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issue #7
may 2009
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Hi Stacey, btw... I mentioned you on my
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I wanted to thank you for impetus and inspiration behind
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J

ulie Broberg is an
American living in
Denmark.

“I followed a nice Danish boy


home more than a decade ago
from the Balkans and have
never really looked back.”

She works full-time as the


editor of a shipping magazine,
along with being a mother to
eight-year-old Sabin, and it is a
love of exploring and discovery
that bring a sense of colour, fun
and ultimately, uniqueness, to
her artwork.
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“I find that I am constantly


seeking inspiration. Through an
increasing interest in
photography and a vow to carry
my camera with me wherever
I go, I have found that it’s all
around me. My camera has
helped me to notice things
more... how the light falls,
shadows, buds unfurling on the
trees, tiny mushrooms in the
moss on the forest floor.”

Julie says she finds the path


from inspiration to actual
creative output to be an
interesting and mysterious one,
and over the last year has been
making an effort to tune in to
what, why and when things
have inspired her.

“I've noticed lately that I'm


inspired by things that I came
across years ago. A collage a
friend did with cut-out eyeballs
nearly 20 years ago, recently
came out in felt on a pillow for
our bedroom.”

“I have been a bit obsessed


with eyes of late. I’m quite
literally seeing them
everywhere.”
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“Very often objects inspire me.


Stones, a quilt made by my
great grandma, a piece of
driftwood, the bark of a tree
that looks like an eye. I am a
bit of an obsessive collector
of such things. They inspire in
me a desire to tell a story, to
weave words into them, to
assign meaning to them, or
coax to the surface the
meaning that lurks within.”

Along with photography, Julie


dabbles in a wide range of
creative mediums in her
specially built studio, “which is
my great love at the moment”.

“I am a bit of an
obsessive collector
of such things.”

Coming up in the next


few pages:

Julie continued

URAEUS
Teatowel by Heather Moore www.skinnylaminx.com
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“It has four sets of double doors


that open wide for those
summery days. It has a cosy
wood-burning stove for those
days when it rains and is so
grey and chilly you think the
sun will never shine again.”

“The supplies are there. The


books are there. There are
projects in various stages of
completion on the coffee table
and the sideboard. The drawers
are filled to bursting with pretty
paper and fabrics. Music spills
forth from the i-pod. There are
inspiration books on the shelf,
beckoning to be taken down
when one feels like drawing or
quilting or making clay figures.
Paints and pencils and canvases
beckon. Embroidery threads,
rolls of felt and rubber stamps
whisper ideas.”

“It’s also where we


keep the liquor, as
you can tell from that
blue cupboard”.
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“But what do we do with all of


this inspiration that's around
us? I find that I use it to make
my home more my own, more
unique. And sometimes I forget,
living in the middle of it as I do,
that we have created
something unique with the
things we collect and the
memories that are strewn about
our house on shelves, on the
walls, on the floor. So ultimately
all of the inspiration I gather
finds its way into our home and
makes it the home that it is. I
don't always see that except
through the eyes of someone
new who comes to visit –
seeing them look around
delightedly means all the
inspiration was, well, indeed
inspired.”

“Ultimately all of the


inspiration I gather
finds its way into our
home.”
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five
random
things
about
1. I have one tattoo, an
inch-long flower on the second
toe of my left foot.

Julie: 2. I’ve been told I’m really


un-huggable, but perfect
strangers feel really
comfortable with me and tell
me all kinds of wildly personal
things.

3. Whenever we have people


over for dinner, I go to great
lengths to cook a great meal,
but there’s always one dish or
essential item that I forget to
put on the table.

4. My first passport was green.


A border guard on the
Turkish-Greek border once told
me that was “very bad, very
Coming up in the next bad,” and made a cutting
few pages: motion across his throat. He
didn’t go on to explain this
URAEUS
alarming piece of information.
Mike’s Space
5. I really hate making phone
calls.
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F irst, make a sugar syrup by


bringing 3 cups of water and 1
cup of sugar to boil..
Allow the syrup to cool..
Then stir together the following
in small, flat dish (I used a
flat 1.5 inch tall by A4-sized
Tupperware container with a lid)
that will fit in your freezer:
- 1 cup of the sugar syrup
- 1 half litre bottle of Schweppes
Indian Tonic (do not be
cheap about your tonic, only
Schweppes will do)
julie’s gin - the juice of 2 limes
- 1/2 cup of gin (I used g’vine,
a posh French small batch gin)
and tonic I let mine freeze overnight, but
sorbet it likely would have been ready
sooner – the gin keeps it from
freezing into ice cube-like
consistency. Then, you take a
fork and rake it across until it’s
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uraeus
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R


ichard Tyler II, whose
media name is
URAEUS, is a full-time designer
and the creative brain behind
the comic book series and
franchise of JAYCEN WISE.

“I have a passion for


developing cutting edge
material that pushes the
boundaries of the imagination.”

URAEUS concentrates his time


on creating a new mythology
with JAYCEN WISE, much like
George Lucas did with Star
Wars, or J. R. R. Tolkien did with
The Lord of the Rings. He finds
his biggest inspiration in doing
this comes from travelling the
world.

Coming up in the next


few pages:

URAEUS continued

Mike’s Space
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“I f properly insp ired man


can ach i eve any goal”

This was the lesson URAEUS


learnt firsthand in his travels
throughout the Nile Valley in
East Africa. It also taught him
the importance of history.

“I am a firm believer that one


cannot navigate the tumultuous
sea that the future represents,
without arming oneself with
the knowledge and wisdom of
ages past, and the inspiration
gleaned from the trials,
tribulations and triumphs of our
forefathers and ancestors.”

He says witnessing the


magnificence and splendour
of the ancient civilizations of
Egypt and Kush inspired in him
the knowledge that anything
can be achieved with the proper
inspiration.
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With this, and a desire to create


media which children can draw
inspiration from in mind,
URAEUS created JAYCEN WISE.

“anyth ing JAYCEN is the type of iconic


hero that children can hold up

can b e
as a role model and learn from.

ach i eved “A hero who uses mind first in


all situations, is an avid
with th e student, and who believes he
can achieve anything he sets
proper his mind to. His motto is, ‘if

insp irati on”


you can conceive it, you can
achieve it, if you believe it.”
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JAYCEN’s travels and


adventures provide a platform
for entertainment and
education as he moves through
time, meeting important figures,
visiting important places, and
experiencing important events
and lessons of the past. “But
always with the perspective of
examining how history affects
the present, and most
importantly, the future.”

URAEUS has certainly created


the basis of an epic adventure
with JAYCEN WISE, and where
they both go in the
future, only time will
tell.

Check out more of URAEUS’


work here:
www.jaycenwise.deviantart.com

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Mike’s Space

Corinne Lee-Cooke
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“That’s right.”

“Where you from man?”

“Kentucky”

“Well, if you need anything, let


Mike Woodruff lives in Los me know Kentucky. My name’s
Angeles. When not writing, Supreme.”
he enjoys playing basketball
and eating Flamin’ Hot Supreme then walked to the
Cheetos. You can find him on elevator, his hand wrapped
the internet at tightly around a woman’s
www.mutinouswombats.blogspot.com.
leopard skinned waist so that
the edges of his fingers fell
Read last month’s Mike’s
right on the swell of her hips.
Space here.
He called her baby.

W
The whole next day, I just
laughed to myself about the
words and images by Mike Woodruff odd encounter. I have a knack
hen I stepped for these sorts of things.
out of my car, Somehow, after three days of
my bones cracked like dried the most memorable road trip
liquorice. Inside, it smelled I’d ever done, I found it
like sweaty faux leather and perfectly fitting that the first
peppery trail mix. Outside, it person I met when I arrived in
smelled like things that were California was a pimp named
new to me: ten lane freeways, Supreme, who lived in my
palm trees, chaparral, and a apartment complex.
man with ashy hands and a
black wool fedora. So let’s backtrack a little,
because even though this was
“Hey man,” he said to me. the beginning of a new chapter,
“That’s a nice car.” it was also the end of a
previous one.
“Thanks.”
I moved to Los Angeles in the
“You new in the building man?” fall of 2003 to attend school.
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From my house in Kentucky, it We started off smoothly, On the second day, we took off We coasted through Denver
was over 2,500 miles (4,000 breezing across the rolling hills through Kansas and during early evening, and then
km) across nine states to the of Indiana, Illinois and Colorado. It was a study of into the Rockies. A storm rolled
west coast. That’s three solid Missouri before hitting into the contrast in terrains. Sprawling in, and we rocketed through
days of driving. I packed my flat plains of Kansas. Things horizons followed by ragged the interstate passes, cracking
little Dodge Stealth full of went normally. We talked and mountain peaks. The one up peaks and diving into valleys.
suitcases and televisions and did our best to pass the time. common ingredient was the I felt like I was driving a roller
Harry Potter books crammed We memorized the state size, the vastness of places coaster, or riding along the
up underneath the seats. Inside, rankings for size and population that stretch your eyes. I hadn’t back of a dragon.
there wasn’t much room for me according to a Rand McNally seen anything like it. The
and my travelling buddy. atlas. Even now, I still eastern seaboard isn’t like that. We passed through the
remember that Missouri is It’s scrunchy and surrounded by Eisenhower tunnel. When we
ranked 17th in population hills that don’t add anything to came out the other side, the
according to the 2000 census. the view except blocking it. radio crackled nervously. There
That was all on the first day. was a sizzle, and then the
whole sky turned white. For a
second, I couldn’t see a thing.
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“Dude,” my friend said. “Was


that lightning?”

“Yeah,” I said. “I think we were


inside a cloud.”

And then we got stuck in a tiny


town called Eagle, Colorado.
There was a mudslide up ahead
and no way the road could be
cleared until morning.

Okay, we said. It was good a


place to stop as any. There
were plenty of hotels around.

Except there were no rooms.


That’s because the tiny town
of Eagle, Colorado, usually just
a tiny town in the mountains,
happened to be the same tiny
town where Kobe Bryant
allegedly raped a girl earlier that
summer. And so, it happens to
be the same tiny town where a
media swarm had descended to
cover the ongoing trial.

Hence, no rooms.

Coming up in the next


few pages:

Corinne Lee-Cooke

Inspiration: where do
you get yours from?
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We slept in the car, and started It was six hours before we got Did I really travel thousands of It left me inspired. So inspired,
out in the morning. We stopped into Pasadena and met miles across the country? that about two years later, I
by the Hoover Dam and Las Supreme. started working on a book that
Vegas. We rolled into Caesar’s There was something strange, draws directly from those three
Palace through the back I was tired and fatigued from yet familiar, about the whole days. The vastness of the
entrance, back where the old driving for nearly 16 hours, yet thing. California was completely countryside, the openness of
ladies with fat rolls over their my friend and I decided to walk different than Kentucky, yet the road, and the weirdness of
elbows stare vacantly at slot around town. We were amazed connected in a way I couldn’t the people you meet on it.
machines and hope for their by the sight of palm trees. quite place. Even though
lucky 7s. I dropped a quarter, Neither one of us had ever seen everything looked completely It’s not every day you meet a
lost a game, and then got back the tall kind that pocket Los alien, there was something pimp.
on the road. Angeles. They looked like intimate about stepping into my
something out of a Dr. Seuss car at home and then stepping Especially on your first
book. They couldn’t be real. out of the same car so many day in California.
miles away.
It couldn’t be real…

Did I really meet a pimp?


o o k e
L e e-C
Co r i nne
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C


orinne Lee-Cooke
lives in a small town
outside of Derby, England with
her husband and pets. Since
graduating in 2003 with a BA
in illustration she has worked a
variety of very uncreative office
jobs, which has meant she has
never really been satisfied with
her working life. Being made
redundant recently, despite the
obvious pitfalls, has meant that
she has been shocked into
following her creative passions.
She has recently made the
decision to go freelancing, and
swears she will never go back
to working an office job.

“It is all very scary. I really hope


it works out as I'm not going
back!”

“Lola in the midst of sorting out


her haberdashery box”.
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“Everything is how it
should be and
nothing is
Now Corinne is working as part coincidence.”
of a design agency in
Nottingham, which creates
greetings cards for the North
American market. “This isn't
really art for me, but it’s a hell
of an illustration job.”

Corinne believes that “art is


an expression of the artist and
their life experiences, which
makes the subject so exciting
and diverse.”

In regards to her artwork, she


says “everything is how it
should be and nothing is
coincidence”, and her personal
work is driven by a love for
animals and the unseen world
around us.

“I am a spiritualist medium,
(which means she believes that
a person’s spirit survives “Happy the cloud. She goes
physical death and can about her business in a most
communicate with certain cheery manner. She has no
gifted people, called mediums) heady career aspirations or
which dominates my life and hankering to know what the
filters through to my work. I latest fashion is: Happy is just
try not to make it too obvious glad to be, which is most lovely.
though, because I would hate to Also she is a very loyal friend
offend or alienate people who and likes to drink tea made in a
don’t carry the same beliefs.” pot.”
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“I couldn't use new paper for a


“We are capable of long while because it just didn't
great things and I try work with what I was doing.
About the same time I saw
to remember that Oliver Jeffer’s work and it
often.” totally reinforced my love for
utilising old paper.”
The everyday objects she uses
in her work also represent her Corinne is also inspired by
fascination with the idea of different facets of human
transition, but in a different relationships and the dynamics
way. of friendship.
“Edward hates parties. He
“I love to use old or antique “We are capable of great things thought the hat to be
paper and material as it has its and I try to remember that completely unnecessary but he
own personality. The idea that often. I love to laugh and am wore it so as not to seem
inanimate objects have had a very lucky to know people that ungrateful.”
life before I met them, and are are blessed with a sense of
therefore never really mine, humour, fun is very important
fascinates me.” to me.”
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Five random
1. I love Tea
things about 2. Blue Violet Lake is my
favourite Prisma-Color pencil

Corinne: (hence my blog name)

3. I'm a trained makeup artist


and obsessed with skin care

4. I have a three-year old


Pomeranian dog called Scrappy

5. I'm absolutely
rubbish at mathematics

Check out more of Corinne’s


work here:
www.violet-lake.blogspot.com

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Inspiration: where do
you get yours from?

Nathaniel Flick
www.discounderworld.com. editorial article: inspiration. page 55

inspiration: V

iewing Randy Pausch’s
last lecture for the
first time recently, set off a
thousand thoughts in my head.
Being faced with your own

where
mortality must do wonders for
a person. I mean, you wouldn’t
have time for bitchiness,
complaining, whining, people

do you
holding you back, people
putting you down. Imagine if
you knew you were going to
die tomorrow and someone
told you that they thought you

get
were fat. Would you care? No,
you’d get on with it. Bigger and
better things to do than worry
about that.

yours Things would be relegated


to necessary, optional and a
complete waste of time. I can

from?
almost bet that most of the
necessary things would revolve
around family and friends, the
optional would include things
like work, eating and cleaning (I
mean, well, you are going to die
tomorrow!) and the complete
waste of time would revolve
Words by Stacey Childs. around material things like “I
Inspiration from the readers of always wanted to buy a
disco underworld Mercedes or an i-phone”. Too
late now buddy.
www.discounderworld.com. editorial article: inspiration. page 57

Most people’s last actions would be if they knew they had “It would probably be a game
would revolve around family and only one left in them. that somehow joined up all my
friends, food and fun, and I was contradictory aspects - my love
curious to find out what their Here are some of the answers: of nature with explosions,
last creative act would be. The fabulous locations and beautiful
daddy of all work you have ever “I’ve been thinking about it, and people juxtaposed with my
I think my last lecture would be desire to reveal the
“I put out an email, done. If you are a painter and
about passion. I know that no hypocrisies of the rich and the
you had one last work to leave
asking the readers of as your legacy, what would you great designer ever came out suffering of ordinary people. It
of a semi-interested person, so would have stunts and
disco underworld, paint? A builder, what would
that’d be my last lecture. But helicopters and a massive chase
you build? Whatever your
what their final talent, if you had one last then I started thinking what scene. Music would be by the
would be my last ‘lecture’ to Emerald City. Something larger
creative project chance to create something,
my seven year old son and this than the project itself would
what would it be, and what
would be if they would be the inspiration behind is just way too big...” happen. I'd like to make
something that was exciting
knew they had only it? I put out an email, asking
(Agnieszka Parr, graphic and wonderful to encounter.”
the readers of disco underworld,
one left in them.” what their final creative project design tutor and mother) (Joe Citizen, filmmaker)
www.discounderworld.com. editorial article: inspiration. page 59

inspiration:
“Truthfully if I had one day to And me? I’m not artistically you things. Sometimes things

where
live I would release a short a very creative person, but I don’t have to have points, they
statement: guess writing is my form of can simply be there for joy and
creation. So if I was to silliness.
‘I'll keep this brief! I apologise assemble together one last set

do you
for not sharing all of the of words, I guess they would be Thinking about this topic makes
considerable knowledge I have about the importance of me wonder: What is stopping
amassed and not passing on all learning and challenges. What those of us who are ready from
the brilliant ideas I have length they arranged creating the best work of our

get
conceived and not imparting themselves into would depend lives? It’s not possible to live
the wonders of wisdom that I on how much I could be life from day to day thinking
have learnt. bothered writing, but the that you would die the next,
skeleton would be something but it is possible to think about
As it is my last day I regret to based around sharing the it creatively. What a great

yours
inform you that it is too late to knowledge I have learnt in my standard to strive to in your
remedy any of this time regarding the importance work. If you are lucky it won’t
meaningfully - even on YouTube. of these two things. be the last piece of work you
My one piece of advice would do, which means that the next

from?
be to impart knowledge, be Through learning more about piece will be ever better. Your
wise and do everything you can, myself by searching for and work will be the stuff
every day of your life to avoid locating what makes me masterpieces are
any unfinished business piling happy, I have found that these made of.
up at the end and getting in the two things, besides my
way of valuable time with your family and friends are what
loved ones. inspire me. Learning and Coming up in the next
challenge could be one in the few pages:
P.S I'm in the pub, if you can same, but they can be Nathaniel Flick
make it by last orders for a completely different separate.
wonderfully futile celebration of Learning does not always have Last issue’s winner
my life...it’s your round!’” (Neil to be a challenge, and revealed
Buddle, DJ and printmaker) challenges don’t always teach
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nathaniel flick
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N


athaniel Flick is a
professional bass
player, devoted husband and
loving father, who never
Some of us disagree with our
parents’ choice of music,
especially if they were to play
an album, or even a song, on
repeat all day long, but in
struggles for inspiration. Nathaniel’s case, his mother
playing “Kind of Blue” by Miles
He draws it from numerous Davis on repeat is what still
sources, predominantly music inspires him today, as well as
and spirituality. He compares albums by John Coltrane.
music to a conversation “They taught me how to be
between two old friends, where calm even during sweet musical
words and thoughts flow easily moments, as well as how to let
and effortlessly. loose and not be afraid to hit a
clunker note or two on the way
Nathaniel grew up in the Bay to those effortless musical
Area in the 1970s with a jazz- moments.”
fanatic mother whose friends
were all musicians. They had He dreams “of waves of sound
jam sessions at his house, and flowing and cascading around
when they tired, the turntable me, an electric symphony of
rang out with their favourite sorts.” He finds inspiration and
music. Funk and soul enveloped challenge in his dreams, as
his early and teenage years. although he dreams of perfect
Home Sweet Home is a band symphonies, he finds it takes
whose music he held on to, quite some effort to write
whose “percolating busy bass music that's complete, while
underneath the drums and horn not being too busy at the same
section got deep into my soul.” time. “It’s a delicate balance”.
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Spirituality also helps simplify


this busy world for him. “Life is
simple; we make it hard” is an
idea he discovered at college.
“College completely blew my
mind and opened me up to new
ideas. Things I'd never
considered in my ideal little life
in the Bay Area.” Raised a
dedicated Mormon, college
helped him decide to give up
the church for good. These
days, if he had to choose, he’d
choose to be a Buddhist. “I'm
interested in the philosophies
rather than trying to influence
anyone else's beliefs.”

Having taught bass to around


20 students over the years,
Nathaniel says that although
guiding his students to “‘a ha!’
moments” has been pleasurable,
he finds he has been the one
to learn the most. He claims
that teaching is a vocation that
makes one think about why
they are doing it, and what they
are getting out of it, at the
same time. His students have
all been an inspiration to him,
and that’s where his own
learning stems from.
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