ok Ok Foxhill is a typeface specially designed to work in small sizes such as bilingual religious texts. It is a result of the MA Typeface Design, United Kingdom. The funky blackletter-inspired stylistic set of Foxhill is used in this edition of O.K. Periodicals.

Foxhill includes polytonic Greek, and contains several opentype features, as ligatures, swashes, ornaments and titling caps.

It is available in three weights,

for small sizes up to 8pt - regular, bold and italic. The text weights regular, bold and italic are specially designed for texts set in 9 points and above.

The main characteristics of Foxhill are its short ascenders and descenders; this saves space since the leading can be reduced and more lines will fit the page, perfect for usage in religious texts.

The large x-height in conjunction with round and open counters ensures legibility and readability in small sizes. »www.hannadonker.nl

Nadine Khatib - Extinct (52TYPE serie)

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typography into question.

Most are confined to the posters, although over the course of the project some will break free to become functioning typefaces.

This year-long project is an exercise in expressive lettering and typographic composition. Each typeface is inspired by something seen, read, watched or learned, which is then translated into a typographic poster, roughly every week. These imperfect, incomplete and inconsistent fonts explore the boundaries between functionality, expression and ornament, and bring the ground rules of

» www.nadinosaur.com » 52TYPES.tumblr.com

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52 GHANA MOVIE POSTERS

55 WE HEART MICHAEL JACKSON

37 Sea Monster 40 Luke Ramsay

44 Erik Boker 46 Laura Curran 50 Marija Šaboršinaitė

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63 Aldo Lanzini 65 Charlotte Lybeer

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Masha Rumyantseva Christian Grossi Pierre-Paul Pariseau Underware Art Orienté Objet

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COM MON KNOW LEDGE This section shows all kinds of found curiosities, obscure artwork, historical & scientific facts you should know.

They are in some way related to the theme of this issue.

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THE DAY THE EARTH WAS NEARLY DESTROYED On 12 and 13 August 1883, Mexican astronomer José Bonilla noticed hundreds of black spots with misty trails passing before the sun. He reported his observations in a French astronomical journal, but the curious spots were dismissed as dust in the telescope or a flock of birds. Now fellow Mexican and astronomer Hector Manterola claims Bonilla saw fragments from an exploded comet and calculated they must have passed the Earth’s surface at a distance of less than 8000 kilometers. In the scope of the universe, that’s a pretty close shave. Manterola and his team reckon that had the fragments struck the Earth, there would have been 1300 impacts with a collective force that would have probably destroyed humanity. So 128 years after the fact, you can heave a sigh of relief.

Adrenaline junkie is a term used to describe somebody who appears to be addicted to epinephrine (endogenous), and such a person is sometimes described as getting a “high” from life.

The term adrenaline junkie was popularly used in the 1991 movie Point Break to describe individuals who enjoyed dangerous activities (such as extreme sports, e.g.

BASE jumping) for the adrenaline “rush.” Adrenaline junkies appear to favor stressful activities for the release of epine-phrine as a stress response. Whether or not the positive response is caused specifically by epinephrine is difficult to determine, as endorphins are also released during the fight-or-flight response to such activities.

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REALTIME FACE SUBSTITUTION This videoclip shows how Arturo Castro’s face changes in real time to Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, Steve Jobs, Brad Pitt, and others.

Well, deformed and creepy versions of them. He created a software that tracks his own face in real time and then applies a new face texture in 3D. Not very accurate yet, but imagine how this realtime face substitution could work out in the future! »vimeo.com/29279198

3RDI Wafaa Bilal calls himself a storyteller. He temporarily implanted a camera on the back of his head which captures images, one per minute. »www.3rdi.me Photo by Brad Farwell

COMMON KNOWLEDGE PETA statement: There are no penalties for abusing animals on fur farms in China, which is the world’s largest fur exporter.

Foxes, minks, rabbits, dogs, cats, and other animals pace and shiver in outdoor wire cages, with no shelter from driving rain, freezing nights, or the scorching sun.

Mother animals, who are driven crazy from rough handling and intense confinement and have nowhere to hide while giving birth, often kill their babies after delivering litters.

Disease and injuries are widespread, and animals suffering from anxietyinduced psychosis chew on their own limbs and throw themselves repeatedly against the cage bars.

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Before they are skinned, animals are yanked from their cages, thrown to the ground, and bludgeoned. Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them.

When they begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal’s leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.

When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals’ heads, their hairless, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them.

Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly.

Some of the animals’ hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.

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Revered as one of Anton Schwarzkopf’s greatest rides, and one of the most intense roller coasters in the world, Thriller toured the German Fairs from 1986 to 1996, under the ownership of showman Oscar Bruch. Having been sold to the Six Flags corporation, Thriller arrived at AstroWorld in 1998 as Taz’s Texas Tornado, later Texas Tornado. It was moved to Six Flags Marine World in 2002-2003 where it was modified

by Premier Rides and renamed Zonga. From there, it was dismantled and eventually sold to the San Marcos National Fair in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

The ride was particularly notably for its unique start, Schwarzkopf’s signature twisted first drop diving straight into two perfectly circular vertical loops.

Height Drop Length Max speed Inversions Duration Max vertical angle Height restriction

115 ft (35 m) 98 ft (30 m) 3,675 ft (1,120 m) 54 mph (87 km/h) 4 3:00 70° 4 ft 2 in (127 cm)

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REVENGE OF THE BIRDS The next time you see a crow, you might want to be on your best behavior. A few years ago, biologist Heather Cornell from the University of Washington found that crows have an excellent memory of people who helped them, but also of those who threatened them. Their response to the latter category is to shriek loudly and aggressively circle around them. Now Cornell and her team have found that crows also pass along information about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people to each other, which they can store for at least five years. They possibly hold their grudges even longer, but the researchers who took on the role of bad people (by putting on a mask they wore when bothering the crows) had enough of the harassment after five years. Better be kind to crows then, unless you’re interested in recreating some of the more unpleasant scenes from The Birds.

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THRILL KILL is a cancelled and unpublished 1998 fighting video game for the Sony PlayStation. While the technical feat of allowing four players to fight simultaneously in the same room was to be a major selling point, this was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the game’s depictions of violence and sexual content.

Examples of this content include BDSM and fetishistic costumes and acts, limb dismemberment, and violent special moves with names like “Bitch Slap” and “Swallow This.”

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The corpses of the brothers De Witt, on the Groene Zoodje at the Lange Vijverberg in The Hague, 20 August 1672 Jan de Baen (1633–1702) was a Dutch portrait painter who lived during the Dutch Golden Age. He painted a lot of portraits of the brothers De Witt, even in their last moment when they were murdered and hanged. In the collection of the Dutch Rijksmuseum (NL).

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THRILLER IS THE WORLD’S BEST-SELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME Guinness Book of World Records

In an auction featuring memorabilia from the Beatles, Madonna, and Elvis Presley, it was Michael Jackson who proved to be king.

The red and black jacket, winged shoulders and all, that the late pop star wore during his zombie-ridden “Thriller” video fetched a $1.8 million bid at Julien’s auction in Beverly Hills, California, according to the auctioneer’s website.

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The winning price was exponentially above the estimated bid of $200,000 to $400,000. Part of the proceeds will go toward the Shambala Preserve where Jackson’s two Bengal tigers, Thriller and Sabu, have been living for the past five years.

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STAPLERFAHRER KLAUS A classic short movie about ‘staplerfahrer’ Klaus. It’s his first day at work as a forklift driver and he wants to do everything by the rules.

But as the images depict, things turn out bad. Very bad. And too gruesome not to laugh about it. www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CizjokpM2XQ

“WHATEVER YOU DO: DON’T. FALL. ASLEEP.” For more than two decades, Glenn Sparks, PhD, has studied the way men, women, and children respond to terrifying images in the media.

Of course, some people would prefer to completely avoid those or any other scary flicks -- about one-third of the population falls into this category, says Sparks. For them, there’s no redeeming value to stories that leave them frozen with fear.

Sparks describes a woman in her late thirties who saw Silence of the Lambs, and found the film so terrifying that she didn’t eat meat for the next six months.

When The Exorcist was initially released three decades ago, there were several cases of adults who experienced such high levels of distress that they needed to be hospitalized.

HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK Harry: Sonny!

Kevin: Yes? Harry: Nothing would thrill me more greatly than to shoot you. Knocking off a youngster ain’t gonna mean all that much to me. Understand? But since we’re in a hurry, I’ll make a deal with you: you throw down your camera and we won’t hurt you. You’ll never hear from us again. Okay?

Kevin: You promise?

Harry: I cross my heart and hope to die.

Kevin: Okay (picks up brick from pile behind him) Harry: (he and Marv snicker) Okay, kid. Give it to me!

(Kevin throws the brick at Marv hitting him on the forehead)

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Nightmares Fear Factory is a walk-through haunted house attraction. If you make it through, then you are a survivor. However, if at anytime you choose not to continue, then you scream “Nightmares” and something will escort you out, and then you are added to the “chicken list”, which is now over 112,000. NFF is located in Niagara Falls, Canada.

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I WISH , ID MADE THAT! This section shows a selection of things we wish we had made.

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Walking Men

by STEPHEN WRAGG Stephen Wragg was commissioned in 2004 to map and photograph the fast-expanding NCN for the UK. He soon began to notice the variation in the white pedestrian symbols along the way »www.walkingmen.org wvg

Heavy Metal Jr directed by CHRIS WAITT This documentary is about a heavy metal band formed by 10-year-old kids. They’re crap of course, but they think they are good. And especially the dad (of the singer) is ‘special.’ »www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd6clppG5bQ wvg

Jurema Action Plant

by IVAN HENRIQUES Jurema Action Plant is an interactive biomachine. It consists of a machine which interfaces a sensitive plant. »ivanhenriques.wordpress.com tk

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Grand Trianon

by PAULA ARNTZEN Just beautiful! A large, lightweight chandelier made of post-consumer coated Tyvek. »www.paulaarntzen.nl jvds

Harold and Maude

by HAL ASHBY Take a death-obsessed young man, a carjacking old lady, put them together in a freaky romance story and you’ve got a lovely dark comedy. ae

Champagne Super Soaker

by EDHV For the brand Zarb, Edhv has designed a special one-off edition, magnum size bottle design.

They turned the Bottle into a “super soaker.” »www.edhv.nl sr

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Of Genuine Contemporary Beast

by RENATO GARZA CERVERA A group of hyper-real sculptures depicting Mara Salvatruchas as flayed animal skins turned into rugs. »www.renatogarzacervera.com tk

A-FACE-A-DAY

by CARGO COLLECTIVE A self-initiated project by an Austrian art director/ illustrator based in Vienna. »www.cargocollective.com/ a_face_a_day jvds

Tricycle water calligraphy

by NICHOLAS HANNA Nicholas Hanna built a tricycle that writes Chinese characters with water on the ground as it moves. »www.nicholashanna.net st

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Myth and infrastructure

by MIWA MATREYEK Using animation, projections, and her own moving shadow, she performs a gorgeous piece about inner and outer discovery. »www.semihemisphere.com wvg

Bottle Light Bulbs

by ISANG LITRONG LIWANAG He didn’t invent them, but used this lighting method based on water and a sodabottle, to bring light into people’s homes. Check him on YouTube! st

ConsumeConsume

by UNKNOWN A weblog created by an anonimous person in which you can find hundreds of strange and inspiring photographs. »consumeconsume.tumblr.com st

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The Deadly Spawn AUTHOR UNKNOWN I love these old posters for sci-fi horror movies. wvg

Graduation catalogue ArtEZ Arnhem

by NICK TOPP & DIANNE RIJNBENDE Nick and Dianne made the 2010 graduation catalogue and it’s a beauty. I really like its simplicity and how the shape is its identity. st

Fields

by JUNIP I don’t know which I’m more in love with: the trance-inducing tunes or the psychedelic artwork.

They complement each other perfectly. »www.junip.net st

The Cynic's Word Book

by AMBROSE BIERCE Bierce’s most famous work was later republished as The Devil’s Dictionary, but I like the original title better. ae

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Revolights

by REVOLIGHTS Revolights consist of 2 thin profile LED rings that mount directly to each wheel rim. In other words, your wheels will become your bike lighting! »www.revolights.com wvg

Alamar

by PEDRO GONZALEZ-RUBIO Beautiful movie about a Mayan man and his son, taking an epic journey into the open sea. st

Misc. Skulls

by ALEX MARCOU, BRIAN EWING, MATTHEW SKIFF, McCAULEY AND PALE HORSE DESIGN For the magazine I found lots of skulls. There was not enough space for them all, so enjoy! sr

Unregistered City 2008-2010

by JIANG PENGY Jiang’s photographs of city, still objects, and massive skyscrapers reduced to miniature sizes communicate his recurrent themes of super cities. tk

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Orlando

by VIRGINIA WOOLF The protagonist starts out as a nobleman in the Elizabethan era, changes sex halfway through the novel, and lives on for multiple centuries. ae

Rorschmap

by JAMES BRIDLE This map makes every environment beautiful. »www. shorttermmemoryloss.com st

Whokill

by TUNE-YARDS A superb album from Tune Yards.

Gives me all the energy I need. »www.tune-yards.com jvds

Art Book Fair

by ONOMATOPEE Crazy flyer design for Pa/Per View.

So much going on, looking at it makes me happy. st

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Pop-up Poster

by RAW COLOR Posters which have a message about simplicity.

Did I mention these are pop-up posters? »www. rawcolor.nl st

Melvin the Machine

by HEYHEYHEY Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Melvin the Machine was created by studio HEYHEYHEY. »www.melvinthemachine.com jvds

190 Bowery, New York

by JAY MAISEL In 1966 photographer Jay Maisel bought an abandoned bank in Lower Manhattan for $ 102,000 He turned the run-down six story, 72-room building into a dream house. Today, the building is estimated to be worth around $ 50 million. ae

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MUST READ MAGAZINES – FOUND AT O.K. FESTIVAL

Dienacht Magazine made by Calin Kruse with a keen eye for good stories. »www.dienacht-magazine.com

DrawingDaily Small zine with hilarious comics

by Steven Kraan. »www.stevenkraan.com

Fukt A super magazine about illustration. »www.fukt.de

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Hocus Pocus Rare silkscreenprinted flamboyant magazine.

In 2010 we organized one of the largest international festivals about independent­ magazines, the O.K. FESTIVAL. It was a huge succes. There were a lot of people from outside the Netherlands visiting the sold out festival.

To continue sharing our love for independent magazines we review a lot of magazines on »www.ok-periodicals.com

PARIS,LA Beautifully designed magazine that plays with paper and formats. »www.paris-la.com

We are invited on a regular basis to give lectures and workshops about independent magazine culture. In-between the main festivals we curate special exhibitions for other events.

More information about the upcoming O.K. Festival 2012 can be found at »www.ok-festival.com

They Small silkscreenprinted zine with short stories and photos specifically made for them. »www.theymagazine.com

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SPO TLI GHT We asked these featured artists to answer a few questions and to send a picture of themselves.

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Why do you love what you do?

KS: Design is my passion and for this reason it is easy for me to dedicate my full concentration. I approach design as a game, allowing me to experiment, to problem solve with new materials and algorithms.

When designing I am able to harmonize my new knowledge.

SM: I rarely love what I do. Usually I’m too caught up in trying to figure out how I can make what I’m doing better. Sometimes I make something I’m happy with though and

What do you see when you look into the mirror?

Kyuha Shim: At first glance, I see my face, hair, and my body outline. Then I zoom in, concentrating on my wrinkles, skin texture, and the red vessels now prominent in my eyes from overuse.

Sea Monster: Hello. I am an illustrator in the U.S. I spend the majority of time drawing.

When I burn myself out on that I sculpt action figures. I love toys. I look in the mirror to see what’s left of me.

Pierre-Paul Pariseau: I see a man in love, happy in his work, that just got a haircut.

Anne-Marie Geurink: A slightly clumsy girl who tries to figure out how it works.

Erik Boker: Absurdist cultural observer with a fake beard, which I guess might as well be absurd... p. 34

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“The most bizarre thing about me is that there is nothing bizarre about me.

The bizarro-world is in my images.”

Pierre-Paul Pariseau What is the most thrilling thing you ever made or did?

SM: The time my friend had to pee and I found myself at a gas station in the middle of the night surrounded by five crackheads.

I had just bought a pair of green and silver Pumas. One of the guys said he was selling crack so he could get into the studio to make his rap album, it was obviously a lie. He said my shoes looked really nice and wanted to know where I got them from.

What is your greatest influence (in work or life)?

KS: I find my greatest influence in conversation with others from diverse disciplines.

SM: Maybe women. They either make me want to try hard to impress them. Or they piss me off. Either way it seems like there’s always some woman I’m thinking about influencing me to do one thing or another.

A-MG: The internet.

EB: Mystic truths, odd idiosyncrasies, inherent flaws, and truthful paradoxes... But what does that mean?

that’s nice. I love all the possibilities when I’m working on a piece but sometimes I let it complicate things to0 much. Sometimes you just have to go with it.

A-MG: I love the feeling, when it all comes together and you just know that it’s right, that’s one of the biggest thrills I can imagine.

EB: The money of course.

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What’s your favorite color?

KS: Jade Green SM: Bobby Brown A-MG: “Any colour - so long as it’s black.” Henry Ford EB: I’m color blind, but green, or brown, or whichever looks green.

What do you do when you’re not working?

KS: Generally when I am not working I am watching Japanese cartoons and animations.

I also enjoy cooking.

SM: Sleep.

A-MG: I love to cook and I love to travel.

EB: Sleep.

I told him the green part came from outer space and I got the silver part from the future. He said “Man, we just gonna let you be” and backed away. They were really jittery and talking really fast before, then they just kind of sat there. They didn’t take my shoes or beat me up or anything. I guess that could be considered thrilling.

PPP: Travelling around the world for many months with only a packsack and some money. I did this more than once.

A-MG: I don’t have the most exciting lifestyle but I think that would be carnival in Rio de Janeiro. I never saw so much energy concentrated, so much color, glitter, bodies, music, and good dance moves.

EB: Having a beer with Bill Monroe.

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What scares you the most?

KS: When I walk home at midnight, moving shadows in windows and sounds trigger fear.

SM: Robots, that one Mayan prophecy, and Sarah Palin.

PPP: To have, suddenly, the possibility to live all my fantasies, one after the other. I do not think I could survive this.

A-MG: Geert Wilders. Fox News. The word Kopvoddentax. Plastic surgery on children.

That we pay 49 cents for a cup at IKEA.

What is the most bizarre fact about you?

KS: Bizarre is not a word I would use to describe myself. Actually I consider myself quite normal.

SM: I like sports and I don’t do drugs.

PPP: The most bizarre fact about me is that there is nothing bizarre about me. The bizarro-world is in my images.

A-MG: I read my horoscope every morning.

EB: I like old people.

Which place do you often visit and why?

KS: I often go to the library to feel the mood, which is calm. In the library I draw inspiration from magazines and people walking and moving.

SM: My spare room/studio in my house where I draw and sculpt. How else am I gonna get any work done? Certainly not lolly-gagging on the beach all day drinking rum and cokes.

A-MG: My parents, because it’s one of those places where everything is always ok.

EB: The unknown.

What’s your best dance move?

KS: I rarely dance, yet I recall a friend who found my way of dancing to be extremely funny.

SM: Karate chop.

PPP: “El beso.”

A-MG: I can dance on points.

EB: Interpretive Cha-Cha.

If you could heal the world, what would you do?

KS: My work involves data visualization. I imagine building data systems that project positive interpretations of the future, thus creating visions of hope.

SM: I wouldn’t do anything. The world is way more powerful than me. I think it takes care of itself and wouldn’t appreciate me disrupting its flow. I didn’t create it and I don’t want to be God. PPP: I would eliminate fear.

A-MG: As a real pageant contestant: worldpeace. But if I had to start small I would go for democracy in Birma.

EB: Wear a cape.

EB: Praised unoriginality.

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This is it. Do you have a last motto for us?

KS: There’s a lot in common between archery and design. Like archers pulling a bow, designers draw on creativity as a source for their actions. Yet at the end of a project, we should let things go. Without attachment to outcome, neither happy nor sad, we should accept that the result is a response from nature.

SM: Mottos are for pussies.

PPP: ‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.’ -Oscar Wilde.

A-MG: Be brave.

EB: ‘Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is best.’ - Frank Zappa

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“Mystic truths, odd idiosyncrasies, inherent flaws and thruthful paradoxes...

But what does that mean?”

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ANNE-MARIE GEURINK – D.I.Y. HEALTH

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Fascinated by the amount of amateur information that is accessible on the internet, Anne-Marie Geurink started to collect medical YouTube movies. Uninsured Americans, hippies, housewives, and students found the ideal place to exchange tips and D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) methods on YouTube. There were tips on how to make fake teeth out of Fimoclay, how to remove blisters with a paperclip, or how to make your own sunblock from coconuts. She collected all these movies and catalogued them as a medical encyclopaedia that is purely based on uncertified YouTube knowledge given by amateurs.

Not only the content but also the design of the book is based on the idea that the knowledge of the amateur can be valuable. All typefaces that are used are free typefaces from the internet made by amateurs, all information is provided by YouTube or Wikipedia and all the translations are made by Google Translate.

The book celebrates the idea of open source communities and is a dedication to the amateur, but it also shows the hard reality behind this world, a world of uninsured Americans who aren’t able to pay their medical bills.

Besides the encyclopaedia Anne-Marie made toolkits specialised to execute the YouTube surgeries. The tools in the kits are all specifically designed for the YouTube amateur.

There are cheek-pullers, tongue-pressers, cheek mirrors which all serve the amateur who can follow the medical movies themselves behind their computer.

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SEA MONSTER – LAZER TITS

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BART HESS – STRP MUTANTS

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The STRP mutants were d ­ esigned by Bart Hess ­together with Heyheyhey for the 2011 STRP Art & Technology F ­ estival campaign. The m ­ utants evolved around the idea of transformation.

They v ­ isualize movement and the ever ­changing boundaries b ­ etween the different disciplines: art, music, and technology.

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Story: MAARTEN DEKKER Illustration: RENÉ KUIJPERS

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y seven-year-old daughter understands, as much as her young mind can, the meaning of death.

Grandma T. is dead and Grandpa T. is dead. Our neighbor’s cat is dead. You can never ever play with them again, they are never coming back. She knows people and animals are born, grow old, and die. What happens to them next, she doesn’t know.

Neither do I.

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very now and then, when she comes upon a picture of her deceased grandfather, she’ll think for a minute and tell me that it’s a shame grandpa’s dead. ‘Yes, it is,’ I’ll answer, ‘but he was a very old man, he had a good life.’ She remembers the things grandpa and grandma liked to do, brings up funny stories about them, and can tell you ­exactly where they are now: in a box u ­ nderground. Dead. She thinks that it will probably not happen for a long time, but she knows that at some point, she is going to die as well.

Because that’s what happens to everyone.

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o tell you the truth, I’m not really psyched about that. I don’t want any other guy in my house, and I ­definitely wouldn’t want it to be Michael Jackson. Such a fragile, skinny man.

He can move, sure, but I suspect all that ­dancing around will get old pretty soon.

Watching those moves from out of the corners of your eyes all day, and h ­ aving to hear all those whacky shrieks. Besides all of that, I also don’t want my daughter to copy any of his behavior. I can see it now; I ask if anyone wants anything to drink, only to get a highpitched, tiny response: ‘I would like that very much, thank you. God bless.’ That would be too much.

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laying outside would be hell as well.

‘Daddy, daddy, come quick. Michael fell of the curb and now his arm is all funny again.’ I don’t need that. I don’t need people in my house moonwalking to the toilet. Thankfully I don’t have to explain myself to my daughter just yet. I’ll be too busy explaining to her that he’s dead. Stone.

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ell, to most people, anyway.

Things are a little different for Michael Jackson. Even though she knows death inside and out, she’s convinced that Michael Jackson will return. Maybe it’s because she’s attending a Christian school, where, according to a popular tale, it might be possible for some men to rise from the dead. She’s pretty sure Michael is not really dead. He’ll return. And what’s more: he’s coming to live with us.

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ROSA MATHIJSSEN – THE CINEMA OF INBETWEEN - A COLLECTION OF ABANDONED FRAMES

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A taxidermied animal viewed from the perspective of a film still, a captured moment on the very edge of life and death. The Cinema of Inbetween reveals the beauty, transience and versatility of the world of taxidermy. In the book you are guided through this interesting theme. At first you don’t realize the book is about taxidermied animals. But it leads you to the moment when you understand how the animal became this way. How it’s prepared and how the artist sees it.

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ERIK BOKER – AQUAFRESH, EXTRA FRESH

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Product Dissections is an ongoing exploration of the roles of art, science, taxonomy, the consumer, museology and institution, product and artifact, and our relationships with seemingly insignificant objects and materials that affect us daily. Peeling back the skins of marketing, this project offers a look within the plastic layers of what we consume, revealing an autopsied view of

a delicate tension between death, health, and hygiene, and a look inside our culture of need and fetish for “extreme.” Much of the artist’ work focuses on the function and treatment of nature, product, archive, and the museums of our lives, and he continues to explore the inherent beauty, humor, and horror that lies within them.

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LAURA CURRAN – DEAR CORRINA

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I undertook this project to help me deal with the feelings of grief and mortality I experienced after the sudden death of my friend. I asked Corrina’s family and friends to write her a letter, telling her what they have been doing for the past year and how her passing has affected their lives.

There are small moments of fragility, anger, and joy as the sitter connects with her once again through their letter. The resulting images act as a catharsis for expressing those words someone maybe never got to say, opening up a connection to her once again.

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MARIJA SABORSINAITE – PUZZLE

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TRIBALMUSIC – GHANA MOVIE POSTERS

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I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare to try -Michael Jackson-

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improve your THRILLER moves

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15 second-loop of ‘Thriller’ as performed by the O.K. Periodicals team.

‘Thriller’ is originally performed by Michael Jackson. Written by Rod Temperton and Michael Jackson.

Copyright in the music used is likely to be held by the recording artist (Michael Jackson) , the writer (Rod Temperton), the label Epic or Sony. The (mechanical) rights are managed with STEMRA.

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White Glove Tracking www.evan-roth.com/work/whiteglove-tracking On May 4th, 2007, Internet users were asked to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean.

72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. The resulting data was released freely as an input into any digital system, resulting in a series of video based visualizations.

Credits (clockwise): Project by Evan Roth.

Flocking gloves by David Wicks, Slinky

by Jung-Hoon Seo, Giant glove by Tim Knapen, White glove on fire by Jonathan Cremieux, Stretchy by Jung-Hoon Seo

W HEA M Michael Jackson Sued For Dancing To R. Kelly song MJ was seen dancing and singing along to the R. Kelly song “Ignition” in his car on a private home video. Universal Music Group, who owns the copyright to R. Kelly’s song, is now suing Jackson’s estate.

Because Jackson did not pay to “use” it in his video, Universal Music Group claims they need reimbursement.

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eternal moonwalk www.eternalmoonwalk.com A MJ tribute website where people can upload their own Moonwalk video.

TIMELINE OF MJ’S NOSES

1970 Young MJ's nose

1975 MJ's nose in the mid1 seventies.

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MJ apparently broke his nose during a dance routine. This is what caused him to have his first rhinoplasty operation. The surgery was not very successful because MJ complained that it was difficult to breathe.

The nose shows a dent on the right side, and it is thinner.

1983 The most perfect nose was in the Thriller era. A straight nose which is not overly pinched.

Inmates dancing ‘Thriller’ This video features the dancing inmates of CPDRC imitating the zombie dance. The idea behind the dance came from the prison’s chief, Byron F. Garcia. He first conceived the idea of exercising as an enjoyable way of keeping the prisoners mentally and physically fit.

According to Garcia he saw in the lyrics and video of Thriller much of what jail culture is like.

Because of the hideous conditions in jails, prisons are like tombs and inmates are like ghoulish creatures. The only difference is that dancers in the MJ Thriller video come with make-up and costumes. The Dancing Inmates come as themselves. People perceived to be evil.

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A 1985 depiction of how MJ would look like in the year 2000. Featured in Ebony magazine.

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The point of the nose has been rolled-up and back a little and the nostrils have more of a sharp M shape.

Early 1990s MJ was only seen in public wearing designer surgery masks. MJ states he only had 'two medical operations.'

3,000-year-old Michael Jackson statue?

This Egyptian bust has become a popular attraction at Chicago’s Field Museum because it’s a spitting image of Michael Jackson, complete with a tweaked nose. It was carved between 1550-1050 BCE and depicts a woman.

Photo by EFE/Kamil Krzaczynski

1995 One of the incarna1 tions of the nose. The shape of the nose's bridge curves even more upward.

More on MJ's plastic surgery can be found on www.celebrityplasticsurgery.tv

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At some point MJ be1 gan using a prosthetic nose. This image shows flesh colored tape covering the hole where his nose was.

After his death a witness in the morgue says Jackson had no nose left at all but only a tiny hole. His plastic nose was not attached or visible anywhere nearby.

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Story: RICHARD DERKS

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randma Breuker was a woman of weight. When she drove past the German checkpoints in the last year of war - on the back of a motorcycle with her husband - and she was asked if she had anything to report, she said: ‘Yes, two very big hams!’ slapping herself on the thighs and laughing. The Germans could appreciate that.

They didn’t know that grandma Breuker often had real batches of ham hidden underneath her skirts. Ham made of pigs illegally butchered in the Betuwe. The Breukers were butchers and war or no war, business went on. German soldiers in the garden, then English ones, then Germans again, evacuees from the city, refugees from the west, and they all bought meat from butcher’s shop Breuker. Those were the days!

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fter the war grandma Breuker expanded further. When I met her, around 1980, she had become so heavy that she couldn’t get out of her maisonette on Boulevard Heuvelink anymore.

The butcher’s shop downstairs had been sold, now there was a somewhat languishing DIY shop. Grandma Breuker, a widow now, supported herself through renting out rooms. Whenever I came home from work and opened the front door to the house, I couldn’t get halfway up the stairs before her enormous silhouette darkened the stairwell. ‘Well Richard! Home?’ The volume of her voice was enormous too. ‘Tea is ready!’

Grandma Breuker was filled with geniality.

When I entered her domain for the first time to take a look at the attic room I wanted to rent, she had quickly put her meaty hand on my armt: ‘Call me grandma, everyone around here calls me that...’ Grandma Breuker took a liking to me, so much was clear. Such a polite young man. And one who didn’t even think about contradicting her.

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ithin a week after I had moved into the attic room (with one small window), I was already in the know of even the smallest details of her life story. A story filled with disasters and dramas that were

all related to me in the same cheerful tone.

Only when she told about her husband’s death did grandma Breuker soften her voice and a wrinkle appeared on her face. ‘That was a sad case. Cancer. Very unpleasant times...’ With a couple of firm nods that period was quickly closed off: ‘Oh well, that’s how things go!

Nothing you can do about it!’

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randma Breuker was tireless.

I couldn’t be in the communal kitchen for three seconds before she would appear in the door opening, accompanied by a lot of elaborate moaning and groaning. ‘Well Richard! Doing some cooking?’ In the beginning she would mess about in her fridge a bit, but soon enough she didn’t even use that pretense anymore.

She would go straight to the kitchen table, stationed herself at the formica and loudly enquired about the contents of my pans.

Usually she was dressed in a flashy robe with floral patterns, set off with a collar of brightly colored imitation fur. On her feet she wore slippers with peonies of the same fluffy fur, making it look like she had slipped her feet into two dead poodles. Those kinds of jokes she did not appreciate. Strange boy. No, grandma Breuker said, all of God’s creatures should be respected. Except for mice, because those things, which had suddenly appeared in the house, ate the birdseed for her canary from the cupboards, and that of course could not be tolerated. Those mice rankled grandma Breuker. The sovereignty of her dominion in the maisonette was at issue. Who did those animals think they were! She’d make them feel who was the boss around here. Poisonfilled saucers appeared in the cupboards, and the area around the pedal bin turned into a minefield of mousetraps.

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ne night grandma Breuker let out a scream in the middle of a story.

I turned around from my pans. A little mouse had dared to walk into the vast plain of the kitchen floor and walked around, swaying, rolling his eyes, drunk with poison. ‘Wait! I’ll have him!’ grandma Breuker yelled and she jumped from behind the table

with unexpected speed. She lifted her foot with the fluffy slipper on it and stamped on the animal. ‘There!’ she said satisfied, while she carefully moved her weight back to her other foot, ‘one less!’ She took a piece of toilet paper and with a lot of moaning and groaning she wiped the smeared out mouse off the floor.

While she dumped the tiny corpse in the pedal bin she cast a quick glance at my pans.

‘Yuck! Paprika! That gives such a flat taste, I don’t like that at all!’ When she was back at the table she noticed she had forgotten to clean the sole of her slipper. With every step she had made a fading imprint of mice blood on the linoleum. I didn’t eat my dinner with relish that night.

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ot much later, a great calamity struck grandma Breuker’s life. The canary was ill. With a lot of gestures I was waved into grandma Breuker’s room. If I wanted to have a look, since I had gone to college, did I think Pietje would make it? Grandma Breuker’s room was filled up like a secondhand shop. The windows were darkened by a hedge of hanging lacework and stained-glass portraits. Grandma Breuker was standing next to the birdcage, wringing her hands. Indeed the bird did not look very well.

He was on the ground like a ball of feathers and was spastically moving his legs, just like the mouse on the kitchen floor. ‘Well,’ I said to grandma Breuker, ‘it doesn’t look good...’ Oh my! Did I think he would make it? I hesitated, made a serious face and clacked my tongue.

Half a word was enough for grandma Breuker.

Before I knew what was happening, she had opened the cage and scooped Pietje off the floor in one swift motion. She pressed on heavily for a bit, lips closed together, a frown on her forehead. I heard a closed little peep followed by a cracking sound. ‘There. Better make it fast, something like that.’ Grandma Breuker walked to the kitchen. ‘I’ll ask the maid to buy a new one tomorrow!’ she said cheerfully while Pietje disappeared into the same pedal bin as the mouse.

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new tenant arrived, mister S, a very dark-skinned man from New Guinea.

Mister S could not find favor with grandma Breuker. Mister S could not listen. Mister S only talked about himself and that didn’t please grandma Breuker one bit. If it had been up to her he wouldn’t have gotten a room anyway, but this mister S, well, her daughter-in-law arranged the renting. Not that she had anything against that sort of people, oh no, but mister S just wasn’t sociable.

Always complaining!

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fter forty years of marriage, mister S had been thrown out by his wife and he didn’t understand any of it.

Whenever I had a chat with him the conversation inevitably turned to that one staggering phrase: ‘I don’t understand...’ A phrase he repeated endlessly, with constant head shaking. ‘I don’t understand... Forty years, and then this.’ The sorrow mister S carried around with him was as strong as the coffee he drank. Coffee Toebroek, half a pack of coffee in a saucepan, add water and cook it. It turned out to be the only domestic skill mister S possessed. Every night he ate fries from the cafetaria on the corner. When I ran into him in the kitchen I tried to keep our conversation as airy as possible, from fear of bringing the endless lament down on myself, but no matter what I did or said, mister S always succeeded in reaching the absolute low of his sorrow.

Everyone in the maisonette, including myself, started to avoid mister S.

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t must have been two or three months after the arrival of mister S when I came home and grandma Breuker already appeared at the top of the stairs before I even reached the first step. ‘Richard Richard...’ she whispered while putting her hands to her face. ‘Come upstairs quickly! You won’t believe what happened, oh gosh, won’t believe what happened!’ It had to be something really terrible if grandma Breuker resorted to whispering. New Pietje fallen ill? A fire?

I hurried up the stairs. She pulled me into the kitchen and set me down at the table. She joined me, much faster and less laboriously

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‘Hung himself? Who?’ She bowed further towards me and rolled her eyes at the door of mister S’s room. ‘Well, him, from the room next door...’ she paused and pressed her hand against her bosom. ‘I found him this morning. In the middle of the room. With his tongue out of his mouth...’ She nodded and leaned back with her arms crossed. ‘Hung himself. What a world!’

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ow that she had relieved herself of the news, grandma Breuker soon regained her normal volume, though her voice kept a conspiratorial tone.

She stood up. ‘Do you want to see?’ I was startled. Grandma Breuker laughed heartily at that. ‘Of course not silly, he’s already been removed, but the nail’s still there. He bought it downstairs last week. One nail. A fat one. I remember thinking, what is he doing hammering like that! I almost talked to him about it...’ Grandma Breuker opened the door to mister S’s room and pointed upstairs. ‘See, he hung from there...’ I looked at the nail and called to mind the floor plan of the house.

Mister S had hung himself from the joist where, one floor up, I had been sleeping that night.

It was time to move.

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MARCEL BAKKER – JUST WEST OF EDEN

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ANDREW THOMSON – FINGERS & THUMBS

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MARCEL BAKKER – HOPE

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POOL – SOUVIENS TOI QUE TU VAS MOURIR

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ANOUK VAN DER GOOR – REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

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LUKE PEARSON – EVERYTHING WE MISS (PAGE 1)

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LUKE DROZD – BASTARD / DEAD CLOWN IN THE CARPARK

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Story: MARTIJN BRUGMAN

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n the shadow of a tree I look at the trailer park. Some trailers have a garden, with a green lawn and neatly trimmed box tree hedges and plaster statues of lions and Greek gods. But one of the trailers over there is a complete goddamn mess. That’s the trailer where he lives. This guy goes around with his truck and picks up junk everywhere – metal, cast-off furniture, God knows what else – and dumps it somewhere in front of his trailer. Someplace where there is still room, or he just dumps it on top of the junk that’s already there. That’s the way he lives, surrounded by piles of trash. Insane.

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’m standing in front of the door to his trailer. Somewhere a dog barks. I take a deep breath and give the door a huge kick, just above the handle. The door flies out of its groove with a loud bang. The lock is in pieces and when I push the door open further, it falls down to the floor. Inside it’s dark. It smells of cigarette smoke, frying fat, and wet newspapers. I see a kitchenette filled with dirty plates and crushed beer cans, and a box of instant noodles fallen to its side. “Teriyaki Beef flavor,” it says on the packet. Behind a door I hear thumping.

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almly I take my sword and I look at the door and see how the handle goes down. The door opens and he appears from behind it, wearing nothing but boxers. They have some kind of cartoon character on them, which reminds me of those ridiculous Woody Woodpecker boxers of the guy from that porn movie, whose half-limp dick dangled at the height of Woody Woodpecker’s beak. He, however, does not have a giant dick, I can tell from here.

And if he had had one, he couldn’t even have seen it ­because of the huge gut hanging over the rim of his boxers. That gut is white as a sheet, just like the rest of his body. And there’s black hair is on every inch of it, disgusting really, it’s even on his gut. He looks at me with a sleepy mug. His mouth hangs open a bit and I see brown rims around his teeth. It seems that he only now notices I

have a sword in my hands, because his eyes open wide all of a sudden.

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e begins to move. Supposedly fast, you know, as fast as he can, but it’s really just pathetic how slow he is.

And it’s not as if I don’t know where he’s heading to. To the butcher’s knife that’s on the sink, and for a moment I want to stop him but then I let him grab the knife because it just doesn’t matter one fucking bit if he’s got a knife in his hands or not.

He says: ‘Dickhead.’

But with a tremble in his voice, so it doesn’t really come across.

I say: ‘Who? Me?’ And he says it again. ‘Dickhead.’

He keeps on standing there with that knife in his hands. His upper lip trembles and he presses his jaws together. The muscles in his face are tightening, his brown-rimmed teeth are bared. ‘I’ve come to settle the score,’ I say.

‘Settle what? What,’ he says, ‘what?’

‘Me. With you. The score. You sold me that Honda Civic, that was you right?’

He is silent for a moment.

The coward begins to vehemently deny it.

‘I... you... a Honda... a Honda Civic?

No, really, it wasn’t me.’

I look at him and smile. ‘That wheel suspension man... you didn’t know about that, did you...’

He looks at me as if he’s just heard the words wheel suspension for the first time in his life.

‘Just get down on your knees,’ I say.

He does it.

The knife is still in his hand but he seems to have already forgotten that he has it.

think this tastes like teryaki?’

He shakes his head and murmurs some words but I can’t understand a fuck he’s saying.

He says: ‘You’re wrong. It was somebody else. Somebody who looks like me.’ It sounds very pathetic. He also makes this hypocritical face that really angers me and I look at that disgusting body of his and think about the rotten suspension of that Honda.

hen I turn around and walk out of the trailer, so he can spend his last minutes alone to think about his life and how piteous it is. Outside I swipe the sword with a role of carpet that lies there, rotting away. Then I walk past the gardens with green lawns, neatly trimmed box tree hedges and the plaster statues of gods, out of the trailer park.

The dog doesn’t bark anymore.

I tell him that I might spare him if he is honest. Maybe.

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ut when he starts to tell that he did put a Honda on Craigslist but that he couldn’t have known that the suspension had been rusted through, I yell that he is a stinking coward and come a few steps closer. My sword slides out of its sheath. I stretch my arms and fill my lungs with air and while I scream I let the sword whizz through the air. The tip of the sword punctures his fat gut. I hardly feel any resistance. The sword is now halfway through his belly and we both look at it.

He lets the knife drop from his hands and grabs the sword but it’s so sharp that he immediately cuts his hands open. His face is even whiter now and his eyes even more hollow. I­ pull my sword from his belly. He bows all the way forward and slowly drops down. When he is on the floor he looks at me through his greasy locks.

‘Why?’ he asks me.

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‘That’s why,’ I say. ‘This is an absolute disgrace. You know that? Or do you actually

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CRISTIAN GROSSI – TERATOLOGIA - MONSTRUM HORRIBILIS

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PIERRE-PAUL PARISEAU – INSTEAD OF A BULLET THROUGH THE HEAD

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UNDERWARE – BOOK OF WAR, MORTIFICATION AND LOVE

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Why do we choose to suffer voluntarily?

Why do we choose family life, a monk’s cell or a blood-drenched battlefield?

These essays on voluntary suffering took Dutch poet and journalist Ruud Linssen more than 2 years to complete.

Linssen herein links personal observations with historical and literary examples.

As this book is also a type specimen of the typeface Fakir, it is set in this blackletter.

And to stress the suffering: this book is printed in the author’s blood.

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May the Horse Be with You? Always wanted to become one with your favourite animal?

Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin of performance art collective Art Orienté Objet found a way to do that. In their project May the Horse Live in Me, the duo ­explores trans-species­ relationships by mixing their own ­bodily fluids with those of their animal of choice.

After gradually building up a ­tolerance for foreign animal bodies, Laval-Jeantet was injected with horse blood during a show in Ljubljana earlier this year. The process of tolerance building was named “mithridatisation” by the artist, referring to the Persian king Mithridates VI who was so paranoid of being poisoned that he allegedly made himself immune to it by regularly ­taking small amounts. To feel

even more at one with the horse, Laval-Jeantet donned stilts with hooves and walked around with her blood donor in a “communication ritual” during the show.

After the ritual, Laval-Jeantet’s hybrid blood was tapped and freeze-dried, thus preserving it for humanity.

As for the effects of injecting yourself with horse blood: LavalJeantet stated it made her feel so

“hyperpowerful, hypersensitive and hypernervous” that she could not sleep. She also said that it made her feel more like a horse, and that she experienced “all the emotions of a herbivore.” So, if you’re curious about the emotional life of a plant-­eater, inject some of their blood. But don’t forget to mithridatize, or you’ll ­go into anaphylactic shock. – ae

GANGSTER BUSINESS CARDS

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KYUHA SHIM – GRID DISTORTION

As designers, we usually start working from grids, but those invisible lines sometimes restrict us in our creative thinking. In this project, Kyuha Shim focused on how the grid system could be a burden and how it could be broken by human interaction. Shim projected a grid on the wall that was designed for reacting to the movement of a person in the space. This was done using a Kinect device which can detect the depth information of objects using stereotype cameras. Catherine Siller collaborated with him, performing with the piece. In the space, she was both exploring and learning the atmosphere through the feedback of sound generated by her gestures.

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MARIJA SABORSINAITE – VIRGIN

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JAMIE CAMPBELL – UNTITLED - ONLY THE FANTASTIC HAS SOME CHANCE OF BEING TRUE

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ASGER CARLSEN – WRONG

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ROBERT OVERWEG – THE END OF THE VIRTUAL WORLD

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Robert Overweg is a photographer in the virtual world. He proceeds to the outskirts of the virtual world, which he dissects through his photography. In doing so, he draws our attention to environments that are often overlooked and yet ironically appear eerily familiar.

In this series he explores virtual environments in shooter games, such as Counter-Strike and Modern Warfare. The photos show us the end of the virtual world in a way which is presented to us to determine the border in a game.

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Anne Parry Police artist I have to admit that I struggled to put together my self-portrait. I smile a lot, so I find it hard to visualise my face looking serious.

I remember these old-style identikits well, because I joined the Facial Imaging Team just as they were phasing them out – nowadays we use computers to create profiles of suspects. It is still a composite system, but the difference is that you can select features within the context of a face and alter them individually at the witness’s direction, using programmes like Photoshop. I deal with minor to major crimes. Sometimes people have seen the suspect for a split

second. Sometimes the suspect we are trying to identify has committed fraud at his workplace and will have had colleagues who saw him or her every day. What’s surprising is that people sometimes find it harder to put the composite together if they think they know the face really well. Many victims of burglaries are old people. Often, they can remember someone they met 50 years ago, but not the person who robbed them six hours before our interview. In other cases, you get what is called ‘weapon focus’: the victim will focus on the gun, and not recall the face of the robber at all. It’s the same effect as a disguise. If there is something

unusual about a face, people will remember it. The problem is that most criminals look perfectly normal.

My job is not to create a portrait that is 100% accurate – I just need a likeness, something that makes them recognisable. All I need is one person in a million to recognise the composite – it might just be the that person who drinks in the same pub as them.

Recognition is a very powerful and complex mechanism in our brain. We pick it up right from birth, but I think we never really understand it fully.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE SKYLINERS

O.K. Periodicals conducted an exclusive interview with Tancrède Melet, one of the daredevils of the Skyliners team, formerly known as the Badslackliners.

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Thrillseeking excercises For this Thriller issue we were looking for thrill-seeking exercises. Well… we found one! Browsing through hundreds of short films on Vimeo we ended up screaming WOW WOW WOOOOOOW! when we saw some filmfootage of a group called the Skyliners. We sincerely advise you to not try this at home.

For this interview we’re talking to Tancrède Melet from France, Chamonix. Since forever he’s been climbing cliffs, walking between mountains and has been jumping from rocks and bridges. I’m actually quite surprised after seeing some of his films that Tancrède is still in one piece.

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In short: What’s it you’re doing?

The Skyliners are a group of friends trying to push our limits. All of the members are climbers, mountaineers, base jumpers and alike. What we do is called Highlining and means that you balance on a nylon flat webbing in between whatever you can think of.

Is it illegal?

Ehm… no. For instance, the building we did in Paris was very well prepared. One of the guys of our group was pretty bored with the city he lived in and was dreaming about a way to make it more exciting. When he discovered the two buildings we contacted the management of the company that owned the towers. When they said yes we started to prepare the whole project. Of course the places we found so far in the mountains go without permission.

What scares you most?

Haha well… this interview.

But seriously…

To be honest, even though we’re checking everything we can regarding security of our gear, the venue etc, I’m scared every time I step on the rope. When preparing I’m super nervous, this also helps you to focus.

Do you have some kind of ritual/thought before getting on the rope?

I don’t really have any ritual. I warm up, try to clear my mind, and get into action.

What makes you do all this?

The whole thing about highlining (but also about basejumping and skydiving for that matter) is that we’re a group of friends that like to hang out and do stuff. It’s about mastering your fears and pushing your limits. When you get to the other side you feel great and free!

By the way, it might look easy, but you should know that preparing for all this takes a lot of time. Of course you can’t do it alone, so you always take your friends. First of all you have to find a good spot. Preparing the venue sometimes takes more than a week. You have to fix your line, check it, practice, fail, try again, fail and go on.

Are you addicted to danger?

I am addicted to adrenaline, that’s for sure!

And because adrenaline comes with new stuff, new stunts, things you don’t control totally, there is a part of danger. You have to deal with it and try to make it as little as possible.

So what’s your next move?

We will in the near future set up a highline at the Atomium in Brussels. The exciting thing about this location is that we’re not able to practice. It will be a 70 m line (Red: Tancrède’s record is 85m) So we will have just one shot. After that we would also like to conquer the Eiffel tower… maybe one day…

So I’ve been checking pretty much all the footage I could find on the internet about what you do. You jumped of a bridge while being on the roof of a driving car, you did countless skydives and quite some highlining.

What more can you achieve, or what’s your personal goal in the next few years?

Well, first I need to find a way making a living out of all this, because after two years wandering in the mountains, I am running out of money. The idea would be to offer our services for highlines/slacklines shows.

Then we still think of a lot of stunts, by mixing activities, like for example to start on a highline, then rope jump from the middle, and then cut the rope away to base jump.

We are also thinking of an expedition with the team, in a remote place, where we could do some big wall climbing, highline at the top and base jump to go down the mountain.

Any famous last words?

Join the game, fulfill your dreams.

Want to know more?

You can find Tancrède and friends on FaceBook, search for the Skyliners team.

In mid november a documentary by Seb Montaz will be released about the team, and the way they mixed highline and base jump in Norway, stay tuned!

Preview of the documentary can be found here: »www.sebmontaz.com

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