Join us in a journey into Lamar Peterson's private wonderland and meet some of the colorful cast of family members and their mystical friends that inhabit his paintings.

Being a manband is tough but the members of Fantasy's Core know just how to keep one step ahead of the rest: by acting out the boy band in them.

Since 1996 Mark River and Tim Whidden have been making net based art and recently begun to explore the analogue world of sculpture and performance while retaining their digital roots...

For her recent project "Toy Skull Reconstructions", Amy Sarkisian employed the specialized modeling technique practiced by forensic scientists and archeologists, to revive and visualize the precise face of each toy skull she gathered...

My name is Uglyor Celchior. I was raised by gypsies, I’d rather say I was stolen and used by them. My first name given by the gypsies has influenced my destiny, because it suggests ugliness. In fact it means a species of falcon, they say, in an imaginary country named Transvaalachia or so...

My Teenage Stride
New Radio
Bad Dudes (ex Miracle Chosuke)

In this second installment of Bandoake, Catherine and Marisa corral
Steve Salett of King of France into confessing his karaoke virginity..

we're still diggin’...

Begins & Ends
As mentioned above, we decided not to begin numbering the stories in this issue with #1. Instead we did away with new beginings in order to allow each story to be identified with a unique number -it brings a certain feeling of continuum that we like. When will the numbered stories end? We'll figure that out later...

For Amy Sarkisian, her latest work begins with the end. Using DIY forensic methods, Amy fleshes out faces from toy skulls to demonstrate how the they might have looked. Judging from her results, she might've been one of the few to assume that the hole in the forehead of a mammoth's skull was socket for it's third eye. Is her morbid fascination with these recreations a type of self confirmation of what's really at the end?

In between birth and death there are a multitude of other beginnings and endings like when boyhood ends and manhood begins. For Fantasy's Core, a Manband from Japan, the idea of being boys will always live inside of them as they maintain the energy and naïveté of youth in all thier perfromances.

In The Art Happens Here Mark River and Tim Whidden like to blur the area where art begins and ends. With their work you're not sure where your part as a viewer ends and their performance work begins. They discovered, while making automations of 60's art, how they can move more of the artist work to the laps of their viewers using computer technology. Very tricky tech I thought.

I can go on pointing out all the beginnings and ends in this issue but it must come to an end eventually. Let's do that here.

-AS

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