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Kraffhics collective.

Jennifer Pickard

Interview - Si Scott

PSSt - Introduction

Interview - Sky Larkin

Little Robbin Red breast

True love

Interview - Dinosaur Pile Up

At Heptonstall

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their talents so thinly across too many trades and emerge as mere wannabes within creative circles; shrugged off by the purists of the design world and their scrupulous specifications. And yet this is a pitfall that Kraffhics have thankfully avoided in their promising uprising. The key to this is that they have style that tran-scends their medium.

There is a brand that is recognisably Kraffhics.Their method is refreshingly simple. ‘That’ll look good, let’s do it like that.’

The focus is acutely on the aesthetic and sub-stance seems rarely to feature. But who cares? Thought-provoking they may not be, but visually engaging they certainly are.

Such a philosophy seems to be a product of our generation, and it’s one which has earned Kraffhics some excellent avenues of exposure, largely from within the music industry. This is something that is not wasted on the twosome who openly accept that their strong links to the leeds music scene has been instrumental in their development. But it is a relationship which is mutually beneficial and one which reflects the real community feel amongst bands like Sky Larkin, Pulled Apart by Horses, The Grammatics and Dinosaur Pile-up, and art collectives such as Nous Vous and Kraffhics.

Kraffhics. K-raff-hics. Say it. It’s nice isn’t it. A fusion of words that together holds no offi-cially recognised mean-ing. This has given the creative duo of Leemun and Kirsty free reign to define themselves through the work they produce.

Graphics, art, photography, sculpture, craft...there seems no preferred medium for their work. And this is the risk for a young collective fighting for recognition and exposure. So easily could they have spread

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This is a community which is destined to fragment at some stage as paths begin to lead people into new areas of their careers, however, at this stage this seems to be of no concern for Kraffhics. At the moment it is more important to establish a style and brand whilst also spreading the word, start-ing with a new book ‘My Brain’, which sees Leemun teaming up with Tom Hudson of Nous Vous and Pulled Apart by Horses.Make sure you have a gander!

jonathanMARTIN

JenniferPICKARD

SI SCOTTBoasting clients such as Nike and The New York Times, it’s a wonder how Si Scott remains so modest. Some of his stunning artworks are even available right here in Leeds @ paper - scissor - stone, along with fashion from the Electronic Poet label.‘V’ is for ‘Very nice indeed’!

You studied at Leeds College of Art and design, how did studying in Leeds shape your creativity?I think the main influence was realizing that non of my fa-vourite artists / designers, etc... seemed to live in or be from Leeds! Everything seemed to happen in London (this was way before the internet connected the whole world at the push of a button).Of course it’s not like that now - it doesn’t really matter where you live and there’s great creative stuff going on all over the place.

Do you think these experiences specifically directed your career?I guess they did - I think anything you experience will inevi-tably shape you as a person and where you end up.

If I hadn’t gone to London I would have prob-ably never met a lot of people who had a massive impact on me as a artist.

Your work has been exhibited and commissioned globally. Has this impacted on you significantly?I don’t mean to sound blase about it - but I don’t really think about it that much. I love design and it’s great that I get invited to some amazing places and people are interested

enough in what I do to want me there. But I truly believe it hasn’t changed me as person in the slightest.

The commissions have come from some major brands. Do you retain predominant creative control in any of these projects?It all depends entirely on the brief and size of the job. Generally the big advertising work is a harder sell for everybody involved, so there has to a certain amount of compromise from everybody for things to run as smoothly as possible.

Do you feel it is important to give lectures on your professional experi-ences, such as you do at the Leeds art college?I try and just be as truthful as possible when giving lectures regarding my experiences - honesty is always the best policy!


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Style plays a prominent role in your pieces. How do you balance substance with style, and do you hold one in higher regards?I have a constant struggle with this all the time! My work at college was very concept driven and this was the most important factor - where as now it is very style driven. I totally admit that - I find it a bit more creative just to let loose and not get bogged down too much in the so called rules of design but then I am constantly questioning myself and what it is I am trying to achieve? I think on a whole I want to make whatever I do as stunning and beautiful as possible.

Do you think consistency within style necessitates successful work?I’m definitely on the fence with that one - can’t decide?

Was there a particular piece of your work that thrust you into the art and design world?I don’t think so - I think every piece you work on appeals to some people and not to others - You can’t please all the people all the time.

Did you find the transition from student to designer difficult?At first yeah. I went to a college that was all about the cre-ativity and not the boring side of design,like how to use a computer. I left college not knowing how to make a PDF! Any design company worth its salt will look for a junior designer with strong ideas rather than technical ability - and fortunately for me I found one. If you can think and solve problems, all the other stuff will come with time.

Can you explain your working meth-odology? Is it 9-5? Or do you endorse a more fluid approach?It’s never 9-5. I think in this industry there’s no such thing - you never switch off. It’s not a job when you clock out at night and that’s it - you stop thinking about it. There’s always something to think about, something to draw etc... It’s a lifestyle not a job for me (without meaning to sound like a wanker!).

Is there a personal project that you are particularly pleased with? Unfortunately I haven’t had chance to do any personal work for a while - I think I am quite lucky as a lot of the work I get lets me be on the whole pretty creative! On saying that - I am still pleased with the type based stuff I produced whilst at college.

You have just opened a store in Leeds city centre. Can you explain its concept and your involvement?I’ve known Steve Banks (Electronic Poet - Owner / Founder) for years , we used to work together in the shops around Leeds city centre. I didn’t see him for a good 5-6 years when I got an email from him after one of his colleagues had seen my work in an exhi-bition. He asked me to get involved with EP on the design side - about a year after, Steve came up with the idea for opening a lifestyle store. I was introduced to Jules Balchin who is the store manager and curator. My role in the store is branding and Tea and biscuits.

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What is Paper Scissor Stone?It’s a store in Leeds by clothing label Electronic Poet, illustrator Si Scott and art curator Jules Balchin. Over the years the three of us have worked on dif-ferent projects and have been inspired from travelling and have seen how other artists, brands and shops work on different levels and this store is a culmination of our favourite things that we believe in. What is Electronic Poet?Electronic Poet is a clothing brand which started two years ago and was born out of the thriving clubbing scene in Leeds. The brand’s inspiration and name comes from those DJ’s, bands, record labels and club nights who cre-ate through electronic means. The label has grown pretty quickly and is now stocked in all three Selfridges and cool indies in the UK and Europe. Are artists commissioned to do prints for the EP label?Yes we get artists to come and work on the graphics for the label as we now consider graphic designers and illustrators to be electronic poets too! This started when our friend Si Scott designed the techno tree for us which was really popular, we then thought why not get other artists involved and let them design some tees too. Coming up we have work from Anthony Burrill, No Days Off and of course Si Scott What sort of backgrounds do yourself and your colleagues have?Jules studied Art at Leeds University and has been an art curator for a gal-lery down in London before heading back to Leeds for the start of Paper Scis-sor Stone. Steve from Electronic Poet started working in the music business in Ibiza back in ‘98, this led on to promoting some of the world’s biggest DJ’s and dance acts before starting the musically inspired Electronic Poet. Si is an illustrator who is in big demand and whose work is recognized all around the World, he has worked with big name brands such as Nike, Orange,

Adidas and Wallpaper to name a few and gives talks around the World about his unique style. Can you tell me briefl y about the artists whose work is sold in Paper scissor Stone?We have Anthony Burrill who originally studied here in Leeds, he has a direct style which stems from his appreciation for simplicity. Anthony has also done campaigns for playstation and the London underground, and as well as with paper scissor stone and colette in Paris Alex Trochut is a freelance graphic designer who loves type and il-lustration he prefers not to have a preference and believes “more is more” Alex has done the cover art for faber & faber he has also done the Cover Lettering for the Rolled Gold PLUS Album of the Rolling Stones. We also have art by Si Scott, Steven Wilson, Rose stallard, Revenge is sweet and No Days Off. All prints are signed and comes with a certifi -cate of authenticity How, if at all, does the store help aspiring creative stu-dents?As well as publishing new art work from our resident artists we are look-ing to get some great exhibitions instore, we are also looking to offer intermships so the local students can get some work experience in various fi elds such as photography for our website, general help for EP from the fashion side of things and help with the art gallery learning how to ex-hibit shows ect. We will also have live drawing sessions with our artists and get them in to do talks so they can interact with the students.

For now you can check us out at our Blog www.paper-scissor-stone-store.blogspot.com

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LARKIN

SKY God bless the internet. The settler of countless bets in-volving trivial tid bits of general knowledge, provider of all things porn and fetish and the catalyst for a whole array of bands and artists that would otherwise remain confined to the bedrooms from whence they came. And

to that group we can now add Sky Larkin. Katie, Nestor and Douglas. “We did some demos in an indistrial estate in Bradford and i just put them on MySpace and never really thought any-one would be that interested” explains Katie eagerly over the phone the day before jetting off to tour Europe. A lot has changed over the 18 months that the band have existed in the current format in Leeds. Now signed to Wichita, Sky Larkin can call Bloc Party their label mates and their new album ‘Golden Spike’ has been released to some wholly positive critical acclaim.

The band flew to the states to record the album at Death Cab for Cutie’s studio in Seattle with John Goodmanson (Pavement/Sleater-Kinney/The Blood Brothers) and have come home with a debut lit-tered with indie-pop sing-a-longs that will surely propel Katie and co to a new stage of the fledgling career. Singles ‘Beeline’ and ‘Fossil, I’ are indicators of what to expect from the album as a whole and should be the first port of call to get an indea of Sky Larkin’s sugary snaps of bubbly indie sound. Take it from us, you’ll be singing these for days.

But we wanted to know about the band’s roots. ‘We’re part of a Leeds family tree really’ explains Katie. “Leeds is genuinely an extended group of friends”. And this is something the band hold dear. At their recent homecoming show at the Brudenell as part of the ‘Huw Stephens introducing’ tour, Katie tells the crowd that “they say it takes a village to raise a child, well, Leeds is that village and we’re that child.” This nod to the city which nurtured them was preceeded by thank yous to Nous Vous and local label Dance to the Radio. “Nous vous have done alot of our artwork. If you dont do your own artwork then i think its important to have people around that know you and can represent you correctly. it is nice to have that luxury of someone who knows your character. It feels more genuine.” The evening ended with half of support act and local boys Pulled Apart by Horses joining Sky Larkin on stage to deliver ‘Beeline’ with gang-like vigour.

‘Golden Spike’ is what will drive the band on further in the months to come, starting in Europe and then on to America. The name comes from the writings of American artist, Robert Smithson who wrote about the American East coast and West coast rail workers who, when they met and the finally con-quered the continent, drove a golden spike into the rail road to signify this achievement. “This album is our Golden Spike in a sense, its what holds us together.” But that is where the metaphor ends. They havn’t yet conquered anything at all. But they just might.


liamHENRYLARKIN

Origins and Evolution JORDAN AMER


The first pictograms that evolved into the first Phonecian letter ALEPH and eventually our letter A had the form of a bull or an ox. Drawn rather realistically, the animal was represented either in its entirety or simply by the outline of its head.

In the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet, around 1700 BCE it appeared in this form. Later simplifi-cations present the head simply as a triangle on point with horns protruding above. During the eleventh century BCE, the Phone-cians rotated the glyph 90 degrees, with the animals horns now facing right.

The letter A may also be related to another character from the Egyptian hieroglyphic al-phabet, the vulture. Early on, the sign transcribed the sound of the liquid consonants ‘R’ and ‘L’. It’s sound became increasingly shortened over time resulting from the movement of glottis, and today the vulture hieroglyph corresponds to the sound conventionally noted as ‘a’.

The use of the glottis, the first letter of the word aleph, is constructed on the consonant base [‘lj]. Written in Hebrew this word means “cow”, “bull” or large livestock.”

As we can see, the Phonecian letter ALEPH is named after the word for which it is an initial and is pronounced as the first phoneme of that word. This principle of naming letters is called acrophonic principle (from the Greek

akros, “edge”The Greeks, whose language contains more vocal variations than semitic languages do, used the sign of the phone-cian guttural aleph, turned another 90 de-grees, to represent a vowel in their alphabet. Passing from Phonecian into Greek, letters’ names typically were only slightly altered. Thus the Semitic ALEPH became the Greek Alpha the basis for our word alphabet.

The capital A in Latin alphabets is based on the shape of the Greek letter. In certain scripts, such as QUADRATA and RUSTICA, this letter was drawn without a crossbar con-necting its two upstrokes, more closely re-sembling the Greek LAMBDA. Today, it still appears in the form of an up-side down V in certain typefaces.

Its simple and natural pronunciation requires no particular articulation. This is why it was baptised “the baby’s vowel”.In Hinduism and Budhism the letter A is the basis for the mantra that encompasses the whole range of vibrations from the first chakra to the last: It contains fundamental energies that allow for the spirit to be el-evated. The attributes given to the letter A also correspond to those associated with the colour black which absorbs every colour in the luminous spectrum.

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alw

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been

; and

to h

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self

the

happ

iest

girl

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orld

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nee

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dre

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f lov

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had

foun

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cons

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mitt

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des

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ete

cont

entm

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drift

ed o

ff…

*sna

p*

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light

dis

turb

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in th

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rrou

ndin

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ea s

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ntire

bod

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to a

rigi

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ten

and

gent

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no fu

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from

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ten

seco

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had

pas

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she

was

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pres

sion

that

she

had

in fa

ct im

agin

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was

righ

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do

so.

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was

una

war

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how

long

she

had

bee

n hi

ding

, it s

eem

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ke h

ours

- it

had

in fa

ct o

nly

been

46

min

utes

to b

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ecis

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sues

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ddre

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need

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onte

mpl

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ywhe

re e

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fain

test

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ouch

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pas

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licat

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perc

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itsel

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utst

retc

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hand

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tiny

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ting

like

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rum

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ast h

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aze

over

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tiny

body

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pon

dere

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her

self

wha

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be

like

to fl

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abl

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take

up

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oder

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pace

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ap a

pai

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ings

and

soa

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o th

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ther

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no li

mits

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lur o

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pt s

wift

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per i

nto

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mak

eshi

ft be

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leav

es. S

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trugg

led

brie

fly, b

ut it

was

sho

rt liv

ed…

she

was

resi

gned

to th

e fa

ct th

at

any

effo

rt sh

e ex

erte

d w

ould

wea

ken

her a

ttem

pts

of e

scap

e at

a p

ossi

ble

late

r ope

ning

if it

aro

se. H

e du

g hi

s fin

gers

into

her

ribs

, and

tick

led

her u

ntil

she

crie

d in

sub

mis

sion

. Som

ehow

thou

gh s

he c

augh

t hi

m o

ff gu

ard

and

the

tabl

es tu

rned

, as

she

tickl

ed h

im h

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t his

lip…

desp

erat

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t to

emit

his

fam

ed

laug

h sh

e ha

d gr

own

so fo

nd o

f. Su

ch a

n at

tem

pt w

as in

vai

n. A

fter a

ll of

her

ene

rgy

had

been

spe

nt,

they

lay

toge

ther

. Mom

ents

late

r she

feig

ned

mov

emen

t, re

sulti

ng in

the

both

of t

hem

dar

ting

in o

p-po

site

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ctio

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nly

to s

imul

tane

ously

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h do

wn

to th

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or, t

urn

swift

ly o

n th

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eet a

nd ru

n ba

ck

tow

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eac

h ot

her a

rms

flaili

ng th

row

ing

clus

ters

of l

eave

s…th

is c

ontin

ued

for s

ome

time.

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in th

ey c

olla

psed

to th

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or o

nly

this

tim

e in

fits

of l

augh

ter,

too

tired

to c

ontin

ue b

ut n

ot n

early

tir

ed e

noug

h…w

ith th

eir r

emai

ning

ene

rgy

they

cra

wle

d th

e di

stan

ce b

etw

een

them

and

afte

r cat

chin

g ba

ck th

eir b

reat

h, c

atch

ing

each

oth

ers

eye

and

read

ing

its e

xpre

ssio

n…pl

aced

thei

r lip

s to

geth

er, a

sw

eet r

ewar

d af

ter a

har

d fo

ught

bat

tle.

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ly th

ey tr

aips

ed b

ack

thro

ugh

the

woo

ds to

war

ds th

eir r

emot

e co

ttage

with

the

whi

te p

icke

t fen

ce,

and

fres

hly

plan

ted

vege

tabl

e pa

tch

to th

e re

ar. H

ow a

nyon

e co

uld

desi

re th

e A

mer

ican

dre

am w

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they

wer

e so

dee

ply

in lo

ve w

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ery

own

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ish

drea

m w

as b

eyon

d th

em, t

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dn’t

ask

for

mor

e. M

akin

g th

eir w

ay b

ack,

in ti

me

foot

step

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unch

ed o

n th

e lo

ose

twig

s of

the

fore

st fl

oor a

nd fl

at-

tene

d th

e oc

casi

onal

fern

. He

mad

e he

r clo

se h

er e

yes

and

pluc

ked

a sm

all s

elec

tion

of w

inte

r flow

ers

loos

ely

root

ed in

the

soft

dirt,

he

gent

ly re

mov

ed a

scu

rryi

ng b

eetle

, and

pre

sent

ed th

em to

her

in a

nea

t ar

rang

emen

t. A

s th

ey n

eare

d th

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ge o

f the

woo

ds, t

hey

look

ed b

ack

fille

d w

ith fo

nd m

emor

ies

that

th

e da

y ha

d br

ough

t the

m. A

s th

ey b

egan

the

final

ste

ps, t

he c

ount

ry h

ouse

was

del

icat

ely

illum

inat

ed

in fr

ont o

f a b

urni

ng s

kylin

e…its

vib

rant

reds

and

ora

nges

cas

t a s

omew

hat m

ystic

al g

low

on

the

woo

dlan

ds to

the

rear

.

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ent

ered

thro

ugh

the

smal

l woo

den

door

, pla

ced

the

flow

er a

rran

gem

ent i

n a

vase

on

the

livin

g ro

om ta

ble,

and

scu

rrie

d st

raig

ht th

roug

h to

the

kitc

hen

whe

re a

com

forti

ng s

ourc

e of

war

mth

was

es

capi

ng fr

om. T

hey

sat o

n tw

o m

atch

ing

woo

den

chai

rs w

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atch

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ushi

ons

in fr

ont o

f the

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burn

an

d pr

oppe

d th

eir l

egs

on fo

otst

ools

idea

lly p

ositi

oned

for t

he w

arm

ing

of fe

et.

As

she

took

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han

d in

her

s, h

e to

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er in

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rt an

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ood

to p

ut th

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ttle

on.

tonyPR

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ryanSPACEY


True love.I never actually avowed that I loved her, although I did buy her a green friendship bracelet andtied it with a double knot.Well...I use the word ‘buy’ loosely, perhaps I won itin the arcades, which would go someway to vindicating her anticlimactic repost of“thank you, it’s very nice.”I wasn’t oblivious,but instead, tolerant.

Ah, true love at last.

joelGALVINarticulatemagazine.org

timGR

EENarticulatemagazine.org

joelGALVIN

liamHENRY

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ased

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coo

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-al

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oing

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see

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park

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don

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gh, b

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abou

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our

van

bei

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you

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lan

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l ou

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mes

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end

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shou

ld b

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ally

coo

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like

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them

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hope

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at’s

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s ao

, th

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’ve

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ce.

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y h

igh

ligh

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ear?

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as

sick

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in H

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nd

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man

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as

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And

pla

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Kok

o in

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was

pre

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un t

oo.

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know

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t’s a

ll be

en p

retty

w

icke

d th

is p

ast y

ear..

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g to

geth

er

as

a ba

nd,

play

ing

show

s, w

ritin

g ne

w

song

s,

reco

rdin

g,

it’s

all

been

goo

d. I

’m j

ust

exci

ted

abou

t nex

t yea

r!

No

wor

ries.

Mat

t B.

DINOSAUR PILE UP2009 is made for Dinosaur Pile up. In times like these, what everyone needs is a good old back to basics, no bullshit rock n’ roll band to let us vent our fustrations at jibbering bankers, lack of prospects and the price of bread. Conditions are surely perfect for a revival of balls-out guitar driven bands with massive riffs and sing along anthems. And with this wall of noise surely to assault and liberate our ears in the coming months, Dinosaur Pile up will no doubt be amongst the riders of the crest. We had a chat with founder and frontman Matt Bigland to talk about past, present and the promise of 2009.

jonathanMARTIN

callumTOY

At HeptonstallI want to be something other

than a tourist,with visiting grief.

A man straightens upfrom the grave

of his wife

and knows what I’m looking for.

The weather’s bright;too simple for September

and I don’t expect the headstone,

white and square.

the wind singsin all the trees

I have no flowers, dimes, not even a gesture.

the man stoops again,

trims the grass on the plotuntil it is perfect.

susannahEV

ANS

carolineDICKINSON


joel GALVINarticulatemagazine.org

Hang the Dj? That seems a tad strong Morrissey, but I take your point. These songs today do say very little to me about my life. But to be fair (and begrudgingly cliche), music is the product of its generation. Even if not intentionally, it reflects the conditions within which it was fashioned.

Therefore, with this in mind, I for one would find it tricky to lay total blame upon our current string of young upstarts who have taken it as their charge to give voice to our experiences in modern era Britain. They are, after all, just giving honest accounts of the mild tribulations which season their young lives and ours too. Can you believe, for example, that at one lowly point of The View’s Kyle Falconer’s life, he had to wear the same pair of jeans for three days straight! The horror. And many other have felt it neccessary to articulate similarly, shall we say, melodramatic life ‘isues’ through the medium of song. Some of our fair nation’s significant success stories over recent

years have told tales of pulling birds, getting messy and the like. It has been a soundtrack of vices and hedonism.

At best there have been moments where the focus has been on the mudance. The Kooks, The Pigeon Detectives, Jamie T, Kate Nash and the like all spring to mind as pin-ups of the NME faithful who have all been guilty of choosing some strickingly dull topics of discourse.

Nevertheless, I must refrain from tarnishing an entire industry with the same brush and I openly admit to generalising. Also I must confess that I have enjoyed scores of recent music. The Streets and The Arctic Monkeys are two decent examples of bands with a rare nack for transforming that which is boring into something engrossing with impressive satire and humour. And there are more too. But they are the minority. And there are also artists which have had important things to say but they too have struggled to be heard over the drone of the mainstream.

However, times are a changing, and so surely must our nation’s creative musical output. We are in a recession apparently. A ‘crisis’ no less. And just

as a comfortable economic climate gave rise to a generation of pleasure seekers, more troubled times will no doubt bare a new generation with something to shout about. For all the problems and challenges that we will inevitably face as our economy coughs and splutters its way through this illness, we must hold hope of a resergence in substance over style.

In decades gone by, such social conditions have spawned many artists with something significant to say. The Smiths, The Clash, The Specials, Pink Floyd, Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel etc. If music is a product of society, a changing society will produce a shift in focus for musical content. I can’t wait. If not, then maybe Sarah Cox might have something to be a tad concerned about.

HANG THE DJ?

jonathanMARTIN

PSL [Project Space Leeds] is an independent, artist-led contem-porary art space. Based in the city centre, PSL stages exhibi-tions of modern and contempo-rary art across all art forms, and shows work by artists from the UK and abroad.

Morphic ResonanceOur next project is Morphic Resonance which will run from 25 March - 27 June 2009. More information to follow soon...

PSL [Project Space Leeds]Whitehall Waterfront, 2 Riverside Way, Leeds, LS1 4EH, [email protected]+44 (0)7930 236383


Jerwood Photography Awards 2008The five winners of the Jerwood Photography Awards : the most prestigious competition for photographic work by recent graduates from the UK, will be exhibited at Impressions Gallery.

Impressions GalleryCentenary Square, BD1 1SD08450 515 882

Tues-Fri 11am-6pm, Thurs 11am-8pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm,

Tue 27 Jan - Sun 29 Mar Free

www.impressions-gallery.com

tick circles upon completion.

Bad Sneakers Feat. Filthy Dukes & Chew LipsFilthy Dukes are celebrating the release of their debut album, Nonsense in the Dark in February and are on tour with Secret Machines before coming along to headline Bad Sneakers and they’re certainly bringing the party. They have in the past been a DJ duo of Ollie and Tim, but they’re performing live with their new third member Mark, and they’re also bringing a ton of old synths, and will be performing their album tracks as well as a host of their remixes.

The Faversham, 21st March10.00pm - 3.00am£6 Advance

www.filthydukes.com

British Wildlife

presents its third noble crusade, bringing people together through the medium of noise. Ranging from post-rock & new wave to free-jazz, the festival promises to be a truly colourful weekend showcasing not only a selection of Leeds’ finest bands, but also some of the more obscure acts from all over Britain, USA & Japan. With over 20 bands in one weekend taking place between two extremely friendly and renowned venues, The Brudenell Social Club & The Royal Park Cellars, this is a must for any fans of experimental & alternative music.

The Festival will also showcase an extensive array of Arts & Crafts, Photography, Gig Posters & illustrations all by local artists.

Brudenell Social Club & Royal Park Cel-lars LeedsSaturday 28th March - Sunday 29th March


Emerging Artists Awards 2009The ‘artsmix* Emerging Artists Awards’ will be held on Thursday 2nd April. This promises to be a great night of celebration and entertainment and is well supported by the business community. Full details of the event will be posted nearer the time, however entry submissions from as many artists as possible in all three award categories are needed. Please note the winners’ prizes go much further than just recognition of your great achievements and will undoubtedly help your development too.

Emerging Artists Awards 2009 artsmix* are proud to host the 2009 Emerging Artists Awards. The Awards Evening will be held at the Loft on Thursday Evening 2nd April.

The Emerging Artists Awards are open to all artists, designers and craft makers who are:• artsmix* members• artsmix* enterprises• or have participated in at least one artsmix* market / gallery @the Loft or /& other market in 2008.

The Loft, Thursday evening, 2nd April.

Gonzo : The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S ThompsonThe life of the legendary journalist who coined the term ‘Gonzo’ comes under the microscope in this fascinating documentary by Alex Gibney (ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM). Dr Hunter S. Thompson is a natural subject for a documentary film. His status within American counter-culture and his reputation as the chronicler of the times mixed with his endless excesses of drink and drugs ensure that any filmmaker would have enough colourful material to work with. Gibney’s film leaves no doubt about Thompson’s talent as a writer and Johnny Depp provides the readings of his work. It also does not shy away from his self-destructive nature.

Dir. Alex Gibney

From 31st January - 26th April @ Hyde Park Picture House

RiP: A Remix ManifestoRiP: A remix manifesto is a polemical exploration of copyright issues in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film stars chart-topping mash-up musician Girl Talk: is he the paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage for anyone to remix. Followed by a DJ set by Matt Bradshaw (Jumbo Records). In association with the cutting edge Pigs club night at the HiFi, which will incorporate a selection of sample based mayhem. Free entry for anyone who attends the film screening.

Tuesday 28th April 2009Tuesday 28th April. 7.30pm Admission: £5 / £3.50

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