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UGGS AND NIKE SHORTS
DISTRESSED CLOTHES
Clean Dressed, Dirty Mouth
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A group exhibition curated by David Marsh featuring works by Atomik, Hest, David Marsh, Arnaud Pages, Pucho,Kiki Valdes and Kerry Ware
CLEAN DRESSED, DIRTY MOUTH
Atomik
Pucho
Jel Martinez
Arnaud Pages
Atomik
Pucho
Arnaud Pages
David Marsh
Hox
Hest
Kristen Soller Marsh, Jill Weisberg
Luis Berros
Kiki Valdes
Kerry Ware
Pucho
Pucho
Atomik
Luis Valle
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FACIAL HAIR
NOT MATCHING OR ALL ONE COLOR
Beards are tricky to pull off, and most often end up looking a little
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Baggy clothes like sweats and basketball shorts are meant for wearing when participating in athletics. If you would like to wear them at other times, keep it in your home.
People you've seen:
Nina Newman
Henry Benschoter
Peter Rees-Eissler
Accessories that don't match aren't very pleasing to the eye. When wearing an accessory of one color, try to incorporate it in your look at least one other piece.
People you've seen:
John Walters
Antonio Skillicorn
Brian Mayor
SWEATS OR BASKETBALL SHORTS
ACCESSORIES THAT DON'T MATCH
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DRESSING FOR THE WRONG SEASON
Dressing for winter while it's summer, or dressing for summer while it's winter is just dumb, not to mention you look very out of place. Your outfit may be cute, but please save it for the right season.
You've seen:
Abigail Boswell
Deborah Zachgo
Darrion Williams
Wearing similar shades of denim is awkward, and not very pleasing to the eye. If you want to wear multiple pieces of denim, try drastically different shades.
You've seen:
Kendall Brice
Grace Fullerton
Don Haynes
DENIM ON DENIM
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H E L L E
TYRA BANKS
WEIGHS IN
WORST FASHION FAUX PAS FROM
TIM GUNN
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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO INTERVIEW
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Where and When did Esplendor Geometrico form?
AL:Esplendor Geométrico was born in Madrid in 1980. At the beginning we were three: Me (Arturo Lanz), Juan Carlos Sastre and Gabriel Riaza. All of us belonged to a previous group, El Aviador Dro y sus Obreros Especializados, that I funded with Servando Carballar in 1978. After few time Juan Carlos left the group and for nearly ten years EG was formed by two members until Saverio joined the group at the beginning of the nineties. Now we are two since when Gabriel decided to leave the group.
What was your main inspiration? Was EG's sound ultimately a product of the environment you were in at the time?
AL:At the beginning, but just at the beginning, our main inspiration was TG. I found their very first LP in a record shop in Zurich. Our music was completely different from the music that you could listen to in Spain at that time, so we cannot consider ourself as a product of the environment.
The music of EG can be harsh and sombre, yet meditative and deeply immersive, how would you yourselves describe your sound?
AL:Yes, you can find in our music all the aspects that you described in your question. Since the beginning, our music was considered "industrial", and perhaps at the beginning was correct. But very soon we begun to change. We don't know, but probably we could define our music "tribal" or even "ethnic" but we don't know exactly from which continent...
What music do you listen to when you are at home?
AL:A lot of years ago I stopped listening to electronic music. Except traditional Asian music, usually I don't listen music at home: I prefer to compose my music.
SE: There is a lot of different genres of music that I like to listen to at my home: electronic, contemporary, dance music, etc.
The earlier works of EG feature extremely controversial and uncompromising themes -were these personal obsessions or shock tactics to attack a social or political mindset inherent in Spain?
AL:We did't have any political strategy: just till the first album we liked to provoke because we hated the "movida" scene in Madrid. That scene was a sort of spanish new wave and we considered it a "pose". As a result EG was isolated from spanish musical scene during these years.
Tell us about the Spanish music scene at that time, were you unique in your vision and aesthetic or were there any other groups perhaps languishing in obscurity now you could shed light upon?
AL:To be honest, at that time, EG was the only group in that kind of music but after short time new projects appeared like La Otra Cara de un Jardin, Francisco López, Comando Bruno, Diseño Corbusier, Orfeon Gagarin, Melodinamika Sensor, etc.
In the middle of the eighties in Spain there was a lesser known underground electronic scene but very well connected with the international network created by cassette labels. That scene disappeared at the end of the eighties and just few of them projects survived.
What was the initial reaction to your music in the Spanish music press?
AL:We didn't exist for Spanish musical magazines until the end of eighties. Curiously the most important Spanish newspaper, El Pais, since the beginning, talked about us reviewing our releases and our performances.
How long did it take to achieve recognition outside of your homeland?
AL:The compilation Fix Planet released in Germany in 1981 by Der Plan helped us a lot to diffuse our name outside of Spain. Since then we began to establish good contacts with the international scene (Masami Akita, Graeme Revell (SPK), Maurizio Bianchi, Nocturnal Emissions, etc)
By the end of the late nineties ex-TG members were remixing EG tracks, were you in contact with TG and the orig indust movement in the late 70's/early 80's or did this acquaintanceship come later?
AL: Since 1980 we was in contact with the industrial scene of that moment, especially with Graeme Revell from SPK, Maurizio Bianchi (MB), Masami Akita (Merzbow), Nocturnal Emissions, Jordi Valls (Vagina Dentata Orga), Hunting Lodge, Ramleh, etc…We exchanged vinyls and tapes. After I stopped to listen any kind of music except Esplendor. Years later, when I was in Beijing, I contacted Chris Carter : I liked a lot the remix that Chris & Cosey made for Japanese CD En-Co-D (1997)
You have built up a huge body of work with EG, did you ever think you music would be considered so influential and regarded as an important part in the development of modern electronic music?
AL: I never thought if our music was important for electronic music scene. We enjoy composing music and that's all. We don't even take care about our releases. There is someone to take care of it: our friend Andrés Noarbe (the manager of Geometrik label).
Sometimes it happens that groups or artists which we play together with in a festival, told us that in some way we were an influence for them.
Having pioneered a repetitive hypnotic sound before the onset of rave culture and seemingly anticipating it, what did you think to the techno/house explosion of the mid to late eighties? Was EG's music embraced by the emergent rave culture?
AL: I abandoned listening to electronic music (except ours) since the middle of the eighties so I don't have an opinion about it. Only few months ago I played alone, without Saverio, in a techno club with some techno artists. At the same time I felt that kind of music was boring for me but good for dancing.
What is your most interesting experience you have had being in EG?Any interesting stories you would like to perhaps share?
AL:As you can imagine, in more than 30 years there are a lot curious things to tell. Perhaps the most funny is when, in the eighties, I played to an audience of spanish military officers. All of them wearing dress uniforms. They invited me because, at that time, I was a lieutenant, but obviously they didn't know what kind of music we were doing! It was really crazy!
In November we went to Japan again, for the fourth time. Playing there is ever really interesting: the people is so nice and sound is perfect.
What are your interests outside of music? Are there any authors or artists you are a fan of?
AL: My family, meditation, running, swimming and cycling. I'm not a fan of any artist.
SE: My daughters, maths. As I told you before, I still enjoy to listen music and while nowadays I'm not a fan but in the past I remember I was a fan of Kraftwerk for example (and before I joined Them, I was a big fan of Esplendor!).
Saverio, in your solo career you have worked with avant noise legend Maurizio Bianchi, how did that come about and how would you describe your sound outside of EG?
SE:I met Maurizio Bianchi a lot of years ago, when he abandoned music for the first time, I bought from him his legendaries Roland rhythm machine and analog Teisco delay. Some years ago, Satoshi Morita, the boss of Gift Records, proposed to both a collaboration and then we released "Micromal Sonorities". Now I'm working to the second chapter of this collaboration that I hope will be soon finished. My sound outside EG is probably much more abstract: I don't want to replicate things that I already make with Esplendor.
Arturo,what motivated your relocation to Beijing, and are there any Beijing based artists you could recommend?
AL: I went to Beijing because of my work. I went back to Madrid in 2012, but probably in few years I'll be back again to China. I don't know very well the scene in China but I had the opportunity to listen to some groups like the “No New York” scene and I liked them. But to be honest I don't remember their names.
Lastly,what are you both currently working on or planning at the moment?What does the future hold for EG? What direction are you taking?
AL:Few months ago we released our album Ultraphoon, so now we are beginning to work at new tracks for a new album. Our direction is ever the same: we will follow to create our music and enjoy while doing it. This is our receipt.--
ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO
Black Forest interviewed the Spanish Electronic Legends who released their latest LP 'Ultraphoon' last year on Geometrik records, peforming currently as the duo of founder member ARTURO LANZ and SAVERIO EVANGELISTA...
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MICHAEL COWELL INTERVIEW
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Black Forest spoke to London based Artist MICHAEL COWELL about his influences,
inspirations and future projects...
When did you start drawing?
I’ve been making artwork for as long as I remember. Some of my earliest memories are of contentedly sitting on the floor with a sketchpad...
What inspires you?
A great number of things find their way into my work. I spend a lot of time looking at other artists who work in a variety of media (Film-makers, photographers, painters, illustrators, etc) and I read a lot. Currently a lot about early Christian separatism, but also a lot of occult history. It seems I’ve not read any fiction in quite a while.
Have your inspirations changed over the years?
A great deal but all the twists of my development are still very much present in my work. When I got serious about becoming an illustrator I started off looking almost exclusively at comic artists such as Dave McKean and Ashley Wood. Shadow, light and loose gestures were very important to me, but as I’ve grown more into creating artwork to be screen printed, it has shifted to people like Gustav Dore, Aubrey Beardsley so I’ve absorbed a lot more pose and iconography. Also, due to the nature of community, I find inspiration through a great many of my peers. It is my fellow artists more than anything, I think, that drive me to improve my skills and ideas.
What work have you been commissioned to do?
As I’ve worked predominantly in gig posters as a medium, I’ve worked for a great variety of bands over the years. Everyone from Queens Of The Stone Age and Kyuss to The National and Dandy Warhols.
What are you currently working on and what are your plans for the future?
I’m currently finishing up a couple of album sleeves to be released by the end of the first quarter of this year. Also there are a few more screen printed art prints in the pipe-line as well as a very exciting project illustrating an early Alchemical manuscript that is requiring a remarkable amount of research.
My plans for the future are to continue making as much work as possible, diversify into working with publishers of the kind of literature mentioned above, and continue to exhibit as widely as I can.
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Papabubble Istanbul
Papabubble, geleneksel yöntemler ile tasarımı birleştirerek şekerler üreten artezyen bir markadır. 2004 yılında ilk şekerlerini Barcelonada yapmaya başlayan Papabubble ustaları, hızla dünyaya yayılmış, Avrupa, Asya, Amerika ve Orta Doğu dan sonra 28. şube ile Türkiyedeki misafirlerini karşılamaya başlamıştır. İşinin ehli ustalar ile tasarımlarını lezzete dönüştürmek isteyen herkes, Trump Caddedeki ilk dükkanda buluşuyor.
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MIDNIGHT MEMORIES
The moon waxes and wanes. You lay your head on my shoulder and breathe slowly, deeply. Thoughts pour through my body. Rivers. Roads. Pop lyrics creep in one ear, out the other. This one and only edition of "Midnight Memories" will hopefully capture some of the best parts of this half-journey around the sun that I have been lucky enough to spend with you. And give you a glimpse into the thoughts/hopes/fears that linger into consiousness as I lay next to you, as you drift in and out of beautiful sleep.
It is meant to be serious, funny, erotic, ridiculous and full of occasions that only you will understand.
Dallas Clay -14 Febrero 2013
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We would come back to this apartment later that evening after a long night out on the town in Hell's kitchen and sneak onto the roof of the building. A stunning view of midtown lay more than a hundred blocks in the distance. Miraculously, an abundance of stars were visible in the clear blue sky. After a few minutes, I lay on my back and let all the air out of my lungs. Horacio's back was facing me and he glanced around and saw me laying there. He quickly joined and we cuddled up on the roof to warm from the chill in the late-September air. I felt so at peace laying next to him and felt as though my guard was down and hoped that he could sense the closeness that I felt at that moment. As we gazed at the stars, Horacio exclaimed, "did you see that!?" A fleeting glimpse of a shooting star quickly passed over the sky in an instant. "I did. I can't remember the last time I saw a shooting star." These moments are what makes life worth living for me. As many fears and doubts as I have building a new relationship, these moments are essential to my existence. Even if things do not work out, I'll always have this. And that makes it worth it.
Lassothemoon Gift Baskets Moves to a New Location
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So far 2014 is off to a great start
for us here at Lassothemoon Gift Baskets. We are proud to announce that we have
moved to a new location. For the past
month we have been furiously moving into our new location at 6000 Bass Lake
Road Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is a
huge step for us to have our own space because it’s something that we've
dreamed about for a long time. We hope
this will open up more opportunities for us as we can now better serve our
clients.
While we are extremely excited, we still have a lot of work to do to get our new location ready. We were so grateful to have found this space as it is in a great location. The landlord here spruced up the room for us by repainting, taking out a wall and even adding in new carpet. When we arrived it looked brand new! By the time this is all said and done we will have a break room, a space to have our lovely gift baskets displayed, and a work area for designing and putting together the gift baskets.
Empty Space Before Moving In
The first thing we had to do was move a lot of equipment and supplies from the old location to the new one. Lucky for us the day we moved it was about 30 degrees Fahrenheit outside which is balmy considering the horrendously cold winter we've been having here in Minnesota.
We got a lot of stuff moved that day but as you can see in the photo we had a room full of boxes. The moving part would be easy compared to organizing and setting up. We had come prepared though. Before making the move we measured the space and came up with the exact layout of our new store down to every last inch. First we started installing shelving. The space is not very big so we knew we had to optimize the area by using the walls.
Just a room full of boxes!
Things are starting to be more organized!
From there we've just been adding more shelving along with seating, a measuring table and organizing all of our supplies that we use to make the gift baskets. It’s a lot of work but we’re having a blast. We know that this new space is great for us and will allow us to interact with customers more and keep a larger inventory. Feel free to stop in anytime, we’ll be here!We'll also be uploading a YouTube video of the move in process. Look for that within the next month!
Check out this panoramic photo of the work we've done so far!
Our new door sign!
New Year, New Space!
Lassothemoon Gift Baskets Has a New Location!
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Lo mejor de la temporada
evista Roubaix
Número 1/Enero 2014
Revista Roubaix
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Una forma diferente de vivir el ciclismo
C.A.N.S. INTERVIEW
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How did CANS come into being?
The name CANS - Central Asian Nervous Systems came to me after having a history class just before a biology class in high school. We were learning about Central Asia in history and then about the nervous system in biology. I had been smoking a lot of marijuana and taking LSD the prior weekend. In front of me on my school desk was a book about William S Burroughs and his "cut up's ". I often read Beat Generation books and Dostoevsky in my classrooms instead of the required readings. During lunch break "Central Asian Nervous Systems" came into my mind. I saved that in my internal hard drive to be used in the future. 20 years later I needed a name for the music I produce. CANS seemed right for the times due to all the conflict and damage being done in Central Asia. Musically speaking CANS is just the latest name given to my 25 years worth of home recordings.
I was a 4 - track cassette tape kid , and an improviser. I use anything and everything I can get my hands on to record. Most of my work is done without much thought and usually in one or two takes. CANS is a moniker , something to mark the music by. A stamp. Before that it was Testicular Manslaughter , that one came to me while in Drivers Education Class !
Where do you draw your inspiration from?
Headphones! Headphones are my private sanctuary. Headphones are my personal space and that space is just the way that I like it. It may be selfish and slightly narcissistic , yet I prefer to be alone and to work alone. After being a part of so many bands that have broken up it just has to be this way. You can always depend on yourself right ?
Analogue electronics and home recording are allot more reliable than a group of boys who have to work and go to school. I would like to get a drum kit , bass , guitars and amps
and make some records that way in the future. That is how I started out. It is just difficult to keep that gear together after moving around a lot and always being on a limited budget.
I usually don't listen to much new music because I tend to use that time to create music instead , which may or may not be good , I don't know.Bands that have changed my life and defined my sound are Richard H Kirk , The Fall , Jah Wobble , CRASS , Velvet Underground , Ceephax Acid Crew , rare and out of print Hip - Hop and Jazz , Mac Dre and the Hyphy sound from Oakland and I still listen to a lot of 70s Dub Reggae and Prog Rock rarities.
Orlando's DANA YOUNG is the mastermind behind the psyched out industrial electronica of C.A.N.S. Black Forest asked Dana about his past projects,inspirations and his plans for the future....
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C.A.N.S.
Tell us about your side projects,projects you were in prior to CANS and any other stuff you have been involved with...
My first band was The Niguel Hills Jr High School Band. I played and studied snare drum there by the beach in Orange County California. My second band was probably the most successful as far as distribution and plays. It was when I was 12 and played in a group called The Electric Shoes on the television series The Wonder Years. I played bass and was taught to play by Billy Swan of The Kris Kristofferson band . The other members were Allen from Punky Brewster on drums , Joshua the little kid from Rivers Edge on guitar and vocals , Fred Savage on guitar and me as Niel Rhodes on bass guitar. After that I got into a serious highschool band called The Kate Moss Express with Nicholas Dvorkin on bass who has spent the last 20 years buying records for Rasputin Records on Telegraph Ave in Berkley , California and a genius guitarist named Mark Fazio who has flown well under the radar ever since. Mark is wealthy and does not like any social interactions. He has never used Myspace or Facebook and has never wanted to. Yet he is the most talented guitarist that I have ever heard play. After that I played in a group called Silence Fiction with Heather Porcarro (her dad wrote a lot of Michael Jacksons Thriller LP and played the synths , also the founding member of TOTO) , actor Ethan Embry / Randall , Shan Sanford , and Nicholas Dvorkin. That was short lived yet good. Then in 2004 I moved in with John Maus and was asked to join Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and toured extensively with Animal Collective on the 2005 US tour. Soon after that I made Testicular Manslaughter and toured by myself through Europe by way of support from an Irish Record store in Cork called PLUGD.
Now I continue to work with Nicholas Dvorkin of Oakland , CA aka The High Evolutionary , Paul Von Aphid from Russia , Alex Colonelxs and Kaiser Schnitt Amboss Laszlo in Italy,Kevin Rutmanis ( COWS and Melvins and Tomahawk ) in his band Hepa / Titus ( Amphetamine Reptile Records ) and a few other people by way of singing or making beats.
I recently started a new set of songs as The Plagiarist that I have a vision for and have yet to take the time to realize it. It will be in concept a completely visual and aural sample based deal without copyright concerns. The goal with that is to truly plagiarise everything I want and put it out for free.
Whats the music scene like in Orlando?
I really don't know. I moved here from Los Angeles about 4 years ago and have not yet fell into any scene. 5AM Records is cool and they are here and make allot of Boom Bap Hip Hop. Matt Kamm is great and the dudes from Yip Yip as well. Dan Reeves puts on some cool shows that I get to play.
The Full Sail kids can be found at Stardust Video and Coffee and are all pretty cool. I find it easier to book shows in France for myself than here in Orlando.
Just saying. Los Angeles is my home town and i could book shows every week there. Orlando is a tough cookie to crack and I don't care to do the groundwork needed to network shows here. Frankly I recommend that any band on tour skip Orlando , you will not enjoy playing music here , sincerely...
Do you gig regularly? Have you got any Shows, Tours for the future coming up you want to tell people about?
I gig a few times a year here in Orlando at small shows usually Noise Artist shows. Noise seems to be the best scene here in Orlando. I have a tour in the works starting in Spain and ending in Ireland by way of a lable I hooked up with called SPVPV - Sociedad para la Promoción de la Virtud y la Prevención del Vicio that is based in southern Spain. I have played all over the US and Europe in the past. It seems to come in waves , like some years allot and some years nothing. 2014 is looking pretty well though.
Do you have any interests outside music, art, film etc. ?
I am an avid fisherman , I recently started fly fishing which I find to be amazing. Here in Florida the best things to do are to explore the great outdoors and fishing here is world renown. I love to surf and skateboard and help friends out with whatever they have going on.
I have two kids that are a constant source of joy and a never ending list of things to do with them. We have season tickets to Disney World and go there a few times a month. I paint , edit video , have a degree in 3-D animation and grew up in Hollywood as a child actor. I was in the movies , TV , commercials and films. I still read the occasional script and would love to act again if something great presents itself.
Any other artists/labels you would like to recommend to our readers?
Aural Sects Label , Clan Destine Label , All the artists that have contributed to the CANS Label / Collective Soundcloud are hand picked and well worth a spin. Part Time Punks Club and DJ David Orlando aka Boss Harmony (Punky Reggae) in LA can be heard worldwide on KXLU 88.9 Los Andgeles on the web.
Cirque Du Minimalist is a label that I love , it's a German Minimal Techno crew that makes the kind of music I love to work by. Allot of great music from South Africa Len Cockraft and Garreth Dawson have a band called Tannhauser Gate that I love and Witchboy is rad. AUZ has a great thing happening as well. PBS Melbourne AUZ plays allot of great new music and can be heard online as well. DJ Ryan Knowles has a show on Tuesdays 6-7pm on 87.6 KISS FM in Melbourne , AUZ as well called Neo Faux Show. And DJ Mike Texbeak is always on top of the new underground electronic music. I rely on those DJ's for finding new music and the LA dudes for the rare and out of print stuff. I DJ'd vinyl for 10 years in LA and gave it up after moving here to Florida. I had to sell my records because they would not fit on the plane !!!
What are you currently working on and what are your plans for the future?
I am currently designing my live show for the upcoming EU tour for SPVPV - Sociedad para la Promoción de la Virtud y la Prevención del Vicio. As a one man band one must rely on backing tracks to supply the main source of songs. I am getting instrumental vinyl records made for DJ's to play while I do the singing and melody lines on synth , guitar , and bass at the shows. So , getting the vibe and costume and presentation ready and rehearsed by April 2014 is top on my list right now. When we get these opportunities to travel and play it is very important to come correct with a proper show.
I am also working on a Mini DVDr to be released through Aural Sects quite soon. It will contain 2 gigs of music recorded over the past 2 years. A lot of the songs that did not make it onto releases and such. I think it will sell for around 10 - 15 bucks and have well over 100 tracks on it. A few videos as well.
The future ? ..... , expect more CANS and The Plagiarist and live shows I suppose. I am always looking for new gear and such that often reshapes my sound. I really only use hardware synths so , hopefully I can score a few more this year...