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www.discounderworld.com. issue #7 contents. page 3
issue #7 features
inspiration:
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Mike’s Space
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www.discounderworld.com. direct address. page 5
direct address
Hi Stacey, btw... I mentioned you on my
blog and Flickr page for the
I wanted to thank you for impetus and inspiration behind
your recent link to Dr. Randy my recent image :)
Pausch’s last lecture. That was
disco underworld, may 2009 very moving. I have been slimefaceimages.blogspot.com
thinking about this for a week
and I can’t say what my last Take (Good) care,
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” expression would be, but I know Paul Tarin
-- Paul Gaugin I would want my family around. www.slimeface.com
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julie
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www.discounderworld.com. julie broberg. page 11
J
ulie Broberg is an
American living in
Denmark.
“I am a bit of an
obsessive collector
of such things.”
Julie continued
URAEUS
Teatowel by Heather Moore www.skinnylaminx.com
www.discounderworld.com. julie broberg. page 19
five
random
things
about
1. I have one tattoo, an
inch-long flower on the second
toe of my left foot.
uraeus
www.discounderworld.com. uraeus. page 29
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.
URAEUS continued
Mike’s Space
www.discounderworld.com. uraeus. page 31
can b e
as a role model and learn from.
Mike’s Space
Corinne Lee-Cooke
www.discounderworld.com. mike’s space. page 37
“That’s right.”
“Kentucky”
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.
www.discounderworld.com. mike’s space. page 39
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.
www.discounderworld.com. mike’s space. page 41
Hence, no rooms.
Corinne Lee-Cooke
Inspiration: where do
you get yours from?
www.discounderworld.com. mike’s space. page 43
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…
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.
“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.”
“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.”
www.discounderworld.com. corinne lee-cooke. page 51
Five random
1. I love Tea
things about 2. Blue Violet Lake is my
favourite Prisma-Color pencil
5. I'm absolutely
rubbish at mathematics
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.
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
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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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