Collection 1 - Nude Pure Us!
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KALTBLUT<br />
COLLECTION 1<br />
NUDE . PURE . US<br />
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Nudity is the unifo<br />
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Nudity is a shroud<br />
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NINA KHARYTONOVA<br />
Deputy editor-in-chief<br />
email:<br />
nkaharytonova@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
EMMA E K JONES<br />
Art editor<br />
email:<br />
ejones@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
COCO MEURER<br />
Music editor<br />
email:<br />
cmeurer@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
ALEXANDER DANNER<br />
Advertising / Office<br />
email:<br />
danner@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
NICOLAS SIMONEAU<br />
Art director<br />
email:<br />
nsimoneau@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
AMANDA M JANSSON<br />
Art editor<br />
email:<br />
ajansson@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
CLAUDIO ALVARGOMZALEZ<br />
Movie editor<br />
email:<br />
calvargonzalezterar@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
DANIEL ELLMENREICH<br />
Webmaster<br />
email:<br />
ellmenreich@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
SUSANN BOSSLAU, DREW EASTMAN, SHEL FULLER, SUZANA HOLTGRAVE, ALESSANDRO LÁZARO, AIDEN CONNOR<br />
KALTBLUT Magazine<br />
Layout by Marcel Schlutt & Nicolas Simoneau, Translation by Amanda M Jansson & Drew Eastmann<br />
Founded & Published - 2012 in Berlin<br />
by Marcel Schlutt<br />
All Copyrights @ Marcel Schlutt<br />
KALTBLUT Magazine<br />
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www.kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
Cover<br />
Model: Lex Ólsen<br />
@SEEDS MANAGEMENT<br />
www.seedsmodels.de<br />
Photo by<br />
Suzana Holtgrave
HERE WE ARE<br />
Hello, welcome to our very first KALTBLUT <strong>Collection</strong>. 400 pages of the theme<br />
Nudity. I hope you enjoy what you will see. Me and my team, we wanna thank you<br />
- all of our readers, fans, friends, artists and haters - for all the support in the last<br />
month. It was not an easy time for us. But we are strong and we are fighters. So!<br />
The future is ours. We love you guys!<br />
KALTBLUT Magazine is the successor of HONK! Magazine, an Onlinemagazine founded<br />
in 2010 in Berlin. HONK! has created international sensation from day one, also<br />
because of collaborations with Steed Lord, Bruce La Bruce, Rico Mahel (Ophus Kulturpreis<br />
2011), Natalie Avelon, Walter Van Beirendonck and many others.<br />
What is Kaltblut? KALTBLUT stands for a limitless symbiosis between art, photography,<br />
fashion and media. The theme of every issue works as a platform for artists to<br />
showcase their personal interpretation and point of view. By adopting this concept<br />
KALTBLUT hopes to break free from all traditional conventions and frames and allow<br />
an unhinged and borderless unfolding of creativity.<br />
Marked by the Internet generation we have opted for an online magazine format, aiming<br />
at achieving the fastest and most global connection between artists and readers.<br />
In order to address our target group -the art interested cosmopolitan- in a propper way,<br />
our issues are released every 2 months in English. Our purpose is to create a thorough<br />
insight to every theme we go for, without pro and con and without falling victim to social<br />
restraints. We don’t care to condemn but to be an eye opening experience instead.<br />
Dear Nadine W.: I wanna thank you also, for your creativity, for your fantasy, for your<br />
hard work. Because of you we are stronger now. We know how good we are. You and<br />
me we will be bound for the rest of our lifes.<br />
MARCEL SCHLUTT<br />
EDITOR IN CHIEF / FASHION EDITOR<br />
mschlutt@kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
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Photo by Suzana Holtgrave
Content:<br />
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SIMON EKRELIUS<br />
Fashion Designer<br />
Interview By Susann Bosslau<br />
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HARLEY WIRE<br />
Photography + Interview<br />
62.<br />
SAM SPARRO<br />
Return To Paradise<br />
68.<br />
TOP5 BOOKS<br />
84.<br />
PETA<br />
Interview By Nina Kharytonova<br />
88.<br />
RUBEN LARTIQUE<br />
Illustration + Interview<br />
110.<br />
MEN TO KISS<br />
Movie Stars<br />
Interview By Marcel Schlutt<br />
124.<br />
VENUS<br />
Fashion Editorial<br />
136.<br />
GIO BLACK PETER<br />
Born To Be An Artist<br />
148.<br />
DEUX DÉMONS<br />
Photography by Robert P Kothe<br />
172.<br />
THE FUTURE<br />
Berlin Faces U Should Know<br />
By Nina Kharytonova<br />
192.<br />
FOVE DESIGN<br />
Fashion Editorial<br />
198.<br />
aMinus<br />
Artist Of The Year<br />
Interview by Nicolas Simoneau
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STRANGE<br />
Editorial By Marco Rothenburger<br />
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MARILYN MONROE<br />
Portrait By C. Alvargonzalez Tera<br />
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2FOR1<br />
You Should Wear<br />
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ON THE SHORE<br />
Editorial By Mara Sommer<br />
264.<br />
I´M BRETT<br />
Selfportraits By Brett Seiler<br />
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TIM KRUGER<br />
The X-Insider<br />
Iinterview By Marcel Schlutt<br />
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LUKASZ BILINSKI<br />
Interview By Amanda M Jansson<br />
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MIMI<br />
Photography By Damien Vignaux<br />
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MUNROE BERGDORF<br />
Interview By Aiden Connor<br />
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RONALDO<br />
Fashion From Brazil<br />
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ART AROUND ..<br />
6 Art Events Around The World<br />
March till May 2012<br />
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NIGHT<br />
RIDER<br />
Photography by Micky Rosi Richter<br />
Hair/Make up by Helena Narra Kapidzic<br />
Model : NvM
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THE PROVOKING<br />
Normal. And what is normal?<br />
Who wants to be normal after<br />
all? And what does it mean to<br />
be normal?<br />
TEXT BY COCO MEURER
NORMAL STATE!<br />
Normal is what feels like normal to you.<br />
And what you feel is determined by what<br />
you have experienced and what you have<br />
lived through. Which means it is something<br />
completely different to every single<br />
one of us. Everybody has their perspective<br />
on life. Sometimes they nearly coincide<br />
or are the exact opposites. Our social<br />
life is being dictated by constraints that<br />
humans have imposed on themselves<br />
over time. Codes, that must be obeyed so<br />
we don’t fall of the frame. Norms recognized<br />
and approved by society. The biggest<br />
rebel cannot break free of all that.<br />
Much as he’d want to.<br />
Yet, despite all the constraints, there must be<br />
some state, equal for all, that allows us to look<br />
“normal” among our own species. Or at least approaches<br />
“normal” as much as possible.<br />
Perhaps it is the state of nudity. Yes, perhaps.<br />
Optical differences are only relevant to the nature<br />
of each body. No social codes or clothing<br />
rules. Basically, the “raw” state of humans. It<br />
should be the most normal thing on earth to be<br />
just naked. Yet it isn’t.<br />
Nudity has become a strange rarity. But why?<br />
What could have happened, so that people not<br />
only find nudity shameful but can even use it as<br />
means to provoke?<br />
Sex sells!<br />
The very invention of this slogan and the<br />
possibility of its invention alone, should<br />
have made us suspicious. But it hasn’t.<br />
On the contrary, today, in the 21st century<br />
is the uncovered nude body the number<br />
one means of provoking, be it in the music<br />
industry, the fashion industry or art.<br />
The last step to openness today remains<br />
the one to nudity. Of course, some will<br />
say, that nudity is completely acceptable<br />
in fashion, music, or art.<br />
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It could have come about as a result of<br />
extreme tabooing. The showing of skin<br />
was foremost for women completely forbidden.<br />
Bathing suits were bigger than<br />
bed sheets. So shamefulness is a relic of<br />
the preceding uptight generations. And<br />
we haven’t managed to shake it off. On<br />
the contrary. Free-your-body and Nudist<br />
clubs are running out of young members.<br />
Nobody wants to ride a bike or play<br />
badminton in the complete nude.<br />
And we all know how the things most<br />
frowned upon, are the most provoking<br />
ones.<br />
An old saying, quoted far too much, goes: “Never<br />
say never.” Our life is being governed by development<br />
and various circumstances. Eventually,<br />
man may manage to shake off this relic.<br />
Just as the clothing covering us. On the other<br />
hand, nobody can guarantee that getting rid of<br />
this shell will be the solution to all inhibition.<br />
One thing is absolutely certain, the covering<br />
clothes, are hiding much that our eye seeks to<br />
avoid looking at. Independently from the beauty<br />
ideals of each decade and century.<br />
Sometimes it is punishment enough having to<br />
imagine what some people’s clothes are hiding.<br />
Nobody wants to see everybody’s everything.<br />
It is impossible to settle to the absolute<br />
solution. Like with everything in life, extremism<br />
is never a solution. Still, we believe<br />
that in the right moments all covers<br />
must fall.<br />
Let´s get naked!
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LONDON<br />
SIMON<br />
EKRELIUS<br />
Swedish born designer Simon Ekrelius, based<br />
in London, is on of the fashion designers we like<br />
the most. His design is unique, special and every<br />
woman should wear one of his pieces.<br />
The eponymous label is available in the UK,<br />
Italy and online.<br />
KALTBLUT had a little chat with the next big<br />
designer of our decade.<br />
Interview by Susann Bosslau<br />
Photos by Sasha Rainbow<br />
Model: Hannah Cooper - Next Models.<br />
Hair & Make-Up by Holly Silius<br />
www.simonekrelius.com
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My clients<br />
have lots<br />
of sex and<br />
party in<br />
my clothes
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KALTBLUT: What was the first thing you ever<br />
sewed and how old were you?<br />
SIMON: I sewed a pillowcase when I was 4 and a pair<br />
of trousers when I was 7. I was terrified of the sewing<br />
machine but I remember it so well, I worn those trousers<br />
with pockets and drawstring everyday i could.<br />
KALTBLUT: You grew up in Stockholm what<br />
and who did inspire you?<br />
SIMON: My grandmother on my mums side was the<br />
main inspiration to my designing, she sort of had that universal<br />
aura around her, I also kept studying people on<br />
the street all the time, always when seeing them I redesigned<br />
their look, I still do that today, its really fun. I have<br />
always been an observer and architecture is in my love<br />
box too. The stark and unusual buildings fascinates me<br />
profoundly.<br />
KALTBLUT: When did you know you wanna<br />
become a designer and why?<br />
SIMON: I dont know why and I still think why? But<br />
what I do know is like a natural draw for me. when i work<br />
in my studio I go into trans, Its a bit scary, I forget<br />
everything around me, in the same time its like meditation.<br />
I was around 12/13 when I first thought about it. In<br />
Sweden we use to have a weekly fashion report and the<br />
lady who narrated it was a true Mode-Dame. It was when<br />
I saw pieces from YSL, Valentino and all the other<br />
designers I felt my vision was never presented. I dont<br />
think I thought about the word designer more likely I just<br />
wanted to dig in there and do my own designs.<br />
KALTBLUT: How do people recognise your<br />
fashion?<br />
SIMON: My cuts changes from season to season but I<br />
keep that very me with architectural angle and the way I<br />
oversize or slimming with my way of adding silhouettes,<br />
colours and materials and my cubistic prints that sometimes<br />
blurr out or stay clean that makes people recognise<br />
my work.<br />
KALTBLUT: Nudity is this issue´s topic. What<br />
does nudity mean to you in fashion and to what<br />
extent should it take a part in fashion?<br />
SIMON: The actual reason why I like nudity in fashion<br />
is because it is a vulnerable feeling to see someone nude<br />
in combination with fashion who is a infamousely a stark<br />
world. It´s nothing to do with porn , just that vulnerable act<br />
and that in combination with brilliant photography can be<br />
stunning if its done right.<br />
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KALTBLUT: What were your inspirations for<br />
the collection?<br />
SIMON: “The Reflection’’ is inspired by Norman Fosters<br />
building The Gerchin in London. And Stardust is inspired<br />
by a piece from Le Corbusier. Both shown other<br />
sides like moody shadows and light or astronomical feelings.<br />
KALTBLUT: What sort of people, do you see<br />
wearing your clothes?<br />
SIMON: I don´t have an interest in celebrities so I don´t<br />
know if you want any names as I`m useless with names<br />
and I never recognise anyone. But I like my work to be<br />
treated with love and respect and hopefully my clients<br />
have lots of sex, fun, dramatic times and yummy partys<br />
with my clothes. My private clients at this stage are from<br />
all levels and all different work areas. I guess they are just<br />
really cool people with an immaculate taste ;-)<br />
KALTBLUT: What do you think of the current<br />
state of the<br />
fashion industry – is there really space for new<br />
designers?<br />
SIMON: It is an exciting time in fashion, out with old<br />
and depressive and in with the new. The double AA listed<br />
names feels stagnated and unintresting, They also show<br />
very little intrest in renewing themselves so it is great for<br />
us new now, Im busy with clients and fingers crossed it<br />
will keep going, Most of my clients says that the reason<br />
they come back is because I have something new to give<br />
them. Fashion is about new moves and constant changes<br />
with silhouettes and texture and even colours.<br />
KALTBLUT: If you were in control of the fashion<br />
industry, how would you change it so that<br />
fashion is perceived the way you think it deserves<br />
to be?<br />
SIMON: I would scrap the obsession with celebritys<br />
and focus on people with unique talents..<br />
KALTBLUT: What’s your most memorable<br />
piece of clothing?<br />
SIMON: It was a simple Martin Margiela Jumper,<br />
I loved it soo much and I always had soo much fun in it<br />
and lots of flirts and I felt like a prince in it. It´s gone and<br />
dead now sadly but I will always remember it.<br />
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KALTBLUT: Who are your favorite designers?<br />
SIMON: Ohh I don´t really have any one to be honest,<br />
I like some pieces in many designers collections. But also<br />
I dont really look around so much anymore as I used to.<br />
KALTBLUT: So what are you working on right<br />
now… what’s next for ‘Simon Ekrelius’?<br />
SIMON: Im working on my new AW 12-13 collection<br />
‘’The Meeting’’ and it will be presented in Paris during<br />
PFW at ZipZone. Very exciting!<br />
KALTBLUT: How do you define style?<br />
SIMON: A way of thinking and being.<br />
KALTBLUT: Fashion equals art! True or false?<br />
Why?<br />
SIMON: Some fashion, yes - true because it is based<br />
on one´s visions like sculpture but with fabric.<br />
KALTBLUT: What advice would you give young<br />
designers that are about to enter the fashion<br />
world?<br />
SIMON: Go for it and do what your feelings tell you to<br />
do. Never look back!
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HARLEY WEIR<br />
Harley Weir is a genius from<br />
London. Nobody else deserves more<br />
to be on this issue than she does.<br />
The brilliance with which she<br />
captures the nude body is<br />
breathtaking, be it analog or digital,<br />
she is the one who masters the<br />
medium producing such strong<br />
images but of incredible sensitivity.<br />
For her shooting and shooting nude<br />
people is a whole magical process and<br />
not only a photograph. But of course,<br />
she knows how to please the crowd<br />
and she is aware of her skills. We<br />
had an interview with her to find out<br />
more about this photography<br />
mastermind.<br />
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www.harleyweir.com<br />
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<br />
shoot?<br />
HARLEY: I see amazing faces everywhere but I like to shoot people that are around me, partly<br />
due to cowardice\laziness but mostly because you get a much more intimate photograph. The more<br />
relaxed the person is the more interesting it gets, I find. Personal images are always the most beautiful,<br />
unfortunately.<br />
KALTBLUT: We’ve noticed you shoot a lot of nature elements, such as flowers,<br />
cactus, fruit, snakes, birds etc. Is it for the sheer beauty or do you see some<br />
symbolism in them?<br />
HARLEY: Flowers are very sexy, they are designed to be, they’re reproductive organs. I can’t<br />
help but be attracted to them as metaphors in that way, I find them quite funny.<br />
Birds are something else though, I have thousands of bird pictures stashed away... I enjoy the bird<br />
watching element, looking for the different breeds creeping up and trying to shoot them (with camera<br />
not gun) before they fly away, very satisfying.<br />
KALTBLUT: How is it working with mixed media? You paint a lot on photographs<br />
and it gives them a special and unique quality. How did this begin?<br />
HARLEY: I like to work on them in the same way a re-toucher would in photoshop... I don’t see<br />
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<br />
in the studio or from natural sources?<br />
HARLEY: I love working with natural light.... There’s nothing<br />
like afternoon sunlight but obviously I live in London so<br />
that’s not always a regular occurrence. I experiment with anything<br />
around, house lamps, flash, hmi, tungsten whatever I<br />
can get my hands on... no method there.<br />
KALTBLUT: How has your work evolved over<br />
the years? Do you see it changing? Is it always basically<br />
the same? What is the backbone of it?<br />
HARLEY: I think it changes all the time. I love experimenting<br />
and I’m introducing digital into my work at the moment,<br />
which everyone will hate to hear but one must embrace<br />
the future! I’m not very good at it yet but I’m finding ways to<br />
make it my own.<br />
My work will always be changing but it will always be me taking<br />
the photo so I don’t think it will ever change that much.<br />
KALTBLUT: How is it working with nudity? Are<br />
most people willing to play along? What advantages<br />
does it offer you?<br />
HARLEY: Some people become very venerable but others<br />
are totally comfortable being nude, it creates a completely different<br />
atmosphere depending on the person and my relationship<br />
to them. Then there are the ethics involved when working<br />
with another, it’s quite an odd situation to put yourself<br />
into, the power you have over the model, their willingness to<br />
offer themselves to the camera and peoples odd obsession<br />
with looking at them.<br />
Thinking about who should have the rights over the image is<br />
enough to make me feel quite guilty. Especially when you’re<br />
not working with models. I try not to think about it too much<br />
though or I couldn’t do it, best to think of it flatly- I love to<br />
look at nudes as does everyone else. People look more interesting<br />
naked and it’s always gonna be a crowd pleaser, our<br />
main ambition is to s.e.x, so any reminder and you have an<br />
audience!
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HARLEY WEIR<br />
www.harleyweir.com
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REBORN<br />
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Model: Lex Ólsen @SEEDS MANAGEMENT<br />
www.seedsmodels.de<br />
Photography,Styling, Concept by Suzana Holtgrave<br />
Mature hair by Ponpon Berlin<br />
Crown by Susann Bosslau
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Sex & Love<br />
SUZY L
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www.samsparro.com<br />
RETURN TO PARADISE<br />
SAM SPAR<br />
Sam Sparro is on the way back. I can hardly<br />
wait for his new album “Return To Paradise”<br />
which is coming out this spring.<br />
Mister Sparro is well know for his<br />
disco, dance music. He knows how to mix<br />
70s, 80s and 90s. We all know his big hit<br />
“Black&Gold”. BUT !! This is just one of his<br />
great tracks. HE IS SO MUCH MORE!<br />
Welcome back Sam Sparro.<br />
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
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KALTBLUT: Hey Sam! How are you<br />
these days? How was the Paris<br />
Fashion Week for you?<br />
SAM: I’m really well thank you. I had such<br />
a blast in Paris. It’s always nice to be around<br />
other types of artists and see what they are<br />
creating.<br />
KALTBLUT: What is Sam Sparro<br />
doing in his free time?<br />
SAM: I have two dogs that I love going to the<br />
park with. I recently got a 3D television so I<br />
like watching movies a lot and having people<br />
over.<br />
KALTBLUT: Since when are you doing<br />
music? You always wanted to be a<br />
singer?<br />
SAM: I started singing when I was really<br />
young. Around 4 or 5 I think. I used to want<br />
to be an actor but my grandmother talked<br />
me out of it because she was an actress.<br />
But as long as I can remember I’ve loved<br />
music and can’t imagine doing anything else.<br />
KALTBLUT: Your new album “ Return<br />
To Paradise” is on the way.<br />
Tell us something about your new<br />
music and why the name :<br />
Return To Paradise?<br />
SAM: Paradise is a timeless place where<br />
everyone lives in harmony and peace. I spent<br />
a lot of time searching for this place inside<br />
myself and that’s what the record is about...<br />
Healing a broken heart and finding peace.<br />
It’s also a reference to the Paradise Garage<br />
which influenced many of the songs on the<br />
record.<br />
KALTBLUT: Your have worked more<br />
than 2 years on the album. Where did<br />
you record it?<br />
SAM: I recorded most of it in Los Angeles<br />
but some of it was recorded in London and<br />
New York as well.<br />
KALTBLUT: Did you wrote the songs by<br />
yourself? Who is the producer?<br />
SAM: I wrote a couple of the songs by myself<br />
but most of them were a collaboration with<br />
my production partner Golden Touch aka<br />
Jesse Rogg.<br />
I also worked with Greg Kurstin, Tim<br />
Anderson, Lester Mendez and Jono Sloan<br />
and wrote a bit with Swedish singer Erik<br />
Hassle and Bethany from Best Coast.<br />
There are so many other brilliant musicians<br />
playing on the record.<br />
It really is a collaborative project that I am<br />
fortunate to be at the front of.<br />
KALTBLUT: Which track is your<br />
favourite?<br />
SAM: One of my favourites is a song called<br />
“We Could Fly”.<br />
I got to record the horns at the DFA<br />
studios in New York and recorded live<br />
strings, drums, piano. Stuart Zender<br />
(Jamiroqui) played bass on it.<br />
It’s sort of a disco fantasy of mine. It’s lush<br />
and really musical. I think my grandfather<br />
who was an arranger and trumpet player<br />
would be proud of me.
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KALTBLUT: I am a fan of your music<br />
videos also. When will be the first<br />
video published for the new album?<br />
SAM: I am so excited about the video’s for<br />
this record. I’ve just done the first two<br />
treatments. I’m really inspired by Film Noir<br />
and Busby Berkeley. There will be a few out<br />
in the coming months.<br />
KALTBLUT: Will you be on tour in<br />
2012? Where can we see you on stage?<br />
SAM: I just announce my first US tour and<br />
will be playing all over the place this summer<br />
and later in the year. Too early to announce<br />
yet but I’ll post them on www.samparro.com<br />
as soon as I can.<br />
KALTBLUT: “Black & Gold “ was a big<br />
hit all around the world. Are you nervous<br />
or do you feel presure to comeback<br />
with another big hit?<br />
SAM: It’s great to have a hit and who wouldn’t<br />
want another but when I wrote Black and<br />
Gold I was not trying to write a “hit”.<br />
I try to follow my instincts and create what I<br />
feel. The rest takes care of itself.<br />
KALTBLUT: Is there any musican you<br />
would kill for, to work with?<br />
SAM: Well... kill is a bit strong. I do love Beyonce.<br />
She is such an incredible performer.<br />
Working with Prince would also be a dream<br />
come true.<br />
Why? HE’S PRINCE!<br />
KALTBLUT: Which music is on your<br />
ipod right now?<br />
SAM: I listen to Beats In Space podcasts<br />
while I’m at the gym. I listen to lots of old<br />
disco, funk and soul. I love the last Little<br />
Dragon album, Thundercat, KING, Tiger &<br />
Woods.<br />
I buy a lot of old records. I do enjoy a good<br />
Robyn or Rihanna track on the radio too.<br />
KALTBLUT: We wish you all the best<br />
for your new album! And i hope to see<br />
you live in Berlin!<br />
SAM: Thank you! I look forward to coming<br />
back to Berlin soon.<br />
I love Berlin!
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There are so many books in the world<br />
with the theme: Nudity. We show you 5<br />
of the most famous books with classic<br />
nude photography.
4° Steven Meisel : Sex<br />
5° Herb ritts : Work<br />
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This retrospective presents the full range of photographer Ritts’ work, with<br />
240 signature images, many published for the first time. There are portraits<br />
of Hollywood stars, (Pfeiffer, Cruise, Loren) notable artists, (Hockney,<br />
Haring, Martin) and world leaders, (Reagan, Mandela, Gorbachev),<br />
alongside fashion shots, erotic nudes and African scenery. Appreciations<br />
by contemporary art experts and chroniclers of fashion put the work in<br />
context.<br />
Publisher: Bulfinch; 1st edition (November 1, 1996)<br />
ISBN-10: 0821222961<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0821222966<br />
www.amazon.com<br />
Sex is a coffe table book written by Madonna with photographs by Steven<br />
Meisel and film frames taken from film shot by Fabien Baron. The book<br />
was edited by Glenn O´Brien. Sex was released on October 21, 1992 by<br />
Warner Books. The book was released by Madonna as an accompaniment<br />
to her fifth studio album Erotica which was released a day earlier.<br />
The extremely controversial book featured strong adult content and softcore<br />
pornographic photographs depicting simulations of sexual acts, which<br />
included sadomasochism and analingus. Madonna wrote the book as a<br />
character named Mistress Dita, inspired by 1930s film actress Dita Parlo.<br />
Publisher: Warner Books; First Printing edition (November 1992)<br />
ISBN-10: 0446517321<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0446517324<br />
www.amazon.com<br />
3° Helmut Newton : Sumo<br />
Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential photographers<br />
of all time. Born in Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married<br />
June Brunell (a.k.a. Alice Springs) eight years later. He first achieved<br />
international fame in the 1970’s while working principally for French<br />
Vogue, and his celebrity and influence grew over the decades. Newton<br />
preferred to shoot in streets or interiors, rather than studios. Controversial<br />
scenarios, bold lighting, and striking compositions came to form his signature<br />
look. SUMO was a titanic book in every respect: a 480-page tribute<br />
to one of the 20th century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial<br />
photographers, it broke records for weight, dimensions, and resale price.<br />
Publisher: Taschen Verlag<br />
ISBN-10: 3836517302<br />
ISBN-13: 978-3836517300<br />
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2° Robert Mapplethorpe : Perfection in Form<br />
Robert Mapplethorpe is recognized as firmly an artist of his time, whose work was<br />
richly steeped in the classical tradition. Even his most transgressive work borrowed<br />
heavily from the conventions of such masters as Michelangelo. Although<br />
separated by the centuries, each artist helped shape how we view the world. This<br />
book explores the connection from both academic and aesthetic perspectives.<br />
Serving as exhibition catalogue for a May 2009 show at Florence’s Accademia,<br />
this volume shows how these two artists used the body to illustrate the human experience<br />
and contains valuable commentary by curators, as well as analysis from<br />
art and photography historians.<br />
Publisher: teNeues; Bilingual edition<br />
ISBN-10: 383279316X<br />
ISBN-13: 978-3832793166<br />
www.amazon.com<br />
1° Man Ray : Icons<br />
This is a comprehensive overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking artist<br />
Man Ray (1890-1976) who broke down the boundaries between photography and<br />
graphic design with his innovative techniques.Man Ray is indisputably one of the<br />
most original artists of the 20th century. His revolutionary nude studies, fashion<br />
work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born under<br />
the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career<br />
in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he was enthusiastically welcomed<br />
into Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic<br />
techniques, multiple exposure, rayography, and solarization being some<br />
of his most famous. Erotic, playful, and sometimes sinister, his compositions show<br />
unusual bodies and objects.<br />
Publisher: Taschen GmbH; Taschen’s 25th anniversary ed edition<br />
ISBN-10: 3836507986<br />
ISBN-13: 978-3836507981<br />
www.amazon.com<br />
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Photos by Felix Krüger / Model: Jan (thespecial) www.twistedtalents.de<br />
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Photography by Timo Kerber/London<br />
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Make up by Ina Renke<br />
Model: Tim Kelleher<br />
Retouch: Xristina Vita<br />
Striped jumper with buttons:<br />
Vivienne Westwood
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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<br />
the world’s number one and leading animal rights organization. How did this meteoric<br />
rise happen? And who should we be thaning for this success? Surely, it was thanks to<br />
the dedicated founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, who started early to uncover the horrendous<br />
conditions of the animal exploiting industry and who brought them out on the<br />
open media effectively. This includes releases of picture and video material, for example<br />
footage from animal experiment laboratories aswell as involvement of celebrities.<br />
Interview by Nina Kharytonova Translation by Lara Louise Mercier<br />
www.peta.org www.peta.de<br />
KALTBLUT: Has the general opinion about<br />
cruelty to animals changed over the past 30<br />
years? And if so, in which direction did it<br />
change?<br />
Peta: A lot of things have happened in the last<br />
years: A while ago, people who were vegetarian<br />
(back then, ‘vegan’ wasn’t a very common<br />
term) were seen as weirdos or exotic. You had<br />
to go to small organic food stores to buy vegetarian<br />
products; vegetarian substitutes were<br />
almost impossible to find. There was not a lot of<br />
people who bothered whether their cosmetics<br />
were tested on animals, who were protesting in<br />
front of zoos, circuses or stores that sell fur, or<br />
who cared whether they were wearing wool or<br />
leather - or not. Today you can find vegetarian<br />
or even vegan goods (not only food but also<br />
vegan clothing) in a lot of stores. Earlier, people<br />
turned their heads and stared at ladies in fur<br />
jackets because it seemed impressive or something<br />
like that, nowadays people stare because<br />
they are wondering what is wrong with them.<br />
KALTBLUT: It is unbelieveable but true - German<br />
law considers animals as objects. Isn’t<br />
it about time to change these old laws and<br />
break through the barriers and limits of our<br />
behaviour? Especially seen from a political<br />
point of view?<br />
Peta: The mills of politics and bureaucracy work<br />
slowly. Too slow for the suffering animals. Especially<br />
our government is currently blocking<br />
basically everything. That has to do with animal<br />
protection. Though ethical animal protection by<br />
now is anchored in the German constitution, the<br />
animals continue to suffer. What is of utmost<br />
importance now is class action, which already<br />
exist in environmental law. The right of class action<br />
is long overdue for animal rights organizations,<br />
it’s about time organizations can file lawsuits<br />
on behalf of the animals.<br />
KALTBLUT: Your campaigns often lay in a<br />
legal grey area and are classified as morally<br />
wrong or offensive. Which of your campaigns<br />
caused the biggest stir so far?<br />
Peta: PETA Deutschland e.V. is an eligible nonprofit<br />
organization, donations are tax-decutible.<br />
We are not doing anything unlawful. Of course,<br />
a lot of our actions and campaigns raise a lot<br />
of attention, for instance our covert investigation<br />
of Wiesenhof (German poultry farming<br />
company), our ‘’Lieber nackt als Pelze tragen’’pictures<br />
(‘’Rather naked than dressed in fur’’),<br />
the ‘’Holocaust auf Ihrem Teller’’-poster campaign<br />
(‘’Holocaust on your plate’’), just to name<br />
a few.<br />
<strong>Us</strong> people from PETA don’t make the media’s<br />
rules but we’ll play by them as long as it is of<br />
use to the animals.<br />
We still have a long way to go, but still: society<br />
is changing, which ist good - in the past, it was<br />
morally acceptable to<br />
own slaves, to have child labour or it was normal<br />
for women not to have the right to vote. But<br />
also back then, there were courageous people<br />
who fought against this injustice. And the fight<br />
continues: Today we have PETA, and soon it will<br />
not be accepted anymore to lock up animals<br />
in cages, to let them perform unworthy circus<br />
tricks or to use their skin for our clothing and<br />
their meat for our diet.<br />
KALTBLUT: How difficult is it to be permanently<br />
in conflict with the law? Or do you<br />
just get used to it after a while?<br />
Peta: Normally, we don’t come into conflict with<br />
the law since we don’t break it. We do lodge<br />
complaints in cases of cruelty towards animals<br />
though, so you could say we do come into contact<br />
with law, but not into conflict.
KALTBLUT: While PETA gains more and more<br />
public support, the big companies you are<br />
fighting against literally demonize you.<br />
Would you say the fight for ethical treatment<br />
and rights for animals poses a risk for<br />
you?<br />
Peta: From time to time we do receive threats<br />
via email or letters, packages with dead animals<br />
were sent to colleagues at PETA USA.<br />
There were even times when Ingrid Newkirk, our<br />
founder, was not able to appear in public without<br />
bodyguards, since she received threats of<br />
murder.<br />
Sometimes hackers attack our website. We do<br />
live with the danger of some nutcase animal<br />
abuser attacking us but we also live with<br />
the knowledge that most people in society<br />
stand with us and support us - and that gives<br />
us courage.<br />
KALTBLUT: For your campaigns a lot of celebrities<br />
all around the globe drop off their<br />
clothes in front of the camera - which quite<br />
a few of them would never do normally. Is it<br />
a matter of prestige to participate in PETA<br />
campaigns or how do you convince them?<br />
Peta: Often we don’t even have to convince<br />
them, the celebrities approach us to take part in<br />
this animal rights revolution, they want to participate<br />
in the fight for a good cause.<br />
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KALTBLUT: If you draw the balance after 30<br />
years of activism, what does it look like?<br />
Did you achieve your goals, or is changing<br />
the public’s opinion a slow and dragging<br />
process?<br />
Peta: Millions of people agree with PETA when we<br />
say that it is horrible and barbarous to stuff animals<br />
with our medication, to pour drain cleaner<br />
in their eyes, to force them to inhale cigarette<br />
smoke and to infect them with our diseases -<br />
and by that, actually turning the human patient<br />
intothe one who suffers.<br />
Millions of people give up wearing fur and leather<br />
since they consider it the wrong thing to do to<br />
cage up and kill animals for fashion. And, everyday<br />
millions of people decide to opt for a animal<br />
friendly vegetarian or vegan diet because they<br />
see the advantages for themselves, for the animals,<br />
and for the planet.<br />
KALTBLUT: Which advice can you give the<br />
single individual, how can even the ‘the man<br />
in the street’ change the world?<br />
Peta: Nothing kills animals and makes them suffer<br />
more than the human’s appetite for meat.<br />
In Germany alone, two billion animals are being<br />
slaughtered year afer year. A vegetarian diet is<br />
almost the only and the most effective way to<br />
help animals.
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Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones<br />
KALTBLUT: How did you decide to paint<br />
nude men with animals heads? It’s quite an<br />
original choice!<br />
RUBEN: I took the decision of painting men’s<br />
bodies after realizing than the male body image<br />
was and still is suffering from a marginalization<br />
inside Art History. Since the 19th century female<br />
representations have been prioritized over<br />
the male ones, something still remarkable in the<br />
art world these days, making us quite insensible<br />
to such beauty.<br />
It exists the wrong conviction that only homosexuals<br />
are able to appreciate it. We find inadmissible<br />
that a male body can be a desire object<br />
for heterosexuals or just a visual delight for<br />
women.<br />
It is in this process where I put all the tension<br />
in men physical attributes but not in the heads,<br />
erasing this way all kind of human reasoning and<br />
transforming Lartigue Boys in a new race of beings,<br />
an unpolluted army inviting us to appreciate<br />
beauty in all its splendor as sensual, spontaneous<br />
and adorable gods.<br />
KALTBLUT: Does each specific head mean<br />
something on the specific body? Or how do<br />
you decide what goes where?<br />
RUBEN: Like in every birth exists a mythical and<br />
beloved reason but not a rational study in every<br />
metamorphic choice of each Lartigue Boy, just<br />
a creative intuition.<br />
KALTBLUT: How do you think people see<br />
nudity nowadays and how would you want<br />
them to see it?<br />
RUBEN: For the common good of society nudity<br />
was always unnatural, despite of being the most<br />
natural thing in the world. Socially is simply not<br />
liked, it is considered a criminal offense.<br />
When we are kids we are taught not to be naked,<br />
to hide our “private parts” and to feel ashamed<br />
of our nudity. I see and feel nudity as a simple<br />
thing. I don’t see negative values in something<br />
that is simply ourselves.<br />
KALTBLUT: What do you like best on a humans<br />
and what do you like best about animals?<br />
RUBEN: What I like the most about the man is<br />
his sex. I admire his perfection, the balance generated<br />
by the skin, muscles, forms, tightness<br />
and the electric current of a body in possession<br />
of a innate devotion. About animals I like their<br />
behavior with their own species and also with<br />
the planet.<br />
KALTBLUT: Do you actually believe people<br />
and animals are alike? How so?<br />
RUBEN: Under no point of view I believe humans<br />
and animals are equals. Humans see ourselves<br />
as rational and superior but every day we are<br />
much more further from that. We are very destructive,<br />
we don’t measure the impact, we just<br />
destroy the ecosystem in every step we take.<br />
Animals live in a perfect and mutual symbiotic<br />
relationship.<br />
KALTBLUT: Animal heads are quite popular!<br />
Do you see yourself as part of a movement<br />
or is it the exact opposite for you?<br />
RUBEN: I have been working on the Lartigue<br />
Boys for five years. During that time there were<br />
no artistic references about this matter, especially<br />
in painting. It has been in the last couple of<br />
years when other expressions of this kind have<br />
emerged in different areas of art. Nowadays we<br />
are some artists working on the same matter,<br />
making me think about the creation of a current,<br />
a movement I am part of.
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The cast of the upcoming German movie:<br />
Men To Kiss. In a fashion shoot<br />
by Suzana Holtgrave.<br />
Styling by Susann Bosslau,<br />
Hair/Make Up Ilka Jänike.<br />
Production by Marcel Schlutt
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Frank Christian Marx<br />
Frank is “Mister Charming”. while Ernst is more a quiet person.<br />
But both together are just hot. Mister Marx is an actor, pro ducer<br />
and foun der of Ente Kross Film. He studied acting in Stuttgart<br />
and after nume rous thea ter pro duc tions in Stutt gart and<br />
Ber lin he played in some movies („Die Order“, „Geis ter all inclusive“,<br />
„Frau Böhm sagt nein“) and well known Ger man TV series<br />
(„Alarm für Cobra 11“). In 2008, he had his first lea ding role in<br />
the inde pen dent pro duc tion „Some body got mur de red” by Tor<br />
Iben. It was awar ded as the best movie at the film fes ti val Cinegai<br />
le sAST in Gijon. In 2010, he was before camera with Bol lywood<br />
star Shahrukh Khan for “Don2”.<br />
www. frankchristianmarx.com
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“Men to Kiss” is an upcoming - Award winning -<br />
German comedy sensation. In the centre of it is<br />
a gay couple that couldn’t be any more different<br />
from one another. Tobias is a crazy bugger and<br />
Ernst is a pencil pusher. We get to experience<br />
the two happy together, but also Ernst having his<br />
doubts on whether his partner is taking the relationship<br />
as serious as he is. There is an opportunity<br />
too good to miss for Uta, an old school friend<br />
of Ernst. She just arrived from the USA for a visit<br />
to Berlin and starts hatching a plan to get the two<br />
guys to split up and that’s when things turn more<br />
and more obscure. We had a little chat with Frank<br />
and Udo. The two main actors and also producers<br />
of this fresh German comedy movie.<br />
KALTBLUT: You guys play both of the male<br />
leads, Ernie and Tobi. How much of your own<br />
personality is in each of these characters?<br />
Frank: I have to say I love Ernst, he is Wonderfully<br />
Naive and gullible, completely the opposite<br />
to me. (Udo laughs). What I do share with him is<br />
his thoughtfulness and his emotionally.<br />
Udo: Uhhh, quite a lot! But I think that’s normal,<br />
the more you get into a part the more you wonder<br />
how much of it comes out of yourself, just<br />
as if it was waiting to burst out of you and show<br />
itself off. I especially enjoyed countering that<br />
pretty gay moustache scene with a very loud<br />
camp Tobi. (Laughs loudly)<br />
KALTBLUT: The female leads are cast with<br />
Sacia and Alexandra. How did that choice<br />
come about?<br />
Frank: I´ve studied camera acting with Alexandra<br />
for about 6 months. Her style fascinated<br />
me from the start and she’s very Un-German,<br />
emotional, temperamental and still very sensitive.<br />
What she brings to the character is very<br />
opaque twist.<br />
Udo: For me this was the second time I did a<br />
feature with Sacia. We became friends and her<br />
positive vibe always get me every time.This is<br />
what makes it very easy to work with her, especially<br />
since she is also my best friend in the film.<br />
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KALTBLUT: Why did you decide to base the<br />
story of the film in Berlin? Isn’t Berlin a little<br />
boring by now ?<br />
Frank: Boring? Are you kidding? (Both Laughing)<br />
Berlin is an exceptional city, for its residents,<br />
tourist and even for Berlin haters. No one is interested<br />
if there is a camera popping up here or<br />
there.<br />
KALTBLUT: You both are not just the main<br />
actors you are also the executive producers.<br />
In 2011 you founded your production<br />
company “EnteKross” (CrispyDuck).<br />
Wasn’t this a double burden and how did<br />
you cope with it ?<br />
Udo: Well we plunged ourself into the deep waters,<br />
which was quite refreshing at the start<br />
but then more and more you paddle against the<br />
stream trying not to drown.<br />
But we were unbelievably lucky! Most of the<br />
team was already like family so they helped us<br />
where every they could. A special thank you<br />
certainly belongs to Till, our cameraman.<br />
It certainly helps swimming this marathon as<br />
two, we give each other strength if one is having<br />
a weak moment. We did learn a lot in that<br />
time.
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KALTBLUT: Well “EnteKross” is certainly a<br />
damn cool name for a company. Where do<br />
you guys wanna go, what are our goals ?<br />
Most importantly what can we expect from<br />
you in the future ?<br />
Frank: Men to Kiss, was a complete finger exercise.<br />
With the follow up feature we want to<br />
prove that we no one trick pony. We want to<br />
give the Gay & Lesbian film landscape in Germany<br />
something that does not exist in this form.<br />
Udo: Our goal is to show how normal Gay and<br />
Lesbians are. We only evidently live in free times<br />
where Gay and Lesbians are widely excepted.<br />
Unfortunately the reality is still very different.<br />
We want stories about the community. I experienced<br />
so many great things in the gay world<br />
that I wanna give something back.<br />
KALTBLUT: Udo, we have worked together<br />
a few summers and you are a born comedian.<br />
How did you get into acting?<br />
Udo: As a child I was always very introvert, but<br />
also the class clown sometimes, a bit of a paradox<br />
I know, but I didn’t like people and I don’t<br />
think they liked me. It kinda really started at<br />
University. I was helping a friend moving house<br />
and I met this ex - Pina-Bausch dancer, and not<br />
2 month later I was a dancer on stage and cofounder<br />
of a dance theatre. A crazy time in<br />
which I was constantly surrounded by and rehearsing<br />
with crazy and wonderful people. We<br />
hardly made any money there, money come in<br />
from doing parts in television or as narrator.<br />
When I arrived in Berlin about 10 years ago I<br />
kinda slipped into theatre and then with you doing<br />
feature films.<br />
KALTBLUT: Frank, your journey to become<br />
an actor was very different. I bet you been<br />
dreaming of your picture on movie posters<br />
since you been a tween, am I right ?<br />
Frank: (Laughs) I was drawing and painting film<br />
posters when I was a little fella dreaming of imaginary<br />
parts that I was playing along famous<br />
actors. I copied films onto audio tape, while I<br />
was playing them I was jumping around in the<br />
living room and lip-sync to the film and acting<br />
the parts along with the tape playing.<br />
For example I was Thomas in Pippi Longstocking<br />
and Atreju in the Never Ending Story, oh and<br />
even some Disney cartoon characters. I was<br />
pretty crazy back then.<br />
KALTBLUT: You guys are still very new in<br />
the business. How did you Finance your<br />
film? Friends? Family?<br />
Frank: Lets just say we had some cash stashed<br />
away and now we are both living under a bridge.<br />
(Laughs)<br />
We had support from our families, especially<br />
from my mother who also became co-producer.<br />
Theres also been tremendous support from our<br />
friends who believed in us.<br />
Udo: My moneys gone, If i wouldn’t have my job<br />
i really would be living on the streets. It’s a hell<br />
of a kamikaze flight that we are undertaking<br />
here, but i am not regretting a single thing.<br />
Only if you are brave enough you can win.
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Sascia Haj<br />
The best friend with a huge attitude.<br />
Sascia is Steffi, the best friend of<br />
Tobi. The movie would be not so<br />
funny without Miss Haj. She is a real<br />
star! Oh yes, she is. Sascia is one of<br />
Germanys most booked commercial<br />
faces, but also a very good actress<br />
as well. She can play the mad one<br />
and a minute later she is an adorble<br />
diva. TV-Movies, Theater or Commercials.<br />
It doens´t, Sascia is at<br />
home in every genre.<br />
www.sascia-haj.de
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UDO LUTZ<br />
He is Tobi, the crazy middle age gay. Tobi is<br />
loud, funny and he do not respect any rules.<br />
It is the second time that Udo becomes Tobi<br />
movie. Udo Lutz is an actor, radio announcer,<br />
speech the ra pist and producer.. In 1996,<br />
he was the co-founder of x.x.y Tanz thea ter<br />
under the direc tion of Geraldo Si Lou reiro, a<br />
for mer Pina Bausch dan cer. He acqui red his<br />
first expe ri en ces in film busi ness as a standin<br />
and voice-over artist for Ger man tele vi sion<br />
pro duc tions of the WDR. He had his first leading<br />
role in 2010 in the movie “Alex und der<br />
Loewe”. Since 2011, he is a radio announ cer<br />
for Deutsch land ra dio Kul tur.<br />
www. facebook.com/udo.lutz<br />
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KALTBLUT: Congratulations!!! Your<br />
movie just won 2 awards at The<br />
Bangalore Filmfestival! I say it again:<br />
2!! awards “Best director” and “Special<br />
Mention” Best Movie. How do you feel?<br />
What was the first thought when you<br />
got the news?<br />
Udo: It was an endorphine rush de luxe!<br />
I had to read the mail three times before<br />
I was sure what the meaning was. I tried<br />
to call Frank in Sydney, but he was sitting<br />
in the 2. screening of “Men to kiss”, so I<br />
couldn’t reach him. Then I called my sister,<br />
my mum and everybody...then Frank<br />
called me and we screamed and laughed...<br />
It was mind blowing. I mean it is such a<br />
great honor that the Jury from India likes<br />
our Movie so much that they gave us 2 out<br />
of 4 Awards! Then I met Till, our Director<br />
of Photography, and we had a good bottle<br />
of sparkling wine. Just a perfect day!
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Alexandra Starnitzky<br />
Uta is the hot evil girl. Alexandra, who play<br />
the evil, is a very well known model and actress.<br />
Commercials for Mc Donalds, Theater<br />
in Rome - “The Terrorist” (directed by Shraroo<br />
Khereadman), Theatro Sala Uno and some<br />
great movies like: “Beautiful Child” (directed<br />
by Fabrizio Chiesa) are just some steps on her<br />
way to become a superstar, which she already<br />
is. She is the perfect match for the evil girl<br />
friend of Ernst. We are sure the guys will fell<br />
in love her.<br />
www.starnitzky.com<br />
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KALTBLUT: So when and where can we see<br />
the movie in Europe?<br />
Frank: Just visit our Facebook site :<br />
www.facebook.com/mentokiss<br />
or www.entekrossfilm.com<br />
Where we will post all screening dates.<br />
Udo: In Germany we are aiming for a May première.<br />
You can visit the German site at :<br />
www.facebook.com/entekrossfilm<br />
for all dates and locations.<br />
KALTBLUT: So I will audition for a part in<br />
your next film right away, can I ? Not that I<br />
have an idea what it will be but am sure you<br />
can tell me something now, what is the plan<br />
for the future ?<br />
Frank: We have three ideas, for one of these we<br />
have to completely break out of our Low to No<br />
budget corner, you know like Men to Kiss and<br />
yes you certainly will have a part in that again.<br />
Udo: Yeah as my new lover.. but we won’t spill<br />
anything yet about our follow up projects.<br />
KALTBLUT: Ahhh, so do you have any advice<br />
for young gays and lesbians who want<br />
to step into your footsteps? How do you<br />
become an actor ?<br />
Frank: Don’t let anyone get you down and always<br />
believe in yourself, no matter what everyone<br />
else tells you. That certainly helped me.<br />
(Udo from behind “Now cue the violin music” )<br />
KALTBLUT: If someone wants to audition<br />
for a part in a future film or someone’s got<br />
some hot script, is it ok to get in touch and<br />
if yes how can they do so ?<br />
Frank: Sure it´s OK, especially for our big project<br />
the declaration of love we need a lot of<br />
rough diamonds in every area.<br />
There are a few ways to get in touch with us,<br />
via e-mail: info@entekrossfilm.de or our official<br />
Facebook pages:<br />
www.facebook.com/mentokiss or<br />
www.facebook.com/entekrossfilm<br />
But you can also talk to us at any of the Film<br />
Festivals, we don’t bite.<br />
Udo: Or just send the script to us in hope that<br />
our mailbox was not impounded (Frank laughs)<br />
We are also very open to cooperations, sponsorships,<br />
supporters and investors.<br />
Like we said before we are only at the beginning<br />
and it would be amazing if you join us in our<br />
journey.<br />
KALTBLUT: I wish you guys all the best for<br />
the movie and your future projects. Not because<br />
i am also in the movie. No. I love you!
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Dress: Ziad Ghanem
VENUS<br />
Photographer - Drew Wittam<br />
www.drewwhittamphotography.blogspot.com<br />
Stylist - Aiden Connor<br />
Make up artist - Emma Broom<br />
Hair stylist - Aaron Carlo @Headmasters<br />
using L’Oréal Professionnel<br />
Model - Anna Smirnova @Premier.<br />
Casting by Jody and Bayo at the eye<br />
Styling assistant - Rahemur Rahman<br />
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Dress: Lesley De Freitas
Dress and lace bollero: Ziad Ghanem,<br />
Shoes: Charkviani<br />
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Trousers : Ziad Ghanem,<br />
Shoes: Charkviani<br />
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Dress: Imbar Spector,<br />
Shoes: Charkviani
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Headpiece: Ziad Ghanem,<br />
Camisole: Lesley De Freitas,<br />
Dress: Ziad Ghanem.
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Lace blouse and Belt: Ziad Ghanem,<br />
Lace skirt: Lesley De Freitas<br />
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Hentsch Man Sunglasses<br />
Summer 2012<br />
Hentsch Man who have these fantastic little<br />
pieces for SS12 - perfect for any chic geek out<br />
there! Seriously though these are a great bold<br />
accessory that plays with classic form and aesthetic,<br />
suitable for any day or occasion.<br />
www.hentschman.com<br />
John Varvartos<br />
Vintage Fragrance<br />
Vintage, the special edition fragrance,<br />
reaches back to move<br />
forward. Rooted in the signature<br />
fragrance, yet distinctly unique<br />
with a rugged authenticity and<br />
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and masculine composition,<br />
Vintage contains an assertive<br />
spice combined with a warm<br />
leathery background.<br />
www.johnvarvatos.com<br />
Maui Jim Sunglasses Summer 2012<br />
Maui Jim have the ultimate remedy. With colour enhancing<br />
lenses this fantastic eyewear keeps the<br />
world as close to the way you normally see it.<br />
www.mauijim.com<br />
HOM e.Go Underwear<br />
Ice Cream<br />
Spring is coming and the summer<br />
is not far. We hope it will be<br />
super sunny and hot.<br />
HOM e.Go´s ice cream underwear<br />
could be a good present<br />
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www.hom.com<br />
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Essie Spring 2012<br />
Nail Polish <strong>Collection</strong><br />
Inspired by Wall Street, Essie’s spring 2012<br />
nail polish collection is, well, so money. With<br />
colour names like Navigate Her, Orange It’s<br />
Obvious, Olé Caliente, A Crewed Interest,<br />
Tour de Finance, and To Buy or Not.<br />
www.essie.com<br />
Numark Performance Controller<br />
with Serato ITCH<br />
Designed by Numark in collaboration with Serato,<br />
NS7 represents the pinnacle of DJ performance control.<br />
NS7 combines an all-metal chassis with adjustable<br />
torque, motorized, aluminum-turntable platters,<br />
vinyl, and a professional audio interface to deliver a<br />
complete performance solution that will satisfy even<br />
the most hardcore turntablist. www.numark.com<br />
Lottie Suede Strappy Sandals<br />
Yellow! Yes yellow shoes are a must<br />
have for the spring 2012 season. Those<br />
sandals from Topshop are so super cute.<br />
LOTTIE Suede Strappy Sandals. heel 5”<br />
100% Leather. www.topshop.com<br />
SuperDarts +Remote by Atomic Floyd<br />
A big beating heart pumping bass under glossy mids and acid<br />
sharp details. With two speakers in each ear, every note and<br />
every layer sing out like you’ve never heard.<br />
www.atomicfloyd.com/superdarts<br />
Jeremy Scott x Adidas 2012<br />
Jeremy Scott and adidas Originals have lifted the lid<br />
from their lavish 2012 collection! Heavily influenced<br />
by American pop culture. Look for the 2012 collection<br />
in stores February!<br />
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Assaad Awad Shoe<br />
Black and shinny high quality<br />
“made in spain” shoe, with silver<br />
spikes. Easy to get , just visit Assaad<br />
Awad´s online store.<br />
www.assaadawad.bigcartel.com
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GIO BLAC<br />
I would rather w<br />
than a fashion
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K PETER<br />
ear my foreskin<br />
label any day.<br />
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Photos by PUSSY FAGGOT<br />
Photo by Terry Richardson<br />
GIO B<br />
BORN
LACK PETER<br />
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Gio Black Peter (*Giovani<br />
Paolo Andrade Guevara)<br />
was born in Guatemala and<br />
is now based in New York,<br />
after he illegally immigrated<br />
to the United States<br />
with his family at the age<br />
of 5.<br />
He was born to be an<br />
artist. Gio is a performance<br />
artist, musician, actor<br />
and painter. A couple<br />
of weeks ago he published<br />
his new song: Don’t tell me<br />
nothing.<br />
He is a muse to<br />
Bruce La Bruce and very<br />
well known for his live performances.<br />
The man is an underground<br />
rockstar!<br />
www.gioblackpeter.com<br />
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
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KALTBLUT: Hello Gio! How are you<br />
doing these days?<br />
GIO: All is good in the hood. Feeling inspired<br />
and getting a lot crossed out on my to do list. I<br />
am Guatemalan and a descendant of the Mayan<br />
civilization so I know 2012 will be significant!<br />
Thanks for asking..<br />
KALTBLUT: I am a fan of your work!<br />
You are a performance artist, musician,<br />
painter, actor. Who is Gio Black<br />
Peter?<br />
GIO: Gio Black Peter is a fighter a cry baby a<br />
lover of people, animals and plants, a lost boy<br />
and a baby daddy. A happy nomad and an explorer.<br />
A pussy a dick and a four dimensional<br />
real live human being animal full of feelings,<br />
thoughts, love, anger, tears, shit and blood in<br />
search of the truth and meaning and himself.<br />
KALTBLUT: Where is the name - Black<br />
Peter - coming from?<br />
GIO: It was a nickname an ex lover gave me.<br />
KALTBLUT: When did you realized that<br />
art is your business?<br />
GIO: Never and that is why my art still comes<br />
from my heart. I make art to express myself,<br />
explore my feelings and thoughts. And to share<br />
my views. Yes I also sell my art but that is not<br />
what drives me to making art. I will never make<br />
art for the sake of making money. And I will never<br />
look at my art as a money making product.<br />
KALTBLUT: Your are born in Guatemala<br />
and emigrated illegally to the United<br />
States with your family at the age of<br />
five. Do you feel like an american now?<br />
Are the States your home?<br />
GIO: Yes I can. After feeling like an unwanted<br />
child for most of my life I can finally say I feel<br />
some love. It’s not a perfect family but I am<br />
hopeful it will get better.<br />
Yes I can get married now and also join the army<br />
but I still don’t have health insurance and let’s<br />
not talk about my uncle in wall street.<br />
KALTBLUT: How is an ordinary day<br />
looking in Gio Black Peter´s life?<br />
GIO: There is no such thing as an “ordinary”<br />
day. My life depends on my work. So my day<br />
depends on what I am working on. I can only<br />
paint or draw at night when the city is quiet and<br />
the moon is smiling down on me. Currently I am<br />
working on a series of paintings so my day starts<br />
in the late afternoon. I paint all night and end up<br />
going to bed in the morning. If I am in the zone<br />
then I will stay awake until my eyes burn.<br />
When I was recording “The Virgin Shuffle” album<br />
it was the complete opposite. I was up early<br />
writing songs so they would be ready for the<br />
studio. There is always lot of coffee in my day.<br />
If your reading this and are in New York City you<br />
can always bring me a coffee, it doesn’t matter<br />
how late it is.<br />
The last two summers I’ve worked at a plant<br />
nursery. So when I am working there I get up<br />
early. I spend the day planting and playing in<br />
dirt. Which is why there is a lot of plant references<br />
in my new drawings and paintings. It’s a<br />
direct reflection of how I’ve spent my time. You<br />
want to see what I’ve been up to just look at my<br />
work<br />
KALTBLUT: Looking at your performances<br />
and your music videos. We<br />
can see you always naked or in underwear.<br />
Is this part of your work? Or is<br />
this just you? And you just like to be<br />
naked?<br />
GIO: I love being naked. I’m a Naturist. It is part<br />
of my work because my work is autobiographical.<br />
I would rather wear my foreskin than a fashion<br />
label any day.<br />
KALTBLUT: Do you have a boyfriend<br />
or girlfriend? And if so, how is he/she<br />
handling your half naked work?<br />
Any problems cause of that in the<br />
past?<br />
GIO: I’ve been dating a guy for 7 years now.<br />
He’s cool with it because he knows it’s who I am.<br />
When I was dating a girl there was no problem<br />
either. It’s the benefit of letting it all hang out<br />
from the beginning. ;)
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KALTBLUT: Here in Berlin an artist<br />
can´t “shock“ the people anymore<br />
with being naked on stage. How is that<br />
in the USA?<br />
GIO: I love Berlin because of that.<br />
Specially since I don’t perform to shock. In the<br />
USA there has been more apprehension about<br />
my performance than there has been in other<br />
parts of the world. I think this is because a large<br />
percentage of Americans either don’t question<br />
the rules of society or are not comfortable with<br />
their own bodies, so off course they are going to<br />
be shocked by seeing me on stage with my dick<br />
swinging around. Society places these imaginary<br />
boundaries on us.<br />
At the end of the day that is what it’s all about.<br />
Look at the indigenous people of the Rainforest.<br />
They are in touch with nature and with themselves<br />
and therefore they have no issues with<br />
nudity.<br />
KALTBLUT: Did you ever think about<br />
making porn?<br />
GIO: I’m obviously not against it - I’ve just never<br />
been interested. I guess it’s because I explore<br />
my sexuality through my art. You can say<br />
I’ve made some art which had pornographic<br />
elements.<br />
KALTBLUT: Music or painting. What<br />
do you like more?<br />
Gio: Right now I like<br />
to paint. I am going<br />
to dedicate the next<br />
3 years making<br />
visual art as well as<br />
video projects.<br />
Don’t hold me to that<br />
though since I write<br />
a new song every<br />
other day.
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Photos by John Wenrich<br />
KALTBLUT: How would you describe<br />
your own music?<br />
GIO: Loud and obnoxious.<br />
KALTBLUT: Which music is on the top<br />
5 in your Ipod right now?<br />
GIO: I don’t own an Ipod. On my laptop the<br />
most currently listened to are : The Gossip,<br />
Crystal Catles, Amy Winehouse, Patti Smith,<br />
Nirvana and Daniel Johnston. (i know that’s 6)<br />
KALTBLUT: You are working a lot with<br />
Bruce La Bruce. You had a part in his<br />
movie „ Otto, or up with dead people“ .<br />
He is directing music videos for you.<br />
Is he like a mentor for you?<br />
GIO: He is my friend.<br />
I enjoy working with him and I respect his body<br />
of work. He sticks to his guns and I like that. I<br />
wrote “Revolving Door (New Fuck New York)”<br />
when I was in Berlin with Bruce shooting “Otto..”.<br />
In fact the opening line is “We spent summer<br />
raising the dead” referring to the zombie in the<br />
film. So it was perfect when Bruce agreed to do<br />
the video. We shot the video in one night with<br />
the help of some friends and a bottle of jack and<br />
it was a fucking great time!<br />
KALTBLUT: Is there any artist you<br />
would die for to work with ?<br />
GIO: David Wojnarowicz.<br />
I love his mind. Everyone needs to read<br />
“Close to the knives”<br />
KALTBLUT: What are your plans for<br />
2012? Where can we see you on stage?<br />
And will you be back in Europe?<br />
GIO: Literally right now I am finishing my new<br />
music video for the song “Don’t Tell Me Nothing”<br />
featuring Strobo Monsters.<br />
The video is directed by CyCy Sanders and it’s<br />
a really great follow up to “Revolving Door”. I’m<br />
really proud of this video because CyCy has<br />
managed to capture both the aggressive side to<br />
my personality and also the sensitive side. In<br />
February I have an exhibition of paintings on<br />
canvas in NYC at Brian Riley Project Space.<br />
I will also be shooting a video project with Slava<br />
Mogutin and Brian Kenny. I have a couple of<br />
other projects I am working on but it’s too early<br />
in the game. I think I will return to Europe in<br />
April. For my schedule check out my spiderwebsite<br />
www.gioblackpeter.com.<br />
Besides that I am going to drink more coffee,<br />
make more art and write more songs!
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Deux Démons<br />
Photography: Robert Paul Kothe<br />
www.robertkothe.de<br />
Make-Up/Hair: Aennikin<br />
Models: Medea Paffenholz (Dog Mila), Wlada<br />
Assistant: Ella Privorozki
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COCO´S<br />
Musicladen.<br />
Abum preview by Coco Meurer<br />
aaaaaMasterpiece, aaaa Super Cool, aaaYeah Ok!, aaWTF ??!
MAX PROSA „Die Phantasie wird siegen“ aaaa<br />
The modern storyteller.<br />
Max Prosa is one of them. It seems like the<br />
twenty two year old got stuck to his guitar.<br />
It is good though. No big effects. Just music<br />
coming from the instrument the audience can<br />
see. Good to know that the next generation of<br />
musicians actually has knowledge how to make<br />
music without the need of a computer!<br />
Coming from Erfurts Zughafen Max Prosa was<br />
able to go on tour last year together with<br />
Clueso (at the moment one of Germany´s popstars<br />
number 1).<br />
In most cases this is already proof enough that<br />
great music will be heard.<br />
German, handmade music that rather asks<br />
for attention and not just slightly listening<br />
to it.<br />
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Interpret: Max Prosa<br />
Album: Die Phantasie wird siegen<br />
Genre: Folk/Rock<br />
Booking: stephan@fourartists.com<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Webpage: www.maxprosa.de<br />
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Charlotte Gainsbourg „Stage Whisper“<br />
aaaaa<br />
The famous daughter, actress and chanteuse<br />
released on “Stage Whisper” eight previously<br />
unreleased studio tracks, in collaboration with<br />
producer Beck Hansen. In addition there are<br />
many live recordings of the last two Albums’<br />
5:55 ‘and’ Irm “ to hear.<br />
One of the highlights is the Bob Dylan cover<br />
‘Just Like a Woman’ from the soundtrack of the<br />
movie ‘I’m Not There’. With the new songs she<br />
proves her versatility as she never did before.<br />
Between the lush electro rock of ‘Terrible Angels’<br />
and’ Memoir’ as a delicately plucked ballad<br />
no comparison can be made. With the title<br />
‘All The Rain ‘, one could definitely not begin to<br />
party, but no one can dispute the Genius of this<br />
gloomy song.<br />
An astonishing variety of styles.<br />
Paradisco:<br />
http://youtu.be/C9XjEGfYrC4<br />
Interpret: Charlotte Gainsbourg<br />
Album: Stage Wisper<br />
Genre: Pop<br />
Label: Because Music/Elektra<br />
Origin: France<br />
Webpage:<br />
www.charlottegainsbourg.com
School of seven Bells „Ghostory”<br />
Electronical elements with a phantasmagorial<br />
voice.<br />
A beautiful addition and perfect mix but not to<br />
much excitement.<br />
With the album “Ghoststory” the New Yorker<br />
duo School of seven Bells tells the story about<br />
the little girl “Lafaye” that is surrounded by<br />
ghosts!<br />
That sure does sound dark but you will not hear<br />
any of that darkness listening to the songs.<br />
“„Everyone has ghosts. They’re every love<br />
you’ve ever had, every hurt, every betrayal,<br />
every heartbreak. They follow you, stay with<br />
you.”<br />
A beautiful thought and beautiful music.<br />
The Night:<br />
www.youtu.be/f286wxNqFIA<br />
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Interpret: Schools of seven Bells<br />
Album: Ghoststory<br />
Genre: Pop<br />
Label: Full Time Hobby (UK, EU)<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Webpage:<br />
www.schoolofsevenbells.com<br />
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Y’akoto „Babyblues“ aaaaa<br />
The list of famous personalities falling in love<br />
with this soul singer is getting longer and<br />
longer.<br />
Starting out with R’n’B queen Erykah Badu<br />
over to Joy Denalane who did not hesitate and<br />
took Y’akato on tour with her.<br />
The big gap in german soulmusic that lasted<br />
long enough is now sealed by Y’akato. Names<br />
like Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu have long<br />
been known for soul. It is about time to step<br />
aside.<br />
With her voice, the beats and the emotion in<br />
her music she has the best chances to be next<br />
in line for the throne.<br />
A soft voice presents a masterpiece.<br />
Tamba<br />
www.youtu.be/CHgMKpaWG_E<br />
Interpret:Y´akoto<br />
Album: Babyblues<br />
Genre: R´n´B<br />
Label: Kamè Entertainment GmbH/<br />
Warner<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Webpage: www.yakoto.de
Speech Debelle “Freedom of Speech”<br />
Interpret: Speech Debelle<br />
Album: Freedom of Speech<br />
Genre: Hip Hop<br />
Label: Big Dada<br />
Origin: UK<br />
Webpage: www.speechdebelle.com<br />
P:lot „Zuhören“<br />
With the albums title “Zuhören” the guys from<br />
Cologne, Germany definitly hit the spot. Everyone<br />
should listen to this sound. Positive vibes<br />
from the first to the last song.<br />
A very special voice explains the beauty of life<br />
to us. The perfekt aid against the depressed<br />
mood this grey and cold winter weather put<br />
upon us which actually was part of P:lots concept<br />
making this album.<br />
No more miserable music as there is already<br />
enough of that kind available. So the guys from<br />
Cologne decided to make optimistic<br />
music and claim with “Zuhören” the exact.<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Zuhören<br />
www.youtu.be/oPVa3ahL9Fg<br />
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Women and Hip Hop!<br />
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That already is a thingh for itself. Only a handful<br />
of ladies have made a name for themselves<br />
in the hip hop industry to this day.<br />
But now a record will be published that proofs<br />
hip hop was not only made for men.<br />
With her 2nd album “Freedom of Speech”<br />
Speech Debelle proofs that she is dominates<br />
the art of hip hop very well.<br />
Comfortable beats melodic raps and no<br />
need of playing around with manly cliches..<br />
Interpret: P:lot<br />
Album: Zuhören<br />
Genre: Alternative<br />
Label: Columbia Berlin<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Webpage: www.pilotmusik.de
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An Anthropology<br />
Experiment<br />
Photography by Rico Mahel<br />
Filmmaker, photographer and artist based in Berlin<br />
An excerpt from the work of ‘An anthropology experiment’<br />
‘An anthropology experiement’ was shown as a panel consisting of 100<br />
photographs.<br />
According to the statements of Werner Sombat animalism is known as<br />
any form of belief which doesn’t define the man as a distinct species but<br />
as an animal and therefore as a part of the animal nature.<br />
In Rico Mahel’s work ‘An anthropology experiment’ the man is consciously<br />
compared to the animal. Alleged absurdities raise issues that<br />
concern anthropologists, sociologists and the hole mankind since the<br />
dawn of humanity.<br />
www.ricomahel.com
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Nina Kharytonova´s<br />
he Future<br />
Berlin Faces You Should Know<br />
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who<br />
make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” John M. Richardson.<br />
KALTBLUT wants to introduce you to some of those kinds, who make it happen. They are<br />
extraordinary, creative, outstanding, especial, notable and unique and they will change the<br />
world soon. That’s why we have to keep an eye on these four people and you should better do<br />
the same.<br />
Jessica Bossyuyt<br />
www.lessizmore.com<br />
Attention Ladies and Gentleman, may I introduce Jessica – the<br />
real It-girl in the international club scene. This Parisian beauty<br />
began her career in music working for PIAS 1999, after spending<br />
some time in New York she moved than back to Europe,<br />
where nobody could stop her anymore. She landed the position<br />
of PR and booking at the legendary Parisian club “Le Triptique”.<br />
Than she decided to make some projects by her own and started<br />
such concepts as Angel Dust and LessizMore. She also was<br />
one of creators of the famous trio “Les Putafranges”. This group<br />
of glamorous girls provided music for the catwalks for Louis Vuitton,<br />
Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. After the trio broke, this<br />
multi talented power woman concentrated her attention on being<br />
a good DJ (inventing her unforgettable and inimitable style,<br />
which could be called as “electro-rock-punk-pop-trash-disco”<br />
all around the world) and running the Label LessizMore with a<br />
friend DJ Pierre. So we are looking forward to see what she will<br />
bring us in the nearest future.
Steven Key<br />
www.ivigeist.tumblr.com<br />
www.hairsweethair.de<br />
Ivi is an original east girl, who came to Berlin years ago from a<br />
beautiful countryside called the green heart of Germany. Her<br />
passion for styling and costume design begun as she was just<br />
a baby, getting excited by the red lipstick of her mom and falling<br />
into a deep obsession with the magnificent power of colors at<br />
the same time. So it appears more than comprehensible that<br />
she got her inspiration from Frida Kahlo and also a controversy<br />
and a non-perfect perfection as well. She gets her ideas from<br />
some dream sequences, sounds, weird stuff and probably all<br />
the curiosity of our lives. This mix and combination of opportunities<br />
and her passion makes her work so outstanding and special,<br />
due to the fact that everything she does is coming from the<br />
bottom of her heart. But it’s not only the styling and design, what<br />
makes her so outstanding – for her performance with Crystalmafia<br />
she assumes different roles and matches the characters<br />
more than perfectly.<br />
Voin de Voin<br />
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Wondering were all the cool Berliner getting their fancy hair<br />
cuts? I’m gonna tell you the secret: they all were at Steven’s<br />
brand new hair salon, located at Fuldastraße in Neukölln. At this<br />
point you might think what’s so special about a hairdresser’s<br />
shop, but this is not only a great done haircut what you will get<br />
there.<br />
Steven treats his every client as if he were his close friend, with<br />
such warm heart hospitality, that at the end you even don’t want<br />
to go home anymore. Surrounded by the best Berlin club music<br />
and Steven’s therapeutic and comforting charisma you will forget<br />
all your problems for a while. So if you get bored of your look<br />
and want allow yourself a special treatment for your hair and<br />
soul – than you have to check out “Hair Sweet Hair” and you will<br />
not regret it, I promise!<br />
www.voindevoin.andharbor.com<br />
Ivi Geist<br />
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria – Voin de Voin spent his youth studying<br />
visual arts, film and theatre in Amsterdam and Paris and<br />
traveling across Europe, finding his base in Berlin after a while.<br />
Where he gets known as a performer, “hypnotizing” his audience<br />
to do whatever he is asking them for. His performances,<br />
photos, videos and sculptures are composed as a tribute to<br />
the disappearance and mergence with the environment of his<br />
own personality. They are always unique. This displacement,<br />
psycho-geography, abstractness and endless creativity brought<br />
him a huge popularity even behind the borders of Berlin and the<br />
entire Germany. He exhibited internationally, especially in Russia,<br />
France, Holland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Sweden, Belgium and<br />
even at Contemporary Istanbul.<br />
We will keep an eye on him and his talent to create art of nothing<br />
and everything
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The SAVE-FASHION aesthetic; a brand dedicated to celebrating and expressing<br />
the pleasure, intensity and emotion of urban life, fused into fashion.<br />
Founded in the creative hub of Berlin by Tom Peters a creative, passionate<br />
young designer, who DJ’s in major cities all over the World, finds inspiration,<br />
that he believes can only be found in the big city vibe. The first hand made,<br />
customised designs originated in 2005, and were worn by a select group of<br />
friends and high profile DJ’s on Berlin’s underground dance scene. Over the<br />
following few years the demand for pieces increased, and in 2010, the official<br />
fashion label was formed and launched in true SAVE-FASHION style with a club<br />
collaboration.<br />
www.save-fashion.com<br />
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Marina Bychkova<br />
“Enchanted Dolls”<br />
Marina Bychkova is the genius behind Enchanted Dolls, in fact the<br />
most enchanting dolls you will have seen in your life.<br />
She began making dolls when she was 6 years old and you can see<br />
what it led to. To her a doll is not just a doll but the most exciting<br />
game ever and to anyone who looks at them as well. Like in the fairy<br />
tale they get their name from, these dolls are so lifelike and delicate<br />
you think you can touch their skin and feel them breathing.<br />
www.enchanteddoll.com<br />
Interview by Emma E K Jones & Amanda M Jansson<br />
KALTBLUT: What was your relationship with<br />
dolls as a child? I know you found them mediocre.<br />
Did you still play with them though?<br />
How was it for you?<br />
MARINA: I began making my own dolls as soon as<br />
learned how to hold stuff stuff in my hands. I was<br />
completely fascinated with the idea of dolls, but disappointed<br />
with the lack of choices and quality of<br />
dolls available in stores. Having said this, I did play<br />
with some of them, out of sheer necessity in my early<br />
childhood.<br />
My favorite manufactured doll was one that belong<br />
to my mother when she was a little girl, and not for<br />
any sentimental reasons, but for its relative uniqueness<br />
from all the other, identical dolls being made<br />
at the time. It came from a different era of toy-making,<br />
before soulless mass production, where factory<br />
workers don’t care or have any connection to what<br />
they are making.<br />
It was very simple, old, broken and naked when it<br />
was given to me, but I like the way it moved, and so<br />
I fixed it the best I could and made it a dress. I wish<br />
I still had it with me. I think it was the only doll I truly<br />
loved that wasn’t made by me.<br />
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KALTBLUT: Your dolls are not only for children,<br />
what importance do you think dolls<br />
have for children, and what for adults?<br />
MARINA: Of all the endless shapes in the world, the<br />
one we humans relate to the most, is the one that resembles<br />
us. I think that both adults and children see<br />
dolls as a reflections and extensions of ourselves,<br />
through which we find our identities. They are externalized<br />
parts of ourselves, onto which we project our<br />
subconscious needs and longings. They are necessary<br />
for us to become self aware individuals.<br />
KALTBLUT: Enchanted Dolls have been<br />
named after a story by Paul Gallico. Can<br />
you tell us a little about the story and what it<br />
means for you?<br />
MARINA: Actually, there is a chapter in my new art<br />
book Enchanted Doll, about how Paul Gallico’s story<br />
inspired my work and my brand. You can read about<br />
it there. It’s a beautiful book and a labor of love filled<br />
with 193 photographs of my dolls, 136 sketches, project<br />
descriptions and 12 chapters about my life and<br />
times as a doll artist. It will be available to order from<br />
my website www.enchanteddoll.com
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KALTBLUT: What materials are Enchanted<br />
Dolls made of? They look very real, how long<br />
does it take to create one?<br />
MARINA: Enchanted Dolls are made of porcelain,<br />
and one can take anywhere from 70 to 600 hours to<br />
create, depending on the calibre of the piece. I make<br />
just one doll at a time, and not more than a couple<br />
of dozen a year, because of the energy they require.<br />
Each one is a story.<br />
KALTBLUT:Many dolls, like Barbie or other<br />
kids dolls are very basic and plastic when it<br />
comes to their bodies. Why did you decide<br />
this should be different with your dolls?<br />
MARINA: The reason I put as much effort into a<br />
beautiful rendering of my doll’s bodies as their faces,<br />
is because my sense of aesthetic demands wholeness.<br />
I want it All, or Nothing!<br />
There is actually a chapter about this in my book as<br />
well. Dolls have an incredible potential for beauty,<br />
because they embody and require several different<br />
mediums within that one discipline, and it pains me<br />
to see it wasted on mediocre dolls that don’t stretch<br />
the limits of one’s imagination. I want my dolls to stir<br />
something in the souls of people. I want them to be<br />
more than just dolls.<br />
KALTBLUT: I think you have a background in<br />
art. Why do you think many people are still<br />
shocked about nudity in contemporary art<br />
when they travel hundreds of kilometres to<br />
admire nude ancient statues?<br />
MARINA: That’s right, I have a Bachelor or Fine Art<br />
degree, from the Emily Carr Institute (presently University)<br />
of Art and Design. I believe the reason nudity<br />
is seen as normal in the format of Classical art and<br />
sculpture, and as something scandalous in contemporary<br />
art, is because we are creatures of conformity<br />
and fads.<br />
The reason we perceive the art of antiquity as valid,<br />
credible and culturally significant work is because it’s<br />
presented to us as such by our establishment, such<br />
as respected museums, prestigious galleries, art<br />
history text books and other media. While contemporary<br />
art doesn’t always have such strong backing<br />
simply because it’s too new and weird and a little<br />
scary to us.<br />
After all, who are we to know what is art and what<br />
isn’t art? That’s for people in the distant past to decide,<br />
right?<br />
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KALTBLUT: All of your dolls are very diverse,<br />
each one is so different and special. How do<br />
you get inspiration for their faces and characters?<br />
MARINA:I don’t know how I get my inspiration, or<br />
where it comes from. Everywhere, I think, but also<br />
from the inside. I can name a few external sources,<br />
such as writer Paul Gallico, and illustrator Sulamith<br />
Wulfing, as well as a handful of other artists and fairy<br />
tales, which have influenced me, but that wouldn’t<br />
even scratch the surface. Every single thing I come<br />
in contact with, such as a fork or a chair, rubs off on<br />
me and plants a seed in my mind, which at some<br />
point down the road will grow and combine with<br />
something else and evolve into an idea for art.<br />
I believe that what we call inspiration, is just an external<br />
stimuli for something that is an internal instinct.<br />
It’s a solution for a mental conflict and a fulfillment of<br />
a subconscious desire, which was already inside of<br />
us, but needed only a little nudge to materialize.<br />
KALTBLUT: Where do you get ideas for their<br />
costumes? Is it designers, movies, paintings,<br />
art periods, different cultures, or?<br />
MARINA: I’m not sure where to begin or end listing<br />
my inspirations. Is a long list of names really that interesting<br />
to read? Yes, it’s all of the above: Designers,<br />
movies, paintings, fairy tales, historical periods,<br />
art movements-All of it!<br />
If I had to name one of each, it would be Philippe<br />
Starck, Erte, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Art Nouveau<br />
era, Dead Ophelia, ancient Oriental culture,<br />
Sulamith Wulfing, Alphonse Mucha, it goes on and<br />
on.<br />
KALTBLUT: How has doll making influenced<br />
your life? What different ways has it opened<br />
for you?<br />
MARINA: Doll-making hasn’t influenced my life, it IS<br />
my life. I started making dolls as a toddler and hasn’t<br />
been able to stop since. I lack the perspective of not<br />
making dolls, to know how it’s influencing me. It is<br />
the central driving force in my life, which has influenced<br />
and formed everything else around it to suit<br />
it best. I wake up thinking about making dolls, and I<br />
go to sleep thinking about it. It makes me happy, because<br />
all day long, I get to do what I love doing most,<br />
go where ever my imagination takes me.<br />
In fact, there is a chapter is my new art book about<br />
this aspect of my life too. If you wish to see more of<br />
my work and learn more about my creative journey,<br />
then perhaps you’ll like my book. It will be available<br />
to order in January 2012 from my webpage.
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“Enchanted Dolls”<br />
www.enchanteddoll.com
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WHY ARE WITCHES<br />
BEING PAINTED NUDE<br />
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Text by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E.K. Jones
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WHY ARE WITCHES<br />
BEING PAINTED NUDE<br />
“<br />
RITUAL NUDITY EXISTS
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It’s impossible that while looking at paintings and illustrations, all<br />
the way through the history of art, You have never noticed that<br />
apart from the ugly hags that are fully cloaked, witches are most<br />
frequently completely nude, Be it hags or nymph like. If this made<br />
you wonder and it should have or not, we will provide you with an<br />
answer on: Why All The <strong>Nude</strong> Witch Paintings Out There?<br />
This explanation is split in two. One is related to<br />
what witches have always stood for and what<br />
nudity symbolizes in the pagan versus Christian<br />
battle and the other’s got to do with being<br />
an artist during times of censorship extremes.<br />
First of all we shall examine nudity in the pagan<br />
world, in the Old Religions. Going back to the<br />
Greeks and Romans nudity is respectable and<br />
as well as rituals and witchcraft was not something<br />
unnatural. On the contrary. <strong>Nude</strong> is related<br />
to gods, to worshipping nature, to freedom,<br />
to simplicity and honesty. A beautiful human<br />
body was strongly connected to philosophy<br />
and a well grounded education and knowledge<br />
and enabled people to form more sincere<br />
bonds and understanding. Same principles apply<br />
to Celtic religions, and any other form of<br />
feeling part of nature and worshiping this very<br />
union. Human body equals nature equals godly<br />
creation equals all good.<br />
And this is where Christian ethics set in to say<br />
otherwise. Excluding very early Christianity<br />
Calvin’s and Luther’s puritan preaching made<br />
sure the belief that the human body is wicked,<br />
dirty, representing sin and weakness because<br />
of its relation to nature, corrupted and impure<br />
got widespread in Europe and later on in America<br />
as well. Anybody suggesting otherwise was<br />
sure to burn at the stake.<br />
At the same time a strange devil-fear that could<br />
almost be described as a lust over hell and demons,<br />
with lucid descriptions of the devil and<br />
the devil’s follower’s rituals, reigned to arouse<br />
horror in the plenty imaginative yet uneducated<br />
folk. It was too hard to rip the pagan out of the<br />
Christian, so creatures like mermaids, nixes,<br />
nymphs, witches, goblins were allowed to exist<br />
in folklore but got transformed into malignant<br />
wrongdoers in league with Satan to try and deceive<br />
the good honest Christian man.<br />
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Ok, we are still not there. Why are witches<br />
depicted so frequently and so undressed? Is<br />
there actually any truth in the nakedness of<br />
the witch? There obviously is. Ritual nudity<br />
exists and has always existed. For all reasons<br />
mentioned above nudity among members of a<br />
coven has been viewed as essential. There is<br />
truth to that, but it still doesn’t explain the nude<br />
witch scattered all over the place.<br />
Bearing in mind the new standards, which read<br />
nudity equals evil, and the fact that everything<br />
nude and accessible is being covered and destroyed<br />
even if it’s masterpieces by Michelangelo<br />
or Botticelli depicting saints or biblical<br />
figures, there must be symbolism to the witch.<br />
The witch becomes the personification of evil.<br />
The witch is a woman who challenges man by<br />
not abiding to the rules of society. She is an individual<br />
who doesn’t want to conform and get<br />
married, be humble, be sane n all that. In not<br />
condemning her human nature and accepting<br />
the naked truth she defies<br />
God and swims in immorality and sin as often<br />
depicted in frantic dance or as temptresses<br />
mingling with the description of mermaids and<br />
wood creatures
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In a somber prude world where piano legs are<br />
covered considering it insulting to expose any<br />
form of “legs”, witches are conscious natural<br />
creatures who want to celebrate their existence,<br />
because according to the old world the<br />
only power is found inside one’s own body.<br />
Witches are painted nude because witches<br />
pose a threat to social order, and nude is stigmatized<br />
as threatening and fearsome. We can<br />
see one other quality of the nude and of witches<br />
in Albrecht Durer’s famous witch painting,<br />
nude makes everyone equal, all social classes<br />
are stripped of status and qualities and since<br />
witches are actually in favour of nudism in<br />
some ceremonies they want to disobey the order<br />
and abolish the law. Witches are depicted<br />
naked and wild, dancing, debauched, frantic,<br />
often implying the use of illegal substances,<br />
classless, enchanting and enticing, tempting<br />
man to yield into the kingdom of hedonism and<br />
sin disregarding any authorities with the fatal<br />
results ubiquitous religion oppressors never<br />
stopped preaching about.<br />
Then, another obvious reason why witches are<br />
painted nude throughout history is the perfect<br />
excuse they offer an artist to avoid being censored.<br />
Ok so the painting might be nude but it’s<br />
only because it is depicting these devilish creatures<br />
to be looked upon with fear and disgust.<br />
It is natural for an artist to be interested in the<br />
human body, since it’s been that way since antiquity,<br />
and much as a multitude of clothes and<br />
fabrics might offer an extensive playground,<br />
nothing can compare to the motion of free bodies<br />
and the tones of bare skin that had been so<br />
stupidly forbidden.<br />
Thanks to witches and their immoral ways<br />
painters could express themselves freely. Under<br />
the pretence of depicting pure evil, an artist,<br />
who has to be rebellious by nature and definition,<br />
can study the human body and also do<br />
their bit of anarchy statement in offering some<br />
of their finest works when working with these<br />
damn witches. Becoming secretly part of this<br />
decadent mystic tradition it makes perfect<br />
sense why they would choose to depict these<br />
mad fiendish women rather than the slightly<br />
boring, puritan, strict woman buried under her<br />
multitude of clothes and virtues.<br />
So next time you look at these nude witches,<br />
give them one more moment of thought. Do<br />
they not seem tempting enough? Is their dance<br />
not a secret ceremony vaguely familiar to you?<br />
When looking closer, are they not a bunch of<br />
little Venuses and wood nymphs, little goddesses<br />
of nature and of the past who have<br />
very subtly managed to sneak into our modern<br />
world through thousands of years of merciless<br />
hunts?
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Necklaces by Frederica Prock www.fove.me<br />
Production: Frederica Prock<br />
Photographer: Marc Fischer<br />
Model: Leonie B. @Eastwestmodels
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Interview by Nicolas Simoneau<br />
I am one lucky guy, check this out : I went to Bucharest<br />
on a 3-day trip with HONK!’s “Artist Of The Year 2011”<br />
winner Aminus aka Valentin Plessy.<br />
We left Berlin thursday night at 8 pm and boarded a flight<br />
to Cologne. Two hours later we were in Bucharest. We<br />
barely had time to get off the plane and claim our<br />
luggages, someone was waiting to pick us up. Quick stop at<br />
the hotel to leave our stuff, and first tour of the city.<br />
Bucharest is really beautiful, i mean of course “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and as<br />
such it is a completely subjective experience. Coming from Berlin, a lot of the buildings we<br />
saw looked familiar. You can totally feel that the old communist regime is still very present<br />
in the architecture. You’ll see a lot of old buildings that are in pretty bad shape and need to<br />
be renovated, and here and there you’ll catch a glimpse of beautiful little houses in the city<br />
center. You may also be surprised by the number of stray dogs wandering the streets of<br />
the city. There are so many of them, it’s almost surreal. As you can imagine, they all look<br />
perfectly healthy and beautiful. After a really big and tasty lunch, we make a quick stop<br />
back at the hotel where we have to take the equipment we will need for the concert, and<br />
then we go straight to the club to perform the soundcheck. Once we’re done with that, we<br />
just sit and drink at the bar waiting for the show to start.<br />
It’s finally time for Aminus to go on stage, he’s a bit stressed out, doing a lot of vocal warm<br />
up exercises, and checking how many people are in the crowd. The show starts. The crowd<br />
is a bit shy, but after the first song, everybody is totally into it. People are dancing and<br />
singing along.<br />
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KALTBLUT: We got back from Bucharest yesterday,<br />
where you did a concert and a Dj set, how<br />
was that?<br />
AMINUS: Everything went perfect, we did have a warm<br />
welcome, people were really receptive to the show. It was a<br />
nearly perfect concert.<br />
KALTBLUT: By the way, you remember after the<br />
show when I had to go back to the hotel alone,<br />
what happened with this guy you were with?<br />
AMINUS: Joker! (totally blushing)<br />
KALTBLUT: Speaking of which, is it something<br />
that happens a lot after a show, you taking some<br />
guy home?<br />
AMINUS: Not at all. I’m more of the romantic type<br />
actually.<br />
KALTBLUT: How involved are you with your<br />
music?<br />
AMINUS: I make all the music and write my own lyrics.<br />
I try to do my best as far as the production process is<br />
concerned. One thing I have to do so far is to find a way to<br />
incorporate instruments on stage.<br />
That is definitely something that i would like to try and develop.<br />
I’m a drummer in the first place. Actually I’m about<br />
to go on tour and play drums with the band and dear friends<br />
from KOOL THING. www.koolthingmusic.com<br />
The concert is magical, Aminus and his mysterious band (two people<br />
dressed in black, moving like robots) are on stage. The light show<br />
is very nice, with some projection going on. Despite a few technical<br />
problems, Aminus keeps his cool. After the 35-minute show, the<br />
crowd is asking for more, so we get to have one rappel. The show is<br />
finally over, Valentin is now enjoying the party. We drink a lot, dance<br />
a bit, almost laughing ourselves to death. We’re having a good time.<br />
At some point i am going back alone to the hotel, yes alone, because<br />
Aminus is having a conversation with a guy, and clearly trying<br />
to tell me that he won’t come back with me tonight. He’s such abitch!<br />
Friday morning : Rendezvous at 1 pm in front of the hotel with Aminus<br />
and our two lovely guides. Schedule of the day: visiting The<br />
Modern Art Museum, grabbing a bite at the ZEXE (best restaurant<br />
ever) and chilling in the city. It’s already 10 pm and we have to get<br />
ready to go to the Control Club, where Aminus is Dj-ing all night. I<br />
drink way too much, and i find myself throwing my guts up at 2 am<br />
in the hotel room, leaving Aminus with a crazy crowd dancing and<br />
screaming at the bar. He’s finally back at the hotel around 9 am,<br />
drunk as a skunk but happy like a fool. We get two hours of sleep and<br />
already we have to pack our bags. We drink one last coffee and catch<br />
a cab to the airport. Because of the snow we almost miss our connection<br />
to Germany, but everything ends well, and we are finally back<br />
in Berlin at 7 pm, tired as hell. After a good night sleep, I am meeting<br />
with Aminus again on Sunday at .HBC, where we eat a delicious<br />
King’s cake... perfect setting for a one-on-one interview.<br />
KALTBLUT: Indeed! You’re a very busy man and<br />
have been (and still are) involved in several music<br />
projects over the years, can u tell us a little more?<br />
AMINUS: The first one, with which i got seriously involved<br />
was PLATEAU REPAS with Fleur and Marianne.<br />
www.myspace.com/plateaurepas - Right now they have a<br />
new project too, called MILLE. I’ve been creating as aMinus<br />
for a longer time though but started to make it visible<br />
not so long ago. And now i am playing drums for KOOL<br />
THING. We’re going on tour in Australia in February along<br />
with the band AUSTRA which we’ll be opening for (February<br />
the 2nd at Northcote Social Club, Melbourne and February<br />
the 9th at The Basement, Sydney).<br />
KALTBLUT: And for the KOOL THING, are you<br />
just playing the drums, or are you also taking part<br />
in other aspects of the project, like composing...?<br />
AMINUS: No, i am just the drummer. Like any drummer,<br />
I’m here to bring the drum parts to Jules and Jane’s live<br />
acts, making them a bit more dynamic.<br />
KALTBLUT: With all these different projects,<br />
sometimes don’t you wish you could just focus on<br />
one thing at a time?<br />
AMINUS: That’s a good point. My “real” baby is Aminus,<br />
and i sure would like to get more time to work on it .<br />
That is a real challenge right now! I guess I just need to<br />
learn to organize myself more!
aMinus<br />
ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2011<br />
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KALTBLUT: I heard you’re going to release a single<br />
soon, what can you tell us?<br />
AMINUS: Nothing new, really, we’re gonna release “My<br />
minds away” as a single but with 3 new remixes, one from<br />
KOOL THING, one from Stereon and one from Snaxx. They<br />
‘re all Berlin friends and really talented. It should be out<br />
real soon now. But it is more like a present for people to<br />
wait as I am now working on new material for an upcoming<br />
album this year.<br />
But it is more like a gift to keep my fans busy until I release<br />
my new material.<br />
KALTBLUT: A second album for this year?<br />
AMINUS: Yes !!!<br />
KALTBLUT: OMG! total KALTBLUT exclusive!<br />
Aminus will release his second album this<br />
year! Of course we will keep you posted. Simple<br />
question how did you get into music?<br />
AMINUS: My father is a guitar player and a singer who<br />
used to play in a quite popular band for children back in the<br />
80s and early 90s, and later on he formed a brazilian music<br />
band. So we (my brother and I) grew up surrounded by<br />
music and my parents encouraged us to play instruments.<br />
When I was a child I started to take violin lessons as I was a<br />
huge fan of Rondo Veneziano but my violinist career failed<br />
as I understood that the strength of Rondo Veneziano came<br />
from the drums. I dumped the violin and started to play<br />
drums.(Laughs) I know it doesn’t make much sense, but<br />
that’s how it all went. Back in high school, we formed a<br />
rock band with Fleur (from Plateau Repas) until I discovered<br />
music assisted by computer at the music school of my<br />
hometown, I discovered that electronic music was possible.<br />
From that moment on i started experimenting and playing<br />
around with the computer and synthesizers and I ended up<br />
creating what became aMinus.<br />
KALTBLUT: So as you said earlier, you are also<br />
writing your own lyrics?<br />
AMINUS: Yes. I do.<br />
KALTBLUT: Where do you get your inspiration<br />
from? Is it only from personal experiences and<br />
things that affect you personally, or do you also<br />
draw your inspiration from others...?<br />
AMINUS: It’s always a bit about my life, a bit about my<br />
friends, and also about stories that I heard. The inspiration<br />
comes from what’s around. There is always something<br />
intimate, something between 2 people in my songs, but it<br />
doesn”t mean that I am always one of them.<br />
KALTBLUT: There is one question that we are all<br />
burning to ask you. The first single on the album<br />
was called Billy, but who is Billy?<br />
AMINUS: Ahah! Billy is a bit of myself, and a bit of someone<br />
else but I won’t give any names.<br />
KALTBLUT: Alright, fair enough. So you’ve been<br />
living in Berlin for 5 years now.<br />
What brought you here in the first place?<br />
AMINUS: I needed time to create for all my different projects.<br />
In Paris, life is expensive, you have to work a lot to<br />
survive and you do not have a lot of free time.<br />
In Berlin life is a cheaper, and when we arrived in Berlin<br />
with Plateau Repas, we realized that we would survive easily<br />
working less and concentrating more on what’s the most<br />
important: our music. There were so many artists around!<br />
It was so stimulating and inspiring artistically.<br />
KALTBLUT: Ok and so now after 5 years, did you<br />
go where you wanted to? Are you happy with what<br />
you’ve done so far?<br />
AMINUS: Yes, for sure.<br />
KALTBLUT: Do you see yourself staying here<br />
longer?<br />
AMINUS: Of course. the positive thing about Berlin is that<br />
the city is like a springboard, not a place where you are<br />
gonna make tons of money, but rather the perfect place to<br />
do your thing and take your time, which is great. Living in<br />
Berlin is a good thing for me. So yeah, definitely!<br />
KALTBLUT: In addition to all your music projects<br />
you’re also Co-owner with Jon-Jon of AKA<br />
http://akaberlin.com/ , a tattoo parlor and gallery.<br />
AMINUS: Yes, we created an Art space and a Tattoo Parlor.<br />
We’re working a lot with friends, as far as the gallery is<br />
concerned but also with artists we fall in love with, and to<br />
whom we offer our space. It’s meant to be a workshop as<br />
well, so these artists are welcome to create here, prepare<br />
their installations, performances and such....<br />
We are also working with tattoo artists from all over europe.<br />
The idea was to create an hybrid place, where we would<br />
have the time and space to work on our artistic projects,<br />
as we would bring a certain idea of tattooing that is dear to<br />
us, knowing that tattoo is something strong culturally and<br />
especially in Berlin.<br />
KALTBLUT: Speaking of tattoos, i saw you<br />
took up tattooing.<br />
AMINUS: Yes, I am learning but I am still a beginner. I<br />
like it though!<br />
KALTBLUT: Is it something that you would like<br />
to pursue?<br />
AMINUS: Well once again, I need more time!<br />
Right now i do not have much of it, but it is definitely something<br />
i would like to work on in the future.
KALTBLUT: Ok let’s go back to Aminus. It’ s been<br />
about three years now since your first concert<br />
as Aminus. Since your concert in Berhgain you<br />
started to have a new kind of atmosphere on stage.<br />
It’s something quite minimalist : you have these<br />
people (one or two) wearing masks and doing the<br />
light show. And for the first time in Bucharest you<br />
used some projection. Is it something that’s going<br />
to be part of your show now?<br />
AMINUS: Yes. I really want to create an atmosphere on<br />
stage. It will grow for sure with more light and video shows.<br />
One of the performers wants to create a synthesizer which<br />
plays lights and no music. I have also worked with Nicolas<br />
Pyjualon who has been thinking of more performance related<br />
things to do on stage.<br />
Maybe one day I will have an entire army of performers! As<br />
far as I’m concerned, I want to focus on my voice and on the<br />
music. I might not have enough self confidence to fill the<br />
stage on my own and i don’t feel like i can play an instrument<br />
on stage right now either so I want to create something<br />
really visual, something where I won’t risk putting the<br />
vocal part in danger. Like choreographies...<br />
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AMINUS: Well, never say never. But for now I don’t feel<br />
like Madonna enough to sing perfectly and jump around!<br />
The fact that there is no instrument on stage is already<br />
something that people can easily attack. I don’t really care,<br />
lots of artists use backing tracks. But it is still a reason why<br />
I only want the live aspect, my voice, to be good and the visual<br />
side to be strong and reflecting the moods of my songs.<br />
Album: Almost And Maybe<br />
Released: 05. Nov 2010<br />
Genre: Pop, Synth Pop<br />
Video: Billy<br />
www.youtu.be/nK3x9LOeK2A<br />
Label: Zingy Records<br />
Based: Berlin / Germany<br />
www.myspace.com/heyminus
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Marilyn<br />
Monroe<br />
More than a Beautiful Child.<br />
Text by Claudio Alvargonzalez Tera<br />
Photos by Bern Stern<br />
All Copyrights @Universial Pictures<br />
A few weeks ago in one of my common sleepless<br />
nights I was watching for the fifth or sixth time<br />
“The Prince and the Showgirl” (Laurence Olivier,<br />
1957) and I couldn’t stop thinking what a great actress<br />
Marilyn Monroe was. She was funny, intelligent,<br />
quick and stealing every scene with her own<br />
presence. I had a drama teacher who always told<br />
me: “Man, everyone can do drama, the easiest thing<br />
in cinema is to cry. But comedy that’s a different<br />
matter. Only the most gifted ones have that<br />
ability”.<br />
And in fact I believe those words are true.<br />
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She was really talented and I think she knew it. That<br />
was partly the reason of her sadness. She had to<br />
probe she was an actress, not just a silly good looking<br />
blonde. I found some pictures of her in class at<br />
the Actor’s Studio in New York City. She wasn’t sitting<br />
in the front row like the star she was. She was<br />
in the last one with no makeup and smoking a cigarette,<br />
just listening of what Lee Strasberg had to say.<br />
She wanted to learn.<br />
There’s a story (can’t say if it’s true) about her presence<br />
there. It is said that the rest of the students resented<br />
Marilyn, basically ignoring her, and felt she<br />
didn’t belong with them, as they were serious actors,<br />
and she was just a Hollywood star. However, when<br />
she took to the stage herself, something happened.<br />
Something that just never happened at the Actor’s<br />
Studio before.<br />
The students applauded. When Marilyn died in 1962<br />
Lee Strasberg said that he was sure she could have<br />
been one of the great actors of the stage.<br />
SHE WAS ALSO A REBEL<br />
She started and ended her career being naked in<br />
front of a camera. During the Pin Ups era in the late<br />
1940s she became one of them. For some actresses<br />
that was the first step. We all remember that famous<br />
“Playboy” cover in December 1953.<br />
But the truth is that those pictures were taken in<br />
May 1949 when she was a no one and after becoming<br />
a successful young star with Twentieth Century Fox<br />
those pictures were published. It was a big scandal.<br />
Except for her. Marilyn admitted she freely posed for<br />
the photos. She liked her body, she liked her sexuality<br />
and there was nothing to be ashamed of. That was<br />
Marilyn Monroe.<br />
In June 1962, one month and 2 weeks before her<br />
death, Marilyn started a three-day photo session for<br />
“Vogue” with photographer Bern Stern at the Bel-<br />
Air Hotel in Los Angeles. More than twenty-six hundred<br />
pictures were taken. Half of them naked ones.<br />
She was just 36 years old but she looked more than<br />
40. She looked stunning but sad. She was lost. In fact<br />
she was already “dead”. Those photos were like a final<br />
statement of Norma Jean (Marilyn’s real name).
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“An unusual woman”<br />
Ella Fitzgerald<br />
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She wanted to look exactly the way she always felt. Alone and naked. Her<br />
face and body showed the scars of a life time. Even a physical one of a past<br />
surgery operation nobody knew about. The world wanted to see the real<br />
Marilyn and that what she showed. She couldn’t care less. In August 1962<br />
Marilyn was found dead at her home.<br />
The cause of death:<br />
An overdose of barbiturates. Probably suicide. But I’m not too sure about<br />
that. I think of it more as an accident. A loss of control. She never controlled<br />
her own life so I think she couldn’t control her own death.<br />
There are still many things we don’t know about her. But under that myth<br />
of a blond star there was an intelligent woman. A political activist.<br />
She openly associated with Americans who were identified by the FBI<br />
as communists. She supported “Pace Action”, a movement for a sane<br />
Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. She also identified<br />
strongly with the workers. And she was passionate about equal rights,<br />
rights for blacks or rights for homosexuals.<br />
She was friends of Ella Fitzgerald and Truman Capote.<br />
She helped them.
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“Finest creature over the planet”<br />
Arthur Miller<br />
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There are many things said about her. Miss Ella<br />
Fitzgerald saw her as an “unusual woman”, a little<br />
ahead of her times although she didn’t know it. Capote<br />
described her as a “Beautiful Child”. In fact, the<br />
title of this article is taken from an essay called the<br />
same way that Truman Capote wrote about her in<br />
1955.<br />
But if I had to choose one of those things, I would go<br />
for what Marilyn’s third husband and one of the most<br />
talented writers of all time, Arthur Miller, said. He<br />
described her as the “finest creature over the planet”,<br />
but also the “saddest”. When Marilyn died one<br />
year after their divorce Miller literally said: “Marilyn<br />
blanked out the sun, and she still does”.<br />
Marilyn was probably the most celebrated actresses.<br />
She worked with Clark Gable, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon,<br />
Otto Preminger, George Cukor but she never<br />
won an Oscar, not even a nomination. She won a<br />
BAFTA award and a Golden Globe for “Some Like<br />
It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959), one of her best movies.<br />
People loved her but I’m sure she wanted recognition<br />
from the Academy. She deserved it. But she wasn’t<br />
Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis or Ingrid Bergman.
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But there is something they never had.<br />
They werent:<br />
Marilyn Monroe<br />
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CORPUS<br />
Photography by Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert<br />
Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones
SERIES<br />
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Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert is a most fascinating experimental artist creating astonishing pictures<br />
by using most of the times nothing but a disposable camera. Or even photo booths.<br />
He has an astonishing understanding of human nature and a profound love for human necks.<br />
www.josephwolfgang.ohlert.de<br />
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KALTBLUT: So, to begin with, you shoot both analog<br />
and digital, which one do you prefer and why?<br />
JOSEPH: Actually I don’t really photograph digitally.<br />
I tried it several times but I’m lacking the needed<br />
technical skills as well as the leisure to grapple with<br />
it. This also applies to analog photography, therefore<br />
I mostly work with disposable cameras. But coming<br />
back to the question I do prefer analog because I<br />
don’t have to change as much to make it look the<br />
way I want it. I find digital photography to be much<br />
too raw and cold and I always feel like I’m cheating<br />
when I retouch and rework pictures. But this is a<br />
very personal attitude towards digital photography, I<br />
know a lot of very talented photographers who alter<br />
their pictures digitally and create impressive imageries<br />
which I can never achieve with my way of photographing.<br />
I also would like to add that I don’t see myself as a<br />
photographer. I rather try to play with the definitions<br />
for photographer, artist and (art) producer.<br />
KALTBLUT: We are featuring “Corpus Series” on this<br />
issue. How did it come to this project? How did you<br />
begin shooting nudes?<br />
JOSEPH: I wanted to photograph a plain series of<br />
bodies that should not be understood as portraits but<br />
rather as a mere baseline study of the human body.<br />
I wanted pure surface that depicts simply the design<br />
of the body. Therefore I used a disposable camera.<br />
This series is about creating an art object, turning a<br />
person into an object, a decorative ornament.<br />
The “Corpus” series is also connected to my “photographed<br />
by” series, in which I get photographed by<br />
different public figures from the realms of fashion,<br />
music, literature, art, film, entertainment etc. Whereas<br />
I objectified my models in the “Corpus” series I<br />
am the one now who gets objectified. It is again a<br />
play on the relation between artist and art object. It<br />
is my intention to blend those two angles. I started<br />
the “Corpus” series simultaneously to the “photographed<br />
by” project.<br />
However with my first exhibition in Berlin last summer<br />
I completed the “Corpus” series. I still work on<br />
the “photographed by” series but I also and foremost<br />
concentrate on new projects.
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KALTBLUT: Would you say there is something you<br />
prefer to shoot in a naked body,<br />
perhaps better than a dressed person?<br />
JOSEPH: I always try to photograph the body in a<br />
very neutral way. Although I stage my photos as<br />
well, I prefer a very plain and modest depiction of the<br />
body. I consider clothing to be just a distraction from<br />
the “design” of the human body and I also think that<br />
the way a person dresses reveals too much of their<br />
personality which is not helpful for my projects.<br />
KALTBLUT: Who are your models for Corpus Series?<br />
Is it people you know? Do you just ask people to<br />
bare for you? How does it work?<br />
JOSEPH: 90% of my models for the “Corpus” series<br />
I have casted on facebook. Male as well as female.<br />
I just go online and look around for different people<br />
and if I find someone I find interesting I just contact<br />
them asking if I can photograph them.<br />
For the “Corpus” series I also just got into the car<br />
and drove through different cities to find some models.<br />
A lot of the boys in the series are from Barcelona<br />
or Paris. The girls are mostly from Berlin or Munich.<br />
Most of the models I did not really know before but<br />
now I’m still in contact with a few of them. So if the<br />
models were ok with being photographed we met<br />
spontaneously and did the shoot. The location was<br />
secondary for this project but I think it’s still fascinating<br />
how different the motives turned out to be.<br />
The shoots were mostly done in 5 minutes, it was<br />
basically just like a mug shot... from every side. For<br />
each model I roughly took 10 - 15 photos.<br />
KALTBLUT: How different is it to you as<br />
inspiration to shoot indoors or outdoors?<br />
JOSEPH: It depends on the situation, the idea, as<br />
well as the model.<br />
Right now I photograph a lot of my models completely<br />
naked so I have to find a space were we are<br />
not disturbed by onlookers. So most of my outdoor<br />
shooting for which I asked the models to bare it all<br />
take place at night.
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KALTBLUT: You shoot portraits, but also self portraits.<br />
How different is one from the other and what do<br />
you want to focus on each time?<br />
JOSEPH: I have two different sorts of selfportraits.<br />
The series “daily muc/sha/bln” consists of photos I<br />
had taken in photo booths I came across in Munich,<br />
Schwäbisch Hall and Berlin. Per city I did circa 30<br />
selfportraits. All of those photos were made around<br />
2010/2011. At first it started out as a joke but then<br />
it evolved and I had a new photo like every second<br />
day. Most of them are staged, also those ones were<br />
I appear to be rather expressionless. I liked the idea<br />
that every selfportrait is per definition staged. This<br />
act of profiling helped me to sharpen my understanding<br />
of my own surface.<br />
The second series, just called “selfportrait,” evolved<br />
for practical reasons. When working with disposable<br />
cameras you can’t always tell how many photos you<br />
still have left, therefore I use the last few shots to<br />
make photos of myself and that’s how this collection<br />
got into existence. I like how those seemingly not<br />
connected pictures all share the same expression.<br />
KALTBLUT: Another impressive series of yours is Situations.<br />
It’s probably real life situations. How is it shooting<br />
completely unplanned as opposed to somewhat<br />
planned series like Corpus Series? What does it require?<br />
JOSEPH: I took my first planned “artistic” photos<br />
when I was 17 with the camera of my grandfather.<br />
I trained myself to secretly photograph people on the<br />
streets. Some of these photos were made in Barcelona,<br />
London, Paris and Salzburg. I was interested<br />
in how I could capture different situation without influencing<br />
the events. It is also of interest to me how<br />
you have to perceive these situations, how I as the<br />
photographer have to decide if I pull the trigger right<br />
now or if I just let the moment pass by.<br />
There is a certain responsibility in this moment affecting<br />
me as well as my surrounding which I have a<br />
lot of respect for. It is so much more thrilling than any<br />
shoot I could plan. But even when I stage my shootings<br />
I like to be very spontaneous. I have a certain<br />
motive in my mind I want to create and when I got<br />
that photo I still go on and experiment a little. Those<br />
photos that are created this way are often a lot better<br />
and intense.<br />
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KALTBLUT: In a person, what would you say is the<br />
favourite body part, what part in people do you<br />
find to be most photogenic and why?<br />
JOSEPH: I love necks. When I photograph I prefer to<br />
put the focus on the face. I like to shoot the people<br />
from the side and not from a frontal point of view.<br />
Looking at the photos from the “Corpus” series<br />
I picked for this edition you can see that a lot of<br />
the models are standing in an awry angle but with<br />
their face turned towards me. Somehow I find that<br />
the physicality of their bodies comes across much<br />
stronger.... Or maybe it is because you get a better<br />
view on the neck.<br />
Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert<br />
www.josephwolfgang.ohlert.de
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Clothes make the man.<br />
2012 is a great year for<br />
fashion victims. Many marvelous<br />
collections are waiting to be worn.<br />
Here are four designs in which we<br />
would like to see you.<br />
Selected by Marcel Schlutt<br />
RICK OWENS
ANN DEMEUELEMESSTER<br />
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WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA ARTISANAL<br />
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DEAR BAD BED BUG<br />
Amanda M. Jansson & Emma E.K..Jones
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YOU fucking<br />
A lot of things can happen in a ye
ASSHOLE<br />
ar and screw me sideways they have.<br />
Text and artwork by Drew Eastman<br />
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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<br />
that white line in front of me, my iPhone was ringing just as it all hit my face. It was my dear<br />
dear old friend Marcel calling me in an hour of need. But all I wanted was a good fuck now<br />
that I was high as a kite, he needed me to start working on a piece for this new magazine<br />
he was gonna launch.<br />
All I could say was :”Fuck you, when do you need it by?” and he was like “Yesterday.”<br />
So off my twat I was heading home to my iPad<br />
forming the first few letters into an article, I said<br />
to myself that should I feel like I was gonna fall<br />
asleep I could quickly do another white one on<br />
the iPad display. Blessed Steve Jobs probably<br />
would have me overdose doing it on his beloved<br />
gadget, but they did they it was great for consuming,<br />
wink.<br />
Instead I was actually dropping of into some<br />
dream-state .. Glorious!<br />
I was at a fashion shoot in Afghanistan doing a<br />
spread for a Fashion against War thing called<br />
Red Dress.. here I was drinking ice cold Martinis<br />
with Kate Moss and NaomI and I think I saw that<br />
Lena from Germanys Next Top Model was there<br />
as well.<br />
What a hoot, I was getting more and more<br />
pissed and wondering what the fuck am I doing<br />
here ?<br />
In fact I was the Art Director at the shoot but I<br />
was directing shit, falling into a bunch of loaded<br />
Guns at one point and nearly killing of our Photographer.<br />
As I was looking at myself from above<br />
I could see the desert sands opening up and two<br />
pairs of hands coming out of the sand next to<br />
me, there was a faint smell of burning metal in<br />
the air and the hands opened up with rainbow<br />
like snakes out of a glowing steam crawling up<br />
my legs and up in the air.<br />
I was trying to call one of the assistants of the<br />
shoot but all I could see was Kate and NaomI<br />
dancing in front of me in red flowing dresses with<br />
Machine Guns in their hands pointing them into<br />
the sky, they where twirling, faster and faster and<br />
getting closer so that the fabric of their dresses<br />
was forming some kind of curtain around me.<br />
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I couldn’t see nothing anymore, everything was<br />
red like blood and then the hands where crawling<br />
up my legs and i could make out what they<br />
where.<br />
They where men with Dog faces ..<br />
Man I was tripping and tweaking like I was on<br />
LSD or something!<br />
The Dogfaced guys opened up the red curtain<br />
like in a theatre and there was someone familiar<br />
standing at a mountains cliff, I could only<br />
make him out vaguely so I was drawn to go<br />
closer, next to me out of the sand more hands<br />
where crawling and behind that huuuuge missiles<br />
shooting into the sky. It felt like some<br />
dictators celebration of the end of something<br />
big and the beginning of something new and a<br />
feeling of sadness and joy was creeping inside<br />
of me, it was overpowering the closer I got.<br />
Just a few more steps and I would be able to<br />
make him out and the air was filled with exploding<br />
missiles then I could hear the Dogfaced<br />
men whisper “Push” as I was getting closer and<br />
closer to him, then it hit me like a ton of bricks.<br />
This is my MAN and the second a realised it<br />
he turned around and there were no more missiles<br />
being shot into the sky and the whispering<br />
chant stopped, ‘What are you doing here?’<br />
I heard myself asking him.<br />
Jeez, this shit was getting stranger by the<br />
second I was trippin this dream.<br />
I am here so you can kill me - he said, but how<br />
could I do that, I love him so much!<br />
Then the whispers began again “PUSH” they<br />
where chanting and the Dogfaced men were<br />
coming up close behind really cornering me so<br />
I had to step forward more and more getting<br />
close to my man!
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Stranger was the feeling I was getting in my<br />
arms, because they started to reach out to him<br />
“PUSH” I kept hearing as I was getting so close<br />
I could smell him and my eyes where deeply<br />
locked with his.<br />
Like perfume it was numbing my senses and I<br />
embraced him with my cheek next to his and<br />
my heart beating so fast I was feeling it in my<br />
ears “PUSH” he whispered “You know it is<br />
what you have to do, push me my love, you<br />
will be free”.<br />
I heard myself saying ‘I love you so much’ and<br />
the millisecond I finished the last word while<br />
placing a kiss on his Forehead my arms firmly<br />
placed on his shoulders and I pushed.<br />
One last smile was catching him as he was<br />
slowly flying off the cliff and with every breath<br />
I took he was drifting off into the deep filled of<br />
clouds of nothing.<br />
There was a silence surrounding me now, the<br />
Dogfaced men where walking backwards away<br />
from me, one by one knocking the missiles to<br />
the side, were they once fired into the red sky<br />
there was now just a whole big nothing filled<br />
with peace.<br />
I took a deep breath and here was that curtain<br />
again closing around me while I could hear a<br />
faint beat in my ears forcing me to move very<br />
slowly.<br />
This was the first time in over a Year that I felt<br />
so at peace that I could move to a slow beat<br />
and let it drift me so much so that I didn’t realise<br />
it was getting all dark around me “I can run,<br />
but I can’t hide away from you” was what I kept<br />
hearing being sung.<br />
A big crash and one of them Dogfaced men<br />
appeared in front of me barking louder and<br />
louder ... I woke up.<br />
I was pulling the snot up my nose, the white<br />
shit was doing my head in at this point, how<br />
long was I sleeping ? Only 2 hours ?<br />
Well that was intense I remember thinking and I<br />
recalled everything I dreamed as vivid as if you<br />
would kick my knee now! I got myself a small<br />
bottle of something fizzy and drowned it in one,<br />
couldn’t help feeling totally whack though not<br />
from what I snorted but from this trip I was just<br />
having.<br />
It kinda made me realise something that was<br />
brewing deep inside of me for a long time<br />
and didnt really want to be a harsh reality.<br />
“Finnish my first article and then finnish the relationship<br />
I was in.”<br />
The article was an easy task I had that sorted<br />
in a couple of hours after a big bad coffee and<br />
a shower, but the bit with my man took me a<br />
lot longer.<br />
There was so much faith in me that this was<br />
worth fighting for, I love him so much and how<br />
would it be without him not being around ?<br />
What followed where a few more month of<br />
something that was equally wild and hard on<br />
me till the day that I pushed him of the cliff.<br />
Don’t get me wrong I do miss him and still think<br />
about him but i’m much better off and there are<br />
so many other things in my live that need the<br />
attention i was giving only him.<br />
So a year later this is NOW and what am i<br />
doing ?<br />
Writing one of my horrid stories. I left one<br />
issue out .. guess why ?<br />
I was busy at the cliff cleaning up my mess<br />
and healling, am still busy with that you fucks<br />
but i am better now and loving the distraction<br />
writing my life away for some crazy fashion<br />
and art magazine.<br />
Well it does fit though, right ? Life is a fashionable<br />
art-form that only we are capable of!
I wonder what kind of verbal diarrhoea i will be writing about in a years time ?<br />
You just gotta sit tight.<br />
I CAN RUN, But i cant Hide away .. from Life and what else is there to come.<br />
I am off to drown myself in a bottle of Red Wine now .. wanna join me ?<br />
XOXO Drew Eastman<br />
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MUSICLADEN<br />
Abum preview by Coco Meurer.<br />
Dress by Nyne<br />
Crown by Stylist’s Studio<br />
Ring Stylist’s Own
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Photography: Mara Sommer - www.marasommer.com<br />
Styling: Cameron Lee Putt - www.cameronleeputt.co.nz<br />
Hair: Cory van Malland @ Servilles - www.servilles.co.nz<br />
Model: Daniela @ Clyne Models - www.clyne.co.nz<br />
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Necklace by D_Luxe<br />
Belt Stylist’s Own
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Dress by Neverblack<br />
Sunglasses by Graz<br />
Rope Belt by Stylist’s Studio
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Underwear by Jimmy D<br />
Crown by Stylist’s Studio<br />
Brooch by D_Luxe<br />
Bracelet Stylist’s Own
Top by Deborah Sweeney, Underwear by Jimmy D, Crown by Stylist’s Studio.<br />
Ring by D_Luxe, Bracelet Stylist’s own<br />
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Necklace by D_Luxe<br />
Sunglasses by Graz<br />
Earrings by Meadowlark
Tee by Vanishing Elephant<br />
Shorts by Maurie & Eve<br />
Underwear by Jimmy D<br />
Ring by D_Luxe<br />
Earrings Stylist’s Own<br />
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Shame On<br />
Everybody knows the story of Adam and Eve, who after tasting<br />
the forbidden fruit (which, by the way, was not an apple but a<br />
fig) were thrown out of the Garden of Eden because they became<br />
aware of their shameful nudity. In return they received<br />
the ability to judge over the good and the bad and a limited life<br />
full of pain, work and shame. This story truly coined my relationship<br />
to my own nudity and sense of shame since I first heard<br />
of it as a young child.<br />
Text by Nina Kharytonova<br />
Translation by Lara Louise Mercier
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I learned three things back then: Don’t ever do anything<br />
God told you not to do, nakedness is something<br />
one – or I – should be ashamed of, and that we’re basically<br />
pretty much fucked being so far away from this<br />
inaccasible paradise, the Garden of Eden. I stopped<br />
thinking about God pretty quickly after that but this<br />
sense of shame and this indisposition with my own naked<br />
body persisted. The overall and permanent, negative<br />
feeling of selfconciousness is our civilization’s<br />
achievement, mankind has not always been so hostile<br />
against human bodies. One could think this disaster<br />
took its course when humans developed from hunters<br />
and gatherers to farmers but history teaches us something<br />
else. But before we get into emotions and feelings,<br />
I’d like to comment on the actual, technical status<br />
of nudity. <strong>Nude</strong> is anybody who’s without clothing,<br />
only ‘dressed’ in one own’s skin. The skin is the largest<br />
and most versatile organ of the human body, it weighs<br />
about 3 kg and is about 2m 2 big. It is waterproof,<br />
temperature regulating, delicate – and beautiful. Shame<br />
about one’s nudity is reserved to humans only by the<br />
way, because animals don’t differentiate between naked<br />
and dressed. Sure, clothing was very useful in the<br />
Stone Age – it prodected us from the rain and cold,<br />
but later on in warmer regions, the behaviour and<br />
dresscode changed.<br />
In ancient Greece, nudity was allowed in public but this<br />
right was reserved to males, and on special occasions<br />
such as sport events only. The place for physical activity<br />
gained its name -“Gymnasium“ from „Gymnasion“<br />
(gymnos=naked). Later, around 720 BC, each<br />
and every discipline in the Olympics were carried out<br />
naked. The Romans didn’t see the connection between<br />
nudity and self-indulgent sexuality either, at least they<br />
didn’t demonize it in public. For them, nudity was a<br />
symbol of ascetic modesty and this is why even the<br />
Olympic Games after the Roman conquest of Greece in<br />
146 BC were still conducted in the nude. Talking about<br />
ascetic modesty, in India the Sadhus (Hindu Ascets)<br />
are naked but stay socially accepted and are held in<br />
great respect amongst the ‘normal’, dressed people.<br />
But then Christianity came and brought to us the story<br />
of Adam and Eve and the sense of shame of one’s own<br />
nudity. The Christians also were the first to bring nudity<br />
into context with sexuality and therefore d monized<br />
it more and more. It was them who dressed up the<br />
Olympic athletes. Women that were spotted naked<br />
were called witches and mostly burned afterwards.<br />
The Christians, our devotional forefathers, even made<br />
it to other continents and fought hard against nudity<br />
there, imposed their dresscode and prescribed everyone<br />
their indispensable sense of shame. They declared<br />
this feeling a virtue and a must for every true and good<br />
Christian.
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„Exquisite, healthy, quite nudity in nature! O, if only the<br />
poor, sick, lustful city slickers could truly get to know<br />
you once more!“<br />
Walt Whitman, Diary, 1877<br />
Advancing technology and, resulting, the growing<br />
civilization did the rest. They spread shame and<br />
refusal of one own’s nudity into the most remote<br />
places on our planet and deep into our hearts.<br />
According to the thesis by German socioligist<br />
Norbert Elias the growing self-control (also called<br />
self-discipline) – the retention of a reaction to<br />
emotional impulses – is the enhancement of the<br />
super-ego and therefore a higher focus on the<br />
centralization inside of a society and not on one’s<br />
own. In accordance with his famous work „About<br />
the process of civilization“ (1939) this longterm<br />
change of personality structures goes along with<br />
the „advancement of shamewaves“, which means<br />
being scared of individual actions which leads to a<br />
more controlled and tabooed sexuality.<br />
He thought that breaking out of this spiral on<br />
short term was not possible, but only long term<br />
actions would help to change our perception.<br />
All in all it is interesting to see how this advancement<br />
of shame boundaries shaped our whole civilization<br />
progress – it enhanced the separation of<br />
genders: to males, this sense of shame became<br />
an expression of our culture, whereas for females,<br />
it works as a symbol of the limits of a sexuality<br />
that ought to be tamed.<br />
This advancement of shame boundaries lead to<br />
the denial and hiding of genitals and the resulting<br />
oppression of our sexuality. Mankind even<br />
learned how to use the sense of shame as a tool<br />
of torture, just think of the recent events of Abu<br />
Ghraib.<br />
Luckily, the history of shame made a progressive<br />
change, at least on first sight. The nudists, emancipation-<br />
and anti-war-movements of the 60s<br />
brought along some kind of sexual revolution and<br />
the liberation from the claws of conventions and<br />
morals and therefore at least partially stopped<br />
the denial of the individual ego. But with the resulting<br />
commercialization of nudity and sexuality<br />
brought another disaster. Our media started to<br />
use the thitherto scorned display of women and<br />
brought along a new sector of commerce and<br />
economy. This permanent exhibition and display<br />
did not bring the sought unification with oneself<br />
and one’s naked body, because now it was not<br />
only important what one was wearing but rather<br />
how one looked like under one’s clothes. A new<br />
ideal of beauty was born that was so disconnected<br />
from the natural, which is now only achievable<br />
with (plastic) surgery.<br />
Interestingly enough we didn’t pounce about eachother<br />
like wild animals, what happened was rather<br />
the opposite of it. Somebody once said to me:<br />
„Our society is so oversexed and so underfucked<br />
at the same time“. I find this expression pretty<br />
accurate when trying to describe the Status Quo<br />
of our modern society.I’m looking at the future in<br />
curious anticipation which progresses and changes<br />
will our sense of shame undergo? Finally I’d like<br />
to add that nobody should be ashamed of their<br />
sense of shame - it is a feeling that is indispensable<br />
for social intergration. Maybe everyone should<br />
just rethink their indivual, inner attitude towars<br />
nudity and one’s body. And as thephrase goes:<br />
We all came to this world naked, and naked we<br />
will leave it.
www.ponponberlin.de<br />
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I´M BRETT<br />
Selfpotraits by Brett Seiler www.brettseiler.tumblr.com<br />
17 YEAR OLD ARTIST. FROM HARARE, ZIMBABWE<br />
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TIM KRUGER<br />
“Porn made things possible for me<br />
”<br />
Tim Kruger is Germany´s gay pornstar number #1. He is not only<br />
gifted with a beautyful face and the ginger hair. No, he is famous for<br />
his big XXL cock and his movies. Yeah Tim is a mans dream.<br />
I know him since I have moved to Berlin 10 years ago.<br />
Interview by Marcel Schlutt<br />
KALTBLUT: Hey Tim. The issue’s theme is:<br />
<strong>Nude</strong> and it seems very appropriate to have<br />
an interview with one of the most famous<br />
pornstars of today.<br />
How did you become a Pornstar? And why?<br />
TIM: I did it just because I was curious and<br />
somewhat fascinated me about porn. All started<br />
when I was working at a gay porn store and<br />
had all these pornvideos, books and posters<br />
around me all day.<br />
I think I watched almost every porn movie<br />
available during that time and after a while I<br />
thought: “ Ok Tim you may not have muscles<br />
like the guys in the movies but at least you´re<br />
cock is bigger than most of the guys cocks so<br />
why not give it a try.”<br />
Said and done, I sent an email to a few US<br />
porn companies and after just a few days almost<br />
all had replied, including Raging Stallion<br />
Studios, one of the biggest US gay porn companies.<br />
They invited me over, and my first pornshoot<br />
was scheduled.<br />
KALTBLUT: You have worked for many studios.<br />
In the USA a lot as well. What are the<br />
differences between European and American<br />
productions?<br />
TIM: Some american porn sets look almost<br />
like they wanna shoot a hollywood movie with<br />
much more equipment and people around you<br />
than the european companies. The shoots are<br />
very long , sometimes you have to work all day<br />
till the scene is done. And work means in my<br />
case having a hard-on for hours and do sex in<br />
positions you´ve probably never read even in<br />
the kamasutra :o)<br />
European porn is in most cases a bit more low<br />
key but I also know some european companies<br />
who need not shy away from comparisons<br />
to american studios.<br />
KALTBLUT: Do you have a favourite film<br />
partner? If so, then who? Why?<br />
TIM: There are just too many sexy and hot<br />
guys out there who I would like to shoot with.<br />
But sexy in my eyes not always mean muscled.<br />
It´s the whole package, attitude, smell,<br />
symphathy that is important to me.<br />
Tim Kruger : www.timtales.com<br />
Tim @Facebook:<br />
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Kruger/102935385134?sk=info<br />
Photos by Jürgen Rokitta
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KALTBLUT: A few years ago you launched<br />
your own label “timtales.com”. How did it<br />
come to this?<br />
What’s the story behind “Timtales”?<br />
TIM: First I put some very short private fucking<br />
vids of me online on some gayeties and I got<br />
so much clicks and attentions from that vids<br />
that I started to dream about my own website.<br />
I wanted to show the people real, non scripted<br />
sex, wanted to show them what´s happening in<br />
my bedroom.<br />
Just the idea of it turned me on so much that I<br />
did everything to made this dream come true.<br />
It was a very long and not always easy way till<br />
Timtales became true but now I ´m very proud<br />
of what i have reached so far.<br />
KALTBLUT: You have gained world fame<br />
and you work for the sex-industry. And we<br />
both know it’s not an easy job. How much<br />
of the real Tim is to be seen in the films? Or<br />
is it always pure horniness that we see? Is<br />
it sometimes acting?<br />
TIM: What you see on Timtales.com is the real<br />
me, I like having sex and like to show that on<br />
my website. We do not have a script or anything<br />
like that. It´s pretty much that what I do<br />
when I meet guys without camera.<br />
Some people want me to be more verbal while<br />
I fuck but that wouldn´t be me and I think you<br />
would feel it if I just pretend something I ´m not<br />
into. And as I am my own boss I can always<br />
rescedule a shoot if I ´m not horny or I don´t<br />
feel well.<br />
KALTBLUT: Do you do Live-Shows also? I<br />
have always had trouble having live sex in<br />
front of people.<br />
TIM: Believe it or not but I ´m a very shy person<br />
so I never did any live shows and I don´t<br />
think I could ever do it.<br />
Having sex and keeping a hard on when hundreds<br />
of people staring at you istn´t that<br />
easy.<br />
If the people wanna see me fuck they can<br />
watch me online or on dvd or when they´re<br />
lucky they will meet me in a dark corner of a<br />
club and can see me having livesex :o<br />
KALTBLUT: Are you single? Or do you have<br />
a boyfriend?<br />
How does he get along with your job?<br />
TIM: Maybe a bit disillusioning for some of my<br />
fans but I have a boyfriend for many years.<br />
First he wash´t that happy with me wanting to<br />
do porn but then he said I should give it a try if<br />
it is something I wanna do. And now he is totally<br />
fine with it and without him Timtales could<br />
not exist because he is supporting me a lot and<br />
he is the one who does much of that work you<br />
don´t see in the my videos like editing all the<br />
stuff etc. But he even appeared in a few videos<br />
on my website too.<br />
KALTBLUT: When you look through pornfilms,<br />
on DVD or online, you can see that<br />
70% is bareback. And the guys having unsafe<br />
sex on camera keep getting younger.<br />
Personally, I don’t think this is a good thing.<br />
What do you think?<br />
TIM: I think barebacksex in general isn´t that<br />
problem but I do have a problem with bareback<br />
movies with mostly very young’s guys who<br />
don´t know what they´re doing or just do it for<br />
the money.<br />
But if two adults, who fuck bareback in their<br />
private life and its their own will to have sex<br />
without condom in front of camera too, its<br />
totally ok for me.<br />
KALTBLUT: I’ve always been annoyed<br />
when I was being reduced to my body and<br />
sex. How do you handle it, when men view<br />
you only as a hot pornstar?<br />
Nothing but that?<br />
TIM: It is what it is, Porn and its totally understandable<br />
that people use you as a projection<br />
screen of what they dream about in their<br />
sexlife and most of the time reduce me to my<br />
cock because it´s only my sexual side that they<br />
see in my videos.<br />
My friends who know me since years and<br />
everyone who is interested in my personality<br />
can discover that I´m not just a soulless body<br />
with a huge cock between my legs.
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KALTBLUT: Have you ever regretted this<br />
step?<br />
TIM: No I did never regret the decision starting<br />
it. Porn made things possible for me I always<br />
dreamed about. I travel a lot , meet a lot of<br />
great guys (sometimes not so great guys too,<br />
that´s normal) , my sexlife is absolutely fulfilled<br />
and I can live from what i do.<br />
KALTBLUT: Does your family know what<br />
you do? If this is the case, how do they deal<br />
with it?<br />
TIM: My family knows what I ´m doing but I´m<br />
pretty sure they´re not interested to see any of<br />
my movies :o)<br />
I showed them some cover, calendar etc and<br />
the´re happy that I can do what I want to do<br />
and that I love my job and even can live from<br />
it.<br />
KALTBLUT: I have always received fun fanmails<br />
and letters. What was your funniest<br />
fan-experience?<br />
TIM: It´s always nice and special when I meet<br />
fans or they send me mails, cute presents or<br />
gifts and i would lie if I said I ´m not liking it.<br />
I love getting feedback from guys and if its positive<br />
feedback I like it even more. I travel a lot<br />
and it´s astonishing to see that almost in every<br />
part of the world there are guys who know you<br />
and who like you.<br />
KALTBLUT: What’s Tim Kruger up to when<br />
not filming? Where are you to be found?<br />
TIM: When I´m not shooting I try to spend as<br />
much time with my friends, not always that<br />
easy because all the stuff we´re shooting has<br />
to be edited and there is so much to organize .<br />
My boyfriend helps me a lot and without him all<br />
that would´t be possible . So in my private<br />
time I have to take care of my boy too and keep<br />
him entertained :o)<br />
Beside that I like to go out to the bars and clubs<br />
of the cities I currently live in or visit and that´s<br />
mostly Berlin right now.<br />
KALTBLUT: What can we expect from you<br />
in 2012? What kind of new projects are you<br />
planning?<br />
TIM: We get a lot of emails and requests about<br />
Timtales Dvd´s and Blu Rays so we decided to<br />
release a few videos in 2012 . There is also a<br />
Tim Kruger Dildo in the works and I just started<br />
Dj-ing a bit. Since quite a few people asked<br />
me if I would do live sex shows or gogo dancing<br />
(which I don´t do), i thought it could be nice<br />
to spin some music in their clubs instead so I<br />
learned to use my DJ equipment. My boyfriend<br />
says it sounds good already.<br />
So, in 2012 there could be DJ Tim Kruger on<br />
some party lineups :o)<br />
www.timtales.com
Photo by Richard Weaver<br />
www.duncanstevens.com<br />
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CEREMONIALS<br />
by Elizaveta Porodina www.porodina.net<br />
Model: Matei @ The Special Model Management<br />
Make up / hair: Valerie Fischer, Michael Salmen @ Artistgroupmierau<br />
“natural” looks :<br />
Make Up Foundation : Perfect Match / Benefit gorgeous<br />
Concealer : Magic Concealer /Helena Rubinstein<br />
Powder: Trasparent Powder / Guerlain<br />
Rouge : Cremeblend Blush,Posey, / Mac<br />
Lips: Clear Lipgloss / Mac
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Glitter and Ice Paint Pot
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www.lukasz-bilinski.blogspot.com<br />
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Lucasz Bilinski is a much celebrated- and<br />
well deserved so- Polish artist. Involved in<br />
several projects, we interviewed him regarding<br />
his amazing paintings. Strikingly unusual<br />
for paintings, since he makes extensive use<br />
of black and white and grey, he manages to<br />
show his perfect technique and skill but at<br />
the same time produce paintings that could<br />
stand against any editorial, any time.<br />
Interview by Amanda M. Jannson
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KALTBLUT: What is it that made you decide<br />
to paint men mostly?<br />
LUKASZ: I am greatly inspired by fashion. I try<br />
to clash the perception of fashion with my inner<br />
self. I often start based on a fashion style photograph<br />
which embraces some kind of poetry like<br />
a pearl of infinite beauty, which waits to be uncovered.<br />
Just like a teenage boy spotted in a crowd. This<br />
boy - this man will stand in the middle of the way<br />
between the picture and myself. This is where<br />
the male portraits came to my mind - as they appear<br />
though a filter of my soul.<br />
KALTBLUT: How do you come up with an<br />
idea for each painting?<br />
LUKASZ: I have always been slightly narcissistic.<br />
I do not feel ashamed about it. The awareness<br />
of this fact makes my life easier and lets me<br />
focus on the things I want to say and achieve. To<br />
make my art less explicit, I become a different<br />
man character in each picture.<br />
I search for a new disguise to express my hidden<br />
emotions, moods - swinging between honesty<br />
and deception.<br />
KALTBLUT: You make excesive use of black<br />
and white and gray in your portraits, often<br />
mixed with a few basic strong colours, How<br />
did you develop this trademark? Why this<br />
choice of colours?<br />
LUKASZ: At some point I gave up on colours.<br />
It happened quite naturally. Black, white, greyness...this<br />
is what my palette comprises of at the<br />
moment. I ocassionaly paint colourful, yet limited<br />
in colours pictures. Greyness is the golden<br />
mean by which I can achieve unique quality of<br />
expression. It has certain elegance, calmness,<br />
balance and indefinity, which enrich a portrait.<br />
I cannot say for sure if these techniques will<br />
evolve with more experience. It is all a matter<br />
of the concept for my art. <strong>Us</strong>ing this palette is a<br />
pretext to realise something that lies beneath. It<br />
is a minimalistic system that consists of smaller<br />
means which form a full size image<br />
KALTBLUT: Do you think that nudity is<br />
becoming acceptable or not yet?<br />
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LUKASZ: There are two aspects of nudity.<br />
The first one leads to simple thinking - the<br />
more you expose the more sexually attractive<br />
you are. The other - the more you conceal<br />
the more space for imagination you create...I<br />
mean the imagination of your true sexuality.<br />
The second, theatrical approach is more appealing<br />
to me and I am trying to capture it in<br />
my works.<br />
KALTBLUT: On which occasions would<br />
you say you feel “nude”?<br />
LUKASZ: Looking back, nudity has not been<br />
a novelty even in Renaissance. In my opinion<br />
you can talk the most sexually by covering the<br />
body in the right way. Just to mention geishas,<br />
which aroused senses by their clothing, makeup<br />
and motions. They left a trace in the history<br />
as the prekursor of the most sophisticated<br />
from of nudity. I associate nakedness with a<br />
border between what is tangible, sexual, external<br />
and the hidden, out of reach.<br />
KALTBLUT: Tell us a little about your other<br />
art project and how does it differ from<br />
painting?<br />
LUKASZ: I am paralerally doing fashion illustrating<br />
which I treat as a spring-board (though<br />
I still get inspired by it). Surprisingly, I usually<br />
draw women and this difference between my<br />
drawings and paintings does not have any<br />
meaning for me. I consider it a way to give an<br />
interesting view on all my work, which is coherent<br />
to me. The most important, though, is<br />
to be satisfied with your work and have a lot<br />
of fun!
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Photography , Styling, Concept by Suzana Holtgrave<br />
Model Tsolmon<br />
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Leather crown and bracelet: ASOS
Leathermask: Stylist own<br />
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In my bright brave young days,<br />
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Even to my beautiful lover,<br />
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“I will die for you.”<br />
But to my country, I said them.<br />
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Craig Tracy<br />
Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones
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Craig Tracy is one of the most famous body painting artists<br />
in the world, and for good reason! No other artist is<br />
as diverse and as skilled when it comes to painting on<br />
living breathing skin. Each one of his works exceeds the<br />
expectations anyone could have and is actually very real<br />
art. Perhaps much more than the one you will find dusting<br />
away in a museum. We found out a bit about how he<br />
works and what bodypainting is all about!<br />
KALTBLUT: What kind of people come to you to<br />
ask to be your models? Is there a patern or are<br />
your models very varied?<br />
CRAIG: The only pattern that I see regarding those<br />
that wish to model for me, is that they all want to<br />
have an exceptional and transformative experience<br />
through my art. My models are very varied. All ages,<br />
All sizes. Rich and poor. 95% are female. I’ve painted<br />
on Lawyers, Doctors, Chemists, Millionaires,<br />
University Students and Olympic Athletes.<br />
KALTBLUT: I know you never work on the same<br />
body twice. How easy was it to find all these different<br />
people in the beginning?<br />
CRAIG: From the very first painting to the present<br />
moment, finding models has not been an issue.<br />
They find me most often. Even in the very beginning<br />
I had strangers contacting me wanting to model for<br />
my work. They found me through various ways but<br />
they certainly found me. I suppose when you do<br />
something unique people enjoy talking and sharing<br />
what you do with others. I’m very fortunate to have<br />
so many willing bodies. It makes my work that much<br />
easier.<br />
KALTBLUT: You have been a more traditional<br />
artist before you came into body painting. How<br />
did it happen? How does it differ from our traditional<br />
conceptions regarding art?<br />
CRAIG: I’ve been a professional artist since 1983<br />
and in most of those early years of my career I was<br />
unsatisfied. I felt that there was something missing,<br />
something that needed to happen but I had no idea<br />
of what it would take to satisfy my desire to transcend<br />
the conventional.<br />
I found bodypainting through facepaintings that I<br />
would do once or twice a year for events such as<br />
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Faces lead to bodies and bodies eventually lead me<br />
to the idea of taking bodypainting seriously as a fine<br />
art. it was that concept, taking it seriously as fine<br />
art, that changed everything. I couldn’t be happier.<br />
Bodypainting is a multifaceted creative experience<br />
that lives and breaths and challenges my every fiber.<br />
KALTBLUT: How do bodies work as inspiration?<br />
Is it like you see some form and you think of<br />
a tiger or some woods? What brings about the<br />
idea?<br />
CRAIG: My work is very varied. About 50% of my<br />
images are abstract or non objective. I choose to<br />
not work in a specific style or tecnique. I allow my<br />
inspiration to come from any and everywhere. I do<br />
find inspiration in certain shapes and poses that my<br />
models offer but I also find inspiration in concepts<br />
and various designs outside of the human forms<br />
that I work with. I try to explore something different<br />
with each painting that I create.<br />
I love variety and diversity and this passion expresses<br />
itself in the majority of my work. I’m not sure if I<br />
know of another artist whose work is as varied as<br />
my own. Most artists are trying to brand themselves<br />
by painting in a certain style over and over again.<br />
I’m repulsed by such a lack of creativity. They are<br />
chasing after an identity or the money. I want the<br />
freedom to paint what I feel as I feel and I choose to<br />
do so regardless of convention.<br />
KALTBLUT:How difficult is it to paint on living<br />
human skin? Is the person allowed some movement?<br />
Can corrections be made etc?<br />
CRAIG: The actual challenge of creating a substantial<br />
painting on a human body can be overwhelming.<br />
I’ve often said that painting on a living breathing<br />
three dimensional body is a bit insane and I love it.<br />
I love that the entire painting must be completed in<br />
one waking period. It brings out the athlete in me.
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CRAIG: When I paint it is similar to an athlete’s<br />
“game day.” I sometimes work with the body and<br />
other times I fight against the natural curves with my<br />
lines and colors. I’m always dealing with the time<br />
limit that exists and there really is no tomorrow in<br />
bodypainting. I do my very best to make the experience<br />
comfortable for my models. I’ll even go to extremes<br />
where I’m the one in discomfort to help keep<br />
my model more comfortable. It’s a very physical art<br />
form and requires lots of effort and agility.<br />
KALTBLUT: a special love for large cats? Is<br />
there some symbolism involved? What makes<br />
you use them a lot?<br />
CRAIG: Big cats are my favorite animals. My initials<br />
are also C.A.T. Of my 120 or so paintings I’ve used<br />
big cats 6 times. The inspiration for each painting<br />
was different but there is a very good chance that<br />
there will be no more big cats in the future. Four of<br />
the six images using big cats seem to really leave<br />
an impression on people and I hope to not be so<br />
branded.<br />
KALTBLUT: Are you planning in advance? Is it<br />
possible to have exhibitions of real people or<br />
is it impossible because of the workload required?<br />
CRAIG: That’s a lot of questions in one question! I<br />
plan roughly 95 percent of my work in advance.<br />
The others are spontaneous and tend to be non<br />
objective. I do paint live in gallery shows often. I<br />
prefer not to but my agent/publisher feels that it’s<br />
better for me to leave a more lasting impression on<br />
viewers when I’m out of New Orleans and it is the<br />
first and possibly the only time that I will be doing a<br />
gallery show in that city. I prefer to paint in my studio<br />
where i have everything in it’s place and I have<br />
less distractions and limits. I’m not interested in being<br />
an entertainer. In the six years that I’ve had my<br />
own gallery in New Orleans, I’ve only painted live<br />
4 times.<br />
I do my very best to capture the image photographically<br />
as fast and as honest as possible. I<br />
don’t manipulate my work digitally beyond the most<br />
basic uses of contrast, and other color correction<br />
techniques. My photography only takes about ten<br />
minutes now that everything is digital. Photography<br />
is sort of my necessary evil. I’m all about creating<br />
and not capturing. Pushing buttons, turning dials<br />
and moving lights is what I do because it’s required<br />
to share my work eternally. I refer to my images<br />
as paintings even when they are photographic recordings<br />
just as music is called music whether it is<br />
preformed live or played through a machine from<br />
a recording. I focus 99% of my energy on what is<br />
in front of the camera and very little on the camera<br />
and it’s requirements.<br />
KALTBLUT: What are you working at right now?<br />
CRAIG: I’ve just finished painting a Phoenix image<br />
using a 53 year old grandmother and I’m unsure of<br />
exactly what my next image will be. I like not knowing<br />
what’s next. It means that anything is possible.<br />
ANYTHING.<br />
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www.craigtracy.com
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ith Mimi<br />
Photographer: Damien Vignaux www.cargocollective.com/elroy<br />
Model: Jasmin Pelz
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THE<br />
NAKED<br />
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TEXT BY CLAUDIO ALVARGONZALES TERA
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Naked, nude, bare, raw, bald… It doesn’t<br />
matter the word you use because at the<br />
end it is all reduced to the same thing: Undressed<br />
bodies in front of the camera. Cinema<br />
is full of that. Full of nudity. It seems<br />
we experiment some kind of pleasure in<br />
looking at our favorite star during a sex<br />
scene or just naked in front of the mirror.<br />
It has been like that for ages. Many actors<br />
and actresses have shown their bodies<br />
on the big screen. In a very shy way at<br />
the beginning, just showing a bit of skin,<br />
mainly because the studios rejected frontal<br />
nudity, specially with male actors. But<br />
things have changed radically in the last<br />
decades and nowadays there are many<br />
actors and actresses who have performed<br />
naked if it was well justified in the script.<br />
But the problem starts exactly there: Is it always justified?<br />
I don’t think so. Why is there always a drunk girl running naked<br />
in a Fraternity party? Or when things go crazy in a comedy<br />
film like “Airplane” (J. Abrahams, D. Zucker, 1981)?. But<br />
of course my favorite non justified nudity comes when a serial<br />
killer is around. So if for any reason you decide to rent a cabin<br />
in the woods with some friends and you want to get killed<br />
these are the things you should do: Swim naked in the lake,<br />
take a shower while your friends are out or have sex with<br />
your partner. Jason (“Friday the 13th”, Michael Myers,<br />
“Halloween”) and the audience will be very grateful.<br />
Some other times it is totally justified, except for one big thing:<br />
The movie itself. When “Striptease” (Andrew Bergman, 1996)<br />
came out Demi Moore became the highest paid actress in<br />
Hollywood. I love Demi but did she worth it?<br />
No, and a thousand times NO. A few seconds of her breasts<br />
and 115 minutes of the worst rubbish. The same happens<br />
with “Showgirls” (Paul Verhoeven, 1995). If you want to see<br />
tits all over the screen but you are not in the mood for porn,<br />
this is your movie. But let me say that you will also have to<br />
deal with the script. Now It’s up to you. When this film came<br />
out the producers realized that most of the audience were<br />
men over sixty and retired. I guess I don’t have to explain<br />
more.<br />
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Despite some actors like Julia Roberts who refuse to show themselves exactly the<br />
way they were born and prefer using a lookalike actor to perform some scenes, there<br />
are many stars who seem to like to walk naked around the set without inhibition. I<br />
could never thank enough Kate Winslet for her lack of decency, especially in “Little<br />
Children” (Todd Field, 2006), “The Reader” (Stephen Daldry, 2008) or “Mildred<br />
Pierce” (Todd Haynes, 2011). But happily there are many more: Charlize Theron in<br />
“The Burning Plain” (Guillermo Arriaga, 2008), Penelope Cruz in “Elegy” (Isabel Coixet,<br />
2008), Harvey Keitel in “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1993), Monica Belluci in “Dracula”<br />
(Francis F. Coppola, 1992), Kevin Bacon in “Wild Things” (John McNaughton,<br />
1998), Salma Hayek and Colin Farrel in “Ask the Dust” (Robert Towne, 2006) or Nicole<br />
Kidman in Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) where it is crystal clear<br />
how boring a sexual relationship with Tom Cruise might be (I bet he was thinking in<br />
Scientology or placentas…)<br />
But if someone told me to close my eyes and think of one the first movies I remember<br />
I believe I would say “Amarcord” (Federico Fellini, 1973). That boy in Fellini’s<br />
film discovering his sexuality and that scene at the tobacco store where the fat lady<br />
with those huge boobs decides to help him out it’s just priceless. But Fellini wasn’t<br />
the only one.<br />
Many directors never had any inconvenient in showing their actors naked: Lars<br />
Von Trier, Danny Boyle, Eytan Fox, but especially Pedro Almodóvar or Bernardo<br />
Bertolucci who are responsible for some of the most sensual scenes in cinema.<br />
Almodóvar taught how “Iberian” passion could be. He gave us “Matador” (1986),<br />
“La ley del Deseo” (1987) or “Bad Education” (2004). And Bertolucci gave us a<br />
middle age passion in “Last Tango in Paris” (1972) with Marlon Brando and Maria<br />
Schneider and “Stealing Beauty” (1996) , “Dreamers” (2003) and “Novecento”<br />
(1976), one of the best European movies of all times where Robert De Niro and<br />
Gérard Depardieu shake more than hands and share more than a bed with Stefania<br />
Casini.<br />
Shortbus<br />
Kevin Bacon
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To me two masterpieces. To some just two porn movies with a bit of story.<br />
The same way John Cameron Mitchell did in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (2001) and “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Shortbus”<br />
deals with loneliness, loss or tedium but in this case the characters do it trough sex. Male and female, straight and gay,<br />
the characters find one another (and eventually find themselves) when they all converge at an underground club called<br />
“Shortbus”, a mad world of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. We find a lot of explicit sex but this movie is not<br />
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<br />
from solitude, to hide what we don’t want to show or to veil what is totally unveiled.<br />
I guess it is pretty much like the real life. Don’t you think?<br />
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But if you go to the dictionary you will<br />
find some other meanings for “Naked”,<br />
probably much more interesting: Defenseless,<br />
exposed, helpless, unprotected,<br />
vulnerable, unveiled… And<br />
here comes when cinema and actors<br />
give real meaning to this word. Sometimes<br />
nudity in cinema is like walking<br />
on a tightrope. Depending on how you<br />
step, nudity can seem the most natural<br />
thing but it also might lose sense and<br />
became too explicit, too pornographic<br />
and simply out of context. This red line<br />
or tight rope doesn’t seem to scare<br />
directors and some of them have already<br />
walked on it.<br />
This is exactly what happens in “In<br />
the Realm of the Senses” (Nagisa<br />
Ôshima, 1976) and “Shortbus” (John<br />
Cameron Mitchell, 2006). This two<br />
controversial films skirts the borderline<br />
between pornography and art, making<br />
Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” look<br />
like children’s programming in comparison.<br />
In Ôshima’s film sex is presented<br />
as aggressive, violent, obsessive<br />
and sadomasochistic and used to<br />
explicate a connection between sex<br />
and death..
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BLOGS<br />
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This is a blog about beauty.” Yes this blog is really great!<br />
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Souls Of<br />
Saint-Petersburg<br />
Photography by Anna Kharina www.flickr.com/photos/anna_kharina<br />
Anna Kharina is a photographer from dark dark Saint-Petersburg. She is<br />
exceptionally gifted in taking pictures of little events, paying attention<br />
on all these small details which normally escape us. Captivated by little<br />
deaths and dreams everywhere around her, she writes a poetry through<br />
her pictures. Her nude photographs are not simply about naked people,<br />
they are more portraits of individuals, baring their souls. Thanks to Anna<br />
allowing the viewer to steal a glance of their deepest self.
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Bergdorf<br />
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Photography by Karl Slater<br />
www.karlslater.com<br />
Text & Styling by Aiden Connor<br />
Within the past few years<br />
Munroe Bergdorf has become<br />
a force to be reckoned with,<br />
adopting many different guises<br />
DJ, Nightclub host, model, party<br />
planner and muse. If you require<br />
style behind the decks there is<br />
only one port of call. Munroe<br />
Bergdorf is class personified and<br />
bring a touch wonder to each<br />
and every gig she plays.
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One of London’s young things she is the face and sound<br />
behind parties including MEAT!, Shabba-Dabba-Da! And<br />
Trannyshack. Whilst also hosting top nightclubs such as<br />
Room Service and Circus. When not Captivating us with<br />
her sounds Munroe spends her time keeping it fashion<br />
baby and does so with panache – currently working with<br />
BOY LONDON on an exclusive bespoke line, launching<br />
spring 2012. The label is at home gracing the figures of pop<br />
sirens like Rihanna and Jessie J.<br />
Munroe’s role of tasks many different shapes and forms after being<br />
cast as one of the faces of Ziad Ghanems collection Beles de tete,<br />
and has gone on to produce the original runway music for Ghanem’s<br />
last two runway show at London fashion week.<br />
When she’s not in Dj mode Munroe is the go to girl to throw ‘THE’<br />
party, having put together after show parties for Zaid Ghanem, Ada<br />
Zanditon and make up brand “Illamasqua”.<br />
Having graced the pages of numerous style publications and being<br />
adorned with the up and coming fashion designers on the highly covetable<br />
London fashion scene and has recently been named by Dolce<br />
and Gabbana as one of ‘London’s top cultural tastemakers.’ Munroe<br />
is the soundtrack to fashionable London and a genuine star to boot,<br />
her attitude is just right and whilst style may be everything this classy<br />
London lady ensures its not just skin deep.Fashion week is normally<br />
one of the busiest times for Munroe but this being the first time in 3<br />
years where she isn’t engulfed with working on projects, so will gladly<br />
be attending London fashion week as a spectator, so you should expect<br />
to see the glamazon queen front row at all the main contenders,<br />
what with this and the countless project and parties up her sleeve it<br />
seem Ms Bergdorf is someone to keep you eye on for rest of 2012.<br />
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AIDEN: 2011 had been a really great<br />
year for you, why do think it was<br />
the year of Mizz Bergdorf?<br />
MUNROE: Last year was pretty crazy, surreal<br />
and amazing but I kind of feel like I was<br />
just laying the foundations for this year. I’ve<br />
worked with so many amazing designers,<br />
photographers and DJ’s, as well as playing<br />
at venues and locations I’d never have even<br />
dreamt of playing at. But it’s kind of made me<br />
hungry for more, I’m a little insatiable.<br />
AIDEN: You and I met when I<br />
styled you for Ziad Ghanems Couture<br />
campaign, you have since gone<br />
onto work with other designers<br />
and establishments, what makes<br />
you the go to girl for such collaborations.?<br />
MUNROE: I’m really not too sure... I think<br />
it’s because designers can see the extent to<br />
which fashion influences everything i do, from<br />
the events and parties that I throw, to the way<br />
that I dress and the image that I put across. I<br />
just really love fashion and I think that’s apparent<br />
in my work, I do feel very lucky to have<br />
collaborated with so many amazing people.<br />
AIDEN: How does it feel to have<br />
Dolce and Gabbanna compliment<br />
you as one of ‘London’s top cultural<br />
taste makers’ ?<br />
MUNROE: Pretty damn amazing and surreal.<br />
I’d never thought of myself like that before<br />
so it was a huge complement, especially from<br />
such an iconic brand.<br />
AIDEN: Primarily your a dj and<br />
club host, but now you can be seen<br />
modelling, composing runway music,<br />
and now your working on a<br />
bespoke line with BOY LONDON.<br />
What would you say your role is<br />
with in the fashion industry?<br />
MUNROE:I don’t really label it, I don’t want<br />
to limit myself to any category really. I know<br />
what I’m good at and I know what I’m capable<br />
of, it’s all a journey. I do feel very lucky to<br />
be doing what I love as a profession though.<br />
To be working with BOY LONDON is really exciting,<br />
it’s a huge honour to have been asked<br />
by Stephane Raynor and the team work with<br />
them on the line.<br />
AIDEN: What inspires you to<br />
create your look?<br />
MUNROE: I’m inspired by so many things,<br />
I don’t think it’s anything I could pinpoint. As<br />
far back as I can remember I’ve always loved<br />
everything Cyndi Lauper has ever done and<br />
everything Old Hollywood. I guess my image<br />
as a base is a blend of the two - I love how<br />
Cyndi is so mishmash with her image, but I<br />
also love the glamour of Old Hollywood, the<br />
hair and the gowns... I think I’m a happy medium<br />
between the two.<br />
AIDEN: What’s next for Munroe<br />
Bergdorf?<br />
MUNROE: I never know what’s next to be<br />
honest haha! Right now I’m mainly working<br />
on developing the BOY LONDON line. The inhouse<br />
designers that I’m working with are SO<br />
talented, it’s really exciting to see it all coming<br />
together. I’m also going to be travelling a lot<br />
this year with international gigs, so I’m gearing<br />
up for that and putting everything in place.<br />
Munroe<br />
Bergdorf
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hElMut nEwtOn POlarOIds<br />
Exhibition Berlin till May 2012 www.helmut-newton.com<br />
Polaroid technology revolutionized photography.<br />
Those who have used a polaroid camera<br />
can hardly forget the unique odor of its developing<br />
emulsion and the thrill of the instant image.<br />
With the polaroid, every image is one of a<br />
kind. This also applies to the later large-format<br />
polacolor prints, whose developing process<br />
left behind characteristic borders.<br />
Polaroids have thus been frequently used for<br />
preliminary studies as well as a standalone<br />
medium. This was already the case early on,<br />
following the creation and presentation of the<br />
instant photograph at the optical society of<br />
America in 1947 by its inventor, Edwin Land –<br />
and especially after he presented in 1972 the<br />
legendary sx-70 system, a collapsible, simple<br />
and affordable camera. In nearly all photographic<br />
areas – from landscape and genre,<br />
portrait and self-portrait, fashion and nudes –<br />
this unique imaging process has found enthusiastic<br />
devotees all over the world.<br />
Helmut Newton used the technology intensively<br />
starting in the 1970s, especially for his<br />
fashion photo shoots. As he once described in<br />
an interview, this satisfied his impatient urge to<br />
want to know immediately how a certain situation<br />
would look as a photograph. In this context,<br />
the polaroid acted as an idea sketch in<br />
addition to testing the actual lighting situation<br />
and image composition.<br />
In 1992 Newton published „Pola Woman“ an<br />
unconventional book consisting only of his<br />
polaroids. According to the photographer, the<br />
publication lay particularly close to his heart,<br />
although it was discussed amidst great controversy.<br />
In response to the accusation that the<br />
images in the book were not perfect enough,<br />
he countered: “But that was exactly what was<br />
exciting – the spontaneity, the speed.”
Newton’s additional notes, written on the edges<br />
of the polaroids, are fascinating as well as revealing<br />
with regard to the model, client or location<br />
and date. The comments, the haziness of<br />
the images and the signs of use are naturally<br />
also to be found on the enlargements of the polaroids<br />
included in the exhibition; they testify to<br />
a pragmatic approach to the original work materials,<br />
which have now possess an own inherent<br />
value. Especially interesting for today’s viewer<br />
is the unique polaroid aesthetic that unexpectedly<br />
alters the colors and contrast of the photographed<br />
subject.<br />
For the first time ever, over 300 works based<br />
on the original polaroids offer a comprehensive<br />
overview of this aspect of Newton’s oeuvre. The<br />
exhibition is thus a look into the sketchbook of<br />
one of the most influential photographers of the<br />
20th century. Many of the iconic photographs<br />
that have already been presented in the exhibition<br />
space of the Helmut Newton Foundation<br />
can be discovered in the current exhibition in<br />
the process of their creation.<br />
Helmut Newton:<br />
Polaroids Exhibition<br />
Helmut Newton Foundation/Berlin<br />
Museum for Photography<br />
till May 20th.2012<br />
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Born on October 31, 1920 in Berlin, Helmut<br />
Newton grew up in a privileged family. Due to<br />
his passion for photography, he stopped going<br />
to school and pursued an apprenticeship<br />
with Elsie Simon, a top photographer. He only<br />
had this job for a while because he had to feel<br />
Germany due to Adolf Hitler’s violent treatment<br />
of Jews in Germany. He went to Singapore<br />
and got a job there. That did not last<br />
long. He moved around Singapore for a while<br />
until he moved to Australia in 1940. There, he<br />
settled and built a new life with his wife, June<br />
Brunell. He continued following his passion<br />
for photography, eventually getting his work<br />
to appear in top fashion magazines around<br />
the world.Helmut Newton did not just limit his<br />
photography to nude women and fashion. He<br />
also shared with the whole world his early<br />
life as a survivor of the Nazi invasion in Germany.<br />
He took portraits of Nazi personalities<br />
and other people relevant to the very difficult<br />
time in world history. Helmut Newton images<br />
clearly show the world through the eyes of a<br />
nomad who wandered the earth, not giving a<br />
care to people’s judgments and myopic views.<br />
Newton died on January 23, 2004 due to vehicular<br />
accident in California.
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“ AS A BLACK MAN LIVING IN GERMANY<br />
I AM OFTEN CONFRONTED BY<br />
CERTAINS PERCEPTION<br />
Photo by Roderick Cummin Photography<br />
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The body, an object containing volume and weight is a vicious cycle. We<br />
carry on giving it praise that is does not deserve, showering it with the gift<br />
of attention, when we really should simply ignore it; giving it power, when we<br />
really need to set it free. How did we come to this point? When did the human<br />
flesh become such an emotional and political vehicle capable of causing<br />
wars, riots, destruction and rage.<br />
There have always been powers within societies<br />
that seek to deny individuals the right to control<br />
their own body. Religions through their commandments,<br />
governments with their laws seek to invoke<br />
disciplinary power over the treasure chest which<br />
contain our soul. Over the years, there have been<br />
numerous movements which have attempted to<br />
alleviate the oppressive effects of institutional<br />
and interpersonal power on those whose bodies<br />
are marked as inferior or who are denied rights to<br />
control their own.<br />
The United State Courts have been confronted<br />
with issues in regard to nudity for decades. Mostly<br />
nudity as a form of obscenity. When is the human<br />
body indecent and when should it be glorified?<br />
The difficulty of defining obscenity was memorably<br />
summarized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice<br />
Potter Stewart as he attempted to tackle this issue<br />
during the Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964): (regarding<br />
obsecene images) “I know it when I see it.”<br />
Officially, there are no federal U.S. laws that either<br />
allow or prohibit nudity. The courts have not ruled<br />
whether the right to engage in naturism (nudist<br />
activity) is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution<br />
under its freedom of expression provision thereby<br />
leaving the control over our organism to individual<br />
states and cities.<br />
Recent controversies about pornography have<br />
continually opened up the debate about the connection<br />
between nudity, sexuality and objectification.<br />
When the topic of objectification is introduced,<br />
most people think only of women, but it is<br />
of course, relevant to both genders. The objectification<br />
of men is for our society rather unusual<br />
and when you are confronted with it, it will remind<br />
you of how we take-for-granted, the potential<br />
of being reduced to a single meaningless object<br />
based upon our body or specific bodily assets.<br />
TEXT BY SHEL FULLER<br />
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As a black man living in Germany, I am often confronted<br />
by certain perceptions. All blacks are well<br />
endowed; all are able to perform sexually far better<br />
than other cultures; the look, feel and smell of<br />
our naked essence is totally different than others.<br />
That these stereotypical views may be or may not<br />
be true is not the point. It is the fact that people<br />
who think in such unjustified terms, find it difficult<br />
to view the other as a person. One would<br />
think that it would be paradise to be an object of<br />
desire but it isn’t. How I perceive myself as an individual<br />
and what others project onto me are two<br />
completely different demons and being forced to<br />
wrestle with those monsters is a futile struggle<br />
that should not be undertaken.<br />
In the summer, as others lay naked by a lake, I<br />
often choose to keep some clothing on because I<br />
feel terrorized by the expecting stares of others,<br />
waiting to get visual confirmation. It is disgusting<br />
that this freedom which many can afford has been<br />
twisted and made foul for others; this curious unspoken<br />
confrontation of others, an unattainable<br />
standard or concept of a body image based upon<br />
deluded fantasies and racists flattery.<br />
We are born with an innate curiosity about ourselves<br />
and others. From the first moment, we become<br />
aware about our bodies, we are in constant<br />
search to see what is under the clothes of others.<br />
The celebration of our similarities and the unearthing<br />
of our differences is one of the most profound<br />
experiences in our life. This exploration, this need<br />
to bond without clothing is a very special gift and<br />
should not be taken lightly. We have to devilinize<br />
the flesh, step outside of the truths of others and<br />
into our own and celebrate that which is pure life.<br />
The body is a wondrous thing. It is certainly wondrous<br />
that the body and soul can come together.<br />
It is even more wondrous that they join together<br />
into one, to form something new: a human being!
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LONDON, UK<br />
Damien Hirst at London’s Tate Modern<br />
See more than 70 iconic works by celebrated contem-<br />
porary artist Damien Hirst at London’s Tate Modern .<br />
A shark suspended in formaldehyde, a bisected cow<br />
and calf… Damien Hirst is well known for his imagi-<br />
native and sometimes shocking works.This April, Tate<br />
Modern unveils the first substantial survey of Damien<br />
Hirst’s work ever held in the UK.<br />
Dates: April 4, 2012 to September 9, 2012<br />
Address: Tate Modern<br />
Bankside<br />
London<br />
SE1 9TG<br />
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7887 8888<br />
www.tate.org.uk/modern<br />
BERLIN,GERMANY<br />
Gerhard Richter / Panorama<br />
Gerhard Richter, beyond a doubt the most famous<br />
German artist of his generation. Around 150 paint-<br />
ings from all periods of the artist’s extensive oeuvre,<br />
carefully selected together with the artist himself, of-<br />
fer visitors a profound insight into his stylistically and<br />
thematically diverse body of work.<br />
Dates: February 12, 2012 to May 13, 2012<br />
Address: Neue Nationalgalerie<br />
Potsdamer Straße 50<br />
10785 Berlin<br />
Telefon: +49 - (0)30 - 266 42 4510<br />
nng@smb.spk-berlin.de<br />
www.smb.museum/nng<br />
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA<br />
Double Vision Contemporary Art<br />
from Japan<br />
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration<br />
with the Japan Foundation, presents the exhibition<br />
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan intend-<br />
ed to introduce the general public to the art trends of<br />
Contemporary Japan. The ‘double perspective’ is pro-<br />
vided here by two curators from two different coun-<br />
tries, two Museum venues, two thematic blocks .<br />
.Dates: March, 14, 2012 to May, 6, 2012<br />
Address: Moscow Museum of Modern Art<br />
107031, Moscow,<br />
Petrovka street, 25<br />
Telephone: +(495) 694-2890<br />
www.mmoma.ru<br />
MADRID,SPAIN<br />
Marc Chagall Exhibition<br />
Works from the early years to the Second World War<br />
This large retrospective of Marc Chagall’s work is be-<br />
ing held in two venues. The first part, in the exhibition<br />
hall of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Paseo del<br />
Prado, 8), follows the artist’s career up until the out-<br />
break of the Second World War, and is entitled “The<br />
Path of Poetry”.<br />
Dates: February 20, 2012 to May 20, 2012<br />
Address: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum<br />
Pº del Prado 8<br />
Madrid<br />
Telefon: +34 91 369 01 51<br />
www.museothyssen.org
NEW YORK, USA<br />
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American<br />
Dream at MOMA<br />
A new exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art,<br />
“Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” pres-<br />
ents five architectural solutions to renew a depleted<br />
American suburbia. At its heart, the show is not just<br />
about architecture and design, but about blurring the<br />
traditional lines that separate public space from pri-<br />
vate space, owning from sharing, residential structures<br />
from business structures, and suburbs from cities.<br />
Dates: February 2012 to July 30, 2012<br />
Address: The Museum of Modern Art<br />
11 West 53 Street New York,<br />
NY 10019<br />
Telephone: (212) 708-9400<br />
www.moma.org<br />
PARIS,FRANCE<br />
Tim Burton, the exhibition at<br />
Cinémathèque française<br />
During the exhibition based around Tim Burton, the<br />
Cinémathèque française screens all his films (includ-<br />
ing short, little-known films). This event enables visi-<br />
tors to enter a little more into the excentric world of<br />
the American artist: drawings, paintings, photographs,<br />
strange sculptures ... A very eclectic artist!<br />
Dates: March 7 2012 to August 5 2012<br />
Address: Cinémathèque française<br />
51, rue de Bercy<br />
75012 PARIS<br />
Telefon: +33 1 71 19 33 33<br />
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www.jimmyd.co.nz<br />
Jon Varvatos<br />
www.johnvarvatos.com<br />
Lena Criavenu<br />
www.lenacriveanu.ro<br />
Lesley de Freitas<br />
www.lesleydefreitas.com<br />
Marcelu Ferraz<br />
www.marceluferraz.com.br<br />
MAC<br />
www.maccosmetics.com<br />
Maison Martin Margiela<br />
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com<br />
Maui Jim<br />
www.mauijim.com<br />
Maurie and Eve<br />
www.maurieandeve.com<br />
Meadowlark<br />
meadowlark.co.nz<br />
Mozcau<br />
www.mozcau.com<br />
Neverblack<br />
neverblack.co.nz<br />
Nico Sutor<br />
www.nicosutor.com
Numark<br />
www.numark.com<br />
Nyne<br />
www.nyne.co.nz<br />
Reserva Natural<br />
www.reservanatural.com.br<br />
Rick Owens<br />
www. rickowens.eu<br />
Santa Ephigenia<br />
www.staephigenia.com.br<br />
Simon Ekrelius<br />
www.simonekrelius.com<br />
Topshop<br />
www.topshop.com<br />
Vero Moda<br />
/www.veromoda.com<br />
Vila<br />
www.vila.com<br />
Vivien Westwood<br />
www.viviennewestwood.co.uk<br />
Damyller<br />
www.dmylr.com.br<br />
Walter Van Beirendonck<br />
www.waltervanbeirendonck.com<br />
Weekday<br />
www.weekday.se<br />
Zara<br />
www.zara.com<br />
Ziad Ghanem<br />
ziadghanem.co.uk<br />
Zussa<br />
www.zussa.de<br />
www.kaltblut-magazine.com<br />
Berlin / Germany<br />
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