100%(1)100% menganggap dokumen ini bermanfaat (1 suara)
2K tayangan36 halaman
Dead Technologies. If you are reading this fanzine in the paper form then you are taking part in a dead forgotten format, PRINT. We as a culture discarded technologies as if it were toilet paper smeared with our feces. In this issue we are going low tech and bring back a few memories of things we once loved but only when it was new. - Ethan Minsker
Dead Technologies. If you are reading this fanzine in the paper form then you are taking part in a dead forgotten format, PRINT. We as a culture discarded technologies as if it were toilet paper smeared with our feces. In this issue we are going low tech and bring back a few memories of things we once loved but only when it was new. - Ethan Minsker
Dead Technologies. If you are reading this fanzine in the paper form then you are taking part in a dead forgotten format, PRINT. We as a culture discarded technologies as if it were toilet paper smeared with our feces. In this issue we are going low tech and bring back a few memories of things we once loved but only when it was new. - Ethan Minsker
Dear Reader, Dead Technologies. If you are reading this fanzine in the paper form then you are taking part in a dead, forgotten format: PRINT. We as a culture discard technologies as if they were toilet paper smeared with our feces. In this issue we are going low tech and bringing back a few memo- ries of things we once loved but only when they were new. - Ethan Minsker EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITORS LAYOUT & ART DIRECTOR COVER ART Sylvia Ortiz Eric Wallin Marissa Bea & Kristin Brzoznowski Ethan Minsker 1 THE ANTAGONIST MOVEMENT encourages new works of art and challenges the art world to do something different. We are not based on any one style or form of art, but believe that the piece should provoke. To this end, the Movement hosts the following events. PSYCHO MOTO ZINE - is a branch of the Antagonist Art Movements press and has been in existence since 1988 under the original title East Coast Exchange. It acts as a venue for our writers, artists and editors. In an attempt to create new forms of art and writing, we highlight the obscure and unknown artists, draw focus to subjects passed over by the mainstream media. This is a not-for-profit publication. Artists/writers donate their time to create this. The content is a mixture of fiction and nonfiction. We also cover news of the art world, from street to gallery. Back issues can be found at Psycho Moto Zine archives at Antagovision.com To learn more about the Antagonist Move- ment, look us up on Wikipedia. So, if you enjoy what you have read, please take a moment and look up our films and books. Find our catalog listed at the end of this issue. There are digital copies of each for $1.99 on Amazon. We STATEMENT of PURPOSE http://www.tumblr.com/blog/ antagonistmovement https://vimeo.com/ethanminsker CURRENT PROJECTS - We are currently editing our new film Self Medicated. Some copies of this fanzine will come with test copies on DVD. The Antagonist - A novel about all of our projects for the last ten years and more. There is a back- story to everything we do, includ- ing this fanzine. Want to know how we operate? This is the book for you. Release date - 2014? FAHRENHEIT - Open mic the first Sunday of every month, features new writers. Sign-up starts at 8pm and the readings start at 9pm at Black & White 86 East 10th Street between 3rd and 4th Ave. Five minutes to tell your best story. Comics and abstract comedy welcome. Must be 21 years of age. PUBLIC ACCESS SHOW - MNN channel 67, Tuesday nights at 11 p.m. Antagovision. This 30-minute show covers events, artists studio tours and more. With over 70 episodes, you can see what we have been up to for the past ten years. To find out about film screenings and art shows visit us at Antagovision.com believe the price shouldnt hinder you, so we do our best to have a cheap alternative to the hard copies. We are passionate about each project, mixing love and attention to detail to create a unique work of art. Our goal is to make something the large entertainment companies fail to do, which is create inspired works that cater to like-minded individuals. All the money we generate goes back to creating new art projects and supports a large community of struggling artists. Questions? Comments? Stories? Suggestions? Contact us at Antagovision.com, email us at pmzsubmissions@gmail.com or follow/message us at facebook.com/pages/Psycho- Moto-Zine Facebook fan page! We put out this fanzine and have no clue who you are. We want to know you. Take a photo of you and our fanzine and post it to our wall. Let us know where you are in this world. Whatever your favorite flavor is, we got you covered. Follow and see lots of photos of Ethan and his little girl doing stupid shit you don't care about. https://twitter.com/antagonistart http://instagram.com/ antagonistmovement https://vine.co/u/953510822485852160 2 3 Punker Richard Allen Long before I spent all of my money feeding two hungry arms and getting high on my own priorities, so to speak, I spent it on records. This was in the age of analog, before computers, before the Internet and before everything was just a click away, just a click away. It was the late 70s, a time in which all boysand girls for that mattershould have lived through. A tribal time when there were many camps and finding music was a gamble. The Sex Pistols had broken up, and many worlds and styles of music would soon converge. Finding records by punk bands was not easy. Mostly because record stores didnt stock this New Wave of English aggression that had found our shores. Living in the developmental swamp that was Florida back then had only one advantage: the New York pipeline. That being the steady flow of tourists that came down in the winter. They brought their records and mix tapes and t-shirts and other attire, and we waited for them like cultural muggers. I even heard Joy Division (not long before Ian Curtis found a neck tie he couldnt get out of) and Iggy Pops New Values in the same sitting thanks to a kid from Queens named Marc. The rest of the year, however, consisted of a crapshoot on which record to choose with my limited funds. Some local record stores, at the insistence of my friends and myself, would stock imports with the JEM label. These were from England and, for the most part, what we were looking for. The rest were a real hunt and a gamble. If the title of the album or the band name or photo didnt give it away, there were a few clues to look for. Song titles with overly safety pinned sentiments, or the number of songs on one side of the albumanything over eight or ten meant they were fast songs and so on. I discovered several bands like Wire and the Buzzcocks this way. Eventually things began to gel. Packs of punks found other packs and word spread. Marketing, of course, reared its ugly, profitable head and soon there was a label for you WRITER OF THE ISSUE 4 BetaMax 1984 Anonymous while you were at the mall. Punker first came with a question mark. Are you a punker? Then it just came with a fist. But for a brief shining moment you stood alone on the cusp of something brilliant, wanting to find kids like yourself. By the dawn of the 80s, and the advent of music television, personally speak- ing, I ran...I ran so far away. I had spent that summer working for my mother painting the outside and inside of our house. The work paid for what was cutting edge technology at the time, a BetaMax player and camera. The BMC-100 was the first combined camera and recorder to go on sale, in 1983. Rectangular recorder, with a camera bolted on one end, and a handle at the bottom. Small for its agethe recorder unit is about 15cm square, barely wider than the standard Betamax cassette which goes inside. I had been making films since I was seven years old when my grandfather had given me his old super 8. Watching the first images I shot flicker across the screen in black and white gave me a thrill that I would chase the rest of my life. My parents had been divorced since I was 7 years old. Half the week Sister and I were shuttled between Fathers and Mothers houses. It was a Saturday and we were back at my mothers house. My room was packed with friends as we were about to preview something we had filmed the week before. My mother suddenly came into the room, awkwardly stepping over the young boys. We were all about thirteen years old. I just have to retrieve a movie Tom and I watched over the weekend, she said. I hated Tom, her boyfriend. At the VCR mother kneeled and attempted to eject the tape. What she didnt know was that the eject button had fallen off weeks before. If you wanted to eject at tape you had to make contact with the tip of the butterfly knife by prodding inside where the eject button used to be. I had left the knife next to the VCR for that purpose. Mother fumbled and hit PLAY. On the screen flashed the image of my mother spread eagle on her bed naked. Then Tom hopped in front of Sylvia Ortiz 5 Dead Technology Ethan Minsker author of Rich Boy Cries For Momma and Barstool Prophets the lens with a boner that bounced just below his fat gut. Everything was a sickly white pink with sparse clusters of pubic hair. Hearing Toms voice, Mothers eyes flipped to the screen, and she lurched forward blocking the view with her body from the audience. The room was silent. Without word I took the butterfly knife and ejected the tape, handing it to her, my head bowed. No eye contact. She said nothing as she left the room. My friends never brought it up to me. It was on such a bad level that everyone wanted to forget it. Of course, during brutal fights with my mother I might say, At least I dont make pornos with my sons camera then show all his friends! But that is firepower one can only use a few times before it loses its bite. We dont ever talk about it today. After that experience handling my camera was never the same. I couldn't help being reminded that it had been abused by my own mother. New technology has ruined a lot of fun things for me. There was a time when I could prank call people and there was no way they could find out who I was. That was a time when rotary phones existed. For those of you who dont know what those are, they were the big clunky landline phones in every home. Your finger turned the wheel and clicks on the wire found your numbers. Then they upgraded the phone to number pads that made a tone sound when pushed. If wanted, you could simply punch *69 in the keypad and you would be calling back the last number that called you. Then they came up with caller ID and then everyone knew who you were. That killed the art of the prank call for me. No longer would I breath heavily on the line to a girl I had a crush on. Next was the beeper, or pager as it was later called. Drug dealers made them cool and everyone had to have one. There was a time before texts and cell phones when the only way to find people when they were out and about was to page them. That also meant stopping to find a phone to call back the person who paged you. You didnt spend your time looking at your phone and ignoring the world around you. I sometimes paged myself just for fun. Then the cell phones came around and I refused to get one for a very long time. Burning the lining of my 6 brain didn't appeal to me. But then long distance on a cell was cheaper. Walking around New York City I want to bat the pedestrians out of my way as they head straight for me, looking down at the screen. They glance up at the last moment, avoiding me. How many of you idiots get run over reading some useless crap on your smartphone? I go to a show and see a sea of hands raised up, videoing the band. I am sure all those videos of the same thing are terrible. Are you really going to watch it again? You think your friends will want to watch a show you went to? I want to watch the band live! Do you know what that is? Instead, I get a wall of tiny screens and faces looking at them instead of what is right there in front of them. There is no anonymity anymore. If I punched you in the face there would no doubt be dozens of videos pointing right back at me. Google maps even had a photo of my mother's ass as she bent over to help get my kid in the stroller. I know she wanted to punch the driver of the Google mapper when she saw that. Sometimes I wish I had an EMP bomb so I could send you all back to the Stone Age. But then again, I use technology all the time; after all, I make films along with my books. Maybe I just dont want you to have it. 7 Tape Recorder Brother Mike Cohen In the mid 1970s I would listen to the WKBW-AM (the Top 40 station in my hometown of Buffalo, N.Y.) on my early 1960s clock radio which was a hand- me-down from my parents. I had to tune the dial JUST RIGHT to get the station perfectly. Back in the 1970s the Top 40 stations would play rock n roll, as well as pop and soul hits, so I got into Kiss, Stevie Wonder, Shaun Cassidy, The Commo- dores, and The Sweet all at the same time, from the same great AM radio station. In 1976 my sister gave me her Toshiba portable cassette recorder with an external microphone. I was so excited. I could now tape my favorite songs on the radio and not have to go to the record store and spend one dollar on the 7-inch 45. (Of course the fidelity was horrible, but I was 11 years old and happy to have a song for free.) I made a list of songs to tape, songs to maybe tape, and songs not to tape. (Tape Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breakin My Heart"/ DO NOT tape Hall + Oates "Sara Smile.") My Toshiba tape recorder was ALWAYS set up and ready to tape when a song I wanted to own came on the radio. One night in 1977 (at the age of 12), while dining with my family, I was misbehaving at the dinner table and my parents sent me up to my bedroom to think about my actions (and not have any dessert). I was on the far side of my bed on my knees next to my clock radio and tape recorder. My Dad (who could not see me from the neck down) came into my bedroom and continued to yell at me for misbehaving at dinner. I pushed the red button 8 A Bangin Mixtape Timothy Danger The following is a verbal account of myself introducing a punk rock version of an 80's song my band is about to play in my hometown. (4.25.14 DTBG Victoria, Texas) All right kids, it's story time...When I was seventeen years old in high school I was in love with a girl named Tracy. She was the cutest thing I had ever seen, with long blonde hair that flowed past her shoulders like shimmering silk. Every day after second period I used to time my approach to the stairs of Victoria High School so I could catch her walking down them; the light from the windows would catch her hair reflecting a glow like a halo as she would descend down the steps to us normal mortals. After about six weeks I decided I was going to do something about it. That's right kids, I was going to make a mix tape! The first song on that tape is the song I am going to play right now...and it has never, and I mean never failed me. I say that for two reasons. First...I'm going to play this awesome song but really for the second reason. And that is if any of you guys here are eighteen to twenty-one, and your mom's name is Tracy and she went to Victoria High School...I probably banged her. Begins to hit the A string... and turned the little switch to play and began to tape the end of my Dad's rant: "AND IF YOU DO IT ANY MORE YOU ARE GONNA BE TAKEN OUT AS SOON AS YOU DO IT...AND CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM, LEARN HOW TO START PUTTIN' YOUR STUFF AWAY...YOU'LL GROW UP TO BE A 20-YEAR-OLD DUMB BELL AND WON'T KNOW HOW TO DO ANYTHING!!!!!" I continued to secretly tape my Dad yelling at me for the next 16 years on a Helix boom box with built in condenser mics and a Panasonic hand held tape recorder, also with a built in mic. 9 9 Forget VHS, The Video Store Is The Dead Technology Nicholas Katzban How do I feel about Kims Video closing their final location? Good riddance to bad trash. Never mind that I worked for the man, the myth, the legend, Youngman Kim for two thankless years without a raise, or so much as a handshake for being the only employee- out of everyone I started withwho went down with the ship, straight until their final week at 6 St. Marks Pl. in January of 2009, dumping their museum-worthy collection of banned, out-of-print, and awe-inspiring-by- sheer-numbers collection of home videos on a phony tourist trap in Sicily, and leaving as its sole progenitor a sell-through-only music and video store whose most tenuous link to the days of yore is a rather paltry collection of foreign region Blu-Rays, otherwise not available in the US (yet). Remixers! Culture jammers! Open source coders, mashup artists, VJ's, DJ's, VDJ's, programmers, contemporary artists from around the world! Understand the common grounds that unlock endless creativity hosted in the public domain. Like music to the ears, creative commons concepts build a foundation for counterculture based on the copyleft GNU General Public License. Its social disobedience in the battlegrounds of intellectual property taken on by artists such as Girl Talk and the Mouse Liberation Front. This is a "...probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age." THIS is a documentary YOU must see. RiP: A Remix Manifesto Director: Brett Gaylor Documentary, 2009 86 min. Canada http://vimeo.com/8040182 http://ripremix.com/ Review By: Gabriel Roldos the lens with a boner that bounced just below his fat gut. Everything was a sickly white pink with sparse clusters of pubic hair. Hearing Toms voice, Mothers eyes flipped to the screen, and she lurched forward blocking the view with her body from the audience. The room was silent. Without word I took the butterfly knife and ejected the tape, handing it to her, my head bowed. No eye contact. She said nothing as she left the room. My friends never brought it up to me. It was on such a bad level that everyone wanted to forget it. Of course, during brutal fights with my mother I might say, At least I dont make pornos with my sons camera then show all his friends! But that is firepower one can only use a few times before it loses its bite. We dont ever talk about it today. After that experience handling my camera was never the same. I couldn't help being reminded that it had been abused by my own mother. New technology has ruined a lot of fun things for me. There was a time when I could prank call people and there was no way they could find out who I was. That was a time when rotary phones existed. For those of you who dont know what those are, they were the big clunky landline phones in every home. Your finger turned the wheel and clicks on the wire found your numbers. Then they upgraded the phone to number pads that made a tone sound when pushed. If wanted, you could simply punch *69 in the keypad and you would be calling back the last number that called you. Then they came up with caller ID and then everyone knew who you were. That killed the art of the prank call for me. No longer would I breath heavily on the line to a girl I had a crush on. Next was the beeper, or pager as it was later called. Drug dealers made them cool and everyone had to have one. There was a time before texts and cell phones when the only way to find people when they were out and about was to page them. That also meant stopping to find a phone to call back the person who paged you. You didnt spend your time looking at your phone and ignoring the world around you. I sometimes paged myself just for fun. Then the cell phones came around and I refused to get one for a very long time. Burning the lining of my Sylvia Ortiz 10 10 There was a time and a placesome called it the 80swhen simply having seen Antonionis The Passenger meant you were a true cineaste. But in 1984 a brand new video distribution company entered the still nascent world of home video, and even more nascent media of the laserdisc, by rereleasing Citizen Kane. Criterion Collections debut was as inauspicious as their debut title was not. Flash-forward 20 years, laserdiscs are now smaller. We called them Digital Video Discs (or DVDs for short) and Criterion had amassed a catalog breaking 200 titles. When I started working at Mondo Kims Video at 6 St. Marks Place in May of 2007 I was in a tough spot, ideologically speaking. Kims had two reputations, that of our massive collection of 50,000 VHS and DVDs (some of which were the only known copies in the world) and that of our staff (who were supposed to be the brain trust of said treasure). Oh, go to Kims, theyd say. Walk in asking for a Kevin Smith film, endure a little verbal abuse, and youll walk out with something sure to blow your mind. Yet, by the time I entered the picture, this was a tough torch to take up. People came up to my dust covered early 90s PC running a DOS POS with the expectation I could turn them on to some- thing theyd never heard of. I started my first day knowing I had a lot to prove, and wasnt quite sure how to do this. There were maybe four or five films I felt I knew were still hard to come by, one being a then long-forgotten Jerry Schatzen- berg film from 1971 in which pre-Godfather Al Pacino plays a floundering heroin addict with big dreams called Panic In Needle Park. Within 8 months of working there, all had been newly restored and released on DVD. I was stripped of my swords, with dwindling options. I could always suggest people rent our 80s porn VHS Hannah Does Her Sisters. Criterion hadnt quite got around to that one yet. In an era when 8 dollars a month buys you unlimited streaming access to Criterion and Janus films entire collection, with new titles being dumped like the cherished objects of Charles Foster Kane being shoveled into an incinerator, concurrent proliferation/monopolization of repress-only record labels, and rare BBC appearances of The Television Personalities available on Youtube for any sixteen-year-old to find in a few taps and one click, what really is the purpose of the last remaining Kims Video? Is this the end of an era? I think were all Adrian Alexis 11 Discovering Pinball Anna Newman Matt Walsh and I bonded over junking. He understood my story about finding seven pairs of vintage red line Levis jeans at the dollar-a-bag Rotary rummage sale. I could see in his eyes he got a small contact high just from hearing about my epic score. Matt hunted even bigger game. He rescued, restored, and sold old pinball machines. Before arcade games and consoles, there was pinball. Pinball ruled. In pre-WWII days, pinball raked in more profit for its operators than movies made. Early Pinball was controversial, associated with illicit gambling. Raids happened. Confiscated machines were smashed and burned in dramatic vice roundups complete with police, politicians, and news photographers. Original pinball artwork frequently featured themes of gaming, betting, racing, and saloon girls. "To this day, pinball has a bit of a bad rep," Matt told me. I was intrigued. Driving around San Francisco with laundromats on my mind, I spotted what I thought might be a pinball game. Cruising laundromats was a frequent pastime then. I was in search of the perfect location for a short film I was making called clawing each others eyes out to be the first to write the obituary of a friend whos been dead for decades. In 1971, remembering the name of the band who released the 1965 one hit wonder, Liar, Liar was a fairly impressive bit of rock knowledge. The next year a guitar player from Central Jersey by the name of Lenny Kaye released a two LP set on Elektra records he called Nuggets. Today, hearing The Castaways spinning on Serato from any number of East Village bars on a Friday night will hardly turn heads. We live in a repress culture, in which what was once the province of a handful of social mal-adjusts who continued to live in their parents basements well into their 30s because the only jobs they could stand to keep were dishing out rarities and new pathways to the un-inducted at local brick & mortar video and record stores for $5.50 an hour, is now common knowledge. When theres an endless supply of these things, who demands them? What is the worth of a Kims Video, that sells little more than the same videos and LPs I can buy at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square? What does it mean when discovering Michael Manns first film, Thief, without technology is now outdated technology? 12 "Anna in Laundryland." (It features singing sock puppets, but that's a story for another day.) I pulled into a parking space and entered the rundown "Wash n Dry." There was a pinball game. Three, in fact: Addams Family, Funhouse, and something I didn't recognize. Addams Family was in a sorry state, but Funhouse was playable and I quickly spent all my parking change trying to figure out how it worked, how to get "Rudy" the doll head to talk to me. I returned later with Matt, who gave me tips I struggled to follow, like "Don't use both flippers together." I took photos. I dragged people from work to play during lunch. I was hooked. I never mastered Funhouse, but those first photos were the beginning of an obsession with pinball art. I attended pinball shows like California Extreme and the Pacific Pinball Expo and moved slowly from game to game, enthralled by the detailed line art and the rich glowing colors. Hours would pass unnoticed as I immersed myself. Little details, like colorful Bakelite plastics, awoke memories of ancient Christmas lights my mom patiently maintained (one light goes out, they all go out). I got so into it I made a film called Pinball Donut Girl based on a story Matt told me about his college days in upstate New York. Then I made a pinball documentary about Wade Krause, a screen print artist who makes custom art Anna Newman 13 pinball games. I traveled across the country and went to a tournament at the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) in Pittsburgh, PA. I met artists and players and collectors and their families. People invited me to see their basements, garages and specially constructed buildings housing game after beautiful game. Everyone in the pinball community, without exception, was kind and friendly. They were often engineers and artists, vocal in their appreciation of the mechanics and the art of the games. Back when I discovered the laundromat Funhouse, I had to seek out pinball enthusiasts through Matt. 5 years later, pinball is making a big comeback. Mainstream publications write routinely about the latest urban "Bar-cade," and just this month Forbes Lifestyle Magazine had a 3 page spread about the pinball collection of Seagate's CEO, Steve Luczo. I don't know if my films and photos had anything to do with the pinball reboot, but I'm glad it's happening, and I hope more people will get involved and discover (or re-discover) pinball like I did. Alexis "Lex" Bhagat is a writer and curator living in Albany, NY. In 2012 he and Abby Echiverri initiated "Source of Uncertainty"a celebration of the Buchla 200e and a gathering for the analog synthe- sizer community. In 2013 he was Alan Moore's right hand man on the XFR STN exhibition at the New Museum, a public-access open-door media preservation center. He collects audiocassettes and DVDs by sound artists and still has a VHS player in his library. Interviews Ethan Minsker Sylvia Ortiz 14 There was a time and a placesome called it the 80swhen simply having seen Antonionis The Passenger meant you were a true cineaste. But in 1984 a brand new video distribution company entered the still nascent world of home video, and even more nascent media of the laserdisc, by rereleasing Citizen Kane. Criterion Collections debut was as inauspicious as their debut title was not. Flash-forward 20 years, laserdiscs are now smaller. We called them Digital Video Discs (or DVDs for short) and Criterion had amassed a catalog breaking 200 titles. When I started working at Mondo Kims Video at 6 St. Marks Place in May of 2007 I was in a tough spot, ideologically speaking. Kims had two reputations, that of our massive collection of 50,000 VHS and DVDs (some of which were the only known copies in the world) and that of our staff (who were supposed to be the brain trust of said treasure). Oh, go to Kims, theyd say. Walk in asking for a Kevin Smith film, endure a little verbal abuse, and youll walk out with something sure to blow your mind. Yet, by the time I entered the picture, this was a tough torch to take up. People came up to my dust covered early 90s PC running a DOS POS with the expectation I could turn them on to some- thing theyd never heard of. I started my first day knowing I had a lot to prove, and wasnt quite sure how to do this. There were maybe four or five films I felt I knew were still hard to come by, one being a then long-forgotten Jerry Schatzen- berg film from 1971 in which pre-Godfather Al Pacino plays a floundering heroin addict with big dreams called Panic In Needle Park. Within 8 months of working there, all had been newly restored and released on DVD. I was stripped of my swords, with dwindling options. I could always suggest people rent our 80s porn VHS Hannah Does Her Sisters. Criterion hadnt quite got around to that one yet. In an era when 8 dollars a month buys you unlimited streaming access to Criterion and Janus films entire collection, with new titles being dumped like the cherished objects of Charles Foster Kane being shoveled into an incinerator, concurrent proliferation/monopolization of repress-only record labels, and rare BBC appearances of The Television Personalities available on Youtube for any sixteen-year-old to find in a few taps and one click, what really is the purpose of the last remaining Kims Video? Is this the end of an era? I think were all Q: What is the importance of maintaining and using forgotten technologies?
A: We have forgotten the technology that built Stonehenge or Pumapunku, which is why they are mysterious. We run the risk (I hope that we will!) of forgetting how to build a nuclear reactor, which is why Obama and Cameron want to build new ones while the experienced engineers are still alive. We have NOT forgotten about old media. We still have the machines. We still have the parts. We still have the manuals. We still have the tapes. Old media are not forgotten; they are simply "unsupported." Sony, RCA, Philips and Pana- sonic just don't make the parts anymore. And many warehoused parts were destroyed in the 2004 and 2011 Asian tsunamis. The playback machines are doomed. Yet, so much remains on old media! The situation is truly urgent and artists need to know that whatever isn't converted in the next few years will be lost, probably irreversibly. I trust that artists know, or have friends and supporters who know, about important tapes that are out there in their studios and closets. I believe in creating opportunities for those important tapes to be saved, and seen, to find a new audience, and to take their place in art history. Q: Where can we find out more?
A: Everything transferred at the XFR STN went up onto The Internet Archive. It's there as its own collection. https://archive.org/details/xfrstn And some of the technicians who worked on XFR STN have started their own group called the XFR Collective. http://cargocollective.com/xfrcollective/About-XFR-Collective-1 They are working now with a small group of artists and arts organizations to preserve their tape collections. I am on their advisory board, and my mission is to find partners for future instances of public access "transfer stations." I'd love to hear from any readers who might have tips about possible partners. Folks can find me on twitter, @nadalex. 15 Boris Castro & Ale Dumbsky are the publishers and Editors-in-Chief of the free German-based newspaper READ which has a circulation of 15K. Though based out of Hamburg, it can be picked up in various cities in Germany and Austria, mostly in Hamburg and Berlin, where they have about 600 outlets. The paper is mainly in German, but articles from English authors will be kept in the original language. Full disclaimer here, I also sometimes write for them. You can find reviews in past PMZ issues. There is no online version of this paper. Where most print is moving to digital form, Boris stated to me (off the record) that READ will not be available on the web. Today we hope to get him on the record. (Clearly I have no clue what off the record means, since I printed that. Sorry) Q: Why not go online? A: Originally we started as an independent film festival, where we screened movies and encour- aged people to watch as an audience, instead of home alone online. We enjoyed working on the program, featuring hundreds of films from all across the world. In 2010 we decided that we need to cover more topics and more often than just once a year. We were Inspired by a story on the New York Times, which was trying to win back print readers by buying out the Queens Chronicle, which had been rejecting Rupert Murdochs offer for years. We wanted to fill an analog niche over here for READers who are sick of copy-pasted articles. We try to stay as exclusive as possible and when people ask where they can get it, we simply tell them to search in the streets. Its about rituals, where you are waiting days for the latest release of your favorite comic book or fanzine. And it is not coming at you, easily accessible by a click. Q: Do you think printed news is a dying technology? A: Printed news is a dead technology, but we cover stories, not news. You can even READ old issues and I am sure you will find many stories that are new to you. Q: How can we get our hands on a copy? 16 A: If you are outside of Germany or Austria, you can send us an envelope with either 10 Euros or 15 dollars and we will post 6 issues to your home wherever you are on this planet. You can also email us at wtf@read-magazine.com for wire instructions, but an envelope is cheaper and you will not make your bank richer. Mailing address: READ Gruener Jager 3 20359 Hamburg Germany Jake is an artist I met a few years ago in Victoria, Texas. He works in long exposure filmpainting with light. Yes. Film. And without Photo- shop. His work has been featured in publications around the world. He is currently working on a coffee table book about ghosts of South Texas, but I will let Jake tell you more about that.
Q: Tell us about your work. Why do you choose to not alter the images digitally? A: I am a Light Painter and Light Painting can be easily viewed as digital manipulation because of the complexity and vibrancy of the actual photo. When Im Light Painting its done in complete darkness and each photo takes from 2 to 30 minutes to create. I have to do a lot of scouting for locations, calculating what light pollution will be present and adapting my light painting tools and camera settings to compensate for all of those variables. I may only take a few minutes to create the photo but prep time is much longer. I do not alter my photos because of the preparations that are made for each photo. I want to use the camera and proper preparation to achieve the levels, contrast, cropping and other properties that are usually corrected so that the image is as raw and organic as possible, so there is no confusion of manipulation in my photos. Jake Ramirez 17 Q: I know you have had a lot of people who question your works authenticity, could you tell us some short anecdotes? A: When I first started Light Painting I decided to sell some prints at a local Austin art market. I noticed a lot of people would glance at my photos and walk by, a few people would stop and ask what they were looking at and when I would explain they werent photoshopped or digitally manipu- lated I would get questioned because the photos appear to be digitally manipulated to most people. I decided to start shooting 35mm film to be able to show people negatives of the photo they were buying to prove it was authentic. Q: Plug your new book project here and let us know where we can find out more. Use this as an advertisement. Why in the hell should we buy it? (Please note reader, I have already pre-ordered one.) A: The book is in the final stages of its production and its called Beneath Texas. It is a collaborative art project that will be a re-telling of Texass myths and ghost stories that have been handed down through word of mouth for genera- tions. I am taking the photos and it will be written by Timothy Danger. Our crowd-funding page has ended but you can keep up to date by following the Facebook page. I am currently in Marfa, Texaswhich is famous for the Marfa Lightswhere I will be searching for the Lights to take some photos to finish up the book. If you want to pre-order the book, send us a message on FB and we will get you a copy before its done. Q: Do you think film is a dead technology? Defend your position! A: Film is alive and will never die!! Camera technology has become very good over the last few years but all of the new cameras are trying to emulate the dynamic range that film has to offer so we can never say film is dead when the digital world is still trying to fight its way to the quality of image film produces. Q: Where can we find out more about you and your work? Jake Ramirez 18 A: I have a new website, www.sumerianlights.com where you can find out more about my work and I will have a full on store coming soon to buy prints, pre-order books, and possibly t-shirts and other goodies. You can also follow me on Instagram @sumerianlights. I was first introduced to the guys of 30 Minutes of Madness through their fanzine Hoofsip back in the 90s. We traded VHS tapes of the projects we were working on back then. They were still in high school and I was at art school. Their work blew my mind. 20 years later, it still does. Interview with Jerry White Jr., director and producer of 30 Minutes of Madness. Q: Tell us about 30 minutes of Madness. A: Public-access TV came into being in the late 70s or early 80s as an agree- ment between cities and incoming cable television. My understanding is that it was a tradeoffyes, you can set up shop here, but you gotta give us something in return. That something was channels dedicated to local programming: municipal, education and public-access television. The latter was a free forum for people in the community to have access to TV equipment and training so they could have their own shows, about pretty much anything. 30MOM was the show I started with my friend Joe Hornacek after getting certified for PATV in 1992. It's a kind of half-hour comedy/variety mixtape of skits and random weirdnessinteresting/funny/bizarre vids we made ourselves with friends and other Metro Detroiters as the target audience. As the show and our skills progressed we made our own music for it as well and continually expanded the cast and crew. Q: What type of camera did you film on back then?
A: We shot on a variety of formats. Primarily VHSI had a Quasar camcorder, either the VM-735 or something that looked just like it. At the studio the format was 3/4" U-matic and the cameras were made by Sony and were state of the art, but from the 80s. Later on we shot a lot of Hi-8 with a pro 19 camera checked out from the studio, no idea what the model was, and finally on SVHS with a Panasonic AG-455 (which I still have). Q: Can you share any funny stories about doing the show and people watching in your hometown? A: Here are a few things that come to mind. We shot a skit once in downtown Rochester where my friend Phil Holt got buck-naked and played a primitive chanting on a fallen treeanyone passing by caught more than an eyeful. We got into trouble once filming at the studio when my friend (also Phil) brought a squirrel inside he'd caught in the parking lot. We didn't even shoot anything with itthe coordinator had access to the camera feed and kicked us out for the day. We didn't hurt it and he let it gois that funny? Another time Joe was out picking some people up to shoot and set the (very expensive) Hi-8 camera on the top of his car, then drove off forgetting it was up there. It fell off and busted the lens, which Joe had to pay about $400 to fix and he was banned from the studio for about a month. I think my favorite reaction to people watching the show was when I'd get a call from the head of program- ming asking me to tone down the language and subject matter because the station was receiving a lot of complaints. Thing is, 1st amendment and all, he couldn't straight up forbid the stuff we were doing since it wasn't illegalhe just put the show on later and later time slots. I was just happy to know that people other than us were watching. There was one time I was at a bowling alley in Rochester (long ago since turned into a Barnes & Noble) and a woman came up to me and asked "Are you Jerry White Jr. from 30 Minutes of Madness?" She'd watched the show and wasn't connected to anyone in our group so that was my first taste of minor local celebrity. I tried not to let it go to my head.
Q: Tell us about the new film coming out. A: In 2012, to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the show, I went back to Michigan and got the old gang back together to film a new episode. A 20 documentary crew followed us making 20 Years of Madness, a film directed by Jeremy Royce that tells the story of the reunion and shows the struggles we faced getting back together as well as delving into the stories of the main characters and the different paths our lives have taken. The film uses a lot of our analog footage from the 90s to really underline the ways in which we've changed while also showing how we're still the same in some fundamental ways. It's ultimately a story about friendship and dreams and the importance of a creative community as a uniting force that transcends the hardships of a fractured group of dreamers.
Q: Where can we find out more about the film and 30 Minutes of Madness? A: Links! The show website is www.30mom.com. The doc website is www.20yearsofmadness.com. We've also got the requisite Facebook pages and what not, but I'll let the folks Google to find those. Interview with Jessen Jurado, head coordinator at I/O Chip Music NYC. I/O is a monthly chip music and visual show in Brooklyn, free to play and free or low cost to attend, with the aim of providing exposure for new and established chip musicians, visualists, and mixed media artists. The Antagonist Movement used to host a live music venue on Monday nights at Niagara Bar, in NYC. Some of our busiest nights were 8-Bit events where musicians played original music using modified Game Boys. Alongside the techno sound of beeps and bloops was video pixel art projected onto the walls. Visiting artists from around the world would show up and lead a packed bar in a sweaty dance party. Q: What is 8-bit music? How is it made, and why? A: Its called chip music, (or chiptune, 8-bit music) because the sounds are made by a computer chip. A musician composes by programming a set of instructionssimilar to sheet musicfor the chip to play in real time, almost like a music box or player piano. As for why, some musicians grew up listening to chip, or are young enough so it sounds new and interesting to them. Others enjoy the challenge of creating highly complex works using simple tools and showcasing their work live at a venue before an audience. Marjorie Becker 21 Q: Tell us why 8-Bit is centered on Game Boys and other old gaming systems. A: Chip musicians actually use a large variety of classic computers and game systems to get the chip sounds they want. Like vintage beat machines and keyboards, these devices are still used for making music, easily available, and have decades of information about their capabilities available online. Game Boys are especially popular with chip musicians because there is great software support for them and the hardware is tough and portable. Even with the availability of todays handheld devices and dozens of mobile apps, for less than $100 the Game Boy is still a solid dedicated solution for composing music on the go. Q: Tell us about how far this underground scene has spread. I know it is big in other cities too. A: Since the early 2000s chip music has been gaining worldwide renown, due in part to the popularity of monthly live shows and the (now-defunct) Blip Festivals in New York, Europe and Tokyo. I could oversimplify and say the music originated in Japan, enjoyed steady popularity in Europe and spread throughout the US via the East Coast, but that would undermine how much the current wave of chip music grew up alongside the rise of the Internet. It is modern music created using vintage tools informed by the decades of music, and distributed instantly throughout a global network: you cant tie its influences to any particular place or time. Q: Where do you see 8-Bit going in the future? Will other old gaming systems be hacked to make music? A: Chip music has plenty of influence on mainstream pop, hip-hop, and dance music today, even if it isnt always strictly made on video game systems. The sounds are ubiquitous enough that most people will hear it and recognize it as Nintendo or retro even if they dont know what it is or how its made. There are plenty of bands and producers today incorporating the sounds of chip into their songs. Chip music, as a matter of course, is a bit more pure. Marjorie Becker 22 Q: Where can we learn more about 8-Bit? A: For a good introduction to chip music I recommend going to a live show. http://www.iochipmusic.com/about https://www.facebook.com/iochipmusic/info In a time before CD cassette tapes ruled, I remember making mix tapes for my friends of my favorite punk rock bands and mailing them all over the country, or handing them off to my pals. I would spend hours copying the names and songs on to a handmade cover with artwork. This was a time before the Internet and discovering new bands meant you had to seek them out. It let me act as the distributor and taste- maker that helped form my friends choices. I recently came across Angel Nikola's Facebook page and noticed that she listed Stink Rat cassettes & records in her About section. It was through her I found out that there is still a thriving underground that trades and collects cassette tapes. I asked her to recommend someone for an interview who is a tape distributor and artist, and we found Jude Noel.
Interview by Angel Nikola and Ethan Minsker Q: How did you get into this? Jude Noel: Ive always been a fan of obscure music, especially that which has a fuzzy, home-recorded texture. The best place to find this sort of music, in my opinion, is Bandcamp, a website which allows any member to stream and sell their music, and its all free! One day, while browsing the sites experimental tag, I came across this great single by a solo project called Abuela. It was an entrancing effort, minimal and mumbly folk, accented by the singers gravelly falsetto. Looking around on that particular Bandcamp page led me to find out that the single was released on cassette. That came as a major surprise to me, as the last cassette I could remember being in contact with was a Simon and Garfunkle tape I listened to on the way to elementary school. Tapes were already old news by the time I was born! But I couldnt help but love this tape. It was housed in a beautifully collaged cover, and was a nice shade of navy blue. I soon realized that the Abuela tape was just one release on the Swan City Sounds cassette label and that SWS was just one label in a community of cassette distributors. It was a sort of circle of friends that I wanted to be a part of. From that day on, I began to review cassettes for my music blog, Half-Gifts, and started collecting tapes of my own. 23 Q: What is the benefit of cassettes? Jude Noel: Tapes have the high level of collectability and customization, which I crave. They remind me of the baseball cards I stockpiled when I was younger. They each were the same size and shape and had a similar concept, but the manufacturers they came from, (Fleer, Topps, etc), each had a slightly different vibe. Plus, some cards were more coveted than others due to their rarity. There are definitely some legendary tapes out there that Id like to have. And, of course, they were just plain fun to read and to look at. For me, its not so much the nostalgia of the format itself. Im too young to have experienced tapes in their heyday. Its the nostalgia of collecting things and obsessing over them that gets me.
Q: Do you believe cassette tapes have ever been a dead technology? Jude Noel: Hmm, Im not really sure. I feel like theyre inferior in sound quality to CDs and vinyl, but I actually prefer that fuzzy warble over an overly-slick sound myself. But from my limited knowledge, tape culture kind of hit a dry period around the late 90s and early 2000s. But then again, so did just about all culture. Q: Where can we find out more? Jude Noel: Ill shamelessly plug my blog here: half-gifts.blogspot.com. I review a lot of tapes there. Also, Id check out other blogs like Cassette Gods, Weed Temple and Tape Famous. Make sure to visit the subreddit /r/cassetteculture as well! Think Tank Interview Q: Give us a statement of purpose for Think Tank? . Any bands you want to name drop do it here. A: The Tank was built to provide a creative environment for artists to experi- ment with ideas using various vintage instruments, amps, recording devices, effects, and consoles. I have partnered with members of Sonic Youth, Don Fleming, and local artists from Hoboken, NYC, and Brooklyn to accumulate an eclectic collection of gear.
Q: Could you tell me about Think Tank and about some of your best/oddest recording equipment, especially the stuff no one uses anymore?
A: Think Tank Studio was built in 1996 as a total DIY projectby the artists, for artists. The studio features a Neve 5116 analog console, Studer A800 16 track 2 tape machine and an Ampeg ATR-102 2 track. We also have a classic EMT 140 stereo tube plate reverb. These control room gems are complemented by an extensive microphone collection as well as a collection of 2 dozen vintage Fender, Ampeg, and Vox amps. We also have 2 Pro Tools rigs for digital multi-tracking and mixing. Q: How does this affect the quality of recorded sound? A: All of the vintage gear gives an array of options allowing artists to go from totally gritty, overdriven analog tube distortion to pristine digital 24bit/192kbps resolution and everything in between. Recording is widely enhanced by having options for manipulating sound Q: Tell us about the events you do there. 24 A: We have a running SOUNDcheck series where artists such as Mike Doughty, Jesse Malin, Jim Boggia, and Ari Hest perform live for a small audience (25-30 people) which we record multi-track and video for use by the artist and access through our website.
Q: Website or where people can find out more: A: Check out http://www.thinktankstudio.org for a complete gear list, plus a listing of artists who have recorded and performed in the Tank. Feel free to contact us for sessions and/or general inquiries. Rock On! Matty and the Tank team. Interview with Hit and Run Cinema From Berlin, Germany Interviewers Note: Because of the nature of their work, we are leaving out names. I will say there are hints of who they might be laced into our films, but I wouldnt tell you which films so its more of an egg hunt. We have worked with some of their members for years. Q: Not sure I have the name right, but can you give us the statement of purpose of the Outlaw Cinema? A: The Outlaw Cinema or as we usually call it, Hit and Run Cinema, has the concept to show films at special locations. These locations are often abandoned buildings, but sometimes we use also aban- doned underground passages. It is like a pop-up cinema at a location nobody is expecting a cinema. Normally we have a location and the film is chosen in order to interact and to establish a connection with the location. Q: Where are some of the strange locations you have shown in and what happens when the cops show up? A: We have shown movies in different locations like old hospitals, supermarkets, factories, garden plots, abandoned clubs, schools, liquor factories, and so on. Its very uncommon that cops show up during the screening. We sometimes have a situation where they were looking for us but they couldnt find us because we set 25 up the cinema in a part of the building that was away from the street, and the police stood outside, waiting for somebody to leave the building. In this case, we tell people not to go outside for the next e.g. half an hour after the film and normally the police arent waiting any longer. However, it happens sometimes that the police find the Hit and Run Cinema. Normally we have to quit the film and everybody has to leave the building. Q: What type of films do you show? A: We show films which refer to the building the Hit and Run cinema takes place in. When we had the cinema in the old liquor factory we showed Special Treat, a Yugoslavian movie from the early 80s about a specialist who is treating alcoholics in a hospital. In general, we show the original version with English subtitles. We are trying to find films which are unknown by a broad audience. Q: Can people submit work to be screened by you? A: No, normally not. Q: Tell us about some of the film equipment you bought? Why use 16mm and Super 8 and not video? A: Ive used Super 8 since I was 13. At the same time I started to gain some experience with photography and so it was consequential to use also Super 8. Furthermore, at this time Kodak was still producing the Kodachrome film, which offered fantastic colors, much better than the standard video equipment like VHS-C. Some years later the Internet and Ebay started getting more important and I was able to buy a lot of Super 8 equipment and films for little money. For a time we shot a lot on Super 8, films with goats and films without goats. But Super 8 is very small and difficult to handle. A few years ago I found out that 16mm is available for nearly the same price and at first I started to collect some movies on 16mm. Sometimes it happens that the perfora- tion or some parts of the film are damaged and I was looking for a small 16mm editing table. I found one 400 miles away from Berlin. Rolf was 26 27 selling an editing table he had used to produce German television, until the year 2000, but he no longer needed it. He liked the idea that somebody was still interested in 16mm and he offered me all the 16mm equipment he had. A few other things like the Nagra or some features for the camera I found at the Internet. But Im surprised how many people are still maintaining all this old analog equipment. Q: Where can we see more? Website? Contact for the group? A: We have no contact or website for the Hit and Run Cinema, we only have a newsletter. Normally you can be part of the newsletter if you sign in during one of the screenings. At the moment we have around 15,000 email addresses in the newsletter. We don't advertise because it is all illegal. Blak Mama (2009) 95 min-DVD Directors: Miguel Alvear, Patricio Andrade Quito, Ecuador http://www.ochoymedio.net/productora-8/ http://www.behance.net/gallery/BLAK-MAMA-(2009)/8732213
Visual poetry. If you are an artist traveling to Ecuador this is a film I suggest you watch. Ecuador has a rich and varied history that is intertwined with the Incas, The Spanish, a dictator, and the Catholic Church. The storyline follows three crossed lovers on a journey of discovery and self-awakening that leaps through time and space. Blak Mama illustrates the emotional subtext of a culture and its people. Recommended. Reviews Ethan Minsker Movies A Million Little Pieces By James Frey April 15, 2003 (John Murray) ISBN 0-385-50775-5 It tells the story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and drug abuser and how he copes with rehabilitation in a twelve steps-oriented treatment center. While initially promoted as a memoir, it was later discovered that many of the events described in the book never happened. (Wikipedia) Books 28 This was a book left by my roommates after they moved out. I was told to read it, but after it was discovered that Frey had lied about most of it and pissed off Oprah Winfrey I thought twice about investing the time. 10 years later I picked it up off the shelf and decided to try it out. What popped out first was his style of writing. FAST. As if his flow of consciousness didnt have time to format into a conventional style. It was hard to get used to for the first 30 pages or so, but once I did I appreci- ated it. That alone makes it worth reading. However, it is clear that a lot of the story is made up. This is especially true when it comes to the gangster/criminal element that seems as if he took it right from a bad TV show. I dont use drugs but those parts and the self-hatredthe Fury, as he calls itseem right on. The big problem is the main characters name is James Frey so whenever I read a corny part (like any part where he delves into the subject of Love) I couldnt help but turn the book over and look at his photo and shake my head. It is one thing to crank out a book, and another to purposefully not limit the corniness and crap that just pulls you out of the story. But nonetheless I did enjoy the book and wasnt bored, for the most part (except when he repeated himself a little too much). I would still recommend this book as a fine example of style and how personal style can make the difference. Razorcake (Non-profit punk rock) $4 8 X 11 black and white newsprint 112 pages razorcake.org
Like Maximum Rock And Roll but younger, faster, and I might add, cooler. I have been sending my books, fanzines, and films for review to Razorcake and even though sometimes they may sting a little I trust them to be fair and honest. And that is valuable feedback if you want to improve your art. The focus is on punk rock music and politics, interviews, cartoons and everything you want for a good read. Recom- mended. Fanzines Le Sparragusanada-$3 7 X 7 Full color printed Pages 50 Quito, Ecuador lesparragusanada.ec
Cartoons from Mexico, Argentina, and Ecuador. All in Spanish. I have no clue what they are saying but that doesnt really matter. The artwork is fantastic. This should be huge! From the images I can tell it covers sex and 29 violence, comedy, teen angst, and interviews. I was a fan of Heavy Metal Magazine as a teenager and even though this is not so much centered on Sci-Fi, I still see connections. Maybe that is just me. Strapped-mini zine Color printed on glossy paper Digest size 12 pages For copies contact Dori Cameron at STRAPPEDzine@gmail.com Art, poems, short stories, rants. My two favorite things about Strapped? 1.) The artwork. 2.) Life Lessons with Jay and McCool. These are probably the guys I would hang out with. Making fun of mustaches and E-Cigs? Hell yes. Basura Yellow cover with black and white guts Digest size 22 pages I met Elijah Arrington (http://no-future82.tumblr.com or @no_future82 on Instagram) in Victoria, Texas during an artist salon we held there during the VXTIFF. He stands at about 67 and towers over me with a Mohawk and dresses way more punk than I ever did. He handed me a copy and I must say, I love this zine. Filled with artwork that reminds me of the old Pushead art on flyers and record covers. I could see the artwork ending up on shirts and tattoos. So very punk rock. I love it! All vinyl, never downloaded, never streamed, never from CD. Our record player has one mono speaker with no thrillsthe way you should be listening to records. We love dead technologies, if that isn't clear yet.
How do we find records? When we travel we find the local record shop and ask the clerk to select the best of what is local, generally punk and rock.
This issue we cover: Austin, Texas; Providence, RI; and France. Album: 7 Damnit Pomegranate/Cant Complain Band: A Giant Dog $5.40 Where I picked this up: Austin, TX Website or contact: www.tictactotally.com Stars: **** Fast rock reminds me of the best party punk bands of the 80s. Oingo Boingo comes to mind though I am sure the band would hate that connection. Music 30 Album: 7 Les Silences/Terre Damnee Band: La Fraction Where I picked this up: France Website or contact: lafraction.org Stars: ****
For the true music lover La Fraction is good for your diet. I eat you! In the style of 70s punk. I have no clue what they are saying since it is in French but whatever it is she isnt joking. The singer belts it out with pure emotion. Good if you are in an angry mood. Album: 7 Look Back and Laugh clear blue vinyl, great packaging Band: Dropdead Where I picked this up: Providence, RI Website or contact: www.armageddonshop.com Stars: ***
My daughter of three years old said, Icky. My wife said, Turn it off it hurts my brain! But I doubt either grasps the complexity of hardcore. My daughter might learn, my wife never will. I enjoyed this. My vote is the only one that counts. Album: 7 Love On You/Dragstrip Band: Homer Henderson: One Man Band Where I picked this up: Austin, TX Website or contact: P.O. Box 141199-672 Dallas, TX 75214 https://myspace.com/homerhenderson Stars: ***** (My favorite of this batch of reviews)
Rockabilly with echo on the vocals, honky-tonk bluesperfect for a road trip. This record was recorded live at the Party Lab 6.23.94 Well done good sir. Album: 7 Sweat Lodge Band: Sweat Lodge $6 Where I picked this up: Austin, TX Website or contact: americaniconrecords.bigcartel.com Stars: **** 31 Even at 33 rpm it still sounds fast. Vocals like Vice Squad (old 80s English punk from UK fronted by a woman) fused with Led Zeppelin meets Judas Priest all in a switch blade fight. Album: 7 Black Triangle Band: The Best $5 Where I picked this up: Austin, TX Website or contact: twistworthy.com Stars: ****
There is genus in the name of this band. Who is playing tonight? Answer. The Best. How could you go wrong with a name like that? Also you better not suck. They dont. Quite good in fact. I like. Dirty down rock and roll. Album: 7 Very Negative Great packaging, black insert, black label with no text, the record has a nice weight to it Band: F/I $5 Where I picked this up: Providence, RI Website or contact: atomicactionrecords.bigcartel.com Stars: ***
Comes with a download. Trash metal. I can imagine a mini mosh pit like a spinning hurricane. This will not be the average cup of tea for the easy listener. This is for those with a strong constitution. Makes me wish I had long hair, hell makes me wish I had any hair at all. I just wish I had hair. Citizens for The Arts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) New York State licensed, federally tax-exempt charitable organization. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law. Citizens for the Arts is inspired by the foundations created by The Antagonist Art Movement. Citizens For The Arts citizensforthearts.com facebook.com/pages/Citizens-For-The-Arts ISSUE ARTISTS Sylvia Ortiz http://thebeautifully grotesque.blogspot.com Jake Ramirez Instagram@sumerianlights Adrian Alexis adrianalexis.com Marjorie Becker www.chiptography.com All interview photographs are courtesy of the interviewee. Unless otherwise posted. NEXT ISSUE He Said, She Said Misunderstandings, overheard conversations. I was at work when a woman said to me, Hows it hanging? Most guys will tell you that when you are asked, Hows it hanging? that it refers to your dick. The correct response is to the left or right or low. But since I was at work I said, It is hanging appropri- ately. She didnt think anything of it and as we made it to an intersection of the hallway she cut to the left and I walked on straight to one of the offices to ask what a few friends would have thought it meant. The consensus was all the men thought it was about the dick and all the women thought it meant How are things? But I still dont see how they translate that from it hanging. It is a dick. A DICK! So your task has been set. As I look at my watch and mark the date and time I lift my arm in the air with a starters pistol. BANG! Start writing. That means you! Write or send us your artwork on this theme! Deadline October 1st 2014. Guidelines: 500 words or less (less is better); Art 300 DPI .tif or .jpg. Send submissions to our Facebook page or pmzsubmissions@gmail.com. Le Sparragusanada-$3 7 X 7 Full color printed Pages 50 Quito, Ecuador lesparragusanada.ec
Cartoons from Mexico, Argentina, and Ecuador. All in Spanish. I have no clue what they are saying but that doesnt really matter. The artwork is fantastic. This should be huge! From the images I can tell it covers sex and 32 Located in New York Citys East Village, and a community staple since 2000, the Antagonists consist of a network of artists, musicians, and writers that come together to celebrate one anothers talents and provoke each others creative potential. Since its inception the group has grown exponentially. As such, CFA has adapted these foundations, adding initiatives to foster domestic and interna- tional cultural exchange. The primary focus is to provide projects that enable learning opportunities, job opportunities, teaching and leadership skills, and growth and support in other artistic ventures in each members respective community.
Please make a donation and help. ANTAGONIST FILM CATALOG The Dolls Of Lisbon - A movie about struggling artists making work on the other side of the world. A DIY eyeball-busting bonanza. Available on Amazon, iTunes and on DVD. Also available at St. Marks Book Shop on 9th St & 3rd Ave. Money goes to making new overseas art projects. This is Berlin, Not New York - See what trouble the Antagonists can get into when you make art in abandoned buildings in Berlin. Available on DVD and Amazon instant download. Anything Boys Can Do - Female musicians are all too often regarded as novelty acts, regularly shrugged off as militant feminist or cutely enter- taining. Overwhelmed by the numbers of male bands, female bands of the scene are lumped together in one category, "girl group", regardless of their vastly different styles. Available on DVD and Amazon instant download. The Soft Hustle - The story of a Lower East Side lowlife who makes a bet for $1,000, which he promptly loses. After getting kicked out of the apartment by his girlfriend, he finds himself having sex with cheap barflies, robbing East Village stores, and pathetically pretending he is gay just to have a place to sleep. Available on Amazon instant download. Album: 7 Damnit Pomegranate/Cant Complain Band: A Giant Dog $5.40 Where I picked this up: Austin, TX Website or contact: www.tictactotally.com Stars: **** Fast rock reminds me of the best party punk bands of the 80s. Oingo Boingo comes to mind though I am sure the band would hate that connection. 33 Rich Boy Cries For Momma - A first-hand account of Washington, D.C.s punk rock scene in the 80s and 90s as told by a dyslexic punk. Available anywhere e-books and paperbacks are sold. Also available at St. Marks Book Shop on 9th St & 3rd Ave. and Generation Records at 210 Thompson St. between w. 3rd and Bleecker St. Money goes to publishing new books. Barstool Prophets - A book about the dirty secrets every bartender in the Lower East Side knows. Before you date a bartender, read this book. Available anywhere e-books and paper- backs are sold. Also available at St. Marks Book Shop on 9th St & 3rd Ave. Money goes to publishing new books. ANTAGONIST BOOK CATALOG ANTAGONIST MERCHANDISE Where can you get an Antagonist shirt, button or a buncha other stuff ? Head on over to antagovision.com and visit our Store 34 Sylvia Ortiz Award winning artist Sylvia O. and The Beautifully Grotesque, a life long thesis, where she pushes and pulls the boundaries of what is considered Ethe- real and Abhorrent. Constantly dissecting the definitions, boundaries, standards, and expectations of these two anomalies. In an attempt to lure and seduce the viewer into delving deeper into their own identity and perception of what separates the beautiful from the grotesque by using the human form as an object as opposed to the subject. Her ultimate goal is to convince the viewer that there is no line between the beautiful or the grotesque, but instead they exists as one entity. In 2010 Sylvia O. had to put her career aside to battle Breast Cancer; which is ironic because of her signature floating Boobles. An iconic symbol of femininity, strength, sustenance and vitality in her work. Often using vibrant colors that allure but also marring them with dark splotches of black and fine line work. In hopes to enlighten and pave a road of consciousness for women to follow as she prepares for her artistic comeback. Her works have been published in pop culture magazines such as Juxtapoz, the Schiffer book called The New Brow: 50 contemporary artist which was released in 2012; Her work has traveled around the world and has exhibited in renowned shows like NYCs Red Dot Fair, Kris Kuksis Beauty isnt pretty juried exhibition, DCs Art Whino G40, Fountain Fair, Art basel and many others. Sylvia is in her 4th year (4th recurrence) of aggressive cancer. This is no joke. She needs your help. That means we need your help. Please give if you can and pass this on. Please! Sylvia has been a part of the Antagonist Movement from the start. She has created designs for our clothing, illustrated for our zine, curated shows and been an organizer for events. Not only is she a great artist, but also a close friend and a little sister. We need her here with us. http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/fight-like-a-girl-/199879 ARTIST OF THE ISSUE A Note From the Editor