the2ndrule Issue 41
the2ndrule
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Summer 2003 email edition
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web edition: http://the2ndrule.com
Contents
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1. Interview Capsule 1: Patrick Thompson [Shannon Low]
2. Instant Cafe Radio Episode 18 [Koh Beng Liang]
3. Interview Capsule 2: Andy Howell [Shannon Low & Koh Beng Liang]
4. Interview Capsule 3: Bigfoot [Shannon Low & Koh Beng Liang]
5. Interview Capsule 4: Sam Flores [Shannon Low & Koh Beng Liang]
6. Flesh Imp & the2ndrule present... An afternoon at the heeren [Koh Beng Liang]
7. Interview Capsule 5: Vandal [Shannon Low]
8. Stikfas Duel [Gregory Lim]
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Jack attributed his inability to play musical instruments of any kind to his lack of an unending soul. It was not that he had not looked. He had. And he found nothing there. For the same reason, he had a great affinity for the Blues. It filled him with a sense of well-being. Even though it was. The Blues.
Jack's lack of an unending soul made him a very rational person. Except when it came to affairs of the heart. "It stands to reason," he would say, "that such matters cannot be governed entirely by the intellect. And since I lack one unending soul, I shall have to leave it to chance."
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This summer's special issue of the2ndrule features street art with soul. The interviews featured in this issue are also available in a downloadable special edition pdf for you to keep. Click here to download:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/2rspecialedition.pdf
We're always looking for new work to publish. If you've got any writing, graphics, music, animation or video you'd like to get featured in the2ndrule, do get in touch with us. Please send your comments, suggestions and contributions to: editor@the2ndrule.com
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2ndrule team : Koh Beng Liang, Shannon Low, Benety Goh, Russell Chan, Alfian Bin Sa'at, Jason Tong
Contributors : Gregory Lim, Kim Teo
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Interview Capsule 1: Patrick Thompson
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Patrick Thompson, visiting graffiti artist from Canada, talks to the2ndrule about graffiti and the bigger picture.
"Great things can be done with art. Graffiti can influence and help people to appreciate their built environment, and therefore open up ideas to other kinds of possibilities."
Click here to read the2ndrule's interview with Patrick Thompson:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/patrick_thompson.html
Check out more images by Patrick Thompson in future issues.
- Shannon Low; Flash capsule by Russell Chan
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MELON - Nice topic for dinner-time conversation. Is it a vegetable or a fruit? The English eat it for dessert, which is astonishing.
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas
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Instant Cafe Radio Episode 18
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This is the result of breathing in too much spray paint fumes.
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/instantcafe.html
Playlist:
National Anthem - Iran
Tom Lehrer - Nuclear Proliferation
Coldcut - Last night a cliche
DJ Shadow - The Number Song (Cut Chemist party mix)
Yoko Kanno - Mushroom Hunting (Cowboy Bebop soundtrack)
Sally Ann - A Menina Danca
Bobby Hughes Combination - Magnificent Mr. Morgan
Machi - Machi (remix)
Pink Punk - Hair Spray
Albert de Paname & Raghunth Manet - God Ness
Trankilou - Chicago Babe
Lamb - Fly
Tomato/Underworld - Injury (onyx pearls soundtrack)
Compay Segundo (duet with Eliades Ochoa) - Chan Chan
The Free Design - Love You (from Julius and Friends soundtrack)
- Selection and mix by Koh Beng Liang
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Fourskin & Zouk Club present
The Zouk Book : Special Edition t-shirts
Together with the launch of The Zouk Book on 13 June 2003, Fourskin invites four renowned designers to design t-shirts based on the theme, "One World", "One Music", "One Tribe" and "One Dance".
Featured designers :: 123Klan - France :: Devilrobots - Japan :: Joshua Davis, Praystation - USA :: Matt Owens, Volume One - USA
Available now at the Fourskin Store: 4th Floor, Heeren, Singapore
Click here to view the designs:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/zouktees.html
For more information, or to purchase online, please check out http://www.fourskinstore.com/zouk
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Interview Capsule 2: Andy Howell
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Andy Howell's career as a world-renowned street artist co-exists in zen-like balance with his past as a top professional skateboarder, co-founder of prominent skateboard company Element Skateboards, 411 video magazine and Giant Distribution, and creative director for various companies. Andy describes his paintings as "transcendental moments", or "the actual moment when we transcend daily mediocrity, whether it be discovery, triumph or escape." The FACE Magazine described them as "Disney on Drugs".
"Street art speaks to everyone, sometimes subconsciously even, and everyone has some reaction to it."
Click here to read the2ndrule's interview with Andy Howell:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/andy_howell.html
- Shannon Low & Koh Beng Liang; Flash capsule by Russell Chan
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Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
- Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
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Interview Capsule 3: Bigfoot
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Bigfoot has found worldwide commercial success through design for footwear label I-path and BF-1 tshirts. In his art, he works big, using recycled wood and paint to create bold visual reminders of the power of nature, addressing the conflict between the respect for nature held by American indigenous people and the destructive agenda of the Western conquest.
"Everything from a candy wrapper to a skateboard graphic can make a person inspired to use colours and shapes to express themselves, and to take it to the street is to make it become part of the world for all to see and be influenced by."
Click here to read the2ndrule's interview with Bigfoot:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/bigfoot.html
- Shannon Low & Koh Beng Liang; Flash capsule by Russell Chan
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If the world is unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest it is not surprising things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains.
- Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
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Interview Capsule 4: Sam Flores
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Sam Flores was born in 1975, immersed in the stark beauty of the New Mexico desert. His work of paintings on maps, blueprints, canvas and tshirts have earned him shows in New York, Tokyo and Paris, and he continues to enjoy a strong following in the street art world.
"I've always liked to put stuff where they don't belong. Over the years, I got used to it and I guess it's my way of portraying people in their lives. The characters I paint have no pupils cuz a lot of people are like that. They are blind to what's going on around them and their surroundings."
Click here to read the2ndrule's interview with Sam Flores:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/sam_flores.html
- Shannon Low & Koh Beng Liang; Flash capsule by Russell Chan
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"Some might say, they don't believe in Heaven.
Go and tell that to the man who lives in Hell."
- Oasis, "Some Might Say"
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Flesh Imp & the2ndrule present... An afternoon at the heeren
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On the 7th and 8th of June 2003, The Flesh Imp Concept Store invited American street artists Andy Howell, Sam Flores and Bigfoot to Singapore to vandalise the Heeren with live outdoor and indoor painting.
Click here to watch the video:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/fleshimp/fleshimp.html
- Koh Beng Liang
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08 06 2003 World Wide Release
Flesh Imp x Andy Howell x Sam Flores x Bigfoot
An exclusive limited edition t-shirt designed by Flesh Imp, Andy Howell, Sam Flores and Bigfoot. Available now at The Fleshimp Concept Store:
260 Orchard Road
#03-11 The Heeren
Singapore
Click here to preview:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/fleshimptee.gif
For more info, check out http://www.fleshimp.com
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Interview Capsule 5: Vandal
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Vandal, also known as the Nomadic Addict/Jason Schadt, is a rapper from Toronto, Canada. Having recently released an album, he talks to the2ndrule about rap and travel.
"Music is life, music is love, music is sharing, music comes from the heart (or it should)."
Click here to read the2ndrule's interview with Vandal:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/vandal.html
To order Vandal's latest album, "Nomadic Addict", online at http://www.cdbaby.com/vandal
- Shannon Low & Koh Beng Liang; Flash capsule by Russell Chan
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INSPIRATION (Poetic) - Aroused by: the sight of the sea, love, women, etc.
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas
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Stikfas Duel
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Click to play the animation:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/stikfas_greg.mov
For more info, contact domon@starhub.net.sg
- Gregory Lim
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Learn to breakdance!
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/jcbreakdancemachine.swf
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Stikfas Duel (c) 2003 Gregory Lim
Special Edition pdf designed by Kim Teo
Click here to download: http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue41/2rspecialedition.pdf
