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Poetry
Obama;
The poet
once said…
Old Man
I saw an old forgotten man
On an old, forgotten road
staggering and numb
pulls out forgotten dignity from under his flaking coat,
And walks a straight line along the crooked world.
Underground
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Pop
Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;
I stare hard at his face, a stare
That deflects off his brow;
I’m sure he’s unaware of his
Dark, watery eyes, that
Glance in different directions,
And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,
Beige T-shirt, yelling,
Yelling in his ears, that hang
With heavy lobes, but he’s still telling
His joke, so I ask why
He’s so unhappy, to which he replies...
But I don’t care anymore, cause
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He took too damn long, and from
Under my seat, I pull out the
Mirror I’ve been saving; I’m laughing,
Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face
To mine, as he grows small,
A spot in my brain, something
That may be squeezed out, like a
Watermelon seed between
Two fingers.
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem
He wrote before his mother died,
Stands, shouts, and asks
For a hug, as I shink*, my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; ‘cause
I see my face, framed within
Pop’s black-framed glasses
And know he’s laughing too.
"Shink" may be a typo.
Barack Obama wrote the “Old Man” in the high school. The other two were published in the
student literature magazine in 1982 while he was studying at Occidental College.
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Interview / Illustration
You may not have heard his name yet but
Futuristika suggests you note it down
somewhere. Cagri Cankaya is a young illustrator,
with small but stable steps on his way to be a
world wide known artist with his brilliant ideas
and talents.
Working as a junior art director at the
Young&Rubicam marketing and communications
company, Turkish advertisement arena is fed
with his latest works for Danone, Iveco, Alfa
Romeo, Burger King and the list goes on, all an
ease for the eye.
Cagri Cankaya:
Girls fight all night!
“The idea of torn clothing
and damaged accessories
of fighting women projects
the idea that this game
would intensively attract
many, even the ladies!”
Here are a few questions to get to know him and
it is time to introduce his latest project “Catfight
Worldwide” to Futuristika readers:
Futuristika: Do you remember the very first
drawing you have ever made? Favorite book(s)
of childhood?
Cagri Cankaya: My mother sometimes takes
down from the dusty shelves and shows me my
very first drawings. Then I remember them, even
the moments I was drawing. It is an awkward
feeling. I look at them and smile, become
emotional; I can not decide whether to cry or
laugh, I get confused.
I had kind of a comic book when I was a kid. It
was a foreign publishing. I was obsessed with
it. I would read it over and over again, study
the drawings to the smallest detail and I would
loose myself in them. Unfortunately I can not
find it. More over, I can not recall the name. I
would never loose it again if I ever find it one
day.
Futuristika team fell deeply for your characters
:) Arabia, England and Thailand makes the
top 3 it seems. Also as I know the Turkish
representative - with her powerful Ottoman
Slap- Gokcen will be among the best digital
characters around the world in the 4th book of
Exotique series by Balistic Publishing. Could
you tell us your Catfight story in detail?
I always wanted to use my graphic design and
illustration talent for computer games since I
started at the age of 5 to play games and spent
all my childhood in Atari saloons investing all
my money to rusty coins. When I was playing,
I would wonder the process of creating games
and I would research. So I started to modify my
favorite games rewriting their files. Additional
chapters, characters... And one day I decided
to send a pdf portfolio containing these works,
my school projects and other personal works
to GSC Game World Company located in Kiev,
Ukraine. I started to work there as a 2D Concept
Artist. GSC Game World is a computer game
developing company; Cossacks, Stalker, Heroes
of Annihilated Empires are some of their wellknown works. The designer team was of a group
of 100 artists. I have learned a lot about the
computer game circles during the days I spent
in Kiev.
“I like to illustrate
women. The idea of a
gigantic project related
to women lessens the
exaggeration of work in
my mind.”
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But I didn’t want to prolong my
education; I had a graduation project
waiting to be done. So as I was
pondering what to do, I decided to
make my own fighting game project;
“Catfight World Wide”. It is of course
impossible to generate the whole
game but I could at least create the
visual realm and the characters. Even
this would be enough presenting my
project to game companies.
A fighting game solely with female
characters is based on two main ideas:
Firstly, I like to illustrate women. The
idea of a gigantic project related to
women lessens the exaggeration of
work in my mind.
Secondly, game players world wide
are mainly man and the idea of torn
clothing and damaged accessories of
fighting women projects the idea that
this game would intensively attract
many, even the ladies!
There are 16 characters from 16
different countries in Catfight, the
number could increase. All have
goals of their own. Character moves
are based on “women fight” than
the typical martial arts; pulling hair,
scratching, pinching, biting and many
more that the long combos of which
would be one of the most pleasurable
parts of this game.
Another detail is that the characters
have special moves reflecting their
home country. The Ottoman Slap of
Gökçen, as you mentioned, is a proper
example.
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Being an art director working
consistently and creating completely
according to your wishes as an
illustrator... What are the distinctive
differences between these two
courses in the way you are thinking?
What are your goals in these two
different fields?
To manage both at the same time
doesn’t seem possible working in my
agency since there is only 24 hours a
day. I guess I will need to make some
decisions evaluating my goals. To be
honest, after working and learning
here I realize that my thoughts on
being an art director were pretty
different.
Pros&cons of your job?
The hardest side of the profession
varies working in different agencies.
Different companies, different
difficulties, different countries,
different problems.
For me they are; incomplete briefs,
customers who don’t know what they
want or they want an advertisement in
half a day and we are obliged to design
advertisements in half a day to those
customers. Projects with never ending
revisions, day passing by with those
revisions, because of those revisions
having to work till the mornings for the
other brands’ projects, almost every
project having a very short deadline
are the things I would say as the
hardest parts of my job.
The enjoyable parts though are; nice
food at noon at the agency, fairly
sincere people around, encouragement
of the agency to prepare works for contests and festivals,
not working on Saturdays, free tea, coffee and a belly dancer
coming for a show to honor you when quitting the agency :)
The essential things your bag should never be missing?
Let’s have look at it now… I always carry the same stuff:
Macbook Pro, Wacom, screen cleaning kit, 500 gb hard disc, a
notebook, a lousy mouse, adapters, cables... And sometimes
my camera.
Cagri Cankaya: http://www.cagricankaya.com/
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Illustration
Adam, Eve
and the
Apple of
Knowledge
by Dragos
Platon
This is a story about Adam
and Eve and their attempt
to reach the apple of
knowledge. 12 fictional
situations in which the first
man and the first woman are
dealing with a strange future.
(A4 size - Ink on paper)
Born in 1980 in Bistrita, Romania, Dragos
Platon lives and works in Iasi. He studied
at the University of Arts “George Enescu”
Iasi where he obtained his degree in 2005.
He has been joining group exhibitions even
starting from 2000. “Fronteria 2” - Iasi 2000, “Lirysm, Anxitey and Other Stories”
- Bucharest - 2003, “Revolution Reloaded”
- Milan - 2004, “Back to the Future” Bucharest, 2007 are a few examples.
Some other innovative works of this young
artist representing the contemporary art
in Romania can be viewed on his website:
http://www.debarcader.ro
Diary
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Frida: Queue is este idiota?
*We kindly thank Mehmet Gureli, the Turkish poet,
musician, artist, for sharing his
book with us.
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context.
Of all the huge urban areas around the world,
A great number of these events are governmentsponsored projects whose outlook and also
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endless.
Although the legendary “TEHRAN BIENNIAL”
the open call process and a “jury” they deemed
unacceptable.
Tehran, as one may suppose, does not seem
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Interview / Post Rock
Gaserata:
Welcome to
the land of
“neverending”
songs!
With their first (and yet the only) album “I have
a Lyubovnik”, our latest favorite post rock band Gaserata
is a group of young musicians from beautiful Latvia.
If you would like to find your way back to sanity again.
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Futuristika: Thanks to the internet, we have
found and deeply fallen in love with your album
“I have a Lyubovnik”. So we can begin with
your views about the online music promotion. Is
this an evolution to a better musical and social
height or is just a quick revolution that may eat
its own children; musicians and listeners?
Yap, internet is really nice. You can find anything
there, even wife or husband or both at the
same time… If we speak about music promotion
through internet, especially music which we
create, then we see it as 100% natural thing to
do, because playing music for is purely hobby
and has nothing to do with business, neither we
“dream, hope, believe, etc.” that one day we’ll
be such big band or rock stars that we will earn
lot of money with music.
“For us it’s more about
sounds and music
rather than words.”
Maybe it’s evolution of music promotion and
maybe this evolution means that those times are
gone when with music records you can earn lots
of money. But probably we don’t care about that
much -we all work full time jobs which are no
way connected to music.
About “eating its own children”, I believe that
there will be always people for whom music is
hobby and they will create a lot of seconds and
minutes and hours of really beautiful music and
there will be listeners for that music.
We believe that this situation redistributes
power between music companies and musicians
in decision making about what music people
should listen. Actually it’s not about some
imaginary POWER but about chance to reach
people by ourselves without someone’s help
and about sharing.
That’s why we decided to offer our album for
download through our website. Also -really
who uses CD players these days anyway? In
some way we believe that CD format is dying
specie. But I still buy sometimes some -if they’re
funny or special, because our guitar player’s
(Martins... He is only one with the car, hahaha!)
car music player doesn’t support mp3 ;D
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Regarding “I have a Lyubovnik”, please pardon
my ignorance, as far as I know we can translate
that as “I have a lover”, which reminds me the
movie of Valery Todorovsky’s drama Lyubovnik
(2002). A great piece it was. Is this name
related to that movie? If not, how did you come
up with it?
Woouh, didn’t even knew that there is such
movie and that Russian language word really is
written that way in English ;D
So, it isn’t connected with the movie. We came
up with such album name (Net
m). We’re
sitting all in an airport, waiting for plane. And
then suddenly, with no logical reason Aija
(base guitar) looked at some small boy (who
was also waiting for that plane) and said: “I
have a Lyubovnik”... And when we recorded the
album, then we understood that this “I have a
Lyubovnik” perfectly fits for it in all ways.
Since we are on to names, what does Gaserata
mean? How many of you are there? -4 according
to the Myspace page. Could you please
introduce us these musicians who create that
cinematic, oceanic atmosphere?
Gaserata has no explanation or meaning. It
happened when band name was “Saare”. Exdrummer was leaving the band and wanted to
keep band’s name for his new band because
it was his idea. So we were forced to get new
band’s name. Some time ago our drummer read
out loud one word; “GASERATA” on mineral
water’s label. That word in Estonian means “Still
water”. After first concert base player Aija came
to him with bottle of water and showed: “You
misread the word, actually it is GASSERIMATA,
not GASERATA”. But we played one concert
already so we decided to leave this title.
That’s right; we’re four people in the band. Our
girl Aija plays base guitar, Maris loves to play
drums and then there’s two guitarists; Nauris
and Martins. Four people with quite different
characters and musical histories somehow
managed to get together and made something
out there…
You have very interesting song names in the
album (i.e How Are YOUUU Doin’?! , La Pission
Impossible, Incidental Sex (With Feelings)).
Maybe we should look more carefully into your
musical views as a general sadness embraced
with groove and humor. How do you make
decisions for the name of the songs?
As we have no lyrics, then song names always
has been hardest part of song “composing” : )
That’s why we have unusual song names. Those
names come from some small situations or
moments which sometimes has no connection
to songs at all. But when we speak out those
phrases, then it’s clear for us that this specific
phrase perfectly fits our song. Anyway, for us
it’s more about sounds and music rather than
words. Somehow it happened that through
instrumental music we can express lot more
feelings and emotions and understanding of
ourselves than through words.
And, yes, you put it that way, althought our
music is sad or serious and deep, we do that
with smile on our faces with groove and humor.
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According to me -as an ordinary but hardcore
instrumental and progressive listener- your
sound is carrying funky tunes as well as some
eastern melodies. I can put your CD along with
Grails, German Krautgods CAN and Grobschnitt.
What are the band’s general music influences?
Funky tunes come from earlier periods of
Gaserata, when we had little bit different lineup. Then there were more sounds from funk
and jazz and as one of guitarists is from those
times, he still has those influences somewhere
inside of him. Hard to explain eastern melodies;
I didn’t know we have them : )
General music influences… Hmm, I would say
that there are no “general” influences, because
music which we played before Gaserata was
very different. Martins played in post hardcoreemocore band, Nauris and Aija played in
funky-jazzy band and Maris played in modernindie rock band. We got a good mix of all kind
of influences. Maybe that’s way that sound is
sometimes eastern type ;D
The album’s artwork by Jancis and Emilija Liela
is lovely. Who are they?
I have heard that they are from space. Emilija is
a lovely girl who does arts stuff -paints, draws,
makes some d.i.y. arts stuff and speaks very
loud. She made those creatures which are on
album’s artwork. And Jancis -I even don’t know
what isn’t he ;D. In this case he’s the guy who
took drawings of those creatures and scanned
them, did the digital design part of artwork.
Besides sitting at computer and making albums
artwork, he also plays drums in magnificent
band TESA and is a tattoo master. He has made
five for Martins and two for Maris.
Being in a studio and being on the stage? What
are the differences for Gaserata? Do you play
the songs as they have been recorded or is the
band open to perform freely, improvising?
We’re 100 % stage band. Gaserata has been to
studio only once to record those songs which we
play on our live performance set. We didn’t get
any special preparation for recording, only when
we’re recording we changed some guitar parts
to make them sound more “full”. Also, our songs
are never “finished”. We do some small changes
all the time, doing some kind of improvisation
stuff.
Any bedside books/magazines nowadays?
Marins: Hm, bedside books and magazines… I
would say that I have none because I don’t have
much free time, especially when in bed.
Maris: I have some pile of decent books of
English, American and Russian writers near the
bed but i didn’t finish any yet.
Nauris is the one who read lots of books. Aija’s
books are in music school.
I hope one day we will be able to see you in a
concert in Istanbul or to just to have a beer.
If you’ll invite us to play there, then we’re going
to Istanbul : )
Thank you for sharing your music with us. Good
luck from Khalkedonia.
And thank you for your interest in Gaserata.
Gaserata:
http://www.myspace.com/gaserata/
http://www.gaserata.lv/
Pop Artist
Guy Peellaert:
The spirit of rock;
the irreverence, the outrage,
the gaudiness, the occasional
tenderness
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“Bowie and Jagger
fought for custody of
Peellaert’s time and
genius like jealous
parents.”
Peellaert was born in Brussels into an aristocratic family.
After he completed his studies on fine art, he became
interested in jazz, pop culture and movies. That period he
volunteered to fight in the Korean War. Later on, while he
was drawing comics in Belgium, he took a job for a movie and
moved to Paris.
His fantastical collages can be seen also in books like “The
Big Room” –a gloomy homage to Las Vegas published in
1986, “20th Century Dreams” –an alternative history of 20th
century published in 1999.
Guy Peellaert: http://www.guypeellaert.com/
Taxi Driver, Paris-Texas, Short Cuts and Wings
of Desire or the Rolling Stones (It’s Only Rock’
N Roll), David Bowie (Diamond Dogs)… If these
movies or albums meant something for you in
the course of your life, then you should feel the
heartache to know that the Belgian pop artist
Guy Peellaert is not with us any more.
Peellaert; the cover designer of many movies
and albums died of cancer in Paris on the 17th
of November 2008 at the age of 74. He was
known mostly for his portraits of rock stars in
the 70’s. The 1972 cult book “Rock Dreams”
with 116 surreal pictures brought him worldwide
attention selling more than one million copies
worldwide. This work led him to design album
covers for musicians like the Rolling Stones,
David Bowie, etc. His best known movie
poster is Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver; an
unforgettable piece of art.
“I’m not bothered about death. Not having any passion while you’re alive, that’s the terrible thing.
That’s why Rock Dreams still works today. Emotions keep you alive. Rock will always represent the
extravagant, the flashy, and the fantasy. These pictures are a memento to that dream.”
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Letter
A love letter by James Joyce 15 August, 1904
My dear Nora,
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then I have been
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thing. I hear nothing butt your voice. I
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theirs.
coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not
e pttuous,
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side
When I am with you I leave asi
ulder..
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suspicious nature. I wish I felt you
d.
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I thin
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u wri
w iting this thing. Will you
o r wr
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ve been a half-h
I have
f?
elf?
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gn mys
sign
u will. How am I to si
mething to me? I hope you
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know
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I wo
lf.
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myyse
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