TheScreamOnline is one year old (plus a month), having made its debut with the June 2001 issue. It started as a bi-monthly publication and then became a quarterly in January, so this is issue #6, for what it’s worth. In the year that has passed, TheScreamOnline has grown up a lot. The tragedies of 9/11 have caused us and the entire country to sober up, take stock in priorities, and embrace what is good in humanity all the more. We continue with our mission of presenting to you the amazing talent of our extended family of artists, photographers, and writers with yet another fine array of features.
As you will see in the Talent Index at the bottom of the page, TheScreamOnline family has grown considerably. We could look no further than that list and be well-stocked far into the future with wonderfully inspiring and creative articles. Yet, into our folds come new and wondrous voices. Perhaps one of the most exciting is the collective talents represented by our “Picturing Race” feature, a collection of photographs from Durban, South Africa, and Los Angeles, California, taken by children ages 8 to 16. Kudos to the Venice Arts Mecca of Venice, California, for providing these creative opportunities for the children.
ART
Award-winning
Santa Fe artist Cheri Christensen
studied with Ron Lukas, a protégé of Sergei Bongart, and the
strength of her paintings lies in her wonderful use of color, light, and texture.
The Lost Art of Mechanical Drawing,
also known as Technical Illustration, is revisited in this collection of images
taken from the 1902 edition of Hawkin’s Self Help Mechanical Drawing
for Home Study. Whilst CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator have largely replaced
pencil, pen, and paper, neither can create the charm and warmth of the drawings
of yore.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographer Mark Magidson was the co-producer of the acclaimed IMAX film
Chronos, and then produced, co-wrote, and co-edited the award-winning
and highly acclaimed film Baraka. Featured are images from the book,
Baraka, a Visual journal.
Carol Nye’s
Caravanserai series documents
her journeys along the ancient Silk Road trade route of Western China and
in the mountains of Tibet on her way to Nepal.
WORLD PREMIER:
In 1960, Jayne Mansfield sat for portrait photographer Robert Balcomb in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and the result was perhaps the finest portrait ever taken of her.
See the portrait and read all about it in “A
Day With Jayne.”
Picturing Race is
a photographic journey from Los Angeles to South Africa—and back again—as
captured through the eyes of young people, ages 8 to 16, enrolled in Venice
Arts’ Social Arts Initiatives program of Venice, California.
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MUSIC
Inanna,
Sisters in Rhythm is a percussion and vocal ensemble based in Maine, USA,
that explores the heritage and rhythms of West Africa through original arrangements
and compositions, invoking ancient traditions of the drum.
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EDITORIAL
Perfectly
straight lines are the issue, and how very few there really are. Read “From
God’s Lips to My Ear.”
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COMMENTARY
The
United States Attorney General went to great lengths (and cost) to protect
the American public from the morally-corrupting and indecent display of a
metal breast in the Hall of Justice. Read
Claire Braz-Valentine’s “Open
Letter to John Ashcroft.”
“The Blooming of Wisdom,” by Doug Fulcher, states that “to ‘defeat’ [our] enemies is to address the causes for their presence,” thereby creating the “potential to transform the planet in a very positive way.”
Rob Woutat gives a spelling lesson to a young Vietnamese immigrant in “Ngoc,” and addresses our penchant for using euphemisms in “Three Cheers for Bowels.”
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NONFICTION
In “‘The
Illusion of Protection’: Two Travelers Speak of Home” Danusha
Goska brilliantly contributes to that great pantheon of Letters from the Road
in which she, as one who has never really had one, tries to define the concept
of home.
Alexander Woollcott’s “Miss Kitty Takes to the Road” of 1934 is both an indictment of that period’s attitude toward live theater and an account of the circumstances surrounding the most amazing opening night performance ever to occur in the history of theater.
“No Pain, No Gain” deals with the pain of love, the pain of parents’ expectations, the pain of not being accepted, the pain of jobs, money problems, failures, and lost dreams, and how all that fits into our own capacity to love others—by Stuart Vail.
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POETRY
Offerings from
Michael
Knisely, Edward King, Lisa
Lenard, Sgt. Mack.
View the Poet Index for access to all poets in every issue.
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EPIPHANIES
As
stated in our premier issue, this
section is meant to chronicle those unique moments of synchronicity, self-discovery,
and insight that appear to those who are in the right place at the right time
to appreciate them.
Those moments cannot
simply
be ordered up or called upon. Also, we may pay tribute to unique individuals
who have lived, loved, performed, and created in planes of existence that
most of us can only aspire to. Please visit our Epiphanies
page to see the past year’s
collection of unique contributions.
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HUMOR
So
much for being serious. Musical
humor (a beertap tuba?), a seeing-eye man, dancing Spiderman, Hebrew Beer,
and more from the Lone Arranger.
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THE STRANGE & BIZARRE
Forget
consulting your astrologist, analyzing the tea leaves in your cup, or throwing
the I Ching. Before taking that flight from Abu Dhabi to Zagreb, be
sure to visit Am I Going Down,
for your chances of survival.
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TECHNOLOGY
Tech
Talk: The tech desk took a vacation this issue, but be sure to read about
optimizing images for email attachments, monitor resolution, power
back-up, surge protection, voltage regulation, and
emptying your browser's cache.
You just returned from your whirlwind trip to Venezuela, Yugoslavia, and Saudi
Arabia and you have pockets of leftover bolivars, dinars, and riyas. Click
the icon to find out what all that money is worth in your own currency.
Download the latest version of Netscape, Internet Explorer, Quicktime, Flash, Real Player, Shockwave, Ipix, Acrobat Reader.
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BOOKS
Want some suggestions for good reading? Check out TheScreamOnline
Bookshelf.
FAVORITE LINKS
View
our favorite places for photography, film,
poetry, e-zines, web design, and Internet resources (plus a quick lesson in
the Fibonacci Series).
ARTISTS & WRITERS INDEX
View
an alphabetical list of TheScreamOnline talent
with links to all articles in every issue.
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So throw off the bowlines.
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