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BORNEISSUE 005 FREE Contents issue five. 3 Contributors The mag doesn’t make itself, you know 72 Dangereusement à la Mode, Photography: Anna Isola Crolla 4 Borne... Human 84 Tunes Introducing Taco, Rocco’s mate. Seriously. 5 Masthead A tiny window into our office 90 Boo, you whore! Oh oh... she’s got a logo! 5 What we’ve been up to... when we should have known better 6 Check this out Humans are weird 12 Keep it in the family, Photography: Darran Barton 14 Our man Sam in... Malawi. Words: Sam Mayer Katy Smail, Illustrator/Photographer, Summer of Love Katy Smail makes us wish the sun always shone Sam Mayer, 16 Summer of Love. Writer, Our man Sam in Malawi. Katy’s a new friend. A The best things in life are free Look, look, we’re not the only ones doing it! new friend for summer. 18 Our good friend Sam hit the Her pictures make us roads and once again found feel fuzzy. Hmmm... 20 Jen Stark When does obsession become art? Take a look. himself in a part of the world on my top 100 places I don’t Contributors 24 Ian Sturrock He could bench press our office... no, really, he could. really want to go... Anna Isola Crolla, 28 Ideal Human Our fav illustrators give us theirs Photographer, Good Wives and Warriors, Dangereusement à la Mode Emma McCorquodale A whole lot of knit with no help from Nancy Illustrators, & Feline Frenzy. 33 Ideal Human. Not only did Anna hit us A few issues ago we featured with one fantastic shoot, she 34 Make it stop, Words: Iain Nevill a cool exhibit at the warehouse pulled out all the stops with organised by GWAW and two! She’s on fire!! White Men Can’t Jump, Photography: Wes Kingston when we needed some great 38 illustrations we knew exactly who to call. Becky and Louise 44 French girls do it best, Words: Lindsay Lees collaborated across the Atlantic and we love the result! 48 Feline Frenzy, Photography: Anna Isola Crolla 56 Fragile Beauty, Beauty: Ana Cruzalegui Art Direction: Lindsay Lees 62 Annie’s Gonna Beat Your Face And your bikini line too... Married a Witch, Photography: Milda Vasiliauskaite Illustrated inside covers Good Wives and Warriors www.goodwivesandwarriors.co.uk 64 Photo Armando Ferrari Borne Magazine Founders Iain Nevill and Lindsay Lees We’re all just people. And we like people. In fact, we’d go as far as to say Editor in Chief we’re pro-people. People do interesting stuff, creative stuff, weird stuff, Iain Nevill wonderful stuff. We’re not going to get all heavy on you and hit you with some [email protected] humanitarian issues, we just want you to take a moment, have a look around and appreciate that person sitting next to you. Fashion Editor Lindsay Lees We’re all just Borne Human. [email protected] Assistant to Iain Nevill and Lindsay Lees Carrie Cat Beauty Editor Ana Cruzalegui [email protected] Advertising C’mon, own up, who’s been sun burnt already? C’mon, don’t [email protected] lie, get that hand up. Don’t feel bad, Carrie’s still wandering Music around the office with bright red ears... Apart from trying to Rocco Giudice soak up every stray ray of sun going, since we last spoke we’ve Gavin Cumine Taco shown Edinburgh how to party at a Havana Club night; we’ve Iain Nevill made some serious shapes at Huntley & Palmer’s Audio club at Stereo - one of our favourite new venues; we got in touch with Contributors Armando Ferrari, Anna Isola Crolla, Michael Mathieson, our feminine side at the Romeo & Juliet rehearsal - courtesy of Danni Carr, Sam Mayer, Wes Kingston, Josie Smith, Gavin the Scottish Ballet; met Q. Burns at funky new hangout, the Bier Cumine, Katy Smail, Hamish Carruthers, Kate Dalzell, Beverly McColgan, Milda Vasiliauskaite, Juhee C, Pearl Hof on Sauchiehall Street; got glammed up for the Sex & the City Kwok, Gary Lees screening - courtesy of Cruise; witnessed the best sticker we’ve seen in a long time (above) and boogied to 5am at Freeform Five in Bamboo... Quite frankly it’s all been a bit much. Oh, and Cover Image just to ice the cake we witnessed (eavesdropped on) the best Mr & Mrs Borne. Mask created by Ana Cruzalegui. conversation we’ve ever heard in a girl’s toilet: Borne Magazine is basically owned and run by Iain Airhead One: “I’m so not going to kiss him this time.” and Lindsay. If you want to advertise with us, submit Airhead Two: “You so are, he’s quite cute.” something or have anything on your mind worth sharing just contact one of us at the email addresses above or call AH One: “No, I’m not!” us on 00 44 141 552 1092. AH Two: “Oh go on, just go for it.” AH One: “No way, not again!” AH Two: “Oh just do it, I’ll buy you a double.” AH Three: “Yeah, do it, do it!” AH One: “Oh my God, nooo!” AH Two: “I’ll buy you two doubles.” AH One: “Ok then.” AH Two: “We need to buy those boys a round anyway.” Delivery: Borne Magazine is distributed throughout AH One: “Why?” Glasgow and London by Door to Door Delivery AH Two: They bought us one. AH One: “So?” AH Two: “Well, we need to be nice to them and buy them one back because we are nice.” AH One: “Yeah, but not that nice.” Printed: Printall AS, Estonia All unsolicited material submitted for publication in Borne must be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope if it is to be returned. Borne does not accept any liability for material lost for any unsolicited material whatsoever. The entire content is copyright of Borne Magazine and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole without written www.bornemagazine.com authorisation by us. So don’t even try it. BORNE | 5 Check this out. Sébastien Tellier... Eurovision.... Whit?? Borne human? A digital artist from Pixeloo has easily earned himself the title of Photoshop Don, with his amazing renders of Mario and Homer using a whole bunch of real people. See what happens if we take this whole human thing that little bit too far? You end up watching a coked up freak drink Duff and helping a creepy paedo save a princess. Human ain’t always great, huh? Photo Jasmine Fitzwilliam “Waiter, waiter, there’s a fucking Giant Japanese Hornet in my honey.” “Hmm... Well, I guess you’ll be benefiting from its stamina and energy levels “Just let your Soooouuuuuuul Glo, that are supposed to be released into the nectar.” “Stamina? Energy? Are you baby, feel it all so silky smooth, just let fucking kidding me? Pass the Nutella.” “Here you go, sir.” “Cheers.” it shiiiine through, yeah. Just let your Sooooouuuuuuuuul Glooooooooo- www.edible.com ooooo. Soul Glo.” www.cultclassicts.com Us humans get ill every now and then and Shannon Gerard has decided to do A poster of Scarface on your bedroom wall isn’t something to help us out. Dinks and Boobs are hand crocheted, well, dinks and exactly going to make you the man but when boobs that not only help raise awareness of testicular and breast cancer but each you’ve a poster of Scarface made entirely of the one also comes with a little lump in it with instructions on how to find it and how to film’s script handwritten in different coloured perform the examination on yourself. felts then you’re suddenly talking a different kettle of fish. Don’t believe me? Trust me, no Available in four different colours each one costs just $25 Canadian, 5 of which one can help Where’s Wallying the entire bloody goes to the Cottage Dreams cancer charity. thing to find their favourite quotes. “Say hello to ma litow fwend”. Spotted. Check out www. www.shannongerard.org/books.htm lapopart.com for more. Zimbabwe releases the ten million dollar note worth a grand total of four bucks on the black market. Wow, Mugabe, I guess if you’re gonna really fuck a country, do it BORNE | 6 right, eh? This is the artwork of New Orleans based artist Dan Tague. He’s created these huge prints of folded bills that give alternate messages, (left: The American Idol, State of Fear) it’s all very political, don’t you know. Sure, it’s pretty cool but I had a shot with the fiver in my pocket and immediately came up with “Five Pounds Sterling”, “The Royal Bank of Scotland” and, get this, “1097455001”. Not so impressive now, huh? www.dantague.com Fairey does Orwell Help made cool. How better to get the yoof of today to read the classics and the stuffy old librarians to Help Remedies have only gone and appreciate the iconic art of Shepard Fairey? made your medicine cabinet a cool place The original guerrila artist produced these two to be. Sick of the brash, in your face, cool covers for Orwell’s Penguin Classics and packaging and presentation of most we love the fact that he managed to get the medicine they’ve come up with these Obey logo in there, too! damn cool alternatives for a headache or cut. The tablets contain “500mg of www.penguinclassics.co.uk acetaminophen” which they say is even better than Asprin or Ibuprofin and don’t come with any of the crazy dyes most do, “If you enjoy Red Dye #40, you’ll have to eat it separately”.