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Business

Crafts

Graphic Design

Atlanta

Dream Big Entertainment LLC <br /><br />Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@cdubo?utm_source=magma&utm_medium=referral">Christian Dubovan</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=magma&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a> — @undefined's mag on Magma

Astronomy

Palo Alto

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Photography

Circle

<p>We started our party project called Laundry Service in 2018. When we moved to the current location (Circle Milano) we saw that the pictures shot with a normal digital reflex were so boring and mainstream.</p>
<p>We decide to start to take pictures with some compact Point &amp; Shoot cameras from the late 90’s.</p>

<p>The film photos have some imperfections that make every single shot unique.</p>
<p>The grain and the color tones are typical of the analog photograpy.</p>
<p>We made every shot behind the console while we’re playing.</p>

<p>From September 2022 we made a partership with one of the most famous photography shop in Milan: Foto Cavour.</p>
<p>We made a corner in EST Shop with single use cameras, Fujifilm and Kodak Rolls.</p>

<h1>Laundry Service on Instagram</h1>
<p>We started to post pics on the Instagram Stories of @estworld account.</p>
<p>In Septemer 2022, after a rebranding of the logo, we launched the instagram profile because it was a shame thet these nice pictures were online only for 24h</p>
<p>The concept is simple, the profile would like to be a camera roll of the party, we post sometimes, only the best pics.</p>

Laundry Service 35mm project — @undefined's mag on Magma

Books

Filmmaking

Mental Health

<p>Silent fights and solo flights</p>
<p>New heights</p>
<p>New life</p>
<p>Birds chirping, incense burning</p>
<p>Refa flowing, a steady motion</p>
<p>My daily potion</p>
<p>Free as the breeze that blows</p>
<p>Shedding layers just as quick as the trees that blow in an autumn breeze</p>
<p>New life is here </p>
<p>Being birthed</p>
<p>Birthed of the natural</p>

<h1>Let it all work out</h1>
<p>It’s hard to climb a ladder with someone at the bottom kicking at it</p>
<p>Causing it to be unsteady </p>
<p>Making you all panicky and nervous</p>
<p>Imagine that person being your partner</p>
<p>Young bitch so hype for a man done signed yourself up for some dumb shit</p>
<p>Blame myself for this one</p>
<p>Been sitting round here trying to take this pain like a G</p>
<p>Done turned me changed me </p>
<p>Now he mad at me</p>
<p>“Too much like me” </p>
<p>Is what he says</p>
<p>My demeanor so cold he thinks I’m trying to bump chest</p>
<p>Excuse me sir im a lady </p>

<h1>Stop clock</h1>
<p>Time is of thee essence! Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today! Dream big work hard, your word is stone, don’t miss dates with those important to you or work/school related. Be ever present and remain steadfast</p>
<p>Steadfast in life</p>
<p>Steadfast in love</p>
<p>Steadfast in trust </p>
<p>Work hard pray harder</p>
<p>Time is of thee essence don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.. Your presence is in the flesh here and now.</p>

<h1>Domestic violence</h1>
<p>Bigger than someone putting their hands on you!</p>
<p>Verbally killing your pride ego or self esteem </p>
<p>Estranging you from anything that will help remember your name or from which you came</p>
<p>Fellas today love to play the blame game</p>
<p>Make babies and lay the burden on the momma for producing the seed</p>
<p>If it starts at day1 it will be there for the days to come</p>
<p>Domestic violence is much bigger than a physical thing</p>
<p>Killing the spirit</p>
<p>Killing the esteem </p>
<p>Killing a person and not in the physical is extremely dangerous and is the worse form of domestic violence there is. </p>
<p>If you are suffering from going through or know someone who is help pray them through. The strength is in numbers </p>

<h1>Sideshow</h1>
<p>A pain that is unreal </p>
<p>👍🏽 </p>
<p>A hurt not needed to be inflicted </p>
<p>On a life…. A life that obviously wasn’t on meant to be</p>
<p>Bring a baby home to me or</p>
<p>My family </p>
<p>of  4</p>
<p>Is now plus 1 more</p>
<p>Ha </p>
<p>Yeah this life is no more </p>
<p>All locked doors and no you can’t have a key</p>
<p>Not to a motherfucking one pertaining to me</p>
<p>There is no we</p>

<p>Calm streams</p>
<p>Can be heard falling from the sky </p>
<p>Puddles start to form</p>
<p> Day showers </p>
<p>The sky is bright from the sun</p>
<p>Flowers bathing in both</p>
<p>Nature again brings life</p>
<p>Rain drops fall bigger and harder</p>
<p>At a more rapid pace </p>
<p>And the puddles, some have grown to the size where they look like lakes</p>
<p>You can view the rain drops falling gives the water a sort of wave forming</p>
<p>Lightning strikes across the sky</p>
<p>And a breeze blows through the kitchen window. As I stare out into the parking lot at what Mother Nature is doing. </p>
<p>Sounds of rain beating on an empty flower pot can be heard atop the rain hitting the ground</p>

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Blogging

Culture

<p>Sensations</p>
<p>Blissful feelings or thoughts there of</p>
<p></p>
<p> I opened my eyes and there you laid directly next to me eyes shut in the most relaxed state. You looked peaceful, I tried not to bother you although my love language got the best of me. You opened your eyes and I asked how you got into my home. You opened the door for me when I called he said. I leaned down to kiss your lips and the universe exploded. There were stars and fairy dust all over. Every action that came to follow my body had been yearning for. We touched, kissed and orgasmed our way to ecstasy and you stayed the course. “I know you missed this dick” you whispered as I mounted you trying to insert that dick in me as you simultaneously flipped me and without a try inserted me. My back arched instantly even from the missionary position we were in. We jumped around on that bed for hours or what seemed to be. when I woke up it was only me, no signs or traces that you had ever been there, we were in another realm making each other holler😩</p>

<h1>Bridges burned </h1>
<p>Lighters and matches oh my</p>
<p></p>
<p>I have crossed some bridges just as I set the flame 🔥 </p>
<p>before moving on I’d always stop and  speak intentions into the flame, </p>
<p>most for the future. </p>
<p>I’ve buried some stones and some </p>
<p>other things I won’t name. </p>
<p></p>

<h1>Last of a dying breed</h1>
<p>80’s birthed me 90’s raised me</p>
<p></p>
<p>I could chew you up In a post for the world to see. Tag ya handle so there’s no misinterpretations of me talking behind your back. Good thing for you is I ain’t built like that! For certain that’s no bad thing standards are a must. They tell the story different when they are healed is what the post said as he was leaking his own blood all over hims mommas tiled basement floors. Steady poking at folks indirectly in the blind spots where he think they can’t see. I vibrate higher I am more always at the top peering over. Thank God this shit is over. </p>

<h1>Sensations ✌🏽</h1>
<p>These feelings be feeling</p>
<p></p>
<p>Now just me being up at this hour! </p>
<p>A couple shots of royal and quarter L later </p>
<p>La la la la</p>
<p>All American and commercials</p>
<p>I’m feeling like this is rehearsal </p>
<p>A flic of the bic and a prayer to the flame</p>
<p>A hit of the flower that intoxicates my brain</p>
<p>Numbs the pain </p>
<p>Story here</p>
<p>Work I know doesn’t make it a story</p>
<p>It’s the glory….</p>
<p>No victim it’s the victorer</p>
<p>Means the one that holds the title</p>
<p>Means the one that over came</p>
<p>Steady crying dead and broke figured out how to be the money and the power</p>
<p>Mind in motion head steady focused </p>
<p>So much movement don’t know what to do what with it</p>
<p>Too personal</p>
<p>Bad connection or is it perception </p>
<p>Such a big deal why not take a photo to help reflect it</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>

<p>Silence is needed</p>
<p>Sshhhhhhh</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Shhhhhhh</p>
<p>There’s a noise that plays in my ears every time you come near</p>
<p>Reminds me of the sound that played on the television in the wee hours of the night when I was a little tike </p>
<p>Can’t hear much else</p>
<p>Blocks out all the thoughts that ever were there in the first place</p>
<p>There’s this noise </p>
<p>And it’s starting to make me annoyed</p>
<p>Can’t hold a thought all on count of it</p>
<p>Much rather do without it</p>
<p>Could care less then to be annoyed </p>
<p>Time to dead the noise</p>

<br /><br />Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@benjeeeman?utm_source=magma&utm_medium=referral">Ben den Engelsen</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=magma&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a> — @undefined's mag on Magma

Technology

<h1>Artificial Intelligence</h1>
<h2>What is AI art?</h2>
<p>AI art is art that has been created using artificial intelligence. This can include a wide range of techniques and approaches, from using AI algorithms to generate images or sounds, to using AI to assist with the creative process. Some artists may use AI to create entirely new forms of art, while others may use it to enhance or augment their existing work. In general, the goal of AI art is to explore the intersection of art and technology, and to push the boundaries of what is possible in the world of art.</p>
<p>Every image and some text in this Mag was generated by AI. </p>

<p>I know it’s heavy seeing A LOT of me…but let’s focus on how INSANE this technology is. I simply imported 10 photos. All photos have to be in selfie or portrait format, which can be easily found in your albums when opening up your camera roll. </p>
<p>Upload photos, then in minutes you have 100’s of variations of brand new art made by who? AI mixed with the food you feed it. </p>

<h2>Here is an example of ChatGPT</h2>
<p>Dall-E doesn’t only allow you to make images based off of description, but now allows you to type what you want and AI will draft up the “almost” perfect copy in 1 second. </p>
<p>As you see above, I wrote 1 line and below is what was generated in one second. This is mind blowing. </p>
<p> AI text is important because it allows machines to understand and generate human-like text, which makes them well-suited for tasks such as chatbots and virtual assistants. This can be useful in a wide range of applications, including customer service, language translation, and content generation. By using AI to process and generate text, businesses and organizations can improve the efficiency and accuracy of their operations, and provide better service to their customers. Additionally, the use of AI in text-related tasks can help to improve the user experience by making it more convenient and enjoyable to interact with machines. Where was this when I was in school!!</p>

<p>“DALL-E and DALL-E 2 are deep learning models developed by OpenAI to generate digital images from natural language descriptions, called "prompts". DALL-E was revealed by OpenAI in a blog post in January 2021, and uses a version of GPT-3 modified to generate images”.</p>
<p>Under both images, the caption was the exact description typed in to generate the images. In seconds, Artificial Intelligence painted these! </p>

Artificial Intelligence On The Rise   — @undefined's mag on Magma

Architecture

<p>Prompt:</p>
<p>“a modern smart home built out of natural materials, rock, wood, glass, located on Mulholland Dr overlooking Beverly Hills, trees, nature, infinity pool surrounded by grass”</p>

A.I. Generated Homes — @undefined's mag on Magma

<h1>MidJourney AI</h1>
<p>Text-to-Image Software </p>

<p>PROMPT:</p>
<p> a volcano spewing lava with burnt money ash flying in the background, dramatic lighting, dark</p>

<p>PROMPT:</p>
<p>a volcano spewing lava with burnt money ash flying in the background, dramatic lighting, dark</p>

A.I. ART [MidJourney AI] — @undefined's mag on Magma

Collectables

<h1><a href="https://otherside.xyz">Otherside</a></h1>
<p>“Otherdeed is a key to claiming land in Otherside. Each have a unique blend of environment and sediment - some with resources, some home to powerful artifacts. And on a very few a Koda roams”. </p>
<p>Highly recommend checking this out. Can’t wait to see how things progress. Glad to be a holder here!</p>
<p>See you on the Otherside. </p>

<h1><a href="https://kaijukingz.io/#/">Kaiju Kingz</a> </h1>

<h1><a href="https://kaijukingz.io/#/">KAIJU KINGZ</a> </h1>
<p>3,333 Genesis Kaiju Kingz created by Augminted Labs to protect the metaverse. The community is all about growth and providing a place for the future of web3 to learn, build, and conquer. Join the Kingz and live forever as a legend. 6666 babies to accompany them.</p>
<p>If you don’t see my baby Kaiju in my collection, it’s because staking has begun!🪙</p>

<p>Lab notes: Unstable regulation of $RWASTE lead to all subjects of KaijuKingz Collection 001 to become dangerously unstable. As a result, a new collection has been created utilizing better calibration calculations.</p>

<h1>Premint Collector Pass</h1>
<p>As a PREMINT Collector Pass holder, you will get access to an evolving collector dashboard and features to keep you on top of the hottest mints. For more info see <a href="https://collectors.premint.xyz/">https://collectors.premint.xyz/</a></p>

<h1><a href="https://warpsound.ai">WVRPS</a> by WarpSound</h1>
<p>WVRPS are the 1st hybrid generative PFP + AI-composed music NFTs minted on the Ethereum blockchain. 9,999 unique NFTs based on the WarpSound virtual artists Nayomi, Gnar Heart + DJ Dragoon, with art by Emmy-winning illustrator Andy Poon, the embedded 1/1 original music composed entirely by AI using the visual traits of the PFP 🤯</p>
<p>WVRPS are the opening note of WarpSound’s larger vision for interactive, social music experience, helping ignite the future of generative music creativity + synthetic artistry.</p>

<p>
  <h1><a href="https://www.playsk8.com/">PLAYSK8 </a></h1>
</p>
<p>The Raddest NFT Game in the Metaverse 🤘🛹🚀</p>
<p>Official Partners: OpenSea | Nyjah Huston | Skateboarding Hall of Fame | ReadyPlayer DAO | CBS Crew | SABER MSK</p>
<p><a href="https://opensea.io/PLAYSK8-Reserve">PLAYSK8 Reserve</a> </p>

<p>Each Sk8r comes with 10 tricks, one is seen above! Can’t wait to battle players in a game of SK8 so we can SK8 to earn!</p>

<h1>Dented Feels</h1>
<p>An emotional NFT collection of 11,111 by <a href="https://twitter.com/dentinmyhead">Dentin</a> incorporating all the moods and seasons 😶🌤 Created by feelings, for the everyday dreamer 💭</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dentedfeelsnft.com/">https://www.dentedfeelsnft.com/</a></p>

<p>“As you ride through the ups and downs of life, it helps to have someone ride along with you. Whether you're making art, consuming art, or just trying to live your best life, DentedFeels is here to inspire and support you on your voyage”.</p>
<p>- Dented Feels </p>

<p>
  <h1>🌀 Trippy Toads🌀</h1>
</p>
<p>Trippy Toadz is a community driven, limited collection of 6969 algorithmically generated toadz with big pupils and bigger plans. Some rarer than others but all ready to get real and dissect reality for themselves on the Ethereum Blockchain.</p>
<p><a href="https://trippytoadz.io/">Official Website</a> | <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0x19cb5b009bdad0dad0404dd860b0bea75465e678">Official Contrac</a></p>

<h1>Zuni’s Zombie Mob Secret Society </h1>
<p>Zombie Mob Secret Society is the industry’s first fully animated 3D NFT collection that features a protagonist that can walk, strut, run, flip, dance, and fly; following Zinu, the original Zombie, as he journeys across the Zombieverse. With a complex and compelling storyline for its character, the team aims to connect and empower the community to be part of a growing brand that can be used and commercialized from entertainment and gaming, to apparel, toys, and collectibles. Defiantly fearless, audacious to a fault, Zinu is continually haunted by something darker. What that is, currently, we don’t know, but partner we must, to help Zinu defeat it. For more information please visit <a href="https://wearezinu.com/">WeAreZinu.com</a>.</p>

<h1>Something token is for exclusive access and discounts on the Americana Marketplace.</h1>
<p>Let’s see what it’s all about!</p>

<p>Even though we are in a bear market, the community is stronger than ever! Continue to strive and support each other as Web3 and NFTs are just being born! We early!</p>

Just some of my NFTs.<br /><br />Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@zoltantasi?utm_source=magma&utm_medium=referral">Zoltan Tasi</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=magma&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a> — @undefined's mag on Magma

Skateboarding 

<h1><strong>Desktop Step One: Get metamask</strong></h1>
<p>On your CHROME BROWSER, navigate to this link <a href="https://metamask.io/download/">here</a>. </p>
<p>By clicking this link, it will download the metamask browser extension into your browser. (Make sure to securely store your seed phrase!) </p>
<p>What is Metamask? A Crypto Wallet and Gateway to Blockchain Apps</p>
<p>Your wallet must be connected to sync with the the NFT marketplace on <a href="https://www.playsk8.com">www.playsk8.com.</a> </p>
<h1><strong>Step Two: Get ETH</strong></h1>
<p>Open the Metamask extension in your browser, and click on the “Buy” button. This will trigger a pop up for Wyre where you’ll be able to buy eth from your debit or credit card and populate your wallet! </p>
<p>Once you’ve successfully purchased ETH, make your way to <a href="https://www.playsk8.com">www.playsk8.com</a>, connect your wallet (should connect automatically) and follow the minting steps! Please see below for more detail. Next page will show you the look from our site —-&gt;</p>

<h1><strong>How To Mint On <a href="https://www.playsk8.com">PLAYSK8.COM</a> </strong></h1>
<h1>Google Chrome on Desktop </h1>
<p>Once you have the necessary funds in your MetaMask wallet, Simply plug the number you wish to MINT under where it says “amount” ￼￼(as seen above, right hand side). Your wallet should automatically connect, hit mint then BOOM. </p>
<p>Might take a minute but shortly after you will see your NFTs in your wallet after minting!</p>
<h2>Now you got yourself a SK8r!</h2>
<h2>Welcome to the PLAYSK8 community!</h2>
<h2>👾<strong><a href="https://discord.gg/gcWapmbe3N">DISCORD</a></strong>👾</h2>

How to properly purchase an NFT through Google Chrome browser.  — @undefined's mag on Magma

<h1>Join the raddest crew in the metaverse 🤘</h1>
<h1><a href="https://discord.gg/gcWapmbe3N">DISCORD</a></h1>
<h1><a href="https://discord.gg/gcWapmbe3N">PLAYSK8.COM</a> </h1>
<p><a href="https://discord.gg/gcWapmbe3N"></a></p>

Meet the Crew!  — @undefined's mag on Magma

Education

Magma

<h1><strong>A red pill for the soul</strong></h1>
<p>First I want to state that I am not an expert, I practice lucid dreaming out of fun and because there’s nothing quite like it. Gaining awareness in a dream is an exciting experience, most of the time it’s brief with the sudden rush of adrenaline waking you up. What if you can learn to lucid dream, stabilize the experience so you can take more of it in? What if there was nothing more than a few simple steps to master, no drugs needed? Would you want to learn?</p>

<h1><strong>Relax</strong></h1>
<p>The first step is to relax, quiet the mind, tame your anxiety and unfocus. You want to start by laying flat on your back, don’t tense up, relax. You will experience some interesting sensations and urges, mostly the urge to scratch, move, swallow spit, cross your legs and muscle spasms as your body relaxes. The solution is easy, ignore them all and stay relaxed, the swallowing spit part isn’t as easy but if you press your tongue gently onto the roof of your mouth it’ll fix this problem. If you can hear your heart beat turn your head slightly to the right and muffle your right ear, this works for me, maybe the left side works for you.</p>
<h1><strong>Ritual</strong></h1>
<p>Make lucid dreaming a ritual full of sleep triggers your mind will pick up on with practice, this will become an autopilot of some sorts later on, don’t skip it. For me it’s simple, I do all of the above. </p>
<h1><strong>Falling</strong></h1>
<p>This one is overlooked but beneficial, the sensation of falling while asleep and jolting you awake is a key training tool. This falling sensation happens with sleep paralysis, and that’s where the key to lucid dreaming and out of body experiences lie. For now let’s practice falling. Do the above steps to reach a point where your body tricks your mind into believeing you’re asleep, if you do those steps right you will have unfocused thoughts, muscle spasms and the feeling of a heavy weighted blanket being placed on you. The pressure of the weight feels uncomfortable, your breathing will be erratic and adrenaline will win. If you’re lucky you might black out for a second and have a really vivid/lucid experience. Stick to practicing this whatever time of the day you can except right before sleep.</p>
<h1><strong>Eyes</strong></h1>
<p>You need to train your eyes to focus behind your eyelids, it should be relaxed and of into the distance. This will strain your eyes, but like any other muscle, working them makes them stronger. Keep your eyes still and quiet in a relaxed position do not force them into any position, just adjust the focus. </p>

Lucid dreaming part 1 — @undefined's mag on Magma

United Kingdom

Blissful fiery morning. Just what I need to start my  day❤️ — @undefined's mag on Magma

Entertainment

Poetry

Los Angeles

<h1><strong>Falling Away From You</strong></h1>
<h2>As the scene escaped the hands of time, I stood frozen in awe as the ground beneath me shook violently. Never mind the sense of dread I felt in the moment, I was awake in a dream and caught between the seams of reality, tearing at the fabric that is my sanity. What is this? As my breath escapes me I think to my self, “am I going crazy” this can’t be real it’s hazy but the resemblance is, wait, the world around me is amazing. </h2>
<h2>My experience with lucid dreaming has led me down some interesting experiences. This world we experience collectively sits atop of another, one that’s neither ordered or chaos, just flowing. This flow inevitably recycles its way to our surface reality where we experience it objectively through our senses, little do we know what lies beneath. </h2>

@straitwarpeddreams's mag on Magma

Nature

<h1>I’ve always liked taking photos of small creatures. I don’t think insects are appreciated enough.</h1>
<h1>This is something I learned from my mom. </h1>
<h2>My mom is a biologist: raised on a farm in New Jersey, got a PhD in chemistry at Harvard, spends a lot of her time these days trying to explain to local politicians why building developments on the town water supply might have an impact on water quality. </h2>
<h2>She also loves bugs. Other kids’ mothers thought they were anywhere between a nuisance and a menace; my mom couldn’t wait to get them under a microscope.</h2>

<p>
  <h1>Bugs are endlessly diverse and endlessly fascinating. I like taking photos of them because these images capture details that most of us never get close enough to see.</h1>
</p>

<h1>Hope you enjoyed this! If you’d like to see more, follow me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/csilverman/">Instagram</a> or <a href="https://vsco.co/csilverman/gallery">VSCO</a>. Stay tuned for the next issue of 2X.</h1>
<h1></h1>
<h2>Until next time,</h2>
<h2>—Chris</h2>

2X1: gin and coffee – a brief commentary on bugs – infringement on the estate of Charles Schulz  — @undefined's mag on Magma

<p>BEACON, NY • LATE 2021 </p>
<h1>—</h1>
<h1>Beacon is a pretty walkable town. For most of my life, I haven’t had that.</h1>
<h2>I didn’t do the typical city thing after college. While most of my friends opted for foreign countries or various urban centers, I went to Poughkeepsie, New York. I lived in a development. It was technically possible to walk into the more interesting parts of the city, but it wasn’t all that fun. Who wants to walk along a busy road for thirty minutes just to get downtown?</h2>
<p>But I always appreciated walkable towns and cities, even though I didn’t live in one. Growing up, I did a lot of traveling with my family, and all we did was walk. When you’re in a foreign city and you don’t want to spend $200/day on taxis, that’s what you do.</p>
<p>And later, when I visited NYC, or any of the small towns scattered around the Hudson area, I’d spend most of my time wandering around, taking photos. Walking gives you a chance to look at things up close.</p>
<h1>—</h1>
<h1>Then there’s walking at night.</h1>
<h2>That wasn’t something I really did until I moved to Beacon. Up to that point, there had been nowhere to <em>go</em>.</h2>
<p>But the thing about living close to the center of a small mid-sized town is that there are always side streets, alleys, and other small routes trickling off to who knows where. I’ve walked five miles some nights with no clear destination in mind, just poking around.</p>
<h2>Other thing: I can <em>think</em> better at night. People are a distraction, filling spaces with noise and confusion. I can’t fully get to know a space until it’s quiet and empty.</h2>

<h2>Beacon is <em>weird, </em>in the way that hipsterish, gentrifying towns generally are: quirky, multilayered, and steeped in its own private jokes. That stuff gets buried under the people during the day; it’s at night when the character of the place really takes form.</h2>

<p>NIGHT WALK</p>
<h1>—</h1>
<h1>People express themselves in strange ways around here.</h1>
<h2>And new stuff gets added all the time. I’m pretty familiar with the stickers on my usual route, and I still find something I haven’t seen before every time I’m out.</h2>
<h2>Mention “local art gallery” and most people will think of Dia. I think the stickers that make up Beacon’s illicit, living wallpaper are the most interesting art around. </h2>

<h1>The street is the gallery.</h1>
<h2>And everyone lays claim to it: punk bands, activists, artists, random crazies, and—more and more—businesses.</h2>
<p>I have a theory that you can judge how interesting a place is by how many stickers are plastered to its signs, lights, electrical boxes. Boring places don’t have stickers. Cool places do.</p>

<h2>It’s easy to get the sense that no one sees this stuff: it’s so omnipresent, so obvious, as to be invisible. You walk down any street, day or night, and look around; I’ll be the only one snapping thirty photos of grungy stickers on an electrical box.</h2>
<h1><em>—</em></h1>
<h2>But people see enough.</h2>
<p>Not too long ago, a hate group I won’t name showed up in the Hudson Valley and plastered their stickers everywhere. I saw those stickers everywhere else—but, strangely enough, not in Beacon.</p>
<p>Turns out those guys did come to Beacon. Someone noticed the stickers; someone told someone else. They scoured the whole town within two hours and removed every one.</p>
<h2>Those guys never came back.</h2>
<h2>Little things matter.</h2>

<h1>Walk around long enough, and keep your eyes open, and you’ll start to see the same people over and over again.</h1>
<h2>Their names, at least. And in at least one notorious instance, sometimes their faces.</h2>

<p>THE CHAMP</p>
<h2>Vinny, patron saint of the Beacon sticker world; Shepard Fairey’s all-city spiritual successor; man-about-town.</h2>
<p>This guy is <em>everywhere</em>. I could easily devote an entire issue to him. He—and, probably, his fans—have plastered various permutations of his face on every piece of street furniture in Beacon. Everywhere you go, he’s staring back: the kind of omnipresence that makes Kim Il-Sung look modest.</p>
<p>Vinny is probably one of the most talented sticker guys out there. He’s always evolving; there are easily twenty different designs of his scattered around the Hudson Valley. </p>
<h1>—</h1>
<p>THE UPSTART</p>
<h2>Bronco Anarchy 99—he’s new here. Trying to make a name for himself, from the looks of it. His thing seems to be tags in white grease pencil.</h2>
<p>I ran into him one night while he was tagging the stop sign in front of my place. He was tall, good-looking, with long black hair and stubble. He was looping out his name in white grease pencil. He had a friend with him—a preppy-looking kid who dressed nice, had a fashionable haircut, and stood there, shifting awkwardly, waiting for him to finish. The kid looked at me uneasily as I went by, probably thinking I was going to call the cops. Anarchy didn’t even look up. </p>
<p>He’s improving. The tag I saw on that stop sign was barely readable, but the more recent ones have been more legible. Not particularly creative, though.</p>
<h1>—</h1>
<p>ALSO STARRING</p>
<h2>The more mysterious ones: SOH, Thundercloud Guy, B.F., and a host of others. What’s their deal? What drives them? Wish I knew.</h2>

<p>CAST &amp; CREW</p>
<h1>—</h1>
<h1>You know what—let’s talk a little more about Vinny.</h1>
<h2>First of all, his name really <em>is</em> Vinny: Vinny Raffa. He’s an electrician. </h2>
<p>Or, perhaps, a working man’s hero. As I said, he’s everywhere. I have a growing collection of Vinny photos, and I’m always adding to it. I’m pretty familiar with his style, but every now and then, Vinny surprises me.</p>
<p>A few nights ago, I found something special.</p>

<h2>11:37pm on a weekend night—I’m crouched in front of a lamppost behind the diner, taking shots of what appears to be Vinny’s most ambitious work yet. He’s moved on to posters, it seems, and they’re nice ones. I wonder how long he’s been doing this.</h2>
<h2>Abruptly, a car fixes me in its headlights and stops.</h2>
<p>I’m always aware that what I’m doing—displaying an unusual obsession with documenting vandalism—is an inherently suspicious activity. Cops might think I’m recording my own work; the people whose work it actually is might think I’m a cop. Municipal vandal squads often maintain vast databases of photos, so they can charge vandals with all the incidents they have evidence for. (Vinny, oddly enough, does not seem to be remotely concerned about this.) </p>
<h2>“Hey man!” the guy yells. “I was trying to give you some more light…”</h2>
<p>Now that was nice of him, wasn’t it? And it definitely helped. That’s the above photo. I never use flash—not unless I’m going for the crime-scene look—so I try to illuminate a lot of my night photos with the light from passing cars. It’s a kind of lighting that seems distinctly urban and in line with the<em> </em>aesthetic I’m going for: off-the-cuff, ephemeral, documentarian, and slightly eerie.</p>
<p><em>Beacon</em>, I think, getting back to work. I’m still in small-town Connecticut-suburb mode, where people live proper lives and try not to deviate too noticeably from the local norms. In some ways, Beacon is similar—upscale, not particularly diverse—but like I said:</p>
<p>Beacon is <em>weird</em>.</p>

<h1>Vinny never stops.</h1>
<h2>He doesn’t stop designing. He doesn’t stop coming up with new ways of presenting his face. And he definitely doesn’t stop posting.</h2>
<p>Some day, I’ll go through all the photos I have of the various Vinnies I’ve seen around Beacon: Skeleton Vinny, Starbucks Vinny, Disney Vinny, Fidel-Castro-at-a-Yankees-Game (???) Vinny. All of them. He warrants a closer, more comprehensive look.</p>
<p>Most of the names I’ve come to recognize around here are notable just for their sheer persistence. They’re everywhere—but it’s the same tag, the same sticker. </p>
<h2>Vinny is notable because his energy doesn’t stop at raw promotion. He doesn’t have one design, he’s got thirty; but they’re all instantly recognizable as his. He’s a brand—probably one of the most innovative street artists I’ve seen working today.</h2>

<h1>I’m a man of microcosms. I don’t do a lot of global traveling; I prefer getting to know the intricacies of one particular space.</h1>
<h2>And most spaces have more intricacy than they’re given credit for. Even the most boring suburb—and I’d know, I grew up in one—has an unusual plant here or there, strange caterpillars, and an otherworldly quality to it if you’re out and about late at night and in the fog.</h2>

<p>What my neighborhood didn’t have much in the way of was any sort of street art. Why would it? It was a community of middle-to-upper-class retirees who were probably barely aware that such a thing existed.</p>
<p>So when I visited cities for the first time, in Europe, the art—mostly graffiti—was one of the first things I noticed. I was obsessed with it. Who were these people who doggedly scrawled their art on walls in the middle of the night? And why was it so haunting? </p>
<h1><em>—</em></h1>
<h1><em>Well—because many of them seemed crazy. And more, because I was the only one who noticed them. It felt like being in on a secret.</em></h1>
<h2>Gradually, I got to recognize the names and drawings that showed up all over Paris, Basel, Cologne. It was almost like recognizing a friend in a crowd; some familiar sign when everything else seemed utterly alien.</h2>
<p>And when I came back to the United States, I took that obsession—and heightened perception—with me. Every time I’m in a city, I pay attention to who’s writing on its walls: who they claim to be, what they’re trying to say.</p>
<h1><em>—</em></h1>
<h2>The world is a little richer than most of us are led to believe. We notice from the earliest age that our curiosity often inconveniences people. After a while, we stop being curious. </h2>
<p>But there’s so much to see. Taking a close look at the city walls around you is like peering into a microscope.</p>
<h1>Look closely.</h1>
<h1>❦</h1>
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Vicambulist 1: Taking a walk around Beacon, NY – the art gallery of the streets – pay attention to what’s around you, it’s worth it — @undefined's mag on Magma

Music

<h1><em>Bio</em></h1>
<p><em>Fusing his hip hop roots with lush and experimental electronic composition, CharlestheFirst has developed a danceable style steeped in dreaminess and pyschedelia. Born in 1996 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Charles has been heavily influenced by nature and the adventure that coincides with it.</em></p>

<h1>CHARLESTHEFIRST TELLS A STORY THROUGH ATMOSPHERIC BASS ALBUM, 'THE ASCENT'</h1>
<p><a href="https://edmidentity.com/2019/01/06/charlesthefirst-the-ascent-album-review/">EDM Identity</a> written by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cristiaan_b/">Cristiaan Broderick</a> </p>

<p><strong>CharlestheFirst combines nature and music to create the journey that is his second full-length album, The Ascent!</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p>Charles Elias Ingalls, more commonly known as left-field bass music producer <strong>CharlestheFirst</strong>, released his second full-length album, <strong><em><a href="https://edmidentity.com/2018/12/22/landing-volume-098/">The Ascent</a></em></strong> last week. Over the last several years, the Lake Tahoe-based producer has steadily cemented his position as a pioneer of modern bass music.</p>
<p>Much of CharlestheFirst’s discography is embellished with found sound and other foley that add natural texture and ambiance to his pieces. <em>The Ascent</em> is no exception. The manipulation of all this ear candy in conjunction with fluid basslines, ethereal pads, and soft plucks create a very compelling soundscape. The SoundCloud genre tag is “storytelling,” which is fitting; like its title implies, the album is a journey.</p>
<p><strong>While each track is capable of standing on its own, the album really shines when listened through in full.</strong></p>
<p>CharlestheFirst takes conventions of bass music and flips them on their heads, delivering bass-centric tracks that seldom compromise melodic interest. The album showcases creative integrity that a lot of bass music leaves to be desired.</p>
<p>The emphasis placed on nature and its inherent adventure is a salient characteristic of the album. It’s beautiful and humbling, unpredictable and mysterious.</p>
<p>The 11-track album runs just under 38 minutes, with no individual track that’s longer than five minutes. That being said, there is a lot of atmosphere and movement packed into these songs, so I’m going to walk through the album and some of its highlights.</p>

Charles the First at Enchanted Forest 2017

<p><em>I first saw CharlesTheFirst live￼ at a festival in Humboldt County called <a href="https://instagram.com/enchantedforestgathering?utm_medium=copy_link">Enchanted Forest</a>. After that experience, I had a burning desire to listen to his music and see him perform more exquisite sets such as that one I saw.￼</em></p>
<p><em>Pictured in the above video you can watch a flow dance performed during his set at Enchanted.</em></p>
<p><em>Below you can watch a video I took myself at a CharlesTheFirst show in November 2019 in Los Angeles.</em></p>

<p>I wanted to get a tattoo that symbolized my love for bass music. So I decided to get my favorite festival's emblem the Shambhala owl, representing the Shambhala Music Festival, morphed with the bass drop, and CharlesTheFirst's crown on top.￼￼ </p>
<p>Bass music has allowed me to find a flow to life in so many different ways, from writing code, to dancing, to just pondering life itself.￼ It brings an energy that no other music can manifest. The best aspect to underground electronic bass music such as CharlesTheFirst is the experimental and rather abstract sounds expressed. In my humble opinion, there's no other genre with the same amount of freedom to explore sounds.</p>

CharlesTheFirst - A Young Pioneer of Experimental Bass Music — @undefined's mag on Magma

Cameroon — @undefined's mag on Magma

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<p>When it comes to frames in cinematography, we tend to collect still moments from a moving picture. The moments that are collected are moments we present to the audience to bring interest in the story. Somewhere within that moment between the actor and the camera, a strong emotion was captured. </p>

<p>Environment </p>
<p>Frames don’t always include a person but indeed the environment. Set design is considered the reflection of the story and a character personality. Whenever a cinematographer capture the look in the environment, it is shared to also bring out interest in the story. </p>

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