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Omen Magazine
is a showcase for multi-medium International creativity. It is a visual online magazine that is a homage to Art and Fashion that may not be necessarily mainstream. It will be a hybrid of talent from up and coming to famous.The focus is on the image, not the buzz. Omen wants to explore and expose to the cyber world, all the amazing work that is off the commercial radar.
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04 Mário Correia - Graphic editor Marcus Leatherdale - Art Director / Art Editor Pedro Matos - Photo editor Jorge Serio - Fashion editor Frederica Santos - Production editor + Paul Bridgewater – NYC Amabel Barraclough – London Martin Belk – Glasgow Patric Lehman – Toronto Jennifer Leskiw –Antwerp Anne McDonald – Prague Muga Miyahara –Tokyo Elizabeth Rogers – New Delhi Hector Ramsay - Florence Andrea Splisgar – Berlin Jorge Soccaras – Barcelona Arturo Toulanov - NYC + Fashion Corrspondents: Rebecca Weinberg – NYC Zuleika Ponsen - Paris
KENNY SCHARF NYC / LA
www.kennyscharf.com My ambition as a professional artist is to maintain the course that I set nearly 20 years ago by establishing my work in the fields of painting, sculpture, and performance. Every project I undertake is building on my past experiences. My original approach is unchanged; it is a personal challenge to produce the best work possible every time. One very important and guiding principle to my work is to reach out beyond the elitist boundaries of fine art and connect to popular culture through my art. My personal ambition has always been to live the example. I believe the artist has a social responsibility to engage others in a thought process that ultimately brings the creative process into everyday life thereby enhancing the quality of our experience.
PAYING RESPECT by William Coupon – NYC www.williamcoupon.com
I guess it’s what’s a common thread, a universal condition ~ but to “pass away” is so mysterious, so “other worldly”, that one can’t help but to be so emotionally confused thinking about it, or trying to understand it, it could make one nearly exhausted to the point of indeterminate catatonic zombism. Life, as in death, provides us with endless causes and effects. What we have compiled here are some notable individuals who have all died but who all shared the lens with me at happier Each culture has it’s own unique way of dealing with death and dying ~ from the Lubavitcher’s to the Hindus to the Mayans to Europe’s Royals and Haiti’s poor, from the Australian Aboriginal to the Philippine T’boli tribesmen. Here in western culture, we tend to exalt the celebrity and in death they are glorified. One’s death glorifies their life, their accomplishments. But it is also what makes everyone linked, everyone unified, everyone ultimately on the same plane. We all end up in the same place, ending up the same. We’d all end up somewhat mythological as the physical disappears and the spirits remain. In Brazil and Portugal, there is a word called saudade. It means the longing for a loved one or thing. It is a word we don’t have here in America. It is a word that expresses that emotion when we loose something, or someone. It is a beautiful word which embraces that intangible element and feeling of why we are always somehow connected. And it borders on what love there is that always remains, even in death. It’s a word I like very much as it is a word describing an emotion. The portraits on these pages are from mostly notable personalities who have passed away. Not that they are more valuable than anyone else, of course. But they became a part of our lives, even in death. And they remain, even in death. From the Moody Blues, back in the 70’s, singing: “Timothy Leary’s Dead. No. No. He’s only Outside, looking In….” Or, from this Nilsson song: “How can I run away from Darkness at the close of day? When all I think about is you. Not knowing where I am going, what am I do to? When all I think about is you. I’ll stand an hour of knocking, knowing that my heart is mocking me. You don’t live here anymore…… I don’t know why I bother. What else can I do. When all I think about is you. Dream-maker, Heartbreaker. How can dreams come? When all I dream about is you. So I ask you to be alive, for now. There is little time to be otherwise. We are all mere mortals, yet we must embrace life. It is all we know, at least at this point in time, and until we reach the other side, we must make the best of it all and use the life force we have been given. And as Michael Jackson said: “Don’t stop till you get enough.” He should know.
ANDY WARHOL
MICHEL BASQUIAT
GEORGE HARRISON
TIMOTHY LEARY
NORMAN MAILER
RONALD REAGAN
DIZZY GILLESPIE
SUSAN SONTAG
OCTAVIO PAZ
DOMINICK DUNNE
ISSAC HAYES
KEITH HARING
ALAN GINSBERG
JERRY GARCIA
JIM HENSON
MARIAM MAKEBA
YASSER ARAFAT
WILLIAM BURROUGHS
TED KENNEDY
ASTOR PIAZOLLA
MILES DAVIS
LISA FREDENTHAL SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA SAN FRANSISCO 1970S PORTRAITS
For Lisa Fredenthal-Lee it has never been a question of lemons or lemonade. She will make Art from either or both and have the kind of fun doing it that is contagious. She has a Midas touch that causes jaws to drop and pretenders to blush. Upon encountering Lisa’s work for the first time one is likely to search for appropriate words to engage a fresh new face on the art scene. Her reply: “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” And Lisa has been doing this for some fifty some years. Born of an artistic family, art has always been a dedication. Lisa has combined traditions having both earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has enjoyed a successful career as an international recording artist. There was a stint as a textile designer creating the early designs for the Joe Boxer brand, Commissioned to create Functional Art for Bally International, and the recent addition of video creator, producer, and performer of television series ’Don’t Throw That away!’ Another example of how the boundaries of disciplines just won’t hold the girl. In an age of labels and short attention spans Lisa’s work defies compartmentalization. The critic will have difficulty as well because Lisa is not one herself. Her defining characteristics are enthusiasm,exuberance and an absence of doubt. Lisa’s Early Portraits are as good a place to start as any, so: Once upon a time... Tom Ruddock Photographer Lisa Fredenthal-Lee resides in Santa Rosa, California with her husband and art collaborator Robert Lee.
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MIRAGE IMAGE PRODUCTIONS
PEDRO MATOS – PHOTOGRAPHY / POST PRODUCTION JORGE SERIO – CONCEPT / ART DIRECTION / STYLING / MAKE-UP FREDERICA SANTOS – ASSISTANT PRODUCTION / STYLING MODEL ; HELLYDA CAVALLARO – CENTRAL MODELS METAL ARMOR VEST - TERESA MILHEIRO www.teresamilheiro.com CARPET – KEA CARPETS, BROOKLYN, NY www.keacarpetsandkilims.com
MUGA MIYAHARA TOKYO www.mugamiyahara.com DOSOJIN The Dosojin are minor Japanese Shinto kami popularly worshiped in Kanto and neighboring areas which protect travelers from evil spirits. They are often sculpted in the form of a happy married couple. They can also be enshrined in small roadside Shinto shrines called hokora. A folk deity who in Buddhism administers the border between this world and hell, and is associated with roads and travel. In his common Japanese form he is the deity of mountain passes, crossroads, and village boundaries who obstructs the passage of evil spirits and gods of disease. His cult is intermingled with many others, including those which practise sai-no-kawara Kawahara infarction, or keeping out evil spirits. He is associated with matters of fertility both in crops and humans beings, and also is found as a god of stones. Dousojin appear as stones of all sorts, often phallic or carved to show a single or a figure who Couple May Be in Sexual Union.
SALLY DAVIES - DOG PORTRAITS NYC For one year I did the "New York Daily Dog" Project. Every day, Monday to Friday I hit the streets of New York City looking for the next Daily Dog. Some days there were dozens and some days there was only one. But always, every time, that one would be waiting for me, somewhere, and they would let me know that they were waiting. This project changed me more than any work ever has. I know for sure now, what I always suspected. And I hope when you look at these photographs, and into the eyes of these animals, that something happens to you too. That your consciousness shifts, just a little bit. That for a few seconds you connect and your heart knows there is someone in there. Someone alive and smart and who sees into your soul. And if you look long enough, that few seconds will change your life. -Sally Davies
KENNY SCHARF NYC / LA www.kennyscharf.com PAYING RESPECT by William Coupon www.williamcoupon.com LISA FREDENTHAL SAN FRANSISCO 1970S PORTRAITS www.yea-art.com www.dontthrowthataway.com www.facebook.com/pages/Live-For-Art/182455535101508?created&v=info
STORY TAILORS, LISBOA www.storytailors.pt MIRAGE IMAGE PRODUCTIONS www.mirageimageproductions.com MUGA MIYAHARA TOKYO www.mugamiyahara.com SALLY DAVIES - DOG PORTRAITS www.sallydaviesphoto.com