austere cmyk // issue 10
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TABLE OF NONSENSET ABLEOF NON-SENSETAB LE OF N
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the ten
TABLE OF NON SENSETABLE OF NONSENSE
life68-wearable tech.doc
70-applications.app
72-how tech defined me.doc
48-stuck in a pixel.jpg
58-cmyk.jpg
62-painted rooms.mov
fashion
music34-data howler.mp3
40-macaroni island.doc
38-tech gear.doc
8-poetic justice.jpg
10-ryan polly.mov
12-titanesque.doc
14-from the future.doc
16-irby pace.jpg
18-little docc.jpg
20-icky antics.doc
22-maria razo.doc
24-bell and oak.mov
26-dyemond o’bryan.tiff
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In 2009, Dwight James and a few other students at The University
of North Texas began congregating at a hidden spot on campus
known as 'The Rocks'.
Through both word of mouth and social media, it grew
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- a Tuesday night event in which any student can show up and
rap, sing, speak or just listen. There are always newcomers; in
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enough room for everyone who shows up.
"I was a freshman when a friend from my hometown who
knew I was into poetry told me about it," current president of
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remain the same.
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By Jordan Thompson
POETIC JUSTICE
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Reggie Lewis, a poet at UNT, had audience members
crying during his poem about Rwanda. Everything I didn't
know about the holocaust of those people is cringe-worthy,
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knowing more about the world and the people I share it with.
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but I went and watched and afterwards at home, I wrote."
It is beautiful to see someone standing before a crowd,
painting a story with words, and then look at their notebook
sitting in their empty seat and think, "I can only imagine what
is in that thing." You watch them as they sit back down and
become part of the audience again, but this time you know
them in a way that you didn't before.
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your poetry. You know what they say about virgins to the mic.
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are treated with respect, and if they are nervous or they forget
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expression and self redemption.
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for rap. Rap is poetry, and that is why lyricists feel at home at
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when she was in elementary school, and started a poetry club
in high school.
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better than I do just talking." PJ
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friends who decided to turn their love of geekdom and
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transform oneself from a human to a character is not an
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order to follow through making the costumes I have to fall
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celebrating their fandom. There are unspoken hierarchies
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really changed how I view life," Bukoski added, “but more
changed how I handle it. Every day I have a goal to better
myself and learn to better my skills. Every time I go to a
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without this. “I know this is just the beginning to really
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have transformed this simple space into an underground cockpit, where
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64 back in the early ‘90s, and continued to adapt their skills to create for
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audience before deciding to make the move to Denton and focus more
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on web-based and mobile phone games. From “Trouble in Tin Town,” with
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“Best Forgotten Island,” in which a giant hobo ape mingles with dinosaurs
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capture and entertain their audience.
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from scratch, take on an entirely new idea and make it personal.” “From the
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based game where each dwarf has a different ability to achieve the task
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with each other though a simple shake of their phone. The third work in
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either competitively or as a team. “From the Future” is also working with
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from their games are connected and displayed through the TV screen and
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“From the Future” also creates business apps and work for hire when
they are not designing mobile games. Branching out at a time that other
companies try to play it safe, “From the Future” is working on getting more
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says his team wants to do mobile games consistently, all the while diving
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Google Glasses, and wearable computers.
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that they want to stay in Denton, having purposely moved here for the
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being around all the creative minds Denton has to offer. The Jupiter
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the Future” is here to stay. www.jovianminds.com/
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University of North Texas, and that he had hoped to eventually become
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was his dedication to his art.
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medium and be a part of the process.”
PHOTOS BY LAURA HALL
Everyone sees the same thing, but then they take that and recreate it into their own meaning. Art is universal that way.
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startup tech community meets at the various coffee shops around town.
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attracting startup tech lovers, both old and new, to share, create and grow.
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outlets for you to progress in the tech world.
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over a cup of joe while cultivating the budding tech culture in Denton.
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Weekends, which is a global organization that the Denton tech community
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major label deals in order to go out and do interesting things, and LittleDocc
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creativity and density of talent that Denton possesses.
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expressing their astonishment over the rising number of interested
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By Patricia Stepaniuk
Denton is one of those funny places in which you have to dig
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the brightest lie at the bottom of the stack- and when you
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places to do everything.” Razo displayed this in her own
work when she started doodling one day and the pieces of
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the most authentic gift, really, because its pleasures are ultimately free. For
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it; it doesn't have to be on his walls at home. The notes of a melody
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he was, just giving me art, as if art was always meant to be given.
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By Patricia Stepaniuk
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years in front of a computer, in a high-stress graphic design career,
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of Friends- just to name a few.
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"music trends are cool but there are certain types of art that capture the human conditions so well that it's forever."
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stickers stuck in his fur and the sun kept shining. The soccer game
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students to create and thrive in an environment that rarely exists outside
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about our lives in digital format, from breakfast foods to break-ups; we
put it all out there for the world to see. With each post, with each new
upload, our identity changes ever so slightly. It is as if we are creating an
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day lives. It is no longer an extension or a piece of our identity, but rather
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While we have choice in how we distinguish our identities, we are
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are great, and they serve to direct awareness to options that the majority
of the population were not aware of, but they also limit us and do not
allow for self-proclaimed gender roles- such as tree philanthropist.
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brought countless pieces of our identities together on one platform. By
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familiar with, we can forge connections and relationships that we did not
know existed. These puzzle pieces can enrich our search for those people
we felt had been lost in the past.
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that took a chance in order to make a search for a family name and then
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conversations, a generation was recovered that was thought to be lost,
and the identity of a family was reshaped through the power of technology
and social networking.
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it can be, at least when we play by the rules that have been laid out by the
game maker.
Each post matters, from your wall to mine; they add to our identity,
whether it be genuine or a prosthesis. We are all shaped by this, and we
must continue to evolve and break the rules that have been set out for us.
"With each post, with each new upload, our identity changes ever so slightly."
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9:00am this morning
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and your taste buds.
friends, denton, countrymen, lend me your ears.
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