New Atomic Activity Book

The girl with the blanket
Chiara Fumai
Atomic Activity Book N.3

The girl with the blanket
ISBN 978-88-903078-3-6
60 pages / hard-cover / 11×17.5cm
colour print / silver foil edge
30″ soundchip with the artist’s voice
Hand-knotted cloth bookmark
First Edition / 500 copies

more at
www.atomicactivity.com

Episode 26

ALIEN PINK MOLECULAR RADIANCE
A Sound-object by My Cat is an Alien

www.thisisamagazine.com/26
Episode 26 of This is a magazine
ISSN 1721-4467

This is a new episode of This is a magazine in the form of an exclusive sound-object by My Cat is an Alien. This is a music monolith from the Opalio brothers and it is now transmitting across the inner-verse. Turn it around in your mind.

This sound-object is presented in parallel to the unfolding in time and space of the Pink Laser Beam compendium. Image above from the embossed laminate-card picture-disc included with each edition of PLB

Selected Press on My Cat is an Alien
"My Cat is an Alien is the finest two-brother band from Italy since the end of the Great War. Their sounds move through the air the way that a tub of fine Roman butter moves through a circus ape..."
Thurston Moore and Byron Coley (Arthur Magazine)

"The Opalio brothers are among the most talented artists on the planet...Roberto and Maurizio Opalio are the new kings of the solar system, and their reign will be nothing but superb...This is essential music."
Brad Rose (Foxy Digitalis)

"The music MCIAA create sounds different, looks different, smells different, depending on where you are in the room. It's a total dislocation of inputs and outputs and everything else. Put that in your pipe and smoke it."
Byron Coley

"This is proper minimalism, the art of LaMonte Young; only while Young longed desperately for a trance-state, MCIAA start in one and work from there...it is so staggering, so mesmerizing, and makes music on its own terms so definitely, that it has a certain menacing, willfully unpretty, and monolithic grandeur, like some intractable slab of rock, or a vast, empty desert."
Jeff Siegel (Stylus Magazine)

"I can safely say that My Cat Is An Alien genuinely don't sound like anything else in music right now"
Second Layer

"Audio sculptures floating on a tension cable that never loses its way or grows fainter from the first instant to the last. The Beauty of noise in a sum of almost casual gestures."
Vittore Baroni (Rumore)

"If Sun Ra was still with us on this planet, he would certainly be proud of his children."
Tom Sekowski (Gaz-Eta)

"...this is truly music that inhabits the space between the Earth and the Spheres."
Steve Rybicki (Foxy Digitalis)

"MCIAA, yet again, manage to prove that they are leaders in the field of abstract drones and experimental music."
Smallfish (UK)

More TIAM
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www.pinklaserbeam.com
Press images
www.thisisamagazine.com/press

More MCIAA
www.mycatisanalien.com

Pink Laser Beam

NEW ATOMIC ACTIVITY BOOK!

Big Long Now
Rafaël Rozendaal
Atomic Activity Book N.2

ISBN 978-88-903078-2-9
120 pages / paper-back / 11×17.5cm
duo-tone print / black-dye edge
First Edition / 500 copies

We have published a second novelette over in our imprint Atomic Activity Books with Rafaël Rozendaal The book consists of the same drawing of a door printed on all 120 pages. This is a parallel work to Rafaël's www.biglongnow.com

Below is an interview with Rafaël:

AA: Hi Rafaël, how have you been?
RR: Very good, so good,
better and better.
AA: Better than before?
RR: Definitely. I actually thought I was
happy before, but I fooled myself.
AA: You fooled yourself?
RR: I thought I was happy,
I really believed it,
so maybe I was.
But I’m so much happier now so how
could I have been happy at the time?
It’s hard to trust my own memory,
and it’s hard to measure my own
feelings. But I’m very sure
I’m happy now.

You can purchase the book from our
www.atomicactivity.com/bookstore
Price €9 + Free worldwide delivery!

Atomic Activity Launches

The first Atomic Activity Book called Experiencing Hypnotism by Francesco Spampinato is now available through our new This is a magazine imprint Atomic Activity Books.

Price €6 with FREE WORLD-WIDE SHIPPING

Experiencing Hypnotism
ISBN 978-88-903078-1-2
60 pages / paper-back / 11×17.5cm
tri-tone print / silver gilt edging
First Edition / 500 copies

Follow images at our dedicated Flickr collection

Atomic Activity Books
Experimental deviations and non-standard behaviours.
An imprint of This is a magazine (a magazine about nothing)

New cover by JODI

This is a magazine about nothing has a new cover by JODI, from GeoGoo

Episode 25: Activities in time and space

This is a magazine
Episode 25: Activities in time and space

aids-3d
Center for Tactical Magic
Damon Zucconi
Francesco Spampinato
Grant Willing
Harm van den Dorpel
Loshadka
Nikola Tosic
Oliver Laric
Shane Hope
Yoshi Sodeoka

20 September 2008 8pm
8.00pm Francesco Spampinato x Sbudellatron “Unbounded”
8.30pm My Cat is an Alien
“Beyond yr shadow - I am / I am not (here?)”

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The episode continues from 19 September - 11 October 2008
Tuesday to Saturday 3.00 - 7.00pm

www.thisisamagazine.com

Accurate tracking of the Elk

Video-object 23 of This is a magazine is now channeling to you.

with new works by
a.a.s
Aids-3d
Grant Willing
Petra Cortright
Yoshi Sodeoka

experience the video-object directly through
This is a magazine or channeled as a long-play here also through Youtube

Episode 23 (or 2 + 3 = 5)
brought to you by www.thisisnotamagazine.com

meanwhile...

1. Senko Studio (Denmark) presents Michael and his Histories by Donnachie-Simionato - a future Atomic Activity book by the same title

2. A handful of copies of Compendia 4 and 5
are still available through our sales page
Note that all other compendia are sold-out but Compendium #6 (includes the artists mentioned above) is in production...

Image: aids-3d

Donnachie, Simionato & Son

Some new excerpts of old editions are being added to our dedicated Youtube channel, for those of you who prefer their video fed in such form, alternatively you are encouraged to view the full episodes through the usual This is a magazine

Also we have published our very own blog-like retrospective called Donnachie, Simionato & Son. It is a survey of our activity (photographic, visual, video, internet and book publishing) from the last 8 years or so. It has all the features of most blogs, but reads like a magazine.

Compendium #6 is currently under production, along with the related site-specific editions.

Don't say we didn't warn you.

T is for

Jeremy Leslie presented a kind of abecedaria of magazines at the 8 Festival for Fashion and Photography He has kindly uploaded his slides for all to see and so we include it below or read his excellent magazine-centric blog. Copies of This is a magazine Compendia were available along with many great titles. Many thanks to Jeremy, and Mike Koedinger and the Colophon crew.



Which reminds me that the compendium was also included in another small but rather good exhibition of magazine/objects in Milan Italy put together by the irrepressible Andrew Losowsky on the occasion of SignJam 08 (where I had an enjoyable sunday afternoon workshopping with a great group of people)

That's better now.

Chaos control

In attempt at chaos control we now have some external services for the press and interested public:

Video excerpts and previews will be added
on the Thisisamagazine Youtube channel

Images of new episodes and other thisisamagazinalia
will be available on the thisisamagazine photostream

External Tiam artist and associated links
from the internets will (slowly) be collected on the
thisisamagazine del.icio.us list

and for the last time,
NO we DO NOT have a Myspacefacebook page...

Episode 22

Episode 22

WARNING: It is not recommended to use this program
with other third-party Theta and Alpha-centered Programs.

With very new works by
(In order of perception)

Opening sequence
and incidental explosions
from Optic Triforce Trilogy
1. Geomagnetic Mind Feeed
2. Max Force Vision Phaser
3. Day-Glo Supernovea
by e*rock

Black Palms
by Jacopo Miliani

Experiencing Hypnotism
(An Atomic Activity*)
by Francesco Spampinato

Music for
Experiencing Hypnotism
Trilogie Femme
from L'Incroyable Vérité
by Sebastien Tellier
(Record Makers)

and some Untitled (excerpts)
by Shane Hope

A video-object edition
of This is (not) a magazine
by Donnachie/Simionato

Trust me, you will not be sorry
www.trustmeyouwillnotbesorry.com

part of

This is a magazine
www.thisisamagazine.com

also known as
This is not a magazine
www.thisisnotamagazine.com

Is your mind cluttered and no matter how hard
you try to focus or find answers, nothing flows easily?
You are using only a small portion of your mental capacity,
and you can't seem to make the breakthroughs you want.
Or are you swamped with new material and information
you need to absorb and assimilate quickly?
...Let our program effortlessly guide you
into the flow state of expanded consciousness.
Frustrating mental blocks dissolve.
You can think and perceive with crystal clarity.
You feel invigorated as fresh neural pathways
are opened to effortlessly access more
of your untapped ability to learn,
recall and create new ideas.
Thankyou. You're welcome.


*Atomic Activity Books
A new imprint from This is (not) a magazine
coming soon to www.atomicactivity.com

"Every activity is atomic"
Andy Simionato, 2008

Press-clippings

We are assembling an archive of published reviews, academic essays and theses concerning This is a magazine. Please contact us if you have material which you feel may contribute to our archive (a small reward is offered for your trouble)
For the moment here is a small article from the Athenian arts magazine Ozon for you to download and read should you so desire (PDF 144k)

Above image by Sergei Sviatchenko, from Episode 20

This is a magazine. Free for all.

Please read.
We are now serving both our first AND second printed Compendia
as free PDF downloads, complete and unabridged.

Please direct your browsers here:
Compendium 2: Fashion equals fiction
and here:
Compendium 1: Love, the universe and everything

Published in 2002 and 2003 in editions of 1,000 copies each, both books quickly sold out and until now have only been available to view in exhibitions and conferences. At over 200 pages each, these volumes contain custom artworks by Boogie (USA) , Takeshi Hamada (JP), Antonio Riello (IT), Jon Burgerman (UK), Asizaka Koji (JP), Frederique Daubal (FR), Slavimir Stojanovic and Futro (SLO), Clay Weiner (USA), Anthony Burrill (UK), and many other artists working in and around the internet.

These publications were featured in leading magazines including i-D, Dazed&Confused, Creative Review, Computer Arts, Tokion, Graphics International, Monument, X-funs, étapes, +81 and newspapers such as La Liberation, De:Bug, and D della Repubblica as well as discussed in a number of books on contemporary art and culture such as Jeremy Leslie's "MagCulture" (Lawrence King Publishers), Lauren Parker's "Interplay" (V&A Contemporary) and Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic's "Handwritten" (Thames & Hudson).

"A magazine like a toy"
i-D Magazine, U.K.

“A fierce and ferocious antidote to all that is commercial, conservative and complacent in magazine publishing, this is a must-see.”
Monument, Australia

“This is a magazine non scherza quanto radicalità”
(“This is a magazine isn’t joking when it comes to being radical”)
Exibart, National art newspaper, Italy

“This is a magazine take the art of print and visuals and flirt with them like no artists before them...”
Cream Magazine, Australia

“Il più bel giornale del web”
(“The most beautiful magazine on the web”)
D della Repubblica, Weekly Magazine supplement to the National newspaper La Repubblica,
Italy

“A showcase for creative talent”
Dazed & Confused, U.K.

Thankyou for reading.
This is (not) a magazine.

Above image is by Karen ann Donnachie,
from Compendium 2: Fashion equals fiction (2003)

Distributed Art Publishers

This is a magazine (and This is not a magazine) Compendium #5: Who I think I am is now available through Distributed Art Publishers. Making it easier (and perhaps more economically convenient) to find this compendium in the Americas and Asia.


If you do not already know about this brill publisher/distributor then have a look at their latest catalog (available in PDF).

Get your (free) copy of Compendium #1

Love, the Universe and Everything: Our very first Compendium of This is a magazine, originally published in 2002 is now available as a PDF (requires the free Acrobat Reader) for you to download and keep for ever. For real. You're welcome.

Danish Fashion magazine Arena

Danish Arena has included the Everything will be OK Compendium #4 as part of their collection of most-favourite things in a recent issue. We were alerted to this Scandinavian-hype by our friend and collaborator Sergei Sviatchenko (whose collages also appear most recently in our very latest online endeavour, episode 20, as well as in the recent Compendium #5 called Who I think I am)

Please read

New episodes 20 and 21 (previously removed)
now showing at This is a magazine.
You're welcome.

Neverending

is a new(ish) magazine out of Paris, France by Bori & Simon, which featured This is a magazine in its very first dreamy issue...

This art-directing-duo have also agreed to spread some of our "removed" Jonker's mini-comics at their stand at the next Salon Light (at the cneai on the 3-4 November) alongside their very own Neverending and other publications.

While everyone is sitting around crying about how all our favourite magazines are just turning into dull containers for ads, these guys (and their friends) are pumping out shiny gold.

Give entropy a chance

We are currently sporting a newly organized and hopefully easy-to-use look to the site (see top-left menu) But given some time, we promise that this place will soon return to its frustratingly cryptic ways. Also new series of online episodes will be screening soon. Now go away.