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The Best Is Yet To Come

Interview:Stefan Schmidt (Van Canto)Tuomas Seppälä (Amberian Dawn)

HerStory - Michela SereniThe Best Of Us - Andreea Albulescu

Year 5 - 2016

Teen Art Out nr 38ISSN 2284 – 6549 ISSN–L = 2284 – 6549

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Editor-in-Chief: Simona MihalcaEditors: Andreea Albulescu Ruxandra Sevastin Rareș Zaharia - Lefter Carlos Funes Delia Cocoș Alexandra Șerbănescu Ronnie Smith Michela Sereni Elix Rae Cover Graphics: Stefan HeilemannCover design: Simona MihalcaDesign: Simona Mihalca Alexandra Dinu

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The Best Is Yet To Come

This 38th issue of Teen Art Out marks our 4 year anniver-sary. It’s a time when we take a look back and remember all we’ve learned, all we have done and all we have achieved. It is on that that we intend to build, to create more issue, to go further, to be bigger and better. We found the perfect song to say just that.

The Best Is Yet To Come has to become a motto. No mat-ter who you are or where you are in life, you must strive for greatness, wanting to be better than your former self. The past can be a dark road to walk. Or even yet, it can be so happy it will hurt. Farewells and anniversaries can be more than bittersweet. Finishing with an era of your life is happy and sad, is uncertain and it has to push you, to make you be better.

I know we want to do better, we want to hear more from you, to have more of you hear us. We wish to inspire peo-ple and to learn from those who have something to teach us. The world is our oyster and we intend to see it, to expe-rience it, to share it.You will find in this issue articles about who we are and where we’ve been. You will find new columns, new issues being tackled. Needless to say, there will be interviews, just like you like them. Simona MihalcaEditor-in-Chief

Quentin Tarantino’s 8th ilm, he Hate-ful Eight, is another incursion in the western drama genre that started with his 2012 Oscar winning Django Un-chained. his time, the cold and des-olate landscapes of Wyoming during a terrible blizzard provides us with a blank canvas upon which Tarantino lets his colourful characters loose. We meet with John Ruth (Kurt Rus-sell), a ruthless bounty hunter and his valuable prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) traversing the mountain side of Wyoming to reach the town of Red Rock where he is bound to cash in his reward. A blizzard is close to catching up with them when they meet Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jack-son) who also seeks shelter from the cold. On their way, they ind shelter in a cabin that’s already inhabited by a num-ber of curious characters that might not be what they seem.

So what is to be expected from Tarantino’s new drama?

Review: he Hateful Eight (Spoiler Free) by Alexandra Șerbănescu

Quentin Tarantino’s 8th ilm, he Hate-ful Eight, is another incursion in the western drama genre that started with his 2012 Oscar winning Django Un-chained. his time, the cold and des-olate landscapes of Wyoming during a terrible blizzard provides us with a blank canvas upon which Tarantino lets his colourful characters loose. We meet with John Ruth (Kurt Rus-sell), a ruthless bounty hunter and his valuable prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) traversing the mountain side of Wyoming to reach the town of Red Rock where he is bound to cash in his reward. A blizzard is close to catching up with them when they meet Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jack-son) who also seeks shelter from the cold. On their way, they ind shelter in a cabin that’s already inhabited by a num-ber of curious characters that might not be what they seem.

So what is to be expected from Tarantino’s new drama?

Review: he Hateful Eight (Spoiler Free) by Alexandra Șerbănescu

Racial tensions. Since the ilm is set sometime ater the Civil War, there are bound to be racial ten-sions. On the one hand, we have the unionist Major Marquis and, on the other hand, confederate sympathisers Sherif Chris Man-nix (Walton Goggins) or Gener-al Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern) who do not shy away from racial slurs. Like Django, it might be upsetting seeing how people used to react and treat others based on the colour of their skin but that was the reality of those days.

Strong female lead. Although she is the prisoner, Daisy Domerque shows in-credible resilience and force when dealing with her cap-tors. A raw, strong woman that is not willing to back down and repent for her sins.

Samuel L. Jackson. You almost cannot go wrong with such a talented actor and SLJ shines in every scene. In one scene you get captivated by his frightening tale of a nefarious encounter with an-other bounty hunter and in an-other you roar with laughter at his expert delivery. It almost feels like he outshined the likes of Tim Roth and Michael Madsen and that is not such an easy feat to ac-complish.

Violence and Blood. Gallons of blood. If you are not familiar with Tarantino’s work or you get squeamish at the sight of blood, beware. he scenes are fast, ex-plicit, gory and unapologetic. he characters punch, kick and shoot without mercy and the splatter-fest is all there to see.

Hilarious banter. As with the “Royale with cheese” in Pulp Fic-tion and “Like a virgin” in Res-ervoir Dogs, expect some dark and hilarious banter between the characters, especially since they seem to come from all walks of life and there are bound to be tensions between them. Which leads to...

However, despite all of its strong points, the ilm does not seem to stay memorable. Tarantino shits his per-spective to a rather linear mystery (we have only one lashback that gives us some insight) that does not seem to say anything in particular. he costumes, the setting and the cinematography are all beautiful and create an atmosphere that makes you shiver and wanting to reach over to a hot cup of tea but in the end it leaves you with an underwhelm-ing impression. You shouldn’t forget a Tarantino movie.

he Hateful Eight’s inal score: 8/10.

Racial tensions. Since the ilm is set sometime ater the Civil War, there are bound to be racial ten-sions. On the one hand, we have the unionist Major Marquis and, on the other hand, confederate sympathisers Sherif Chris Man-nix (Walton Goggins) or Gener-al Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern) who do not shy away from racial slurs. Like Django, it might be upsetting seeing how people used to react and treat others based on the colour of their skin but that was the reality of those days.

Strong female lead. Although she is the prisoner, Daisy Domerque shows in-credible resilience and force when dealing with her cap-tors. A raw, strong woman that is not willing to back down and repent for her sins.

Samuel L. Jackson. You almost cannot go wrong with such a talented actor and SLJ shines in every scene. In one scene you get captivated by his frightening tale of a nefarious encounter with an-other bounty hunter and in an-other you roar with laughter at his expert delivery. It almost feels like he outshined the likes of Tim Roth and Michael Madsen and that is not such an easy feat to ac-complish.

Violence and Blood. Gallons of blood. If you are not familiar with Tarantino’s work or you get squeamish at the sight of blood, beware. he scenes are fast, ex-plicit, gory and unapologetic. he characters punch, kick and shoot without mercy and the splatter-fest is all there to see.

Hilarious banter. As with the “Royale with cheese” in Pulp Fic-tion and “Like a virgin” in Res-ervoir Dogs, expect some dark and hilarious banter between the characters, especially since they seem to come from all walks of life and there are bound to be tensions between them. Which leads to...

However, despite all of its strong points, the ilm does not seem to stay memorable. Tarantino shits his per-spective to a rather linear mystery (we have only one lashback that gives us some insight) that does not seem to say anything in particular. he costumes, the setting and the cinematography are all beautiful and create an atmosphere that makes you shiver and wanting to reach over to a hot cup of tea but in the end it leaves you with an underwhelm-ing impression. You shouldn’t forget a Tarantino movie.

he Hateful Eight’s inal score: 8/10.

45 YearsKate and Geof are a comfortably retired couple sharing their peaceful lives in a very ine house on the Norfolk Broads in England. Kate is an elegant woman who was once a school teacher, possibly of music. She is well liked and respected. She loves classical mu-sic, does all the driving, the shopping and the cooking, is devoted to their dog and makes all the arrangements for her family. Geof, once a senior manager in manu-facturing and, ater a recent heart bypass operation, seems reluctant to do any of the above and has a hard time shaving, combing his hair or even going out for a walk. He is grumpy, makes little efort with their friends and appears happy to allow Kate to look ater him. hey have no children.

Director – Andrew HaighCharlotte Rampling, Tom

Courtney

45 YearsKate and Geof are a comfortably retired couple sharing their peaceful lives in a very ine house on the Norfolk Broads in England. Kate is an elegant woman who was once a school teacher, possibly of music. She is well liked and respected. She loves classical mu-sic, does all the driving, the shopping and the cooking, is devoted to their dog and makes all the arrangements for her family. Geof, once a senior manager in manu-facturing and, ater a recent heart bypass operation, seems reluctant to do any of the above and has a hard time shaving, combing his hair or even going out for a walk. He is grumpy, makes little efort with their friends and appears happy to allow Kate to look ater him. hey have no children.

Director – Andrew HaighCharlotte Rampling, Tom

Courtney

Both Kate and Geof are shocked. Geof because Katya’s body has i-nally been recovered. Kate because a shaken Geof suddenly refers to his ex as ‘my Katya’ and because she discovers that Geof is actually reg-istered as Katya’s next-of-kin. So we begin to witness the crum-bling of Kate’s world as the husband whom she has made the focal point of her life slips quickly from a state of mild reminiscence into a deeper re-engagement with his long-dead irst love. his is the story of Kate’s deep per-sonal tragedy in the face of Geof ’s profound insensitivity. It is a simple and beautiful story of the fragility of fundamental human perceptions and assumptions, adapted from the short story ‘In Another Country’ by David Constantine which I now feel compelled to read. he ilm is unremittingly English, cinema as theatre. As the anniver-sary party approaches, there can be no screaming in the kitchen, no smashing of crockery, only a quiet and very intense accumulation of pain.

here is a simple beauty in a story perfectly paced and developed by the Director, Andrew Haig, given greater emphasis by the bleakness of the Norfolk Broads in winter.Charlotte Rampling is outstanding as Kate, controlling every sinew of her being to express the trauma sufered by her complex and dig-niied character. And Tom Court-ney is perfect as the arrogant and deliberately shallow Geof, careless in his relationships and somehow clinging for safety to an unsubstan-tiated past. he maturity and expe-rience of both actors deliver a sense of ‘reality’ that I have not seen for a very long time. How many actual couples’ lives are like this? Ordinary people from every conceivable background ap-parently happy together over many years yet, at the same time, each harbouring memories of what once was and what might have been. How many people believe that they have settled for something less and feel that they must pretend that ev-erything is OK?

How many partners are happy in a certainty that is only wafer-thin? It is the delicate and sensitive treat-ment of this theme that makes ’45 Years’ such an excellent movie.

Charlotte Rampling has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Actress.

At the beginning of the week in which they are planning to cele-brate their marriage of forty ive years, at a party with all their friends, Geof receives a letter from the Swiss authorities. Ater ity years the body of his ex-girlfriend has been recovered from a melting glacier in the Alps; she had fallen to her death during a walking holiday and it becomes clear that the status of ex-girlfriend was only conferred on the girl, ‘Katya’, through her un-timely death.

Ronnie Smith

Both Kate and Geof are shocked. Geof because Katya’s body has i-nally been recovered. Kate because a shaken Geof suddenly refers to his ex as ‘my Katya’ and because she discovers that Geof is actually reg-istered as Katya’s next-of-kin. So we begin to witness the crum-bling of Kate’s world as the husband whom she has made the focal point of her life slips quickly from a state of mild reminiscence into a deeper re-engagement with his long-dead irst love. his is the story of Kate’s deep per-sonal tragedy in the face of Geof ’s profound insensitivity. It is a simple and beautiful story of the fragility of fundamental human perceptions and assumptions, adapted from the short story ‘In Another Country’ by David Constantine which I now feel compelled to read. he ilm is unremittingly English, cinema as theatre. As the anniver-sary party approaches, there can be no screaming in the kitchen, no smashing of crockery, only a quiet and very intense accumulation of pain.

here is a simple beauty in a story perfectly paced and developed by the Director, Andrew Haig, given greater emphasis by the bleakness of the Norfolk Broads in winter.Charlotte Rampling is outstanding as Kate, controlling every sinew of her being to express the trauma sufered by her complex and dig-niied character. And Tom Court-ney is perfect as the arrogant and deliberately shallow Geof, careless in his relationships and somehow clinging for safety to an unsubstan-tiated past. he maturity and expe-rience of both actors deliver a sense of ‘reality’ that I have not seen for a very long time. How many actual couples’ lives are like this? Ordinary people from every conceivable background ap-parently happy together over many years yet, at the same time, each harbouring memories of what once was and what might have been. How many people believe that they have settled for something less and feel that they must pretend that ev-erything is OK?

How many partners are happy in a certainty that is only wafer-thin? It is the delicate and sensitive treat-ment of this theme that makes ’45 Years’ such an excellent movie.

Charlotte Rampling has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Actress.

At the beginning of the week in which they are planning to cele-brate their marriage of forty ive years, at a party with all their friends, Geof receives a letter from the Swiss authorities. Ater ity years the body of his ex-girlfriend has been recovered from a melting glacier in the Alps; she had fallen to her death during a walking holiday and it becomes clear that the status of ex-girlfriend was only conferred on the girl, ‘Katya’, through her un-timely death.

Ronnie Smith

GLOBALWARMING

Delia Cocos

Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s climate. his is a type of greenhouse efect.

GLOBALWARMING

Delia Cocos

Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s climate. his is a type of greenhouse efect.

Global warming is already having considerable and harmful efects on our communities, our health and our climate. he expanded volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases freed by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, are believed to be the primary causes of the global warming. Carbon dioxide, which contaminates the ozone layer, comes from various sources, but the most problematic are those coming from the blazing of fossil fuels from power plants. his releases thousands of tones of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. Last year and the past decennium were the warmest since temperature records be-gan and the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. Other global warming impacts are the melting of the ice caps and the bleaching of Coral Reefs due to warm-ing seas and acidiication. Polar bears are now thought to be extremely threatened by the shortening of their feeding season due to dwindling ice packs, and one third of coral reefs now appear to have been serious-ly damaged by warming seas. he Earth has warmed 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, on average, since the late 19th century and most of the warming has occurred since 1960.

It displays the regional categories

buried in the global average: a few

areas, most near the Antarctic,

actually have gotten colder since

1960, while some parts of the Arc-

tic have warmed as much as 15

degrees. Scientists from the Inter-

governmental Panel on Climate

have predicted just a while ago

that average global temperatures

could increase between 1.4 and 5.8

°C by the year 2100.

If global warming goes on, there

would be animals and plants

that would become extinct, there

would be storms and loods, and

the sea level would rise too high

and some areas would be too dry

for farmers to farm.

he irst solution for the global

warming is to reduce emissions.

As individuals, we can help by

taking action to scale down our

private carbon emissions, but we

could try to convince our leaders

to spend more money on energy

technologies and industries and to

increase the use of renewable en-

ergy, too.

Another solution for the climate

change is to create more green

homes and buildings. An average

retroitted house can save $700 to

$1150 a year in energy costs. Ret-

roitting just one out of every 5

American homes would prevent

the need to build 13 mid-sized

power plants every year.

he third solution is to stop de-

forestation. Tropical deforestation

causes about 10 percent of the

world’s heat-trapping emissions ,

which corresponds with a year’s

worth of tailpipe emissions of 600

million average U.S. cars.

As a conclusion, global warming

is a real threaten to our planet

and we should always remind our-

selves that even small things, like

using less energy(it causes pollu-

tion, then pollution causes green-

house gases) cam make a difer-

Global warming is already having considerable and harmful efects on our communities, our health and our climate. he expanded volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases freed by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, are believed to be the primary causes of the global warming. Carbon dioxide, which contaminates the ozone layer, comes from various sources, but the most problematic are those coming from the blazing of fossil fuels from power plants. his releases thousands of tones of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. Last year and the past decennium were the warmest since temperature records be-gan and the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. Other global warming impacts are the melting of the ice caps and the bleaching of Coral Reefs due to warm-ing seas and acidiication. Polar bears are now thought to be extremely threatened by the shortening of their feeding season due to dwindling ice packs, and one third of coral reefs now appear to have been serious-ly damaged by warming seas. he Earth has warmed 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, on average, since the late 19th century and most of the warming has occurred since 1960.

It displays the regional categories

buried in the global average: a few

areas, most near the Antarctic,

actually have gotten colder since

1960, while some parts of the Arc-

tic have warmed as much as 15

degrees. Scientists from the Inter-

governmental Panel on Climate

have predicted just a while ago

that average global temperatures

could increase between 1.4 and 5.8

°C by the year 2100.

If global warming goes on, there

would be animals and plants

that would become extinct, there

would be storms and loods, and

the sea level would rise too high

and some areas would be too dry

for farmers to farm.

he irst solution for the global

warming is to reduce emissions.

As individuals, we can help by

taking action to scale down our

private carbon emissions, but we

could try to convince our leaders

to spend more money on energy

technologies and industries and to

increase the use of renewable en-

ergy, too.

Another solution for the climate

change is to create more green

homes and buildings. An average

retroitted house can save $700 to

$1150 a year in energy costs. Ret-

roitting just one out of every 5

American homes would prevent

the need to build 13 mid-sized

power plants every year.

he third solution is to stop de-

forestation. Tropical deforestation

causes about 10 percent of the

world’s heat-trapping emissions ,

which corresponds with a year’s

worth of tailpipe emissions of 600

million average U.S. cars.

As a conclusion, global warming

is a real threaten to our planet

and we should always remind our-

selves that even small things, like

using less energy(it causes pollu-

tion, then pollution causes green-

house gases) cam make a difer-

Welcome Back: HERstory in short

History used to be made by tall, white, straight males only. As if being a part of the world and moving in it were their prerogative. With the founding of the Subaltern Studies Group (SSG), post-colonialism and post-imperialism started to gain a new perspective. hese South-Asian minds exposed their refreshing views and re-deining ideas to history, allowing it to become richer. A historian’s goal is always to get to the truth, but that is objectively impossible; however, a greater number books and more eyes guarantee a better analysis. In fact, while dissecting a piece of past, multiple sources and point of views are not only required or needed, but also essential. Women entered history books only in the Seventies, thanks to the feminist movement and its writers. In 1975, in Italy, “Donna. Woman. Femme” (DWF) was rising and becoming a reality; only a few years later, in 1981, “Memoria” (translated, “Memory”) the Italian magazine for women who devoted their lives to history studies was born. Later on, in 1989, another project that connected gender and scholars started (SIS, “Società delle Storiche). A younger child, “Gene-sis” (yet another paper) saw the light in 2002. “Il Manifesto di Rivolta Femminile” (’he Manifest of Feminine Revolution’) is a 1970 piece by Carla Lonzi, where the writer did a sum-up of her beliefs (including a proud critique to the institution or marriage and an interest for a subjective and free sex life, released from men’s requests). On the other hand, Luisa Muraro was the one who proposed a new “order”, focusing around the maternal igure, with its cultural, social, linguistic (and so on) complexes. his short chronology makes it clear that as far as the pizza-in-venting, Mediterranean Sea-wet shores are concerned, feminism is a pretty new achievement. In this Country, women gained the right to vote ater the Second World War, when the population was inal-ly asked to decide, through a referendum, which kind of government they wanted to rule over them. his happened in June, 1946. North Europe reached these basic privileges earlier on (1918 for England and a few others; Norway had it done by 1913). However, women had had enough time to develop their ideas carefully.

Welcome Back: HERstory in short

History used to be made by tall, white, straight males only. As if being a part of the world and moving in it were their prerogative. With the founding of the Subaltern Studies Group (SSG), post-colonialism and post-imperialism started to gain a new perspective. hese South-Asian minds exposed their refreshing views and re-deining ideas to history, allowing it to become richer. A historian’s goal is always to get to the truth, but that is objectively impossible; however, a greater number books and more eyes guarantee a better analysis. In fact, while dissecting a piece of past, multiple sources and point of views are not only required or needed, but also essential. Women entered history books only in the Seventies, thanks to the feminist movement and its writers. In 1975, in Italy, “Donna. Woman. Femme” (DWF) was rising and becoming a reality; only a few years later, in 1981, “Memoria” (translated, “Memory”) the Italian magazine for women who devoted their lives to history studies was born. Later on, in 1989, another project that connected gender and scholars started (SIS, “Società delle Storiche). A younger child, “Gene-sis” (yet another paper) saw the light in 2002. “Il Manifesto di Rivolta Femminile” (’he Manifest of Feminine Revolution’) is a 1970 piece by Carla Lonzi, where the writer did a sum-up of her beliefs (including a proud critique to the institution or marriage and an interest for a subjective and free sex life, released from men’s requests). On the other hand, Luisa Muraro was the one who proposed a new “order”, focusing around the maternal igure, with its cultural, social, linguistic (and so on) complexes. his short chronology makes it clear that as far as the pizza-in-venting, Mediterranean Sea-wet shores are concerned, feminism is a pretty new achievement. In this Country, women gained the right to vote ater the Second World War, when the population was inal-ly asked to decide, through a referendum, which kind of government they wanted to rule over them. his happened in June, 1946. North Europe reached these basic privileges earlier on (1918 for England and a few others; Norway had it done by 1913). However, women had had enough time to develop their ideas carefully.

According to Simone de Beauvoir, author of “he Second Sex”, females

have always been limited by obliga-tions, which implies they can’t ind their

true dimension, making it easier to be mar-ginalized in history records. She also states

that females used to live themselves as a sort of Other Self, with contents dictated by the males in

charge (Conclusion). With time passing, Women’s Studies were initiated, making it possible for feminists

such as Juliet Mitchell to link the movement itself with other studies (in her case, psychoanalysis), or for people

of the likes of Franca Pietroni Bortolotti (Here), to expand and share their thoughts with a wider public. It became clear

quite fast that sex could not stay outside politics, A main path was walked by J.W.Scott, airming that the diference between

men and girls was not natural, but both socio-cultural and political, and seeing gender as a cultural creation, while hinting as well to the

well-known and ancient concept of a manly nation. he SSG had already pointed out that the feminine identity sufered of a double form of subaltern-ess, both gender and ethnicity were involved. Queerness and race soon became part of the female-centered thinking, too, marking styles and ideas deeply diferent from one another (a number of “waves” exist, to indicate the evolution of theories). With the dawning of a new era, feminism and the so called herstory have made a huge comeback, inluencing and shaping actresses, singers and other kinds of pop icons, apart from its traditional set of teachers, philosophers, activists and thinkers. What’s too easily forgotten, though, is that women can indeed make their own story, or talk about it: that’s what we’re asking for, a cry that has started in the middle of the XXth century and has yet to be silenced down. A place to talk and the space that has been denied us for so long. We can use our own voices. And we will. Michela Sereni