Your Daily Culture
ABOUT THE
EDITORS Hello again! We've been working hard and hope you enjoy this issue! This time we've gathered friends and fellow artists together to bring you some inspirational thoughts and images about MONSTERS!! Scary, exciting, strange, friendly - we hope you find something truly monstrous here. Thank you and enjoy!
BRIAN
Emily
Guest Artist:
Ha-Anh
Ha-Anh
Ha-Anh is a designer and artist based out of San Francisco. Her favorite mediums include ink and watercolor. Her art tends to focus on human emotions and situations and is expressed through a dark, but cute aesthetic.
Today's Theme
Anything mysterious, powerful, scary, otherworldly, whimsical... These are the traits of a MONSTER. What do you imagine when you hear the word monster? Something evil? Something fun? This issue explores different perceptions of the same theme: Creatures of different sizes, maybe from different worlds, all with unique forms and powers. Now, prepare yourself for something different, and maybe even a little bit spooky!
"Mutual Understanding" By Ha-Anh At the end of the day We are, frankly, quite all the same. Because when the toils and troubles become too much for us to burden; we crack a bottle of wine and cry to our friend. Regardless of our exterior and interior differences, The monsters that we fear the most are internal.
Day 17: Grateful Day 1: Swift
Day 5: Long
Day 23: Juicy
Inktober 2017 By Emily Hiscox Inktober is a worldwide art challenge where artists do a different ink drawing every single day of October. That's 31 drawings in 31 days! I have struggled, I'll be very honest about that. It wasn't the motivation that killed me, it was having enough time to keep up. Sometimes, I would do 2-3 drawings a day just to keep on track. It felt great to have a daily challenge though! I feel like I've grown as an artist with challenges like this. I will continue to grow and work hard.
Day 4: Underwater
"Luke" BY BRIAN DENTON Watercolor, ink. 2015 I get inspired by creatures that seem to have their own personality. Working with the shape of their skeleton, body fat, facial expression - you can depict a lot when you invent monsters, and I like that about them. Maybe I'm Dr. Frankenstein!
"Paula" BY BRIAN DENTON Watercolor, ink. 2015
Interview with
Sam
Birthday & Age? September 25th, 1989 - 28 years old. What is your astrological sign, and how has it affected you? Libra! I'm very much into fairness, equality, and balance (sometimes to a fault). Materialistic and vain. Peacemaker and avoider of confrontations at all costs. What's your current obsession? Manifesting, or health issues. Trying to see myself as a work of art in progress. What is your favorite monster and why? Gossamer (the red guy) from Looney Tunes? Haha. Or maybe Medusa. What is the last nightmare you had? Oh man, I have nightmares about my ex a lot. We're on good terms but I guess I still have some issues there about some things. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? A singer, but I was never really good and way too shy. What are your creative inspirations? As a kid I was first inspired by old Disney movies. Not so much the characters but the background watercolor imagery. Same with Looney Tunes. I watched a lot of TV and would draw characters for my friends when I was young. Nowadays I pretty much get inspired by stuff from my friends & shit I see online. What is your favorite tarot card and why? The High Priestess, I think she represents intuition and listening to your inner self. "High" Priestess has special double meanings for me since I've been in the cannabis industry awhile. I always get it reversed in my readings though.
The desperate, muted susurration of a time lost; a girl, changed" By Rachel Dix Movies are a terrible thing for delicate little children. Delicate little children with morbid senses of curiosity are particularly at risk. Time and time again these tiny, curious idiots will find themselves engrossed in movies they know will keep them up at night. But in a moment of thrilling abandon, they watch them anyway. 1989 was a big year for movies. Meg Ryan titillated audiences in the cult-classic "When Harry Met Sally". Disney's "The Little Mermaid" captivated the hearts of a generation who would go on to never shut up about it. And "Field of Dreams" premiered with exactly the Americana-type bullshit that would inspire your middle-class dad to get it for you as a Christmas present one year. Forgotten by many, though, is the "Gremlins"-inspired children's film "Little Monsters", which premiered in the late summer of 1989. Fred Savage and Howie Mandel (yes, Howie Mandel) starred in this bizarre comedy which followed the friendship between a young boy and the monster under his bed. Although I was born in 1993, and thus robbed of a chance to see it on the big screen, I remember TiVo-ing it when I was six and watching it on repeat at my father's house.
What a fascinatingly terrible experience that was. I recall, amongst the catchy soundtrack and the showy, multicolored costume and set-designs, feeling a genuine sense of horror at the story the film wasn't covering. You see, in "Little Monsters", it is revealed that all the monsters living under beds are children that got trapped there overnight. While our hero luckily escapes this fate, he never once considers going back and rescuing these poor creatures. Instead they are left to live out a hellish existence, devoid of love and light, forced to fight each other and risk death amongst the particularly deranged individuals who have lost all traces of their humanity. One scene comes to mind - the one that definitively scarred the delicate child-nature in me - wherein a normal looking boy sits crying in a tunnel. He is missing his home. He has only recently been relegated to this terrifying subterranean prison when another, bigger, stronger, unfeeling monster promptly knocks his head off and hands his body a different head, which it carries off at a scurry. Six-year-old me could only watch agape, wondering what would happen when these monsters invited me to a party in their disgusting lair. Would my head get knocked off too? And when the credits rolled out, with no further mention made of the poor decapitated child, I thought, where is the justice? It says a lot about the nature of delicate little children that today, at 24, this is one of the first things that comes to mind when I think about monsters. But in spite of my abject horror and disgust, I couldn't help watching that movie again, and again, and again.
This concludes issue #4 of
"YOGURT: Your Daily Culture" Each person has their own idea of what a monster is, and this publication hopefully shed a little bit of light on that dark theme. So, after reading this issue, we would like to say THANK YOU!! We're excited to get started on the next issue, and hope that you're excited, too!
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