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NINA KHARYTONOVA

NICOLAS SIMONEAU

Deputy editor-in-chief

Art director

email: nkaharytonova@kaltblut-magazine.com

email: nsimoneau@kaltblut-magazine.com

EMMA E K JONES

AMANDA M JANSSON

Art editor

Art editor

email: ejones@kaltblut-magazine.com

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COCO MEURER

CLAUDIO ALVARGOMZALEZ

Music editor

Movie editor

email: cmeurer@kaltblut-magazine.com

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ALEXANDER DANNER

DANIEL ELLMENREICH

Advertising / Office

Webmaster

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SUSANN BOSSLAU, DREW EASTMAN, SHEL FULLER, SUZANA HOLTGRAVE, ALESSANDRO LÁZARO, AIDEN CONNOR Layout by Marcel Schlutt & Nicolas Simoneau, Translation by Amanda M Jansson & Drew Eastmann

KALTBLUT Magazine Founded & Published - 2012 in Berlin

by Marcel Schlutt All Copyrights @ Marcel Schlutt KALTBLUT Magazine Ebelingstr. 1 10249 Berlin / Germany +49 30 700 823 31 www.kaltblut-magazine.com

Cover Model: Lex Ólsen

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HERE WE ARE

Hello, welcome to our very first KALTBLUT Collection. 400 pages of the theme Nudity. I hope you enjoy what you will see. Me and my team, we wanna thank you - all of our readers, fans, friends, artists and haters - for all the support in the last month. It was not an easy time for us. But we are strong and we are fighters. So! The future is ours. We love you guys!

KALTBLUT Magazine is the successor of HONK! Magazine, an Onlinemagazine founded in 2010 in Berlin. HONK! has created international sensation from day one, also because of collaborations with Steed Lord, Bruce La Bruce, Rico Mahel (Ophus Kulturpreis 2011), Natalie Avelon, Walter Van Beirendonck and many others.

What is Kaltblut? KALTBLUT stands for a limitless symbiosis between art, photography, fashion and media. The theme of every issue works as a platform for artists to showcase their personal interpretation and point of view. By adopting this concept KALTBLUT hopes to break free from all traditional conventions and frames and allow an unhinged and borderless unfolding of creativity.

Marked by the Internet generation we have opted for an online magazine format, aiming at achieving the fastest and most global connection between artists and readers.

In order to address our target group -the art interested cosmopolitan- in a propper way, our issues are released every 2 months in English. Our purpose is to create a thorough insight to every theme we go for, without pro and con and without falling victim to social restraints. We don’t care to condemn but to be an eye opening experience instead.

Dear Nadine W.: I wanna thank you also, for your creativity, for your fantasy, for your hard work. Because of you we are stronger now. We know how good we are. You and me we will be bound for the rest of our lifes.

MARCEL SCHLUTT EDITOR IN CHIEF / FASHION EDITOR mschlutt@kaltblut-magazine.com

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Fashion Designer Interview By Susann Bosslau

Photography + Interview

Movie Stars Interview By Marcel Schlutt

Fashion Editorial

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GIO BLACK PETER Born To Be An Artist

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SAM SPARRO

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DEUX DÉMONS

Photography by Robert P Kothe

Return To Paradise

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TOP5 BOOKS 84.

PETA

Interview By Nina Kharytonova

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RUBEN LARTIQUE Illustration + Interview

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THE FUTURE

Berlin Faces U Should Know

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FOVE DESIGN Fashion Editorial

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Artist Of The Year Interview by Nicolas Simoneau

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Editorial By Marco Rothenburger

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MARILYN MONROE

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ON THE SHORE Editorial By Mara Sommer

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MUNROE BERGDORF Interview By Aiden Connor

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RONALDO Fashion From Brazil

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Selfportraits By Brett Seiler

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The X-Insider Iinterview By Marcel Schlutt

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ART AROUND ..

6 Art Events Around The World March till May 2012

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Normal. And what is normal?

Who wants to be normal after all? And what does it mean to be normal?

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NORMAL STATE! Normal is what feels like normal to you.

And what you feel is determined by what you have experienced and what you have lived through. Which means it is something completely different to every single one of us. Everybody has their perspective on life. Sometimes they nearly coincide or are the exact opposites. Our social life is being dictated by constraints that humans have imposed on themselves over time. Codes, that must be obeyed so we don’t fall of the frame. Norms recognized and approved by society. The biggest rebel cannot break free of all that.

Much as he’d want to.

It could have come about as a result of extreme tabooing. The showing of skin was foremost for women completely forbidden. Bathing suits were bigger than bed sheets. So shamefulness is a relic of the preceding uptight generations. And we haven’t managed to shake it off. On the contrary. Free-your-body and Nudist clubs are running out of young members.

Nobody wants to ride a bike or play badminton in the complete nude.

Yet, despite all the constraints, there must be some state, equal for all, that allows us to look “normal” among our own species. Or at least approaches “normal” as much as possible.

An old saying, quoted far too much, goes: “Never say never.” Our life is being governed by development and various circumstances. Eventually, man may manage to shake off this relic.

Perhaps it is the state of nudity. Yes, perhaps.

Optical differences are only relevant to the nature of each body. No social codes or clothing rules. Basically, the “raw” state of humans. It should be the most normal thing on earth to be just naked. Yet it isn’t.

Just as the clothing covering us. On the other hand, nobody can guarantee that getting rid of this shell will be the solution to all inhibition.

Nudity has become a strange rarity. But why?

What could have happened, so that people not only find nudity shameful but can even use it as means to provoke?

Sex sells!

The very invention of this slogan and the possibility of its invention alone, should have made us suspicious. But it hasn’t.

On the contrary, today, in the 21st century is the uncovered nude body the number one means of provoking, be it in the music industry, the fashion industry or art.

The last step to openness today remains the one to nudity. Of course, some will say, that nudity is completely acceptable in fashion, music, or art.

And we all know how the things most frowned upon, are the most provoking ones.

One thing is absolutely certain, the covering clothes, are hiding much that our eye seeks to avoid looking at. Independently from the beauty ideals of each decade and century.

Sometimes it is punishment enough having to imagine what some people’s clothes are hiding.

Nobody wants to see everybody’s everything.

It is impossible to settle to the absolute solution. Like with everything in life, ex-

tremism is never a solution. Still, we believe that in the right moments all covers must fall.

Let´s get naked!

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S U I L E R K E Swedish born designer Simon Ekrelius, based in London, is on of the fashion designers we like the most. His design is unique, special and every woman should wear one of his pieces.

The eponymous label is available in the UK, Italy and online.

KALTBLUT had a little chat with the next big designer of our decade.

Interview by Susann Bosslau Photos by Sasha Rainbow Model: Hannah Cooper - Next Models.

Hair & Make-Up by Holly Silius

www.simonekrelius.com

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KALTBLUT: What was the first thing you ever sewed and how old were you?

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I sewed a pillowcase when I was 4 and a pair of trousers when I was 7. I was terrified of the sewing machine but I remember it so well, I worn those trousers with pockets and drawstring everyday i could.

KALTBLUT: You grew up in Stockholm what and who did inspire you?

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My grandmother on my mums side was the main inspiration to my designing, she sort of had that universal aura around her, I also kept studying people on the street all the time, always when seeing them I redesigned their look, I still do that today, its really fun. I have always been an observer and architecture is in my love box too. The stark and unusual buildings fascinates me profoundly.

KALTBLUT: When did you know you wanna become a designer and why?

SIMON: I dont know why and I still think why? But what I do know is like a natural draw for me. when i work in my studio I go into trans, Its a bit scary, I forget everything around me, in the same time its like meditation. I was around 12/13 when I first thought about it. In Sweden we use to have a weekly fashion report and the lady who narrated it was a true Mode-Dame. It was when I saw pieces from YSL, Valentino and all the other designers I felt my vision was never presented. I dont think I thought about the word designer more likely I just wanted to dig in there and do my own designs.

KALTBLUT: How do people recognise your fashion?

SIMON: My cuts changes from season to season but I keep that very me with architectural angle and the way I oversize or slimming with my way of adding silhouettes, colours and materials and my cubistic prints that sometimes blurr out or stay clean that makes people recognise my work.

KALTBLUT: Nudity is this issue´s topic. What

does nudity mean to you in fashion and to what extent should it take a part in fashion?

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The actual reason why I like nudity in fashion is because it is a vulnerable feeling to see someone nude in combination with fashion who is a infamousely a stark world. It´s nothing to do with porn , just that vulnerable act and that in combination with brilliant photography can be stunning if its done right.

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SIMON: “The Reflection’’ is inspired by Norman Fosters building The Gerchin in London. And Stardust is inspired by a piece from Le Corbusier. Both shown other sides like moody shadows and light or astronomical feelings.

KALTBLUT: What sort of people, do you see wearing your clothes?

SIMON: I don´t have an interest in celebrities so I don´t know if you want any names as I`m useless with names and I never recognise anyone. But I like my work to be treated with love and respect and hopefully my clients have lots of sex, fun, dramatic times and yummy partys with my clothes. My private clients at this stage are from all levels and all different work areas. I guess they are just really cool people with an immaculate taste ;-) KALTBLUT: What do you think of the current

state of the fashion industry – is there really space for new designers?

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It is an exciting time in fashion, out with old and depressive and in with the new. The double AA listed names feels stagnated and unintresting, They also show very little intrest in renewing themselves so it is great for us new now, Im busy with clients and fingers crossed it will keep going, Most of my clients says that the reason they come back is because I have something new to give them. Fashion is about new moves and constant changes with silhouettes and texture and even colours.

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ion industry, how would you change it so that fashion is perceived the way you think it deserves to be?

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I would scrap the obsession with celebritys and focus on people with unique talents..

KALTBLUT: What’s your most memorable piece of clothing?

SIMON: It was a simple Martin Margiela Jumper, I loved it soo much and I always had soo much fun in it and lots of flirts and I felt like a prince in it. It´s gone and dead now sadly but I will always remember it.

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KALTBLUT: Who are your favorite designers?

SIMON: Ohh I don´t really have any one to be honest, I like some pieces in many designers collections. But also I dont really look around so much anymore as I used to.

KALTBLUT: So what are you working on right now… what’s next for ‘Simon Ekrelius’?

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Im working on my new AW 12-13 collection ‘’The Meeting’’ and it will be presented in Paris during PFW at ZipZone. Very exciting!

KALTBLUT: How do you define style?

SIMON: A way of thinking and being.

KALTBLUT: Fashion equals art! True or false?

Why?

SIMON: Some fashion, yes - true because it is based on one´s visions like sculpture but with fabric.

KALTBLUT: What advice would you give young

designers that are about to enter the fashion world?

SIMON: Go for it and do what your feelings tell you to do. Never look back!

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HARLEY WEIR Harley Weir is a genius from London. Nobody else deserves more to be on this issue than she does.

The brilliance with which she captures the nude body is breathtaking, be it analog or digital, she is the one who masters the medium producing such strong images but of incredible sensitivity.

For her shooting and shooting nude people is a whole magical process and not only a photograph. But of course, she knows how to please the crowd and she is aware of her skills. We had an interview with her to find out more about this photography mastermind. www.harleyweir.com Interview by Amanda M Jansson , Emma E. K. Jones

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KALTBLUT: You shoot lots of different people. How do you decide who to shoot?

HARLEY: I see amazing faces everywhere but I like to shoot people that are around me, partly due to cowardice\laziness but mostly because you get a much more intimate photograph. The more relaxed the person is the more interesting it gets, I find. Personal images are always the most beautiful, unfortunately.

KALTBLUT: We’ve noticed you shoot a lot of nature elements, such as flowers, cactus, fruit, snakes, birds etc. Is it for the sheer beauty or do you see some symbolism in them?

HARLEY: Flowers are very sexy, they are designed to be, they’re reproductive organs. I can’t

help but be attracted to them as metaphors in that way, I find them quite funny.

Birds are something else though, I have thousands of bird pictures stashed away... I enjoy the bird watching element, looking for the different breeds creeping up and trying to shoot them (with camera not gun) before they fly away, very satisfying.

KALTBLUT: How is it working with mixed media? You paint a lot on photographs and it gives them a special and unique quality. How did this begin?

HARLEY: I like to work on them in the same way a re-toucher would in photoshop... I don’t see why a photograph is so different to other artistic mediums. It doesn’t have to just be a file.

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KALTBLUT: How do you work with light on skin in the studio or from natural sources?

HARLEY: I love working with natural light.... There’s noth-

ing like afternoon sunlight but obviously I live in London so that’s not always a regular occurrence. I experiment with anything around, house lamps, flash, hmi, tungsten whatever I can get my hands on... no method there.

KALTBLUT: How has your work evolved over the years? Do you see it changing? Is it always basically the same? What is the backbone of it?

HARLEY: I think it changes all the time. I love experi-

menting and I’m introducing digital into my work at the moment, which everyone will hate to hear but one must embrace the future! I’m not very good at it yet but I’m finding ways to make it my own.

My work will always be changing but it will always be me taking the photo so I don’t think it will ever change that much.

KALTBLUT: How is it working with nudity? Are most people willing to play along? What advantages does it offer you?

HARLEY: Some people become very venerable but others

are totally comfortable being nude, it creates a completely different atmosphere depending on the person and my relationship to them. Then there are the ethics involved when working with another, it’s quite an odd situation to put yourself into, the power you have over the model, their willingness to offer themselves to the camera and peoples odd obsession with looking at them.

Thinking about who should have the rights over the image is enough to make me feel quite guilty. Especially when you’re not working with models. I try not to think about it too much though or I couldn’t do it, best to think of it flatly- I love to look at nudes as does everyone else. People look more interesting naked and it’s always gonna be a crowd pleaser, our main ambition is to s.e.x, so any reminder and you have an audience!

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HAPPY REBORN

Model: Lex Ă“lsen @SEEDS MANAGEMENT www.seedsmodels.de Photography,Styling, Concept by Suzana Holtgrave Mature hair by Ponpon Berlin Crown by Susann Bosslau

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RETURN TO PARADISE

SAM SPAR

Sam Sparro is on the way back. I can hardly wait for his new album “Return To Paradise” which is coming out this spring.

Mister Sparro is well know for his disco, dance music. He knows how to mix 70s, 80s and 90s. We all know his big hit “Black&Gold”. BUT !! This is just one of his great tracks. HE IS SO MUCH MORE! Welcome back Sam Sparro.

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KALTBLUT: Hey Sam! How are you these days? How was the Paris Fashion Week for you?

KALTBLUT: Your have worked more than 2 years on the album. Where did you record it?

SAM: I’m really well thank you. I had such a blast in Paris. It’s always nice to be around other types of artists and see what they are creating.

SAM: I recorded most of it in Los Angeles but some of it was recorded in London and New York as well.

KALTBLUT: What is Sam Sparro doing in his free time?

KALTBLUT: Did you wrote the songs by yourself? Who is the producer?

SAM: I have two dogs that I love going to the park with. I recently got a 3D television so I like watching movies a lot and having people over.

SAM: I wrote a couple of the songs by myself but most of them were a collaboration with my production partner Golden Touch aka Jesse Rogg.

KALTBLUT: Since when are you doing music? You always wanted to be a singer?

I also worked with Greg Kurstin, Tim Anderson, Lester Mendez and Jono Sloan and wrote a bit with Swedish singer Erik Hassle and Bethany from Best Coast.

SAM: I started singing when I was really young. Around 4 or 5 I think. I used to want to be an actor but my grandmother talked me out of it because she was an actress.

But as long as I can remember I’ve loved music and can’t imagine doing anything else.

KALTBLUT: Your new album “ Return To Paradise” is on the way.

Tell us something about your new music and why the name : Return To Paradise?

There are so many other brilliant musicians playing on the record.

It really is a collaborative project that I am fortunate to be at the front of.

KALTBLUT: Which track is your favourite?

SAM: One of my favourites is a song called “We Could Fly”.

SAM: Paradise is a timeless place where everyone lives in harmony and peace. I spent a lot of time searching for this place inside myself and that’s what the record is about...

I got to record the horns at the DFA studios in New York and recorded live strings, drums, piano. Stuart Zender (Jamiroqui) played bass on it.

Healing a broken heart and finding peace.

It’s also a reference to the Paradise Garage which influenced many of the songs on the record.

It’s sort of a disco fantasy of mine. It’s lush and really musical. I think my grandfather who was an arranger and trumpet player would be proud of me.

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KALTBLUT: I am a fan of your music videos also. When will be the first video published for the new album?

KALTBLUT: Is there any musican you would kill for, to work with?

SAM: I am so excited about the video’s for this record. I’ve just done the first two treatments. I’m really inspired by Film Noir and Busby Berkeley. There will be a few out in the coming months.

SAM: Well... kill is a bit strong. I do love Beyonce. She is such an incredible performer.

Working with Prince would also be a dream come true.

Why? HE’S PRINCE!

KALTBLUT: Will you be on tour in 2012? Where can we see you on stage?

KALTBLUT: Which music is on your ipod right now?

SAM: I just announce my first US tour and will be playing all over the place this summer and later in the year. Too early to announce yet but I’ll post them on www.samparro.com as soon as I can.

SAM: I listen to Beats In Space podcasts while I’m at the gym. I listen to lots of old disco, funk and soul. I love the last Little Dragon album, Thundercat, KING, Tiger & Woods.

I buy a lot of old records. I do enjoy a good Robyn or Rihanna track on the radio too.

KALTBLUT: “Black & Gold “ was a big hit all around the world. Are you nervous or do you feel presure to comeback with another big hit?

SAM: It’s great to have a hit and who wouldn’t want another but when I wrote Black and Gold I was not trying to write a “hit”.

I try to follow my instincts and create what I feel. The rest takes care of itself.

KALTBLUT: We wish you all the best for your new album! And i hope to see you live in Berlin!

SAM: Thank you! I look forward to coming back to Berlin soon.

I love Berlin!

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There are so many books in the world with the theme: Nudity. We show you 5 of the most famous books with classic nude photography.

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5° Herb Ritts : Work This retrospective presents the full range of photographer Ritts’ work, with 240 signature images, many published for the first time. There are portraits of Hollywood stars, (Pfeiffer, Cruise, Loren) notable artists, (Hockney, Haring, Martin) and world leaders, (Reagan, Mandela, Gorbachev), alongside fashion shots, erotic nudes and African scenery. Appreciations by contemporary art experts and chroniclers of fashion put the work in context.

Publisher: Bulfinch; 1st edition (November 1, 1996) ISBN-10: 0821222961 ISBN-13: 978-0821222966 www.amazon.com

4° Steven Meisel : Sex Sex is a coffe table book written by Madonna with photographs by Steven Meisel and film frames taken from film shot by Fabien Baron. The book was edited by Glenn O´Brien. Sex was released on October 21, 1992 by Warner Books. The book was released by Madonna as an accompaniment to her fifth studio album Erotica which was released a day earlier.

The extremely controversial book featured strong adult content and softcore pornographic photographs depicting simulations of sexual acts, which included sadomasochism and analingus. Madonna wrote the book as a character named Mistress Dita, inspired by 1930s film actress Dita Parlo.

Publisher: Warner Books; First Printing edition (November 1992) ISBN-10: 0446517321 ISBN-13: 978-0446517324 www.amazon.com

3° Helmut Newton : Sumo Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential photographers of all time. Born in Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married June Brunell (a.k.a. Alice Springs) eight years later. He first achieved international fame in the 1970’s while working principally for French Vogue, and his celebrity and influence grew over the decades. Newton preferred to shoot in streets or interiors, rather than studios. Controversial scenarios, bold lighting, and striking compositions came to form his signature look. SUMO was a titanic book in every respect: a 480-page tribute to one of the 20th century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial photographers, it broke records for weight, dimensions, and resale price.

Publisher: Taschen Verlag ISBN-10: 3836517302 ISBN-13: 978-3836517300 www.amazon.com

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2° Robert Mapplethorpe : Perfection in Form Robert Mapplethorpe is recognized as firmly an artist of his time, whose work was richly steeped in the classical tradition. Even his most transgressive work borrowed heavily from the conventions of such masters as Michelangelo. Although separated by the centuries, each artist helped shape how we view the world. This book explores the connection from both academic and aesthetic perspectives.

Serving as exhibition catalogue for a May 2009 show at Florence’s Accademia, this volume shows how these two artists used the body to illustrate the human experience and contains valuable commentary by curators, as well as analysis from art and photography historians.

Publisher: teNeues; Bilingual edition ISBN-10: 383279316X ISBN-13: 978-3832793166 www.amazon.com

1° Man Ray : Icons This is a comprehensive overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking artist Man Ray (1890-1976) who broke down the boundaries between photography and graphic design with his innovative techniques.Man Ray is indisputably one of the most original artists of the 20th century. His revolutionary nude studies, fashion work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he was enthusiastically welcomed into Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic techniques, multiple exposure, rayography, and solarization being some of his most famous. Erotic, playful, and sometimes sinister, his compositions show unusual bodies and objects.

Publisher: Taschen GmbH; Taschen’s 25th anniversary ed edition ISBN-10: 3836507986 ISBN-13: 978-3836507981 www.amazon.com

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Photography by Timo Kerber/London www.timokerber.com Make up by Ina Renke Model: Tim Kelleher Retouch: Xristina Vita

Striped jumper with buttons: Vivienne Westwood

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When PETA was first founded in 1980, nobody would have thought it would become the world’s number one and leading animal rights organization. How did this meteoric rise happen? And who should we be thaning for this success? Surely, it was thanks to the dedicated founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, who started early to uncover the horrendous conditions of the animal exploiting industry and who brought them out on the open media effectively. This includes releases of picture and video material, for example footage from animal experiment laboratories aswell as involvement of celebrities.

Interview by Nina Kharytonova Translation by Lara Louise Mercier

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KALTBLUT: Has the general opinion about cruelty to animals changed over the past 30 years? And if so, in which direction did it change?

KALTBLUT: Your campaigns often lay in a legal grey area and are classified as morally wrong or offensive. Which of your campaigns caused the biggest stir so far?

Peta: A lot of things have happened in the last years: A while ago, people who were vegetarian (back then, ‘vegan’ wasn’t a very common term) were seen as weirdos or exotic. You had to go to small organic food stores to buy vegetarian products; vegetarian substitutes were almost impossible to find. There was not a lot of people who bothered whether their cosmetics were tested on animals, who were protesting in front of zoos, circuses or stores that sell fur, or who cared whether they were wearing wool or leather - or not. Today you can find vegetarian or even vegan goods (not only food but also vegan clothing) in a lot of stores. Earlier, people turned their heads and stared at ladies in fur jackets because it seemed impressive or something like that, nowadays people stare because they are wondering what is wrong with them.

Peta: PETA Deutschland e.V. is an eligible nonprofit organization, donations are tax-decutible.

We are not doing anything unlawful. Of course, a lot of our actions and campaigns raise a lot of attention, for instance our covert investigation of Wiesenhof (German poultry farming company), our ‘’Lieber nackt als Pelze tragen’’pictures (‘’Rather naked than dressed in fur’’), the ‘’Holocaust auf Ihrem Teller’’-poster campaign (‘’Holocaust on your plate’’), just to name a few.

KALTBLUT: It is unbelieveable but true - German law considers animals as objects. Isn’t it about time to change these old laws and break through the barriers and limits of our behaviour? Especially seen from a political point of view?

Peta: The mills of politics and bureaucracy work slowly. Too slow for the suffering animals. Especially our government is currently blocking basically everything. That has to do with animal protection. Though ethical animal protection by now is anchored in the German constitution, the animals continue to suffer. What is of utmost importance now is class action, which already exist in environmental law. The right of class action is long overdue for animal rights organizations, it’s about time organizations can file lawsuits on behalf of the animals.

Us people from PETA don’t make the media’s rules but we’ll play by them as long as it is of use to the animals.

We still have a long way to go, but still: society is changing, which ist good - in the past, it was morally acceptable to own slaves, to have child labour or it was normal for women not to have the right to vote. But also back then, there were courageous people who fought against this injustice. And the fight continues: Today we have PETA, and soon it will not be accepted anymore to lock up animals in cages, to let them perform unworthy circus tricks or to use their skin for our clothing and their meat for our diet.

KALTBLUT: How difficult is it to be permanently in conflict with the law? Or do you just get used to it after a while?

Peta: Normally, we don’t come into conflict with the law since we don’t break it. We do lodge complaints in cases of cruelty towards animals though, so you could say we do come into contact with law, but not into conflict.

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KALTBLUT: While PETA gains more and more public support, the big companies you are fighting against literally demonize you.

Would you say the fight for ethical treatment and rights for animals poses a risk for you?

KALTBLUT: If you draw the balance after 30 years of activism, what does it look like?

Did you achieve your goals, or is changing the public’s opinion a slow and dragging process?

Peta: From time to time we do receive threats via email or letters, packages with dead animals were sent to colleagues at PETA USA. There were even times when Ingrid Newkirk, our founder, was not able to appear in public without bodyguards, since she received threats of murder.

Peta: Millions of people agree with PETA when we say that it is horrible and barbarous to stuff animals with our medication, to pour drain cleaner in their eyes, to force them to inhale cigarette smoke and to infect them with our diseases and by that, actually turning the human patient intothe one who suffers.

Sometimes hackers attack our website. We do live with the danger of some nutcase animal abuser attacking us but we also live with the knowledge that most people in society stand with us and support us - and that gives us courage.

Millions of people give up wearing fur and leather since they consider it the wrong thing to do to cage up and kill animals for fashion. And, everyday millions of people decide to opt for a animal friendly vegetarian or vegan diet because they see the advantages for themselves, for the animals, and for the planet.

KALTBLUT: For your campaigns a lot of celebrities all around the globe drop off their clothes in front of the camera - which quite a few of them would never do normally. Is it a matter of prestige to participate in PETA campaigns or how do you convince them?

Peta: Often we don’t even have to convince them, the celebrities approach us to take part in this animal rights revolution, they want to participate in the fight for a good cause.

KALTBLUT: Which advice can you give the single individual, how can even the ‘the man in the street’ change the world?

Peta: Nothing kills animals and makes them suffer more than the human’s appetite for meat.

In Germany alone, two billion animals are being slaughtered year afer year. A vegetarian diet is almost the only and the most effective way to help animals.

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Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones KALTBLUT: How did you decide to paint nude men with animals heads? It’s quite an original choice!

RUBEN: I took the decision of painting men’s bodies after realizing than the male body image was and still is suffering from a marginalization inside Art History. Since the 19th century female representations have been prioritized over the male ones, something still remarkable in the art world these days, making us quite insensible to such beauty.

It exists the wrong conviction that only homosexuals are able to appreciate it. We find inadmissible that a male body can be a desire object for heterosexuals or just a visual delight for women.

It is in this process where I put all the tension in men physical attributes but not in the heads, erasing this way all kind of human reasoning and transforming Lartigue Boys in a new race of beings, an unpolluted army inviting us to appreciate beauty in all its splendor as sensual, spontaneous and adorable gods.

KALTBLUT: Does each specific head mean something on the specific body? Or how do you decide what goes where?

RUBEN: Like in every birth exists a mythical and beloved reason but not a rational study in every metamorphic choice of each Lartigue Boy, just a creative intuition.

KALTBLUT: How do you think people see nudity nowadays and how would you want them to see it?

RUBEN: For the common good of society nudity was always unnatural, despite of being the most natural thing in the world. Socially is simply not liked, it is considered a criminal offense.

When we are kids we are taught not to be naked, to hide our “private parts” and to feel ashamed of our nudity. I see and feel nudity as a simple thing. I don’t see negative values in something that is simply ourselves.

KALTBLUT: What do you like best on a humans and what do you like best about animals?

RUBEN: What I like the most about the man is his sex. I admire his perfection, the balance generated by the skin, muscles, forms, tightness and the electric current of a body in possession of a innate devotion. About animals I like their behavior with their own species and also with the planet.

KALTBLUT: Do you actually believe people and animals are alike? How so?

RUBEN: Under no point of view I believe humans and animals are equals. Humans see ourselves as rational and superior but every day we are much more further from that. We are very destructive, we don’t measure the impact, we just destroy the ecosystem in every step we take.

Animals live in a perfect and mutual symbiotic relationship.

KALTBLUT: Animal heads are quite popular!

Do you see yourself as part of a movement or is it the exact opposite for you?

RUBEN: I have been working on the Lartigue Boys for five years. During that time there were no artistic references about this matter, especially in painting. It has been in the last couple of years when other expressions of this kind have emerged in different areas of art. Nowadays we are some artists working on the same matter, making me think about the creation of a current, a movement I am part of.

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The cast of the upcoming German movie: Men To Kiss. In a fashion shoot

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Frank Christian Marx

Frank is “Mister Charming”. while Ernst is more a quiet person.

But both together are just hot. Mister Marx is an actor, pro­du­ cer and foun­der of Ente Kross Film. He studied acting in Stuttgart and after nume­rous thea­ter pro­duc­tions in Stutt­gart and Ber­lin he played in some movies („Die Order“, „Geis­ter all inclu­ sive“, „Frau Böhm sagt nein“) and well known Ger­man TV series („Alarm für Cobra 11“). In 2008, he had his first lea­ding role in the inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion „Some­body got mur­de­red” by Tor Iben. It was awar­ded as the best movie at the film fes­ti­val Cine­ gai­le­sAST in Gijon. In 2010, he was before camera with Bol­ly­ wood star Shahrukh Khan for “Don2”.

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“Men to Kiss” is an upcoming - Award winning German comedy sensation. In the centre of it is a gay couple that couldn’t be any more different from one another. Tobias is a crazy bugger and Ernst is a pencil pusher. We get to experience the two happy together, but also Ernst having his doubts on whether his partner is taking the relationship as serious as he is. There is an opportunity too good to miss for Uta, an old school friend of Ernst. She just arrived from the USA for a visit to Berlin and starts hatching a plan to get the two guys to split up and that’s when things turn more and more obscure. We had a little chat with Frank and Udo. The two main actors and also producers of this fresh German comedy movie.

KALTBLUT: You guys play both of the male leads, Ernie and Tobi. How much of your own personality is in each of these characters?

KALTBLUT: Why did you decide to base the story of the film in Berlin? Isn’t Berlin a little boring by now ?

Frank: I have to say I love Ernst, he is Wonderfully Naive and gullible, completely the opposite to me. (Udo laughs). What I do share with him is his thoughtfulness and his emotionally.

Frank: Boring? Are you kidding? (Both Laughing) Berlin is an exceptional city, for its residents, tourist and even for Berlin haters. No one is interested if there is a camera popping up here or there.

Udo: Uhhh, quite a lot! But I think that’s normal, the more you get into a part the more you wonder how much of it comes out of yourself, just as if it was waiting to burst out of you and show itself off. I especially enjoyed countering that pretty gay moustache scene with a very loud camp Tobi. (Laughs loudly)

KALTBLUT: The female leads are cast with Sacia and Alexandra. How did that choice come about?

Frank: I´ve studied camera acting with Alexandra for about 6 months. Her style fascinated me from the start and she’s very Un-German, emotional, temperamental and still very sensitive. What she brings to the character is very opaque twist.

Udo: For me this was the second time I did a feature with Sacia. We became friends and her positive vibe always get me every time.This is what makes it very easy to work with her, especially since she is also my best friend in the film.

KALTBLUT: You both are not just the main actors you are also the executive producers. In 2011 you founded your production company “EnteKross” (CrispyDuck).

Wasn’t this a double burden and how did you cope with it ?

Udo: Well we plunged ourself into the deep waters, which was quite refreshing at the start but then more and more you paddle against the stream trying not to drown.

But we were unbelievably lucky! Most of the team was already like family so they helped us where every they could. A special thank you certainly belongs to Till, our cameraman.

It certainly helps swimming this marathon as two, we give each other strength if one is having a weak moment. We did learn a lot in that time.

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KALTBLUT: Frank, your journey to become an actor was very different. I bet you been dreaming of your picture on movie posters since you been a tween, am I right ?

Frank: (Laughs) I was drawing and painting film posters when I was a little fella dreaming of imaginary parts that I was playing along famous actors. I copied films onto audio tape, while I was playing them I was jumping around in the living room and lip-sync to the film and acting the parts along with the tape playing.

For example I was Thomas in Pippi Longstocking and Atreju in the Never Ending Story, oh and even some Disney cartoon characters. I was pretty crazy back then.

KALTBLUT: Well “EnteKross” is certainly a damn cool name for a company. Where do you guys wanna go, what are our goals ?

Most importantly what can we expect from you in the future ?

Frank: Men to Kiss, was a complete finger exercise. With the follow up feature we want to prove that we no one trick pony. We want to give the Gay & Lesbian film landscape in Germany something that does not exist in this form.

Udo: Our goal is to show how normal Gay and Lesbians are. We only evidently live in free times where Gay and Lesbians are widely excepted.

Unfortunately the reality is still very different.

We want stories about the community. I experienced so many great things in the gay world that I wanna give something back.

KALTBLUT: Udo, we have worked together a few summers and you are a born comedian. How did you get into acting?

Udo: As a child I was always very introvert, but also the class clown sometimes, a bit of a paradox I know, but I didn’t like people and I don’t think they liked me. It kinda really started at University. I was helping a friend moving house and I met this ex - Pina-Bausch dancer, and not 2 month later I was a dancer on stage and cofounder of a dance theatre. A crazy time in which I was constantly surrounded by and rehearsing with crazy and wonderful people. We hardly made any money there, money come in from doing parts in television or as narrator.

When I arrived in Berlin about 10 years ago I kinda slipped into theatre and then with you doing feature films.

KALTBLUT: You guys are still very new in the business. How did you Finance your film? Friends? Family?

Frank: Lets just say we had some cash stashed away and now we are both living under a bridge.

(Laughs) We had support from our families, especially from my mother who also became co-producer.

Theres also been tremendous support from our friends who believed in us.

Udo: My moneys gone, If i wouldn’t have my job i really would be living on the streets. It’s a hell of a kamikaze flight that we are undertaking here, but i am not regretting a single thing.

Only if you are brave enough you can win.

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The best friend with a huge attitude.

Sascia is Steffi, the best friend of Tobi. The movie would be not so funny without Miss Haj. She is a real star! Oh yes, she is. Sascia is one of Germanys most booked commercial faces, but also a very good actress as well. She can play the mad one and a minute later she is an adorble diva. TV-Movies, Theater or Commercials. It doens´t, Sascia is at home in every genre.

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He is Tobi, the crazy middle age gay. Tobi is loud, funny and he do not respect any rules.

It is the second time that Udo becomes Tobi movie. Udo Lutz is an actor, radio announ­ cer, speech the­ra­pist and producer.. In 1996, he was the co-founder of x.x.y Tanz­thea­ter under the direc­tion of Geraldo Si Lou­reiro, a for­mer Pina Bausch dan­cer. He acqui­red his first expe­ri­en­ces in film busi­ness as a standin and voice-over artist for Ger­man tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tions of the WDR. He had his first lea­ ding role in 2010 in the movie “Alex und der Loewe”. Since 2011, he is a radio announ­cer for Deutsch­land­ra­dio Kul­tur.

www. facebook.com/udo.lutz .

KALTBLUT: Congratulations!!! Your movie just won 2 awards at The Bangalore Filmfestival! I say it again: 2!! awards “Best director” and “Special Mention” Best Movie. How do you feel?

What was the first thought when you got the news?

Udo: It was an endorphine rush de luxe!

I had to read the mail three times before I was sure what the meaning was. I tried to call Frank in Sydney, but he was sitting in the 2. screening of “Men to kiss”, so I couldn’t reach him. Then I called my sister, my mum and everybody...then Frank called me and we screamed and laughed...

It was mind blowing. I mean it is such a great honor that the Jury from India likes our Movie so much that they gave us 2 out of 4 Awards! Then I met Till, our Director of Photography, and we had a good bottle of sparkling wine. Just a perfect day!

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Alexandra Starnitzky

Uta is the hot evil girl. Alexandra, who play the evil, is a very well known model and actress. Commercials for Mc Donalds, Theater in Rome - “The Terrorist” (directed by Shraroo Khereadman), Theatro Sala Uno and some great movies like: “Beautiful Child” (directed

by Fabrizio Chiesa) are just some steps on her way to become a superstar, which she already is. She is the perfect match for the evil girl friend of Ernst. We are sure the guys will fell in love her.

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KALTBLUT: If someone wants to audition for a part in a future film or someone’s got some hot script, is it ok to get in touch and if yes how can they do so ?

Frank: Sure it´s OK, especially for our big project the declaration of love we need a lot of rough diamonds in every area.

There are a few ways to get in touch with us, via e-mail: info@entekrossfilm.de or our official Facebook pages: www.facebook.com/mentokiss or www.facebook.com/entekrossfilm But you can also talk to us at any of the Film Festivals, we don’t bite.

KALTBLUT: So when and where can we see the movie in Europe?

Frank: Just visit our Facebook site : www.facebook.com/mentokiss or www.entekrossfilm.com Where we will post all screening dates.

Udo: In Germany we are aiming for a May première. You can visit the German site at : www.facebook.com/entekrossfilm for all dates and locations.

KALTBLUT: So I will audition for a part in your next film right away, can I ? Not that I have an idea what it will be but am sure you can tell me something now, what is the plan for the future ?

Frank: We have three ideas, for one of these we have to completely break out of our Low to No budget corner, you know like Men to Kiss and yes you certainly will have a part in that again.

Udo: Yeah as my new lover.. but we won’t spill anything yet about our follow up projects.

KALTBLUT: Ahhh, so do you have any advice for young gays and lesbians who want to step into your footsteps? How do you become an actor ?

Frank: Don’t let anyone get you down and always believe in yourself, no matter what everyone else tells you. That certainly helped me.

(Udo from behind “Now cue the violin music” )

Udo: Or just send the script to us in hope that our mailbox was not impounded (Frank laughs) We are also very open to cooperations, sponsorships, supporters and investors.

Like we said before we are only at the beginning and it would be amazing if you join us in our journey.

KALTBLUT: I wish you guys all the best for the movie and your future projects. Not because i am also in the movie. No. I love you!

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Casting by Jody and Bayo at the eye Styling assistant - Rahemur Rahman

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Hentsch Man who have these fantastic little pieces for SS12 - perfect for any chic geek out there! Seriously though these are a great bold accessory that plays with classic form and aesthetic, suitable for any day or occasion. www.hentschman.com

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Maui Jim have the ultimate remedy. With colour enhancing lenses this fantastic eyewear keeps the world as close to the way you normally see it. www.mauijim.com

John Varvartos Vintage Fragrance

Vintage, the special edition fragrance, reaches back to move forward. Rooted in the signature fragrance, yet distinctly unique with a rugged authenticity and enduring appeal. A sensuous and masculine composition, Vintage contains an assertive spice combined with a warm leathery background. www.johnvarvatos.com

HOM e.Go Underwear Ice Cream

Spring is coming and the summer is not far. We hope it will be super sunny and hot.

HOM e.Go´s ice cream underwear could be a good present for your boyfriend. www.hom.com

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Yellow! Yes yellow shoes are a must have for the spring 2012 season. Those sandals from Topshop are so super cute.

LOTTIE Suede Strappy Sandals. heel 5” 100% Leather. www.topshop.com

Essie Spring 2012 Nail Polish Collection

Inspired by Wall Street, Essie’s spring 2012 nail polish collection is, well, so money. With colour names like Navigate Her, Orange It’s Obvious, Olé Caliente, A Crewed Interest, Tour de Finance, and To Buy or Not. www.essie.com

Jeremy Scott x Adidas 2012

Jeremy Scott and adidas Originals have lifted the lid from their lavish 2012 collection! Heavily influenced

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BLACK PETER N TO BE AN ARTIST Gio Black Peter (*Giovani Paolo Andrade Guevara) was born in Guatemala and is now based in New York, after he illegally immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 5.

He was born to be an artist. Gio is a performance artist, musician, actor and painter. A couple of weeks ago he published his new song: Don’t tell me nothing.

He is a muse to Bruce La Bruce and very well known for his live performances.

The man is an underground rockstar!

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KALTBLUT: Hello Gio! How are you doing these days?

KALTBLUT: How is an ordinary day looking in Gio Black Peter´s life?

GIO: All is good in the hood. Feeling inspired

GIO: There is no such thing as an “ordinary”

and getting a lot crossed out on my to do list. I am Guatemalan and a descendant of the Mayan civilization so I know 2012 will be significant!

Thanks for asking..

KALTBLUT: I am a fan of your work!

You are a performance artist, musician, painter, actor. Who is Gio Black Peter?

GIO: Gio Black Peter is a fighter a cry baby a

lover of people, animals and plants, a lost boy and a baby daddy. A happy nomad and an explorer. A pussy a dick and a four dimensional real live human being animal full of feelings, thoughts, love, anger, tears, shit and blood in search of the truth and meaning and himself.

KALTBLUT: Where is the name - Black Peter - coming from?

GIO: It was a nickname an ex lover gave me.

KALTBLUT: When did you realized that art is your business?

GIO: Never and that is why my art still comes

from my heart. I make art to express myself, explore my feelings and thoughts. And to share my views. Yes I also sell my art but that is not what drives me to making art. I will never make art for the sake of making money. And I will never look at my art as a money making product.

KALTBLUT: Your are born in Guatemala and emigrated illegally to the United States with your family at the age of five. Do you feel like an american now?

Are the States your home?

GIO: Yes I can. After feeling like an unwanted child for most of my life I can finally say I feel some love. It’s not a perfect family but I am hopeful it will get better.

Yes I can get married now and also join the army but I still don’t have health insurance and let’s not talk about my uncle in wall street.

day. My life depends on my work. So my day depends on what I am working on. I can only paint or draw at night when the city is quiet and the moon is smiling down on me. Currently I am working on a series of paintings so my day starts in the late afternoon. I paint all night and end up going to bed in the morning. If I am in the zone then I will stay awake until my eyes burn.

When I was recording “The Virgin Shuffle” album it was the complete opposite. I was up early writing songs so they would be ready for the studio. There is always lot of coffee in my day.

If your reading this and are in New York City you can always bring me a coffee, it doesn’t matter how late it is.

The last two summers I’ve worked at a plant nursery. So when I am working there I get up early. I spend the day planting and playing in dirt. Which is why there is a lot of plant references in my new drawings and paintings. It’s a direct reflection of how I’ve spent my time. You want to see what I’ve been up to just look at my work

KALTBLUT: Looking at your performances and your music videos. We can see you always naked or in underwear. Is this part of your work? Or is this just you? And you just like to be naked?

GIO: I love being naked. I’m a Naturist. It is part

of my work because my work is autobiographical. I would rather wear my foreskin than a fashion label any day.

KALTBLUT: Do you have a boyfriend or girlfriend? And if so, how is he/she handling your half naked work?

Any problems cause of that in the past?

GIO: I’ve been dating a guy for 7 years now.

He’s cool with it because he knows it’s who I am.

When I was dating a girl there was no problem either. It’s the benefit of letting it all hang out from the beginning. ;)

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KALTBLUT: Here in Berlin an artist can´t “shock“ the people anymore with being naked on stage. How is that in the USA? GIO: I love Berlin because of that.

Specially since I don’t perform to shock. In the USA there has been more apprehension about my performance than there has been in other parts of the world. I think this is because a large percentage of Americans either don’t question the rules of society or are not comfortable with their own bodies, so off course they are going to be shocked by seeing me on stage with my dick swinging around. Society places these imaginary boundaries on us.

At the end of the day that is what it’s all about.

Look at the indigenous people of the Rainforest.

They are in touch with nature and with themselves and therefore they have no issues with nudity.

KALTBLUT: Did you ever think about making porn?

GIO: I’m obviously not against it - I’ve just nev-

er been interested. I guess it’s because I explore my sexuality through my art. You can say I’ve made some art which had pornographic elements.

KALTBLUT: Music or painting. What do you like more?

Gio: Right now I like to paint. I am going to dedicate the next 3 years making visual art as well as video projects.

Don’t hold me to that though since I write a new song every other day.

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KALTBLUT: How would you describe your own music?

KALTBLUT: Is there any artist you would die for to work with ?

GIO: Loud and obnoxious.

GIO: David Wojnarowicz.

I love his mind. Everyone needs to read “Close to the knives”

KALTBLUT: Which music is on the top 5 in your Ipod right now?

GIO: I don’t own an Ipod. On my laptop the

most currently listened to are : The Gossip, Crystal Catles, Amy Winehouse, Patti Smith, Nirvana and Daniel Johnston. (i know that’s 6)

KALTBLUT: You are working a lot with Bruce La Bruce. You had a part in his movie „ Otto, or up with dead people“ .

He is directing music videos for you.

Is he like a mentor for you?

GIO: He is my friend.

I enjoy working with him and I respect his body of work. He sticks to his guns and I like that. I wrote “Revolving Door (New Fuck New York)” when I was in Berlin with Bruce shooting “Otto..”.

In fact the opening line is “We spent summer raising the dead” referring to the zombie in the film. So it was perfect when Bruce agreed to do the video. We shot the video in one night with the help of some friends and a bottle of jack and it was a fucking great time!

KALTBLUT: What are your plans for 2012? Where can we see you on stage?

And will you be back in Europe?

GIO: Literally right now I am finishing my new music video for the song “Don’t Tell Me Nothing” featuring Strobo Monsters.

The video is directed by CyCy Sanders and it’s a really great follow up to “Revolving Door”. I’m really proud of this video because CyCy has managed to capture both the aggressive side to my personality and also the sensitive side. In February I have an exhibition of paintings on canvas in NYC at Brian Riley Project Space.

I will also be shooting a video project with Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny. I have a couple of other projects I am working on but it’s too early in the game. I think I will return to Europe in April. For my schedule check out my spiderwebsite www.gioblackpeter.com.

Besides that I am going to drink more coffee, make more art and write more songs!

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Deux DĂŠmons Photography: Robert Paul Kothe www.robertkothe.de Make-Up/Hair: Aennikin Models: Medea Paffenholz (Dog Mila), Wlada Assistant: Ella Privorozki

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COCO´S Musicladen.

Abum preview by Coco Meurer

aaaaaMasterpiece, aaaaSuper Cool, aaaYeah Ok!, aaWTF ??!

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„Die Phantasie wird siegen“ aaaa

The modern storyteller.

Max Prosa is one of them. It seems like the twenty two year old got stuck to his guitar.

It is good though. No big effects. Just music coming from the instrument the audience can see. Good to know that the next generation of musicians actually has knowledge how to make music without the need of a computer!

Coming from Erfurts Zughafen Max Prosa was able to go on tour last year together with Clueso (at the moment one of Germany´s popstars number 1).

In most cases this is already proof enough that great music will be heard.

German, handmade music that rather asks for attention and not just slightly listening to it.

Interpret: Max Prosa Album: Die Phantasie wird siegen Genre: Folk/Rock Booking: stephan@fourartists.com Origin: Germany Webpage: www.maxprosa.de

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Charlotte Gainsbourg „Stage Whisper“

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The famous daughter, actress and chanteuse released on “Stage Whisper” eight previously unreleased studio tracks, in collaboration with producer Beck Hansen. In addition there are many live recordings of the last two Albums’ 5:55 ‘and’ Irm “ to hear.

One of the highlights is the Bob Dylan cover ‘Just Like a Woman’ from the soundtrack of the movie ‘I’m Not There’. With the new songs she proves her versatility as she never did before.

Between the lush electro rock of ‘Terrible Angels’ and’ Memoir’ as a delicately plucked ballad no comparison can be made. With the title ‘All The Rain ‘, one could definitely not begin to party, but no one can dispute the Genius of this gloomy song.

An astonishing variety of styles.

Paradisco: http://youtu.be/C9XjEGfYrC4

Interpret: Charlotte Gainsbourg Album: Stage Wisper Genre: Pop Label: Because Music/Elektra Origin: France Webpage: www.charlottegainsbourg.com

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School of seven Bells „Ghostory” aaaa

Electronical elements with a phantasmagorial voice.

A beautiful addition and perfect mix but not to much excitement.

With the album “Ghoststory” the New Yorker duo School of seven Bells tells the story about the little girl “Lafaye” that is surrounded by ghosts!

That sure does sound dark but you will not hear any of that darkness listening to the songs. “„Everyone has ghosts. They’re every love you’ve ever had, every hurt, every betrayal, every heartbreak. They follow you, stay with you.”

A beautiful thought and beautiful music.

The Night: www.youtu.be/f286wxNqFIA

Interpret: Schools of seven Bells Album: Ghoststory Genre: Pop Label: Full Time Hobby (UK, EU) Origin: USA Webpage: www.schoolofsevenbells.com

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Y’akoto „Babyblues“

aaaaa The list of famous personalities falling in love with this soul singer is getting longer and longer.

Starting out with R’n’B queen Erykah Badu over to Joy Denalane who did not hesitate and took Y’akato on tour with her.

The big gap in german soulmusic that lasted long enough is now sealed by Y’akato. Names like Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu have long been known for soul. It is about time to step aside.

With her voice, the beats and the emotion in her music she has the best chances to be next in line for the throne.

A soft voice presents a masterpiece.

Tamba www.youtu.be/CHgMKpaWG_E

Interpret:Y´akoto Album: Babyblues Genre: R´n´B Label: Kamè Entertainment GmbH/ Warner Origin: Germany Webpage: www.yakoto.de

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Speech Debelle “Freedom of Speech” Interpret: Speech Debelle Album: Freedom of Speech Genre: Hip Hop Label: Big Dada Origin: UK Webpage: www.speechdebelle.com

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Women and Hip Hop! That already is a thingh for itself. Only a handful of ladies have made a name for themselves in the hip hop industry to this day.

But now a record will be published that proofs hip hop was not only made for men.

With her 2nd album “Freedom of Speech” Speech Debelle proofs that she is dominates the art of hip hop very well.

Comfortable beats melodic raps and no need of playing around with manly cliches..

P:lot „Zuhören“

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With the albums title “Zuhören” the guys from Cologne, Germany definitly hit the spot. Everyone should listen to this sound. Positive vibes from the first to the last song.

A very special voice explains the beauty of life to us. The perfekt aid against the depressed mood this grey and cold winter weather put upon us which actually was part of P:lots concept making this album.

No more miserable music as there is already enough of that kind available. So the guys from Cologne decided to make optimistic music and claim with “Zuhören” the exact.

Enjoy!

Zuhören www.youtu.be/oPVa3ahL9Fg

Interpret: P:lot Album: Zuhören Genre: Alternative Label: Columbia Berlin Origin: Germany Webpage: www.pilotmusik.de

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An Anthropology Experiment Photography by Rico Mahel Filmmaker, photographer and artist based in Berlin

An excerpt from the work of ‘An anthropology experiment’ ‘An anthropology experiement’ was shown as a panel consisting of 100 photographs.

According to the statements of Werner Sombat animalism is known as any form of belief which doesn’t define the man as a distinct species but as an animal and therefore as a part of the animal nature.

In Rico Mahel’s work ‘An anthropology experiment’ the man is consciously compared to the animal. Alleged absurdities raise issues that concern anthropologists, sociologists and the hole mankind since the dawn of humanity. www.ricomahel.com

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The Future Nina Kharytonova´s

Berlin Faces You Should Know

“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” John M. Richardson.

KALTBLUT wants to introduce you to some of those kinds, who make it happen. They are extraordinary, creative, outstanding, especial, notable and unique and they will change the world soon. That’s why we have to keep an eye on these four people and you should better do the same.

Jessica Bossyuyt

www.lessizmore.com Attention Ladies and Gentleman, may I introduce Jessica – the real It-girl in the international club scene. This Parisian beauty began her career in music working for PIAS 1999, after spending some time in New York she moved than back to Europe, where nobody could stop her anymore. She landed the position of PR and booking at the legendary Parisian club “Le Triptique”.

Than she decided to make some projects by her own and started such concepts as Angel Dust and LessizMore. She also was one of creators of the famous trio “Les Putafranges”. This group of glamorous girls provided music for the catwalks for Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. After the trio broke, this multi talented power woman concentrated her attention on being a good DJ (inventing her unforgettable and inimitable style, which could be called as “electro-rock-punk-pop-trash-disco” all around the world) and running the Label LessizMore with a friend DJ Pierre. So we are looking forward to see what she will bring us in the nearest future.

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www.hairsweethair.de Wondering were all the cool Berliner getting their fancy hair cuts? I’m gonna tell you the secret: they all were at Steven’s brand new hair salon, located at Fuldastraße in Neukölln. At this point you might think what’s so special about a hairdresser’s shop, but this is not only a great done haircut what you will get there.

Steven treats his every client as if he were his close friend, with such warm heart hospitality, that at the end you even don’t want to go home anymore. Surrounded by the best Berlin club music and Steven’s therapeutic and comforting charisma you will forget all your problems for a while. So if you get bored of your look and want allow yourself a special treatment for your hair and soul – than you have to check out “Hair Sweet Hair” and you will not regret it, I promise!

Ivi Geist

www.ivigeist.tumblr.com Ivi is an original east girl, who came to Berlin years ago from a beautiful countryside called the green heart of Germany. Her passion for styling and costume design begun as she was just a baby, getting excited by the red lipstick of her mom and falling into a deep obsession with the magnificent power of colors at the same time. So it appears more than comprehensible that she got her inspiration from Frida Kahlo and also a controversy and a non-perfect perfection as well. She gets her ideas from some dream sequences, sounds, weird stuff and probably all the curiosity of our lives. This mix and combination of opportunities and her passion makes her work so outstanding and special, due to the fact that everything she does is coming from the bottom of her heart. But it’s not only the styling and design, what makes her so outstanding – for her performance with Crystalmafia she assumes different roles and matches the characters more than perfectly.

Voin de Voin

www.voindevoin.andharbor.com Born in Sofia, Bulgaria – Voin de Voin spent his youth studying visual arts, film and theatre in Amsterdam and Paris and traveling across Europe, finding his base in Berlin after a while.

Where he gets known as a performer, “hypnotizing” his audience to do whatever he is asking them for. His performances, photos, videos and sculptures are composed as a tribute to the disappearance and mergence with the environment of his own personality. They are always unique. This displacement, psycho-geography, abstractness and endless creativity brought him a huge popularity even behind the borders of Berlin and the entire Germany. He exhibited internationally, especially in Russia, France, Holland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Sweden, Belgium and even at Contemporary Istanbul.

We will keep an eye on him and his talent to create art of nothing and everything

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The SAVE-FASHION aesthetic; a brand dedicated to celebrating and expressing the pleasure, intensity and emotion of urban life, fused into fashion.

Founded in the creative hub of Berlin by Tom Peters a creative, passionate young designer, who DJ’s in major cities all over the World, finds inspiration, that he believes can only be found in the big city vibe. The first hand made, customised designs originated in 2005, and were worn by a select group of friends and high profile DJ’s on Berlin’s underground dance scene. Over the following few years the demand for pieces increased, and in 2010, the official fashion label was formed and launched in true SAVE-FASHION style with a club collaboration.

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“Enchanted Dolls”

Marina Bychkova is the genius behind Enchanted Dolls, in fact the most enchanting dolls you will have seen in your life.

She began making dolls when she was 6 years old and you can see what it led to. To her a doll is not just a doll but the most exciting game ever and to anyone who looks at them as well. Like in the fairy tale they get their name from, these dolls are so lifelike and delicate you think you can touch their skin and feel them breathing. www.enchanteddoll.com Interview by Emma E K Jones & Amanda M Jansson

KALTBLUT: What was your relationship with dolls as a child? I know you found them mediocre. Did you still play with them though?

How was it for you?

KALTBLUT: Your dolls are not only for children, what importance do you think dolls have for children, and what for adults?

MARINA: I began making my own dolls as soon as learned how to hold stuff stuff in my hands. I was completely fascinated with the idea of dolls, but disappointed with the lack of choices and quality of dolls available in stores. Having said this, I did play with some of them, out of sheer necessity in my early childhood.

MARINA: Of all the endless shapes in the world, the one we humans relate to the most, is the one that resembles us. I think that both adults and children see dolls as a reflections and extensions of ourselves, through which we find our identities. They are externalized parts of ourselves, onto which we project our subconscious needs and longings. They are necessary for us to become self aware individuals.

My favorite manufactured doll was one that belong to my mother when she was a little girl, and not for any sentimental reasons, but for its relative uniqueness from all the other, identical dolls being made at the time. It came from a different era of toy-making, before soulless mass production, where factory workers don’t care or have any connection to what they are making.

It was very simple, old, broken and naked when it was given to me, but I like the way it moved, and so I fixed it the best I could and made it a dress. I wish I still had it with me. I think it was the only doll I truly loved that wasn’t made by me.

KALTBLUT: Enchanted Dolls have been named after a story by Paul Gallico. Can you tell us a little about the story and what it means for you?

MARINA: Actually, there is a chapter in my new art book Enchanted Doll, about how Paul Gallico’s story inspired my work and my brand. You can read about it there. It’s a beautiful book and a labor of love filled with 193 photographs of my dolls, 136 sketches, project descriptions and 12 chapters about my life and times as a doll artist. It will be available to order from my website www.enchanteddoll.com

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KALTBLUT: What materials are Enchanted Dolls made of? They look very real, how long does it take to create one?

MARINA: Enchanted Dolls are made of porcelain, and one can take anywhere from 70 to 600 hours to create, depending on the calibre of the piece. I make just one doll at a time, and not more than a couple of dozen a year, because of the energy they require.

Each one is a story.

KALTBLUT:Many dolls, like Barbie or other kids dolls are very basic and plastic when it comes to their bodies. Why did you decide this should be different with your dolls?

MARINA: The reason I put as much effort into a beautiful rendering of my doll’s bodies as their faces, is because my sense of aesthetic demands wholeness. I want it All, or Nothing!

There is actually a chapter about this in my book as well. Dolls have an incredible potential for beauty, because they embody and require several different mediums within that one discipline, and it pains me to see it wasted on mediocre dolls that don’t stretch the limits of one’s imagination. I want my dolls to stir something in the souls of people. I want them to be more than just dolls.

KALTBLUT: I think you have a background in art. Why do you think many people are still shocked about nudity in contemporary art when they travel hundreds of kilometres to admire nude ancient statues?

MARINA: That’s right, I have a Bachelor or Fine Art degree, from the Emily Carr Institute (presently University) of Art and Design. I believe the reason nudity is seen as normal in the format of Classical art and sculpture, and as something scandalous in contemporary art, is because we are creatures of conformity and fads.

The reason we perceive the art of antiquity as valid, credible and culturally significant work is because it’s presented to us as such by our establishment, such as respected museums, prestigious galleries, art history text books and other media. While contemporary art doesn’t always have such strong backing simply because it’s too new and weird and a little scary to us.

After all, who are we to know what is art and what isn’t art? That’s for people in the distant past to decide, right?

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KALTBLUT: All of your dolls are very diverse, each one is so different and special. How do you get inspiration for their faces and characters?

MARINA:I don’t know how I get my inspiration, or where it comes from. Everywhere, I think, but also from the inside. I can name a few external sources, such as writer Paul Gallico, and illustrator Sulamith Wulfing, as well as a handful of other artists and fairy tales, which have influenced me, but that wouldn’t even scratch the surface. Every single thing I come in contact with, such as a fork or a chair, rubs off on me and plants a seed in my mind, which at some point down the road will grow and combine with something else and evolve into an idea for art.

I believe that what we call inspiration, is just an external stimuli for something that is an internal instinct.

It’s a solution for a mental conflict and a fulfillment of a subconscious desire, which was already inside of us, but needed only a little nudge to materialize.

KALTBLUT: Where do you get ideas for their costumes? Is it designers, movies, paintings, art periods, different cultures, or?

MARINA: I’m not sure where to begin or end listing my inspirations. Is a long list of names really that interesting to read? Yes, it’s all of the above: Designers, movies, paintings, fairy tales, historical periods, art movements-All of it!

If I had to name one of each, it would be Philippe Starck, Erte, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Art Nouveau era, Dead Ophelia, ancient Oriental culture, Sulamith Wulfing, Alphonse Mucha, it goes on and on.

KALTBLUT: How has doll making influenced your life? What different ways has it opened for you?

MARINA: Doll-making hasn’t influenced my life, it IS my life. I started making dolls as a toddler and hasn’t been able to stop since. I lack the perspective of not making dolls, to know how it’s influencing me. It is the central driving force in my life, which has influenced and formed everything else around it to suit it best. I wake up thinking about making dolls, and I go to sleep thinking about it. It makes me happy, because all day long, I get to do what I love doing most, go where ever my imagination takes me.

In fact, there is a chapter is my new art book about this aspect of my life too. If you wish to see more of my work and learn more about my creative journey, then perhaps you’ll like my book. It will be available to order in January 2012 from my webpage.

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Text by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E.K. Jones

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RITUAL NUDITY EXISTS

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It’s impossible that while looking at paintings and illustrations, all the way through the history of art, You have never noticed that apart from the ugly hags that are fully cloaked, witches are most frequently completely nude, Be it hags or nymph like. If this made you wonder and it should have or not, we will provide you with an answer on: Why All The Nude Witch Paintings Out There?

This explanation is split in two. One is related to what witches have always stood for and what nudity symbolizes in the pagan versus Christian battle and the other’s got to do with being an artist during times of censorship extremes.

First of all we shall examine nudity in the pagan world, in the Old Religions. Going back to the Greeks and Romans nudity is respectable and as well as rituals and witchcraft was not something unnatural. On the contrary. Nude is related to gods, to worshipping nature, to freedom, to simplicity and honesty. A beautiful human body was strongly connected to philosophy and a well grounded education and knowledge and enabled people to form more sincere bonds and understanding. Same principles apply to Celtic religions, and any other form of feeling part of nature and worshiping this very union. Human body equals nature equals godly creation equals all good.

And this is where Christian ethics set in to say otherwise. Excluding very early Christianity Calvin’s and Luther’s puritan preaching made sure the belief that the human body is wicked, dirty, representing sin and weakness because of its relation to nature, corrupted and impure got widespread in Europe and later on in America as well. Anybody suggesting otherwise was sure to burn at the stake.

At the same time a strange devil-fear that could almost be described as a lust over hell and demons, with lucid descriptions of the devil and the devil’s follower’s rituals, reigned to arouse horror in the plenty imaginative yet uneducated folk. It was too hard to rip the pagan out of the Christian, so creatures like mermaids, nixes, nymphs, witches, goblins were allowed to exist in folklore but got transformed into malignant wrongdoers in league with Satan to try and deceive the good honest Christian man.

Ok, we are still not there. Why are witches depicted so frequently and so undressed? Is there actually any truth in the nakedness of the witch? There obviously is. Ritual nudity exists and has always existed. For all reasons mentioned above nudity among members of a coven has been viewed as essential. There is truth to that, but it still doesn’t explain the nude witch scattered all over the place.

Bearing in mind the new standards, which read nudity equals evil, and the fact that everything nude and accessible is being covered and destroyed even if it’s masterpieces by Michelangelo or Botticelli depicting saints or biblical figures, there must be symbolism to the witch.

The witch becomes the personification of evil.

The witch is a woman who challenges man by not abiding to the rules of society. She is an individual who doesn’t want to conform and get married, be humble, be sane n all that. In not condemning her human nature and accepting the naked truth she defies God and swims in immorality and sin as often depicted in frantic dance or as temptresses mingling with the description of mermaids and wood creatures

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In a somber prude world where piano legs are covered considering it insulting to expose any form of “legs”, witches are conscious natural creatures who want to celebrate their existence, because according to the old world the only power is found inside one’s own body.

Witches are painted nude because witches pose a threat to social order, and nude is stigmatized as threatening and fearsome. We can see one other quality of the nude and of witches in Albrecht Durer’s famous witch painting, nude makes everyone equal, all social classes are stripped of status and qualities and since witches are actually in favour of nudism in some ceremonies they want to disobey the order and abolish the law. Witches are depicted naked and wild, dancing, debauched, frantic, often implying the use of illegal substances, classless, enchanting and enticing, tempting man to yield into the kingdom of hedonism and sin disregarding any authorities with the fatal results ubiquitous religion oppressors never stopped preaching about.

Then, another obvious reason why witches are painted nude throughout history is the perfect excuse they offer an artist to avoid being censored. Ok so the painting might be nude but it’s only because it is depicting these devilish creatures to be looked upon with fear and disgust.

It is natural for an artist to be interested in the human body, since it’s been that way since antiquity, and much as a multitude of clothes and fabrics might offer an extensive playground, nothing can compare to the motion of free bodies and the tones of bare skin that had been so stupidly forbidden.

Thanks to witches and their immoral ways painters could express themselves freely. Under the pretence of depicting pure evil, an artist, who has to be rebellious by nature and definition, can study the human body and also do their bit of anarchy statement in offering some of their finest works when working with these damn witches. Becoming secretly part of this decadent mystic tradition it makes perfect sense why they would choose to depict these mad fiendish women rather than the slightly boring, puritan, strict woman buried under her multitude of clothes and virtues.

So next time you look at these nude witches, give them one more moment of thought. Do they not seem tempting enough? Is their dance not a secret ceremony vaguely familiar to you?

When looking closer, are they not a bunch of little Venuses and wood nymphs, little goddesses of nature and of the past who have very subtly managed to sneak into our modern world through thousands of years of merciless hunts?

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aMinus Interview by Nicolas Simoneau

I am one lucky guy, check this out : I went to Bucharest on a 3-day trip with HONK!’s “Artist Of The Year 2011” winner Aminus aka Valentin Plessy.

We left Berlin thursday night at 8 pm and boarded a flight to Cologne. Two hours later we were in Bucharest. We barely had time to get off the plane and claim our luggages, someone was waiting to pick us up. Quick stop at the hotel to leave our stuff, and first tour of the city.

Bucharest is really beautiful, i mean of course “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and as such it is a completely subjective experience. Coming from Berlin, a lot of the buildings we saw looked familiar. You can totally feel that the old communist regime is still very present in the architecture. You’ll see a lot of old buildings that are in pretty bad shape and need to be renovated, and here and there you’ll catch a glimpse of beautiful little houses in the city center. You may also be surprised by the number of stray dogs wandering the streets of the city. There are so many of them, it’s almost surreal. As you can imagine, they all look perfectly healthy and beautiful. After a really big and tasty lunch, we make a quick stop back at the hotel where we have to take the equipment we will need for the concert, and then we go straight to the club to perform the soundcheck. Once we’re done with that, we just sit and drink at the bar waiting for the show to start.

It’s finally time for Aminus to go on stage, he’s a bit stressed out, doing a lot of vocal warm up exercises, and checking how many people are in the crowd. The show starts. The crowd is a bit shy, but after the first song, everybody is totally into it. People are dancing and singing along.

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The concert is magical, Aminus and his mysterious band (two people dressed in black, moving like robots) are on stage. The light show is very nice, with some projection going on. Despite a few technical problems, Aminus keeps his cool. After the 35-minute show, the crowd is asking for more, so we get to have one rappel. The show is finally over, Valentin is now enjoying the party. We drink a lot, dance a bit, almost laughing ourselves to death. We’re having a good time.

At some point i am going back alone to the hotel, yes alone, because Aminus is having a conversation with a guy, and clearly trying to tell me that he won’t come back with me tonight. He’s such abitch!

Friday morning : Rendezvous at 1 pm in front of the hotel with Aminus and our two lovely guides. Schedule of the day: visiting The Modern Art Museum, grabbing a bite at the ZEXE (best restaurant ever) and chilling in the city. It’s already 10 pm and we have to get ready to go to the Control Club, where Aminus is Dj-ing all night. I drink way too much, and i find myself throwing my guts up at 2 am in the hotel room, leaving Aminus with a crazy crowd dancing and screaming at the bar. He’s finally back at the hotel around 9 am, drunk as a skunk but happy like a fool. We get two hours of sleep and already we have to pack our bags. We drink one last coffee and catch a cab to the airport. Because of the snow we almost miss our connection to Germany, but everything ends well, and we are finally back in Berlin at 7 pm, tired as hell. After a good night sleep, I am meeting with Aminus again on Sunday at .HBC, where we eat a delicious King’s cake... perfect setting for a one-on-one interview.

KALTBLUT: We got back from Bucharest yesterday, where you did a concert and a Dj set, how was that?

AMINUS: Everything went perfect, we did have a warm welcome, people were really receptive to the show. It was a nearly perfect concert.

KALTBLUT: By the way, you remember after the show when I had to go back to the hotel alone, what happened with this guy you were with?

AMINUS: Joker! (totally blushing) KALTBLUT: Speaking of which, is it something that happens a lot after a show, you taking some guy home?

AMINUS: Not at all. I’m more of the romantic type actually.

KALTBLUT: How involved are you with your music?

AMINUS: I make all the music and write my own lyr-

ics. I try to do my best as far as the production process is concerned. One thing I have to do so far is to find a way to incorporate instruments on stage.

That is definitely something that i would like to try and develop. I’m a drummer in the first place. Actually I’m about to go on tour and play drums with the band and dear friends from KOOL THING. www.koolthingmusic.com

KALTBLUT: Indeed! You’re a very busy man and have been (and still are) involved in several music projects over the years, can u tell us a little more?

AMINUS: The first one, with which i got seriously involved was PLATEAU REPAS with Fleur and Marianne. www.myspace.com/plateaurepas - Right now they have a new project too, called MILLE. I’ve been creating as aMinus for a longer time though but started to make it visible not so long ago. And now i am playing drums for KOOL THING. We’re going on tour in Australia in February along with the band AUSTRA which we’ll be opening for (February the 2nd at Northcote Social Club, Melbourne and February the 9th at The Basement, Sydney).

KALTBLUT: And for the KOOL THING, are you just playing the drums, or are you also taking part in other aspects of the project, like composing...?

AMINUS: No, i am just the drummer. Like any drummer, I’m here to bring the drum parts to Jules and Jane’s live acts, making them a bit more dynamic.

KALTBLUT: With all these different projects, sometimes don’t you wish you could just focus on one thing at a time?

AMINUS: That’s a good point. My “real” baby is Aminus, and i sure would like to get more time to work on it .

That is a real challenge right now! I guess I just need to learn to organize myself more!

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KALTBLUT: I heard you’re going to release a single soon, what can you tell us?

KALTBLUT: Alright, fair enough. So you’ve been living in Berlin for 5 years now.

AMINUS: Nothing new, really, we’re gonna release “My

What brought you here in the first place?

minds away” as a single but with 3 new remixes, one from KOOL THING, one from Stereon and one from Snaxx. They ‘re all Berlin friends and really talented. It should be out real soon now. But it is more like a present for people to wait as I am now working on new material for an upcoming album this year.

But it is more like a gift to keep my fans busy until I release my new material.

KALTBLUT: A second album for this year?

AMINUS: Yes !!!

KALTBLUT: OMG! total KALTBLUT exclusive! Aminus will release his second album this year! Of course we will keep you posted. Simple question how did you get into music?

AMINUS: My father is a guitar player and a singer who

used to play in a quite popular band for children back in the 80s and early 90s, and later on he formed a brazilian music band. So we (my brother and I) grew up surrounded by music and my parents encouraged us to play instruments.

When I was a child I started to take violin lessons as I was a huge fan of Rondo Veneziano but my violinist career failed as I understood that the strength of Rondo Veneziano came from the drums. I dumped the violin and started to play drums.(Laughs) I know it doesn’t make much sense, but that’s how it all went. Back in high school, we formed a rock band with Fleur (from Plateau Repas) until I discovered music assisted by computer at the music school of my hometown, I discovered that electronic music was possible.

From that moment on i started experimenting and playing around with the computer and synthesizers and I ended up creating what became aMinus.

KALTBLUT: So as you said earlier, you are also writing your own lyrics?

AMINUS: Yes. I do.

KALTBLUT: Where do you get your inspiration from? Is it only from personal experiences and things that affect you personally, or do you also draw your inspiration from others...?

AMINUS: It’s always a bit about my life, a bit about my friends, and also about stories that I heard. The inspiration comes from what’s around. There is always something intimate, something between 2 people in my songs, but it doesn”t mean that I am always one of them.

AMINUS: I needed time to create for all my different projects. In Paris, life is expensive, you have to work a lot to survive and you do not have a lot of free time.

In Berlin life is a cheaper, and when we arrived in Berlin with Plateau Repas, we realized that we would survive easily working less and concentrating more on what’s the most important: our music. There were so many artists around!

It was so stimulating and inspiring artistically.

KALTBLUT: Ok and so now after 5 years, did you go where you wanted to? Are you happy with what you’ve done so far?

AMINUS: Yes, for sure.

KALTBLUT: Do you see yourself staying here longer?

AMINUS: Of course. the positive thing about Berlin is that

the city is like a springboard, not a place where you are gonna make tons of money, but rather the perfect place to do your thing and take your time, which is great. Living in Berlin is a good thing for me. So yeah, definitely!

KALTBLUT: In addition to all your music projects you’re also Co-owner with Jon-Jon of AKA http://akaberlin.com/ , a tattoo parlor and gallery.

AMINUS: Yes, we created an Art space and a Tattoo Parlor. We’re working a lot with friends, as far as the gallery is concerned but also with artists we fall in love with, and to whom we offer our space. It’s meant to be a workshop as well, so these artists are welcome to create here, prepare their installations, performances and such....

We are also working with tattoo artists from all over europe.

The idea was to create an hybrid place, where we would have the time and space to work on our artistic projects, as we would bring a certain idea of tattooing that is dear to us, knowing that tattoo is something strong culturally and especially in Berlin.

KALTBLUT: Speaking of tattoos, i saw you took up tattooing.

AMINUS: Yes, I am learning but I am still a beginner. I like it though!

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KALTBLUT: There is one question that we are all burning to ask you. The first single on the album was called Billy, but who is Billy?

to pursue?

AMINUS: Ahah! Billy is a bit of myself, and a bit of some-

Right now i do not have much of it, but it is definitely something i would like to work on in the future.

one else but I won’t give any names.

AMINUS: Well once again, I need more time!

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It’s something quite minimalist : you have these people (one or two) wearing masks and doing the light show. And for the first time in Bucharest you used some projection. Is it something that’s going to be part of your show now?

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AMINUS: Well, never say never. But for now I don’t feel

like Madonna enough to sing perfectly and jump around!

The fact that there is no instrument on stage is already something that people can easily attack. I don’t really care, lots of artists use backing tracks. But it is still a reason why I only want the live aspect, my voice, to be good and the visual side to be strong and reflecting the moods of my songs.

AMINUS: Yes. I really want to create an atmosphere on stage. It will grow for sure with more light and video shows.

One of the performers wants to create a synthesizer which plays lights and no music. I have also worked with Nicolas Pyjualon who has been thinking of more performance related things to do on stage.

Album: Almost And Maybe Released: 05. Nov 2010 Genre: Pop, Synth Pop Video: Billy

Maybe one day I will have an entire army of performers! As far as I’m concerned, I want to focus on my voice and on the music. I might not have enough self confidence to fill the stage on my own and i don’t feel like i can play an instrument on stage right now either so I want to create something really visual, something where I won’t risk putting the vocal part in danger. Like choreographies...

Label: Zingy Records Based: Berlin / Germany

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Marilyn Monroe More than a Beautiful Child.

Text by Claudio Alvargonzalez Tera Photos by Bern Stern All Copyrights @Universial Pictures

A few weeks ago in one of my common sleepless nights I was watching for the fifth or sixth time “The Prince and the Showgirl” (Laurence Olivier, 1957) and I couldn’t stop thinking what a great actress Marilyn Monroe was. She was funny, intelligent, quick and stealing every scene with her own presence. I had a drama teacher who always told me: “Man, everyone can do drama, the easiest thing in cinema is to cry. But comedy that’s a different matter. Only the most gifted ones have that ability”.

And in fact I believe those words are true.

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SHE WAS ALSO A REBEL She started and ended her career being naked in front of a camera. During the Pin Ups era in the late 1940s she became one of them. For some actresses that was the first step. We all remember that famous “Playboy” cover in December 1953.

But the truth is that those pictures were taken in May 1949 when she was a no one and after becoming a successful young star with Twentieth Century Fox those pictures were published. It was a big scandal.

Except for her. Marilyn admitted she freely posed for the photos. She liked her body, she liked her sexuality and there was nothing to be ashamed of. That was Marilyn Monroe.

In June 1962, one month and 2 weeks before her death, Marilyn started a three-day photo session for “Vogue” with photographer Bern Stern at the BelAir Hotel in Los Angeles. More than twenty-six hundred pictures were taken. Half of them naked ones.

She was just 36 years old but she looked more than 40. She looked stunning but sad. She was lost. In fact she was already “dead”. Those photos were like a final statement of Norma Jean (Marilyn’s real name).

She was really talented and I think she knew it. That was partly the reason of her sadness. She had to probe she was an actress, not just a silly good looking blonde. I found some pictures of her in class at the Actor’s Studio in New York City. She wasn’t sitting in the front row like the star she was. She was in the last one with no makeup and smoking a cigarette, just listening of what Lee Strasberg had to say.

She wanted to learn.

There’s a story (can’t say if it’s true) about her presence there. It is said that the rest of the students resented Marilyn, basically ignoring her, and felt she didn’t belong with them, as they were serious actors, and she was just a Hollywood star. However, when she took to the stage herself, something happened.

Something that just never happened at the Actor’s Studio before.

The students applauded. When Marilyn died in 1962 Lee Strasberg said that he was sure she could have been one of the great actors of the stage.

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She wanted to look exactly the way she always felt. Alone and naked. Her face and body showed the scars of a life time. Even a physical one of a past surgery operation nobody knew about. The world wanted to see the real Marilyn and that what she showed. She couldn’t care less. In August 1962 Marilyn was found dead at her home.

The cause of death: An overdose of barbiturates. Probably suicide. But I’m not too sure about that. I think of it more as an accident. A loss of control. She never controlled her own life so I think she couldn’t control her own death.

There are still many things we don’t know about her. But under that myth of a blond star there was an intelligent woman. A political activist.

She openly associated with Americans who were identified by the FBI as communists. She supported “Pace Action”, a movement for a sane Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. She also identified strongly with the workers. And she was passionate about equal rights, rights for blacks or rights for homosexuals.

She was friends of Ella Fitzgerald and Truman Capote.

She helped them.

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There are many things said about her. Miss Ella Fitzgerald saw her as an “unusual woman”, a little ahead of her times although she didn’t know it. Capote described her as a “Beautiful Child”. In fact, the title of this article is taken from an essay called the same way that Truman Capote wrote about her in 1955.

Marilyn was probably the most celebrated actresses.

She worked with Clark Gable, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Otto Preminger, George Cukor but she never won an Oscar, not even a nomination. She won a BAFTA award and a Golden Globe for “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959), one of her best movies.

But if I had to choose one of those things, I would go for what Marilyn’s third husband and one of the most talented writers of all time, Arthur Miller, said. He described her as the “finest creature over the planet”, but also the “saddest”. When Marilyn died one year after their divorce Miller literally said: “Marilyn blanked out the sun, and she still does”.

People loved her but I’m sure she wanted recognition from the Academy. She deserved it. But she wasn’t Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis or Ingrid Bergman.

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Photography by Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert Interview by Amanda M Jansson & Emma E K Jones

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Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert is a most fascinating experimental artist creating astonishing pictures by using most of the times nothing but a disposable camera. Or even photo booths.

He has an astonishing understanding of human nature and a profound love for human necks.

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KALTBLUT: So, to begin with, you shoot both analog and digital, which one do you prefer and why?

JOSEPH:

Actually I don’t really photograph digitally.

I tried it several times but I’m lacking the needed technical skills as well as the leisure to grapple with it. This also applies to analog photography, therefore I mostly work with disposable cameras. But coming back to the question I do prefer analog because I don’t have to change as much to make it look the way I want it. I find digital photography to be much too raw and cold and I always feel like I’m cheating when I retouch and rework pictures. But this is a very personal attitude towards digital photography, I know a lot of very talented photographers who alter their pictures digitally and create impressive imageries which I can never achieve with my way of photographing.

I also would like to add that I don’t see myself as a photographer. I rather try to play with the definitions for photographer, artist and (art) producer.

KALTBLUT: We are featuring “Corpus Series” on this issue. How did it come to this project? How did you begin shooting nudes?

JOSEPH:

I wanted to photograph a plain series of bodies that should not be understood as portraits but rather as a mere baseline study of the human body.

I wanted pure surface that depicts simply the design of the body. Therefore I used a disposable camera.

This series is about creating an art object, turning a person into an object, a decorative ornament.

The “Corpus” series is also connected to my “photographed by” series, in which I get photographed by different public figures from the realms of fashion, music, literature, art, film, entertainment etc. Whereas I objectified my models in the “Corpus” series I am the one now who gets objectified. It is again a play on the relation between artist and art object. It is my intention to blend those two angles. I started the “Corpus” series simultaneously to the “photographed by” project.

However with my first exhibition in Berlin last summer I completed the “Corpus” series. I still work on the “photographed by” series but I also and foremost concentrate on new projects.

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KALTBLUT: Would you say there is something you prefer to shoot in a naked body, perhaps better than a dressed person?

JOSEPH: I always try to photograph the body in a very neutral way. Although I stage my photos as well, I prefer a very plain and modest depiction of the body. I consider clothing to be just a distraction from the “design” of the human body and I also think that the way a person dresses reveals too much of their personality which is not helpful for my projects.

KALTBLUT: Who are your models for Corpus Series?

Is it people you know? Do you just ask people to bare for you? How does it work?

JOSEPH: 90% of my models for the “Corpus” series

I have casted on facebook. Male as well as female.

I just go online and look around for different people and if I find someone I find interesting I just contact them asking if I can photograph them.

For the “Corpus” series I also just got into the car and drove through different cities to find some models. A lot of the boys in the series are from Barcelona or Paris. The girls are mostly from Berlin or Munich.

Most of the models I did not really know before but now I’m still in contact with a few of them. So if the models were ok with being photographed we met spontaneously and did the shoot. The location was secondary for this project but I think it’s still fascinating how different the motives turned out to be.

The shoots were mostly done in 5 minutes, it was basically just like a mug shot... from every side. For each model I roughly took 10 - 15 photos.

KALTBLUT: How different is it to you as inspiration to shoot indoors or outdoors?

JOSEPH: It depends on the situation, the idea, as well as the model.

Right now I photograph a lot of my models completely naked so I have to find a space were we are not disturbed by onlookers. So most of my outdoor shooting for which I asked the models to bare it all take place at night.

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KALTBLUT: You shoot portraits, but also self portraits.

How different is one from the other and what do you want to focus on each time?

JOSEPH: I have two different sorts of selfportraits.

The series “daily muc/sha/bln” consists of photos I had taken in photo booths I came across in Munich, Schwäbisch Hall and Berlin. Per city I did circa 30 selfportraits. All of those photos were made around 2010/2011. At first it started out as a joke but then it evolved and I had a new photo like every second day. Most of them are staged, also those ones were I appear to be rather expressionless. I liked the idea that every selfportrait is per definition staged. This act of profiling helped me to sharpen my understanding of my own surface.

The second series, just called “selfportrait,” evolved for practical reasons. When working with disposable cameras you can’t always tell how many photos you still have left, therefore I use the last few shots to make photos of myself and that’s how this collection got into existence. I like how those seemingly not connected pictures all share the same expression.

KALTBLUT: Another impressive series of yours is Situations. It’s probably real life situations. How is it shooting completely unplanned as opposed to somewhat planned series like Corpus Series? What does it require?

JOSEPH:

I took my first planned “artistic” photos when I was 17 with the camera of my grandfather.

I trained myself to secretly photograph people on the streets. Some of these photos were made in Barcelona, London, Paris and Salzburg. I was interested in how I could capture different situation without influencing the events. It is also of interest to me how you have to perceive these situations, how I as the photographer have to decide if I pull the trigger right now or if I just let the moment pass by.

There is a certain responsibility in this moment affecting me as well as my surrounding which I have a lot of respect for. It is so much more thrilling than any shoot I could plan. But even when I stage my shootings I like to be very spontaneous. I have a certain motive in my mind I want to create and when I got that photo I still go on and experiment a little. Those photos that are created this way are often a lot better and intense.

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KALTBLUT: In a person, what would you say is the favourite body part, what part in people do you find to be most photogenic and why?

JOSEPH: I love necks. When I photograph I prefer to put the focus on the face. I like to shoot the people from the side and not from a frontal point of view.

Looking at the photos from the “Corpus” series I picked for this edition you can see that a lot of the models are standing in an awry angle but with their face turned towards me. Somehow I find that the physicality of their bodies comes across much stronger.... Or maybe it is because you get a better view on the neck.

Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert www.josephwolfgang.ohlert.de

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by Stefan Goertz / Berlin

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2FOR1 Clothes make the man.

2012 is a great year for fashion victims. Many marvelous collections are waiting to be worn.

Here are four designs in which we would like to see you.

Selected by Marcel Schlutt

RICK OWENS

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DEAR BAD BED BUG Amanda M. Jansson & Emma E.K..Jones

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A lot of things can happen in a ye

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ear and screw me sideways they have.

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I was just on the Toilet in that dive of a Bar doing what one does in there .. getting rid of that white line in front of me, my iPhone was ringing just as it all hit my face. It was my dear dear old friend Marcel calling me in an hour of need. But all I wanted was a good fuck now that I was high as a kite, he needed me to start working on a piece for this new magazine he was gonna launch.

All I could say was :”Fuck you, when do you need it by?” and he was like “Yesterday.”

So off my twat I was heading home to my iPad forming the first few letters into an article, I said to myself that should I feel like I was gonna fall asleep I could quickly do another white one on the iPad display. Blessed Steve Jobs probably would have me overdose doing it on his beloved gadget, but they did they it was great for consuming, wink.

I couldn’t see nothing anymore, everything was red like blood and then the hands where crawling up my legs and i could make out what they where.

Instead I was actually dropping of into some dream-state .. Glorious!

The Dogfaced guys opened up the red curtain like in a theatre and there was someone familiar standing at a mountains cliff, I could only make him out vaguely so I was drawn to go closer, next to me out of the sand more hands where crawling and behind that huuuuge missiles shooting into the sky. It felt like some dictators celebration of the end of something big and the beginning of something new and a feeling of sadness and joy was creeping inside of me, it was overpowering the closer I got.

I was at a fashion shoot in Afghanistan doing a spread for a Fashion against War thing called Red Dress.. here I was drinking ice cold Martinis with Kate Moss and NaomI and I think I saw that Lena from Germanys Next Top Model was there as well.

What a hoot, I was getting more and more pissed and wondering what the fuck am I doing here ?

In fact I was the Art Director at the shoot but I was directing shit, falling into a bunch of loaded Guns at one point and nearly killing of our Photographer. As I was looking at myself from above I could see the desert sands opening up and two pairs of hands coming out of the sand next to me, there was a faint smell of burning metal in the air and the hands opened up with rainbow like snakes out of a glowing steam crawling up my legs and up in the air.

I was trying to call one of the assistants of the shoot but all I could see was Kate and NaomI dancing in front of me in red flowing dresses with Machine Guns in their hands pointing them into the sky, they where twirling, faster and faster and getting closer so that the fabric of their dresses was forming some kind of curtain around me.

They where men with Dog faces ..

Man I was tripping and tweaking like I was on LSD or something!

Just a few more steps and I would be able to make him out and the air was filled with exploding missiles then I could hear the Dogfaced men whisper “Push” as I was getting closer and closer to him, then it hit me like a ton of bricks.

This is my MAN and the second a realised it he turned around and there were no more missiles being shot into the sky and the whispering chant stopped, ‘What are you doing here?’

I heard myself asking him.

Jeez, this shit was getting stranger by the second I was trippin this dream.

I am here so you can kill me - he said, but how could I do that, I love him so much!

Then the whispers began again “PUSH” they where chanting and the Dogfaced men were coming up close behind really cornering me so I had to step forward more and more getting close to my man!

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Stranger was the feeling I was getting in my arms, because they started to reach out to him “PUSH” I kept hearing as I was getting so close I could smell him and my eyes where deeply locked with his.

Like perfume it was numbing my senses and I embraced him with my cheek next to his and my heart beating so fast I was feeling it in my ears “PUSH” he whispered “You know it is what you have to do, push me my love, you will be free”.

I heard myself saying ‘I love you so much’ and the millisecond I finished the last word while placing a kiss on his Forehead my arms firmly placed on his shoulders and I pushed.

One last smile was catching him as he was slowly flying off the cliff and with every breath I took he was drifting off into the deep filled of clouds of nothing.

There was a silence surrounding me now, the Dogfaced men where walking backwards away from me, one by one knocking the missiles to the side, were they once fired into the red sky there was now just a whole big nothing filled with peace.

I took a deep breath and here was that curtain again closing around me while I could hear a faint beat in my ears forcing me to move very slowly.

This was the first time in over a Year that I felt so at peace that I could move to a slow beat and let it drift me so much so that I didn’t realise it was getting all dark around me “I can run, but I can’t hide away from you” was what I kept hearing being sung.

A big crash and one of them Dogfaced men appeared in front of me barking louder and louder ... I woke up.

I was pulling the snot up my nose, the white shit was doing my head in at this point, how long was I sleeping ? Only 2 hours ?

Well that was intense I remember thinking and I recalled everything I dreamed as vivid as if you would kick my knee now! I got myself a small bottle of something fizzy and drowned it in one, couldn’t help feeling totally whack though not from what I snorted but from this trip I was just having.

It kinda made me realise something that was brewing deep inside of me for a long time and didnt really want to be a harsh reality.

“Finnish my first article and then finnish the relationship I was in.”

The article was an easy task I had that sorted in a couple of hours after a big bad coffee and a shower, but the bit with my man took me a lot longer.

There was so much faith in me that this was worth fighting for, I love him so much and how would it be without him not being around ?

What followed where a few more month of something that was equally wild and hard on me till the day that I pushed him of the cliff.

Don’t get me wrong I do miss him and still think about him but i’m much better off and there are so many other things in my live that need the attention i was giving only him.

So a year later this is NOW and what am i doing ?

Writing one of my horrid stories. I left one issue out .. guess why ?

I was busy at the cliff cleaning up my mess and healling, am still busy with that you fucks but i am better now and loving the distraction writing my life away for some crazy fashion and art magazine.

Well it does fit though, right ? Life is a fashionable art-form that only we are capable of!

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I wonder what kind of verbal diarrhoea i will be writing about in a years time ?

You just gotta sit tight.

I CAN RUN, But i cant Hide away .. from Life and what else is there to come.

I am off to drown myself in a bottle of Red Wine now .. wanna join me ?

XOXO Drew Eastman

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SHORE Photography: Mara Sommer - www.marasommer.com Styling: Cameron Lee Putt - www.cameronleeputt.co.nz Hair: Cory van Malland @ Servilles - www.servilles.co.nz Model: Daniela @ Clyne Models - www.clyne.co.nz

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Shame On Everybody knows the story of Adam and Eve, who after tasting the forbidden fruit (which, by the way, was not an apple but a fig) were thrown out of the Garden of Eden because they became aware of their shameful nudity. In return they received the ability to judge over the good and the bad and a limited life full of pain, work and shame. This story truly coined my relationship to my own nudity and sense of shame since I first heard of it as a young child.

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I learned three things back then: Don’t ever do anything God told you not to do, nakedness is something one – or I – should be ashamed of, and that we’re basically pretty much fucked being so far away from this inaccasible paradise, the Garden of Eden. I stopped thinking about God pretty quickly after that but this sense of shame and this indisposition with my own naked body persisted. The overall and permanent, negative feeling of selfconciousness is our civilization’s achievement, mankind has not always been so hostile against human bodies. One could think this disaster took its course when humans developed from hunters and gatherers to farmers but history teaches us something else. But before we get into emotions and feelings, I’d like to comment on the actual, technical status of nudity. Nude is anybody who’s without clothing, only ‘dressed’ in one own’s skin. The skin is the largest and most versatile organ of the human body, it weighs about 3 kg and is about 2m 2 big. It is waterproof, temperature regulating, delicate – and beautiful. Shame about one’s nudity is reserved to humans only by the way, because animals don’t differentiate between naked and dressed. Sure, clothing was very useful in the Stone Age – it prodected us from the rain and cold, but later on in warmer regions, the behaviour and dresscode changed.

In ancient Greece, nudity was allowed in public but this right was reserved to males, and on special occasions such as sport events only. The place for physical activity gained its name -“Gymnasium“ from „Gymnasion“ (gymnos=naked). Later, around 720 BC, each and every discipline in the Olympics were carried out naked. The Romans didn’t see the connection between nudity and self-indulgent sexuality either, at least they didn’t demonize it in public. For them, nudity was a symbol of ascetic modesty and this is why even the Olympic Games after the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC were still conducted in the nude. Talking about ascetic modesty, in India the Sadhus (Hindu Ascets) are naked but stay socially accepted and are held in great respect amongst the ‘normal’, dressed people.

But then Christianity came and brought to us the story of Adam and Eve and the sense of shame of one’s own nudity. The Christians also were the first to bring nudity into context with sexuality and therefore d monized it more and more. It was them who dressed up the Olympic athletes. Women that were spotted naked were called witches and mostly burned afterwards.

The Christians, our devotional forefathers, even made it to other continents and fought hard against nudity there, imposed their dresscode and prescribed everyone their indispensable sense of shame. They declared this feeling a virtue and a must for every true and good Christian.

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„Exquisite, healthy, quite nudity in nature! O, if only the poor, sick, lustful city slickers could truly get to know you once more!“ Walt Whitman, Diary, 1877

Advancing technology and, resulting, the growing civilization did the rest. They spread shame and refusal of one own’s nudity into the most remote places on our planet and deep into our hearts.

According to the thesis by German socioligist Norbert Elias the growing self-control (also called self-discipline) – the retention of a reaction to emotional impulses – is the enhancement of the super-ego and therefore a higher focus on the centralization inside of a society and not on one’s own. In accordance with his famous work „About the process of civilization“ (1939) this longterm change of personality structures goes along with the „advancement of shamewaves“, which means being scared of individual actions which leads to a more controlled and tabooed sexuality.

He thought that breaking out of this spiral on short term was not possible, but only long term actions would help to change our perception.

All in all it is interesting to see how this advancement of shame boundaries shaped our whole civilization progress – it enhanced the separation of genders: to males, this sense of shame became an expression of our culture, whereas for females, it works as a symbol of the limits of a sexuality that ought to be tamed.

This advancement of shame boundaries lead to the denial and hiding of genitals and the resulting oppression of our sexuality. Mankind even learned how to use the sense of shame as a tool of torture, just think of the recent events of Abu Ghraib.

Luckily, the history of shame made a progressive change, at least on first sight. The nudists, emancipation- and anti-war-movements of the 60s brought along some kind of sexual revolution and the liberation from the claws of conventions and morals and therefore at least partially stopped the denial of the individual ego. But with the resulting commercialization of nudity and sexuality brought another disaster. Our media started to use the thitherto scorned display of women and brought along a new sector of commerce and economy. This permanent exhibition and display did not bring the sought unification with oneself and one’s naked body, because now it was not only important what one was wearing but rather how one looked like under one’s clothes. A new ideal of beauty was born that was so disconnected from the natural, which is now only achievable with (plastic) surgery.

Interestingly enough we didn’t pounce about eachother like wild animals, what happened was rather the opposite of it. Somebody once said to me: „Our society is so oversexed and so underfucked at the same time“. I find this expression pretty accurate when trying to describe the Status Quo of our modern society.I’m looking at the future in curious anticipation which progresses and changes will our sense of shame undergo? Finally I’d like to add that nobody should be ashamed of their sense of shame - it is a feeling that is indispensable for social intergration. Maybe everyone should just rethink their indivual, inner attitude towars nudity and one’s body. And as thephrase goes: We all came to this world naked, and naked we will leave it.

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“Porn made things possible for me”

Tim Kruger is Germany´s gay pornstar number #1. He is not only gifted with a beautyful face and the ginger hair. No, he is famous for his big XXL cock and his movies. Yeah Tim is a mans dream.

I know him since I have moved to Berlin 10 years ago.

Interview by Marcel Schlutt

KALTBLUT: Hey Tim. The issue’s theme is: Nude and it seems very appropriate to have an interview with one of the most famous pornstars of today.

How did you become a Pornstar? And why?

TIM: I did it just because I was curious and somewhat fascinated me about porn. All started when I was working at a gay porn store and had all these pornvideos, books and posters around me all day.

I think I watched almost every porn movie available during that time and after a while I thought: “ Ok Tim you may not have muscles like the guys in the movies but at least you´re cock is bigger than most of the guys cocks so why not give it a try.”

Said and done, I sent an email to a few US porn companies and after just a few days almost all had replied, including Raging Stallion Studios, one of the biggest US gay porn companies.

They invited me over, and my first pornshoot was scheduled.

KALTBLUT: You have worked for many studios. In the USA a lot as well. What are the differences between European and American productions?

TIM: Some american porn sets look almost like they wanna shoot a hollywood movie with much more equipment and people around you than the european companies. The shoots are very long , sometimes you have to work all day till the scene is done. And work means in my case having a hard-on for hours and do sex in positions you´ve probably never read even in the kamasutra :o) European porn is in most cases a bit more low key but I also know some european companies who need not shy away from comparisons to american studios.

KALTBLUT: Do you have a favourite film partner? If so, then who? Why? TIM: There are just too many sexy and hot guys out there who I would like to shoot with.

But sexy in my eyes not always mean muscled. It´s the whole package, attitude, smell, symphathy that is important to me.

Tim Kruger : www.timtales.com Tim @Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Kruger/102935385134?sk=info

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KALTBLUT: A few years ago you launched your own label “timtales.com”. How did it come to this?

What’s the story behind “Timtales”?

KALTBLUT: Are you single? Or do you have a boyfriend?

TIM: First I put some very short private fucking vids of me online on some gayeties and I got so much clicks and attentions from that vids that I started to dream about my own website.

I wanted to show the people real, non scripted sex, wanted to show them what´s happening in my bedroom.

Just the idea of it turned me on so much that I did everything to made this dream come true.

It was a very long and not always easy way till Timtales became true but now I ´m very proud of what i have reached so far.

TIM: Maybe a bit disillusioning for some of my fans but I have a boyfriend for many years.

First he wash´t that happy with me wanting to do porn but then he said I should give it a try if it is something I wanna do. And now he is totally fine with it and without him Timtales could not exist because he is supporting me a lot and he is the one who does much of that work you don´t see in the my videos like editing all the stuff etc. But he even appeared in a few videos on my website too.

KALTBLUT: You have gained world fame and you work for the sex-industry. And we both know it’s not an easy job. How much of the real Tim is to be seen in the films? Or is it always pure horniness that we see? Is it sometimes acting?

How does he get along with your job?

KALTBLUT: When you look through pornfilms, on DVD or online, you can see that 70% is bareback. And the guys having unsafe sex on camera keep getting younger.

Personally, I don’t think this is a good thing.

What do you think?

TIM: What you see on Timtales.com is the real me, I like having sex and like to show that on my website. We do not have a script or anything like that. It´s pretty much that what I do when I meet guys without camera.

TIM: I think barebacksex in general isn´t that problem but I do have a problem with bareback movies with mostly very young’s guys who don´t know what they´re doing or just do it for the money.

Some people want me to be more verbal while I fuck but that wouldn´t be me and I think you would feel it if I just pretend something I ´m not into. And as I am my own boss I can always rescedule a shoot if I ´m not horny or I don´t feel well.

But if two adults, who fuck bareback in their private life and its their own will to have sex without condom in front of camera too, its totally ok for me.

KALTBLUT: Do you do Live-Shows also? I have always had trouble having live sex in front of people.

KALTBLUT: I’ve always been annoyed when I was being reduced to my body and sex. How do you handle it, when men view you only as a hot pornstar?

Nothing but that?

TIM: Believe it or not but I ´m a very shy person so I never did any live shows and I don´t think I could ever do it.

Having sex and keeping a hard on when hundreds of people staring at you istn´t that easy.

TIM: It is what it is, Porn and its totally understandable that people use you as a projection screen of what they dream about in their sexlife and most of the time reduce me to my cock because it´s only my sexual side that they see in my videos.

If the people wanna see me fuck they can watch me online or on dvd or when they´re lucky they will meet me in a dark corner of a club and can see me having livesex :o

My friends who know me since years and everyone who is interested in my personality can discover that I´m not just a soulless body with a huge cock between my legs.

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KALTBLUT: Have you ever regretted this step?

TIM: No I did never regret the decision starting it. Porn made things possible for me I always dreamed about. I travel a lot , meet a lot of great guys (sometimes not so great guys too, that´s normal) , my sexlife is absolutely fulfilled and I can live from what i do.

KALTBLUT: Does your family know what you do? If this is the case, how do they deal with it?

TIM: My family knows what I ´m doing but I´m pretty sure they´re not interested to see any of my movies :o)

KALTBLUT: What can we expect from you in 2012? What kind of new projects are you planning?

TIM: We get a lot of emails and requests about Timtales Dvd´s and Blu Rays so we decided to release a few videos in 2012 . There is also a Tim Kruger Dildo in the works and I just started Dj-ing a bit. Since quite a few people asked me if I would do live sex shows or gogo dancing (which I don´t do), i thought it could be nice to spin some music in their clubs instead so I learned to use my DJ equipment. My boyfriend says it sounds good already.

So, in 2012 there could be DJ Tim Kruger on some party lineups :o)

I showed them some cover, calendar etc and the´re happy that I can do what I want to do and that I love my job and even can live from it.

KALTBLUT: I have always received fun fanmails and letters. What was your funniest fan-experience?

TIM: It´s always nice and special when I meet fans or they send me mails, cute presents or gifts and i would lie if I said I ´m not liking it.

I love getting feedback from guys and if its positive feedback I like it even more. I travel a lot and it´s astonishing to see that almost in every part of the world there are guys who know you and who like you.

KALTBLUT: What’s Tim Kruger up to when not filming? Where are you to be found?

TIM: When I´m not shooting I try to spend as much time with my friends, not always that easy because all the stuff we´re shooting has to be edited and there is so much to organize .

My boyfriend helps me a lot and without him all that would´t be possible . So in my private time I have to take care of my boy too and keep him entertained :o) Beside that I like to go out to the bars and clubs of the cities I currently live in or visit and that´s mostly Berlin right now.

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by Elizaveta Porodina www.porodina.net Model: Matei @ The Special Model Management Make up / hair: Valerie Fischer, Michael Salmen @ Artistgroupmierau

“natural” looks : Make Up Foundation : Perfect Match / Benefit gorgeous Concealer : Magic Concealer /Helena Rubinstein Powder: Trasparent Powder / Guerlain Rouge : Cremeblend Blush,Posey, / Mac Lips: Clear Lipgloss / Mac

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Šukasz Biliński www.lukasz-bilinski.blogspot.com

Lucasz Bilinski is a much celebrated- and well deserved so- Polish artist. Involved in several projects, we interviewed him regarding his amazing paintings. Strikingly unusual for paintings, since he makes extensive use of black and white and grey, he manages to show his perfect technique and skill but at the same time produce paintings that could stand against any editorial, any time.

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KALTBLUT: What is it that made you decide to paint men mostly?

LUKASZ: I am greatly inspired by fashion. I try to clash the perception of fashion with my inner self. I often start based on a fashion style photograph which embraces some kind of poetry like a pearl of infinite beauty, which waits to be uncovered.

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LUKASZ: There are two aspects of nudity.

The first one leads to simple thinking - the more you expose the more sexually attractive you are. The other - the more you conceal the more space for imagination you create...I mean the imagination of your true sexuality.

The second, theatrical approach is more appealing to me and I am trying to capture it in my works.

Just like a teenage boy spotted in a crowd. This boy - this man will stand in the middle of the way between the picture and myself. This is where the male portraits came to my mind - as they appear though a filter of my soul.

KALTBLUT: How do you come up with an idea for each painting?

LUKASZ: I have always been slightly narcissistic. I do not feel ashamed about it. The awareness of this fact makes my life easier and lets me focus on the things I want to say and achieve. To make my art less explicit, I become a different man character in each picture.

I search for a new disguise to express my hidden emotions, moods - swinging between honesty and deception.

KALTBLUT: You make excesive use of black and white and gray in your portraits, often mixed with a few basic strong colours, How did you develop this trademark? Why this choice of colours?

LUKASZ: At some point I gave up on colours.

It happened quite naturally. Black, white, greyness...this is what my palette comprises of at the moment. I ocassionaly paint colourful, yet limited in colours pictures. Greyness is the golden mean by which I can achieve unique quality of expression. It has certain elegance, calmness, balance and indefinity, which enrich a portrait.

I cannot say for sure if these techniques will evolve with more experience. It is all a matter of the concept for my art. Using this palette is a pretext to realise something that lies beneath. It is a minimalistic system that consists of smaller means which form a full size image KALTBLUT: Do you think that nudity is becoming acceptable or not yet?

KALTBLUT: On which occasions would you say you feel “nude”?

LUKASZ: Looking back, nudity has not been a novelty even in Renaissance. In my opinion you can talk the most sexually by covering the body in the right way. Just to mention geishas, which aroused senses by their clothing, makeup and motions. They left a trace in the history as the prekursor of the most sophisticated from of nudity. I associate nakedness with a border between what is tangible, sexual, external and the hidden, out of reach.

KALTBLUT: Tell us a little about your other art project and how does it differ from painting?

LUKASZ: I am paralerally doing fashion illustrating which I treat as a spring-board (though I still get inspired by it). Surprisingly, I usually draw women and this difference between my drawings and paintings does not have any meaning for me. I consider it a way to give an interesting view on all my work, which is coherent to me. The most important, though, is to be satisfied with your work and have a lot of fun!

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Blouse and leather skirt: H&M Leather crown and bracelet: ASOS

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In my bright brave young days, When my soul and heart were burning.

Even to my beautiful lover, I never spoke these words: “I will die for you.�

But to my country, I said them.

Ts. Tsedenjav - Mongolia

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Craig Tracy Interview by

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Craig Tracy is one of the most famous body painting artists in the world, and for good reason! No other artist is as diverse and as skilled when it comes to painting on living breathing skin. Each one of his works exceeds the expectations anyone could have and is actually very real art. Perhaps much more than the one you will find dusting away in a museum. We found out a bit about how he works and what bodypainting is all about!

KALTBLUT: What kind of people come to you to ask to be your models? Is there a patern or are your models very varied?

CRAIG: The only pattern that I see regarding those that wish to model for me, is that they all want to have an exceptional and transformative experience through my art. My models are very varied. All ages, All sizes. Rich and poor. 95% are female. I’ve painted on Lawyers, Doctors, Chemists, Millionaires, University Students and Olympic Athletes.

KALTBLUT: I know you never work on the same body twice. How easy was it to find all these different people in the beginning?

CRAIG: From the very first painting to the present moment, finding models has not been an issue.

They find me most often. Even in the very beginning I had strangers contacting me wanting to model for my work. They found me through various ways but they certainly found me. I suppose when you do something unique people enjoy talking and sharing what you do with others. I’m very fortunate to have so many willing bodies. It makes my work that much easier.

KALTBLUT: You have been a more traditional artist before you came into body painting. How did it happen? How does it differ from our traditional conceptions regarding art?

CRAIG: I’ve been a professional artist since 1983 and in most of those early years of my career I was unsatisfied. I felt that there was something missing, something that needed to happen but I had no idea of what it would take to satisfy my desire to transcend the conventional.

I found bodypainting through facepaintings that I would do once or twice a year for events such as Halloween and Mardi Gras.

Faces lead to bodies and bodies eventually lead me to the idea of taking bodypainting seriously as a fine art. it was that concept, taking it seriously as fine art, that changed everything. I couldn’t be happier.

Bodypainting is a multifaceted creative experience that lives and breaths and challenges my every fiber.

KALTBLUT: How do bodies work as inspiration?

Is it like you see some form and you think of a tiger or some woods? What brings about the idea?

CRAIG: My work is very varied. About 50% of my images are abstract or non objective. I choose to not work in a specific style or tecnique. I allow my inspiration to come from any and everywhere. I do find inspiration in certain shapes and poses that my models offer but I also find inspiration in concepts and various designs outside of the human forms that I work with. I try to explore something different with each painting that I create.

I love variety and diversity and this passion expresses itself in the majority of my work. I’m not sure if I know of another artist whose work is as varied as my own. Most artists are trying to brand themselves by painting in a certain style over and over again.

I’m repulsed by such a lack of creativity. They are chasing after an identity or the money. I want the freedom to paint what I feel as I feel and I choose to do so regardless of convention.

KALTBLUT:How difficult is it to paint on living human skin? Is the person allowed some movement? Can corrections be made etc?

CRAIG: The actual challenge of creating a substantial painting on a human body can be overwhelming. I’ve often said that painting on a living breathing three dimensional body is a bit insane and I love it.

I love that the entire painting must be completed in one waking period. It brings out the athlete in me.

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KALTBLUT: Are you planning in advance? Is it possible to have exhibitions of real people or is it impossible because of the workload required?

CRAIG: That’s a lot of questions in one question! I plan roughly 95 percent of my work in advance.

The others are spontaneous and tend to be non objective. I do paint live in gallery shows often. I prefer not to but my agent/publisher feels that it’s better for me to leave a more lasting impression on viewers when I’m out of New Orleans and it is the first and possibly the only time that I will be doing a gallery show in that city. I prefer to paint in my studio where i have everything in it’s place and I have less distractions and limits. I’m not interested in being an entertainer. In the six years that I’ve had my own gallery in New Orleans, I’ve only painted live 4 times.

CRAIG: When I paint it is similar to an athlete’s “game day.” I sometimes work with the body and other times I fight against the natural curves with my lines and colors. I’m always dealing with the time limit that exists and there really is no tomorrow in bodypainting. I do my very best to make the experience comfortable for my models. I’ll even go to extremes where I’m the one in discomfort to help keep my model more comfortable. It’s a very physical art form and requires lots of effort and agility.

I do my very best to capture the image photographically as fast and as honest as possible. I don’t manipulate my work digitally beyond the most basic uses of contrast, and other color correction techniques. My photography only takes about ten minutes now that everything is digital. Photography is sort of my necessary evil. I’m all about creating and not capturing. Pushing buttons, turning dials and moving lights is what I do because it’s required to share my work eternally. I refer to my images as paintings even when they are photographic recordings just as music is called music whether it is preformed live or played through a machine from a recording. I focus 99% of my energy on what is in front of the camera and very little on the camera and it’s requirements.

KALTBLUT: What are you working at right now?

CRAIG: I’ve just finished painting a Phoenix image using a 53 year old grandmother and I’m unsure of exactly what my next image will be. I like not knowing what’s next. It means that anything is possible.

ANYTHING.

KALTBLUT: a special love for large cats? Is there some symbolism involved? What makes you use them a lot?

CRAIG: Big cats are my favorite animals. My initials are also C.A.T. Of my 120 or so paintings I’ve used big cats 6 times. The inspiration for each painting was different but there is a very good chance that there will be no more big cats in the future. Four of the six images using big cats seem to really leave an impression on people and I hope to not be so branded.

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Naked, nude, bare, raw, bald… It doesn’t matter the word you use because at the end it is all reduced to the same thing: Undressed bodies in front of the camera. Cinema is full of that. Full of nudity. It seems we experiment some kind of pleasure in looking at our favorite star during a sex scene or just naked in front of the mirror.

It has been like that for ages. Many actors and actresses have shown their bodies on the big screen. In a very shy way at the beginning, just showing a bit of skin, mainly because the studios rejected frontal nudity, specially with male actors. But things have changed radically in the last decades and nowadays there are many actors and actresses who have performed naked if it was well justified in the script.

But the problem starts exactly there: Is it always justified?

I don’t think so. Why is there always a drunk girl running naked in a Fraternity party? Or when things go crazy in a comedy film like “Airplane” (J. Abrahams, D. Zucker, 1981)?. But of course my favorite non justified nudity comes when a serial killer is around. So if for any reason you decide to rent a cabin in the woods with some friends and you want to get killed these are the things you should do: Swim naked in the lake, take a shower while your friends are out or have sex with your partner. Jason (“Friday the 13th”, Michael Myers, “Halloween”) and the audience will be very grateful.

Some other times it is totally justified, except for one big thing: The movie itself. When “Striptease” (Andrew Bergman, 1996) came out Demi Moore became the highest paid actress in Hollywood. I love Demi but did she worth it?

No, and a thousand times NO. A few seconds of her breasts and 115 minutes of the worst rubbish. The same happens with “Showgirls” (Paul Verhoeven, 1995). If you want to see tits all over the screen but you are not in the mood for porn, this is your movie. But let me say that you will also have to deal with the script. Now It’s up to you. When this film came out the producers realized that most of the audience were men over sixty and retired. I guess I don’t have to explain more.

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Despite some actors like Julia Roberts who refuse to show themselves exactly the way they were born and prefer using a lookalike actor to perform some scenes, there are many stars who seem to like to walk naked around the set without inhibition. I could never thank enough Kate Winslet for her lack of decency, especially in “Little Children” (Todd Field, 2006), “The Reader” (Stephen Daldry, 2008) or “Mildred Pierce” (Todd Haynes, 2011). But happily there are many more: Charlize Theron in “The Burning Plain” (Guillermo Arriaga, 2008), Penelope Cruz in “Elegy” (Isabel Coixet, 2008), Harvey Keitel in “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1993), Monica Belluci in “Dracula” (Francis F. Coppola, 1992), Kevin Bacon in “Wild Things” (John McNaughton, 1998), Salma Hayek and Colin Farrel in “Ask the Dust” (Robert Towne, 2006) or Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) where it is crystal clear how boring a sexual relationship with Tom Cruise might be (I bet he was thinking in Scientology or placentas…)

But if someone told me to close my eyes and think of one the first movies I remember I believe I would say “Amarcord” (Federico Fellini, 1973). That boy in Fellini’s film discovering his sexuality and that scene at the tobacco store where the fat lady with those huge boobs decides to help him out it’s just priceless. But Fellini wasn’t the only one.

Many directors never had any inconvenient in showing their actors naked: Lars Von Trier, Danny Boyle, Eytan Fox, but especially Pedro Almodóvar or Bernardo Bertolucci who are responsible for some of the most sensual scenes in cinema.

Almodóvar taught how “Iberian” passion could be. He gave us “Matador” (1986), “La ley del Deseo” (1987) or “Bad Education” (2004). And Bertolucci gave us a middle age passion in “Last Tango in Paris” (1972) with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider and “Stealing Beauty” (1996) , “Dreamers” (2003) and “Novecento” (1976), one of the best European movies of all times where Robert De Niro and Gérard Depardieu shake more than hands and share more than a bed with Stefania Casini.

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But if you go to the dictionary you will find some other meanings for “Naked”, probably much more interesting: Defenseless, exposed, helpless, unprotected, vulnerable, unveiled… And here comes when cinema and actors give real meaning to this word. Sometimes nudity in cinema is like walking on a tightrope. Depending on how you step, nudity can seem the most natural thing but it also might lose sense and became too explicit, too pornographic and simply out of context. This red line or tight rope doesn’t seem to scare directors and some of them have already walked on it.

This is exactly what happens in “In the Realm of the Senses” (Nagisa Ôshima, 1976) and “Shortbus” (John Cameron Mitchell, 2006). This two controversial films skirts the borderline between pornography and art, making Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” look like children’s programming in comparison. In Ôshima’s film sex is presented as aggressive, violent, obsessive and sadomasochistic and used to explicate a connection between sex and death..

To me two masterpieces. To some just two porn movies with a bit of story.

The same way John Cameron Mitchell did in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (2001) and “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Shortbus” deals with loneliness, loss or tedium but in this case the characters do it trough sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters find one another (and eventually find themselves) when they all converge at an underground club called “Shortbus”, a mad world of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. We find a lot of explicit sex but this movie is not porn, nor is it erotica. It’s just brutally honest. Sex and nudity is shown here not as the purpose but the vehicle to escape from solitude, to hide what we don’t want to show or to veil what is totally unveiled.

I guess it is pretty much like the real life. Don’t you think?

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This is a blog about beauty.” Yes this blog is really great!

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Saint-Petersburg Photography by Anna Kharina www.flickr.com/photos/anna_kharina

Anna Kharina is a photographer from dark dark Saint-Petersburg. She is exceptionally gifted in taking pictures of little events, paying attention on all these small details which normally escape us. Captivated by little deaths and dreams everywhere around her, she writes a poetry through her pictures. Her nude photographs are not simply about naked people, they are more portraits of individuals, baring their souls. Thanks to Anna allowing the viewer to steal a glance of their deepest self.

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AMAZON QUEEN Photography by Karl Slater

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Text & Styling by Aiden Connor

Within the past few years Munroe Bergdorf has become a force to be reckoned with, adopting many different guises DJ, Nightclub host, model, party planner and muse. If you require style behind the decks there is only one port of call. Munroe Bergdorf is class personified and bring a touch wonder to each and every gig she plays.

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One of London’s young things she is the face and sound behind parties including MEAT!, Shabba-Dabba-Da! And Trannyshack. Whilst also hosting top nightclubs such as Room Service and Circus. When not Captivating us with her sounds Munroe spends her time keeping it fashion baby and does so with panache – currently working with BOY LONDON on an exclusive bespoke line, launching spring 2012. The label is at home gracing the figures of pop sirens like Rihanna and Jessie J. Munroe’s role of tasks many different shapes and forms after being cast as one of the faces of Ziad Ghanems collection Beles de tete, and has gone on to produce the original runway music for Ghanem’s last two runway show at London fashion week.

When she’s not in Dj mode Munroe is the go to girl to throw ‘THE’ party, having put together after show parties for Zaid Ghanem, Ada Zanditon and make up brand “Illamasqua”.

Having graced the pages of numerous style publications and being adorned with the up and coming fashion designers on the highly covetable London fashion scene and has recently been named by Dolce and Gabbana as one of ‘London’s top cultural tastemakers.’ Munroe is the soundtrack to fashionable London and a genuine star to boot, her attitude is just right and whilst style may be everything this classy London lady ensures its not just skin deep.Fashion week is normally one of the busiest times for Munroe but this being the first time in 3 years where she isn’t engulfed with working on projects, so will gladly be attending London fashion week as a spectator, so you should expect to see the glamazon queen front row at all the main contenders, what with this and the countless project and parties up her sleeve it seem Ms Bergdorf is someone to keep you eye on for rest of 2012.

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AIDEN: 2011 had been a really great year for you, why do think it was the year of Mizz Bergdorf?

MUNROE: Last year was pretty crazy, surreal and amazing but I kind of feel like I was just laying the foundations for this year. I’ve worked with so many amazing designers, photographers and DJ’s, as well as playing at venues and locations I’d never have even dreamt of playing at. But it’s kind of made me hungry for more, I’m a little insatiable.

AIDEN: You and I met when I styled you for Ziad Ghanems Couture campaign, you have since gone onto work with other designers and establishments, what makes you the go to girl for such collaborations.?

MUNROE: I’m really not too sure... I think it’s because designers can see the extent to which fashion influences everything i do, from the events and parties that I throw, to the way that I dress and the image that I put across. I just really love fashion and I think that’s apparent in my work, I do feel very lucky to have collaborated with so many amazing people.

AIDEN: How does it feel to have Dolce and Gabbanna compliment you as one of ‘London’s top cultural taste makers’ ?

MUNROE: Pretty damn amazing and surreal. I’d never thought of myself like that before so it was a huge complement, especially from such an iconic brand.

AIDEN: Primarily your a dj and club host, but now you can be seen modelling, composing runway music, and now your working on a bespoke line with BOY LONDON. What would you say your role is with in the fashion industry?

MUNROE:I don’t really label it, I don’t want to limit myself to any category really. I know what I’m good at and I know what I’m capable of, it’s all a journey. I do feel very lucky to be doing what I love as a profession though.

To be working with BOY LONDON is really exciting, it’s a huge honour to have been asked

by Stephane Raynor and the team work with them on the line.

AIDEN: What inspires you to create your look?

MUNROE: I’m inspired by so many things, I don’t think it’s anything I could pinpoint. As far back as I can remember I’ve always loved everything Cyndi Lauper has ever done and everything Old Hollywood. I guess my image as a base is a blend of the two - I love how Cyndi is so mishmash with her image, but I also love the glamour of Old Hollywood, the hair and the gowns... I think I’m a happy medium between the two.

AIDEN: What’s next for Munroe Bergdorf?

MUNROE: I never know what’s next to be honest haha! Right now I’m mainly working on developing the BOY LONDON line. The inhouse designers that I’m working with are SO talented, it’s really exciting to see it all coming together. I’m also going to be travelling a lot this year with international gigs, so I’m gearing up for that and putting everything in place.

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EXHIBITION/BERLIN TILL

N POLAROIDS

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HELMUT NEWTON POLAROIDS Exhibition Berlin till May 2012

Polaroid technology revolutionized photography. Those who have used a polaroid camera can hardly forget the unique odor of its developing emulsion and the thrill of the instant image. With the polaroid, every image is one of a kind. This also applies to the later large-format polacolor prints, whose developing process left behind characteristic borders.

Polaroids have thus been frequently used for preliminary studies as well as a standalone medium. This was already the case early on, following the creation and presentation of the instant photograph at the optical society of America in 1947 by its inventor, Edwin Land – and especially after he presented in 1972 the legendary sx-70 system, a collapsible, simple and affordable camera. In nearly all photographic areas – from landscape and genre, portrait and self-portrait, fashion and nudes – this unique imaging process has found enthusiastic devotees all over the world.

www.helmut-newton.com

Helmut Newton used the technology intensively starting in the 1970s, especially for his fashion photo shoots. As he once described in an interview, this satisfied his impatient urge to want to know immediately how a certain situation would look as a photograph. In this context, the polaroid acted as an idea sketch in addition to testing the actual lighting situation and image composition.

In 1992 Newton published „Pola Woman“ an unconventional book consisting only of his polaroids. According to the photographer, the publication lay particularly close to his heart, although it was discussed amidst great controversy. In response to the accusation that the images in the book were not perfect enough, he countered: “But that was exactly what was exciting – the spontaneity, the speed.”

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Newton’s additional notes, written on the edges of the polaroids, are fascinating as well as revealing with regard to the model, client or location and date. The comments, the haziness of the images and the signs of use are naturally also to be found on the enlargements of the polaroids included in the exhibition; they testify to a pragmatic approach to the original work materials, which have now possess an own inherent value. Especially interesting for today’s viewer is the unique polaroid aesthetic that unexpectedly alters the colors and contrast of the photographed subject.

For the first time ever, over 300 works based on the original polaroids offer a comprehensive overview of this aspect of Newton’s oeuvre. The exhibition is thus a look into the sketchbook of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Many of the iconic photographs that have already been presented in the exhibition space of the Helmut Newton Foundation can be discovered in the current exhibition in the process of their creation.

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Helmut Newton: Born on October 31, 1920 in Berlin, Helmut Newton grew up in a privileged family. Due to his passion for photography, he stopped going to school and pursued an apprenticeship with Elsie Simon, a top photographer. He only had this job for a while because he had to feel Germany due to Adolf Hitler’s violent treatment of Jews in Germany. He went to Singapore and got a job there. That did not last long. He moved around Singapore for a while until he moved to Australia in 1940. There, he settled and built a new life with his wife, June Brunell. He continued following his passion for photography, eventually getting his work to appear in top fashion magazines around the world.Helmut Newton did not just limit his photography to nude women and fashion. He also shared with the whole world his early life as a survivor of the Nazi invasion in Germany. He took portraits of Nazi personalities and other people relevant to the very difficult time in world history. Helmut Newton images clearly show the world through the eyes of a nomad who wandered the earth, not giving a care to people’s judgments and myopic views.

Newton died on January 23, 2004 due to vehicular accident in California.

Polaroids Exhibition

Helmut Newton Foundation/Berlin Museum for Photography till May 20th.2012 The polaroid Book: Published: Taschen Verlag (25. Juli 2011) Englisch ISBN-10: 383652886X ISBN-13: 978-3836528863 http://www.amazon.com/Helmut-Newton/e/B001IXMC54/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

The Helmut Newton Foundation Jebensstrasse 2 D - 10623 Berlin Germany

OPENING HOURS tuesday – sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. thursday 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

ENTRANCE FEE 8 € / 4 € concessions

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“CERTAINS PERCEPTION AS A BLACK MAN LIVING IN GERMANY

I AM OFTEN CONFRONTED BY Photo by Roderick Cummin Photography

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TEXT BY SHEL FULLER

The body, an object containing volume and weight is a vicious cycle. We carry on giving it praise that is does not deserve, showering it with the gift of attention, when we really should simply ignore it; giving it power, when we really need to set it free. How did we come to this point? When did the human flesh become such an emotional and political vehicle capable of causing wars, riots, destruction and rage.

There have always been powers within societies that seek to deny individuals the right to control their own body. Religions through their commandments, governments with their laws seek to invoke disciplinary power over the treasure chest which contain our soul. Over the years, there have been numerous movements which have attempted to alleviate the oppressive effects of institutional and interpersonal power on those whose bodies are marked as inferior or who are denied rights to control their own.

The United State Courts have been confronted with issues in regard to nudity for decades. Mostly nudity as a form of obscenity. When is the human body indecent and when should it be glorified?

The difficulty of defining obscenity was memorably summarized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart as he attempted to tackle this issue during the Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964): (regarding obsecene images) “I know it when I see it.�

Officially, there are no federal U.S. laws that either allow or prohibit nudity. The courts have not ruled whether the right to engage in naturism (nudist activity) is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution under its freedom of expression provision thereby leaving the control over our organism to individual states and cities.

Recent controversies about pornography have continually opened up the debate about the connection between nudity, sexuality and objectification. When the topic of objectification is introduced, most people think only of women, but it is of course, relevant to both genders. The objectification of men is for our society rather unusual and when you are confronted with it, it will remind you of how we take-for-granted, the potential of being reduced to a single meaningless object based upon our body or specific bodily assets.

As a black man living in Germany, I am often confronted by certain perceptions. All blacks are well endowed; all are able to perform sexually far better than other cultures; the look, feel and smell of our naked essence is totally different than others.

That these stereotypical views may be or may not be true is not the point. It is the fact that people who think in such unjustified terms, find it difficult to view the other as a person. One would think that it would be paradise to be an object of desire but it isn’t. How I perceive myself as an individual and what others project onto me are two completely different demons and being forced to wrestle with those monsters is a futile struggle that should not be undertaken.

In the summer, as others lay naked by a lake, I often choose to keep some clothing on because I feel terrorized by the expecting stares of others, waiting to get visual confirmation. It is disgusting that this freedom which many can afford has been twisted and made foul for others; this curious unspoken confrontation of others, an unattainable standard or concept of a body image based upon deluded fantasies and racists flattery.

We are born with an innate curiosity about ourselves and others. From the first moment, we become aware about our bodies, we are in constant search to see what is under the clothes of others.

The celebration of our similarities and the unearthing of our differences is one of the most profound experiences in our life. This exploration, this need to bond without clothing is a very special gift and should not be taken lightly. We have to devilinize the flesh, step outside of the truths of others and into our own and celebrate that which is pure life.

The body is a wondrous thing. It is certainly wondrous that the body and soul can come together.

It is even more wondrous that they join together into one, to form something new: a human being!

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We have selected 6 events we would kill to go to. We can’t afford travelling the globe but there’s surely something near you that you will get excited about.

Thoughtfully selected BY MARCEL SCHLUTT

LONDON, UK

Damien Hirst at London’s Tate Modern See more than 70 iconic works by celebrated contemporary artist Damien Hirst at London’s Tate Modern .

A shark suspended in formaldehyde, a bisected cow and calf… Damien Hirst is well known for his imaginative and sometimes shocking works.This April, Tate Modern unveils the first substantial survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever held in the UK.

Dates: April 4, 2012 to September 9, 2012 Address:

Tate Modern

Bankside London SE1 9TG Telephone: +44 (0)20 7887 8888

www.tate.org.uk/modern

BERLIN,GERMANY

Gerhard Richter / Panorama Gerhard Richter, beyond a doubt the most famous German artist of his generation. Around 150 paintings from all periods of the artist’s extensive oeuvre, carefully selected together with the artist himself, offer visitors a profound insight into his stylistically and thematically diverse body of work.

Dates: February 12, 2012 to May 13, 2012 Address:

Neue Nationalgalerie

Potsdamer Straße 50 10785 Berlin Telefon: +49 - (0)30 - 266 42 4510 nng@smb.spk-berlin.de

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Double Vision Contemporary Art from Japan The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, presents the exhibition Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan intended to introduce the general public to the art trends of Contemporary Japan. The ‘double perspective’ is provided here by two curators from two different countries, two Museum venues, two thematic blocks .

.Dates: March, 14, 2012 to May, 6, 2012

Address: Moscow Museum of Modern Art 107031, Moscow, Petrovka street, 25 Telephone: +(495) 694-2890

www.mmoma.ru MADRID,SPAIN

Marc Chagall Exhibition Works from the early years to the Second World War This large retrospective of Marc Chagall’s work is being held in two venues. The first part, in the exhibition hall of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Paseo del Prado, 8), follows the artist’s career up until the outbreak of the Second World War, and is entitled “The Path of Poetry”.

Dates: February 20, 2012 to May 20, 2012 Address:

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Pº del Prado 8 Madrid Telefon: +34 91 369 01 51

www.museothyssen.org

NEW YORK, USA

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at MOMA A new exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” presents five architectural solutions to renew a depleted American suburbia. At its heart, the show is not just about architecture and design, but about blurring the traditional lines that separate public space from private space, owning from sharing, residential structures from business structures, and suburbs from cities.

Dates: February 2012 to July 30, 2012 Address:

The Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 Telephone: (212) 708-9400

www.moma.org PARIS,FRANCE

Tim Burton, the exhibition at Cinémathèque française During the exhibition based around Tim Burton, the Cinémathèque française screens all his films (including short, little-known films). This event enables visitors to enter a little more into the excentric world of the American artist: drawings, paintings, photographs, strange sculptures ... A very eclectic artist!

Dates: March 7 2012 to August 5 2012 Address:

Cinémathèque française

51, rue de Bercy 75012 PARIS Telefon: +33 1 71 19 33 33

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