WEB ISSUE No. 19

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MUSIC REVIEWS

STRANGER IN THE CITY

I first arrived in Toronto two years ago today (15th October). I still remember it vividly. My uncle met me at the airport and we made the 45-minute trek back out to Hamilton. It was a mild autumn day - clear blue sky. The leaves were just beginning to turn and the air had crispness to it. More...

HOOP SCHEMES

Senior Sports Illustrated writer George Dohrmann spent almost a decade embedded with a Southern California AAU team and it’s controversial coach, Joe Keller. Keller is desperately in search of “the next LeBron” and the wealth and influence he believes such a find will accrue him. Dohrmann pulls back the curtain on the shadowy collusion of sneaker corporations, manipulative coaches, echo-chamber journalists, powerful recruiters, and leeches of all types in American under-18 basketball. More...

FLASHPOINT

If war represents mankind in its darkest hour, then the combat photographer is the one who stares into the void, ostensibly on our behalf. French photographer Patrick Robert has spent almost thirty years witnessing and documenting the depths of human iniquity. His professional history is inextricably intertwined with that of armed conflicts in the late 20th century, from Africa to the Middle East to Europe and Central Asia.nMore...

SCORCHED EARTH

HUMAN SUIT consists of rappers Isaiah Toothtaker and Mestizo, and yeah, the music is dark. I am fairly certain that my former scripture teacher would confirm that this is, beyond a reasonable doubt, the devil’s work. These two fine gentlemen are members of a collective/record label/crew called Machina Muerte, which appears to consist of roughly half the dope artists west of Missouri. More...

MIDNIGHT OIL

Glowing In The Darkest Night is the newest release by Colorado-based electronic music producer Derek Vincent Smith, better known as Pretty Lights. The latest record is the final piece in a trilogy of EPs, all released in 2010 despite a hectic schedule that saw him playing dates around the world, on top of two massive North American tours. More...

RESEARCHING THE REDACTED

Trevor Paglen wants you to believe him. Be it a grainy, abstract photograph of a CIA black site, a classified military installation or the path of an intelligence satellite through the night sky, Paglen’s art is heavily researched and captioned with a level of detail that makes us think he’s unearthed some form of truth—that he’s showing us something heretofore unseen. But Paglen also wants you to acknowledge that his images could very well be fabrications, because what can we really believe? What do we really see as a culture? Can we trust it? What don’t we see, and what influence does the unseen have on who we are? sworn enemies. More...

GREY AREAS

I met Jeremy Lawson at his home in Williamsburg on a drizzly evening and he greeted me at the door to his modest walkup, positively cheerful. This was not entirely a surprise since we had been communicating for a week or so, but sometimes you think you know an artist by their work, and Lawson’s is nothing I would describe as “cheery”. My initial interest in cornering him for an interview was based on the intricate, hauntingly ethereal pencil drawings I had seen at a Manhattan art gallery in 2008. It wasn’t long after getting in contact with Jeremy that I realized I would have to see his new work in person if I wanted to do the interview any justice.More...

Recently I got into doing wet plate collodion photography (from the 1860s), and it blew my mind. I feel like an alchemist, and since my wet plate lab is a dirty old basement that has never been cleaned, there are a lot of irregularities and you never know what's gonna come out. The hand of God is heavily involved. I think that there is something about this process that brings out the dark side of people, so I named the series DEMONS.

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THE DARK AGES

The past sixty years have been, to put it lightly, tumultuous for Iran. The Central Asian country went from corrupt monarchy to CIA puppet dictatorship, all of which was swept away in a true popular revolution, only to be delivered into the state of grimly entrenched theocracy that constitutes the current Iranian republic. Iranian author Houshang Asadi’s life reflects the powerful forces that have shaken this proud land, upending the lives of its people for worse or better, or doubly worse again. More...

DARKEST MOVIES

When I showed the following list to my esteemed colleagues here in the ether that is COOL’EH magazine, half of them wanted to know what I meant by “dark”. And the other half were campaigning for Requiem For A Dream. So before we go any further, allow me to clarify these two things, just in case this magazine’s readership is similarly inclined.. More…

INTO THE LIGHT

Around 11:15 EST October 13, 2010 I watched on television as Florencio Avalos stepped from the metal capsule he’d just ridden up to the earth’s surface after sixty-nine days spent in the dark, 622 meters below. Mr. Avalos was the first of the thirty-three trapped miners to escape the living tomb after the collapse of a mineshaft in early August this year. He emerged spirited, full of natural adrenaline, exhibiting the behavior you might expect from a man who has regained empirical evidence of the world he used to know. More…

MATTER OF FICTION

A Jamaican homecoming is the native citizen’s invaluable blessing. Whereas tourists trickle in Our universe is estimated to be 156,000,000,000 light years wide**, which is in itself a modest guess since studies show that said universe is continually expanding. Within that 156 billion year span of space are different planets, stars, asteroids that we have been able to identify. And, this may come as a surprise; all of these stars and planets make up only 4% of all the matter that exists in our universe. As a result, our planet Earth is barely a drop in a Lake Superior size bucket. More…

THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND

Darkness has descended over the NFL, my friends. A malevolent shadow thrown across our once Sun(ny)days, as if by Sauron himself. And what is responsible for this corruption of the shire, you ask? Is it Brett Favre’s one-man rendition of The Old Man & The Sea? Carson Palmer’s reverse engineering of his career, whereby the more talent the Bengals put around him, the worse he plays? Ray Lewis’ Snuggie? No, good reader, it is something far more insidious, something that has always been there, but recently began to grow and morph into something else altogether. It was hiding in plain sight, slowly metastasizing while responsible football fans like you and I were laughing at the lighthearted genius of the latest Coors Light commercial. More...

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