Collection 1 - Nude – Pure – Us!

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COLLECTION 1
NUDE . PURE . US
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Nudity is the unifo
of the other side.
Nudity is a shroud
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NINA KHARYTONOVA
Deputy editor-in-chief
email:
nkaharytonova@kaltblut-magazine.com
EMMA E K JONES
Art editor
email:
ejones@kaltblut-magazine.com
COCO MEURER
Music editor
email:
cmeurer@kaltblut-magazine.com
ALEXANDER DANNER
Advertising / Office
email:
danner@kaltblut-magazine.com
NICOLAS SIMONEAU
Art director
email:
nsimoneau@kaltblut-magazine.com
AMANDA M JANSSON
Art editor
email:
ajansson@kaltblut-magazine.com
CLAUDIO ALVARGOMZALEZ
Movie editor
email:
calvargonzalezterar@kaltblut-magazine.com
DANIEL ELLMENREICH
Webmaster
email:
ellmenreich@kaltblut-magazine.com
SUSANN BOSSLAU, DREW EASTMAN, SHEL FULLER, SUZANA HOLTGRAVE, ALESSANDRO LÁZARO, AIDEN CONNOR
KALTBLUT Magazine
Layout by Marcel Schlutt & Nicolas Simoneau, Translation by Amanda M Jansson & Drew Eastmann
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Model: Lex Ólsen
@SEEDS MANAGEMENT
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Photo by
Suzana Holtgrave

HERE WE ARE
Hello, welcome to our very first KALTBLUT Collection. 400 pages of the theme
Nudity. I hope you enjoy what you will see. Me and my team, we wanna thank you
- all of our readers, fans, friends, artists and haters - for all the support in the last
month. It was not an easy time for us. But we are strong and we are fighters. So!
The future is ours. We love you guys!
KALTBLUT Magazine is the successor of HONK! Magazine, an Onlinemagazine founded
in 2010 in Berlin. HONK! has created international sensation from day one, also
because of collaborations with Steed Lord, Bruce La Bruce, Rico Mahel (Ophus Kulturpreis
2011), Natalie Avelon, Walter Van Beirendonck and many others.
What is Kaltblut? KALTBLUT stands for a limitless symbiosis between art, photography,
fashion and media. The theme of every issue works as a platform for artists to
showcase their personal interpretation and point of view. By adopting this concept
KALTBLUT hopes to break free from all traditional conventions and frames and allow
an unhinged and borderless unfolding of creativity.
Marked by the Internet generation we have opted for an online magazine format, aiming
at achieving the fastest and most global connection between artists and readers.
In order to address our target group -the art interested cosmopolitan- in a propper way,
our issues are released every 2 months in English. Our purpose is to create a thorough
insight to every theme we go for, without pro and con and without falling victim to social
restraints. We don’t care to condemn but to be an eye opening experience instead.
Dear Nadine W.: I wanna thank you also, for your creativity, for your fantasy, for your
hard work. Because of you we are stronger now. We know how good we are. You and
me we will be bound for the rest of our lifes.
MARCEL SCHLUTT
EDITOR IN CHIEF / FASHION EDITOR
mschlutt@kaltblut-magazine.com
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Photo by Suzana Holtgrave

Content:
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SIMON EKRELIUS
Fashion Designer
Interview By Susann Bosslau
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HARLEY WIRE
Photography + Interview
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SAM SPARRO
Return To Paradise
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TOP5 BOOKS
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PETA
Interview By Nina Kharytonova
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RUBEN LARTIQUE
Illustration + Interview
110.
MEN TO KISS
Movie Stars
Interview By Marcel Schlutt
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VENUS
Fashion Editorial
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GIO BLACK PETER
Born To Be An Artist
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DEUX DÉMONS
Photography by Robert P Kothe
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THE FUTURE
Berlin Faces U Should Know
By Nina Kharytonova
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FOVE DESIGN
Fashion Editorial
198.
aMinus
Artist Of The Year
Interview by Nicolas Simoneau

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STRANGE
Editorial By Marco Rothenburger
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MARILYN MONROE
Portrait By C. Alvargonzalez Tera
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2FOR1
You Should Wear
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ON THE SHORE
Editorial By Mara Sommer
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I´M BRETT
Selfportraits By Brett Seiler
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TIM KRUGER
The X-Insider
Iinterview By Marcel Schlutt
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LUKASZ BILINSKI
Interview By Amanda M Jansson
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MIMI
Photography By Damien Vignaux
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MUNROE BERGDORF
Interview By Aiden Connor
368.
RONALDO
Fashion From Brazil
394.
ART AROUND ..
6 Art Events Around The World
March till May 2012
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RIDER
Photography by Micky Rosi Richter
Hair/Make up by Helena Narra Kapidzic
Model : NvM

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THE PROVOKING
Normal. And what is normal?
Who wants to be normal after
all? And what does it mean to
be normal?
TEXT BY COCO MEURER

NORMAL STATE!
Normal is what feels like normal to you.
And what you feel is determined by what
you have experienced and what you have
lived through. Which means it is something
completely different to every single
one of us. Everybody has their perspective
on life. Sometimes they nearly coincide
or are the exact opposites. Our social
life is being dictated by constraints that
humans have imposed on themselves
over time. Codes, that must be obeyed so
we don’t fall of the frame. Norms recognized
and approved by society. The biggest
rebel cannot break free of all that.
Much as he’d want to.
Yet, despite all the constraints, there must be
some state, equal for all, that allows us to look
“normal” among our own species. Or at least approaches
“normal” as much as possible.
Perhaps it is the state of nudity. Yes, perhaps.
Optical differences are only relevant to the nature
of each body. No social codes or clothing
rules. Basically, the “raw” state of humans. It
should be the most normal thing on earth to be
just naked. Yet it isn’t.
Nudity has become a strange rarity. But why?
What could have happened, so that people not
only find nudity shameful but can even use it as
means to provoke?
Sex sells!
The very invention of this slogan and the
possibility of its invention alone, should
have made us suspicious. But it hasn’t.
On the contrary, today, in the 21st century
is the uncovered nude body the number
one means of provoking, be it in the music
industry, the fashion industry or art.
The last step to openness today remains
the one to nudity. Of course, some will
say, that nudity is completely acceptable
in fashion, music, or art.
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It could have come about as a result of
extreme tabooing. The showing of skin
was foremost for women completely forbidden.
Bathing suits were bigger than
bed sheets. So shamefulness is a relic of
the preceding uptight generations. And
we haven’t managed to shake it off. On
the contrary. Free-your-body and Nudist
clubs are running out of young members.
Nobody wants to ride a bike or play
badminton in the complete nude.
And we all know how the things most
frowned upon, are the most provoking
ones.
An old saying, quoted far too much, goes: “Never
say never.” Our life is being governed by development
and various circumstances. Eventually,
man may manage to shake off this relic.
Just as the clothing covering us. On the other
hand, nobody can guarantee that getting rid of
this shell will be the solution to all inhibition.
One thing is absolutely certain, the covering
clothes, are hiding much that our eye seeks to
avoid looking at. Independently from the beauty
ideals of each decade and century.
Sometimes it is punishment enough having to
imagine what some people’s clothes are hiding.
Nobody wants to see everybody’s everything.
It is impossible to settle to the absolute
solution. Like with everything in life, extremism
is never a solution. Still, we believe
that in the right moments all covers
must fall.
Let´s get naked!

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SIMON
EKRELIUS
Swedish born designer Simon Ekrelius, based
in London, is on of the fashion designers we like
the most. His design is unique, special and every
woman should wear one of his pieces.
The eponymous label is available in the UK,
Italy and online.
KALTBLUT had a little chat with the next big
designer of our decade.
Interview by Susann Bosslau
Photos by Sasha Rainbow
Model: Hannah Cooper - Next Models.
Hair & Make-Up by Holly Silius
www.simonekrelius.com

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KALTBLUT: What was the first thing you ever
sewed and how old were you?
SIMON: I sewed a pillowcase when I was 4 and a pair
of trousers when I was 7. I was terrified of the sewing
machine but I remember it so well, I worn those trousers
with pockets and drawstring everyday i could.
KALTBLUT: You grew up in Stockholm what
and who did inspire you?
SIMON: My grandmother on my mums side was the
main inspiration to my designing, she sort of had that universal
aura around her, I also kept studying people on
the street all the time, always when seeing them I redesigned
their look, I still do that today, its really fun. I have
always been an observer and architecture is in my love
box too. The stark and unusual buildings fascinates me
profoundly.
KALTBLUT: When did you know you wanna
become a designer and why?
SIMON: I dont know why and I still think why? But
what I do know is like a natural draw for me. when i work
in my studio I go into trans, Its a bit scary, I forget
everything around me, in the same time its like meditation.
I was around 12/13 when I first thought about it. In
Sweden we use to have a weekly fashion report and the
lady who narrated it was a true Mode-Dame. It was when
I saw pieces from YSL, Valentino and all the other
designers I felt my vision was never presented. I dont
think I thought about the word designer more likely I just
wanted to dig in there and do my own designs.
KALTBLUT: How do people recognise your
fashion?
SIMON: My cuts changes from season to season but I
keep that very me with architectural angle and the way I
oversize or slimming with my way of adding silhouettes,
colours and materials and my cubistic prints that sometimes
blurr out or stay clean that makes people recognise
my work.
KALTBLUT: Nudity is this issue´s topic. What
does nudity mean to you in fashion and to what
extent should it take a part in fashion?
SIMON: The actual reason why I like nudity in fashion
is because it is a vulnerable feeling to see someone nude
in combination with fashion who is a infamousely a stark
world. It´s nothing to do with porn , just that vulnerable act
and that in combination with brilliant photography can be
stunning if its done right.
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KALTBLUT: What were your inspirations for
the collection?
SIMON: “The Reflection’’ is inspired by Norman Fosters
building The Gerchin in London. And Stardust is inspired
by a piece from Le Corbusier. Both shown other
sides like moody shadows and light or astronomical feelings.
KALTBLUT: What sort of people, do you see
wearing your clothes?
SIMON: I don´t have an interest in celebrities so I don´t
know if you want any names as I`m useless with names
and I never recognise anyone. But I like my work to be
treated with love and respect and hopefully my clients
have lots of sex, fun, dramatic times and yummy partys
with my clothes. My private clients at this stage are from
all levels and all different work areas. I guess they are just
really cool people with an immaculate taste ;-)
KALTBLUT: What do you think of the current
state of the
fashion industry – is there really space for new
designers?
SIMON: It is an exciting time in fashion, out with old
and depressive and in with the new. The double AA listed
names feels stagnated and unintresting, They also show
very little intrest in renewing themselves so it is great for
us new now, Im busy with clients and fingers crossed it
will keep going, Most of my clients says that the reason
they come back is because I have something new to give
them. Fashion is about new moves and constant changes
with silhouettes and texture and even colours.
KALTBLUT: If you were in control of the fashion
industry, how would you change it so that
fashion is perceived the way you think it deserves
to be?
SIMON: I would scrap the obsession with celebritys
and focus on people with unique talents..
KALTBLUT: What’s your most memorable
piece of clothing?
SIMON: It was a simple Martin Margiela Jumper,
I loved it soo much and I always had soo much fun in it
and lots of flirts and I felt like a prince in it. It´s gone and
dead now sadly but I will always remember it.
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KALTBLUT: Who are your favorite designers?
SIMON: Ohh I don´t really have any one to be honest,
I like some pieces in many designers collections. But also
I dont really look around so much anymore as I used to.
KALTBLUT: So what are you working on right
now… what’s next for ‘Simon Ekrelius’?
SIMON: Im working on my new AW 12-13 collection
‘’The Meeting’’ and it will be presented in Paris during
PFW at ZipZone. Very exciting!
KALTBLUT: How do you define style?
SIMON: A way of thinking and being.
KALTBLUT: Fashion equals art! True or false?
Why?
SIMON: Some fashion, yes - true because it is based
on one´s visions like sculpture but with fabric.
KALTBLUT: What advice would you give young
designers that are about to enter the fashion
world?
SIMON: Go for it and do what your feelings tell you to
do. Never look back!

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HARLEY WEIR
Harley Weir is a genius from
London. Nobody else deserves more
to be on this issue than she does.
The brilliance with which she
captures the nude body is
breathtaking, be it analog or digital,
she is the one who masters the
medium producing such strong
images but of incredible sensitivity.
For her shooting and shooting nude
people is a whole magical process and
not only a photograph. But of course,
she knows how to please the crowd
and she is aware of her skills. We
had an interview with her to find out
more about this photography
mastermind.
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www.harleyweir.com
Interview by Amanda M Jansson , Emma E. K. Jones

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KALTBLUT: You shoot lots of different people. How do you decide who to
shoot?
HARLEY: I see amazing faces everywhere but I like to shoot people that are around me, partly
due to cowardice\laziness but mostly because you get a much more intimate photograph. The more
relaxed the person is the more interesting it gets, I find. Personal images are always the most beautiful,
unfortunately.
KALTBLUT: We’ve noticed you shoot a lot of nature elements, such as flowers,
cactus, fruit, snakes, birds etc. Is it for the sheer beauty or do you see some
symbolism in them?
HARLEY: Flowers are very sexy, they are designed to be, they’re reproductive organs. I can’t
help but be attracted to them as metaphors in that way, I find them quite funny.
Birds are something else though, I have thousands of bird pictures stashed away... I enjoy the bird
watching element, looking for the different breeds creeping up and trying to shoot them (with camera
not gun) before they fly away, very satisfying.
KALTBLUT: How is it working with mixed media? You paint a lot on photographs
and it gives them a special and unique quality. How did this begin?
HARLEY: I like to work on them in the same way a re-toucher would in photoshop... I don’t see
why a photograph is so different to other artistic mediums. It doesn’t have to just be a file.

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KALTBLUT: How do you work with light on skin
in the studio or from natural sources?
HARLEY: I love working with natural light.... There’s nothing
like afternoon sunlight but obviously I live in London so
that’s not always a regular occurrence. I experiment with anything
around, house lamps, flash, hmi, tungsten whatever I
can get my hands on... no method there.
KALTBLUT: How has your work evolved over
the years? Do you see it changing? Is it always basically
the same? What is the backbone of it?
HARLEY: I think it changes all the time. I love experimenting
and I’m introducing digital into my work at the moment,
which everyone will hate to hear but one must embrace
the future! I’m not very good at it yet but I’m finding ways to
make it my own.
My work will always be changing but it will always be me taking
the photo so I don’t think it will ever change that much.
KALTBLUT: How is it working with nudity? Are
most people willing to play along? What advantages
does it offer you?
HARLEY: Some people become very venerable but others
are totally comfortable being nude, it creates a completely different
atmosphere depending on the person and my relationship
to them. Then there are the ethics involved when working
with another, it’s quite an odd situation to put yourself
into, the power you have over the model, their willingness to
offer themselves to the camera and peoples odd obsession
with looking at them.
Thinking about who should have the rights over the image is
enough to make me feel quite guilty. Especially when you’re
not working with models. I try not to think about it too much
though or I couldn’t do it, best to think of it flatly- I love to
look at nudes as does everyone else. People look more interesting
naked and it’s always gonna be a crowd pleaser, our
main ambition is to s.e.x, so any reminder and you have an
audience!

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www.harleyweir.com

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Model: Lex Ólsen @SEEDS MANAGEMENT
www.seedsmodels.de
Photography,Styling, Concept by Suzana Holtgrave
Mature hair by Ponpon Berlin
Crown by Susann Bosslau

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Sex & Love
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www.samsparro.com
RETURN TO PARADISE
SAM SPAR
Sam Sparro is on the way back. I can hardly
wait for his new album “Return To Paradise”
which is coming out this spring.
Mister Sparro is well know for his
disco, dance music. He knows how to mix
70s, 80s and 90s. We all know his big hit
“Black&Gold”. BUT !! This is just one of his
great tracks. HE IS SO MUCH MORE!
Welcome back Sam Sparro.
Interview by Marcel Schlutt

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KALTBLUT: Hey Sam! How are you
these days? How was the Paris
Fashion Week for you?
SAM: I’m really well thank you. I had such
a blast in Paris. It’s always nice to be around
other types of artists and see what they are
creating.
KALTBLUT: What is Sam Sparro
doing in his free time?
SAM: I have two dogs that I love going to the
park with. I recently got a 3D television so I
like watching movies a lot and having people
over.
KALTBLUT: Since when are you doing
music? You always wanted to be a
singer?
SAM: I started singing when I was really
young. Around 4 or 5 I think. I used to want
to be an actor but my grandmother talked
me out of it because she was an actress.
But as long as I can remember I’ve loved
music and can’t imagine doing anything else.
KALTBLUT: Your new album “ Return
To Paradise” is on the way.
Tell us something about your new
music and why the name :
Return To Paradise?
SAM: Paradise is a timeless place where
everyone lives in harmony and peace. I spent
a lot of time searching for this place inside
myself and that’s what the record is about...
Healing a broken heart and finding peace.
It’s also a reference to the Paradise Garage
which influenced many of the songs on the
record.
KALTBLUT: Your have worked more
than 2 years on the album. Where did
you record it?
SAM: I recorded most of it in Los Angeles
but some of it was recorded in London and
New York as well.
KALTBLUT: Did you wrote the songs by
yourself? Who is the producer?
SAM: I wrote a couple of the songs by myself
but most of them were a collaboration with
my production partner Golden Touch aka
Jesse Rogg.
I also worked with Greg Kurstin, Tim
Anderson, Lester Mendez and Jono Sloan
and wrote a bit with Swedish singer Erik
Hassle and Bethany from Best Coast.
There are so many other brilliant musicians
playing on the record.
It really is a collaborative project that I am
fortunate to be at the front of.
KALTBLUT: Which track is your
favourite?
SAM: One of my favourites is a song called
“We Could Fly”.
I got to record the horns at the DFA
studios in New York and recorded live
strings, drums, piano. Stuart Zender
(Jamiroqui) played bass on it.
It’s sort of a disco fantasy of mine. It’s lush
and really musical. I think my grandfather
who was an arranger and trumpet player
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KALTBLUT: I am a fan of your music
videos also. When will be the first
video published for the new album?
SAM: I am so excited about the video’s for
this record. I’ve just done the first two
treatments. I’m really inspired by Film Noir
and Busby Berkeley. There will be a few out
in the coming months.
KALTBLUT: Will you be on tour in
2012? Where can we see you on stage?
SAM: I just announce my first US tour and
will be playing all over the place this summer
and later in the year. Too early to announce
yet but I’ll post them on www.samparro.com
as soon as I can.
KALTBLUT: “Black & Gold “ was a big
hit all around the world. Are you nervous
or do you feel presure to comeback
with another big hit?
SAM: It’s great to have a hit and who wouldn’t
want another but when I wrote Black and
Gold I was not trying to write a “hit”.
I try to follow my instincts and create what I
feel. The rest takes care of itself.
KALTBLUT: Is there any musican you
would kill for, to work with?
SAM: Well... kill is a bit strong. I do love Beyonce.
She is such an incredible performer.
Working with Prince would also be a dream
come true.
Why? HE’S PRINCE!
KALTBLUT: Which music is on your
ipod right now?
SAM: I listen to Beats In Space podcasts
while I’m at the gym. I listen to lots of old
disco, funk and soul. I love the last Little
Dragon album, Thundercat, KING, Tiger &
Woods.
I buy a lot of old records. I do enjoy a good
Robyn or Rihanna track on the radio too.
KALTBLUT: We wish you all the best
for your new album! And i hope to see
you live in Berlin!
SAM: Thank you! I look forward to coming
back to Berlin soon.
I love Berlin!

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There are so many books in the world
with the theme: Nudity. We show you 5
of the most famous books with classic
nude photography.

4° Steven Meisel : Sex
5° Herb ritts : Work
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This retrospective presents the full range of photographer Ritts’ work, with
240 signature images, many published for the first time. There are portraits
of Hollywood stars, (Pfeiffer, Cruise, Loren) notable artists, (Hockney,
Haring, Martin) and world leaders, (Reagan, Mandela, Gorbachev),
alongside fashion shots, erotic nudes and African scenery. Appreciations
by contemporary art experts and chroniclers of fashion put the work in
context.
Publisher: Bulfinch; 1st edition (November 1, 1996)
ISBN-10: 0821222961
ISBN-13: 978-0821222966
www.amazon.com
Sex is a coffe table book written by Madonna with photographs by Steven
Meisel and film frames taken from film shot by Fabien Baron. The book
was edited by Glenn O´Brien. Sex was released on October 21, 1992 by
Warner Books. The book was released by Madonna as an accompaniment
to her fifth studio album Erotica which was released a day earlier.
The extremely controversial book featured strong adult content and softcore
pornographic photographs depicting simulations of sexual acts, which
included sadomasochism and analingus. Madonna wrote the book as a
character named Mistress Dita, inspired by 1930s film actress Dita Parlo.
Publisher: Warner Books; First Printing edition (November 1992)
ISBN-10: 0446517321
ISBN-13: 978-0446517324
www.amazon.com
3° Helmut Newton : Sumo
Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential photographers
of all time. Born in Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married
June Brunell (a.k.a. Alice Springs) eight years later. He first achieved
international fame in the 1970’s while working principally for French
Vogue, and his celebrity and influence grew over the decades. Newton
preferred to shoot in streets or interiors, rather than studios. Controversial
scenarios, bold lighting, and striking compositions came to form his signature
look. SUMO was a titanic book in every respect: a 480-page tribute
to one of the 20th century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial
photographers, it broke records for weight, dimensions, and resale price.
Publisher: Taschen Verlag
ISBN-10: 3836517302
ISBN-13: 978-3836517300
www.amazon.com
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2° Robert Mapplethorpe : Perfection in Form
Robert Mapplethorpe is recognized as firmly an artist of his time, whose work was
richly steeped in the classical tradition. Even his most transgressive work borrowed
heavily from the conventions of such masters as Michelangelo. Although
separated by the centuries, each artist helped shape how we view the world. This
book explores the connection from both academic and aesthetic perspectives.
Serving as exhibition catalogue for a May 2009 show at Florence’s Accademia,
this volume shows how these two artists used the body to illustrate the human experience
and contains valuable commentary by curators, as well as analysis from
art and photography historians.
Publisher: teNeues; Bilingual edition
ISBN-10: 383279316X
ISBN-13: 978-3832793166
www.amazon.com
1° Man Ray : Icons
This is a comprehensive overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking artist
Man Ray (1890-1976) who broke down the boundaries between photography and
graphic design with his innovative techniques.Man Ray is indisputably one of the
most original artists of the 20th century. His revolutionary nude studies, fashion
work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born under
the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career
in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he was enthusiastically welcomed
into Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic
techniques, multiple exposure, rayography, and solarization being some
of his most famous. Erotic, playful, and sometimes sinister, his compositions show
unusual bodies and objects.
Publisher: Taschen GmbH; Taschen’s 25th anniversary ed edition
ISBN-10: 3836507986
ISBN-13: 978-3836507981
www.amazon.com
http://facebook.com/jewelsbyjools

Photos by Felix Krüger / Model: Jan (thespecial) www.twistedtalents.de
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BOY !!!
Photography by Timo Kerber/London
www.timokerber.com
Make up by Ina Renke
Model: Tim Kelleher
Retouch: Xristina Vita
Striped jumper with buttons:
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Dicky bow: Hurwundeki

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When PETA was first founded in 1980, nobody would have thought it would become
the world’s number one and leading animal rights organization. How did this meteoric
rise happen? And who should we be thaning for this success? Surely, it was thanks to
the dedicated founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, who started early to uncover the horrendous
conditions of the animal exploiting industry and who brought them out on the
open media effectively. This includes releases of picture and video material, for example
footage from animal experiment laboratories aswell as involvement of celebrities.
Interview by Nina Kharytonova Translation by Lara Louise Mercier
www.peta.org www.peta.de
KALTBLUT: Has the general opinion about
cruelty to animals changed over the past 30
years? And if so, in which direction did it
change?
Peta: A lot of things have happened in the last
years: A while ago, people who were vegetarian
(back then, ‘vegan’ wasn’t a very common
term) were seen as weirdos or exotic. You had
to go to small organic food stores to buy vegetarian
products; vegetarian substitutes were
almost impossible to find. There was not a lot of
people who bothered whether their cosmetics
were tested on animals, who were protesting in
front of zoos, circuses or stores that sell fur, or
who cared whether they were wearing wool or
leather - or not. Today you can find vegetarian
or even vegan goods (not only food but also
vegan clothing) in a lot of stores. Earlier, people
turned their heads and stared at ladies in fur
jackets because it seemed impressive or something
like that, nowadays people stare because
they are wondering what is wrong with them.
KALTBLUT: It is unbelieveable but true - German
law considers animals as objects. Isn’t
it about time to change these old laws and
break through the barriers and limits of our
behaviour? Especially seen from a political
point of view?
Peta: The mills of politics and bureaucracy work
slowly. Too slow for the suffering animals. Especially
our government is currently blocking
basically everything. That has to do with animal
protection. Though ethical animal protection by
now is anchored in the German constitution, the
animals continue to suffer. What is of utmost
importance now is class action, which already
exist in environmental law. The right of class action
is long overdue for animal rights organizations,
it’s about time organizations can file lawsuits
on behalf of the animals.
KALTBLUT: Your campaigns often lay in a
legal grey area and are classified as morally
wrong or offensive. Which of your campaigns
caused the biggest stir so far?
Peta: PETA Deutschland e.V. is an eligible nonprofit
organization, donations are tax-decutible.
We are not doing anything unlawful. Of course,
a lot of our actions and campaigns raise a lot
of attention, for instance our covert investigation
of Wiesenhof (German poultry farming
company), our ‘’Lieber nackt als Pelze tragen’’pictures
(‘’Rather naked than dressed in fur’’),
the ‘’Holocaust auf Ihrem Teller’’-poster campaign
(‘’Holocaust on your plate’’), just to name
a few.
Us people from PETA don’t make the media’s
rules but we’ll play by them as long as it is of
use to the animals.
We still have a long way to go, but still: society
is changing, which ist good - in the past, it was
morally acceptable to
own slaves, to have child labour or it was normal
for women not to have the right to vote. But
also back then, there were courageous people
who fought against this injustice. And the fight
continues: Today we have PETA, and soon it will
not be accepted anymore to lock up animals
in cages, to let them perform unworthy circus
tricks or to use their skin for our clothing and
their meat for our diet.
KALTBLUT: How difficult is it to be permanently
in conflict with the law? Or do you
just get used to it after a while?
Peta: Normally, we don’t come into conflict with
the law since we don’t break it. We do lodge
complaints in cases of cruelty towards animals
though, so you could say we do come into contact
with law, but not into conflict.

KALTBLUT: While PETA gains more and more
public support, the big companies you are
fighting against literally demonize you.
Would you say the fight for ethical treatment
and rights for animals poses a risk for
you?
Peta: From time to time we do receive threats
via email or letters, packages with dead animals
were sent to colleagues at PETA USA.
There were even times when Ingrid Newkirk, our
founder, was not able to appear in public without
bodyguards, since she received threats of
murder.
Sometimes hackers attack our website. We do
live with the danger of some nutcase animal
abuser attacking us but we also live with
the knowledge that most people in society
stand with us and support us - and that gives
us courage.
KALTBLUT: For your campaigns a lot of celebrities
all around the globe drop off their
clothes in front of the camera - which quite
a few of them would never do normally. Is it
a matter of prestige to participate in PETA
campaigns or how do you convince them?
Peta: Often we don’t even have to convince
them, the celebrities approach us to take part in
this animal rights revolution, they want to participate
in the fight for a good cause.
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KALTBLUT: If you draw the balance after 30
years of activism, what does it look like?
Did you achieve your goals, or is changing
the public’s opinion a slow and dragging
process?
Peta: Millions of people agree with PETA when we
say that it is horrible and barbarous to stuff animals
with our medication, to pour drain cleaner
in their eyes, to force them to inhale cigarette
smoke and to infect them with our diseases -
and by that, actually turning the human patient
intothe one who suffers.
Millions of people give up wearing fur and leather
since they consider it the wrong thing to do to
cage up and kill animals for fashion. And, everyday
millions of people decide to opt for a animal
friendly vegetarian or vegan diet because they
see the advantages for themselves, for the animals,
and for the planet.
KALTBLUT: Which advice can you give the
single individual, how can even the ‘the man
in the street’ change the world?
Peta: Nothing kills animals and makes them suffer
more than the human’s appetite for meat.
In Germany alone, two billion animals are being
slaughtered year afer year. A vegetarian diet is
almost the only and the most effective way to
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www.rubenlartigue.com
Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones
KALTBLUT: How did you decide to paint
nude men with animals heads? It’s quite an
original choice!
RUBEN: I took the decision of painting men’s
bodies after realizing than the male body image
was and still is suffering from a marginalization
inside Art History. Since the 19th century female
representations have been prioritized over
the male ones, something still remarkable in the
art world these days, making us quite insensible
to such beauty.
It exists the wrong conviction that only homosexuals
are able to appreciate it. We find inadmissible
that a male body can be a desire object
for heterosexuals or just a visual delight for
women.
It is in this process where I put all the tension
in men physical attributes but not in the heads,
erasing this way all kind of human reasoning and
transforming Lartigue Boys in a new race of beings,
an unpolluted army inviting us to appreciate
beauty in all its splendor as sensual, spontaneous
and adorable gods.
KALTBLUT: Does each specific head mean
something on the specific body? Or how do
you decide what goes where?
RUBEN: Like in every birth exists a mythical and
beloved reason but not a rational study in every
metamorphic choice of each Lartigue Boy, just
a creative intuition.
KALTBLUT: How do you think people see
nudity nowadays and how would you want
them to see it?
RUBEN: For the common good of society nudity
was always unnatural, despite of being the most
natural thing in the world. Socially is simply not
liked, it is considered a criminal offense.
When we are kids we are taught not to be naked,
to hide our “private parts” and to feel ashamed
of our nudity. I see and feel nudity as a simple
thing. I don’t see negative values in something
that is simply ourselves.
KALTBLUT: What do you like best on a humans
and what do you like best about animals?
RUBEN: What I like the most about the man is
his sex. I admire his perfection, the balance generated
by the skin, muscles, forms, tightness
and the electric current of a body in possession
of a innate devotion. About animals I like their
behavior with their own species and also with
the planet.
KALTBLUT: Do you actually believe people
and animals are alike? How so?
RUBEN: Under no point of view I believe humans
and animals are equals. Humans see ourselves
as rational and superior but every day we are
much more further from that. We are very destructive,
we don’t measure the impact, we just
destroy the ecosystem in every step we take.
Animals live in a perfect and mutual symbiotic
relationship.
KALTBLUT: Animal heads are quite popular!
Do you see yourself as part of a movement
or is it the exact opposite for you?
RUBEN: I have been working on the Lartigue
Boys for five years. During that time there were
no artistic references about this matter, especially
in painting. It has been in the last couple of
years when other expressions of this kind have
emerged in different areas of art. Nowadays we
are some artists working on the same matter,
making me think about the creation of a current,
a movement I am part of.

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Work In Progress
www.NirArieli.com

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The cast of the upcoming German movie:
Men To Kiss. In a fashion shoot
by Suzana Holtgrave.
Styling by Susann Bosslau,
Hair/Make Up Ilka Jänike.
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Frank Christian Marx
Frank is “Mister Charming”. while Ernst is more a quiet person.
But both together are just hot. Mister Marx is an actor, pro ducer
and foun der of Ente Kross Film. He studied acting in Stuttgart
and after nume rous thea ter pro duc tions in Stutt gart and
Ber lin he played in some movies („Die Order“, „Geis ter all inclusive“,
„Frau Böhm sagt nein“) and well known Ger man TV series
(„Alarm für Cobra 11“). In 2008, he had his first lea ding role in
the inde pen dent pro duc tion „Some body got mur de red” by Tor
Iben. It was awar ded as the best movie at the film fes ti val Cinegai
le sAST in Gijon. In 2010, he was before camera with Bol lywood
star Shahrukh Khan for “Don2”.
www. frankchristianmarx.com

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“Men to Kiss” is an upcoming - Award winning -
German comedy sensation. In the centre of it is
a gay couple that couldn’t be any more different
from one another. Tobias is a crazy bugger and
Ernst is a pencil pusher. We get to experience
the two happy together, but also Ernst having his
doubts on whether his partner is taking the relationship
as serious as he is. There is an opportunity
too good to miss for Uta, an old school friend
of Ernst. She just arrived from the USA for a visit
to Berlin and starts hatching a plan to get the two
guys to split up and that’s when things turn more
and more obscure. We had a little chat with Frank
and Udo. The two main actors and also producers
of this fresh German comedy movie.
KALTBLUT: You guys play both of the male
leads, Ernie and Tobi. How much of your own
personality is in each of these characters?
Frank: I have to say I love Ernst, he is Wonderfully
Naive and gullible, completely the opposite
to me. (Udo laughs). What I do share with him is
his thoughtfulness and his emotionally.
Udo: Uhhh, quite a lot! But I think that’s normal,
the more you get into a part the more you wonder
how much of it comes out of yourself, just
as if it was waiting to burst out of you and show
itself off. I especially enjoyed countering that
pretty gay moustache scene with a very loud
camp Tobi. (Laughs loudly)
KALTBLUT: The female leads are cast with
Sacia and Alexandra. How did that choice
come about?
Frank: I´ve studied camera acting with Alexandra
for about 6 months. Her style fascinated
me from the start and she’s very Un-German,
emotional, temperamental and still very sensitive.
What she brings to the character is very
opaque twist.
Udo: For me this was the second time I did a
feature with Sacia. We became friends and her
positive vibe always get me every time.This is
what makes it very easy to work with her, especially
since she is also my best friend in the film.
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KALTBLUT: Why did you decide to base the
story of the film in Berlin? Isn’t Berlin a little
boring by now ?
Frank: Boring? Are you kidding? (Both Laughing)
Berlin is an exceptional city, for its residents,
tourist and even for Berlin haters. No one is interested
if there is a camera popping up here or
there.
KALTBLUT: You both are not just the main
actors you are also the executive producers.
In 2011 you founded your production
company “EnteKross” (CrispyDuck).
Wasn’t this a double burden and how did
you cope with it ?
Udo: Well we plunged ourself into the deep waters,
which was quite refreshing at the start
but then more and more you paddle against the
stream trying not to drown.
But we were unbelievably lucky! Most of the
team was already like family so they helped us
where every they could. A special thank you
certainly belongs to Till, our cameraman.
It certainly helps swimming this marathon as
two, we give each other strength if one is having
a weak moment. We did learn a lot in that
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KALTBLUT: Well “EnteKross” is certainly a
damn cool name for a company. Where do
you guys wanna go, what are our goals ?
Most importantly what can we expect from
you in the future ?
Frank: Men to Kiss, was a complete finger exercise.
With the follow up feature we want to
prove that we no one trick pony. We want to
give the Gay & Lesbian film landscape in Germany
something that does not exist in this form.
Udo: Our goal is to show how normal Gay and
Lesbians are. We only evidently live in free times
where Gay and Lesbians are widely excepted.
Unfortunately the reality is still very different.
We want stories about the community. I experienced
so many great things in the gay world
that I wanna give something back.
KALTBLUT: Udo, we have worked together
a few summers and you are a born comedian.
How did you get into acting?
Udo: As a child I was always very introvert, but
also the class clown sometimes, a bit of a paradox
I know, but I didn’t like people and I don’t
think they liked me. It kinda really started at
University. I was helping a friend moving house
and I met this ex - Pina-Bausch dancer, and not
2 month later I was a dancer on stage and cofounder
of a dance theatre. A crazy time in
which I was constantly surrounded by and rehearsing
with crazy and wonderful people. We
hardly made any money there, money come in
from doing parts in television or as narrator.
When I arrived in Berlin about 10 years ago I
kinda slipped into theatre and then with you doing
feature films.
KALTBLUT: Frank, your journey to become
an actor was very different. I bet you been
dreaming of your picture on movie posters
since you been a tween, am I right ?
Frank: (Laughs) I was drawing and painting film
posters when I was a little fella dreaming of imaginary
parts that I was playing along famous
actors. I copied films onto audio tape, while I
was playing them I was jumping around in the
living room and lip-sync to the film and acting
the parts along with the tape playing.
For example I was Thomas in Pippi Longstocking
and Atreju in the Never Ending Story, oh and
even some Disney cartoon characters. I was
pretty crazy back then.
KALTBLUT: You guys are still very new in
the business. How did you Finance your
film? Friends? Family?
Frank: Lets just say we had some cash stashed
away and now we are both living under a bridge.
(Laughs)
We had support from our families, especially
from my mother who also became co-producer.
Theres also been tremendous support from our
friends who believed in us.
Udo: My moneys gone, If i wouldn’t have my job
i really would be living on the streets. It’s a hell
of a kamikaze flight that we are undertaking
here, but i am not regretting a single thing.
Only if you are brave enough you can win.

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Sascia Haj
The best friend with a huge attitude.
Sascia is Steffi, the best friend of
Tobi. The movie would be not so
funny without Miss Haj. She is a real
star! Oh yes, she is. Sascia is one of
Germanys most booked commercial
faces, but also a very good actress
as well. She can play the mad one
and a minute later she is an adorble
diva. TV-Movies, Theater or Commercials.
It doens´t, Sascia is at
home in every genre.
www.sascia-haj.de

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UDO LUTZ
He is Tobi, the crazy middle age gay. Tobi is
loud, funny and he do not respect any rules.
It is the second time that Udo becomes Tobi
movie. Udo Lutz is an actor, radio announcer,
speech the ra pist and producer.. In 1996,
he was the co-founder of x.x.y Tanz thea ter
under the direc tion of Geraldo Si Lou reiro, a
for mer Pina Bausch dan cer. He acqui red his
first expe ri en ces in film busi ness as a standin
and voice-over artist for Ger man tele vi sion
pro duc tions of the WDR. He had his first leading
role in 2010 in the movie “Alex und der
Loewe”. Since 2011, he is a radio announ cer
for Deutsch land ra dio Kul tur.
www. facebook.com/udo.lutz
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KALTBLUT: Congratulations!!! Your
movie just won 2 awards at The
Bangalore Filmfestival! I say it again:
2!! awards “Best director” and “Special
Mention” Best Movie. How do you feel?
What was the first thought when you
got the news?
Udo: It was an endorphine rush de luxe!
I had to read the mail three times before
I was sure what the meaning was. I tried
to call Frank in Sydney, but he was sitting
in the 2. screening of “Men to kiss”, so I
couldn’t reach him. Then I called my sister,
my mum and everybody...then Frank
called me and we screamed and laughed...
It was mind blowing. I mean it is such a
great honor that the Jury from India likes
our Movie so much that they gave us 2 out
of 4 Awards! Then I met Till, our Director
of Photography, and we had a good bottle
of sparkling wine. Just a perfect day!

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Alexandra Starnitzky
Uta is the hot evil girl. Alexandra, who play
the evil, is a very well known model and actress.
Commercials for Mc Donalds, Theater
in Rome - “The Terrorist” (directed by Shraroo
Khereadman), Theatro Sala Uno and some
great movies like: “Beautiful Child” (directed
by Fabrizio Chiesa) are just some steps on her
way to become a superstar, which she already
is. She is the perfect match for the evil girl
friend of Ernst. We are sure the guys will fell
in love her.
www.starnitzky.com
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KALTBLUT: So when and where can we see
the movie in Europe?
Frank: Just visit our Facebook site :
www.facebook.com/mentokiss
or www.entekrossfilm.com
Where we will post all screening dates.
Udo: In Germany we are aiming for a May première.
You can visit the German site at :
www.facebook.com/entekrossfilm
for all dates and locations.
KALTBLUT: So I will audition for a part in
your next film right away, can I ? Not that I
have an idea what it will be but am sure you
can tell me something now, what is the plan
for the future ?
Frank: We have three ideas, for one of these we
have to completely break out of our Low to No
budget corner, you know like Men to Kiss and
yes you certainly will have a part in that again.
Udo: Yeah as my new lover.. but we won’t spill
anything yet about our follow up projects.
KALTBLUT: Ahhh, so do you have any advice
for young gays and lesbians who want
to step into your footsteps? How do you
become an actor ?
Frank: Don’t let anyone get you down and always
believe in yourself, no matter what everyone
else tells you. That certainly helped me.
(Udo from behind “Now cue the violin music” )
KALTBLUT: If someone wants to audition
for a part in a future film or someone’s got
some hot script, is it ok to get in touch and
if yes how can they do so ?
Frank: Sure it´s OK, especially for our big project
the declaration of love we need a lot of
rough diamonds in every area.
There are a few ways to get in touch with us,
via e-mail: info@entekrossfilm.de or our official
Facebook pages:
www.facebook.com/mentokiss or
www.facebook.com/entekrossfilm
But you can also talk to us at any of the Film
Festivals, we don’t bite.
Udo: Or just send the script to us in hope that
our mailbox was not impounded (Frank laughs)
We are also very open to cooperations, sponsorships,
supporters and investors.
Like we said before we are only at the beginning
and it would be amazing if you join us in our
journey.
KALTBLUT: I wish you guys all the best for
the movie and your future projects. Not because
i am also in the movie. No. I love you!

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Dress: Ziad Ghanem

VENUS
Photographer - Drew Wittam
www.drewwhittamphotography.blogspot.com
Stylist - Aiden Connor
Make up artist - Emma Broom
Hair stylist - Aaron Carlo @Headmasters
using L’Oréal Professionnel
Model - Anna Smirnova @Premier.
Casting by Jody and Bayo at the eye
Styling assistant - Rahemur Rahman
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Dress: Lesley De Freitas

Dress and lace bollero: Ziad Ghanem,
Shoes: Charkviani
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Trousers : Ziad Ghanem,
Shoes: Charkviani
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Headpiece: Ziad Ghanem,
Camisole: Lesley De Freitas,
Dress: Ziad Ghanem.

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Lace blouse and Belt: Ziad Ghanem,
Lace skirt: Lesley De Freitas
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Hentsch Man Sunglasses
Summer 2012
Hentsch Man who have these fantastic little
pieces for SS12 - perfect for any chic geek out
there! Seriously though these are a great bold
accessory that plays with classic form and aesthetic,
suitable for any day or occasion.
www.hentschman.com
John Varvartos
Vintage Fragrance
Vintage, the special edition fragrance,
reaches back to move
forward. Rooted in the signature
fragrance, yet distinctly unique
with a rugged authenticity and
enduring appeal. A sensuous
and masculine composition,
Vintage contains an assertive
spice combined with a warm
leathery background.
www.johnvarvatos.com
Maui Jim Sunglasses Summer 2012
Maui Jim have the ultimate remedy. With colour enhancing
lenses this fantastic eyewear keeps the
world as close to the way you normally see it.
www.mauijim.com
HOM e.Go Underwear
Ice Cream
Spring is coming and the summer
is not far. We hope it will be
super sunny and hot.
HOM e.Go´s ice cream underwear
could be a good present
for your boyfriend.
www.hom.com
YOu cErtaInlY can lIVE wIthOut thEsE ItEMs,
but lIfE Is sO Much MOrE bEautIful wIth thEM.
sElEctEd bY MarcEl schlutt

Essie Spring 2012
Nail Polish Collection
Inspired by Wall Street, Essie’s spring 2012
nail polish collection is, well, so money. With
colour names like Navigate Her, Orange It’s
Obvious, Olé Caliente, A Crewed Interest,
Tour de Finance, and To Buy or Not.
www.essie.com
Numark Performance Controller
with Serato ITCH
Designed by Numark in collaboration with Serato,
NS7 represents the pinnacle of DJ performance control.
NS7 combines an all-metal chassis with adjustable
torque, motorized, aluminum-turntable platters,
vinyl, and a professional audio interface to deliver a
complete performance solution that will satisfy even
the most hardcore turntablist. www.numark.com
Lottie Suede Strappy Sandals
Yellow! Yes yellow shoes are a must
have for the spring 2012 season. Those
sandals from Topshop are so super cute.
LOTTIE Suede Strappy Sandals. heel 5”
100% Leather. www.topshop.com
SuperDarts +Remote by Atomic Floyd
A big beating heart pumping bass under glossy mids and acid
sharp details. With two speakers in each ear, every note and
every layer sing out like you’ve never heard.
www.atomicfloyd.com/superdarts
Jeremy Scott x Adidas 2012
Jeremy Scott and adidas Originals have lifted the lid
from their lavish 2012 collection! Heavily influenced
by American pop culture. Look for the 2012 collection
in stores February!
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Assaad Awad Shoe
Black and shinny high quality
“made in spain” shoe, with silver
spikes. Easy to get , just visit Assaad
Awad´s online store.
www.assaadawad.bigcartel.com

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I would rather w
than a fashion

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ear my foreskin
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Photos by PUSSY FAGGOT
Photo by Terry Richardson
GIO B
BORN

LACK PETER
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Gio Black Peter (*Giovani
Paolo Andrade Guevara)
was born in Guatemala and
is now based in New York,
after he illegally immigrated
to the United States
with his family at the age
of 5.
He was born to be an
artist. Gio is a performance
artist, musician, actor
and painter. A couple
of weeks ago he published
his new song: Don’t tell me
nothing.
He is a muse to
Bruce La Bruce and very
well known for his live performances.
The man is an underground
rockstar!
www.gioblackpeter.com
Interview by Marcel Schlutt

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KALTBLUT: Hello Gio! How are you
doing these days?
GIO: All is good in the hood. Feeling inspired
and getting a lot crossed out on my to do list. I
am Guatemalan and a descendant of the Mayan
civilization so I know 2012 will be significant!
Thanks for asking..
KALTBLUT: I am a fan of your work!
You are a performance artist, musician,
painter, actor. Who is Gio Black
Peter?
GIO: Gio Black Peter is a fighter a cry baby a
lover of people, animals and plants, a lost boy
and a baby daddy. A happy nomad and an explorer.
A pussy a dick and a four dimensional
real live human being animal full of feelings,
thoughts, love, anger, tears, shit and blood in
search of the truth and meaning and himself.
KALTBLUT: Where is the name - Black
Peter - coming from?
GIO: It was a nickname an ex lover gave me.
KALTBLUT: When did you realized that
art is your business?
GIO: Never and that is why my art still comes
from my heart. I make art to express myself,
explore my feelings and thoughts. And to share
my views. Yes I also sell my art but that is not
what drives me to making art. I will never make
art for the sake of making money. And I will never
look at my art as a money making product.
KALTBLUT: Your are born in Guatemala
and emigrated illegally to the United
States with your family at the age of
five. Do you feel like an american now?
Are the States your home?
GIO: Yes I can. After feeling like an unwanted
child for most of my life I can finally say I feel
some love. It’s not a perfect family but I am
hopeful it will get better.
Yes I can get married now and also join the army
but I still don’t have health insurance and let’s
not talk about my uncle in wall street.
KALTBLUT: How is an ordinary day
looking in Gio Black Peter´s life?
GIO: There is no such thing as an “ordinary”
day. My life depends on my work. So my day
depends on what I am working on. I can only
paint or draw at night when the city is quiet and
the moon is smiling down on me. Currently I am
working on a series of paintings so my day starts
in the late afternoon. I paint all night and end up
going to bed in the morning. If I am in the zone
then I will stay awake until my eyes burn.
When I was recording “The Virgin Shuffle” album
it was the complete opposite. I was up early
writing songs so they would be ready for the
studio. There is always lot of coffee in my day.
If your reading this and are in New York City you
can always bring me a coffee, it doesn’t matter
how late it is.
The last two summers I’ve worked at a plant
nursery. So when I am working there I get up
early. I spend the day planting and playing in
dirt. Which is why there is a lot of plant references
in my new drawings and paintings. It’s a
direct reflection of how I’ve spent my time. You
want to see what I’ve been up to just look at my
work
KALTBLUT: Looking at your performances
and your music videos. We
can see you always naked or in underwear.
Is this part of your work? Or is
this just you? And you just like to be
naked?
GIO: I love being naked. I’m a Naturist. It is part
of my work because my work is autobiographical.
I would rather wear my foreskin than a fashion
label any day.
KALTBLUT: Do you have a boyfriend
or girlfriend? And if so, how is he/she
handling your half naked work?
Any problems cause of that in the
past?
GIO: I’ve been dating a guy for 7 years now.
He’s cool with it because he knows it’s who I am.
When I was dating a girl there was no problem
either. It’s the benefit of letting it all hang out
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KALTBLUT: Here in Berlin an artist
can´t “shock“ the people anymore
with being naked on stage. How is that
in the USA?
GIO: I love Berlin because of that.
Specially since I don’t perform to shock. In the
USA there has been more apprehension about
my performance than there has been in other
parts of the world. I think this is because a large
percentage of Americans either don’t question
the rules of society or are not comfortable with
their own bodies, so off course they are going to
be shocked by seeing me on stage with my dick
swinging around. Society places these imaginary
boundaries on us.
At the end of the day that is what it’s all about.
Look at the indigenous people of the Rainforest.
They are in touch with nature and with themselves
and therefore they have no issues with
nudity.
KALTBLUT: Did you ever think about
making porn?
GIO: I’m obviously not against it - I’ve just never
been interested. I guess it’s because I explore
my sexuality through my art. You can say
I’ve made some art which had pornographic
elements.
KALTBLUT: Music or painting. What
do you like more?
Gio: Right now I like
to paint. I am going
to dedicate the next
3 years making
visual art as well as
video projects.
Don’t hold me to that
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Photos by John Wenrich
KALTBLUT: How would you describe
your own music?
GIO: Loud and obnoxious.
KALTBLUT: Which music is on the top
5 in your Ipod right now?
GIO: I don’t own an Ipod. On my laptop the
most currently listened to are : The Gossip,
Crystal Catles, Amy Winehouse, Patti Smith,
Nirvana and Daniel Johnston. (i know that’s 6)
KALTBLUT: You are working a lot with
Bruce La Bruce. You had a part in his
movie „ Otto, or up with dead people“ .
He is directing music videos for you.
Is he like a mentor for you?
GIO: He is my friend.
I enjoy working with him and I respect his body
of work. He sticks to his guns and I like that. I
wrote “Revolving Door (New Fuck New York)”
when I was in Berlin with Bruce shooting “Otto..”.
In fact the opening line is “We spent summer
raising the dead” referring to the zombie in the
film. So it was perfect when Bruce agreed to do
the video. We shot the video in one night with
the help of some friends and a bottle of jack and
it was a fucking great time!
KALTBLUT: Is there any artist you
would die for to work with ?
GIO: David Wojnarowicz.
I love his mind. Everyone needs to read
“Close to the knives”
KALTBLUT: What are your plans for
2012? Where can we see you on stage?
And will you be back in Europe?
GIO: Literally right now I am finishing my new
music video for the song “Don’t Tell Me Nothing”
featuring Strobo Monsters.
The video is directed by CyCy Sanders and it’s
a really great follow up to “Revolving Door”. I’m
really proud of this video because CyCy has
managed to capture both the aggressive side to
my personality and also the sensitive side. In
February I have an exhibition of paintings on
canvas in NYC at Brian Riley Project Space.
I will also be shooting a video project with Slava
Mogutin and Brian Kenny. I have a couple of
other projects I am working on but it’s too early
in the game. I think I will return to Europe in
April. For my schedule check out my spiderwebsite
www.gioblackpeter.com.
Besides that I am going to drink more coffee,
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Photography: Robert Paul Kothe
www.robertkothe.de
Make-Up/Hair: Aennikin
Models: Medea Paffenholz (Dog Mila), Wlada
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Musicladen.
Abum preview by Coco Meurer
aaaaaMasterpiece, aaaa Super Cool, aaaYeah Ok!, aaWTF ??!

MAX PROSA „Die Phantasie wird siegen“ aaaa
The modern storyteller.
Max Prosa is one of them. It seems like the
twenty two year old got stuck to his guitar.
It is good though. No big effects. Just music
coming from the instrument the audience can
see. Good to know that the next generation of
musicians actually has knowledge how to make
music without the need of a computer!
Coming from Erfurts Zughafen Max Prosa was
able to go on tour last year together with
Clueso (at the moment one of Germany´s popstars
number 1).
In most cases this is already proof enough that
great music will be heard.
German, handmade music that rather asks
for attention and not just slightly listening
to it.
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Interpret: Max Prosa
Album: Die Phantasie wird siegen
Genre: Folk/Rock
Booking: stephan@fourartists.com
Origin: Germany
Webpage: www.maxprosa.de
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Charlotte Gainsbourg „Stage Whisper“
aaaaa
The famous daughter, actress and chanteuse
released on “Stage Whisper” eight previously
unreleased studio tracks, in collaboration with
producer Beck Hansen. In addition there are
many live recordings of the last two Albums’
5:55 ‘and’ Irm “ to hear.
One of the highlights is the Bob Dylan cover
‘Just Like a Woman’ from the soundtrack of the
movie ‘I’m Not There’. With the new songs she
proves her versatility as she never did before.
Between the lush electro rock of ‘Terrible Angels’
and’ Memoir’ as a delicately plucked ballad
no comparison can be made. With the title
‘All The Rain ‘, one could definitely not begin to
party, but no one can dispute the Genius of this
gloomy song.
An astonishing variety of styles.
Paradisco:
http://youtu.be/C9XjEGfYrC4
Interpret: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Album: Stage Wisper
Genre: Pop
Label: Because Music/Elektra
Origin: France
Webpage:
www.charlottegainsbourg.com

School of seven Bells „Ghostory”
Electronical elements with a phantasmagorial
voice.
A beautiful addition and perfect mix but not to
much excitement.
With the album “Ghoststory” the New Yorker
duo School of seven Bells tells the story about
the little girl “Lafaye” that is surrounded by
ghosts!
That sure does sound dark but you will not hear
any of that darkness listening to the songs.
“„Everyone has ghosts. They’re every love
you’ve ever had, every hurt, every betrayal,
every heartbreak. They follow you, stay with
you.”
A beautiful thought and beautiful music.
The Night:
www.youtu.be/f286wxNqFIA
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Interpret: Schools of seven Bells
Album: Ghoststory
Genre: Pop
Label: Full Time Hobby (UK, EU)
Origin: USA
Webpage:
www.schoolofsevenbells.com
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The list of famous personalities falling in love
with this soul singer is getting longer and
longer.
Starting out with R’n’B queen Erykah Badu
over to Joy Denalane who did not hesitate and
took Y’akato on tour with her.
The big gap in german soulmusic that lasted
long enough is now sealed by Y’akato. Names
like Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu have long
been known for soul. It is about time to step
aside.
With her voice, the beats and the emotion in
her music she has the best chances to be next
in line for the throne.
A soft voice presents a masterpiece.
Tamba
www.youtu.be/CHgMKpaWG_E
Interpret:Y´akoto
Album: Babyblues
Genre: R´n´B
Label: Kamè Entertainment GmbH/
Warner
Origin: Germany
Webpage: www.yakoto.de

Speech Debelle “Freedom of Speech”
Interpret: Speech Debelle
Album: Freedom of Speech
Genre: Hip Hop
Label: Big Dada
Origin: UK
Webpage: www.speechdebelle.com
P:lot „Zuhören“
With the albums title “Zuhören” the guys from
Cologne, Germany definitly hit the spot. Everyone
should listen to this sound. Positive vibes
from the first to the last song.
A very special voice explains the beauty of life
to us. The perfekt aid against the depressed
mood this grey and cold winter weather put
upon us which actually was part of P:lots concept
making this album.
No more miserable music as there is already
enough of that kind available. So the guys from
Cologne decided to make optimistic
music and claim with “Zuhören” the exact.
Enjoy!
Zuhören
www.youtu.be/oPVa3ahL9Fg
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Women and Hip Hop!
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That already is a thingh for itself. Only a handful
of ladies have made a name for themselves
in the hip hop industry to this day.
But now a record will be published that proofs
hip hop was not only made for men.
With her 2nd album “Freedom of Speech”
Speech Debelle proofs that she is dominates
the art of hip hop very well.
Comfortable beats melodic raps and no
need of playing around with manly cliches..
Interpret: P:lot
Album: Zuhören
Genre: Alternative
Label: Columbia Berlin
Origin: Germany
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An Anthropology
Experiment
Photography by Rico Mahel
Filmmaker, photographer and artist based in Berlin
An excerpt from the work of ‘An anthropology experiment’
‘An anthropology experiement’ was shown as a panel consisting of 100
photographs.
According to the statements of Werner Sombat animalism is known as
any form of belief which doesn’t define the man as a distinct species but
as an animal and therefore as a part of the animal nature.
In Rico Mahel’s work ‘An anthropology experiment’ the man is consciously
compared to the animal. Alleged absurdities raise issues that
concern anthropologists, sociologists and the hole mankind since the
dawn of humanity.
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he Future
Berlin Faces You Should Know
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who
make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” John M. Richardson.
KALTBLUT wants to introduce you to some of those kinds, who make it happen. They are
extraordinary, creative, outstanding, especial, notable and unique and they will change the
world soon. That’s why we have to keep an eye on these four people and you should better do
the same.
Jessica Bossyuyt
www.lessizmore.com
Attention Ladies and Gentleman, may I introduce Jessica – the
real It-girl in the international club scene. This Parisian beauty
began her career in music working for PIAS 1999, after spending
some time in New York she moved than back to Europe,
where nobody could stop her anymore. She landed the position
of PR and booking at the legendary Parisian club “Le Triptique”.
Than she decided to make some projects by her own and started
such concepts as Angel Dust and LessizMore. She also was
one of creators of the famous trio “Les Putafranges”. This group
of glamorous girls provided music for the catwalks for Louis Vuitton,
Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. After the trio broke, this
multi talented power woman concentrated her attention on being
a good DJ (inventing her unforgettable and inimitable style,
which could be called as “electro-rock-punk-pop-trash-disco”
all around the world) and running the Label LessizMore with a
friend DJ Pierre. So we are looking forward to see what she will
bring us in the nearest future.

Steven Key
www.ivigeist.tumblr.com
www.hairsweethair.de
Ivi is an original east girl, who came to Berlin years ago from a
beautiful countryside called the green heart of Germany. Her
passion for styling and costume design begun as she was just
a baby, getting excited by the red lipstick of her mom and falling
into a deep obsession with the magnificent power of colors at
the same time. So it appears more than comprehensible that
she got her inspiration from Frida Kahlo and also a controversy
and a non-perfect perfection as well. She gets her ideas from
some dream sequences, sounds, weird stuff and probably all
the curiosity of our lives. This mix and combination of opportunities
and her passion makes her work so outstanding and special,
due to the fact that everything she does is coming from the
bottom of her heart. But it’s not only the styling and design, what
makes her so outstanding – for her performance with Crystalmafia
she assumes different roles and matches the characters
more than perfectly.
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Wondering were all the cool Berliner getting their fancy hair
cuts? I’m gonna tell you the secret: they all were at Steven’s
brand new hair salon, located at Fuldastraße in Neukölln. At this
point you might think what’s so special about a hairdresser’s
shop, but this is not only a great done haircut what you will get
there.
Steven treats his every client as if he were his close friend, with
such warm heart hospitality, that at the end you even don’t want
to go home anymore. Surrounded by the best Berlin club music
and Steven’s therapeutic and comforting charisma you will forget
all your problems for a while. So if you get bored of your look
and want allow yourself a special treatment for your hair and
soul – than you have to check out “Hair Sweet Hair” and you will
not regret it, I promise!
www.voindevoin.andharbor.com
Ivi Geist
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria – Voin de Voin spent his youth studying
visual arts, film and theatre in Amsterdam and Paris and
traveling across Europe, finding his base in Berlin after a while.
Where he gets known as a performer, “hypnotizing” his audience
to do whatever he is asking them for. His performances,
photos, videos and sculptures are composed as a tribute to
the disappearance and mergence with the environment of his
own personality. They are always unique. This displacement,
psycho-geography, abstractness and endless creativity brought
him a huge popularity even behind the borders of Berlin and the
entire Germany. He exhibited internationally, especially in Russia,
France, Holland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Sweden, Belgium and
even at Contemporary Istanbul.
We will keep an eye on him and his talent to create art of nothing
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The SAVE-FASHION aesthetic; a brand dedicated to celebrating and expressing
the pleasure, intensity and emotion of urban life, fused into fashion.
Founded in the creative hub of Berlin by Tom Peters a creative, passionate
young designer, who DJ’s in major cities all over the World, finds inspiration,
that he believes can only be found in the big city vibe. The first hand made,
customised designs originated in 2005, and were worn by a select group of
friends and high profile DJ’s on Berlin’s underground dance scene. Over the
following few years the demand for pieces increased, and in 2010, the official
fashion label was formed and launched in true SAVE-FASHION style with a club
collaboration.
www.save-fashion.com
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Marina Bychkova
“Enchanted Dolls”
Marina Bychkova is the genius behind Enchanted Dolls, in fact the
most enchanting dolls you will have seen in your life.
She began making dolls when she was 6 years old and you can see
what it led to. To her a doll is not just a doll but the most exciting
game ever and to anyone who looks at them as well. Like in the fairy
tale they get their name from, these dolls are so lifelike and delicate
you think you can touch their skin and feel them breathing.
www.enchanteddoll.com
Interview by Emma E K Jones & Amanda M Jansson
KALTBLUT: What was your relationship with
dolls as a child? I know you found them mediocre.
Did you still play with them though?
How was it for you?
MARINA: I began making my own dolls as soon as
learned how to hold stuff stuff in my hands. I was
completely fascinated with the idea of dolls, but disappointed
with the lack of choices and quality of
dolls available in stores. Having said this, I did play
with some of them, out of sheer necessity in my early
childhood.
My favorite manufactured doll was one that belong
to my mother when she was a little girl, and not for
any sentimental reasons, but for its relative uniqueness
from all the other, identical dolls being made
at the time. It came from a different era of toy-making,
before soulless mass production, where factory
workers don’t care or have any connection to what
they are making.
It was very simple, old, broken and naked when it
was given to me, but I like the way it moved, and so
I fixed it the best I could and made it a dress. I wish
I still had it with me. I think it was the only doll I truly
loved that wasn’t made by me.
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KALTBLUT: Your dolls are not only for children,
what importance do you think dolls
have for children, and what for adults?
MARINA: Of all the endless shapes in the world, the
one we humans relate to the most, is the one that resembles
us. I think that both adults and children see
dolls as a reflections and extensions of ourselves,
through which we find our identities. They are externalized
parts of ourselves, onto which we project our
subconscious needs and longings. They are necessary
for us to become self aware individuals.
KALTBLUT: Enchanted Dolls have been
named after a story by Paul Gallico. Can
you tell us a little about the story and what it
means for you?
MARINA: Actually, there is a chapter in my new art
book Enchanted Doll, about how Paul Gallico’s story
inspired my work and my brand. You can read about
it there. It’s a beautiful book and a labor of love filled
with 193 photographs of my dolls, 136 sketches, project
descriptions and 12 chapters about my life and
times as a doll artist. It will be available to order from
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KALTBLUT: What materials are Enchanted
Dolls made of? They look very real, how long
does it take to create one?
MARINA: Enchanted Dolls are made of porcelain,
and one can take anywhere from 70 to 600 hours to
create, depending on the calibre of the piece. I make
just one doll at a time, and not more than a couple
of dozen a year, because of the energy they require.
Each one is a story.
KALTBLUT:Many dolls, like Barbie or other
kids dolls are very basic and plastic when it
comes to their bodies. Why did you decide
this should be different with your dolls?
MARINA: The reason I put as much effort into a
beautiful rendering of my doll’s bodies as their faces,
is because my sense of aesthetic demands wholeness.
I want it All, or Nothing!
There is actually a chapter about this in my book as
well. Dolls have an incredible potential for beauty,
because they embody and require several different
mediums within that one discipline, and it pains me
to see it wasted on mediocre dolls that don’t stretch
the limits of one’s imagination. I want my dolls to stir
something in the souls of people. I want them to be
more than just dolls.
KALTBLUT: I think you have a background in
art. Why do you think many people are still
shocked about nudity in contemporary art
when they travel hundreds of kilometres to
admire nude ancient statues?
MARINA: That’s right, I have a Bachelor or Fine Art
degree, from the Emily Carr Institute (presently University)
of Art and Design. I believe the reason nudity
is seen as normal in the format of Classical art and
sculpture, and as something scandalous in contemporary
art, is because we are creatures of conformity
and fads.
The reason we perceive the art of antiquity as valid,
credible and culturally significant work is because it’s
presented to us as such by our establishment, such
as respected museums, prestigious galleries, art
history text books and other media. While contemporary
art doesn’t always have such strong backing
simply because it’s too new and weird and a little
scary to us.
After all, who are we to know what is art and what
isn’t art? That’s for people in the distant past to decide,
right?
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KALTBLUT: All of your dolls are very diverse,
each one is so different and special. How do
you get inspiration for their faces and characters?
MARINA:I don’t know how I get my inspiration, or
where it comes from. Everywhere, I think, but also
from the inside. I can name a few external sources,
such as writer Paul Gallico, and illustrator Sulamith
Wulfing, as well as a handful of other artists and fairy
tales, which have influenced me, but that wouldn’t
even scratch the surface. Every single thing I come
in contact with, such as a fork or a chair, rubs off on
me and plants a seed in my mind, which at some
point down the road will grow and combine with
something else and evolve into an idea for art.
I believe that what we call inspiration, is just an external
stimuli for something that is an internal instinct.
It’s a solution for a mental conflict and a fulfillment of
a subconscious desire, which was already inside of
us, but needed only a little nudge to materialize.
KALTBLUT: Where do you get ideas for their
costumes? Is it designers, movies, paintings,
art periods, different cultures, or?
MARINA: I’m not sure where to begin or end listing
my inspirations. Is a long list of names really that interesting
to read? Yes, it’s all of the above: Designers,
movies, paintings, fairy tales, historical periods,
art movements-All of it!
If I had to name one of each, it would be Philippe
Starck, Erte, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Art Nouveau
era, Dead Ophelia, ancient Oriental culture,
Sulamith Wulfing, Alphonse Mucha, it goes on and
on.
KALTBLUT: How has doll making influenced
your life? What different ways has it opened
for you?
MARINA: Doll-making hasn’t influenced my life, it IS
my life. I started making dolls as a toddler and hasn’t
been able to stop since. I lack the perspective of not
making dolls, to know how it’s influencing me. It is
the central driving force in my life, which has influenced
and formed everything else around it to suit
it best. I wake up thinking about making dolls, and I
go to sleep thinking about it. It makes me happy, because
all day long, I get to do what I love doing most,
go where ever my imagination takes me.
In fact, there is a chapter is my new art book about
this aspect of my life too. If you wish to see more of
my work and learn more about my creative journey,
then perhaps you’ll like my book. It will be available
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WHY ARE WITCHES
BEING PAINTED NUDE
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Text by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E.K. Jones

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It’s impossible that while looking at paintings and illustrations, all
the way through the history of art, You have never noticed that
apart from the ugly hags that are fully cloaked, witches are most
frequently completely nude, Be it hags or nymph like. If this made
you wonder and it should have or not, we will provide you with an
answer on: Why All The Nude Witch Paintings Out There?
This explanation is split in two. One is related to
what witches have always stood for and what
nudity symbolizes in the pagan versus Christian
battle and the other’s got to do with being
an artist during times of censorship extremes.
First of all we shall examine nudity in the pagan
world, in the Old Religions. Going back to the
Greeks and Romans nudity is respectable and
as well as rituals and witchcraft was not something
unnatural. On the contrary. Nude is related
to gods, to worshipping nature, to freedom,
to simplicity and honesty. A beautiful human
body was strongly connected to philosophy
and a well grounded education and knowledge
and enabled people to form more sincere
bonds and understanding. Same principles apply
to Celtic religions, and any other form of
feeling part of nature and worshiping this very
union. Human body equals nature equals godly
creation equals all good.
And this is where Christian ethics set in to say
otherwise. Excluding very early Christianity
Calvin’s and Luther’s puritan preaching made
sure the belief that the human body is wicked,
dirty, representing sin and weakness because
of its relation to nature, corrupted and impure
got widespread in Europe and later on in America
as well. Anybody suggesting otherwise was
sure to burn at the stake.
At the same time a strange devil-fear that could
almost be described as a lust over hell and demons,
with lucid descriptions of the devil and
the devil’s follower’s rituals, reigned to arouse
horror in the plenty imaginative yet uneducated
folk. It was too hard to rip the pagan out of the
Christian, so creatures like mermaids, nixes,
nymphs, witches, goblins were allowed to exist
in folklore but got transformed into malignant
wrongdoers in league with Satan to try and deceive
the good honest Christian man.
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Ok, we are still not there. Why are witches
depicted so frequently and so undressed? Is
there actually any truth in the nakedness of
the witch? There obviously is. Ritual nudity
exists and has always existed. For all reasons
mentioned above nudity among members of a
coven has been viewed as essential. There is
truth to that, but it still doesn’t explain the nude
witch scattered all over the place.
Bearing in mind the new standards, which read
nudity equals evil, and the fact that everything
nude and accessible is being covered and destroyed
even if it’s masterpieces by Michelangelo
or Botticelli depicting saints or biblical
figures, there must be symbolism to the witch.
The witch becomes the personification of evil.
The witch is a woman who challenges man by
not abiding to the rules of society. She is an individual
who doesn’t want to conform and get
married, be humble, be sane n all that. In not
condemning her human nature and accepting
the naked truth she defies
God and swims in immorality and sin as often
depicted in frantic dance or as temptresses
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In a somber prude world where piano legs are
covered considering it insulting to expose any
form of “legs”, witches are conscious natural
creatures who want to celebrate their existence,
because according to the old world the
only power is found inside one’s own body.
Witches are painted nude because witches
pose a threat to social order, and nude is stigmatized
as threatening and fearsome. We can
see one other quality of the nude and of witches
in Albrecht Durer’s famous witch painting,
nude makes everyone equal, all social classes
are stripped of status and qualities and since
witches are actually in favour of nudism in
some ceremonies they want to disobey the order
and abolish the law. Witches are depicted
naked and wild, dancing, debauched, frantic,
often implying the use of illegal substances,
classless, enchanting and enticing, tempting
man to yield into the kingdom of hedonism and
sin disregarding any authorities with the fatal
results ubiquitous religion oppressors never
stopped preaching about.
Then, another obvious reason why witches are
painted nude throughout history is the perfect
excuse they offer an artist to avoid being censored.
Ok so the painting might be nude but it’s
only because it is depicting these devilish creatures
to be looked upon with fear and disgust.
It is natural for an artist to be interested in the
human body, since it’s been that way since antiquity,
and much as a multitude of clothes and
fabrics might offer an extensive playground,
nothing can compare to the motion of free bodies
and the tones of bare skin that had been so
stupidly forbidden.
Thanks to witches and their immoral ways
painters could express themselves freely. Under
the pretence of depicting pure evil, an artist,
who has to be rebellious by nature and definition,
can study the human body and also do
their bit of anarchy statement in offering some
of their finest works when working with these
damn witches. Becoming secretly part of this
decadent mystic tradition it makes perfect
sense why they would choose to depict these
mad fiendish women rather than the slightly
boring, puritan, strict woman buried under her
multitude of clothes and virtues.
So next time you look at these nude witches,
give them one more moment of thought. Do
they not seem tempting enough? Is their dance
not a secret ceremony vaguely familiar to you?
When looking closer, are they not a bunch of
little Venuses and wood nymphs, little goddesses
of nature and of the past who have
very subtly managed to sneak into our modern
world through thousands of years of merciless
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Necklaces by Frederica Prock www.fove.me
Production: Frederica Prock
Photographer: Marc Fischer
Model: Leonie B. @Eastwestmodels

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aMinus
Interview by Nicolas Simoneau
I am one lucky guy, check this out : I went to Bucharest
on a 3-day trip with HONK!’s “Artist Of The Year 2011”
winner Aminus aka Valentin Plessy.
We left Berlin thursday night at 8 pm and boarded a flight
to Cologne. Two hours later we were in Bucharest. We
barely had time to get off the plane and claim our
luggages, someone was waiting to pick us up. Quick stop at
the hotel to leave our stuff, and first tour of the city.
Bucharest is really beautiful, i mean of course “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and as
such it is a completely subjective experience. Coming from Berlin, a lot of the buildings we
saw looked familiar. You can totally feel that the old communist regime is still very present
in the architecture. You’ll see a lot of old buildings that are in pretty bad shape and need to
be renovated, and here and there you’ll catch a glimpse of beautiful little houses in the city
center. You may also be surprised by the number of stray dogs wandering the streets of
the city. There are so many of them, it’s almost surreal. As you can imagine, they all look
perfectly healthy and beautiful. After a really big and tasty lunch, we make a quick stop
back at the hotel where we have to take the equipment we will need for the concert, and
then we go straight to the club to perform the soundcheck. Once we’re done with that, we
just sit and drink at the bar waiting for the show to start.
It’s finally time for Aminus to go on stage, he’s a bit stressed out, doing a lot of vocal warm
up exercises, and checking how many people are in the crowd. The show starts. The crowd
is a bit shy, but after the first song, everybody is totally into it. People are dancing and
singing along.
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KALTBLUT: We got back from Bucharest yesterday,
where you did a concert and a Dj set, how
was that?
AMINUS: Everything went perfect, we did have a warm
welcome, people were really receptive to the show. It was a
nearly perfect concert.
KALTBLUT: By the way, you remember after the
show when I had to go back to the hotel alone,
what happened with this guy you were with?
AMINUS: Joker! (totally blushing)
KALTBLUT: Speaking of which, is it something
that happens a lot after a show, you taking some
guy home?
AMINUS: Not at all. I’m more of the romantic type
actually.
KALTBLUT: How involved are you with your
music?
AMINUS: I make all the music and write my own lyrics.
I try to do my best as far as the production process is
concerned. One thing I have to do so far is to find a way to
incorporate instruments on stage.
That is definitely something that i would like to try and develop.
I’m a drummer in the first place. Actually I’m about
to go on tour and play drums with the band and dear friends
from KOOL THING. www.koolthingmusic.com
The concert is magical, Aminus and his mysterious band (two people
dressed in black, moving like robots) are on stage. The light show
is very nice, with some projection going on. Despite a few technical
problems, Aminus keeps his cool. After the 35-minute show, the
crowd is asking for more, so we get to have one rappel. The show is
finally over, Valentin is now enjoying the party. We drink a lot, dance
a bit, almost laughing ourselves to death. We’re having a good time.
At some point i am going back alone to the hotel, yes alone, because
Aminus is having a conversation with a guy, and clearly trying
to tell me that he won’t come back with me tonight. He’s such abitch!
Friday morning : Rendezvous at 1 pm in front of the hotel with Aminus
and our two lovely guides. Schedule of the day: visiting The
Modern Art Museum, grabbing a bite at the ZEXE (best restaurant
ever) and chilling in the city. It’s already 10 pm and we have to get
ready to go to the Control Club, where Aminus is Dj-ing all night. I
drink way too much, and i find myself throwing my guts up at 2 am
in the hotel room, leaving Aminus with a crazy crowd dancing and
screaming at the bar. He’s finally back at the hotel around 9 am,
drunk as a skunk but happy like a fool. We get two hours of sleep and
already we have to pack our bags. We drink one last coffee and catch
a cab to the airport. Because of the snow we almost miss our connection
to Germany, but everything ends well, and we are finally back
in Berlin at 7 pm, tired as hell. After a good night sleep, I am meeting
with Aminus again on Sunday at .HBC, where we eat a delicious
King’s cake... perfect setting for a one-on-one interview.
KALTBLUT: Indeed! You’re a very busy man and
have been (and still are) involved in several music
projects over the years, can u tell us a little more?
AMINUS: The first one, with which i got seriously involved
was PLATEAU REPAS with Fleur and Marianne.
www.myspace.com/plateaurepas - Right now they have a
new project too, called MILLE. I’ve been creating as aMinus
for a longer time though but started to make it visible
not so long ago. And now i am playing drums for KOOL
THING. We’re going on tour in Australia in February along
with the band AUSTRA which we’ll be opening for (February
the 2nd at Northcote Social Club, Melbourne and February
the 9th at The Basement, Sydney).
KALTBLUT: And for the KOOL THING, are you
just playing the drums, or are you also taking part
in other aspects of the project, like composing...?
AMINUS: No, i am just the drummer. Like any drummer,
I’m here to bring the drum parts to Jules and Jane’s live
acts, making them a bit more dynamic.
KALTBLUT: With all these different projects,
sometimes don’t you wish you could just focus on
one thing at a time?
AMINUS: That’s a good point. My “real” baby is Aminus,
and i sure would like to get more time to work on it .
That is a real challenge right now! I guess I just need to
learn to organize myself more!

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ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2011
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KALTBLUT: I heard you’re going to release a single
soon, what can you tell us?
AMINUS: Nothing new, really, we’re gonna release “My
minds away” as a single but with 3 new remixes, one from
KOOL THING, one from Stereon and one from Snaxx. They
‘re all Berlin friends and really talented. It should be out
real soon now. But it is more like a present for people to
wait as I am now working on new material for an upcoming
album this year.
But it is more like a gift to keep my fans busy until I release
my new material.
KALTBLUT: A second album for this year?
AMINUS: Yes !!!
KALTBLUT: OMG! total KALTBLUT exclusive!
Aminus will release his second album this
year! Of course we will keep you posted. Simple
question how did you get into music?
AMINUS: My father is a guitar player and a singer who
used to play in a quite popular band for children back in the
80s and early 90s, and later on he formed a brazilian music
band. So we (my brother and I) grew up surrounded by
music and my parents encouraged us to play instruments.
When I was a child I started to take violin lessons as I was a
huge fan of Rondo Veneziano but my violinist career failed
as I understood that the strength of Rondo Veneziano came
from the drums. I dumped the violin and started to play
drums.(Laughs) I know it doesn’t make much sense, but
that’s how it all went. Back in high school, we formed a
rock band with Fleur (from Plateau Repas) until I discovered
music assisted by computer at the music school of my
hometown, I discovered that electronic music was possible.
From that moment on i started experimenting and playing
around with the computer and synthesizers and I ended up
creating what became aMinus.
KALTBLUT: So as you said earlier, you are also
writing your own lyrics?
AMINUS: Yes. I do.
KALTBLUT: Where do you get your inspiration
from? Is it only from personal experiences and
things that affect you personally, or do you also
draw your inspiration from others...?
AMINUS: It’s always a bit about my life, a bit about my
friends, and also about stories that I heard. The inspiration
comes from what’s around. There is always something
intimate, something between 2 people in my songs, but it
doesn”t mean that I am always one of them.
KALTBLUT: There is one question that we are all
burning to ask you. The first single on the album
was called Billy, but who is Billy?
AMINUS: Ahah! Billy is a bit of myself, and a bit of someone
else but I won’t give any names.
KALTBLUT: Alright, fair enough. So you’ve been
living in Berlin for 5 years now.
What brought you here in the first place?
AMINUS: I needed time to create for all my different projects.
In Paris, life is expensive, you have to work a lot to
survive and you do not have a lot of free time.
In Berlin life is a cheaper, and when we arrived in Berlin
with Plateau Repas, we realized that we would survive easily
working less and concentrating more on what’s the most
important: our music. There were so many artists around!
It was so stimulating and inspiring artistically.
KALTBLUT: Ok and so now after 5 years, did you
go where you wanted to? Are you happy with what
you’ve done so far?
AMINUS: Yes, for sure.
KALTBLUT: Do you see yourself staying here
longer?
AMINUS: Of course. the positive thing about Berlin is that
the city is like a springboard, not a place where you are
gonna make tons of money, but rather the perfect place to
do your thing and take your time, which is great. Living in
Berlin is a good thing for me. So yeah, definitely!
KALTBLUT: In addition to all your music projects
you’re also Co-owner with Jon-Jon of AKA
http://akaberlin.com/ , a tattoo parlor and gallery.
AMINUS: Yes, we created an Art space and a Tattoo Parlor.
We’re working a lot with friends, as far as the gallery is
concerned but also with artists we fall in love with, and to
whom we offer our space. It’s meant to be a workshop as
well, so these artists are welcome to create here, prepare
their installations, performances and such....
We are also working with tattoo artists from all over europe.
The idea was to create an hybrid place, where we would
have the time and space to work on our artistic projects,
as we would bring a certain idea of tattooing that is dear to
us, knowing that tattoo is something strong culturally and
especially in Berlin.
KALTBLUT: Speaking of tattoos, i saw you
took up tattooing.
AMINUS: Yes, I am learning but I am still a beginner. I
like it though!
KALTBLUT: Is it something that you would like
to pursue?
AMINUS: Well once again, I need more time!
Right now i do not have much of it, but it is definitely something
i would like to work on in the future.

KALTBLUT: Ok let’s go back to Aminus. It’ s been
about three years now since your first concert
as Aminus. Since your concert in Berhgain you
started to have a new kind of atmosphere on stage.
It’s something quite minimalist : you have these
people (one or two) wearing masks and doing the
light show. And for the first time in Bucharest you
used some projection. Is it something that’s going
to be part of your show now?
AMINUS: Yes. I really want to create an atmosphere on
stage. It will grow for sure with more light and video shows.
One of the performers wants to create a synthesizer which
plays lights and no music. I have also worked with Nicolas
Pyjualon who has been thinking of more performance related
things to do on stage.
Maybe one day I will have an entire army of performers! As
far as I’m concerned, I want to focus on my voice and on the
music. I might not have enough self confidence to fill the
stage on my own and i don’t feel like i can play an instrument
on stage right now either so I want to create something
really visual, something where I won’t risk putting the
vocal part in danger. Like choreographies...
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AMINUS: Well, never say never. But for now I don’t feel
like Madonna enough to sing perfectly and jump around!
The fact that there is no instrument on stage is already
something that people can easily attack. I don’t really care,
lots of artists use backing tracks. But it is still a reason why
I only want the live aspect, my voice, to be good and the visual
side to be strong and reflecting the moods of my songs.
Album: Almost And Maybe
Released: 05. Nov 2010
Genre: Pop, Synth Pop
Video: Billy
www.youtu.be/nK3x9LOeK2A
Label: Zingy Records
Based: Berlin / Germany
www.myspace.com/heyminus

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Marilyn
Monroe
More than a Beautiful Child.
Text by Claudio Alvargonzalez Tera
Photos by Bern Stern
All Copyrights @Universial Pictures
A few weeks ago in one of my common sleepless
nights I was watching for the fifth or sixth time
“The Prince and the Showgirl” (Laurence Olivier,
1957) and I couldn’t stop thinking what a great actress
Marilyn Monroe was. She was funny, intelligent,
quick and stealing every scene with her own
presence. I had a drama teacher who always told
me: “Man, everyone can do drama, the easiest thing
in cinema is to cry. But comedy that’s a different
matter. Only the most gifted ones have that
ability”.
And in fact I believe those words are true.
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She was really talented and I think she knew it. That
was partly the reason of her sadness. She had to
probe she was an actress, not just a silly good looking
blonde. I found some pictures of her in class at
the Actor’s Studio in New York City. She wasn’t sitting
in the front row like the star she was. She was
in the last one with no makeup and smoking a cigarette,
just listening of what Lee Strasberg had to say.
She wanted to learn.
There’s a story (can’t say if it’s true) about her presence
there. It is said that the rest of the students resented
Marilyn, basically ignoring her, and felt she
didn’t belong with them, as they were serious actors,
and she was just a Hollywood star. However, when
she took to the stage herself, something happened.
Something that just never happened at the Actor’s
Studio before.
The students applauded. When Marilyn died in 1962
Lee Strasberg said that he was sure she could have
been one of the great actors of the stage.
SHE WAS ALSO A REBEL
She started and ended her career being naked in
front of a camera. During the Pin Ups era in the late
1940s she became one of them. For some actresses
that was the first step. We all remember that famous
“Playboy” cover in December 1953.
But the truth is that those pictures were taken in
May 1949 when she was a no one and after becoming
a successful young star with Twentieth Century Fox
those pictures were published. It was a big scandal.
Except for her. Marilyn admitted she freely posed for
the photos. She liked her body, she liked her sexuality
and there was nothing to be ashamed of. That was
Marilyn Monroe.
In June 1962, one month and 2 weeks before her
death, Marilyn started a three-day photo session for
“Vogue” with photographer Bern Stern at the Bel-
Air Hotel in Los Angeles. More than twenty-six hundred
pictures were taken. Half of them naked ones.
She was just 36 years old but she looked more than
40. She looked stunning but sad. She was lost. In fact
she was already “dead”. Those photos were like a final
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“An unusual woman”
Ella Fitzgerald
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She wanted to look exactly the way she always felt. Alone and naked. Her
face and body showed the scars of a life time. Even a physical one of a past
surgery operation nobody knew about. The world wanted to see the real
Marilyn and that what she showed. She couldn’t care less. In August 1962
Marilyn was found dead at her home.
The cause of death:
An overdose of barbiturates. Probably suicide. But I’m not too sure about
that. I think of it more as an accident. A loss of control. She never controlled
her own life so I think she couldn’t control her own death.
There are still many things we don’t know about her. But under that myth
of a blond star there was an intelligent woman. A political activist.
She openly associated with Americans who were identified by the FBI
as communists. She supported “Pace Action”, a movement for a sane
Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. She also identified
strongly with the workers. And she was passionate about equal rights,
rights for blacks or rights for homosexuals.
She was friends of Ella Fitzgerald and Truman Capote.
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“Finest creature over the planet”
Arthur Miller
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There are many things said about her. Miss Ella
Fitzgerald saw her as an “unusual woman”, a little
ahead of her times although she didn’t know it. Capote
described her as a “Beautiful Child”. In fact, the
title of this article is taken from an essay called the
same way that Truman Capote wrote about her in
1955.
But if I had to choose one of those things, I would go
for what Marilyn’s third husband and one of the most
talented writers of all time, Arthur Miller, said. He
described her as the “finest creature over the planet”,
but also the “saddest”. When Marilyn died one
year after their divorce Miller literally said: “Marilyn
blanked out the sun, and she still does”.
Marilyn was probably the most celebrated actresses.
She worked with Clark Gable, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon,
Otto Preminger, George Cukor but she never
won an Oscar, not even a nomination. She won a
BAFTA award and a Golden Globe for “Some Like
It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959), one of her best movies.
People loved her but I’m sure she wanted recognition
from the Academy. She deserved it. But she wasn’t
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But there is something they never had.
They werent:
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CORPUS
Photography by Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert
Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones

SERIES
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Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert is a most fascinating experimental artist creating astonishing pictures
by using most of the times nothing but a disposable camera. Or even photo booths.
He has an astonishing understanding of human nature and a profound love for human necks.
www.josephwolfgang.ohlert.de
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KALTBLUT: So, to begin with, you shoot both analog
and digital, which one do you prefer and why?
JOSEPH: Actually I don’t really photograph digitally.
I tried it several times but I’m lacking the needed
technical skills as well as the leisure to grapple with
it. This also applies to analog photography, therefore
I mostly work with disposable cameras. But coming
back to the question I do prefer analog because I
don’t have to change as much to make it look the
way I want it. I find digital photography to be much
too raw and cold and I always feel like I’m cheating
when I retouch and rework pictures. But this is a
very personal attitude towards digital photography, I
know a lot of very talented photographers who alter
their pictures digitally and create impressive imageries
which I can never achieve with my way of photographing.
I also would like to add that I don’t see myself as a
photographer. I rather try to play with the definitions
for photographer, artist and (art) producer.
KALTBLUT: We are featuring “Corpus Series” on this
issue. How did it come to this project? How did you
begin shooting nudes?
JOSEPH: I wanted to photograph a plain series of
bodies that should not be understood as portraits but
rather as a mere baseline study of the human body.
I wanted pure surface that depicts simply the design
of the body. Therefore I used a disposable camera.
This series is about creating an art object, turning a
person into an object, a decorative ornament.
The “Corpus” series is also connected to my “photographed
by” series, in which I get photographed by
different public figures from the realms of fashion,
music, literature, art, film, entertainment etc. Whereas
I objectified my models in the “Corpus” series I
am the one now who gets objectified. It is again a
play on the relation between artist and art object. It
is my intention to blend those two angles. I started
the “Corpus” series simultaneously to the “photographed
by” project.
However with my first exhibition in Berlin last summer
I completed the “Corpus” series. I still work on
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KALTBLUT: Would you say there is something you
prefer to shoot in a naked body,
perhaps better than a dressed person?
JOSEPH: I always try to photograph the body in a
very neutral way. Although I stage my photos as
well, I prefer a very plain and modest depiction of the
body. I consider clothing to be just a distraction from
the “design” of the human body and I also think that
the way a person dresses reveals too much of their
personality which is not helpful for my projects.
KALTBLUT: Who are your models for Corpus Series?
Is it people you know? Do you just ask people to
bare for you? How does it work?
JOSEPH: 90% of my models for the “Corpus” series
I have casted on facebook. Male as well as female.
I just go online and look around for different people
and if I find someone I find interesting I just contact
them asking if I can photograph them.
For the “Corpus” series I also just got into the car
and drove through different cities to find some models.
A lot of the boys in the series are from Barcelona
or Paris. The girls are mostly from Berlin or Munich.
Most of the models I did not really know before but
now I’m still in contact with a few of them. So if the
models were ok with being photographed we met
spontaneously and did the shoot. The location was
secondary for this project but I think it’s still fascinating
how different the motives turned out to be.
The shoots were mostly done in 5 minutes, it was
basically just like a mug shot... from every side. For
each model I roughly took 10 - 15 photos.
KALTBLUT: How different is it to you as
inspiration to shoot indoors or outdoors?
JOSEPH: It depends on the situation, the idea, as
well as the model.
Right now I photograph a lot of my models completely
naked so I have to find a space were we are
not disturbed by onlookers. So most of my outdoor
shooting for which I asked the models to bare it all
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KALTBLUT: You shoot portraits, but also self portraits.
How different is one from the other and what do
you want to focus on each time?
JOSEPH: I have two different sorts of selfportraits.
The series “daily muc/sha/bln” consists of photos I
had taken in photo booths I came across in Munich,
Schwäbisch Hall and Berlin. Per city I did circa 30
selfportraits. All of those photos were made around
2010/2011. At first it started out as a joke but then
it evolved and I had a new photo like every second
day. Most of them are staged, also those ones were
I appear to be rather expressionless. I liked the idea
that every selfportrait is per definition staged. This
act of profiling helped me to sharpen my understanding
of my own surface.
The second series, just called “selfportrait,” evolved
for practical reasons. When working with disposable
cameras you can’t always tell how many photos you
still have left, therefore I use the last few shots to
make photos of myself and that’s how this collection
got into existence. I like how those seemingly not
connected pictures all share the same expression.
KALTBLUT: Another impressive series of yours is Situations.
It’s probably real life situations. How is it shooting
completely unplanned as opposed to somewhat
planned series like Corpus Series? What does it require?
JOSEPH: I took my first planned “artistic” photos
when I was 17 with the camera of my grandfather.
I trained myself to secretly photograph people on the
streets. Some of these photos were made in Barcelona,
London, Paris and Salzburg. I was interested
in how I could capture different situation without influencing
the events. It is also of interest to me how
you have to perceive these situations, how I as the
photographer have to decide if I pull the trigger right
now or if I just let the moment pass by.
There is a certain responsibility in this moment affecting
me as well as my surrounding which I have a
lot of respect for. It is so much more thrilling than any
shoot I could plan. But even when I stage my shootings
I like to be very spontaneous. I have a certain
motive in my mind I want to create and when I got
that photo I still go on and experiment a little. Those
photos that are created this way are often a lot better
and intense.
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KALTBLUT: In a person, what would you say is the
favourite body part, what part in people do you
find to be most photogenic and why?
JOSEPH: I love necks. When I photograph I prefer to
put the focus on the face. I like to shoot the people
from the side and not from a frontal point of view.
Looking at the photos from the “Corpus” series
I picked for this edition you can see that a lot of
the models are standing in an awry angle but with
their face turned towards me. Somehow I find that
the physicality of their bodies comes across much
stronger.... Or maybe it is because you get a better
view on the neck.
Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert
www.josephwolfgang.ohlert.de

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Clothes make the man.
2012 is a great year for
fashion victims. Many marvelous
collections are waiting to be worn.
Here are four designs in which we
would like to see you.
Selected by Marcel Schlutt
RICK OWENS

ANN DEMEUELEMESSTER
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MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA ARTISANAL
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Amanda M. Jansson & Emma E.K..Jones

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A lot of things can happen in a ye

ASSHOLE
ar and screw me sideways they have.
Text and artwork by Drew Eastman
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I was just on the Toilet in that dive of a Bar doing what one does in there .. getting rid of
that white line in front of me, my iPhone was ringing just as it all hit my face. It was my dear
dear old friend Marcel calling me in an hour of need. But all I wanted was a good fuck now
that I was high as a kite, he needed me to start working on a piece for this new magazine
he was gonna launch.
All I could say was :”Fuck you, when do you need it by?” and he was like “Yesterday.”
So off my twat I was heading home to my iPad
forming the first few letters into an article, I said
to myself that should I feel like I was gonna fall
asleep I could quickly do another white one on
the iPad display. Blessed Steve Jobs probably
would have me overdose doing it on his beloved
gadget, but they did they it was great for consuming,
wink.
Instead I was actually dropping of into some
dream-state .. Glorious!
I was at a fashion shoot in Afghanistan doing a
spread for a Fashion against War thing called
Red Dress.. here I was drinking ice cold Martinis
with Kate Moss and NaomI and I think I saw that
Lena from Germanys Next Top Model was there
as well.
What a hoot, I was getting more and more
pissed and wondering what the fuck am I doing
here ?
In fact I was the Art Director at the shoot but I
was directing shit, falling into a bunch of loaded
Guns at one point and nearly killing of our Photographer.
As I was looking at myself from above
I could see the desert sands opening up and two
pairs of hands coming out of the sand next to
me, there was a faint smell of burning metal in
the air and the hands opened up with rainbow
like snakes out of a glowing steam crawling up
my legs and up in the air.
I was trying to call one of the assistants of the
shoot but all I could see was Kate and NaomI
dancing in front of me in red flowing dresses with
Machine Guns in their hands pointing them into
the sky, they where twirling, faster and faster and
getting closer so that the fabric of their dresses
was forming some kind of curtain around me.
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I couldn’t see nothing anymore, everything was
red like blood and then the hands where crawling
up my legs and i could make out what they
where.
They where men with Dog faces ..
Man I was tripping and tweaking like I was on
LSD or something!
The Dogfaced guys opened up the red curtain
like in a theatre and there was someone familiar
standing at a mountains cliff, I could only
make him out vaguely so I was drawn to go
closer, next to me out of the sand more hands
where crawling and behind that huuuuge missiles
shooting into the sky. It felt like some
dictators celebration of the end of something
big and the beginning of something new and a
feeling of sadness and joy was creeping inside
of me, it was overpowering the closer I got.
Just a few more steps and I would be able to
make him out and the air was filled with exploding
missiles then I could hear the Dogfaced
men whisper “Push” as I was getting closer and
closer to him, then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
This is my MAN and the second a realised it
he turned around and there were no more missiles
being shot into the sky and the whispering
chant stopped, ‘What are you doing here?’
I heard myself asking him.
Jeez, this shit was getting stranger by the
second I was trippin this dream.
I am here so you can kill me - he said, but how
could I do that, I love him so much!
Then the whispers began again “PUSH” they
where chanting and the Dogfaced men were
coming up close behind really cornering me so
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Stranger was the feeling I was getting in my
arms, because they started to reach out to him
“PUSH” I kept hearing as I was getting so close
I could smell him and my eyes where deeply
locked with his.
Like perfume it was numbing my senses and I
embraced him with my cheek next to his and
my heart beating so fast I was feeling it in my
ears “PUSH” he whispered “You know it is
what you have to do, push me my love, you
will be free”.
I heard myself saying ‘I love you so much’ and
the millisecond I finished the last word while
placing a kiss on his Forehead my arms firmly
placed on his shoulders and I pushed.
One last smile was catching him as he was
slowly flying off the cliff and with every breath
I took he was drifting off into the deep filled of
clouds of nothing.
There was a silence surrounding me now, the
Dogfaced men where walking backwards away
from me, one by one knocking the missiles to
the side, were they once fired into the red sky
there was now just a whole big nothing filled
with peace.
I took a deep breath and here was that curtain
again closing around me while I could hear a
faint beat in my ears forcing me to move very
slowly.
This was the first time in over a Year that I felt
so at peace that I could move to a slow beat
and let it drift me so much so that I didn’t realise
it was getting all dark around me “I can run,
but I can’t hide away from you” was what I kept
hearing being sung.
A big crash and one of them Dogfaced men
appeared in front of me barking louder and
louder ... I woke up.
I was pulling the snot up my nose, the white
shit was doing my head in at this point, how
long was I sleeping ? Only 2 hours ?
Well that was intense I remember thinking and I
recalled everything I dreamed as vivid as if you
would kick my knee now! I got myself a small
bottle of something fizzy and drowned it in one,
couldn’t help feeling totally whack though not
from what I snorted but from this trip I was just
having.
It kinda made me realise something that was
brewing deep inside of me for a long time
and didnt really want to be a harsh reality.
“Finnish my first article and then finnish the relationship
I was in.”
The article was an easy task I had that sorted
in a couple of hours after a big bad coffee and
a shower, but the bit with my man took me a
lot longer.
There was so much faith in me that this was
worth fighting for, I love him so much and how
would it be without him not being around ?
What followed where a few more month of
something that was equally wild and hard on
me till the day that I pushed him of the cliff.
Don’t get me wrong I do miss him and still think
about him but i’m much better off and there are
so many other things in my live that need the
attention i was giving only him.
So a year later this is NOW and what am i
doing ?
Writing one of my horrid stories. I left one
issue out .. guess why ?
I was busy at the cliff cleaning up my mess
and healling, am still busy with that you fucks
but i am better now and loving the distraction
writing my life away for some crazy fashion
and art magazine.
Well it does fit though, right ? Life is a fashionable
art-form that only we are capable of!

I wonder what kind of verbal diarrhoea i will be writing about in a years time ?
You just gotta sit tight.
I CAN RUN, But i cant Hide away .. from Life and what else is there to come.
I am off to drown myself in a bottle of Red Wine now .. wanna join me ?
XOXO Drew Eastman
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Abum preview by Coco Meurer.
Dress by Nyne
Crown by Stylist’s Studio
Ring Stylist’s Own

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Photography: Mara Sommer - www.marasommer.com
Styling: Cameron Lee Putt - www.cameronleeputt.co.nz
Hair: Cory van Malland @ Servilles - www.servilles.co.nz
Model: Daniela @ Clyne Models - www.clyne.co.nz
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Necklace by D_Luxe
Belt Stylist’s Own

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Sunglasses by Graz
Rope Belt by Stylist’s Studio

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Knit Top by Maurie & Eve
Underwear by Jimmy D
Crown by Stylist’s Studio
Brooch by D_Luxe
Bracelet Stylist’s Own

Top by Deborah Sweeney, Underwear by Jimmy D, Crown by Stylist’s Studio.
Ring by D_Luxe, Bracelet Stylist’s own
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Dress by Nyne
Necklace by D_Luxe
Sunglasses by Graz
Earrings by Meadowlark

Tee by Vanishing Elephant
Shorts by Maurie & Eve
Underwear by Jimmy D
Ring by D_Luxe
Earrings Stylist’s Own
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Shame On
Everybody knows the story of Adam and Eve, who after tasting
the forbidden fruit (which, by the way, was not an apple but a
fig) were thrown out of the Garden of Eden because they became
aware of their shameful nudity. In return they received
the ability to judge over the good and the bad and a limited life
full of pain, work and shame. This story truly coined my relationship
to my own nudity and sense of shame since I first heard
of it as a young child.
Text by Nina Kharytonova
Translation by Lara Louise Mercier

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I learned three things back then: Don’t ever do anything
God told you not to do, nakedness is something
one – or I – should be ashamed of, and that we’re basically
pretty much fucked being so far away from this
inaccasible paradise, the Garden of Eden. I stopped
thinking about God pretty quickly after that but this
sense of shame and this indisposition with my own naked
body persisted. The overall and permanent, negative
feeling of selfconciousness is our civilization’s
achievement, mankind has not always been so hostile
against human bodies. One could think this disaster
took its course when humans developed from hunters
and gatherers to farmers but history teaches us something
else. But before we get into emotions and feelings,
I’d like to comment on the actual, technical status
of nudity. Nude is anybody who’s without clothing,
only ‘dressed’ in one own’s skin. The skin is the largest
and most versatile organ of the human body, it weighs
about 3 kg and is about 2m 2 big. It is waterproof,
temperature regulating, delicate – and beautiful. Shame
about one’s nudity is reserved to humans only by the
way, because animals don’t differentiate between naked
and dressed. Sure, clothing was very useful in the
Stone Age – it prodected us from the rain and cold,
but later on in warmer regions, the behaviour and
dresscode changed.
In ancient Greece, nudity was allowed in public but this
right was reserved to males, and on special occasions
such as sport events only. The place for physical activity
gained its name -“Gymnasium“ from „Gymnasion“
(gymnos=naked). Later, around 720 BC, each
and every discipline in the Olympics were carried out
naked. The Romans didn’t see the connection between
nudity and self-indulgent sexuality either, at least they
didn’t demonize it in public. For them, nudity was a
symbol of ascetic modesty and this is why even the
Olympic Games after the Roman conquest of Greece in
146 BC were still conducted in the nude. Talking about
ascetic modesty, in India the Sadhus (Hindu Ascets)
are naked but stay socially accepted and are held in
great respect amongst the ‘normal’, dressed people.
But then Christianity came and brought to us the story
of Adam and Eve and the sense of shame of one’s own
nudity. The Christians also were the first to bring nudity
into context with sexuality and therefore d monized
it more and more. It was them who dressed up the
Olympic athletes. Women that were spotted naked
were called witches and mostly burned afterwards.
The Christians, our devotional forefathers, even made
it to other continents and fought hard against nudity
there, imposed their dresscode and prescribed everyone
their indispensable sense of shame. They declared
this feeling a virtue and a must for every true and good
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„Exquisite, healthy, quite nudity in nature! O, if only the
poor, sick, lustful city slickers could truly get to know
you once more!“
Walt Whitman, Diary, 1877
Advancing technology and, resulting, the growing
civilization did the rest. They spread shame and
refusal of one own’s nudity into the most remote
places on our planet and deep into our hearts.
According to the thesis by German socioligist
Norbert Elias the growing self-control (also called
self-discipline) – the retention of a reaction to
emotional impulses – is the enhancement of the
super-ego and therefore a higher focus on the
centralization inside of a society and not on one’s
own. In accordance with his famous work „About
the process of civilization“ (1939) this longterm
change of personality structures goes along with
the „advancement of shamewaves“, which means
being scared of individual actions which leads to a
more controlled and tabooed sexuality.
He thought that breaking out of this spiral on
short term was not possible, but only long term
actions would help to change our perception.
All in all it is interesting to see how this advancement
of shame boundaries shaped our whole civilization
progress – it enhanced the separation of
genders: to males, this sense of shame became
an expression of our culture, whereas for females,
it works as a symbol of the limits of a sexuality
that ought to be tamed.
This advancement of shame boundaries lead to
the denial and hiding of genitals and the resulting
oppression of our sexuality. Mankind even
learned how to use the sense of shame as a tool
of torture, just think of the recent events of Abu
Ghraib.
Luckily, the history of shame made a progressive
change, at least on first sight. The nudists, emancipation-
and anti-war-movements of the 60s
brought along some kind of sexual revolution and
the liberation from the claws of conventions and
morals and therefore at least partially stopped
the denial of the individual ego. But with the resulting
commercialization of nudity and sexuality
brought another disaster. Our media started to
use the thitherto scorned display of women and
brought along a new sector of commerce and
economy. This permanent exhibition and display
did not bring the sought unification with oneself
and one’s naked body, because now it was not
only important what one was wearing but rather
how one looked like under one’s clothes. A new
ideal of beauty was born that was so disconnected
from the natural, which is now only achievable
with (plastic) surgery.
Interestingly enough we didn’t pounce about eachother
like wild animals, what happened was rather
the opposite of it. Somebody once said to me:
„Our society is so oversexed and so underfucked
at the same time“. I find this expression pretty
accurate when trying to describe the Status Quo
of our modern society.I’m looking at the future in
curious anticipation which progresses and changes
will our sense of shame undergo? Finally I’d like
to add that nobody should be ashamed of their
sense of shame - it is a feeling that is indispensable
for social intergration. Maybe everyone should
just rethink their indivual, inner attitude towars
nudity and one’s body. And as thephrase goes:
We all came to this world naked, and naked we
will leave it.

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Selfpotraits by Brett Seiler www.brettseiler.tumblr.com
17 YEAR OLD ARTIST. FROM HARARE, ZIMBABWE
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TIM KRUGER
“Porn made things possible for me
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Tim Kruger is Germany´s gay pornstar number #1. He is not only
gifted with a beautyful face and the ginger hair. No, he is famous for
his big XXL cock and his movies. Yeah Tim is a mans dream.
I know him since I have moved to Berlin 10 years ago.
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
KALTBLUT: Hey Tim. The issue’s theme is:
Nude and it seems very appropriate to have
an interview with one of the most famous
pornstars of today.
How did you become a Pornstar? And why?
TIM: I did it just because I was curious and
somewhat fascinated me about porn. All started
when I was working at a gay porn store and
had all these pornvideos, books and posters
around me all day.
I think I watched almost every porn movie
available during that time and after a while I
thought: “ Ok Tim you may not have muscles
like the guys in the movies but at least you´re
cock is bigger than most of the guys cocks so
why not give it a try.”
Said and done, I sent an email to a few US
porn companies and after just a few days almost
all had replied, including Raging Stallion
Studios, one of the biggest US gay porn companies.
They invited me over, and my first pornshoot
was scheduled.
KALTBLUT: You have worked for many studios.
In the USA a lot as well. What are the
differences between European and American
productions?
TIM: Some american porn sets look almost
like they wanna shoot a hollywood movie with
much more equipment and people around you
than the european companies. The shoots are
very long , sometimes you have to work all day
till the scene is done. And work means in my
case having a hard-on for hours and do sex in
positions you´ve probably never read even in
the kamasutra :o)
European porn is in most cases a bit more low
key but I also know some european companies
who need not shy away from comparisons
to american studios.
KALTBLUT: Do you have a favourite film
partner? If so, then who? Why?
TIM: There are just too many sexy and hot
guys out there who I would like to shoot with.
But sexy in my eyes not always mean muscled.
It´s the whole package, attitude, smell,
symphathy that is important to me.
Tim Kruger : www.timtales.com
Tim @Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Kruger/102935385134?sk=info
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KALTBLUT: A few years ago you launched
your own label “timtales.com”. How did it
come to this?
What’s the story behind “Timtales”?
TIM: First I put some very short private fucking
vids of me online on some gayeties and I got
so much clicks and attentions from that vids
that I started to dream about my own website.
I wanted to show the people real, non scripted
sex, wanted to show them what´s happening in
my bedroom.
Just the idea of it turned me on so much that I
did everything to made this dream come true.
It was a very long and not always easy way till
Timtales became true but now I ´m very proud
of what i have reached so far.
KALTBLUT: You have gained world fame
and you work for the sex-industry. And we
both know it’s not an easy job. How much
of the real Tim is to be seen in the films? Or
is it always pure horniness that we see? Is
it sometimes acting?
TIM: What you see on Timtales.com is the real
me, I like having sex and like to show that on
my website. We do not have a script or anything
like that. It´s pretty much that what I do
when I meet guys without camera.
Some people want me to be more verbal while
I fuck but that wouldn´t be me and I think you
would feel it if I just pretend something I ´m not
into. And as I am my own boss I can always
rescedule a shoot if I ´m not horny or I don´t
feel well.
KALTBLUT: Do you do Live-Shows also? I
have always had trouble having live sex in
front of people.
TIM: Believe it or not but I ´m a very shy person
so I never did any live shows and I don´t
think I could ever do it.
Having sex and keeping a hard on when hundreds
of people staring at you istn´t that
easy.
If the people wanna see me fuck they can
watch me online or on dvd or when they´re
lucky they will meet me in a dark corner of a
club and can see me having livesex :o
KALTBLUT: Are you single? Or do you have
a boyfriend?
How does he get along with your job?
TIM: Maybe a bit disillusioning for some of my
fans but I have a boyfriend for many years.
First he wash´t that happy with me wanting to
do porn but then he said I should give it a try if
it is something I wanna do. And now he is totally
fine with it and without him Timtales could
not exist because he is supporting me a lot and
he is the one who does much of that work you
don´t see in the my videos like editing all the
stuff etc. But he even appeared in a few videos
on my website too.
KALTBLUT: When you look through pornfilms,
on DVD or online, you can see that
70% is bareback. And the guys having unsafe
sex on camera keep getting younger.
Personally, I don’t think this is a good thing.
What do you think?
TIM: I think barebacksex in general isn´t that
problem but I do have a problem with bareback
movies with mostly very young’s guys who
don´t know what they´re doing or just do it for
the money.
But if two adults, who fuck bareback in their
private life and its their own will to have sex
without condom in front of camera too, its
totally ok for me.
KALTBLUT: I’ve always been annoyed
when I was being reduced to my body and
sex. How do you handle it, when men view
you only as a hot pornstar?
Nothing but that?
TIM: It is what it is, Porn and its totally understandable
that people use you as a projection
screen of what they dream about in their
sexlife and most of the time reduce me to my
cock because it´s only my sexual side that they
see in my videos.
My friends who know me since years and
everyone who is interested in my personality
can discover that I´m not just a soulless body
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KALTBLUT: Have you ever regretted this
step?
TIM: No I did never regret the decision starting
it. Porn made things possible for me I always
dreamed about. I travel a lot , meet a lot of
great guys (sometimes not so great guys too,
that´s normal) , my sexlife is absolutely fulfilled
and I can live from what i do.
KALTBLUT: Does your family know what
you do? If this is the case, how do they deal
with it?
TIM: My family knows what I ´m doing but I´m
pretty sure they´re not interested to see any of
my movies :o)
I showed them some cover, calendar etc and
the´re happy that I can do what I want to do
and that I love my job and even can live from
it.
KALTBLUT: I have always received fun fanmails
and letters. What was your funniest
fan-experience?
TIM: It´s always nice and special when I meet
fans or they send me mails, cute presents or
gifts and i would lie if I said I ´m not liking it.
I love getting feedback from guys and if its positive
feedback I like it even more. I travel a lot
and it´s astonishing to see that almost in every
part of the world there are guys who know you
and who like you.
KALTBLUT: What’s Tim Kruger up to when
not filming? Where are you to be found?
TIM: When I´m not shooting I try to spend as
much time with my friends, not always that
easy because all the stuff we´re shooting has
to be edited and there is so much to organize .
My boyfriend helps me a lot and without him all
that would´t be possible . So in my private
time I have to take care of my boy too and keep
him entertained :o)
Beside that I like to go out to the bars and clubs
of the cities I currently live in or visit and that´s
mostly Berlin right now.
KALTBLUT: What can we expect from you
in 2012? What kind of new projects are you
planning?
TIM: We get a lot of emails and requests about
Timtales Dvd´s and Blu Rays so we decided to
release a few videos in 2012 . There is also a
Tim Kruger Dildo in the works and I just started
Dj-ing a bit. Since quite a few people asked
me if I would do live sex shows or gogo dancing
(which I don´t do), i thought it could be nice
to spin some music in their clubs instead so I
learned to use my DJ equipment. My boyfriend
says it sounds good already.
So, in 2012 there could be DJ Tim Kruger on
some party lineups :o)
www.timtales.com

Photo by Richard Weaver
www.duncanstevens.com
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CEREMONIALS
by Elizaveta Porodina www.porodina.net
Model: Matei @ The Special Model Management
Make up / hair: Valerie Fischer, Michael Salmen @ Artistgroupmierau
“natural” looks :
Make Up Foundation : Perfect Match / Benefit gorgeous
Concealer : Magic Concealer /Helena Rubinstein
Powder: Trasparent Powder / Guerlain
Rouge : Cremeblend Blush,Posey, / Mac
Lips: Clear Lipgloss / Mac

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White forehead - look:
Glitter and Ice mineralize eye shadow
Glitter and Ice Paint Pot

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Lucasz Bilinski is a much celebrated- and
well deserved so- Polish artist. Involved in
several projects, we interviewed him regarding
his amazing paintings. Strikingly unusual
for paintings, since he makes extensive use
of black and white and grey, he manages to
show his perfect technique and skill but at
the same time produce paintings that could
stand against any editorial, any time.
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KALTBLUT: What is it that made you decide
to paint men mostly?
LUKASZ: I am greatly inspired by fashion. I try
to clash the perception of fashion with my inner
self. I often start based on a fashion style photograph
which embraces some kind of poetry like
a pearl of infinite beauty, which waits to be uncovered.
Just like a teenage boy spotted in a crowd. This
boy - this man will stand in the middle of the way
between the picture and myself. This is where
the male portraits came to my mind - as they appear
though a filter of my soul.
KALTBLUT: How do you come up with an
idea for each painting?
LUKASZ: I have always been slightly narcissistic.
I do not feel ashamed about it. The awareness
of this fact makes my life easier and lets me
focus on the things I want to say and achieve. To
make my art less explicit, I become a different
man character in each picture.
I search for a new disguise to express my hidden
emotions, moods - swinging between honesty
and deception.
KALTBLUT: You make excesive use of black
and white and gray in your portraits, often
mixed with a few basic strong colours, How
did you develop this trademark? Why this
choice of colours?
LUKASZ: At some point I gave up on colours.
It happened quite naturally. Black, white, greyness...this
is what my palette comprises of at the
moment. I ocassionaly paint colourful, yet limited
in colours pictures. Greyness is the golden
mean by which I can achieve unique quality of
expression. It has certain elegance, calmness,
balance and indefinity, which enrich a portrait.
I cannot say for sure if these techniques will
evolve with more experience. It is all a matter
of the concept for my art. Using this palette is a
pretext to realise something that lies beneath. It
is a minimalistic system that consists of smaller
means which form a full size image
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LUKASZ: There are two aspects of nudity.
The first one leads to simple thinking - the
more you expose the more sexually attractive
you are. The other - the more you conceal
the more space for imagination you create...I
mean the imagination of your true sexuality.
The second, theatrical approach is more appealing
to me and I am trying to capture it in
my works.
KALTBLUT: On which occasions would
you say you feel “nude”?
LUKASZ: Looking back, nudity has not been
a novelty even in Renaissance. In my opinion
you can talk the most sexually by covering the
body in the right way. Just to mention geishas,
which aroused senses by their clothing, makeup
and motions. They left a trace in the history
as the prekursor of the most sophisticated
from of nudity. I associate nakedness with a
border between what is tangible, sexual, external
and the hidden, out of reach.
KALTBLUT: Tell us a little about your other
art project and how does it differ from
painting?
LUKASZ: I am paralerally doing fashion illustrating
which I treat as a spring-board (though
I still get inspired by it). Surprisingly, I usually
draw women and this difference between my
drawings and paintings does not have any
meaning for me. I consider it a way to give an
interesting view on all my work, which is coherent
to me. The most important, though, is
to be satisfied with your work and have a lot
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“I will die for you.”
But to my country, I said them.
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Craig Tracy is one of the most famous body painting artists
in the world, and for good reason! No other artist is
as diverse and as skilled when it comes to painting on
living breathing skin. Each one of his works exceeds the
expectations anyone could have and is actually very real
art. Perhaps much more than the one you will find dusting
away in a museum. We found out a bit about how he
works and what bodypainting is all about!
KALTBLUT: What kind of people come to you to
ask to be your models? Is there a patern or are
your models very varied?
CRAIG: The only pattern that I see regarding those
that wish to model for me, is that they all want to
have an exceptional and transformative experience
through my art. My models are very varied. All ages,
All sizes. Rich and poor. 95% are female. I’ve painted
on Lawyers, Doctors, Chemists, Millionaires,
University Students and Olympic Athletes.
KALTBLUT: I know you never work on the same
body twice. How easy was it to find all these different
people in the beginning?
CRAIG: From the very first painting to the present
moment, finding models has not been an issue.
They find me most often. Even in the very beginning
I had strangers contacting me wanting to model for
my work. They found me through various ways but
they certainly found me. I suppose when you do
something unique people enjoy talking and sharing
what you do with others. I’m very fortunate to have
so many willing bodies. It makes my work that much
easier.
KALTBLUT: You have been a more traditional
artist before you came into body painting. How
did it happen? How does it differ from our traditional
conceptions regarding art?
CRAIG: I’ve been a professional artist since 1983
and in most of those early years of my career I was
unsatisfied. I felt that there was something missing,
something that needed to happen but I had no idea
of what it would take to satisfy my desire to transcend
the conventional.
I found bodypainting through facepaintings that I
would do once or twice a year for events such as
Halloween and Mardi Gras.
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Faces lead to bodies and bodies eventually lead me
to the idea of taking bodypainting seriously as a fine
art. it was that concept, taking it seriously as fine
art, that changed everything. I couldn’t be happier.
Bodypainting is a multifaceted creative experience
that lives and breaths and challenges my every fiber.
KALTBLUT: How do bodies work as inspiration?
Is it like you see some form and you think of
a tiger or some woods? What brings about the
idea?
CRAIG: My work is very varied. About 50% of my
images are abstract or non objective. I choose to
not work in a specific style or tecnique. I allow my
inspiration to come from any and everywhere. I do
find inspiration in certain shapes and poses that my
models offer but I also find inspiration in concepts
and various designs outside of the human forms
that I work with. I try to explore something different
with each painting that I create.
I love variety and diversity and this passion expresses
itself in the majority of my work. I’m not sure if I
know of another artist whose work is as varied as
my own. Most artists are trying to brand themselves
by painting in a certain style over and over again.
I’m repulsed by such a lack of creativity. They are
chasing after an identity or the money. I want the
freedom to paint what I feel as I feel and I choose to
do so regardless of convention.
KALTBLUT:How difficult is it to paint on living
human skin? Is the person allowed some movement?
Can corrections be made etc?
CRAIG: The actual challenge of creating a substantial
painting on a human body can be overwhelming.
I’ve often said that painting on a living breathing
three dimensional body is a bit insane and I love it.
I love that the entire painting must be completed in
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CRAIG: When I paint it is similar to an athlete’s
“game day.” I sometimes work with the body and
other times I fight against the natural curves with my
lines and colors. I’m always dealing with the time
limit that exists and there really is no tomorrow in
bodypainting. I do my very best to make the experience
comfortable for my models. I’ll even go to extremes
where I’m the one in discomfort to help keep
my model more comfortable. It’s a very physical art
form and requires lots of effort and agility.
KALTBLUT: a special love for large cats? Is
there some symbolism involved? What makes
you use them a lot?
CRAIG: Big cats are my favorite animals. My initials
are also C.A.T. Of my 120 or so paintings I’ve used
big cats 6 times. The inspiration for each painting
was different but there is a very good chance that
there will be no more big cats in the future. Four of
the six images using big cats seem to really leave
an impression on people and I hope to not be so
branded.
KALTBLUT: Are you planning in advance? Is it
possible to have exhibitions of real people or
is it impossible because of the workload required?
CRAIG: That’s a lot of questions in one question! I
plan roughly 95 percent of my work in advance.
The others are spontaneous and tend to be non
objective. I do paint live in gallery shows often. I
prefer not to but my agent/publisher feels that it’s
better for me to leave a more lasting impression on
viewers when I’m out of New Orleans and it is the
first and possibly the only time that I will be doing a
gallery show in that city. I prefer to paint in my studio
where i have everything in it’s place and I have
less distractions and limits. I’m not interested in being
an entertainer. In the six years that I’ve had my
own gallery in New Orleans, I’ve only painted live
4 times.
I do my very best to capture the image photographically
as fast and as honest as possible. I
don’t manipulate my work digitally beyond the most
basic uses of contrast, and other color correction
techniques. My photography only takes about ten
minutes now that everything is digital. Photography
is sort of my necessary evil. I’m all about creating
and not capturing. Pushing buttons, turning dials
and moving lights is what I do because it’s required
to share my work eternally. I refer to my images
as paintings even when they are photographic recordings
just as music is called music whether it is
preformed live or played through a machine from
a recording. I focus 99% of my energy on what is
in front of the camera and very little on the camera
and it’s requirements.
KALTBLUT: What are you working at right now?
CRAIG: I’ve just finished painting a Phoenix image
using a 53 year old grandmother and I’m unsure of
exactly what my next image will be. I like not knowing
what’s next. It means that anything is possible.
ANYTHING.
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www.craigtracy.com

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Photographer: Damien Vignaux www.cargocollective.com/elroy
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TEXT BY CLAUDIO ALVARGONZALES TERA

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Naked, nude, bare, raw, bald… It doesn’t
matter the word you use because at the
end it is all reduced to the same thing: Undressed
bodies in front of the camera. Cinema
is full of that. Full of nudity. It seems
we experiment some kind of pleasure in
looking at our favorite star during a sex
scene or just naked in front of the mirror.
It has been like that for ages. Many actors
and actresses have shown their bodies
on the big screen. In a very shy way at
the beginning, just showing a bit of skin,
mainly because the studios rejected frontal
nudity, specially with male actors. But
things have changed radically in the last
decades and nowadays there are many
actors and actresses who have performed
naked if it was well justified in the script.
But the problem starts exactly there: Is it always justified?
I don’t think so. Why is there always a drunk girl running naked
in a Fraternity party? Or when things go crazy in a comedy
film like “Airplane” (J. Abrahams, D. Zucker, 1981)?. But
of course my favorite non justified nudity comes when a serial
killer is around. So if for any reason you decide to rent a cabin
in the woods with some friends and you want to get killed
these are the things you should do: Swim naked in the lake,
take a shower while your friends are out or have sex with
your partner. Jason (“Friday the 13th”, Michael Myers,
“Halloween”) and the audience will be very grateful.
Some other times it is totally justified, except for one big thing:
The movie itself. When “Striptease” (Andrew Bergman, 1996)
came out Demi Moore became the highest paid actress in
Hollywood. I love Demi but did she worth it?
No, and a thousand times NO. A few seconds of her breasts
and 115 minutes of the worst rubbish. The same happens
with “Showgirls” (Paul Verhoeven, 1995). If you want to see
tits all over the screen but you are not in the mood for porn,
this is your movie. But let me say that you will also have to
deal with the script. Now It’s up to you. When this film came
out the producers realized that most of the audience were
men over sixty and retired. I guess I don’t have to explain
more.
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Despite some actors like Julia Roberts who refuse to show themselves exactly the
way they were born and prefer using a lookalike actor to perform some scenes, there
are many stars who seem to like to walk naked around the set without inhibition. I
could never thank enough Kate Winslet for her lack of decency, especially in “Little
Children” (Todd Field, 2006), “The Reader” (Stephen Daldry, 2008) or “Mildred
Pierce” (Todd Haynes, 2011). But happily there are many more: Charlize Theron in
“The Burning Plain” (Guillermo Arriaga, 2008), Penelope Cruz in “Elegy” (Isabel Coixet,
2008), Harvey Keitel in “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1993), Monica Belluci in “Dracula”
(Francis F. Coppola, 1992), Kevin Bacon in “Wild Things” (John McNaughton,
1998), Salma Hayek and Colin Farrel in “Ask the Dust” (Robert Towne, 2006) or Nicole
Kidman in Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) where it is crystal clear
how boring a sexual relationship with Tom Cruise might be (I bet he was thinking in
Scientology or placentas…)
But if someone told me to close my eyes and think of one the first movies I remember
I believe I would say “Amarcord” (Federico Fellini, 1973). That boy in Fellini’s
film discovering his sexuality and that scene at the tobacco store where the fat lady
with those huge boobs decides to help him out it’s just priceless. But Fellini wasn’t
the only one.
Many directors never had any inconvenient in showing their actors naked: Lars
Von Trier, Danny Boyle, Eytan Fox, but especially Pedro Almodóvar or Bernardo
Bertolucci who are responsible for some of the most sensual scenes in cinema.
Almodóvar taught how “Iberian” passion could be. He gave us “Matador” (1986),
“La ley del Deseo” (1987) or “Bad Education” (2004). And Bertolucci gave us a
middle age passion in “Last Tango in Paris” (1972) with Marlon Brando and Maria
Schneider and “Stealing Beauty” (1996) , “Dreamers” (2003) and “Novecento”
(1976), one of the best European movies of all times where Robert De Niro and
Gérard Depardieu shake more than hands and share more than a bed with Stefania
Casini.
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To me two masterpieces. To some just two porn movies with a bit of story.
The same way John Cameron Mitchell did in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (2001) and “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Shortbus”
deals with loneliness, loss or tedium but in this case the characters do it trough sex. Male and female, straight and gay,
the characters find one another (and eventually find themselves) when they all converge at an underground club called
“Shortbus”, a mad world of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. We find a lot of explicit sex but this movie is not
porn, nor is it erotica. It’s just brutally honest. Sex and nudity is shown here not as the purpose but the vehicle to escape
from solitude, to hide what we don’t want to show or to veil what is totally unveiled.
I guess it is pretty much like the real life. Don’t you think?
Penelope Cruz
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But if you go to the dictionary you will
find some other meanings for “Naked”,
probably much more interesting: Defenseless,
exposed, helpless, unprotected,
vulnerable, unveiled… And
here comes when cinema and actors
give real meaning to this word. Sometimes
nudity in cinema is like walking
on a tightrope. Depending on how you
step, nudity can seem the most natural
thing but it also might lose sense and
became too explicit, too pornographic
and simply out of context. This red line
or tight rope doesn’t seem to scare
directors and some of them have already
walked on it.
This is exactly what happens in “In
the Realm of the Senses” (Nagisa
Ôshima, 1976) and “Shortbus” (John
Cameron Mitchell, 2006). This two
controversial films skirts the borderline
between pornography and art, making
Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” look
like children’s programming in comparison.
In Ôshima’s film sex is presented
as aggressive, violent, obsessive
and sadomasochistic and used to
explicate a connection between sex
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who decides what the world should look like. Each issue will bring you one blogger
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Nude girls, sexy girls, girls, girls girls. Take a look by yourself!
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Souls Of
Saint-Petersburg
Photography by Anna Kharina www.flickr.com/photos/anna_kharina
Anna Kharina is a photographer from dark dark Saint-Petersburg. She is
exceptionally gifted in taking pictures of little events, paying attention
on all these small details which normally escape us. Captivated by little
deaths and dreams everywhere around her, she writes a poetry through
her pictures. Her nude photographs are not simply about naked people,
they are more portraits of individuals, baring their souls. Thanks to Anna
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Photography by Karl Slater
www.karlslater.com
Text & Styling by Aiden Connor
Within the past few years
Munroe Bergdorf has become
a force to be reckoned with,
adopting many different guises
DJ, Nightclub host, model, party
planner and muse. If you require
style behind the decks there is
only one port of call. Munroe
Bergdorf is class personified and
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One of London’s young things she is the face and sound
behind parties including MEAT!, Shabba-Dabba-Da! And
Trannyshack. Whilst also hosting top nightclubs such as
Room Service and Circus. When not Captivating us with
her sounds Munroe spends her time keeping it fashion
baby and does so with panache – currently working with
BOY LONDON on an exclusive bespoke line, launching
spring 2012. The label is at home gracing the figures of pop
sirens like Rihanna and Jessie J.
Munroe’s role of tasks many different shapes and forms after being
cast as one of the faces of Ziad Ghanems collection Beles de tete,
and has gone on to produce the original runway music for Ghanem’s
last two runway show at London fashion week.
When she’s not in Dj mode Munroe is the go to girl to throw ‘THE’
party, having put together after show parties for Zaid Ghanem, Ada
Zanditon and make up brand “Illamasqua”.
Having graced the pages of numerous style publications and being
adorned with the up and coming fashion designers on the highly covetable
London fashion scene and has recently been named by Dolce
and Gabbana as one of ‘London’s top cultural tastemakers.’ Munroe
is the soundtrack to fashionable London and a genuine star to boot,
her attitude is just right and whilst style may be everything this classy
London lady ensures its not just skin deep.Fashion week is normally
one of the busiest times for Munroe but this being the first time in 3
years where she isn’t engulfed with working on projects, so will gladly
be attending London fashion week as a spectator, so you should expect
to see the glamazon queen front row at all the main contenders,
what with this and the countless project and parties up her sleeve it
seem Ms Bergdorf is someone to keep you eye on for rest of 2012.
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AIDEN: 2011 had been a really great
year for you, why do think it was
the year of Mizz Bergdorf?
MUNROE: Last year was pretty crazy, surreal
and amazing but I kind of feel like I was
just laying the foundations for this year. I’ve
worked with so many amazing designers,
photographers and DJ’s, as well as playing
at venues and locations I’d never have even
dreamt of playing at. But it’s kind of made me
hungry for more, I’m a little insatiable.
AIDEN: You and I met when I
styled you for Ziad Ghanems Couture
campaign, you have since gone
onto work with other designers
and establishments, what makes
you the go to girl for such collaborations.?
MUNROE: I’m really not too sure... I think
it’s because designers can see the extent to
which fashion influences everything i do, from
the events and parties that I throw, to the way
that I dress and the image that I put across. I
just really love fashion and I think that’s apparent
in my work, I do feel very lucky to have
collaborated with so many amazing people.
AIDEN: How does it feel to have
Dolce and Gabbanna compliment
you as one of ‘London’s top cultural
taste makers’ ?
MUNROE: Pretty damn amazing and surreal.
I’d never thought of myself like that before
so it was a huge complement, especially from
such an iconic brand.
AIDEN: Primarily your a dj and
club host, but now you can be seen
modelling, composing runway music,
and now your working on a
bespoke line with BOY LONDON.
What would you say your role is
with in the fashion industry?
MUNROE:I don’t really label it, I don’t want
to limit myself to any category really. I know
what I’m good at and I know what I’m capable
of, it’s all a journey. I do feel very lucky to
be doing what I love as a profession though.
To be working with BOY LONDON is really exciting,
it’s a huge honour to have been asked
by Stephane Raynor and the team work with
them on the line.
AIDEN: What inspires you to
create your look?
MUNROE: I’m inspired by so many things,
I don’t think it’s anything I could pinpoint. As
far back as I can remember I’ve always loved
everything Cyndi Lauper has ever done and
everything Old Hollywood. I guess my image
as a base is a blend of the two - I love how
Cyndi is so mishmash with her image, but I
also love the glamour of Old Hollywood, the
hair and the gowns... I think I’m a happy medium
between the two.
AIDEN: What’s next for Munroe
Bergdorf?
MUNROE: I never know what’s next to be
honest haha! Right now I’m mainly working
on developing the BOY LONDON line. The inhouse
designers that I’m working with are SO
talented, it’s really exciting to see it all coming
together. I’m also going to be travelling a lot
this year with international gigs, so I’m gearing
up for that and putting everything in place.
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Exhibition Berlin till May 2012 www.helmut-newton.com
Polaroid technology revolutionized photography.
Those who have used a polaroid camera
can hardly forget the unique odor of its developing
emulsion and the thrill of the instant image.
With the polaroid, every image is one of a
kind. This also applies to the later large-format
polacolor prints, whose developing process
left behind characteristic borders.
Polaroids have thus been frequently used for
preliminary studies as well as a standalone
medium. This was already the case early on,
following the creation and presentation of the
instant photograph at the optical society of
America in 1947 by its inventor, Edwin Land –
and especially after he presented in 1972 the
legendary sx-70 system, a collapsible, simple
and affordable camera. In nearly all photographic
areas – from landscape and genre,
portrait and self-portrait, fashion and nudes –
this unique imaging process has found enthusiastic
devotees all over the world.
Helmut Newton used the technology intensively
starting in the 1970s, especially for his
fashion photo shoots. As he once described in
an interview, this satisfied his impatient urge to
want to know immediately how a certain situation
would look as a photograph. In this context,
the polaroid acted as an idea sketch in
addition to testing the actual lighting situation
and image composition.
In 1992 Newton published „Pola Woman“ an
unconventional book consisting only of his
polaroids. According to the photographer, the
publication lay particularly close to his heart,
although it was discussed amidst great controversy.
In response to the accusation that the
images in the book were not perfect enough,
he countered: “But that was exactly what was
exciting – the spontaneity, the speed.”

Newton’s additional notes, written on the edges
of the polaroids, are fascinating as well as revealing
with regard to the model, client or location
and date. The comments, the haziness of
the images and the signs of use are naturally
also to be found on the enlargements of the polaroids
included in the exhibition; they testify to
a pragmatic approach to the original work materials,
which have now possess an own inherent
value. Especially interesting for today’s viewer
is the unique polaroid aesthetic that unexpectedly
alters the colors and contrast of the photographed
subject.
For the first time ever, over 300 works based
on the original polaroids offer a comprehensive
overview of this aspect of Newton’s oeuvre. The
exhibition is thus a look into the sketchbook of
one of the most influential photographers of the
20th century. Many of the iconic photographs
that have already been presented in the exhibition
space of the Helmut Newton Foundation
can be discovered in the current exhibition in
the process of their creation.
Helmut Newton:
Polaroids Exhibition
Helmut Newton Foundation/Berlin
Museum for Photography
till May 20th.2012
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The polaroid Book:
Published: Taschen Verlag (25. Juli 2011)
Englisch
ISBN-10: 383652886X
ISBN-13: 978-3836528863
http://www.amazon.com/Helmut-Newton/e/B001IXMC54/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
The Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstrasse 2
D - 10623 Berlin
Germany
OPENING HOURS
tuesday – sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
thursday 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
ENTRANCE FEE 8 € / 4 € concessions
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Born on October 31, 1920 in Berlin, Helmut
Newton grew up in a privileged family. Due to
his passion for photography, he stopped going
to school and pursued an apprenticeship
with Elsie Simon, a top photographer. He only
had this job for a while because he had to feel
Germany due to Adolf Hitler’s violent treatment
of Jews in Germany. He went to Singapore
and got a job there. That did not last
long. He moved around Singapore for a while
until he moved to Australia in 1940. There, he
settled and built a new life with his wife, June
Brunell. He continued following his passion
for photography, eventually getting his work
to appear in top fashion magazines around
the world.Helmut Newton did not just limit his
photography to nude women and fashion. He
also shared with the whole world his early
life as a survivor of the Nazi invasion in Germany.
He took portraits of Nazi personalities
and other people relevant to the very difficult
time in world history. Helmut Newton images
clearly show the world through the eyes of a
nomad who wandered the earth, not giving a
care to people’s judgments and myopic views.
Newton died on January 23, 2004 due to vehicular
accident in California.

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“ AS A BLACK MAN LIVING IN GERMANY
I AM OFTEN CONFRONTED BY
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Photo by Roderick Cummin Photography
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The body, an object containing volume and weight is a vicious cycle. We
carry on giving it praise that is does not deserve, showering it with the gift
of attention, when we really should simply ignore it; giving it power, when we
really need to set it free. How did we come to this point? When did the human
flesh become such an emotional and political vehicle capable of causing
wars, riots, destruction and rage.
There have always been powers within societies
that seek to deny individuals the right to control
their own body. Religions through their commandments,
governments with their laws seek to invoke
disciplinary power over the treasure chest which
contain our soul. Over the years, there have been
numerous movements which have attempted to
alleviate the oppressive effects of institutional
and interpersonal power on those whose bodies
are marked as inferior or who are denied rights to
control their own.
The United State Courts have been confronted
with issues in regard to nudity for decades. Mostly
nudity as a form of obscenity. When is the human
body indecent and when should it be glorified?
The difficulty of defining obscenity was memorably
summarized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Potter Stewart as he attempted to tackle this issue
during the Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964): (regarding
obsecene images) “I know it when I see it.”
Officially, there are no federal U.S. laws that either
allow or prohibit nudity. The courts have not ruled
whether the right to engage in naturism (nudist
activity) is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution
under its freedom of expression provision thereby
leaving the control over our organism to individual
states and cities.
Recent controversies about pornography have
continually opened up the debate about the connection
between nudity, sexuality and objectification.
When the topic of objectification is introduced,
most people think only of women, but it is
of course, relevant to both genders. The objectification
of men is for our society rather unusual
and when you are confronted with it, it will remind
you of how we take-for-granted, the potential
of being reduced to a single meaningless object
based upon our body or specific bodily assets.
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As a black man living in Germany, I am often confronted
by certain perceptions. All blacks are well
endowed; all are able to perform sexually far better
than other cultures; the look, feel and smell of
our naked essence is totally different than others.
That these stereotypical views may be or may not
be true is not the point. It is the fact that people
who think in such unjustified terms, find it difficult
to view the other as a person. One would
think that it would be paradise to be an object of
desire but it isn’t. How I perceive myself as an individual
and what others project onto me are two
completely different demons and being forced to
wrestle with those monsters is a futile struggle
that should not be undertaken.
In the summer, as others lay naked by a lake, I
often choose to keep some clothing on because I
feel terrorized by the expecting stares of others,
waiting to get visual confirmation. It is disgusting
that this freedom which many can afford has been
twisted and made foul for others; this curious unspoken
confrontation of others, an unattainable
standard or concept of a body image based upon
deluded fantasies and racists flattery.
We are born with an innate curiosity about ourselves
and others. From the first moment, we become
aware about our bodies, we are in constant
search to see what is under the clothes of others.
The celebration of our similarities and the unearthing
of our differences is one of the most profound
experiences in our life. This exploration, this need
to bond without clothing is a very special gift and
should not be taken lightly. We have to devilinize
the flesh, step outside of the truths of others and
into our own and celebrate that which is pure life.
The body is a wondrous thing. It is certainly wondrous
that the body and soul can come together.
It is even more wondrous that they join together
into one, to form something new: a human being!

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LONDON, UK
Damien Hirst at London’s Tate Modern
See more than 70 iconic works by celebrated contem-
porary artist Damien Hirst at London’s Tate Modern .
A shark suspended in formaldehyde, a bisected cow
and calf… Damien Hirst is well known for his imagi-
native and sometimes shocking works.This April, Tate
Modern unveils the first substantial survey of Damien
Hirst’s work ever held in the UK.
Dates: April 4, 2012 to September 9, 2012
Address: Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7887 8888
www.tate.org.uk/modern
BERLIN,GERMANY
Gerhard Richter / Panorama
Gerhard Richter, beyond a doubt the most famous
German artist of his generation. Around 150 paint-
ings from all periods of the artist’s extensive oeuvre,
carefully selected together with the artist himself, of-
fer visitors a profound insight into his stylistically and
thematically diverse body of work.
Dates: February 12, 2012 to May 13, 2012
Address: Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Straße 50
10785 Berlin
Telefon: +49 - (0)30 - 266 42 4510
nng@smb.spk-berlin.de
www.smb.museum/nng
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Double Vision Contemporary Art
from Japan
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration
with the Japan Foundation, presents the exhibition
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan intend-
ed to introduce the general public to the art trends of
Contemporary Japan. The ‘double perspective’ is pro-
vided here by two curators from two different coun-
tries, two Museum venues, two thematic blocks .
.Dates: March, 14, 2012 to May, 6, 2012
Address: Moscow Museum of Modern Art
107031, Moscow,
Petrovka street, 25
Telephone: +(495) 694-2890
www.mmoma.ru
MADRID,SPAIN
Marc Chagall Exhibition
Works from the early years to the Second World War
This large retrospective of Marc Chagall’s work is be-
ing held in two venues. The first part, in the exhibition
hall of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Paseo del
Prado, 8), follows the artist’s career up until the out-
break of the Second World War, and is entitled “The
Path of Poetry”.
Dates: February 20, 2012 to May 20, 2012
Address: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Pº del Prado 8
Madrid
Telefon: +34 91 369 01 51
www.museothyssen.org

NEW YORK, USA
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American
Dream at MOMA
A new exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art,
“Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” pres-
ents five architectural solutions to renew a depleted
American suburbia. At its heart, the show is not just
about architecture and design, but about blurring the
traditional lines that separate public space from pri-
vate space, owning from sharing, residential structures
from business structures, and suburbs from cities.
Dates: February 2012 to July 30, 2012
Address: The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street New York,
NY 10019
Telephone: (212) 708-9400
www.moma.org
PARIS,FRANCE
Tim Burton, the exhibition at
Cinémathèque française
During the exhibition based around Tim Burton, the
Cinémathèque française screens all his films (includ-
ing short, little-known films). This event enables visi-
tors to enter a little more into the excentric world of
the American artist: drawings, paintings, photographs,
strange sculptures ... A very eclectic artist!
Dates: March 7 2012 to August 5 2012
Address: Cinémathèque française
51, rue de Bercy
75012 PARIS
Telefon: +33 1 71 19 33 33
www.cinemathequefrancaise.fr
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