KALTBLUT-HONK! 03 The Divas

Diane Pernet Natalia Avelon Kazaky Suzana Holtgrave Alis Pelleschi Ziad Ghanem Lola Dupré
Jackee Word Sherry Vine Christian Branscheidt Pascale Jean-Louis Mariel Clayton Anita Bresser
Zachari Logan Lukasz Wolejko-Wolejszo Amanda M. Jannson Claudio Alvargonzales Tera
Marco Rothenburger Aaron Feaver Christo Mitov Marina Gehrman Nicolas Simoneau Emma E.K.
Jones Fernando Arriero Marquez Shel Fuller Thomas Langnickel-Stiegler Magnus von Keil Polys
Haikal Noyes Marcel Schlutt Nina Kharytonova Cover photo: Pascale Jean-Louis Model: Sarah
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Her power is her freedom
her freedom is her joy
her joy is boundless
like the wind
unstoppable
sometimes soft and gentle,
sometimes like a hurricane
she takes you,
and she sweeps you up
and far away ...
Step beyond,
become immortal
in the mirror of her gaze.
taken from the poem “ Diva” by Silvia Hartmann

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Editor in chief
Marcel Schlutt
Editors
Amanda M. Jannson, Emma E.K. Jones, Polys, Nina Kharytonova, Marina
Gehrman, Christo Mitov, Jackee Word, Claudio Alvargonzales Tera
Freelance author
Thomas Langnickel-Stiegler, Shel Fuller, Drew Eastman, Ben Rodgers
Graphic design, layout
Haikal Noyes
Retouching
Nicolas Simoneau
Web
Daniel Ellmenreich
Published by
Marcel Schlutt & Nina Kharytonova
HONK! is based in Berlin / Germany

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Welcome to our 3rd issue: the DIVA issue!
The word diva today is mostly abused to describe female
artists with oversized egos.
We here at HONK! think this is wrong.
If you look at the origin and the meaning of the word you
quickly understand that it refers to people who – with
their work, their personality, and their art – inspire us,
the more normal people, and draw us into their spell.
They have that certain aura; when they enter a room they
draw all attention and looks upon themselves. It’s something
we can’t tear ourself away from.
Usually it’s women that are listed in this group of people – BUT
that’s wrong! There are also many men who are great divas: Klaus Kinski, Bruce la Bruce, Maradonna,
David Beckham; just to name some of them.
Talent, charisma, ingenuity, self-confidence, goodness, and grace are among the features that
describe a true diva.
In our third issue we would like to introduce this rare species.
Artists from various genres of whom you will hear a lot soon.
I would like to say thanks to every person who helped me with issue #03. It was great working
with you guys.
Greetings,
Marcel Schlutt
PS: I would like to dedicate this issue two very special ladies,
Amanda M. Jannson and Emma E.K. Jones.
Without you the work on this issue would have been so much harder. Thank you for Inspiration,
your honesty, and your friendship.

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The One: The Dark Side of Barbie
Photos by Mariel Clayton
Pure: An ode to feminity
Photos by Aaron Feaver
Fume of Virginity
Photos by Marco Rothenburger
Jackee Word: Großstadtmädchen
Photos by Joana Dias
Your Majesty
Photos by Christian Branscheidt
Paris
Photos by Fernando Arriero Marquez
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Don’t blame the diva
by Thomas Langnickel-Stiegler
A Shaded view on a fashion diva
Interview with Diane Pernet
Bette Davis: Tribut to a godess
by Nina Kharytonova
A letter from New York
by Sherry Vine
Movie star: The next generation
Interview with Natalia Avelon
The queen: New York
by Shel Fuller
The Future: Berlin Faces you should know
Obama and the Beast
by Christo Mitov
The X-Insider
Revenge of the nerds: Queens with beards

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Drama Babes
Photos by Lukasz Wolejko-Wolejszo
Dandy Galore
Photos by Anita Bresser
A man should wear
A woman should wear
I’ve seen that face B4
Photos by Pascale Jean-Louis
Scary Mary
by Alis Pelleschi
Must Have
I want my clothes to scream loud: love me,...
Interview with Ziad Ghanem
Hotel Angst: Menege a trois
Photos by Suzana Holtgrave
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Bete Noire
by Emma E. K. Jones
A lady plays in her own league
Interview with Suzy Love
Who the hell is Madonna?
Music reviewed by Polys
Trash Divas
Horrifying and Hilarious
Interview with Lola Dupre
Mr. Almodovar and his bizarre world
by Claudio Alvargonzalez
I am your god: The office diva
Text and Artwork by Drew Eastman
Oh boy, it’s a band: Say hi to Kazaky
To express masculine bravado & superiority
Interview with Zachari Logan
Various Artists
Women who rock: Museum

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THE
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DARK
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BARBIE
by Mariel Clayton www.thephotographymarielclayton.com
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
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She is an icon! She is a role model for generations of young
girls! Always good-looking, politically correct. Yes that’s Barbie!
We have always known that she has a dark side!
Mariel, who was born in South Africa and now live in Canada,
is an artist who shows us this side of Barbie. His pictures are
incredible and full of little details. You must look back several
times to see everything. Let´s meet Barbie´s „ best friend“
HONK!: When did you meet her the first time in your
life? And how to you came up with the idea to show
her darkside?
Mariel: I don’t remember when I got my first Barbie!
I think I must have been 6 or 7 years old. I remember
it was the ‘Peaches and Cream’ Barbie doll. I’m
intrigued by sociopathy and the whole outer facade/
inner workings concept and how the two don’t
always correspond. Barbie, as the ultimate stereotypical
feminine icon just seems to lend herself to
an alternate portrayal. I think because she has been
idolised as the epitome of everything that is ‘good’
about being female, being sweet and docile and
taciturn etcetc. She has been sanitised to the point
where she has absolutely no pesonality whatsoever,
so she just seemed to be the perfect model to explore
the idea of this hidden evil.
The Theme of HONK! #03 is DIVAS! Is Barbie a diva
for you?
I guess so - I think of the word ‘Diva’ as having a
negative connotation though, someone who is bossy
and demanding and spoiled. Someone who treats
people badly because they believe they are better. I
think there may be a part of Barbie that implies that.
Every single picture is amazing! And so much is going
on there, the set, the decoration, every single piece.
I quess it needs days to do all this. How long do you
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It’s tough to say! It absolutely depends on the complexity
of the piece, and whether I need to make anything
for it. For a regular ‘Homicide Barbie’ shot, it usually
takes about a minimum 5 hours or so, to set everything
up. While I am composing a shot, I constantly stop to
look through my camera and make sure everything is
lining up the same way through the lens ( I learnt this
the hard way, your perspective when you’re sitting at a
table is not the same as a camera view). If it’s any of the
‘Hystoria’ pieces - those took a lot longer, about 10 - 15
hours or more. For those I had to make some of the
props, costumes etc. It’s hard to say exactly the length
of time, because I’m not really paying attention. With
most of them I also have to stop, go to work (cursed
day job) sleep etc....
My favourite pictures are the one where Barbie is
having sex. And also there the details are great.
Where do you get the dildos etc from? Is Barbie a sex
symbol?
I make the little dildoes by hand using polymer clay. I
don’t see Barbie as a sex symbol at all - she looks nothing
like a ‘normal’ human female. That sort of body
isn’t even found in nature. She is a representation of
what companies THINK women should aspire to look
like, but the women who try to make themselves look
like Barbie... are extremely unnatractive and ‘fake’
looking.
Did you have any trouble with „Mattel“ the company
who owns Barbie?
So far I haven’t hear anything from Mattel... I’d like to
keep it that way!!! Mattel tends to sue people who don’t
‘play nicely’ with their toys.
What will you do in the future with your doll-photography?
Is there more work coming like this?
I started out doing this as a hobby, and I will keep doing
it as a hobby - as long as I keep getting the ideas I
will keep making the pictures!
Can you pay your bills from your photography work? Or
do you have to do something else for living?
I work full-time as a travel agent - that’s how I pay the
bills! I make a little money selling prints - and with that
I usually buy more dolls or miniatures. I don’t know if
this would ever become something I could do as a living,
it would be great though - but I’m not holding my
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What our ways
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by Thomas Langnickel-Stiegler
When Elizabeth Taylor died in March, some newspapers and
magazines spoke of her having been the “last diva”. Undoubtedly,
The Taylor was one of the last great actresses of Hollywood’s
Golden Age. Being one of the most famous film stars
of her time, she was adored not only for her acting, but also
for her glamorous lifestyle and her beauty (especially her distinctive
double eyelashes).
Strictly speaking, she wasn’t the last of her kind,
though. Even 30 years after the death of Maria “La
Divina” Callas, there are still a couple of classical
divas who are very much alive. Within the opera
world Spanish soprano singer Montserrat Caballé,
who celebrated her 78th birthday this April, is
referred to as “La Superba”, meaning that she has
reached the status of a diva. American soprano
Renée Fleming is also known as “the people’s diva”
– due to her “modest suburban upbringing in rural
New York”, as The Observer put it. As for Liz Taylor’s
colleagues: just think of 76-year-old Oscar-,
Golden Globe-, Grammy-, and BAFTA-winning
Italian actress Sophia Loren, who gained the status
of a diva in the 1960s, when she was one of the
most popular actresses in the world.
Then again, considering the whole package of ideas
that colloquial language has attributed to someone
being a diva, Liz Taylor may just as well have been
one of the last to combine great talent and success
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flamboyant lifestyle, and a scandalising personality
on the other. The Caballé’s sunny disposition, The
Loren’s sharp wit, and The Fleming’s unshakable
grip on reality are vivid examples for artistic genii
acting out their extraordinary talents while at the
same time cultivating their authentic selves. Modern
divas, on the other hand, tend to concentrate
on rather flamboyantly-seeming peculiarities: In a
2008 article on guardian.co.uk Ian Gittins presented
some contemporary artists that are considered
divas and their habits: from Madonna demanding
“25 cases of Kabbalah water backstage at her gigs,
not to mention 12 dozen boxes of strawberries and
Yorkshire tea” to Mariah Carey’s “bottle of Cristal,
four champagne glasses and a box of bendy straws”
to Jennifer Lopez “scal[ing] down her fruit demands
at a recent Miami charity event to merely mango,
green seedless grapes, pineapple, papaya, cantaloupe,
honeydew melon and watermelon. None of
[which] were to enter the sacred space of her personal
all-white dressing room”. The illustrious list of
prominent singers and their culinary needs goes on
like that (and can be found here: http://bit.ly/fooddivas).
We should thanks Susan Boyle for saving the
day; in 2010, Alan McGee stated in the Guardian’s
music blog: “All hail Susan Boyle, the cool new diva
of our age. More than just a Cowell creation, [she]
puts loneliness and pain into her music […]”.
But how come that we obviously use the word “diva”
in such confusingly inconsistent ways? What kind
of concept is it that lies behind the use of a word
that has faced such an enormous change of meaning
within the past, say, decade? More fundamentally
one might ask: what exactly does it mean to be
called a diva nowadays?
Originally, the concept of a diva didn’t have anything
to do anything with a person’s character. The
word “diva” comes from the female form of the Latin
word “divus, -a, -um”, meaning “god” or “godlike”.
Which means: being a diva used to be about something
supernatural being associated with a certain
person. Very much like the gods of Ancient Rome or
Greece where specialists in their fields of expertise
(eg war, love, or the weather), a diva was originally
associated with a rare talent that might have appeared
superior to what someone who had been less
blessed could ever manage to achieve. Or, to quote
a dimplier definition, which TIME magazine stated
in their 21 October 2002 issue: “By definition, a diva
was originally used for great female opera singers,
almost always sopranos.” Thus, Melpomene, the
singing goddess and muse of Tragedy, could be considered
the first of the divas.
On Earth, Ancient Greek actor Thespis of Icaria is
considered the first of the divine talents in the Western
world. Not only was Thespis the first person
ever to appear in a play as a character assuming the
resemblance of another person – thus presumably
“inventing” acting as well as the genre of tragedy. He
is also said to have been a singer of songs about mythology;
which is why one might argue that he was
in fact the first professional performer, what’s more:
a multi-talented one. On a side note, Thepsis would
also frequently tour the cities carrying his costumes
and masks in a horse-drawn wagon.
In recent years “diva” has gone through an interesting
shift of meaning, leading to a large bandwidth
of attributes connected with the concept behind
the word. These days, calling someone a diva isn’t
necessarily an expression of admiration or appreciation.
I’m actually the living proof for this thesis, as I
have myself been called a diva on several occasions
during my life – and I’m obviously not blessed with
any exceptional artistic talent. So, if someone says
to you: “Don’t be such a diva”, his actual aim will
be rather to tell you to come down, maybe reflect
on how you were just behaving or what you were
saying. Obviously, when used in such contexts, the
word diva has been attributed additional meaning,
linguistically speaking: “diva” has turned polysemic.
A polyseme is a word that is actually two or more
different words that just randomly look the same.
Polysemes have different meanings, which aren’t
necessarily based upon the meaning of one origin
word. However, basically they come to existence
when a word that has become popular is taken out of
its original context and is put into a new one instead,
often giving the word a completely new meaning.
That very same thing seems to have happened in the
case of diva. Disregarding the multitude of character
traits that can be found when taking a look at
the classical opera and Hollywood divas, popular
language has adopted the word “diva” to refer to the
character of a person being rather eccentric (or very
much into herself/himself) compared to what might
be considered “normal” within a certain society.
This concept must then have been adapted to refer
to singers that are said to act diva-ish, which finally
led to the the word “diva” often being used pejoratively.
Nowadays, the word “diva” often refers to
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– who is extremely demanding when it comes to her
(or his) personal privileges. Or, like on of Senator
John McCain’s advisers put it (complaining to CNN
about Sarah Palin going off-script): divas are people
who we blame to “[…] trust only unto themselves, as
they see themselves as the beginning and end of all
wisdom”. But, based on this analysis, what is someone’s
intention when they call you a diva anyway?
The above-mentioned examples show that the concept
of “diva” somehow seems to be related to cultural
values such as conformity, respectively non-conformity.
One could argue that the more brought into
line the members of a society are, the flashier anyone
who stands out of that conformity will appear compared
to them. On the other hand, the more brought
into line a culture is, the less probable it might be for
anyone to step out of line. In that regard, the Western
world has ever since its early days developed a rather
well-balanced concept between both the individual’s
urge to express itself as well as an ever-present group
pressure that a society’s members are subject to, even
if only on an unconscious level.
The fact that the majority of language users have
chosen to attribute eccentricity or even more negative
connotations towards people that are called
divas leads to the interesting question, why it isn’t,
say, people with an exceptional amount of sympathy
that we refer to as divas instead? As we have seen
above, there is plenty of classical divas still alive
who don’t live up to the reputation of being difficult
characters at all. On the contrary: it seems most of
the (very rare) true genius-like talent in fact enjoy
their lives a lot, and they seem to be far from being
socially difficult people.
How is it then that we still insist on the cliché of a
diva being that arrogant person, who totally thinks
of herself/himself to be a cut above everyone else?
My theory would be that the majority of users of
many languages within the Western world simply
have decided that being a divine talent necessarily
implies being “too much” of an eccentric person
arrogant over ones own perception of reality and
relevance for the continued existence of the cosmos.
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extraordinary talent has caused less talented people
to feel degraded, less valuable, or less important. In
order to still be able to defend their own self-consciousness
they saw no choice but to look for imperfections
in the seemingly god-like. After all, even
those divas were still human beings; there had to be
at least difficult tempers or capricious moods coming
along with all that unbelievable talent. Anything
else simply wouldn’t be fair.
Well, rules of life, no 1: life is not fair. Looking
for human failure behind a talented face is rather
especially telling about the ones who try to unmask
the divas. Not only because the imperfections that
“normal” people are looking for when critically eyeing
a diva are actually merely human normality. No
one is perfect, sure. But to assume that great talent
necessarily has to come with great disorder of
the personality is a rather obsessive attempt to try
and boost ones own ego at the cost of someone who
may simply is a genius. Who are we to blame him? I
mean, why is there so much obscurity and insecurity
among people when dealing with enormous talent
as well as with people who don’t fit in the image of a
coherent general public? Sure, it might be annoying
to time to be reminded of ones own personality lacking
the talent that those singers, actors, and comedians
have been blessed with. However, one should
always keep in mind that just because someone is
different(ly talented) doesn’t mean he or she is any
more or any less “perfect”, nor any more or any less
human. Considering oneself superior to anyone else
is lacking contact with reality just as much as pigeonholing
people who seemingly don’t fit into any
known categories.
But maybe we can even learn something from our
tendency to do so. What does our being afraid of/
stressed out by overly eccentric people tell us about
our own feelings, about our own perception of reality?
Maybe those who call other people divas for
openly acting out their talents as well as the satisfaction
or happiness that may come it, rather shows
their insecurity in regard to their own talents. Maybe
they are simply afraid that other people standing in
the spotlight could compromise their own integrity,
which has carefully brought into line by education,
peer pressure, and society.
Being afraid of that what is different, or that might
in a way seem “better”, is a very human reaction. I
think, we should try to keep an eye on that human
tendency next time we are tempted to pigeonhole
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Thomas Langnickel-Stiegler is a Berlin based communications consultant and co-host of the discourseoriented
Berliner Kamingespräche project. Having studied social sciences at the University of Siegen, he
worked in public relations for film and TV, in advertising, and as an editorial member of various publications.
His 2007 Bachelor’s thesis in Language and Communication dealt with the concepts of image and
identity.
with reality in a different way than we might be used
to doing. After all, being curious about the different,
the new, the unknown, is also part of what it means
to be human. In my humble opinion, we should
learn to exhibit that positive, productive part of our
humanity more regularly again.
If you start seeing eccentric people like that, you
could just as well describe being a diva in a positive
way as the extreme way to explore one’s full potential
through one’s facets. To say it with my favourite
quotation by German writer Johann Christoph
Friedrich von Schiller: “Rarely do we arrive at the
summit of truth without running into extremes; we
have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and
even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble
goal of tranquil wisdom”, (Philosophical Letters,
Prefatory Remarks).
All in all, in a society of masses that are attending
yoga classes, clerical services (ie go to church), seeking
“professional” counsel to find their true self (some
of us are even said to try to find themselves in sexual
encounters) – by what right do those blame the socalled
divas for trying it their way? And what about
those who still insist on mocking you for seemingly
being out of control every now and then? Well, next
time someone calls you a diva, why not tell them to
diva your ass instead? Or, simply ignore them. However
you do it: be above it, be yourself, be diva!
That said, being a diva can just as well be interpreted
as a sceptic approach towards what a society
demands of the individual, often without any proper
reason. Paradoxically, this unwillingness to unconditionally
adapt might even enable the individual
to find its true, authentic self – if (sic!) it is not for
reasons of catching attention, but to critically reflect
on society that one acts out on one’s perseverance.

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Shoes KAVIAR GAUCHE
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Styling & Production Marina German
Modele, Hair & Make-Up:
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DIANE pERNET
A SHADED VIEW
ON A
FASHION DIVA
Interview by Christo Mitov
www.ashadedviewonfashion.com
www.ashadedviewonfashionfi lm.com
Photos by http://www.fl ickr.com/photos/lorenzobusato
The first thing you notice physically about this lady is her look. Usually her
eyes are covered with black cat eye shades, her lips bloody red and dramatic,
her skin aristocratically pale. The next thing you see is how she’s
wearing her dark hair in a towering pompadour with a black veil and cladding
her body in layers of black clothing and gothic attire. She is someone
who knows the fashion industry from many angles, but perplexingly her
look remains static - she strikes a silhouette as instantly recognizable as
that of Karl Lagerfeld’s. She is Diane pernet.
In the 1980s, Diane was a successful fashion designer in New York before
becoming a fashion journalist and relocating to paris. In her capacity as
journalist, editor, blogger and now curator of her own fashion film festival
she relentlessly supports the young, independent forward-looking designers
and thinkers in fashion. Nowadays she is best known for her cult blog,
www.ashadedviewonfashion.com (ASVOF) which spawned the traveling
fashion film festival, www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com (ASVOFF) After a
successful season last year in Milano with a collaboration with Vogue Italia
and a specially commissioned new project – ‘1 Minute Light’ that was won
by Miho Kinamura and Zaiba Jabbar, this year ASVOFF number 4 will kick
off from 7-9 October at the Centre georges pompidou in paris. You can still
submit your work and be part of ASVOFF until June 30th 2011.
HONK! met Diane virtually on the night she arrived in poland traveling with
ASVOFF. Christo Mitov talks fashion, business and art with Mrs. pernet and
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Where are you now and what are you doing recently?
I just checked into my hotel in LODZ, it is the city
where David Lynch filmed Inland Empire. I’m here for
Fashion Philosophy Poland Fashion week. Wednesday
I go to Cannes with ASVOFF. Actually I’m in LODZ
with ASVOFF. Then the following week I go to Vicenza
d’oro where I’ve curated a film and accessory exhibition
and then back to Paris for 2 nights and off to Chile
for their first fashion week with my good friend, Robb
Young, the author of Power Dressing: First Ladies,
Women Politicians and Fashion. We’e never been
there and are looking forward to the adventure.
You are traveling a lot. How do you organize your suitcase?
What clothes do you always take and how do
you plan your luggage?
It is super easy for me. I’m a uniform person. Carry
on for the computer, cables, the tiny bit of liquids we
are allowed to carry and a good book. Then clothes,
black, skirts, shirts, beauty products, bathrobe, under
garments, parasol for the sun, umbrella for the rain,
change of shoes. It’s simple.
Describe me your closet.
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a red kimono and the other a blue plaid wool flannel.
It is all black, put together skirts, shirts, jackets, coats.
Shoes etc in boxes and bags in a separate drawer.
How did you get into fashion? What attracted you to
this industry?
I’ve always loved two things film and fashion. I was
very concerned about my clothes even when I was
4 years old. I used to be obsessed with overly girly
things, ruffles and petticoats all preferably in pink. As
I grew up I fell in love with the work of Guy Bourdin
and thought about becoming a fashion photographer
but only if I could be better than him which I decided
I couldn’t. Later I wanted to design but could not
draw, went to film school and then ended up taking
9 months in fashion at Parsons and FIT in NYC.
Opened my own brand and did that for 13 years.
Do you actually call it an industry satisfying a luxurious
need or is it art?
With most designers it is a business like a Louis
Vuitton, Celine, Dior, etc. For some it is a luxury like
Givenchy couture, for others it is a perfect mix between
fashion and art, people like Hussein Chalayan, Rick
Owens, Boudicca, Haider…
Do you define yourself as an artist or a businesswoman?
Basically I’m a creative person, I’ve always either made
films or designed….but now I am organizing exhibitions,
curating them and putting together my film
festival. I aspire to be more of a business woman than I
am, It is never too late to learn.
Do you think fashion is happening more in the ateliers
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Half and half, some cities have more interesting street
looks than others. I’m dreaming of creativity coming
back to the ateliers but not so sure that is the direction
we are in or are heading towards. One can dream.
Which designer from the past (who has past away) do
you want to meet and what would you want to talk
about with him?
I would have loved to have known Madame Gres. The
exhibition currently in Paris is a dream.
Is there a comparably creative and talented designer as
Alexander McQueen nowadays?
Different style but Rick Owens, Haider Ackermann,
Boudicca, Raf Simons….
What makes a good collection?
The three designers that I mentioned above make a
good collection because they use their own signature
and it really does not emulate anyone else.
Who is the most influential person or brand in fashion
right now and why?
I think Rick Owens because he has the perfect balance
between being edgy and being commercial. He’s probably
the most copied designer of our decade.
Who would you crown as an ultimate fashion diva?
It is a tie between Anna Piaggi and in the grave, Isabella
Blow. They both love/loved fashion and are/were
a pleasure to look at.
What annoys you about the fashion industry?
Arrogant and pretentious people who are basically
about nothing beyond their own skin.
Fashion and art quite often go hand by hand. What do
you think about collaborations like the one Lady Gaga is
running with Thierry Mügler?
I think Nicola Formichetti is genius and has his
finger on the pulse. He knew exactly what he was
doing putting Lady Gaga on the runway. He told me
Mugler was not prepared for the collection to sell
as wildly well as it did. We are living in a celebrity
decade…that is what sells clothes for better or worse.
On the other hand, what do you think of high-end labels
like Victor&Rolf collaborating with labels like H&M?
I think it is great, it makes fashion available to the
masses. I thought that the H & M Lanvin collaboration
was excellent, especially the film by Mike
Figgis. Now everyone can own Comme des Garcons,
Lanvin, Sonia, Matthew who ever, why not? I
think it is a win win situation. Nobody expects those
clothes to last forever.
There are many fashion documentaries - on Anna Wintour,
on Karl Lagerfeld, etc. Do you think they present the
real face of fashion and the people they are focusing on?
My favorite fashion documentary is an old one from
the 80’s Unzipped, genius and real. I also liked the
Last Emperor Valentino and I did like The September
issue, Grace was the star and yes, I think some people
looked good and others not but it rang pretty true.
Who gave you the most valuable fashion advice that
you’re still following? Can you share it with us?
I’ve thought about that and I feel bad not coming up
with a genius answer. Honestly I don’t remember anyone
giving me fashion advice that I took and thought
was something to live by. I can give some, dress to
please yourself, you are never going to please everybody
anyway and do you really care?

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Bête
Noire
by Emma E. K. Jones
www.that-suicide-is-painless.blogspot.com
This night, the stars disguised, the horseshoes choke the silence
And in the room, the shadows bloom, before their lady’s violence.
As she commands, the moths construct the graves of million phantoms.
And in the dark, with hair blond and long, and eyes like burning coal, she is smiling very bitter.
Fairer than a chimera, when her thorns turn to feathers, and her tears into drops of wine.
The perfume of death.
Her lips will whisper things, tales no one wants to know of, tales that haunt you forever and the salamanders cry
will posses the living.
When the moon decides to take its own life as a sacrifice
She will rule, do not be fooled, you can’t escape her gallows
She is our Queen, the Queen of beasts and shadows.
No human mirror can sustain to carry her reflection, only in the eyes of unicorns slides a mere portrait of her
deception.
And as she leaves worshiped by skeletons and flies, a charming melody drowns the zephyr.
The song she sang, the night that Gods could not endure her beauty.

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BETTE DAVIS
TRIBUTE
TO
A
GODESS
by Nina Kharytonova
They are robbing respiratory beautiful, they are loved, admired
and hated.
They are glamorous and unattainable as a goddess (because
that is the linguistic interpretation of “Diva”). We are talking
about the Hollywood dynasty of 1940-years. Elizabeth Taylor,
Eva Gardner, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn
Monroe just to name a few names here.
They have used the term diva reinvented, embossed and
they gave us some unforgettable moments in cinema.
The one that particularly stands out is Bette Davis.
Especially because she was not a typical diva. Which
was not alone on her choice of roles - she never hesitated
to play ugly and nasty unerotic women but
also their entire presence, charisma, and not least
unusual in their appearance. Bette Davis did not
match precisely to the ideal of beauty of at that time
in Hollywood. Everything about her face was a bit
too big: the nose, the mouth, but above all her fascinating
eyes. And yes she has managed it, especially
from those flaws to create a brand, because they
exuded a kind of beauty to you that it was difficult
for someone to believe something else.
Her childhood was not always golden. Bette was born
in 04/05/1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts(USA). A
year later, then her sister Harriet Barbara (Bobby)
was born. Trapped in an unhappy marriage with
unwanted children her father recite in 1915 the small
family and left the three women to their own fate. This
event coined especially his daughters very much. Ruth
(her mother) has always preferred Bette. She tried to
survive with photography, her favorite subject was
always their first-born child.
The desire to become an actress Bette expressed the
first time in 1921 (when her family moved to New

Hollywood
always wanted me to be pretty,
but I fought for realism.
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York), she was just 13 years old. But this desire manifested
itself when she saw in 1926 a theater production
of “The Wild Duck”. It was the poignant spectacle of
Peggy Entwistle. As the family could not afford expensive
theater acting lessons, Ruthie has once again inserted
for Bette and so she got hold a study on rates at
the „John Murray Anderson School of Theatre“. Later,
Bette got the most desirable scholarship as recognition
of her enormous ambition, but she did not use the
scholarship, she left the school to act in her first play.
However as chance would have it, the piece was displaced
and Bette had to face again the harsh reality.
This coincidence is due Bette got her first starring role,
the actress who played the main role in a movie has
been ill and Bette steped in, probably.
Even in their first attempts in Hollywood, she was not
really welcome there. At that time she was very shy,
inexperienced, modest and just could not offer typical
Hollywood stimuli. Just before her contract with Universal
Studios was terminated, the cinematographer
Karl Freund persuaded the studio bosses to give her a
small role. And so Bette Davis made her film debut in
“The Bad Sister” (1931)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021636/
However the desired success failed and Bette was just
before leaving Hollywood. At this moment Fortuna
smiled into her face.
At that time the well-known actor and filmmaker
George Arliss gave her the female lead role in “The
Man Who Played God”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023181/
The film was a huge success and for the rest of her life,
she was George Arliss grateful that he helped her to
break through in Hollywood. After this movie Bette got
a five-year contract with Warner Brothers.
Their most important success so far, after more than
20 films, she had with the role of evil Mildred Rogers
in “Human Bondage” (1934)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025586/
The fact that this film has not received an Oscar nomination,
sparked some protests and resulted to a subsequent
change in the voting procedure at the Academy
Awards. A year later she got the trophy for best actress
for “Dangerous “
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026261/
But she called this as Belated recognitionto her performance
in the film “Human Bondage”.
For the representation of a Southern belle in “Jezebel”
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3652124953/
she got her second Academy Award in 1938. Overall
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she was nominated for an Oscar ten times. In 1941 she
became the first female president of the „Academy of
Motion Pictures and Arts “, but angered the committee
with her research nature and left without further
ado, the Academy. She even claimed that she gave the
award the nickname “Oscar”.
By her brash, impatient and unbridled nature, Bette
Davis squandered themselves with their employer
the „Warner Brothers Studios“. When she was afraid
thather career bend through the mediocre roles that
the studiio allocates to her, she took the offer of a British
producer company to lead in two of their films. In
order to escape the just penalty for the infringement
summarily sued the Warner Brothers studio in the
English court. The case was later the historic milestone
because more similar cases were decided in favor of
the plaintiff actor. Bette, however, lost the lawsuit and
went back to Hollywood in debt. She remained still at
the „Warner Brother Studios“ and later she became the
highest paid actress at her time.
Bette’s meteoric rise had a rather negative effect on
their private life. 1932-1960 Davis had four husbands
and three children. 1932 she married “Ham” Nelson.
The marriage broke up, however, in 1938, on Bette’s
infidelity and success. Her second husband, Arthur
Farnsworth was a native of England innkeeper. The
happiness was short-lived, as he died in 1943 on a skull
fracture. 1945 Bette married for the third time, this
time to the artist William Grant Sherry. At the age of
39, she gave birth to a daughter, Barbara. 1950 Bette
has a divorce from William. And then 25 days later she
married her fellow actor Gary Merrill. Gary adopted
Bette’s daughter Barbara and within the next two
years, the two actors adopted two more children - a girl
named Margaret and a boy - Michael. Some years later
the first daughter Barbara broke off the contact, as she
published a rather unpleasant biography of the relationship
to her mother.
Bette Davis even claimed that the director William Wyler
was her one true love. He, however, refused to leave
his wife, and so Bette Davis stays alone from 1960 on.
After several years without success, Bette Davis had a
critically acclaimed comeback as Baby Jane in the horror
film “What happened to Baby Jane “ (1962)
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi836895001/
The fascinating thing about this film was that she
played with her arch rival Joan Crawford. This film
was a worldwide success, just by the fact that the two
actresses could now live out their rivalry in front of the
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I was the
Marlon Brando
of my generation.
Joan Crawford fell in love with Bette. However, Davis
rejected it. In revenge, Mrs. Crwaford got married to
Franchot Tone, he has thrown himself an eye on Bette
at that time. Legendary is the black humor of the diva
and her devotedly maintained enmity with her rival
Joan Crawford, she used to say. “One should not say
anything bad about the death, but good Joan Crawford
is dead good!” or better yet “I would not even piss on
her if she were on fire. “
She argued, however, not only with Joan Crawford, on
the set everyone knew to work with Bette is not easy.
Often she found the scripts are bad, the directors and
fellow actors for untalented and said this is also loud.
Even though she had a negative image and played
unsympathetic characters, their movie, Davis was very
very popular and she had many advocate and friends
in the industry.
She worked until her death. She was the star in more
than a hundred films. Her career had a period of 60
years , which was for a Hollywood actress, a rather
unusual life. Davis’s own aging has perceived as “massacre”.
She once said: “Growing old is not for sissies.
“ At the age of 75, she suffered a heart attack, later
diagnosed with breast cancer. A few days after the operation
she had a stroke. Their last major appearance
was in 1986 in Lindsay Anderson’s “Whales of August
“. In October 1989 at the San Sebastian Film Festival
she accepting her last award, she was so weak that she
could not return home. She died on 6. October 1989 in
Paris. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
(Hollywood Hills), in addition to her mother Ruthie
and her sister, Bobby. On her grave stone is written,
“She did it the hard way” and that was true, because
the only thing that Bette Davis did not choose, was an
easy way to go.
Besides the wonderful movies, Bette Davis leaves a
legacy that says : Faith in yourself and strength of character
certainly can move mountains!

In this business,
until you’re known
as a monster
you’re not a star
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PURE
An ode to
femininity
Photos by Aaron Feaver
www.feaverishphotography.com

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Interview with Aaron Feaver by Amanda M. Jannson
Aaron Feaver is a photographer living in Los Angeles. His stunning art
photography of women and the female body is inspired by his personal
view of female beauty. What sets him out is his strong and daring perspective
which still manages to maintain a unique tenderness and dream
like nature but also the fact that he is not willing to censor himself or
compromise his vision at any cost.
What is beauty in a woman according to you?
Beauty, in the purely physical sense of something
visually pleasing, has been pretty hard-wired into us, I
think. Babies reaching for pretty faces over plain ones,
etc. It’s all evolution and math, and photographing or
painting it is basically still life. But there’s that beauty
of personality or character that everyone has that you
can capture a bit of in an expression, and I’d like to
think that’s what I’m going for.
What does it take to be a real diva?
Ha…well, to be honest I haven’t worked with many divas,
so I’m probably not the best judge. I don’t think
I’d have much patience for a diva, frankly; I appreciate
someone who worked hard to get to the top of
their game, but not at the expense of their down-toearth-ed-ness.
How is it to work with women?
It’s about the same as working with men. One thing
is, there’s kind of a negative stereotype of the fashion
photographer as lech, and that’s definitely something
I’m conscious of and work extra hard to avoid. There
are, I’m sure, guys who set out to be fashion photographers
for the chance to look at beautiful women all
day, but that’s not at all what I’m about.
What has inspired you to photograph women the way
you do? (Why women?)
I started photographing people because I saw beautiful
photos by people like Dusdin Condren and Lou Noble
that I wanted to imitate. I’d been taking photos of seascapes
and whatnot for a year or so and I guess I was
ready for the next step. I dabbled in photographing
women in a sexy way, sometimes naked or half naked,
but I’ve moved on from that, too. It can quickly become
a crutch, I think. I get a lot of my feedback from
Flickr, for instance, and it’s so easy to take a “popular”
photo if it’s a nude, or a Polaroid, or…god forbid…
both. It’s a confidence booster, for sure, but it’s easy
to get lazy. I’d rather a photo be popular because it’s a
good photo, regardless of the format or the content. So,
yeah, I pretty much don’t take nude photos any more,
for those reasons. Now, if nudity adds to the photo or
is necessary (somehow) for the photo, then, sure; I’m
not against it, I’m just wary of using it unnecessarily.
How important do you think photography has been in
creating divas over the times?
Well, everyone likes to look pretty, and there can be a
defining power in photographs that I’m sure could lead
someone to have an inflated view of themselves.

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A
SUZY
LOVE
LADY
PLAYS
IN HER OWN
LEAGUE
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
A few weeks ago I received an email from a photographer
called Suzana Holtgrave. I was more than surprised how
good the photos were. I then find out that Suzana is also
making music. Under the pseudonym Suzy Love. I was
flashed from the first minute. Her music is some kind of
80s-90s-2011s electronic/rock sound. Just great!
I was thinking not long and I asked her if she will do a fashion
story for HONK! I was very happy when she said yes.
Then when we first met, I fell in love with her. The native
Croatia woman, has so much power, coupled with charm
and heart. She is direct. She is loud. She is hot. She is a
strong women. Not from this planet.
When you get to know Suzy a bit, you will notice this lady
has a lot of experiences in her life. Suzy Love is an artist to
adore. This lady is playing in her own league.

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SUZY LOVE
Suzy, you are an an allround-talent. How would you
describe yourself as an artist? Who is Suzy Love?
I am a woman with a free spirit. Outwards with great
desire. Yes, i am someone who likes the limelight.
Someone who loves very much the music and photography.
That is why i choosed word LOVE!
Love is my creative driving force. I love of all the beautiful
things around me. Convince me, let them manifest
and then put it to my own art. Sometimes in music
, sometimes in fashion, sometimes in photography ...
my personal menage a trois.
You you end up in the early 80s, in a roundabout way, in
Berlin. How have you experienced the time back then?
Berlin was at this time: the place to be!
Berlin is always the place to be. For some people just
for a short time. For me Berlin has become my second
home. But yes, you’re right, that was a unique situation.
The East-West conflict, the Cold War, the wall. A city
divided in two. Communism to capitalism. It was very
difficult for me to understand what it is about. What’s
going on. At the beginning I was afraid of the city.
A party chased the next. Berlin - Kreuzberg. We were
dancing on tables. I worked in a trendy disco „The
Jungle. It was like dancing on a volcano. The city was
boiling, we were on an island surrounded by the wall.
And of course that was: the place to be for many artist.
It was a very creative time ... oh .. now I feel a sentimental
nostalgia. All of that was also romantic.
ou are singing, you are taking pictures and you worked
as asuccessfully model. What came first?
Nothing of that. First I wanted to study fashion design.
I’ve always loved fashion. I have done sewn, knitted,
crocheted, glued, no matter what, important was: it
looks cool and it does not have anybody. Very simply
no jeans and t-shirt, The clothes were bad done,
they survite sometime just one party..Then came the
modeling. I have done more in between. I have done
photography always but I never had a good camera. A
year ago I got my Canon. It is my new love and I always
kiss my camera. (She laughs)
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Photo Sascha Kramer
Oh that’s hard. A bit of everything. Like a good stew.
All what I like: electro, techno, of course rock `n ‘roll ,
a pinch of 60s, a la Brigitte Bardot. It must be sexy and
a bit of Hummor. This is very important.
I always work with Mike Fuzz. He produces, plays
instruments and he makes the beats ... (he is also an
all-round talent). You see, I’m not the only one with
many interests. I am his muse. I write lyrics and sing.
Thanks to Mike, because of him I am start to sing. In
Croatia, I’ve sung in the choir, but they were rather
Yugoslav songs.
From the musician and nightlife icon, to the successful
model. How and when were you discovered? And how
was your model career ?
I have done modeling before for my friends and I have
already noticed that it’s fun.
I was asked by a photographer at Kurfürstendamm
in Berlin . If i would like to do some photos. I immediately
said;. Yes, sure.! That is how it all starts. Test
shoots, agencies, shows. I was always the smallest at
the catwalk (which annoyed me very much). But i had
many jobs. That was about 13 years ago. Modeling
is a very cool job. I would have liked to continue, but
the girls were getting younger and younger. So, it was
about time to say goodbye from the spotlight. Through
the modeling I’ve learned a lot about professionalism,
punctuality - is in Germany, very important! Now
I benefit from this time. I´ve worked for designers
like Nanna Kuckuck or Fiona Bennet. And now I take
pictures of their designs (see @ HONK! the diva-issue -
Hotel angst-menage a trois). This is whole new experience
for all of us.
Now about 20 years later you’re on your way to be a
great photographer. Was the logical next step, after all
your experiences?
The photography came to me. No one asked me. Great
or not great, I learn something new every day. And it
gives me a lot of fun. This is to me is the most important
part.
Why do have a different name as a photographer than
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SUZY LOVE
I’m not afraid. I am not thinking about it. Suzy Love
suits best with my personality. Suzy is the abbreviation
of Suzana and Love is my favorite word. And it sounds
better on a record. For example: Intercooler feat.Suzy
Love. The name is fun and plays with sexuality. Like
me. Suzana Holtgrave is more serious. I am not an
intellectual artist. Maybe subconsciously I wanted to
be taken seriously as a photographer.
Why not more names? I am authentic in both roles,
as Suzy Love and Suzana Suzy Holtgrave. I don´t hide
myself behind a name. No fake. Everything I do, I do it
with 100% believe and I stand 100% behind it.
If you had to describe your style as a photographer by
yourself, how would that sound?
I would not define me. And I constantly invent myselves
new. I am inspired by the painting, old movies,
nature and of course by my models. And Helmut
Newton .. one of the biggest Artist on the planet. I love
his work and the way he works. I had the luck to work
with him. He spend a long time in Berlin. Here he has
made a movie about his life. And I had a small role in
the movie.
The shoot was tough, I had to do my scene a few times
until I had bloody knees. Newton said once:“ You’re
great, you play like Greta Garbo.“ I do not know if he
was simply a good liar or if he really meant it. But I was
in a trance of sheer luck. This is the most important
thing you should communicate to your models and
actors. They are great, then you get the best results.
Unfortunately, I’ve never seen the film, I think he was
never filmed to the end. Unfortunately.
When you do your shootings, you are the photographer,
stylist, and you are createing the concept. Are you a
perfectionist?
I could produce myselves and take pictures of myself.
There goes a lot more. Egomania .. ha, ha ... I
leave nothing to chance, l even search for the models
by myself.
Perfectionist? Not really, sometimes it’s the time that
drives me to do everything by my own. The ideas are
bubbling out of me. And I want it to be realized quickly.
It’s like a drug, an addiction!!!
Let’s play a little game. I say to you three famous women
and tell me in short words what do you think about
them.
Lady Gaga:
Innovative, flashy, allien, fun
Sharon Stone
blond, IQ, sexy, at least in the 80s & 90s
Angela Merkel
Ambition, it is not easy to survive in a man’s world
(politics), she is not photogenic.
Which woman has influenced you in your career? Do
you have any role models?
NO, not necessarily a role model. My aunts from
Croatia, maybe. All very strong personalities. With my
mother there are four women in the family, wearing
the pants.
Otherwise, of course, many women have influenced
me. Sofia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Patty Smith. There
are so many great women and of course a photographer:
Ellen von Unwerth.
What can we expect from you in 2011/2012 ? Any new
projects?
I do not like to talk about the future. That is why, it is
the future. I am concerned with the here and now.
I hope I can continue photographs. Create my concepts.
This has something to do with artistic freedom.
To keep my brain open to new ideas, to continue to
be creative and to keep my joy. Everything else will be
seen.
I am also very curious ....
Thanks Suzy for the interview! HONK! loves you. And we
are proud that your a big part in our little magazine.
Kiss, Suzy Love
www.myspace.com/suzyloverockt
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1203737630&sk=info
How important is fashion in your life?
Today, less than then. Now I also prefer a jeans and
t-shirt on, but for photos, it is clear super important.
Fashion inspires me. It says a lot about a person.
Fashion is fun. There are designers who make artistic
fashion. Sometimes it is also an escape from reality.
An escape into the beauty. Fashion is ephemeral, like
everything in life.

Photo Andre Rival
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Who
Madonna?
the hell is
MUSIC
Music reviewed by Polys
His taste in music is legendary in
Berlin. No dance floor is safe!
He loves music and music loves him!
Now the top of the top of Polys
playlist!

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Oh Land
Oh Land
• Oh Land is the 23-year old Danish singer-songwriter
and record producer Nanna Øland Fabricius.
• The daughter of an opera singer mother and an organist
father was a trained ballerina before she decided
to embark on a music career following a back injury.
• 2008 > Release of Oh Land’s debut album “Fauna”.
• 2011 > Release of Oh Land’s second self-titled Album.
• Peaked at number five on the Danish Albums Charts.
• April 2011 > Music Artist award at the NewNowNext
Awards.
• Fabricius says: “I want my music to feel like 2050
meets something really classic, like meeting a stranger
that feels as familiar as an old friend”.
• Although relatively new to the indie electronic
scene, Oh Land is sure to impress.
• Oh Land is a wonderfully produced album with a
terrific vocalist and beautiful, aesthetic music that
paints gentle pictures in your mind.
• A collection of unique and energetic electronic beats
that make dancing too hard to resist.
• Oh Land is not afraid of the “unusual”, furthermore
she is using a kind of unconventional aesthetic and
surprise effects, more than well-directed, for her per-
Interpret: Oh Land
Album: Oh Land
Genres: Pop, electronic, experimental
Label: Fake Diamond, Epic, RCA
Origin: Denmark
Released: March 2011
Line-up: Nanna Øland Fabricius

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WHO THE HELL IS MADONNA
Interpret: The Dø
Album: Both Ways Open Jaws
Genres: Indie-Pop
Label: Cinq7
Origin: France, Finland
Released: March 2011
Line-up: Olivia Bouyssou Merilahti, Dan Levy
Interpret: When Saints Go Machine
Album: Fail Forever
Genres: Pop
Label: !K7, EMI
Origin: Denmark
Released: January 2011
Line-up: Silas Moldenhawer, Jonas Kenton,
Simon Muschinsky, Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild
sonal and phonetic presentation.
• Denmark isn’t that different from Sweden and it
could have the next generation of Scandinavian female
singers, like Mette Lindberg of The Asteroids Galaxy
Tour (QRO live review), and now Nanna Øland Fabricius,
a.k.a. Oh Land.
• There are really few records that I can listen to over
and over again. And this one is definitely one of them!
Favourite tracks: Perfection, Sun of a gun, White
nights.
The Dø
• The last years even more and more new French
Singers and Bands finally recognise that they have to
leave aside their French-language-pride and sing in
English. Hallelujah!
• The band’s name is derived from the first note of
the solfège scale, so it is pronounced the same as the
English word “dough” (with a long “o” sound).
• 2005 > Olivia and Dan met in Paris while recording
the music for a French movie and founded “The Dø”.
• A few months later they released their first EP and
kept on working for cinema, dance, as well as poetry
and theatre.
• 2008 > Release of The Dø’s debut album “A Mouthful”
• “A Mouthful” topped the French charts (n°1 on the
first week), making them the first French act singing
in English to reach that position.
• 2011 > Release of the bands second album “Both
Ways Open Jaws”
• Olivia’s highly varied vocals in combination with
Dan’s sound diversity and unusual arrangements
and beats give this album its unique character.
• The truth is that The Dø doesn’t really sound like
anything else going on right now, but is just the next
step in the evolution of fantastic musical art.
• The Dø have the ability to combine dark and
haunting numbers, regional sounds, cutting-edge
arrangements and pop magic.
• The layered vocals are the kind of touches that affect
the listener without being obvious.
• The album’s childish melodies and impulsive
rhythms will strike you as both new sounding and
classic, as both fresh and rooted in tradition.
• Favourite tracks: B.W.O.J, Slippery slope, Bohemian
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When Saints Go Machine
When Saints Go Machine
• And not just the ones of the well-known bands like
Efterklang, Trentemøller and Kashmir, but also - or
even more – the so far unknown.
• Is Denmark becoming the land of electronic madness?
• Such a promising release comes from the band with
the rather funny name “When Saints Go Machine”.
• They won the “Talent of the Year” award of the
Danish National Radio.
• 2011 > Release of their first mini-album “Fail forever”.
• These 5 tracks with duration of 17:45 min. definitely
make you want more!
• “Fail Forever” sounds as a hybrid of Empire Of The
Sun and Crystal Castles.
• Very strange and fascinating music if you ask me.
• Nikolaj says: “We wanted to make music that manages
over beyond the borders of Denmark. What do we
do now is pop with a lot of electronics, I would say. “
• The album was mixed by Christoffer Berg, who previously
balanced The Knife’s Deep Cuts and Silent Shout.
• The range of material covered in these 5 tracks
makes their sound extremely hard to pin down.
• Open with a bang. Close with a bang (with some
pretty good parts in the middle). For a mini-album
with only 5 tracks, by my calculation that makes
‘Fail Forever’ pretty darn good.
• Favourite tracks: Fail forever, Pinned, Pick up your
tears and run.
Agoria
• Agoria was the name of a techno-party-series in
Lyon and Sébastien Devaud was a co-organiser.
• Early 90’s > Sébastien Devaud starts Djing with
the pseudonym “Agoria”.
• His Style > almost everything between Detroit-
Techno and Jazz.
• 2000 > The first DJ to get promoted by FAIR,
a fund organisation that supports and promotes
young French musicians.
• 2010 > Agoria found his own label “Infiné”
• 2011 > Release of his label-debut album “Impermanence”
(his third album overall)
• His music influences for this album flowed from
many different directions.
• Sébastien says: “…the result sounds more like me”.
• He managed to found the balance a good album needs.

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WHO THE HELL IS MADONNA
Metronomy
Interpret: Agoria
Album: Impermanence
Genres: Techno, Detroit techno, Deep house, Ambient
Label: Infiné
Origin: France
Released: January 2011
Line-up: Sébastien Devaud
• The album consists of a constantly discontinuous
mix of a bit of pop, a bit of Detroit, a bit of ambient
with some well chosen features like Seth Troxler,
Carl Craig and Kid A.
• Devaud reverts to his own brand of sex-house, which
involves guest producers (Carl Craig) talking dirty
while the Frenchman plays vivid techno signatures.
• Kid A is my personal highlight of “Impermanence”.
Her seductive voice makes the tracks “Kiss my soul”
and “Heart beating” the most memorable, given the
fact that they stay with you forever after!
• Favourite tracks: Kiss my soul, Heart beating, Panta Rei.
YOUNG GALAXY
• Young Galaxy is (now) a three-piece consisting of
guitar, bass, and keyboard with vocal duties split
across multiple members.
• The band has toured in Canada, The United States
and Europe, opening for Arcade Fire, The Album
Leaf, The Frames, Peter, Bjorn and John, Stars and
Death Cab For Cutie.
• 2007 > Released their self-titled debut.

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Interpret: Young Galaxy
Album: Shapeshifting
Genres: Indie rock, Dream pop
Label: Paper Bag Records, Smalltown Supersound
Origin: Canada
Released: April 2011
Line-up: Stephen Ramsay, Catherine McCandless,
Stephen Kamp
Interpret: Metronomy
Album: The English Riviera
Genres: Electropop, Indie
Label: Because Music
Origin: England
Released: April 2011
Line-up: Joseph Mount, Oscar Cash, Anna Prior,
Gbenga Adelekan
• 2009 > Their second album “Invisible Republic”
was released independently.
• 2011 > Released their third album “Shapeshifting”
which was produced by Dan Lissvik in Sweden.
• The album retains the band’s new wave and synthpop
influences while also dabbling in both more
electronic and more earthly sounds and textures.
• Shapeshifting isn’t proper dance music-- let’s call
it dance-inflected pop-- but it is fantastic and unbound,
interesting and engaging.
• The recruitment of Dan Lissvik to mix the record
did definitely helped a lot but however, having the
perfect producer means nothing if the band and the
material can’t give them something to work with,
so ultimately the credit should go to Young Galaxy
themselves.
• Favourite tracks: Cover your tracks, The angels are
surely weeping, We have everything.
METRONOMY
• 1999 > Joseph Mount formes in England Metronomy
• Mount also releases remixes under the name
“Metronomy”, and has remixed many artists including
Gorillaz, Franz Ferdinand, Klaxons, Goldfrapp,
Ladytron, Kate Nash, Lykke Li and much more. But
he refused to remix Sugababes. ;)
• 2005 > Release of Metronomy’s debut album “Pip
Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)”.
• Metronomy have toured widely throughout the UK
and Europe supporting acts such as Bloc Party, CSS,
Klaxons, Kate Nash and Justice.
• Their music consists of instrumental electronic
music and vocal electronic pop music.
• “The English Riviera” is completely different than
the previous albums of Metronomy.
• It is slicker and smoother, but in some point it’s
a little too uptight! Actually it could almost be the
album of a completely different band.
• If you’re used to dancing to Metronomy’s earlier
stuff at grimy electro nights, this might take some
getting used to, as the band have taken a totally new
direction into a 70’s surf feel.
• Nevertheless, the “lazy summer night songs” of
this album makes it to the perfect soundtrack for the
coming summer!
• Favourite tracks: The look, She wants, Corinne.

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DIVAS
Mister Magnus v. Keil is a very well known Dj based in
Berlin. His taste of music is very trashy and we love him
because of that. That´s why HONK! asked him to make a
top 5 of trashdivas in music. www.vonkeil.com
5.) SABRINA
The Hot Girl with a Bikini Problem.
The fact that with the right combination of disco trash and bare breasts
equals a recipe for guaranteed success was apparent to European music
producers no later than 1985. Clear across the continent, the Samantha
Fox clones sprouted like mushrooms out the dirt and bribed their public
with particularly scanty clothes and sparse talent. The ladies wore little -
in most cases actually nothing more than just their first name - rhymed
‘Dancing’ – ‘Romancin’ or ‘Action’ – ‘Satisfaction’ , and especially moved
the male youth of Europe into euphoria. This is also true of the Italian Sabrina
Salerno, former fashion model for sleazy magazines, which we were
allowed, in the video for “Boys Boys Boys” in 1987, to take a very intimate
glimpse at her splashing around in a pink crepebikini. Even today, in the
age of barrier free sexuality, this is only tolerable under the influence of a
lot of Blue Curacao. But please, with umbrellas!
“Hot Girl” - www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2e6OsAF7Rs
4.) VALERIE DORE
The Cleaning Lady with a Penchant for “Romantic Dance “.
The astounding popularity of thin women’s voices from the Mediterranean
would have probably never existed without the success of Valerie
Dore’s 1984 debut single “The Night”. That, of course, is not only because
of her special sound, but also her bizarre, expressionistic dance style that
Valerie Dore displayed during her stage performances – consequently,
requiring a new musical categorization appropriately termed “Romantic
Dance “. The fact that Valerie Dore, in real life actually Stucci Monica, currently
working as a cleaner in a recording studio and the real singer Dora
Carofiglio who was represented as an optical double, was only known by
a few insiders. Later, Stucci made her own attempt in front of the microphone
- but unfortunately these efforts were almost completely ignored.
In 1991, she moved to Madagascar to record a whole new album with
ethnic influences...and we are all still waiting on.
“Lancelot” - www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmAUflk0US8&feature=related

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3.) DEE D. JACKSON
The Trash Queen from Uranus
What would happen if you threw Kate Bush together with a few feet of
aluminum foil in the disco-washing machine? Well - this question seems
to have been asked in the UK during the heyday of the 1978 Star Wars
frenzy. Quickly, someone decided to make an attempt and the result was
Dee D. Jackson, a more than strange new cyber heroine in a spandex suit.
Whether the video clip of her debut single “Automatic Lover” was meant
as a joke or should really be taken seriously remains a mystery until today
- at least she made it with her song to # 5 on the German charts. The
follow-up single, “Meteor Man”, flopped, as well as her first LP with the
promising name “Comic Curves”. Later efforts to break into the Italodisco
genre were also fruitless. Too bad – but it wasn’t because of their
cosmic curves..…
“Automatic Lover” www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFCwKvlKZo
2.) ANEKA
The Asiophile Dentist’s Wife.
In 1981, Mary Sandeman decided that she had had enough of Gaelic folk
music. Something new was needed - but what? Spontaneously, someone
squeezed the petite lady into colorful kimonos, sat a two-toned geisha
wig on her head and forced her into costume-friendly Asian tinged disco
pop - Aneka was born. For weeks, she defended her hit single, “Japanese
Boy” at the top of the European charts and remained in the memories of
the hit parade audience through their oddly wooden live performances.
But unfortunately, this thoroughly sophisticated concept was not destined
for long-lasting success – By the release of her third single, “Ooh Shooby
Doo Doo Lang”, the short career of the fictional character ‘Aneka’ over.
Whether this was due to the catchy little “Schepper-soprano” Sandeman
or her apparent helplessness and uncertainty during stage performances
is sometimes still an open question. At least, Aneka floated blissfully,
smiling back to Nirvana and Mary Sandeman graciously allowed to return
to her musical roots.
“Little Lady” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp2iyUDqK2c
1.) C.C. CATCH
The Lucrative Recycling Plant.
Actually, a clever man, that Dieter Bohlen: for even the songs that Modern
Talking deemed ‘too bad’, were given to other artists for their own musical
treatment in order to earn a bit more money. How convenient! One of
these artists was C.C. Catch, who, in addition to Sandra, became a stylistic
model of the homebred - West German small town girl. It is unfortunate
that Caro Catharina was not actually paying attention to what was happening
to her, not only because of the precarious substance of her musical
catalog which was highlighted by her visibly thin little voice but also her
hopelessly over-ambitious emotional intonation with which she pulled
himself through outrageous nonsense texts which still is searching for its
equal. (see: “Soul Survivor”) But in exchange, the choreography, outfits
and hairstyle were more opulent. Therefore, I place, C.C. Catch, as the
number one undisputed queen of Euro-Trash!
“Stranges By Night” www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5si4rGARBo&feature=related

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LOLA DUPRÉ
horrifying
hilarious
AND
Interview by Christo Mitov
www.loladupre.com
Lola Dupre (28) is a human Photoshop machine. Except that unlike
the image altering program, the Glasgow-based artist takes a
couple more hours or even days to make the changes that would
cost you a couple of clicks with the Adobe program. Lola is born
in Algeria, grows up in Paris and London. Glasgow has been her
home for about 15 years now. She is a raw talent. She never went
to university - her attempt to try out architecture study in London
turned out to be a path she wouldn’t go along with.
In a world where little can impress me much and excitement with
media is reduced to new casting show formats and the eventual
death of Osama bin Laden, her arresting surreal collages give
you a new, hand-crafted perspective on image manipulation.
Taking pre-existing imagery from iconic historical and contemporary
artists, as well as images of her friends and the people
around her, she manipulates and warps familiar canvases to create
new, twisted artworks that invoke both memories and new
perspectives. She is a master of scissors, glue, and surrealism.
Talking about the obstacles she has as a female artist and sharing
some conspiracy theories with us, Dupre gives HONK! an
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What made you decide you want to become an artist?
When i was very young, first i wanted to be a writer,
then a sculptor, then an artist working in 2D. I wanted
to express myself, this was my motivation.
Why did u gave up on your dream to become a
writer? Have you written anything?
I don’t think i was very good at it, I wrote a 25 page
psychedelic poem when i was a teenager. It was truly
awful but i thought it was great at the time. I tried to
get it published at the time but it was thrown back
in my face. One copy of it still exists.. but I am very
tempted to destroy it once and for all.
Do you easily find photographers to collaborate with?
Sometimes, i often meet enthusiastic photographers,
but a lot of them never get past the planning stage
for various reasons. I am always looking to meet
new talented photographers with a vision. I have
collaborated several times with the photographer
Kristiina Wilson, and i have more projects underway
with her. She’s great, and i very much admire her
work and work-ethic.
Why don’t you have a portrait of yourself?
I’m shy, and i’m working up to doing a portrait of
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What other artists - from your and other fields and
arts - inspire you?
Lots, from all fields, i love what Walter Van Beirendonck
and Gareth Pugh are doing in fashion.
I love the art of fashion, and fashion photography. I
love film and traditional art, music and the written
word. I don’t like really listing my heroes because
there are so many names to mention. I do not like to
number them in a list. I am inspired also just by individual
works of art, not necessarily the creator.
Your images show a distorted reality - is this how you
see the world?
Yes, the world is often a terrible, hopeless and dark
place. The truth is out there, but we get bombarded
with lies at every step. Even when the world is happy,
bright and hopeful, much is contorted and out of place.
I feel the distortion to be both horrifying and hilarious.
What technique do you use for your art? How does a
piece come together?
I use scissors, multiple prints and PVA glue, the
process of how a piece comes together varies wildly
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How long does it take to create one piece?
Impossible to say, some are done before i can catch my
breath, some take countless millennia to complete.
Many of your images display people who seem to
suffer from Dawn’s syndrome or at least the distortion
has made them look like that. Is it intended?
Certainly not!, i intend nothing, the only interpretation
is in the eye of the viewer. I find suggesting
something to be much more powerful than proclaiming
it out loud.
Is it hard for a female artist to emerge nowadays?
I don’t think so, you need balls to get far in this industry.
I have even better than that, I have tits.
What were biggest obstacles in your career so far?
Getting to the point where i was selling enough work
to make a living from. It took many years but i am
finally in that coveted place where i make a living
from my art and doing exactly what i want to do.
Do you think Osama Bin Laden is really dead?
Ohhh tricky question, well possibly. It’s also possible
he died some time ago, and the US military have only
just identified his corpse. I certainly imagine the details
of it have been manipulated for propaganda purposes
anyway. Its also possible that his contract with
the CIA has run out and he has retired in Florida. It’s
not that important to me, he is just one man.
What’s next for you? What piece are you working on?
I am currently making a new group of work for a
solo show i am doing at the phone booth gallery in
Long Beach California in October of this year. For
this show i am making a collection of pieces in the
“exploding” style of which there are already a few
pieces on my site.

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gALORE
Photographer Anita Bresser www.anitabresser.com
Model Alexander Jakob www.centoscouting.com
Styling Julius Forgo www.juliusforgo.com
Styling assistant Tanja Metter www.jenka.eu
Hair + Make up Tan Vuaong
worked with “armani cosmetics www.basic-berlin.de
Photographer´s assistant René Greuél
Special thanks to: Departmentstore Quartier 206
Darkland

Jacket Henrik Vibskov
Chemise Adddress
Trousers Butterflysoulfire
Hat Butterflysoulfire
Headpiece Boesser/Schorn
Bracelet Julius Forgo
Earring Stylist own
Bag a Portegna@Departmentstor Quartier 206
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Top Schmidttakashi
Blazer Damir Doma
Knit jumper Boessert/Schorn
Pin Minimarket
Hat Henrik Vibskov
Bracelet Vintage
Cane/Stick Dandy of the Grotesque

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Chemise Carin Wester
Vest Vladimir Karaleev
Jacket Patrick Mohr
Trousers Adddress
Shoes Damir Doma
Belt Vans
Bracelet Julius Forgo
Hat Vintage
Bag Marstaller
@Departement Quartier 206
Earring Stylist own
Ring Vintage

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Chemise Ann Demeulemeestr@Darkland
Cape Butterflysoulfire
Bagpipejacket Vintage
Trousers Reality Studio
Shoes Trippen
Ring Vintage
Glasses Mykita

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DANDY GALORE
Chemise Dandy of the Grotesque
Trousers Damir Doma
Shoes Bless
Hat Vintage
Belt Skipping rope
Earring Stylist own

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Pullover Maison Martin Margiela
@Departement Quartier 206
Shirt Reality Studio
Vest Dandy of the Grotesque
Hat Rike Feuerstein
Tie pin as a Brooche Dandy of the Grotesque
Earring Stylist own

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DANDY GALORE
Top Patrick Mohr
Vest Boesser/Schorn
Jacket Butterflysoulfire
Trousers Jenka
Scar Boessert/Schorn
Jacket Patrick Mohr
Glasses Mykita
Earring Stylist own

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Chemise Dandy of the Grotesque
Coat Damir Doma
Pants Butterflysoulfire
Hat Vintage
Glasses Vintage
Earring Stylist own

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by Sherry Vine
If you’re a true diva you can be a diva anywhere,
anytime! But to be a diva in NYC you better get
ready to bring it sister! Of course, there are many
types of divas. You may be a high class Fifth
Avenue diva, dashing to the Plaza in your Chanel
suit. Or a Lower East Side diva skate boarding
to the coffee shop in a sexy Zweite Hand ensemble.
There’s a Chelsea diva, rollerblading along the
river in hot go go shorts and tank top, Prada sunglasses
and the latest trendy headphones. I live in
Hell’s Kitchen where many different breeds of divas
co-habitate together. You’re likely to see yoga divas
walking down the street with their mat and sweater
tied around their neck. Or the allusive dancer diva
- strolling along the Avenue in 2nd position puffing
away on a cigarette. Also be on the look out
for the young gay diva disguised as a street thug in
hoodie, cap and baggy jeans. If you approach them
to quickly they’re likely to snap at you - as in finger
snap!
But my favorite diva is the one who makes it look
easy - no attitude - just gorgeous. My kind of diva
shops for knock-offs on Canal Street, hits the art
galleries in Chelsea and then bar hops in Hell’s
Kitchen. I carry my $20 knock off Versace purse as
if Dontella handed it to me herself!
To really enjoy Manhattan this diva must:
1. Rock a glamorous wig from www.WigBar.com in
China Town. They do all the wigs in my videos and
are the best in town! Weather you need a GaGa
bang or pink mohawk or Imperial Court up-do,
theses are your boys.
2. Strut on 8th Street for the sexiest shoes in
town. There are about 50 stores with shoes and
you can get really good deals. Just pretend you’re
in Morocco and don’t be afraid to strike a deal.
3. Grab a delicous meal and cocktail at elmo restaurant.
They have a wide selection of food and a delicious
array of cocktails. The tuna tartar is yummy!
4. Take in a Broadway show - they are NOT the
same as in other cities! You can get cheap tickets
for almost every show at Hot Tix. Even though
Superman is getting terrible reviews I heard it’s
spectacular. And I saw the opening night of Priscilla,
Queen of The Desert and it’s soooo colorful
and fun!
5. Stroll thru Central Park - there’s a zoo, pond, half
dressed men! In the Spring there’s nowhere in the
city more fun to hang out in. There are shows, concerts,
dancing, boating, movies and more. So many
people forget about Central Park so take advantage
of it.
6. And, most importantly, see my show! lol. The
Sherry Vine Show every Sunday at Barracuda at
midnight and Sherrylicious every Wednesday at
VIG 27 at 10pm. You can find all info at www.
sherryvine.com
The Big Apple is so diverse that there’s room for
all divas! Be respectful, be careful and be original!
The only thing that is un-diva is rudeness. So wear
a smile and have fun!
Sherry

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FUME
OF
VIRGINITY
Photos by Marco Rothenburger
www.Marco-Rothenburger.de
Model Eli B @PMA Models
MakeUp & Hair Fee Romero
Retouching Imre Fejes
Assistant Julia Sieckmann

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A MAN
SHOULD
WEAR
The perfect dress for the HONK!GENTLEMAN
Henrik Vibskov
JUUN.J

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Walter van Beirendonck

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A WOMAN
SHOULD
WEAR
The perfect dress for the HONK!LADY
Rejina Pyo
Manish Arora

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NATALIA AVELON
MOVIE
STAR
THE NExT gENERATION
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
Photos by Bernhard Musil www.be-musil.com
Styling Marina Gehrman
Hair&Make up Pascale J. Louis
Production assitant Nicolas Heimburger
Special thanks to RADIALSYSTEM V www.radialsystem.de
Since the origin of cinema was the role of diva occupied by
many many actresses. They dominated the picture of a whole
generation of women. Looking at the cinema today, we are
missing those women. Natalia Avelon could easily save the tradition
of those divas.
She has everything what a great movie star needs. The beauty,
the grace, the talend, the heart and charisma.
She is one of the new stars of the European film. So it is time
we give Natalia the attention she deserves.

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Natalia, as a young girl you emigrated with your parents
from Poland to Germany. How did you experience
this time?
As far as I can remember, for me it was an adventure.
New impressions, new people and friendships. A foreign
language, communication with hands and feet, and
above all with the heart! I have only positive memories!
Could you speak German there already? And was it hard
to leave your home and friends?
I could not speak a single word of German. But my new
primary school has welcomed me with open arms and
I was quickly integrated. The people took care of me. I
was the newcomer and it was really touching. On the
other hand, they met through me a new country and
a new culture: Poland. Yes of course I had to leave my
friends. But I knew that the distance between us is too
big and no obstacle to our friendship would be. But
Karo and Milosz and I are still friends, to these days -
even though we live in the meantime, distributed all
over the world.
Would you say these experiences as a young girl have
shaped you? And if so how far in?
All of my experiences I have gained as the new one and
a foreigner, have shaped me into a tolerant, socially
committed woman of moral courage. At the age of 9, I
was thrown into a completely unknown life, in which I
had to find my way and integrate myself. I developed
a lot of ambition, discipline and patience through this
experience. Properties that I need, especially in my
profession and I can use them today.
During your school days you have discovered your passion
for acting. How and when have you made your fi rst
steps in that direction?
I took my first steps at the St. James Theatre in
Karlsruhe. An amateur theater, where I had my first
experience with stage, audiences and critics. A great
and memorable time!
After your school you studied drama in Munich. Is this
not the exact opposite of acting? How did you fi nance
your study time? By catering jobs? Or modeling, acting?
I wanted to learn all about acting from the ground up.
That is why I´ve started studying theater arts. I had
worked casually at the Call Center of the FC Bayern,
babysitting and i had worked as a hostess at trade
shows. Living in Munich is insanely expensive. I also
took private actor, singing and dancing lessons.
You did your fi rst movie experience in German soap operas
like “Forbidden Love “ or “Storm of Love”. Two of the
most popular German TV series. When you were a young
actres, you were not afraid to hang forever in the soap
bar? Or were you just happy to work during this time?
At the this time I was 20 years old. Oh it is already 11
years ago! Madness. I never think in a drawer and i
am open to all experiences that expand my horizons.
And the guest appearances on soap operas, have been
financially a giftto me! And above all, Iike the work
ethic and structure may know of such formats. It is a
very concentrated and focused work. The workload is
immense! And the pressure behind it at least as large.
In 2007 came the great career step for you! You have
been well known in Europe overnight. You played the
main role in the movie “Eight Miles High”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0Jxn4xRMM
A movie about THE! German icon Uschi Obermeier. How
much has this movie changed your life and your career?
It was my first starring role! And then cinema! It was
the jackpot of my life! The role was a big challenge. I
have prepared myself for the movie for more then one
year. It was my introduction to the world in which I
feel at home. The dream world. The world of movies.
I think it is very diffi cult to play someone who is still alive.
Because it is easier to be compared and an actres gets
more criticism. I think it is easier to play someone who is
dead. Or am i wrong? How was it in your case?
Right from our first meeting Uschi Obermeier has
signed me into her heart and strengthened my back.
This has supported me in my preparation a lot and I
removed some pressure. For content questions, she
was my original source and she was always there for
me. And i worked a lot with the director Frank Betzel
and my acting coach. It was wonderful teamwork.
Because of the big success of the movie and your
precedent on the screen and your erotic charisma . You
became a new symbol of femininity. How does it feels to
be one of the most beautiful women in cinema?
Thank you for the compliment. I’m rarely thinking
about what I embody. I concentrate on my work, my
preparations, my roles and my dreams and goals.
Everything else I put it to the side and laugh about it or
get angry. Sometimes when I have the feeling of being
violated. What I represent as Natalia Avelon interpreted
for each individual is completely different. If I were
asked, for which I stand, I could not answer. I float
with my thoughts and my imagination somewhere else.
We will not conceal, of course, that you are also a very
successful singer. The theme song for your movie, “Eight
Miles High” have you sung with „HIM“ superstar Ville Vallo.

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It was a big top hit in Europe . How did it come to this
cooperation?
The director, Achim Bornhak had the idea of a remake
of the song “Summer Wine” for our soundtrack record,
and he asked me if I would dare to sing the part
of Nancy Sinatra. It was another adventure for me!
Unknown territory! I love adventures!
How does it feel to be suddenly a pop star? To hear
your own song on the radio?
Departed! Crazy! Beautiful! Unbelievable! Unrealistic!
It is as if I have two personalities. The one sits at home
with a sausage sandwich and listens to the radio and
the other one , which can be seen in the video and has
sung this song. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Lovely!
Will you sing once again in the future and bring a new
album out?
I love music! I’m in love with music! I would like to
realize my visions that I have regarding to music, yes!
You do acting, you sing and you are successful as a
model. For many young girls you are a role model.
Which artist has inspired you as a teenager? And why?
I wanted to be so beautiful and exotic and peculiar as
Janet Jackson is! And dance as good as her. Michael
Jackson is still my role model, in terms of music and
entertainment. Pharrell Williams, Will.I.Am, Madonna,
Lady Gaga. Hitchcock, Vincent Price, Louis De
Funes, Charlie Chaplin . They are all very visionary
characters that define me in many ways and not to
swim with the tide. I like colorful birds. And I do not
mean their appearance but their personalities. People
who are express themselves in the forefront. People
with creativity, heart, soul and imagination!
The tradition of great movie divas no longer exists these
days. Pitty!. Who is one of the great divas ever for you?
Liz Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Catherine Deneuve.
When i see photos of , like those on the current GQ
cover. I can see that you have a very classic diva charisma.
Now after meeting you i can say : You are one
of the nicest and warmest actresses i have ever met.
Who keeps you on the fl oor ?
Thank you! This is a very, very nice compliment! I
see no reason to play a diva. The term diva has to
do with life experience, a certain age, great power,
class and glamour. I’m still too young to be a diva.
My family and friends would be disappointed in me,
if i would act like a big diva. And also pride always
comes before a fall. I think I have too much love and
respect toward life in myself.
Jacket: CARIN WESTER
Top: WEEKDAY
Pants: STINE GOYA
In 2008 you won the DIVA Award - New Talent of the Year.
You are offi cially pimped out to a diva.! How was it for you
to be suddenly in the spotlight ? Did you have to learn how
to move on the big stage? I can imagine that this is not easy.
I enjoyed it right from the first hour. Life and especially
the entertainment industry is a large, colorful game.
That you should not take all too seriously. Instead, you
should deal with many things in life easy and fun and
you will enjoy it more!
With whom do you would love to work with? Is there a
particular movie material, a role that you want to play?
Oh there are so many! I would like to work with
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David Fincher, Detlev Buck, Leander Haussmann,
Dominik Graf! With colleagues like Daniel Day Lewis,
Sean Penn, Joaquin Phoenix, Gary Oldman, Cate
Blanchett, Tilda Swinton. I would love to work with
Marilyn Manson and N.E.R.D., and and and ..!
What does a movie needs to seduce you?
I am inspired by films like “The Wizard of Oz, “
“Murder by Death“, “Donnie Darko”, “City of God”,
“Orfeu Negro, “”The Rose Tattoo “. Intelligently
made movies with talented actors, created by talented
creators and authors inspire me. As the last film I
have seen “Poll”: a masterpiece!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4r9DxdUdlg
What can we expect in the future from you? Any new
projects or movies on the way?
The next movie that will be released on 06/10/2011
is “Wunderkinder”. A movie told from the perspective
of three children who have to give up their
friendship and their love of music, because of the
second World War.
Natalia many thanks for a great day with you, a great
shooting and the interview. We wish you all the best! Honk!
loves you!
And I love u, HONK!

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Styling
Marina German
Photographer
Pascale Jean-Louis
Hair&MakeUp
Miscka Hart @Basics
MODELS
Sarah Batt @M4
Josina @Seeds
Jazz @Izaio
Photographer assistent
Chris Noltekuhlmann
Artwork
Nicolas Simoneau
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I’VE SEEN
I’VE SEEN
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by Alis Pelleschi
Leather Jacket MICHALSKY
Dress MICHAEL SONTAG
Sunglasses MYKITA

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Necklace SABRINA DEHOFF
by Alis Pelleschi
Model Mary-Elizabeth @ First Model Management Dan Szor & Rael Stone
Stylist Leeann Soki Mak
Makeup Alicia Samuels @ AOXpressions using MAC makeup
Hair Liam Curran using SHU EUMURA
Nails Emma Zentner at Boom Nails

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Dress MICHAEL SONTAG
Peach all in one Beyond Retro
headpiece by Tessa Edwards
Gold necklace with skulls
Gold necklace with pink horse hair both by Giselle Ganne
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by Alis Pelleschi
Model Mary-Elizabeth @ First Model Management Dan Szor & Rael Stone
Stylist Leeann Soki Mak
Makeup Alicia Samuels @ AOXpressions using MAC makeup
Hair Liam Curran using SHU EUMURA
Nails Emma Zentner at Boom Nails

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HIS BIZARRE
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Well, well… speaking about divas. If I ask you to think about
the biggest European diva alive I bet you might say Sophia
Loren or Catherine Deneuve or even Penélope Cruz. But the
truth is you would be forgetting one of the biggest (probably
the biggest). And that one would be a man… yes! After Valentino
or Karl Lagerfeld (but they don’t work in the cinema
industry so I won’t say what I think about them which is not
exactly good.) the biggest diva in this so called “Old Continent”
is Mr. Pedro Almodóvar.
Mr. Almodóvar is as difficult as talented. I had the
chance to meet him in person some years ago and
believe me if I say that for a moment it was like talking
to Liza Minelli and Bette Davis at the same time.
You could see how this kind of people don’t live in this
real universe anymore. He’s gifted but very difficult to
deal with. In Spain are quite well known his catfights
with some of the actresses he worked with or how he
decided to bring down a whole set that took weeks or
months to build and cost a million because he didn’t
like some little parts. But he is Mr. Almodóvar and he
is also his own producer, together with his brother, so
problem solved. They lead „El Deseo Producciones“
which is one of the most important production companies
in Spain.
As you can see I’m definitely not his number one fan
but I have to say I don’t hate him either. To some people
(specially in America) who think he’s just God and
they just buy whatever he is doing. I think there are
better directors here down the Pyrenees, like Alejandro
Amenábar or Daniel Monzón but at least you must go
to see his films because he has always something new
to show, then it is up to you if you buy it or not.
When do I buy it? Well, that’s easy. When he becomes
the huge diva he is and explore the female universe.
Sometimes he can touch perfection. But when he decides
to explore some other horizons he use to lose his
touch. It’s funny! He is a man but when he dives into
the male perspective and the main character is a man
in the movie. Then the worst Almodóvar comes out.
That’s specially clear in his last film “Broken Embraces”
(2009), (to me one of his worst films, where only
Penélope Cruz saves the show… as usual). Two other
examples could be “Bad Education” (2004) and “Live
Flesh” (1997), a film I really loathe partly because of
the presence of Liberto Rabal, one of the most boring
actors ever.
After all I said I wouldn’t be to anxious about his next
film, again with a male character leading the show. But
this time I’m more than curious. First because Antonio
Banderas is back to work with Almodóvar after many
years and it’s also good to see him acting in Spanish
again. If you read my first article back in issue number
#01 you would remember what I said about some actors
not acting in their own language and he is a good
example. Second because it’s the first time Almodóvar
films a kind of horror movie or let say a drama with
some drops of horror. The film is based on Thierry
Jonquet’s novel “Mygale” about the story of a plastic
surgeon on the hunt for the men who raped his daughter.
And third because of the whole cast. Antonio Banderas,
Elena Anaya and Marisa Paredes together seem
like a good reason to give it a try. By the way, If you are
in Cannes (France) from 11 to 22 may you might have
luck and be the first to watch it at the French film festival.
If not you will have to wait until September. Send
me an email with your opinion before I destroy you the
movie with mine.
And now back to the good things.
Pedro Almodóvar was born in a very small town in one
of Spain’s deepest areas where men worked the fields
and women where strong but devoted to men and their
kids taking care of their homes. I tell you this because
Almodóvar grew up surrounded by women, learning
to know them well almost without thinking and waiting
for the next old Hollywood film to be shown at the
summer cinema and waiting for Ava Gadner, Bette
Davis or Elisabeth Taylor to come out of the screen to
light up those difficult times in the country side during
Franco’s dictatorship.
He always admired the golden Hollywood times where
the only presence of some of those amazing divas was
enough to spend almost all of the salary in a cinema
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lor. He was so affected for her dead that when the last
big diva alive died (forgive me Lauren Bacall) he wrote
an article at “El País”, the most important newspaper
in Spain, speaking about her influence in his life
and movies. Specially her traumatic marriages with
Richard Burton or her roles in “Butterfield 8” (Daniel
Mann, 1960) and in Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly,
Last Summer” (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) and
specially “ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (Richard Brooks,
1958). In fact, Williams’ influence is more than obvious
in all of Almodóvar’s filmography, from desperate
but powerful women such as Carmen Maura in “¿Qué
he hecho yo para merecer esto!!” (1984) and “Women
on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988) or more
recently Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (2006) to insane
characters fighting solitude and desperately seeking to
be loved: Great theatre actress Julieta Serrano again
in “Women” or Spanish diva Marisa Paredes in “The
Flower of my Secret” (1995).
In “All about my mother” (1999), one of his best movies
where argentinian actress Cecilia Roth (she never
looked better) plays the role of a nurse who lost her son
in an accident after trying to get an autograph from his
favorite actress Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes) who is
playing Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”
in a theatre in Madrid. This movie got the Oscar
for best foreign language film in 2000.
But that’s not all. Almodóvar’s female universe is
pretty much bigger than Hollywood divas. It goes from
Italian neorealism where those voluptuous Italian
“mammas” like Silvana Mangano or Sophia Loren flow
to Mexican divas or artists such as María Felix, Frida
Kahlo or Chavela Vargas (Amodóvar’s close friend).
“Volver” is one of the best examples of this “Italian
trend” where Penélope Cruz gives the performance of
her life getting her first Academy Award nomination.
The movie is a small masterpiece where he honors all
those strong women he grew up with, mixing drama
with his peculiar sense of humor.
And now a whole paragraph to his best film (in my
opinion) of the last decade: “Talk to her” (2002),
probably the most touching and complete movie he
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creates a story of desolation, loneliness, true love and
obsession. The script is nearly perfect, winning the
Academy Award for best writing, original screenplay
beating “Gangs of New York” (Martin Scorsese, 2002)
or “Far from Heaven” (Todd Haynes, 2002) in the
same category. If someone told me before that it was
possible to mix classic ballet, Pina Bausch and her
“Café Müller”, a female bullfighter and Caetano Veloso
singing unplugged in the same movie I would thought
he was just mad. But with all those ingredients Almodóvar
cooks a film about the happiness of talking,
about the word as a weapon to run away from solitude,
illness, death and madness. Or even that kind of madness
so close to tenderness and common sense that it’s
difficult to distinguish from normality. And if you still
need to add a topping just watch Geraldine Chaplin
(Charles Chaplin’s daughter) as a ballet teacher. She’s
just Cinema History.
Just a curiosity. For some years during the ninety’s
there was a project to do a remake of “Women on the
Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” with Hollywood stars
and some of the names interested in the project were
Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway or even Sharon Stone (Antonio
Banderas’ good friend). But I bet the producers
thought it would be impossible to shoot with so many
divas and egos so the project went back to the drawer
where it was until many years later where it became
a Broadway musical that was cancelled last year after
just a few months on stage.
Ok, homework to do: Listen to a Chavela Vargas CD,
watch Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo” (Daniel
Mann, 1955) with Anna Magnani and make a trip to
a small village in Castilla La Mancha where I promise
you won’t get a word of what they are saying and you
will understand why Mr. Pedro Almodóvar makes
movies the way he does.
You see!... That wasn’t too bad. I can be nice sometimes.
That’s because I’m listening to Charles Chaplin’s
“Smile” while I’m writing the last part of this article
telling me to light up my face with gladness and make
me forget shit like “Live Flesh”, “Matador” or “Broken
Embraces”.... I can’t! Those movies are all the Razzie
Awards together. I need a better image to finish this
article… What about Penélope Cruz wearing a pair of
Christian Louboutin high heels? Yeah, much better...!

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by Alis Pelleschi
www.alispelleschi.com
Model Mary-Elizabeth @ First Model Management Dan Szor & Rael Stone
Stylist Leeann Soki Mak
Makeup Alicia Samuels @ AOXpressions using MAC makeup
Hair Liam Curran using SHU EUMURA
Nails Emma Zentner at Boom Nails

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Peach all in one Beyond Retro
headpiece by Tessa Edwards
Gold necklace with skulls,
Gold necklace with pink horse hair both by Giselle Ganne
Boots by Maria Francesca Pepe

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Mary
Floor length dress Fyodor Golan
Gloves and swimming cap both from Beyond Retro
Silver and rose gold bracelet by Maria Francesca Pepe
Creeper boots by Underground
Dan & Rael
Both Hats by Beyond Retro
Black jacket by Rael Stone
Flower headpiece by Little Shilpa
Silver plate Necklace by Maria Francesca Pepe

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Pfur trimmed gloves Beyond Retro
Pink latex dress by William Wilde
Black cap by Ryan Noon
Face veil by Alis Pelleschi

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Crown by Rael Stone
Pink Latex dress by William Wilde
Gold Earring by Maria Francesca Pepe
Platform Creepers by Underground
“I just want to do everything”
Interview with Alis Pelleschi by Jackee Word
When did you start taking photographs and why?
I remember having a little red film click camera when
I was a kid, that my dad would load the film in. But I
guess I really started taking photos and experimenting
with what I was photographing and editing and
things when I was about 14. Me and my parents had
just moved to a new area, and all my friends lived
miles away, which meant I spent a lot of time alone.
With the introduction of Myspace, I would spend
hours dressing up, photographing myself on self
timer and haphazardly edit them and upload them. I
didn’t really think anything more of it than just creating
images and dressing up. I gave myself an online
name of TAMPON GIRL. I would instantly get feed
back on my photos (and videos) and I guess I became
a bit of an addict to it all. When I started taking these
self-portraits, I had no comprehension that photography
could or would turn into a career.
What is your best piece to date?
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Dress by Fyodor Golan
Gold rat skull ring by Giselle Ganne
Green emerald ring Relik London
Gold Earring by Maria Francesca Pepe
Platform Creepers by Underground
pink hat by strictly by ugler
gold rat skull ring Giselle Ganne
Nude skirt and top both Fyodor Golan
recently shot a series of self-portraits for Super Super
magazine entitled LONELY HEARTS, and SUPER
FANS. I think that’s when my self-portraits finally
started looking aesthetically, how I wanted them to,
and it’s the work that most people comment on to me.
I love working with people, but there’s this feeling
of setting up a scene, and becoming a character and
doing it alone and not caring if you look stupid/ugly/
sexy/fat that is so satisfying.
Who is your biggest inspiration?
There’s a billion photographers, artists, etc that I love
and find inspiring, but what really inspires me are everyday
people, my upbringing in Bradford (up north);
popular culture; badly dubbed porn and chip butties.
What is your ambition for the next 5 years?
I only recently moved to London in the last few
months and already loads of things seem to be happening
for me. In five years time, I hope to be an
top established photographer, flying the world and
photographing loads of interesting characters. I also
really want to start making videos on a higher level,
as well as start designing my own collection and got
some music I’m working on. SERIOUS THUG!! I
just want to do everything, meet loads of interesting
people and be happy.
What/who is your dream photography subject?
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I AM
YOUR
GOD
THE
OFFICE
DIVA
Text and Artwork by Drew Eastman
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Have you met me?
It’s like stumbling onto a scene from the “Devil Wears
Prada“, you race to the office and drop into a coffee
shop and scream at the barista to make sure its a “Soy
Latte“ with vanilla dust and not some normal american
with full fat milk all the while scanning the pastries for
the demanded cinnamon rolls ...
It’s getting close to 9 am and the walk by traffic on the
street is mental on this midweek workday.
Let me introduce myself: Its ME the new office slave to
the queen of all nightmares.
This is a scene that can be applied to many office
environments so i am not filling in any names, you can
enter your own names here where they fit.
Just entering the office i can feel her already being in
the building, there is an awkward humming going thru
the cubicles which usually means she’s already here
and probably in a foul mood. Remember that “Soy
Latte“? Well, she is already on a war path because of a
caffeine withdrawal syndrome.
“Where the fuck have you been? Does it always take you
this long to get some shitty coffee? You always seem to
forget whom you are getting this coffee for, ONLY ME
the stupid bitch that is paying your wages, no?” I mean
how can i forget who is paying my wages? This witch is
reminding me of this fact nearly every day ..., sometimes
even twice before lunch and three times after.
Usually she is already in the office by the time I get
there, by the time any of us gets there really. So what
ever you do or whatever time you get there it will never
be good enough.
I sometimes wonder if she is carried into the office by a
bunch of muscular hunks in golden jockstraps like the
queen she thinks she is.
To be honest I don’t even know if she does go home at
all, i’m joking obviously but she is always here.
This is NOT my day, the cinnamon rolls are dry!
What does this mean for the rest of the day? I’m fucked!
She will be on my case all day now..
I am sure you guessed it by now, this is not an out of
the ordinary day, why don’t I just switch jobs? Are you
high on crack?
For all the shit I have to put up with this is my dream
job, just like in that movie.
There even have been a moment or two when I indeed
felt some kinda connection to her, she might have been
dunk though or it was a line of coke, don’t care really
cos it was nice to not being shouted at and feel like a
human next to her in one room.
In my head this moment lasted I think an hour ... In
reality I guess it was more like five minutes. That’s the
fucked up thing about reality, isn’t it?
I always wondered what “Miss Diva“ is like when she
is at home. Maybe her husband is the tyrant there and
she is the little chicken that’s doing all the chores? Or
she kicks everyone’s arse there too and instead of going
for a piss round with the dog she kicks it out the backdoor.
Well this is how it happens in my head anyway.
We never got that close to find out that part.
What turned her into this monster though is what I
keep asking myself over and over?
Unless she’s been like that even as a little girl kicking the
boys in the sandbox and pulling the other girls hair to
make them give them their juice boxes and sandwiches.
Maybe it was her folks that turned her into this snake
pit of a woman that you wanna serve a “Soy Latte“
with ipecac (a serum to induce vomiting like Linda
Blair in the exorcist, look it up on google there are also
some nice videos on YouTube).
I know that certainly will not be abel to change her,
I think before that happens I find myself sipping the
ipecac myself. Not that I want to but it’s more likely to
happen.
I think what makes her this way as well is that she
thinks she can walk on water, or more like, do this job
better than anyone else in this building, god knows
even in this industry.
Maybe I am sticking around because I am somehow
fascinated by this whole show of hers everyday and secretly
want to become like her in a few years and then
it might be YOU that will bring me my frappuccino
with lactose free milk and a pepperoni sandwich!
You best make it spicy or I kill you!
Sure many of us have over ambitious bosses sitting in
front of us that make our live a living hell, have you
ever wondered what you would be like running a department
or even a whole company? Especially when
you have to deal with loads of megalomaniacs and egos
bigger than the country they reside in?
I am certain it is not easy every day but being a bitch or
bastard doesn’t make it easier for us the ones working
for you cheese balls.
I used to love going into work and now I am just going
into work to get somewhere.
Kinda hope I get there someday, because you know
what?
It’s exhausting working for a diva like you.
I might be back being the bad ass diva myself you better
watch it.

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www.kazaky.com
Text Drew Eastman
Interview Marcel Schlutt

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KAZAKY
What do you get when you cross Madonna (late 90’s), Lady
Gaga, Take That and some sexy 90s male workout videos?
Kazaky that what.
As far as Boyband’s go i think we had our fair share in
the last decades from the real damn good ones like the
reborn Take That to the very boring ones ‘Boyzone /
Westlife’ which i can never keep apart cos they sound
so much alike and the god awful US5.
Ok, so i left out a lot of them but this is not about the
other New and Old on The Block :)
Then i was tweeted this link to ‘LOVE’ by Kazaky on
YouTube that i Absofuckinlutly had to check out.
I confess it took me about an hour to click the link because
i was thinking “oh jeez not another Boyband” but
i did it anyway and i am glad i did, read on to hear why.
With my finger on the MacBook Pro’s trackpad close
the red blob to shut the window in a jiffy i was moving
further away from the glowing button as the tune was
progressing,
YES this is actually damn cool.
Normally i have to confess that BoyBands are really
not my bucket of scotch, i’d rather down a few than
to listen to another cover version by some four to five
piece teen dream sensation, but when something
comes along that is this exciting i feel obliged to tell
you about it.
That bad ass electro beat, the bouncy synth stabs and
a tune that is basically just one continuous hook are
the ingredients of ‘LOVE’ and the debut single ‘In the
Middle’.
The lads don’t just sing it very sexy they can dance like
Lady Gaga’s best Monster Ballers.
I might add without all the blood and gore.
Curiosity got the better of me and i even checked out
their previous video for ‘In the Middle’, gotta say i was
reminded of these mid 90’s WorkOut Videos that featured
hunky guys with colorful outfits, very retro and
very steaming hot, kinda like a gay porn without the
penetration - the song delivers that part.
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So who the hell are these guys ?
They are Oleh Zhezhel, Artur Archibaz, Kyryll Fedorenko
and Stas Pavlov from Kiev, Ukraine. Their first
single called ‘In the Middle’ was released in September
of last year.
Oleh, the experienced choreographer and dancer was
the one who got the four of them together.
The video of ‘In the Middle’ didn’t take long to become
a YouTube smash hit with now more than 2,3 million
views according to Wikipedia and ‘LOVE’ the follow up
grabbed about 2.6 million so far if not more.
The videos show that it’s not just the music that is
important to them but also their image, these guys
are very visual, playing around with masculinity and
mixing it up with an androgynous style that is kind of
unique in the BoyBand business.
Just take a look at the images here and the videos and
you see exactly what i mean.
Another mark of their success so far is the “Breakthrough
of the Year” award at the MyWay Dance
Awards 2010 along with numerous articles in big name
magazines and newspapers all over the globe.
Not a bad start for such a fresh new group, hey?
It’s fair to assume that from this wealth of creativity
we can look forward to a lot more exciting releases and
hopefully a whole album of thumping electropop.
So where does this leave us?
Pretty simple, if you got this far and i was abel to wet
your appetite for these lads then grab some popcorn
and head over to YouTube and make your own mind
up by watching their videos.
I for one can feel a heatwave coming on.
HONK! was lucky enough to get a few moments in
their busy schedule and our very own Marcel Schlutt
had the chance to ask them all a few questions.
watch:
In the middle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNqm2Xb364
Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHEZ_6fAy4

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Oleg Zhezhel
Where do you see yourself and your music in 10 years?
We decided that we will keep on producing and creating
as long as we have inspiration and favor for it. We
don’t tend to live for the moment because we are aiming
high. Moreover, we are plentiful of ideas, but not
for the following decade.
Which music artists inspired you?
In aspect of performance and presentation Beyonce
takes the lead. Each of us has his own preferences and
they don’t usually coincide with each other. Personally
I have versatile tastes for the music and it is quite
uneasy for me to outline a certain artist. First of all, I
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Artur Gaspar
How does it feels like to be a member
of the biggest pop sensations of
our time?
What made you think that I was
feeling like a member of the biggest
sensation of our time? I am just
doing my own thing and nothing
more.
Who is your personal music diva?
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Stas Pavlov
What do you like more - shooting a music
video or performing on stage?
I prefer walking in the forest.
Who is the ultimativ music diva for you?
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What was it like when you’ve heard for the first
time one of your songs on the radio?
It was like inner smile, triumph, condition of
something great and pleasant.
If could you choose a female singer for a duet.
Who would it be?
Jennifer Lopez. Besides her being an interesting
and talented person, I admire the way she scored
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QUEEN
NEW YORK
Text by Shel Fuller
Photo by Jonathan Bell www.jonbell.net
I got off the PATH Train at Christopher Street and
ascended the unrealistically windy staircase. On this
street, this street where history was made, I was surprised
to see how ghetto it was. Random shady looking
men, all hip-hopped and covered in bling, waiting on
everything and nothing. Two transvestites verbally battling
it out on the street corner - one crackhead thin,
the other Big Mac fat. A swirling spectrum of skin
color, language, and intelligence. God, I love this city.
It was not my intention to move to New York City.
The idea filled me with dread. So many people packed
together - so much competition. What should I do
here? I was used to being the big fish in a small pond
but now the tables were turned. Here on these wide,
traffic-filled streets, I was invisible. Walking among
ghosts, slowly I became one myself but these ghosts
were not like those that can be found in the tales of
Poe. These entities were alive. Shapeshifters, who continually
reconceptualize themselves on an hourly basis.
During the day, I sat eight hours staring at a computer
monitor in rows of cubicles but at night, I transformed
into a mystical phoenix. Sipping cocktails at an after
work party on the Upper West Side in the evening,
melds into dancing in the mist of shirtless, Chelsea
bottoms at night. A quick jump over to the East Village
to hook up with an overly tattooed freak who just completed
his degree in Theology at NYU. “What do you
want to do with your degree?” “I want to be a priest.”
– No comment. Waking up and realizing that you have
to wear the same underwear again because you didn’t
make it home last night finally returning to your 3 and
a quarter-walled cubicle.
My two best friends and I, in one of our stoned states,
decided to give each other diva names. William would
be La Divina (a reference to Maria Callas). Jason,
would be the Wonder Diva Deluxe (you have to know
him to understand that one) and I, of course, was the
Grand Diva. I even named my former public relations
company, The Grand Diva Group (group meaning me).
Back then, I was probably best known for my fearlessness
and my deranged adventures. Waking up naked
in the apartments of celebrities, late night basement
parties in DUMBO, chatting in secret underground
wine cellar lounges with tragic supermodels. But it
wasn’t me that created all of this supposed glamour.
It was the city. It took me by the scruff of my neck and
lead me through its streets, begging me to explore
which I eagerly did. It was the dimly lit doors at the
end of dark allies that lured me into circumstances
which most people would only dream of.
Sometimes, I look back at those days in wonder. I
think about the serendipitous end events and what
lead up to them. We only think of people as divas but
what surrounds the diva is what inspires a diva to be
one. Of course, I wasn’t really a diva. I was more like
the dust that trailed the comet along with millions and
millions of other specks. Small amounts of plant pollen,
human hairs, and textile fibers compressed into
305 square miles (790 km2) of water-rimmed land.
This city carries the glamour of ages deep within its
tarred sidewalks and hot dog stands. New York is bigger
than America. Sometimes, bigger than the Earth.
What it symbolizes, what it forces you to believe is an
experience that no one will ever take away from you.
This city doesn’t need to be covered in cosmetics or
drowned in jewels. The city doesn’t even demand that.
It wants your love, your curiosity, your respect, and
your admiration. Like a mother, it nourishes you with
or without your consent. New York City is the ultimate
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GROSSSTADTMÄDCHEN
Photos by Joana Dias
www.Joanadias.tumblr.com/
Hair&Make up Thary Plast Ic
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ZACHARI
LOGAN
TO
EXPRESS
MASCULINE
BRAVADO &
superiority
www.zacharilogan.com
Interview by Marcel Schlutt
What a man, what a man. What a mighty good man.
Yes! That is Zachari Logon. The 30-year-old Canadian is one
of the stars of the international art scene in 2011. His paintings
continue the great tradition of old masters of painting.
It is a joy to marvel at the large paintings. His favorite subject
is himself, sometimes drawn, sometimes naked, sometimes
strong, and then again with feeling.
With his type of art, he will have a great future. We are
thrilled to introduce you to Zachari Logan and his work.
Duality 1 (Abraham & Issac)
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I have- and still do use my body as a catalyst for this
work, both because I am much more comfortable with
posing my own body the ways in which I want it, and
secondly it eliminates the power dynamic which exist
between model and artist (a dialogue I am not interested
in, except for the narrative base that using myself as
both artist and model creates.) Strangely, the continual
use of myself as subject is what people most often react
to negatively. This aspect of narcissism which is
clearly evident in my work can be found in every artist
I believe... in a less transparent way maybe, but I don’t
look at self-reflection necessarily as a bad thing. This
type of repetition sets up a timescape where I can
converse with aspects of myself and projections which
evolve a self-anxious, self-reflective internal dialogue
that is neither linear nor is it often rational. I am finding
a shift within my current work which is becoming
much more specific to my own life and experiences.
Work that is potentially much more revealing- ironically,
as within some of this new work- I appear to
have more clothing on...
HONK!: Zachari , we really like your paintings. when did
you find out that you want be a painter?
Zachary: Well, for as long as I can remember- I have
been working visually. Talking came slow to me as a
child and reading even slower, as it was discovered
when I was six that I was severely dyslexic... so communicating
visually became a very palpable way for me
to express myself.
You are a very good looking man and it is great to see
you on your paintings. What is the meaning behind
painting yourself? Are you a Narcissist?
If people have an inkling that I draw and paint my own
image because I am attracted to myself sexually- and
this is my sole endeavour in relation to self-reflexive
imagery- they would be mistaken. The use of my own
body as subject to set up glyphic gestures was initially a
way to express critical thoughts about masculinity both
as it has been posed historically in the visual arts and
how society still clings to these heterosexist constructions
in contemporary society. My body as a type is
one that has historically been used by artists to express
masculine bravado and superiority, my aim is to undermine
that myth, returning a more vulnerable gaze,
exposing the male body as a subjective being, as human-
as opposed to a spectacle of stereotypic notions.
There is always some nudity involved in your work. I am
pretty sure there are men and girls out there..seeing you
as a sexobject. How do you handle this?
Well, this was partially answered in the previous question...
however what I will say about the nudity in my
work, is that I have no control over how people will
interpret it- nor should I... a viewers conceptions about
me or my intentions for this work are clearly based on
thier own state of mind, they tend to reveal more about
themselves than they do about me upon reacting to
the work- that is a testament to the power of art, and it
usually can only be successful if it’s concept is maliable.
We are all sexual creatures... that being said- I don’t
ever aim to be a sex object or symbol- I find that type
of reaction to my work as simplistic at best. My body
is how I express political metaphor about my life as a
queer man married to another man, as a sexual being
and as a vulnerable subject- no different than anyone
else in many respects... this work aims at revealing the
normalcy of desire- and I don’t just mean capital D
desire, I mean the need to express difference and the to
have the visibility to exist among a majority that continually
projects objection to my choice... which ends
up often manifesting itself as a series of solitary domestic
portrayals. Sometimes the work references
established art-historical and/or literary works and
sometimes it simply refers back to previous work I
have made, evolving an already established narrative.
How do you start with a new painting? Do you photograph
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I usually take quite a bit of time thinking
about concept before it ever materializes
on paper or canvas... sometimes years- but
I always use photographic imagery for my
work... holding a pose and drawing or painting
is virtually impossible.
When i saw the first time one of your paintings,
( it was a shoe ) it reminded me of
Albrecht Dürer. Do you have an icon? Who
influenced you?
Many, many icons and influences... and yes
Durer for sure, also... Caravaggio, Ingres,
Holbein, Gericault, David, Goya, Breugel,
Velasquez, Manet, Ribera... many contemporary
influences as well... Damien Hirst,
Cindy Sherman, Sophie Calle, Alison Norlen,
Aurel Schmidt, Odd Nerdrum, AA Bronson/
General Idea, John Currin, Lucien
Freud, Evan Penny, Attila Richard Lukacs...
among others. You could say though that my
muse is art history... during the summer of
2009 as the result of an artist-project grant,
I travelled to Paris to study the neoclassical
paintings within the grand hall of the Louvre,
which resulted in the “Beautiful Losers
Project”, the creation of an 18 foot oil painting
that saw my body portrayed echoing the
gestural elements from my research. I will
often times re-sutuate famous literary allegories
within my work as well.
You have done exhibitions all over the world.
How did your career start?
Z: It just kind of came about serendipidously,
I caught the eye of French gallerist
Jean Roch Dard who saw my work in a
publication, I believe, and offered me a solo
show in Paris. This initial exhibition led to a
string of projects in both private and public
spaces in NYC and throughout the US
in Miami, Cincinnati and Raleigh NC. As
well, among these various projects, in 2009
I was one of the recipients of MFA Now,
an international painting competition for
recent MFA graduates. I was also invited to
participate in an exhibition in Paris, titled
“When I Grow Up” which paired emerging
artists with established ones in an effort to
create a dialogue between the two... to my utter
suprise, I was paired with one of my favorite
contemporary artists Sophie Calle. I have also
exhibited in Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and here
Emperor’s New Clothes (from Disappearances series)
Pastel on paper, 50 x 110 inches, 2011

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Beautiful Losers
Oil on canvas, 110 x 200 inches, 2010

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in Canada, recently in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. I
have in recent years attended residencies in both Paris
and Tenneessee. I am currently at a Canadian artist
residency in the mountains of British Columbia... I
have in the past couple of years been the recipient of
various travel and project grants through the Saskatchewan
Arts Board, a provinical granting programming
for artists here in Saskatchewan, my province of origin
within Canada.
If i wanna buy one of your drawings. Where can i get
them? And what is the price for one piece?
It is best to go directly to my website where listed are
the contemporary galleries that show my work, and
the prices of individual works can be discussed upon
contacting them directly. www.zacharilogan.com
What are your future projects? Where can we see your
work next? I heard rumors, there is a book coming?
I am currently working on four solo shows for this fall/
winter. The first of which will open early October at
Headbones Gallery, where I am presently working as
artist in residence until early next month, the second
exhibition “Disappearances” will show in Paris at
Galerie Jean Roch Dard toward the end of October,
the third exhibition”Trauma & Other Stories” opens
early November at Daniel Cooney Fine Art with a
series titled “Trauma & Other Stories, and for the forth
exhibition, I will present my project “Beautiful Losers”
through Craig Scott Gallery in January of 2012.
During the month of April 2012 I will be attending the
NES Artist Residency in Iceland where I will work on a
project to be exhibited next fall in Vienna, Austria. And
yes, I do have a book of my work coming out through
Sternthal Publications (MTL/NYC). “Portraits Without
Pants: The Art Of Zachari Logan” is a full-length book
spanning my work from 2005 to the present with a forward
by prominant British art-historian Edward Lucie-
Smith. Hopefully it be released this fall in conjunction
with the upcoming exhibitions.
http://www.sternthalbooks.com/?p=zachari_logan
Thanks for taking some time to do this little interview. We
wish you all the best for the future!
And thank-you Marcel & HONK!
Niqab (from Blueboy Series)
Blue pencil on mylar, 2010

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Blue pencil on mylar, 120 x 42 inches, 2011

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Vignette (Detail)
Graphite on paper, 110 x 210 inches, 2011

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Eli Leven is an up and coming young writer from stockholm whose life is governed
by drama and love. In his award wining book, that is being translated into
english, he is writing about things only a few would dare do -very successfully
so- and at the same time he sees his words being turned into a movie being
shot in the swedish capital right now, while he is busy writing and acting out his
inner diva in New York City.
In which sense could u possibly be a diva?
I’m going to tell you a story of how I met my present
lover. I was ridiculously bored and drunk off my ass at
a rave goth club in December in Chinatown when a
man approached me and said he heard by his friend
that I could vogue. I put on a little show for him. When
I turned around he tried to finger me and I slapped his
face and he kissed me.
We went back to mine and had some mushrooms
while watching youtube clips of the Mexican movie
icon Maria Felix, we fell asleep and I remember
dreaming I was Maria Felix, and me and that guy I
brought home went horseback riding in a green valley.
If you could be any past diva male or female, which one
would you pick and why?
Maria Felix was once asked about how Paris was compared
to Mexico and she said “Mexico is my first love,
I’m their whore but I’m also their mother”. I want to be
able to say the same thing .
Is there an event that has shaped you in life?
Taking antidepressants was really trippy and opened
up my mind making me less self critical. I don’t think I
would’ve written the novel without them. I’m off now
though, but they really changed my life.
Tell me a little about your novel, what is it dealing with?
I wanted to write about a dying boy, going from being
passive and sort of a victim to becoming something new,
his imaginary friend, a girl. It’s essentially a love story
about transformation between a femme boy becoming a
girl and this butch sexually confused straight guy. A tour
de force. It’s partly some kind of fantasies that I started
having after watching Wild at Heart when I was 13. I
wanted it to be a conversation with other works of art that
have inspired me, like Dennis Cooper’s Closer, Our lady
of the flowers by Jean Genet and maybe Confessions
of a Mask by Yukio Mishima. I was very naive when I
started out writing it. I think I wanted it to be a sort of loving
father murder. I wrote a lot being angry and disgusted
about how the self destructive “twink” is a sex object.
Is it in a wider sense autobiographical somehow?
In a wider sense maybe. It’s very close to me and I often
think it’s hard to know what I’ve written and what I
really experienced in real life.
Did you expect your novel to be so successful?
I got a lot of good feedback as soon as I showed my
texts to other people and hoped it would be successful
but not like this!
I know at the time, you have left Stockholm for New
York. What more does it offer you?
Excitement. I’m excited almost every day to be here. I
like being more anonymous. There are so many possibilities
in this city, it’s overwhelming.
Are you working on something right now?
For a year I have been working on a screenplay based
on my novel. I am working together with Ester Martin

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THE
FUTURE
BERLIN
FACES
YOU
SHOULD KNOW

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NATALIE REICHMANN / THE ANTI-IT gIRL AND STYLE ICON
She is the mother of all freaks in this town. She is a style icon and her party weekends
are legendary. Thanks to God, we have her and not Paris Hilton. If she enters the club
“Berghain”, everyone knows the Queen is at home. No one in this city is loved more than
Natalie. No matter whether gay, hetero, men or women. The 28 year-old Berlin woman is
a trendsetter and an artist. If you ever see them on your visit in Berlin, give her your most
beautiful smile. Because she deserves it.
Future a record deal, successful artist and the Queen of the Unicorns
www.facebook.com/profi le.php?id=1538256485&sk=info
gLORIA VIAgRA / THE ROCK´N´ROLL STAR & gAY ACTIVIST
Yes! She is a Drag Queen, a Rockstar (her group - Squeezebox), a DJ and one of the
most politically active people in this city. Gloria is a good proof that a woman can be successful
without the wrong attidute of many many drag queens. She is using her popularity
to help help people in many projects and not killing our nervs in „real life“ TV Shows.
Always up for a fl irt , i am sure she will not say : No , if you invite her for a drink
Future Berlin´s fi rst drag major!!!
www.gloriaviagra.com
pAUL S. / THE FASHION BOY
For many years, German guys are very successful on the catwalks of the world. The
17-year-old Paul S. is based in Berlin and he is the newcomer of the international men’s
fashion scene.
His vulnerable charisma, cheetah with German virtues make him to a much booked model.
Magazines such as TUSH, VANITY TEEN & FHM Collections love to work with him.
Agencies: Milano @INDEPENDENT MEN, Paris @NATHALIE
Berlin @IZAIO www.izaio.de
Future Calvin Klein is calling, Tom Ford will name a collection with his name
DILOSCH MILOSCH THE BEAUTY AND ART
Yes Dolisch Milosch is a real beauty .. OH YES .. But her art is a thousand times more
beautiful than she is.
„Hennacouture“ is the name for what she is doing. Well, we all know that is not a new
idea. But no one is doing this kind of art in Europe, like Dilosch is doing it.
She gives the henna painting, the coolness which it had not all the years. Because of her
it is cool and edgy.
Btw. Dilosch is a realy beautyful girl!
Future She will create THE trend for 2012
www.diloschmilosch.blogspot.com

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OBAMA
AND
BEAST
THE
by Christo Mitov
A prince gets married, the bad guy is dead: Or how May 2011
kicked off with a perfect Disney weekend and a post mortem
photo shoot with Obama, or was it Osama?
US president Barack Obama didn’t make it to the
cover of HONK! #2 FAIRY TALES issue. We had
this whole Obama-branded PR stunt planned for
the last issue. Imagine a comprehensive retelling of
the animated classic Aladdin: a villa rented next to
Islamabad, Pakistan, with a pool and 72 virgins in
it. Cast: Barack Obama as Aladdin, Osama bin Laden
as Jafar, Michelle Obama as Jasmine and Oprah
as the Genie (after all she and Robin Williams have
essentially the same voice). It was the perfect plan
to outshine the royal wedding of William and Kate
before it even happened. But you know how competitive
Barack is - he insisted on shifting the whole
event to beginning of May.
Yes, you can safely assume that we knew about this
assassination plot all along. We just didn’t want
to spoil the fun for you. Because you clearly had
a blast after our trusted media outlets confirmed
that the Al-Qaeda terrorist leader and mastermind
behind the 9/11 tragedy was finally dead, finally
smoked out of his foxhole in god-knows-whatcavern-in-the-middle-of-fuck-all.
The events surrounding
Bin Laden’s death offered a plethora of
entertainment options: there was suspense, there
was fun, a few silly jokes, some unexpected twists,
and of course, everyone received a souvenir picture
as a reminder of this glorious day in the history of
humankind. Let’s wrap up some of them:
10 years later...
After 10 years, what gave bin Laden away? Osama
bin Laden’s decade on the run after September
11th may have come to its end in part because his
large hideout reportedly lacked a phone and Internet
connection - an unusual absence likely to have
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place of refuge from history’s most extensive manhunt
worked well enough. Overnight, however, bin
Laden’s long effort at concealment ran aground
when U.S. forces stormed his hideout and shot him
dead. What precisely gave him away remains unclear,
as many details have yet to be told about the
raid.
One fact about his location was an immediate surprise
- instead of hiding in a cave in a remote peak
of the Hindu Kush, the leader of A-Qaeda turned out
to have been hiding in an urban area near the capital
Islamabad. Perhaps his downfall was due to a failure
to cover his communications tracks, rather than his
precise choice of location.
Twitter took over mainstream media (?)
After the social universe fell into euphoria about the
happy royal couple William and Kate (big, British
grins) and right before the denouement would kick in,
there it was. In the night of May 1st, most of us learned
about Osama Bin Laden’s death on Twitter. And in
fact, the first credible report from Keith Urbahn (NOT
Keith Urban), former Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld’s chief of staff, was also on Twitter. Read his
tweet here. (http://twitter.com/#%21/keithurbahn/
status/64877790624886784) And while the White
House kept pushing off the official announcement
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already being analyzed and spread on Twitter. So did
Twitter replace mainstream media as the best source
of news about Bin Laden’s death? Yes and no.
Yes, many people first heard about the news on Twitter,
but more often than not the original source of
that news could be traced back to mainstream media.
Although some “accidental” on-the-ground-reporting
occurred exclusively on Twitter, mainstream media
(CNN, NYT, etc) confirmed Bin Laden’s death.
Twitter does not supplant other media—it merely
amplifies it. According to TechCrunch, during the
President’s announcement, people were Tweeting at a
rate of over 4,000 Tweets per second, a close second
or third—about the same level of Tweets as during the
last Super Bowl. Much of what people were Tweeting
was what they were hearing on TV, thus passing
the news instantly to people who may not have been
in front of a TV at the time. But what that means in
practice is that if you are following the right people,
you don’t have to actually turn on your TV.
Osama or Obama?
Shortly after US president Barack Obama officially
announced the assassination of Osama Bin Laden,
mainstream media became somewhat confused as
to whether Osama or Obama had been killed. Understandably,
the distinction between the world’s
most-wanted terrorist and the President of the
United States of America is so subtle as to be nearly
baffling. Frankly, I don’t judge them. Back in 2006
during the London bombings I was live reporting for
DARIK radio on the events and I kept on confusing
9/11 with 11/9 and 9/6. Anyway, everybody had a
good laugh over CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, El Pais
and FNC, which unwillingly put a bullet in Barack
Obama. And yet, the confusion is not completely
unjustified—bin Laden, just like Tupac, continues to
drop new tapes after his death. The next one is to be
released very soon. Maybe by the time this article is
published it will have made its way through the Al-
Qaeda media pipeline.
Conspiracy photo booth
All those speculations lead us to the next conspiracy
layer. Apparently there has been a post mortem
photo shoot with Osama (as himself) Some outtakes
are yet to be released by the Obama administration,
although already in the night of Bin Laden’s
assassination, news agency Reuters offered media
all over the world what was supposed to be Osama’s
death mugshot. A trusted source in Eurovision -
not the song contest, but the premier distributor
of news content for the world’s top broadcast and
media platforms - gave me some inside on coverage
on the story. Here is the timeline: Someone hears
about Osama Bin Laden’s death, performs a Google
Image search; finds a year-old doctored image of
dead Osama and sends it to PK TV; they pick it up
and use it for their news coverage as a source; PK
TV then forwards the image to RTV and APTN;
the image then lands all over the world, including
Reuters. Hour later Reuters calls back to withdraw
the picture explaining it was - wait for it - fake. Still,
the only people with supposed to be real images
of dead Osama, remain the officials in the White
House. I hope they will spread an image which is not
completely blurry and shaky and also one that won’t
cause another wave of Moon landing conspiracy.
July 4.2
Although, when you take a step back and look what
was and is still happening all over the US after
Osama Bin Laden’s death, you can clearly see that
the general public doesn’t really care if the US government
will get their Osama story straight or not.
Bin Laden’s assassination released a wave of spontaneous,
organized and unnecessary celebratory
events. Accompanying the Osama/Obama confusion
in media was the live streaming of joyful celebrations
in Washington and at Ground Zero in New
York. I really wonder if people at Ground Zero were
realizing at the moment they were dancing on the
grave of almost 3000 people. Anyway, the ridiculous
patriotic outburst wasn’t a surprise altogether, but
the way it happened made me wonder if the news
had a commercial brake and this was the summer
campaign for Coca Cola.
To be honest, the whole outcome of events was a
little sad that people think of the death of Osama
Bin Laden as of victory. If May 1st was supposed to
celebrate a victory of the United States over terrorism,
it is beyond doubt that this victory is Pyrrhic
except for those making money off of it. There was
a moment where I dreamed of being a American
flag manufacturer, or owner of a company producing
full-body suits with the American flag on them
or toilet paper with Bin Laden’s face printed on it.
Maybe it’s not too late tho - this story is a developing
just like the creative ways of producing hideous
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YOUR
Photos by Christian Branscheidt
A special thanks to Ina, Jule, Reza, Lea and Edna
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Imagine that Wolfgang Tillmann and Terry
Richardson would have a son. It must be
Christian Branscheidt.
The young german is guy born 1985 Hamburg/Germany
. He is one of those people
who don´t know how talendet and giftet they
are. Christian is based now in Berlin and
is very well known in town for his great and
stunning t-shirt collection . And yes the girls in
the city love him because he is one of the best
hairdressers. But what a waste of talent .Sorry
girls! I met Christian around 2 years ago and i
was surprised how good his privat photography
was and i told him, he has to follow that.
So we asked him for our diva issue to do a
shoot for us.
Mr Branscheidt don´t need a big team to create something good. It is just him and his little camera! Hands up for his
work and we realy hope to see more of him and his work in the future!
If you would like to work with him you can contact him on Facebook or send an email to HONK!
www.facebook.com/branscheidt

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believe they are
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Cats
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Exhibit eras are:
Ladies First: The 90´s and the New Millenium
The 1990s was the era the riot grrrl, the rapper and
the Lilith Fair, reshaping traditional ideas of feminism
and traditionally male-dominated areas of the music
industry. Women have arguably become the leading
voices of the industry, standing -- army-booted, barefooted,
or high-heeled stiletto -- toe to toe with any
artist of today. Highlighted artists will include Bikini
Kill, Meg White, Queen Latifah , ...
Dance the mees around: Punk and Post punk
Chrissie Hynde said, “That was the beauty of the punk
thing: [Sexual] discrimination didn’t exist in that
scene.” The DIY aspect of punk rock made it easier for
a woman to find a place in music. Highlighted artists
will include Yoko Ono, Siouxsie Sioux, Kate Pierson
and Cindy Wilson of the B-52s, Deborah Harry, Tina
Weymouth, Kim Deal and Marianne Faithful.
The Rock and Roll HALL of Fame And Museum
+Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion , Power
May 13.2011 till February 26.2012
1100 Rock and Roll Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44114 www.
rockhall.com
The Rock and Roll HALL of Fame And Museum will
open a groundbreaking and provocative new exhibit
that will illustrate the important roles women have
played in rock and roll, from its inception through
today. Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power
will highlight the flashpoints, the firsts, the best, the
celebrated -- and sometimes lesser-known women --
who moved rock and roll music and American culture
forward.
The interactive exhibition will spotlight more than 70
artists and fill two entire floors of the museum. The exhibit
will feature artifacts, video and listening stations,
as well as a recording booth where visitors can film a
short story or moment of inspiration related to women
in rock. The exhibit will move through the rock and roll
eras, weaving a powerful and engaging narrative that
demonstrates how women have been the engines of
creation and change in popular music, from the early
years of the 20th century to the present.
I will Survive : The 1970s - Rockers to Disco Divas
Women are in the center of the ‘70s mainstream, from
Joan Jett and the Runaways, Heart and Fleetwood
Mac to Donna Summer. The gains of the feminist
movement throughout the ‘70s enabled women working
in all areas of the music industry to assume more
control over their careers
and many more.
History:
More than 25 years ago, leaders in the music industry
joined together to establish the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Foundation in New York City to celebrate the
music and musicians that changed the world. With
that, one of the Foundation’s many functions is to
recognize the contributions of those who have had a
significant impact on the evolution, development and
perpetuation of rock and roll by inducting them into
the Hall of Fame.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened
its doors in 1995 on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown
Cleveland, Ohio. Its mission is to educate visitors,
fans and scholars from around the world about
the history and continuing significance of rock and roll
music. It carries out this mission through its operation
of a world-class museum that collects, preserves,
exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library
and archives as well as its educational programs.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
1100 Rock and Roll Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(East Ninth Street at Lake Erie)Open May 13, 2011 - February 26, 2012 | Floors 5 & 6
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ZIAD GHANEM
I want my
clothes
to scream loud:
LOVE
ME
ME
LO
VE
LOVE ME!
OR
I am a Punk
AT Heart
Interview by Jackee Word
Photos by Christopher Dadey
www.christopherdadey.com

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ZIAD GHANEM
Ziad Ghanem is a Lebanese fashion designer who is based in London
and is currently one of London’s hottest topics, His collections
range from Ultra-luxurious haute couture dresses to his ready to
wear collections consisting of a heavy punk feel. Ziad uses real
people to walk for his shows and each model is someone in the creative
world, Previous models have been world renowned burlesque
artiste Immodesty Blaize, international DJ Scarlett Etienne and many
many more. His shows are noted as the most anticipated and creative
shows of the whole London Fashion Week due to the fact they
are purely theatrical and all about drama, drama, drama. Not to mention
the interest from celebrities, for example an infamous image of
Naomi Campbell wearing his “VOGUE” piece. We at HONK! had a
chat with Ziad to find out a bit more about the man who is shaking
the fashion world by their ankles...
So Ziad, You certainly like to emulate the “Drama” factor
in your work, Your garments are extrovert, over the top
and gorgeous as apposed to simplistic and bland, care
to explain why you rather things this way?
I believe that every moment in life is a special one and
worth a celebration. And my work reflects this. I love
all colours and shapes and I am happy to show off.
Also I believe that we live in the time of “short attention
spam” so that is why I want my clothes to scream
loud: LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME!
You don’t use regular size 0 superhero models on your
runways, you use real people, why did you decide to go
down this route and what bonuses do you think it brings
not only to your garments but to your brand?
I make clothes for people so why not using ‘real ‘people
to display those clothes? Simple Philosophy- I love my
models they are my ultimate inspiration.
A question I always like to ask in my interviews is, if your
work was a sexual position, what would it be, and why?
Daisy Chain because it is about the connection with
each others.
Personally for me I can’t go near velours, Ugg boots or
the colour peach. What are your most hated fashion
DON’Ts and why?
I dislike the uniformity and the “must haves” rules in
fashion. I don’t like Dark brow and Ugg boots make me
throw up. And I have a phobia for hair. Also I hate, fur
feathers and tweed.
If there was any red carpet Diva you would want to create
a garment for who would it be and why?
I am Anti Celebrity and all that .... But If I must...
Barbara Windsor cause she is gorgeous. Jessye Norman
cause she is a Diva. Boy George everyday... And
Joan Collins I will faint before I dress her from excitement.
Your work, wether it’s your ready to wear collections or
your couture dresses, always has a punk streak running
through it, who are you influenced in that sense and
would you say it was a very important part of your work?
I am a Punk at Heart and a skinhead too.
I must admit British early 80’s Music Culture has a big
influence on my work.
I love London too. I am ever inspired.
Can you reveal any gossip about what will be coming
soon in the world of Ziad Ghanem? Will you be taking
over Paris or New York? Who will you be dressing?
Honey I will be taking over no one. If you want me ...
Come and find me. www.ziadghanem.co.uk
And will dress anyone that pays for my dresses. But if
they are poor and nice then will make it for free.
I am really happy with everything at the moment and
tomorrow is another day.
From one Diva to another, I would love to thank you for
answering my questions and I wish you all the very best
for your next season and all of them after that!”
Thanks Jackee, I love you.

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HOTEL
ANGST
Ménage à trois
Photographer & Concept & Styling by Suzana Holtgrave
Hair & Make up by Ilka Jänicke/Blossom Berlin
Models
Helena Narra Kapidzic @ Izaio Models
Marcelle Wissel @ Metropolis Models
Dawid Schaffranke @ Seeds Management
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Helena
Dress Frida Weyer, Raven hat Fiona Bennett
Marcelle
Dress Frida Weyer, Eyemask Ponpon Berlin, Shoes YSL
Dawid
Swim tunks Pappenberg

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Mask with Swarowski Rhinestones Fiona Bennett, Lingerie Chantelle, Jacket Thierry Mugler

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Helena
Trouser suit(kimono style) Tata Christiane

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Helena
Trouser suit with leather cape Ponpon Berlin, Turban Ponpon
Dawid
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Marcelle
Bra Chantelle, Jacket Vintage collection Opium, Hat Ponpon Berlin

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Helena
Eye hat Ponpon Berlin, Sequin dress Frida Weyer
Dawid
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Marcelle
Jacket Thierry Mugler, Hat Ponpon Berlin
Helena
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Suit(costume) Thierry Mugler
Shoe hat Fiona Bennett

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Mask Ponpon Berlin

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Dawid
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Raven hat Fiona Bennett, Dress Frida Weyer, Ring/Bracelet 2 Engel Jewellery

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Dawid
Swim trunks Papenberg
Helena
Dress Nanna Kuckuck Haute Couture, Eyewear Stylist own

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Photos by Fernando Arriero Marquez
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The city has developed since
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A toilet attendant
Let’s face it .. They are the true queens of the night. No matter how hard
you style your own. Completely unimportant how cool you are. A toilet
attendant will survive all of you. Generations of club kids owe her many
funny nights on the club toilete.
A toilet woman is something like the good soul of the club.
We met Erika. She works in one of the hottest clubs in Frankfurt/Main.
Erika, why do work as a toilet cleaner in a club? You are
56 years old. Is this job not too stressful?
woman is in many ways a lot dirtier than a man, in
general.
10 years ago lost my job as a secretary. At the age of
45 it is not easy for woman to get a new job. Then I
landed here. At first I was not happy to work here. But
now I love it. I only work on Saturdays and I don´t
lose the contact with the youth.
You do the job for 10 years now, can you tell us: If and
how the youth has changed during these years?
Oh, very! Nowadays the young people take much
more drugs then years ago. Also sexually happened in
the toilets more than a few years now. (She laughs)
I remember my party time, we always had a lot of fun
on the toilet. I remember also been fucking there. What
do you do if caught someone doing it ?
Oh, what shall I do? You know the young men are not
as powerful as the men were back in my youth. (A big
big laugh). The numbers are often so fast, as fast as I
can not knock at the door.
How do you stand on drug? Surely you are get offered
any?
Yes, it is always very sweet. When the children are
standing before me and they are barely able to look
straight ahead. I was also young once and I have tried
everything. My God!!! We were soooo stoned. I smoke
a joint sometimes with them, this is fun and the night
is easier to bear.
Who makes more dirt on the toilet? The boys or the
girls?
In any case the girls!!! They are often very disgusting.
It is very difficult to explain. Maybe it’s because the
girls always go in groups to the toilet. They always stay
very very long there.
The boys do their business and ready. I think that a
Laughs. That’s funny to hear it from the mouth of a
female toilets.
Yes, I see the irony. (laughs loudly) But hey, I may can
say that as toilets woman.
And theme of your magazine is : Divas? Right? So, Let
me act once as if I were one.
Sure girl! Go for it!!
You work in a club with electronic music. What kind of
music do you hear at home?
I really love the music of AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and
Janis Joplin. You can also celebrate to this music
much better than to techno music. We have taken
lots of drugs when i was young to the music from The
Rolling Stones. Oh oh, the old times. You see i was a
bad girl.
I can well imagine. How do you deal with getting older?
I think it’s certainly not easy when you see every weekend
the young generation in the club?
I have no problem with my age. I had my time, my fun
and I have a great life now. In my age you should be relaxed.
If not , then you did something wrong in your life.
I also know that all the girls will be old at some point
ago. (laughs)
What are your plans for the future? Forever working on
the toilet?
Oh yes! I’m really looking forward to the time when
this is over. My husband and I wanna continue working
for another 5 years.
Then we will leave Germany. We will then move to
thailand. A paradise for older people. Life there is
cheap. Sun and good weather.
Hey hey we wish you much fun in Thailand.

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WITHQUEENS
BEARDS
by Christo Mitov
Illustration Ango The Meek Dead
still on the market. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is
a gay edition of REVENGE OF THE NERDS focusing
on sexcapades, roosters and other animals.
I am frustrated. Before I dropped the pink bomb at
my mother at the age of 19, I thought that the worst
part of my life would be coming out of the closet.
Well obviously I was wrong. I finally no longer had to
answer the dreaded question “Do you have a girlfriend?”
and I was granted my gay single amnesty.
The details of my sex life scared most people and only
my closest friends were brave enough to ask me if I
were top or bottom. Everything was perfect until the
day my mother asked me again - “So are you seeing
anyone?” I started to scan through the memories of
one-night stands, fuck buddies and meaningless sex.
It made me realize that the gay scene in Berlin is no
different than the cape of the lotus-eaters Odysseus
goes to on his way back from Troy. Except for the fact
that instead of lotus flowers, people pop pills and play
with the disco snow. I know making this statement
sounds tedious, but read till the end before you call
me a conservative fanatic or brand me as boring.
You know the drill - you go to Möbel Olfe (Maybe one
of Berlin’s most popular gay bars on a Thursday night)
and you get the feeling that you just walked in one of
those new naked scanners you find at airport security.
You get so many looks that you start to wonder if you
turned into a QR code. But this is nothing new if you’re
somewhere between the ages of twenty and forty and
In Berlin there’s always a new fuck. There is
always something better waiting around the corner.
That’s why you never settle, never decide to invest
your energy in one person and keep your options
open. That’s why you actually enjoy the market
and the naked scanner in Möbel Olfe. Don’t get me
wrong - it’s not like I would never set foot in this
bar again or would have never had sexcapades.
That’s also what Steven Bereznai
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asks himself in his book Gay and Single... Forever?
– He defines the borderline between desperate sex
addiction and becoming a kitsch gay cliché. Actually
on a gay night out in the German capital you can
see that this is the biggest fear everyone has - being
or becoming a gay cliché. That’s why they put ironic
glasses, hats and black T-shirts with names of death
metal bands on them. The trashier they look, the
cooler they are. For tourists and newcomers it’s like
a blessing - men are hairy, musky, masculine and not
overly manicured. In other words, “Not typically gay.”
Their music taste is going beyond Madonna and Kylie
(and yet not further than Robyn); their clothing tastes
beyond Abercrombie & Fitch (but not way higher
than American Apparel); their cultural interests
beyond Sex and The City or Queer as Folk (but not
further than RuPaul’s Drag Race). Another word for
this Berlin phenomenon is rooster, or a gay hipster. If
you don’t remember what my opinion on this breed
of species is - you can refresh your memory in HONK!
#1. And yet, this so-called alternative gay scene does
nothing else, but produce a new queer stereotype.
The beard. Usually in the gay ecosystem, the beard
is solely a distinctive feature or privilege of bears.
Bears tend to have hairy bodies and facial hair; some
are heavy-set or muscular; some project an image
of working-class masculinity in their grooming and
appearance, though none of these are requirements
or unique indicators. The bear cult is very prominent
in Berlin and Germany, but recently its’ main tokens
have become a deceitful cover for roosters. Most men
with beards you see in Berlin, are gay - except for
those you see in the ethnically diverse neighborhoods,
although Allah knows I know a couple of exceptions
there too. Thick, dark, ginger, thin, salt n’ pepper -
beards are everywhere. Hairy chests, armpits and
legs might be exciting to some US tourists, but their
owners don’t keep them flourishing because they like
themselves this way or they want to make a political
statement, but because it’s IN. That goes for the
whole “hairy man” cult, the infamous Gay Boys With
Beards website etc. In the end, right after they open
their mouth, you realize those guys are nothing more
than queens with beards.
It’s not all about being gay anymore. Sometimes
the gay scene in Berlin can be tiring. You go to
Cocktail D’Amore - you see the same people you saw
at Olfe; you go to Horse Meat Disco, you see the same
people from Cocktail; you go to Pet Shop Bears, you
see the same people from HMD; and then you go to
a gallery opening – and you see all of them all over
again. Going out and cruising, the alternative gay
scene is maybe one of the most boring experiences
that the city has to offer - at least most of the time.
I’m proud of my heterosexual friends. Actually this is
one of the very rare occasions to label them as such. I
love hanging out with them, going to other clubs and
bars that are not gay oriented. Back in the 1970s men
concealed that they were gay. Over the last decade
and a half, the AIDS virus transitioned from a death
sentence to largely treatable, and the gay culture
moved from the margins closer to the mainstream.
More than 40 years later we still segregate ourselves
from the society by going to gay-only parties or by
surrounding us only with queer friends (whom we
have mostly had some kind of bodily fluid exchange
with). Sorry, but this is more than aggravating. Today
homosexuals are restlessly hiding any hint of desperation
by trying way too hard and refusing to deal with
their fear of getting out of their comfort zone.
Larry Kramer, The Pulitzer-nominated playwright,
screenwriter, author and activist has been one of
the most controversial figures in American gay life
over the past 30 years. In 2005, he published “The
Tragedy of Today’s Gays,” a transcript of a speech in
which he attacked the younger generation of gay men
for their apathy over gay causes and accused them of
condemning their “predecessors to nonexistence.”
This might be true on one level. But, as Mr. Kramer
obviously addressed in his speech, I also felt obliged
to answer that his understanding of homosexuality is
giving me rash. In a recent interview Larry addresses
the recent development of integration and acceptance
of homosexuals as follows: “I am a gay person before
I’m anything else. I’m a gay person before I’m a white
person, before I’m a Jew, before I’m a writer, before
I’m American, anything. That is my most identifying
characteristic and I don’t find many people who
would say that.” Yes, since it’s 2011 we live in and evolution
of acceptance, which is not something bad and
does not automatically mean that all gays will become
housewives, marry rich businessmen and have three
kids in suburbia. The times where homosexuality
defined men and their whole life are past.
Whereas the discussion on those identity issues
belongs to the future. This is obviously a topic that
exceeds the 1200 words frame of REVENGE OF
THE NERDS. So if you have a thought or two on the
queens with beards, I’d be more than happy to chat...
or meet for coffee: cmitov@honkmag.de

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I USED TO BE
SNOW WHITE
BUT I DRIFTED.
Mae West 1896-1980

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WHAT WHE
WHAT, WH
to the most intere
by Ben Rodgers
Swatch FIVB World Championships
What: The countdown has started for the FIVB
Swatch Beach Volleyball World Championships
Rome 2011, where the best male and female beach
volleyball players around the world will compete
for the premier title in international beach volleyball.
The best 96 pairs – 48 in each gender – in the
world will compete for $1million in prize money
with Germany’s Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann,
and Jen Kessy and April Ross from USA the
defending men’s and women’s world champions
respectively from two years ago in Norway.
The main draw will be composed of 12 pools of four
teams competing in a robin round system before
the top two teams from each group and the eight
best third-paced teams will advance to the 32 spots
in the single-elimination phase of the competition.
Where: Rome/ Italy
When : June 13-19
More info at: www.beachvolleyroma.com
All-African-Games
What: The 10th All-African Games will take place
on September 3–18, 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique.
Maputo’s hosting will mark only the third time the
Games will be held in the southern part of the continent.
The event will feature 23 sports ( athletics,
table tennis, gymnastics and many many more), 2
of which will also feature disabled events (athletics
and swimming). While most venues will be located
in and around Maputo, the Canoeing and Rowing
venue will be Chidenguella Lagoon, 275 km north
of the city. Sport has been very important for the
people in Africa.
Mozambique is a very beautyful country and it is
worthwhile to spend his vacation there.
Where: Maputo/ Mozambique
When: September 3-18
More info at: www.allafricagamesmaputo.com
US Open Golf
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RE WHEN
ERE and WHEN are the questions that will guide us in this issue
sting SPORTS festivals for 2011. The first one starts tomorrow,
so you better hurry up or follow it online. Bon voyage!
there. Loved by the rich and beautiful people. This
sport relies on a year-long tradition. The rules are
dusty and old. But thanks to athletes like Tiger
Woods, the sport is getting more attention. Tiger
Woods is one of the stars of this sport, he got more
attention with his private sex life then with the
sport. Let’s see how he cut in 2011 at the U.S. Open.
Where: Bethesda, Maryland/ USA
When: June 16-19
More info at: www.usopen.com
and horses participate.
Nowhere are six days of the tournament have more
visitors. Every year about 300,000 spectators to the
various events and Disciplines.
During these days you will meet all the big names
in the horse riding sports. Aachen is also one of the
most beautyful citys in Germany.
Where: Aachen/ Germany
When: July 8-17
More info at: www.chioaachen.de
World Equestrian Festival CHIO
The CHIO Aachen, the World Equestrian Festival.
Horses are very proud animals. It is a pleasure to see
these animals in action.
The ChIO Aachen is the world’s largest equestrian
event. Nowhere else will take
the five disciplines of Jumping, Dressage, Eventing,
Vaulting and carriage driving more riders, drivers
2011 World Aquatics Championships
What: The 14th Fina World Championships are
scheduled for July 16–31, 2011 in Shanghai, China
at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The 2011
World Championships will again feature the 5
aquatics disciplines: swimming, water polo, diving,
open water, and synchronized swimming.
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in the world. It is always fun to see those good looking
athletics in action. It doesnt matter if you watch
it at hom in front of your TV or if you fly to Shanghai.
It is always very funny to watch the synchronized
swimming part.
Where: Shanghai/ China
When: July 16-31
More info at: www.shanghai-fina2011.com/en/
The 13th World Championships in
Athletics
What: The world championships in Athletics is one
of the biggest sports events this year. The big event
is a special events for each athletic in the world. The
queen of the sports event for this is the 100 m sprint
final for the men. It’s very funny to see how American
sports heroes present their ego. We are now
looking forward to see how many of these athletes
are doped. The event will be held in South Korea
and is perhaps a good reason to visit the country.
Where: Daegu/ South Korea
When: August 27 - September 4
More info at: www.daegu2011.org
EuroBasket 2011
Basketball is for many people more than just sport.
It is a way of life for many. In the USA Basketball
has a great tradition and is a very popular sport.
Even in Europe, this sport is getting more popular.
Although we are laughed at Americans but yes, we
Europeans can play it too. Maybe the sport is more
for men. But the energy of the game also attracts
many women. The competition will be hosted by
Lithuania. And it is the second time that this country
is the host for this event.
It was first decided that 16 teams will participate in
Eurobasket 2011, however FIBA Europe decided on
September 5, 2010, in a meeting in Istanbul, that
there would be 24 teams in the championships.
Where: Lithuania
When: August 31 - September 18
More info at: www.eurobasket2011.org/en
surface using skates with wheels. The term “Roller
Hockey” is often used interchangeably to refer to
two variant forms chiefly differentiated by the type
of skate used. There is traditional “Roller Hockey,”
played with quad roller skates and „Inline Hockey“.
Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60
countries worldwide.
Where: San Juan/ Argentina
When: September 24- October 1
More info at: www.mundialsanjuan2011.com
If Stockholm Open
What: „If the Stockholm Open“ lead after the Asian
Tour following the European part of the tournament
series. The Stockholm Open is a tournament of the
ATP World Tour Category 250th The game is played
indoors on hard court, where the prize is approximately
$ 500,000. The game is played in a single
28er from a main field. All the big stars of the sport
are going to Stockholm. It is as always a great festival
of international tennis. Sweden is very a friendly
country, so it worth a trip to this event.
Where: Stockholm/ Sweden
When: October 15-23
More info at: www.ifstockholmopen.se
Niagara Falls International
Marathon
What: This marathon has the most beautiful running
route of the world. The athletes have the good
fortune to practice their sport in a beautiful landscape.
The race was known as the Skylon Marathon.
Beginning during the first wave of the North American
running boom, it quickly became a favourite as
it was, and still is, the only marathon in the world
that starts in one country and finishes in another… a
destination marathon that crosses an international
border, providing the runners with an experience of
a lifetime.
Where: Niagara Falls/ Canada
When: October 23
More info at: www.niagarafallsmarathon.com
FIRS Men’s Roller Hockey World Cup
What: The FIRS Roller Hockey World Cup is a
competition also referred as the World Championship
- A between the best male national teams in
the World. It happens every two years. The Group A
contains the 16 best world teams.
Roller Hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry

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