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01 CULTURE MAGAZINE February 2010 p6 FEBRUARY 2010 / Issue NO. 1 Photos by Big Dré [email protected] p2 Co-founder / Editor Big Dré Contents Co-founder / Creative Nash Contributing Writers Monisha Schoeman GRAPHIC DESIGN ARTICLES VERSE 2 . Gavin Bloys - Digital Sneaker Pimp 12 . Monisha Schoeman - Inside Job 19 . The Verse Zenaida Martin Gifted graphic designer Gavin aka Spike outs his vector Simon Witbooi gets the verse for our inaugural issue, sneakers to the world. 15 . Zenaida Martin - Women are he explains his thoughts to Word Up readers 4 . Dennis Ridiculous Cowards EVENTS: 2009 RETROSPECTIVE Cover contains illustration . While trawling through tons of fonts, a special typeface 20 . More dusty than digital: The 21 Highlights from 2009 by Dennis Ridiculous p4 caught our attention and so did its creator. 3S.O.M.E. Kool Out Live. Urban Street Convention. sample section - What is the sample Hip Hop Museum. DMC SA Finals. P.U.T.S. MUSIC section? 6 . Feature: Pespektif gives us some David Axelrod is the featured artist of this section. ANIMATION Hip-hop artist Perspektif gives us the low down on his career Who is he and why did we feature him? 23 . The future is now and mixtape. GRAFFITI IN EVERY ISSUE FINE ART 13 . Book Pieces 1 . Letter from the Editor 8 . Leon Botha - Liquid Swordsman Where do graff writers keep all their ideas? Don't be fooled by his diminutive size, dynamite comes 24 . Movie Reviews in small packages as they say. Check out Leon's canvases 14 . KELP.cl taking inspiration from the elements of Hip-hop culture Graphic designer/graffiti writer KELP shows us how the 25 . Music Reviews and spirituality. two disciplines merge. 26 . In the Mix 10 . Gary Frier - Frier’s Art PHOTOGRAPHY Mixed media: stenciling meets fine art. 16 . Barriers Pictures by Big Dré EDITOR’S LETTER “It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up magazine” - Notorious BIG's opening line from 'Juicy' What’s the Word good people? We hope that you will assist us in promoting What you are reading is the inaugural issue of an your varied talents so don't be shy to submit your eZine that exposes talent from both South Africa work. We welcome all contributions (music, and abroad. The ones who operate, not necessarily photographs, paintings, graphic art, poetry and underground but beneath the radar. articles) to the various categories. We're also creating a classified section where you can make I've always believed that the Cape is a hotbed of readers aware of your business/service/skill. talented artists, most of whom don't have access to the resources and publicity that would allow So yes, the editor of this here online free-zine them to elivate from obscurity. For some reason doesn't get paid. The same goes for everyone they are being overlooked. else who contributed to this historic first issue. We don't have sponsors or advertising but we Big Dré The question though is, how do you expose your are working toward changing that. For now, Thirty-something Hip-hop DJ, ex-radio show host, part-time music talent when you don't have money to buy ad what we do have is a belief in our talent and writer (and self professed music geek) space or pay for a feature in established magazines? loads of passion to promote various forms of Answer: You find ways to do your own thing! artistic expression and the people who practise it. If you or anyone else you may know is talented, spread the This will require you to put your money where Showcase your skill and if you enjoy reading magazine and the word. We welcome all submissions (photos, your mouth is. In our case we started our own this, please share this with your friends. graffiti, design, fine art, tattoo art, music for reviews, etc.) magazine: Word Up eZine. This first issue has taken lots of blood, sweat and tears, mostly It's no longer just a dream. Thank you for your Please help us make it easier to expose your art. Send all submissions due to the fact that we had to produce it under support and submissions, let's see where this and info on upcoming events to: our own steam. Not that we didn't ask for can go! [email protected] assistance, but you know how it goes when there's Sign up for the eZine by typing 'subscribe' in the subject line and no cheddar involved. Onward and upward! emailing it to [email protected] Submissions: Artwork – high resolution PDFs or medium to high resolution The views expressed in Word Up eZine are those of the respective contributors and not necessarily shared by the eZine and its staff. (150 to 300 dpi) RGB Jpegs. Word Up eZine welcomes new contributions, but assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, illustrations, etc. Articles – 300 to 500 words in a Microsoft Word document. Word Up eZine is produced by Word Up Productions CC. 1 GRAPHIC DESIGN 2 Gavin Bloys is a skilled art director and graphic designer and at the BASE [historical Hip-hop venue]. Hip-hop was a growing Your favourite food? has 9 years agency experience in South Africa and abroad. This movement in Cape Town and graffiti was one of its elements. Chicken tikka masala motivated individual, below-the-line specialist and international It was lettering, choice of colour and the idea of putting up pieces Japanese beef teriyaki award winning creative shares more about himself with us: that influenced me to do graffiti. Later I studied graphic design Your favourite movie? What's the story with the sneakers, why did you and art direction and went on to work in advertising. Photography This is a difficult one, I've got a few: choose to illustrate sneakers? was also part of the syllabus and it was an amazing medium to Hardboiled (John woo) Sneakers have a close history with Hip-hop in general from MC's document Hip-hop. Old boy (Park Chan-Wook) to B-boying. I like the different textures, materials and reflective What’s your favourite anime movie/series? Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai) surfaces on sneakers, especially the colours and designs. Also, Robotech (called Macross in Japan) Your favourite sneaker brand? they've evolved into collector's items over the years with limited Your favourite movie for 2009? Puma, for their creative flair. edition pairs being launched by various brands. District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp Where can we see more of your work? How did you get into graphic design and photography? Crows Zero directed by Takashi Miike not too sure if this came out http://rgbe.blogspot.com I was introduced to graffiti around '88-'89, when I started clubbing in 2009 but I watched it last year. twitter.com/gavinbloys 3 What is your real name? Who is the character that you draw in I always use my nickname... I wanna be a the font? mysterious artist... :) all my friends call me His name is BICLO... it's a combination of the Dennis Ridiculous so you can call me Dennis words: BIg and CycLOp.. lol... Ridiculous and I'm sorry I can't tell you my real name... I've hidden it... Why does the character have an eye for a face? How old are you? I don't know why... I just draw what comes to I'm 21 years old now. mind... and I got that character... :) What country are you from? Tell us about him/her? I'm from Indonesia, Bogor utara Tanah Baru It is male... but he's an alien... so he can change West Java. the gender like an amoeba... hehe. What kind of music, videos, books, When did you start to draw this manga or anime are you interested in? character and why? I like a lot of music like: melodic, metal, hardcore, I started this character when I was at Junior dennis punk, alternative, etc. I also like skate videos high school and I refined it so much, but only and read some design magazines and comics. finalized the character when I graduated from high school. Why did you use the name Ridiculous Arts? Why did you put it on dafont.com where Because I like the word 'Ridiculous', so I used everyone can download it for free? ridiculous as my nickname and for my art... :) Because I want to introduce my character to the world... so everybody will know about BICLO! ridiculous How long have you been designing? It's been 5 years... from 2005, I learned the basics of design from my friends. Where did you study/are you still studying? I have graduated from high school in Bogor West Java and until now I've been learning techniques from tutorials on the internet at Otodidak. (Indonesia Cyber Community of Computer and Graphic Design) I'm learning more about design because I want to become an expert... and like a famous and great artist!.. because I like ART very much!.. :) View more Ridiculous arts at: http://ridiculousarts.deviantart.com/ www.facebook.com/RidiculousArts 4 5 FEATURE For those who don’t know you, can you What can people expect in terms of style? introduce yourself and tell them something Well firstly people can expect honesty and about your career so far? vulnerability as well as a lot of storytelling. Some Hi, my name is Perspektif, an MC from a small battle rhymes as well but that's not what I'm place in the Northern Suburbs called Northpine.