Racism Is a Joke by Asa Butcher
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the e-magazine issue 18 / 2006 “Only takes one tree to make 1,000 matches Only takes one match to Monthly and thematic publication of the burn a thousand trees” Ovi magazine - ‘A Thousand Trees’ by the Stereophonics Chameleon Project Tmi Issue 18 20th December 2006 Editors: T. Kalamidas - A. 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Comments How many dpi? CMYK or RGB? The first two years POSTS By Thanos Kalamidas comments Thinking of these two years of Ovi took us a few hours to recover and company of Jan Sand and his & magazine, it is like a great ad- nowadays every time we have a endless adventures of the mind. Two candles: Make a wish! venture of the mind and it might technical problem our motto is: a Most of all, it was the satisfaction By The Ovi Team sound like a cliché, but Ovi mag- week or a few seconds? of doing what we love most and azine is like a kid for me and its we have put a lot of effort into it. We have had some very difficult Two years old; can you believe it! Thanos and growth was just like a kid grow- moments as well that included This is a funny thing, through these Asa certainly can’t, which is why they have ing. personal attacks, such as “This is two years we have done a lot of produced this birthday issue PDF. One of the first meetings with just a hobby, when are you going things and added many new parts Asa and John talking about Ovi to grow up?” or even better, “Who in Ovi; from political, social, envi- Contained within these pages are all the covers and magazine was in my house with the hell do you think you are!” both ronmental and cultural articles to all the cover stories from our seventeen monthly is- my daughter being only a few coming from dwarves of a certain cartoons, short stories, poetry and sues of the Ovi magazine beginning back in De- days old. Actually, I have a photo degree of intelligence. They never photography, yet still we often feel cember 2004. This PDF is a stroll down memory lane, from that day with John looking stopped us. that we haven’t done as much as glimpses of the past, slices of nostalgia, well you get shocked and scared carrying a we wanted to and we still make the picture. baby so young. new plans all the time by coming theoretical being about time and since we had be- out with all sorts of ideas. This is fur- Ovi magazine has also become known for its outra- come so theoretical we dived into computers in is- Looking back over these two years ther proof of how much we love geous and innovative front covers, which is why for sue eleven. there have been many moments what we are doing. our second birthday issue we are honored to have when we were thrilled with our cre- one Miss Sarah Beetson design something out of the Our biggest improvement till now Controversy became a buzzword at Ovi maga- ation, there were moments when ordinary. zine, so issue twelve was about sexuality with some we were angry with the problems over these two years, with a lot of help from Tony Watts, was the very…interesting articles that made Asa’s mother a and there were other moments Sarah is an English fashion-based illustrator who lives bit worried! Issue thirteen was all about radio and in- which I can laugh at now, but ‘Daily Ovi magazine’ - a real test and works in Melbourne, Australia, and her work re- to our capabilities and will. Now in troduced Thanos and Asa’s Ovi Bad Boys Radio Show back then I was a nervous wreck. flects her energy and innovation. We are sure you that you can hear online via the special pages on its fourth month, it has been con- agree that the energy of Ovi has been captured One of the hilarious moments the Ovi magazine front page. necting us with more friends across sensationally in our front cover. Thanks again, Sarah! worth mentioning happened dur- the globe. You can see more of her work at www.illustrationweb. ing these days exactly two years Issue fourteen made us consider the difficulty of We have plans for the future, big com/SarahBeetson ago. After going to the provider In addition, we had to deal with keeping all our promises, since all the difficulties plans, but, after all, Ovi magazine with a CD with our new site and somebody who tried to steal the found us during that period, and issue fifteen tackled was never something small; one For the contents of the magazine we included the all the material, we found out that whole Ovi concept and we dis- boundaries because that is one of our biggest diffi- new concept and an old one to editorials from the very first issue that clearly express there is a technical problem that covered, even though he thought culties living as immigrants in a foreign country. Issue improve, plus to be more active. our dreams. The second issue was an alternative needed correcting otherwise no- he knows everything, that we had sixteen was dedicated to the people who worked so Ovi project is a result of our beliefs view of racism, followed by the third that was about body would be able to see the first idiotic copycats like Jone Nikula hard to copycat our ideas and finally our latest is- and ideals for which we stand, women’s power and life. Issue number four fea- issue. and his laughable attempt to imi- sue, number seventeen, was released just after we such as fighting racism, prejudice, tured crime, including genocide and wars, and then tate the whole Ovi concept. went daily; number 17 was a special for our blogger Asa and I stood lost in front of the domestic violence, environmental came the fifth about graduation, with articles about friends who help us so much. technician and his assistant who However, nothing can compare destruction, war and more. The education and mainly life after graduation. The sixth were trying to explain what we did with the joys Ovi magazine has other new concept…well, you will was about parenthood, since Asa had just become 17 cover stories, 17 covers, a few editorials and a few wrong and trying to find a solution given us. It’s not only the joy of know soon. a father and Thanos’ daughter was celebrating her special bits are contained within the pages of our when the assistant exclaims, “I got creation, it is not only the joy of first birthday. The seventh issue was about…luck! I can’t help comparing my daugh- birthday issue, so sit back and imagine Thanos and it!” Very seriously he turns to Asa knowledge and the recognition, ter with Ovi magazine, since they Asa blowing out the candles on their huge chocolate and I, then says, “There is a solution but it is the joy of getting to know Number eight was a pun with ‘ate’, so it was all about both started seeing the world and chip chocolate cake covered with chocolate icing but you have to take one very dif- people from all around the world, food, although we still have serious doubts whether still they walk around full of ques- discussing the next issue of Ovi’s monthly PDF…what ficult solution: you either change either from their writing or their anybody understood the joke; one thing for sure, tions for the unknown. They both will it be? every file yourselves, which will comments and mails. Sometimes many found it a taste issue. Issue nine was our first always need to hold our hand, take you… a week, or you let me these small comments become a on religion because we feel that we have so many they both learned to talk and be Stick around and find out! do it in…two seconds!” The man good friendship like the one with more things to say that another religion issue will heard and the adventure has only was serious and he really thought Eva, a Finnish girl who lives in Ire- come soon; we manage to cause some contro- just started! that he had given us a dilemma! It land, or the much-appreciated versy though. Issue ten was more…academic and Two candles on the cake POSTS By Asa Butcher &comments Facts about Ovi Ovi Poem 2006 It has been two years since I daughters, I have moved a cou- vourite Euro-traveller, was there By Asa Butcher penned my opening editorial ple of times, my Grandma passed at the very beginning with his ‘I’m 1.