disco

under
world

issue #5
march 2009
 www.discounderworld.com. issue #5 contents. page 3

issue #5
contents

Mike’s Space: Page 36 Tyrone Layne: Painter. Check out his work
and read about him on page 24

Websites to watch: Page 6

Editorial piece: Sense of Place. Jules Campbell: Outback
Page 56 photographer. Read about her and
see her photographs on page 10

Jill Coleman:
Photographer.
Page 74 Read her story
of recovery and
rehabilitation on
page 42
Joe Citizen:
Filmmaker.
Check out
Who was your favourite last his movies
issue? Page 80 and story on
And lots more! page 62

direct
address
Hi again!
I truly believe that diversity
is the spice of life, and this is
what makes each issue of disco
underworld such a pleasure to
create and read.
This issue’s theme is “sense of
place”. The people in this
issue use their art in different
ways, but they all communicate
a unique sense of place and
identity through their work.
I believe that artists are people
chosen to explain and interpret
their surroundings for others.
By doing this, they become
historians for preserving and
explaining cultures for future
generations. Check out the
editorial on page 56 where I
look into the relationship
between art, artists, the
Internet, place and identities.
Coming up in the next
few pages:
websites to watch
Jules Campbell: Outback
Photographer
www.discounderworld.com. direct address. page 5
ambulance driver animator
artist builder comedian creator
dancer designer doctor engineer
entertainer freak show gimp
hypnotist illustrator journalist
juggler kangaroo litigator madam
We also have a new blog which
lets us update new work and mother nurse optometrist painter
photographer poet quaker
happenings from people
featured in disco underworld
roofer sculptor stylist
and the Be Seen Zine. Check
it out here, and sign up to the
newsletter on the blog to get
telepathic undercover cop visual
updates each time new work is
posted.
Enjoy this issue! artist writer xman yellow belly
z o o l o g i s t
Stacey Childs
disco underworld is published by
Online Insight Limited © copyright
2008. By reading and interacting
with our magazine and website, you
we don’t care who you are.
agree to the terms laid out
under the ‘terms of use’ on the
site www.discounderworld.com
we just like you being here:)
Editor: Stacey Childs
stacey@discounderworld.com
Sub-Editor: Tessa Prebble

endemicworld.com
Launched onto the netwaves in
2007 by siblings Elliot and Kate
Alexander, endemicworld.com is
an online design store
specialising in emerging New
Zealand design brands.
Two years on, the shop
portal offers customers over
600 products from more than
50 designers, selling everything
from t-shirts to homeware,
publications to kid’s stuff, it is
the perfect place to find unique
New Zealand products and have
them shipped around the world.
nd
Zeala
ew
r s of N
love
For
www.discounderworld.com. websites to watch. page 7
websites
to
Endemicworld.com is about
growing New Zealand design
brands, by allowing designers to
focus on designing, without the watch
hassle of promoting and
retailing their products.
Growing naturally by word of
mouth, endemicworld.com was
recently picked as one of the
top 10 New Zealand online
start-ups by Start-Up magazine.
So visit the website, check out
the product range and
frequently updated blog and
sign up to the newsletter to
keep up with the regularly
updated offerings!
gners Want to know where the people go after we
n d desi
a
ucts
prod interview them in disco?
Introducing our new be seen blog which regularly updates news
and new work from the people you have met in our past issues.
Check out the site and new work here.
Sign up to the newsletter on the site and we will email you when
new work is posted.
If you would like your work to be posted on the blog too, all you
need to do is contact Stacey (stacey@discounderworld.com) and
not only will she post it on the blog, she will also put you in an
issue of either disco underworld or The Be Seen Zine.
It doesn’t cost a cent, so what have you got to lose?
 www.discounderworld.com. websites to watch. page 9

GET YOURSELF ON BOARD GET YOUR BUSINESS

ON BOARD
NINETEEN74 is a brave
new world of professional NINETEEN74’s newsletter
networking for the global goes out to 30,000 creative
creative industry. Wherever industry email addresses,
you are, and whatever your and the site’s audience is
interest, this site brings set to hit the stratosphere.
together the people you Get your business ready for
--- need to meet. It’s networking take-off by resgistering with
Network, research, showcase --- for creatives, and it’s NINETEEN74.COM and hit

------
happening everywhere, your global target market in
every day. an instant.
------ News, events, reviews
---

Registration is absolutely

Jobs, listings, directories --- free for individuals. Start

travelling the creative world NINETEEN 74 . COM i s t h e ul t im a t e d e s t in a t i o n .
------
now and see where it can
--- take you.
We h o p e yo u h a v e a p l e a s a n t j o u r n ey .

One place.
Anywhere.
Any time.
www.NINETEEN74.COM
 www.discounderworld.com. jules campbell. page 11

Jules Campbell
 www.discounderworld.com. jules campbell. page 13

Tall Grass

Coast
J ules Campbell lives
in the very northern
part of Australia, nearer Papua
New Guinea and Indonesia than
in the small wild town of
Humpty Doo (no relation to
Dumpty) amongst “beer
swilling, fish mongering blokes
Sydney or Melbourne, but just in singlets and thongs, with
an hour from Darwin. She lives beards and motorbikes.”
 www.discounderworld.com. jules campbell. page 15

She grew up in Dunsborough,

Western Australia, a town
google maps predicted it would
take some two days and three
hours to reach, but Jules says
with toilet stops and rests it
takes over five days to reach
from Humpty Doo. She says: “I
love it here but I also miss my
childhood town of
Dunsborough, but fear that
perhaps the only thing I really
miss is the memory of it.”

It is this longing and

nostalgia that Jules portrays in
her photographs. She uses the
“Through the Viewfinder”
technique hailing back to her
first Kodak instamatic camera,
which produced square images
with rounded corners to
connect her past and present.
Her subjects are romantic and a
nod to the immensity and
expanse of Australia.

“I am so content and at my very

finest when I am in the
landscape and miles away from
people and man-made things. I
have been this way since I was
a young child. I am interested
in the land and its stories and
I have a huge respect for my
country.”

Monet in the Park

 www.discounderworld.com. jules campbell. page 17

Yesterday
“I remember being really
devastated by a red gum tree
being cut down in our school
yard when I was a kid and
there was nothing I could do.
So in a way every tree I take
a picture of today pays some Flame Tree
kind of homage to that
beautiful old majestic tree.”
 www.discounderworld.com. jules campbell. page 19

“I wouldn’t
consider myself to
be a people
person at all, I talk
too much, worry
a lot and say the
wrong things most
of the time. My
photography is my
tool to
communicate my
feelings to the
world.”
Jules lives with her partner
Dobbo and their two-year-old
daughter, Elsey, who Jules
describes as her as her “partner
in crime”.

“We are together 100% of the

time. I am not sure there are
too many two year olds that
have seen as much wildlife as
this girl has, it’s a wonderful
experience for us both. We
don’t have to go to a zoo, we
just drive ten miles down the
track and we can see dingos,
emus, wallabies, pythons,
buffalo and crocs.” Beach Days
 www.discounderworld.com. jules campbell. page 21

Things I like/love: My partner

of 13 years, my daughter, my
parents, my brothers and their
families. Australia especially
Northern Territory and Western
Australia. History, old things,
nature, art, painting,
photography, old cars, film and
shopping in op-shops (thrift
stores) and second-hand shops.
The feeling when I sell my work
to someone. I love gadgets of
any kind especially cameras
and old photographic processes
such as van dyke browns and
cyanotypes.

Things I dislike: cats versus the

environment, marketing versus
children, MacDonald’s,
Tupperware parties (as if there
isn’t enough plastic in the
world?) the unequal wealth of
the world, religion, wars,
leeches, cane toads and people
in the art scene that act like
pretentious wankers.

Coming up in the next

few pages:

Tyrone Layne: Painter

Mike’s Space:
Where am I?
 www.discounderworld.com. jules campbell. page 23

If you would like to vote for

her, enter your email here and
hit vote. Your vote will count
once your email has been
Jules explains that the
verified. Only one vote will
landscape in the Northern
count per email and person.
Territory is harsh and remote
and it pays to be aware of
the many dangers: crocodiles,
box jellyfish, wild buffalo, pigs,
horses and snakes. The weather
conditions can be rough too,
monsoons, cyclones, flooding,
electrical storms, extreme heat
and humidity.

“The humidity gets to me the

most and it’s definitely no good
for camera lenses!”

“I find it really
challenging
living in the
Northern Territory, Bliss
but it’s not going to
stop me that’s for
sure. I’ll be
photographing till
the day I breathe
my last breath, it’s
You can see all of Jules’ work on
like an old friend, her website:
it’s home.” www.australianphotography.net.au Marrakai Track
TYRONE LAYNE
 www.discounderworld.com. tyrone layne. page 27

“I paint people and

through painting
people I capture
culture.”

yrone paints in the

garage of his friend’s
house. People drop in
regularly, and having an
audience of admirers and critics
while he paints is something he
has become accustomed to.

“Even back while I was

studying, my studios always
became a gathering spot for
other students. Getting
constant comments on work in
progress is something that can
take getting used too, but hey,
I guess it’s getting me prepared
for the critics.”

Taking lots of photos is another

important process in the
creation of his paintings. A
normal painting will use over 50
different image references from
photos he has taken, and
others from sites such as Flickr
and Google images.
 www.discounderworld.com. tyrone layne. page 29

“I am continuously thinking of
new ideas or adding ideas to my
paintings. The places I visit, a
festival or even just a new
fashion some cool kid is
sporting around town can all
provide inspiration. Being a
social guy I get out and about
and experience things first hand
and it is these experiences that
lead to my subject matter.”

Tyrone recently travelled

around The United States,
Barbados, Ecuador and Peru.
In America he was fascinated
by Venice Beach, where Bay
Watch was born. Tyrone found
this beach ideal for one of his
favourite past-times: people
watching. He roamed the beach
snapping photos of hundreds
of different strangers from all
walks of life.

He then moved onto Barbados,

where his father was raised.
Here Tyrone met up with
cousins, aunties and uncles,
who showed him the very best
of island life for ten weeks.

“Bringing a bag of oil paints and

a roll of canvas from home, I
set up studio while drinking
their fine rum. Eating and
drinking was high priority in the
afternoon proceedings.”
“‘Sea Princess’ is based on a
two week Caribbean Cruise we
took. This is set in the Cayman
Islands where the water was
beautiful, clear and warm, and it
speaks for all the lovely
beaches we stopped at through
the Caribbean.”

After the Caribbean, Tyrone

crossed over to Ecuador where
he met up with fellow Kiwis and
after three glorious weeks in a
surf-side hostel, they headed
into Peru.
 www.discounderworld.com. tyrone layne. page 33

“We were lucky not to be killed

on our bus ride through the
mountains to Peru. Our bus
driver was an absolute maniac,
flying around the winding roads
nearly taking out oncoming
traffic, people flying side-to-
side in their seats! I had to say
a little prayer to the man above
and I know a lot of my friends
did the same.”

His adventures in Peru lead to

the painting ‘18 Kiwis in Peru’.
The painting is made from a
collection of memories and
photographs, and aims to
capture the chaotic pace of a
busy Peruvian city. There are
over 160 characters as well as
the Cruz Del Sur bus which took
them through the country.

“A valium pill brought over the

counter at a local pharmacia
helped make these rides more
bearable.”

Coming up in the next

few pages:

Mike’s Space

Jill Coleman
 www.discounderworld.com. tyrone layne. page 35

get to know
ways we can Top three places travelled to in Visit his website:

each other a little better

South America: www.tyronelayne.com

Montanita, Ecuador: Amazing Tyrone has a solo exhibition,

little funky surfing party town,
one of my favourite places on
Follow our blog and this planet.
we’ll follow yours! Lobitos, Peru: Deserted Military
town amongst oil fields, with
one of the best surf break
set-ups in the world. A truly
surreal spot, so tranquil.
s
Add us a
coming up mid 2009 for those
of you in Auckland then.
If you would like to vote for
him, enter your email here and
hit vote. Your vote will count
once your email has been
verified. Only one vote will
count per email and person.

JPG
t Chicama, Peru: Best waves of
a contac my life, longest lefthander surf
on break in the world, a wave can
and break for two km.

Join us on

@discounderworld

a
become
fan
p you cool
ee
It’ll k
 www.discounderworld.com. mike’s space. page 37

Mike’s Space: Where am I?

Words and images by Mike Woodruff

W
here am I?
Pretend I’m a little dot on
google maps.
On the largest scale, the map
shows America.
Zoom in a couple clicks and the
tab centers on this grey blotch
of land known as Los Angeles.
Zoom in further and I live in
Pasadena. You might have
heard of this place. It’s famous
for the Rose parade, which
consists of people turning cars
into giant moving murals made
from roses and isn’t nearly as
exciting as it sounds.
www.discounderworld.com. mike’s space. page 39
Mike Woodruff lives in Los
Angeles. When not writing,
he enjoys playing basketball
and eating Flamin’ Hot
Cheetos. You can find him on
the internet at
www.mutinouswombats.blogspot.com.
Read last month’s Mike’s
Space here.
Even if you haven’t heard of
it, then I can almost guarantee
you’ve seen it. That’s because
every time you see a movie or
TV show featuring American
suburbia and tree-lined streets,
you’re not seeing a real
American suburb, you’re seeing
Pasadena, which isn’t really a
suburb but has really nice
houses that look good on
camera. I know. It’s confusing.
That’s because it’s Hollywood.

Okay, technically it’s not.
Hollywood is 15 minutes away,
and technically, Hollywood isn’t
anything like what you see on
those red carpet premieres.
The real Hollywood is skanky,
dirty and crowded. A strange,
‘only-in-America’ mishmash of
drug addicts dressed as
Batman, transvestites who look
like they’re dressed as the
Joker but probably only
misapplied their lipstick, and
tourists wearing flip flops in
January because they think that
Hollywood never gets cold and
is always palm trees, sunshine,
sea breezes and giant parking
lots.
But that isn’t Hollywood. That’s
Orange County, which is less
than an hour away but is as
much a part of Los Angeles
as New Jersey is of New York,
or Ireland is of England. Down
there is Disneyland. Down there
is another country altogether.
Confused yet? Good, now go
get yourself a burger from a
restaurant that also has
burritos and pad thai on the
menu. Order it from that
really hot waitress or waiter
who looks like that really hot
actress or actor from that one
commercial you just watched
www.discounderworld.com. mike’s space. page 41
“The real Hollywood
is skanky, dirty and
crowded. A strange,
‘only-in-America’
mishmash of drug
addicts dressed as
Batman,
transvestites who
look like they’re
dressed as the
Joker but probably
only misapplied their
lipstick.”
last night. Guess what? They
probably are that person. And
that cook over at Denny’s? He
ate rocky mountain oysters on
Fear Factor.
Everyone here’s acting.
Everything here is not what it
seems. That’s the only way to
make sense of a city like this.
Where am I?
Haha. That’s a very, very good
question.
 www.discounderworld.com. jill coleman. page 43

jill coleman
 www.discounderworld.com. jill coleman. page 45

T

here is something
very raw about Jill
Coleman and the
subjects of her
photographs that
shines through in her
images.

Born in Zimbabwe, Jill

immigrated to South
Africa in 1977, when
she was 14. During her
adult life she slipped
into the depths of
alcoholism and now six
years sober, she
credits photography for
saving her life and
giving her something
to focus on. Through
documenting the
things around her,
photography helped Jill
understand her
feelings, addiction and
perspective on life.
 www.discounderworld.com. jill coleman. page 47

“I never created anything

worthwhile under the influence.
Recovery can be difficult but it
has opened my eyes and made
my life worthwhile. I can
actually see and feel reality and
that is what you need to create.
Even if reality is harsh and
unrelenting, it is life and I will
not numb it out.”
 www.discounderworld.com. jill coleman. page 77
"If there are
dreams about a
beautiful South
Africa, there are
also roads that
lead to their goal.
Two of these
roads could be
named Goodness
and
Forgiveness."

Nelson Mandela
Since March 2008,
Jill has been living
in Chicago. The city
has proven a huge
learning curve for a
farm girl from South
Africa. Jill has been
struggling with panic
disorder, a lay over
from her battle with
alcoholism, but says
the city has provided
her with friendly,
open people, willing
to be photographed.
 www.discounderworld.com. jill coleman. page 53

Jill’s photography
focuses on people in an
exhilarating mix of South Africa
and Chicago, black and white.
She is influenced by light and
by real people, and gravitates
towards portraying poverty, the
needy and the reality of people.

This is effectively detailed

through her choice of using
black and white photography,
which not only highlights, but
also oddly neutralises her
subjects. Regardless of colour,
they are stripped back and
unmasked; enabling their
emotions and the trust Jill gains
in them to shine through
brilliantly.

Coming up in the next

few pages:

Editorial Piece: Sense

of Place

Joe Citizen
 www.discounderworld.com. jill coleman. page 55

u Quick fire questions: You can see all of Jill’s work

Where do you see yourself in
ten years?
In ten years time I truly hope
my demons will have settled
down.
What are your influences and
inspirations?
on her jpg page: www.jpgmag.
com/people/sugarbird
If you would like to vote for
her, enter your email here and
hit vote. Your vote will count
once your email has been
verified. Only one vote will
count per email and person.

My Grandmother who recently

passed away and
Africa.

What is the most awesome

thing you have ever done?

I consider just getting through

the day an awesome thing. Also
perhaps my trip to Namibia,
which is my most wonderful
fave place on earth.

If you would like to have

a crack at designing our
front cover, get in touch!
It is a great way to expose
your talents to thousands of
people and you will have
a choice story to tell your
friends. Email
stacey@discounderworld.
com to find out more.
We are always on the look out for talent.
If you have something to contribute to
disco underworld, as a writer or as an
artist, get in touch with Stacey to find
out how you can contribute to one of the
world’s fastest growing, forward thinking,
global reaching magazines.
 www.discounderworld.com. sense of place. page 57

Human civilization
has always felt the
need to
communicate its
thoughts and
feelings through art.
Even the earliest
examples of human
communication:
In a modern day context, the
drawings on cave Internet has enabled greater
walls in France, ease and sharing of ideas. By
share the opening up doors and enabling
more access to each other,
environment and realising and appreciating a
express the sense of identity and place has
thoughts of the became a tricky juggling act of
projecting and preserving our
creator. Art has public and private identities.
always allowed us to Through social networking sites,
portray a personal google earth and even
magazines like this one, we all
sense of place and know more about each other
identity. than has ever been possible.
 www.discounderworld.com. sense of place. page 59

disco
under
world

ly p ublish
u d ed
ro
p

by
is

Much of the identity we form Modern day artists, like their

on sites like facebook, and
publish on the web, is based
around a view of ourselves that
we choose to portray. This is
not always representative of
the person we are in day-to-day
life, but a reflection of who we
think we are, or who we want
to be.
Facebook lets us tag and
un-tag photos we want people
to see of us. Internet dating
sites let us blur the edges of
our true realities, presenting an
image we want the world to
Contact them first for all your digital publishing needs. see. When talking about a
sense of place and a sense of
They will collaborate with you, or create for you, from start to finish,
identity, we cannot exclusively
anything from digital media kits, travel brochures and annual reports involve the Internet, because
to regular publications such as magazines and newspapers for you to the forces which form our true
share with the world. sense of identity and place are
external and projected on us,
Visit www.online-insight.co.nz and request an not the other way around.
obligation free quote.
predecessors, express their
thoughts and feelings regarding
their environment through the
range of mediums available to
them. Technology like the
Internet and devices like
cameras have changed the
ways in which these thoughts
are projected, but art has never
changed in its mission to
communicate our personal
views of the world, and the
artists in this issue are fine
examples of this.
Coming up in the next
few pages:
Joe Citizen
The Be Seen Zine

Jules Campbell, the
photographer who lives in
Western Australia, expresses
her view of her adopted state
by capturing the wildness of
the landscape in photographs
that also express a sense of
nostalgia for her home state
and upbringing. Her
photographs show the
environment she lives in from
her perspective, as an outsider
and an admirer, with a healthy
dose of respect needed in such
a wild and dangerous backdrop.
In contrast, Jill Coleman
photographs the people who
make up her world, connecting
with the marginalized and needy
in an attempt to understand
and document her demons. She
recognizes that photography
saved her life, and helps in her
recovery and rehabilitation from
alcoholism. By making sense of
the world through her camera
lens, she is able to deal with
reality, rather than trying to
drown it out.
www.discounderworld.com. sense of place. page 61
Filmmaker Joe Citizen
interestingly uses his lens to
capture twin themes of power
and control, in an attempt to
highlight the shadow of
post-colonial New Zealand
culture, the Pacifica culture. He
believes this is the true essence
of New Zealand, not the other
way around. It is unique in a
young country like New Zealand,
where the people are still trying
to work out who they are, on
a personal and a national level,
for someone like Joe to have
such a clear and unique sense
of place and identity. There is no arguing that the
Internet is a tool in helping
Tyrone Lanye’s brushstrokes these, and other artists
capture people in beautiful, communicate their ideas to a
warm and enjoyable wider audience. It has brought
environments. He uses this us all closer, and without the
sense of warmth and beauty Internet we would know less,
because it expresses his love see less, learn less and
for life and the good side of understand less. But like
people, and because it is what robots, the Internet will never
he wants the onlooker to feel be able to interpret, express
when they look at one of his and understand the world
paintings. He says “I choose to around it. The need and ability
paint the brighter side of life to communicate a sense of
because I want my paintings identity and place is a human
to make people happy,” which impulse. We have been doing
suggests a sense of place and for over two thousand years,
identity that is not purely and the Internet is just another
individual, but also conscious of tool helping us share our ideas
onlookers. with others.
 www.discounderworld.com. joe citizen. page 63

itizen
Joe C
Interview and words by Dillie Baria
 www.discounderworld.com. joe citizen. page 65

H


e won’t say what he
decided to change his
surname name from, and I won’t
persist. But I have been warned
not to get drunk with a lawyer,
and if I happen to do so, not to
sign anything.

Uh oh…

Still, it’s not something

Joe Citizen appears to regret, in
fact he is quite proud of it. And
he is equally as proud and
extremely passionate about his
profession: film making.

Coming up in the next

few pages:

The Be Seen Zine

Last issue’s favourite

 www.discounderworld.com. joe citizen. page
Click play to play Joe’s short film “Stiff”.
Having travelled the world and
captured its beauty through
digital lenses, Joe decided to
enrol at Wintec Media Arts in
Hamilton, New Zealand, on his
return. His interest in
commercial photography soon
led him to discover the art of
the moving image. He decided
to give it a shot, and make a
“Hamilton is a film with a group of stilt-walking
friends from a street theatre
corporate whore company called Free Lunch. He
hasn’t looked back since.
on steroids, where
conservative meets Now working part-time at the
library and as a tutor at
the wild art scene. Wintec, Joe, 39, dedicates
It’s this spawning himself to making films. Despite
money being tight, Joe has
ground of found cinematic success, with
creativity that I numerous films being entered
into festivals such as The
come from.” Commonwealth Film Festival.
67
Prior to film making, Joe worked
in mental health as a care
assistant. His experiences led
him to “think about the
assumptions of those in power
and who gets to make the
decisions” and provided him
with the twin themes that
occupy all his films: power and
control.
Joe’s immediate environment,
his home, resonates strongly
through his films. He came
back to Hamilton because he
believed in its potential, which
he says does not exist in more
established places.
“Hamilton is a corporate whore
on steroids where conservative
meets the wild art scene. It’s
this spawning ground of
creativity that I come from.”
Joe regards New Zealand as part
of the Pacifica urbanity, not as
Click play to play a snippet of Joe’s short
a Western nation. film “The Journey”.
“The influence of Maoridom in
New Zealand is from the
centre, not as some
externalised and exotic other.
This has a huge effect on my
practice as a filmmaker,
because the stories and
identities I’m interested in
come from a place that is still
discovering this.”

The Journey, about a group of

dancers, reflects this bond.

“I wanted to acknowledge these

deeper layers of meaning that
reside within the human
condition… like perhaps a
permeating life-force energy
that connects the physical to Coming up in the next
the spiritual.” few pages:

The Be Seen Zine

The film, shot in extreme
weather on New Zealand’s West Last issue’s favourite
Coast, adds flavour to the film’s
grounding message.

To a certain extent, Joe’s films
also reflect the nation’s film
industry as a whole.
“Lots of people say they’re sick
of New Zealand films
being dark, and isolationist.
New Zealander’s don’t seem to
be particularly good at laughing
at themselves.”
Yet it seems ‘neo-colonial’
audiences don’t pick up on Kiwi
humour, Joe says.
“I remember watching Peter
Jackson’s Bad Taste in a flat in
London. I laughed my head off,
but the English were mortally
offended. We’re really good at
dark, we ought to stick with it.”
www.discounderworld.com. joe citizen. page
Whilst passionate about his
artistic medium, Joe concedes
that he produces films because
it’s challenging.
“I guess I keep at it ‘cause I’m a
stubborn prick. That and people
having faith in me… just one
person having faith made a
difference.”
73
A decade of film-making later
Joe digresses from the notion
that art is original, stating that
he is “not an artist, but a
producer of cultural products.”
“Art is dead; all we have is its
re-animated corpse.”
He reasons that films are made
by a community of people.
“Whilst it might personally
satisfy my ego or the needs of
intellectual property rights to
say that these films were 'made
by Joe Citizen' - the reality is
that everyone from the
cinematographer to the
producer to the runner has
been involved in their
production.”
If you would like to vote for
Joe, enter your email here and
hit vote. Your vote will count
once your email has been
verified. Only one vote will
count per email and person.

{Joseph R Wheeler III: Evolutionary ART}

Name: Joseph R Wheeler III

Style: Evolutionary ART

be seen Email:
eltercero@bellsouth.net
zine Website:
www.thenao.typepad.com
Created to give every
artist exposure to people BORN and raised in
who appreciate a good piece Atlanta, Georgia, Joseph
of art when they see it. is the CEO and Founder of
NAO (the New Art Order).
Be in the next one for free:
Joseph’s passion lies in
comics and the related
genres; video games, film
all about the and fashion. His company
website, and the hosts art conventions and
he freelances his wide
ideas behind it range of skills.
and this page:
His interests are in art
newsletter etc. (“art is life... art is all”),
pic of site
comics, movies, video
games, hip-hop culture,
wrestling, martial arts,
cultures and people.

His website updates

events and happenings in
the comic world.

The Be Seen Zine, introducing you to a wider range of styles and

arty types. Proudly brought to you by Online INsight.

{Joseph R Wheeler III: Evolutionary ART}

This piece was created for an

exhibition entitled
FUNK-TIONAL-ISM in Atlanta's
SW Arts Center, September
5th to October 3rd 2008.

Artists were asked to interpret

an album of their choice
demonstrating a clear
understanding of the music.

This piece is called THE LOVE

BELOW.

Check out Joseph’s latest

comic “Brutha Yamz”, about a
pro wrestler, set in the distant
future here

The Be Seen Zine, introducing you to a wider range of styles and

arty types. Proudly brought to you by Online INsight.

{Billy Argel: Font Master}

Name: Billy Argel

Style: Font Master
Email: billyargel@gmail.com
Website: www.billyargel.
blogspot.com

The Be Seen Zine, introducing you to a wider range of styles and

arty types. Proudly brought to you by Online INsight.
Your favourite from last issue, and the person to be
included in the Gold Edition at the end of the year is:

Afua Richardson

She wins a spot in The Gold Edition 2009, a

publication which follows up on your favourite
people from the year before, and provides you
with interviews and spreads of other cool cats
from around the globe.

You can read her article and listen to her single

‘Not Quite’ here.