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UPPERCASE makes an entrance

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Up and coming visual arts magazine, UPPERCASE, released its second issue for sale to the public today. This quarterly publication features a lot of independent talent from across the board. If it’s cool, they want to see it. And share it! From the realms of illustration, design, photography, film, and music, the talented are called upon to submit their work to contribute to the eclectic, grassroots effort that is UPPERCASE. With a small but exponentially growing following, this quarterly targeted to the “creative and curious” holds a lot of promise. A few reasons this Canadian publication is catching fire: By giving your support as a subscriber, you have a chance to be interviewed and featured in an issue. Ads are to be kept to a minimum (6 per issue.) You can also follow their work in progress via flickr to stay up on what’s going on between issues.

First Issue

Second Issue

Second Issue

The website has several projects and competitions open to the public. The Winter Confections art show challenges the young of heart to design packaging for either a candy from their imagination, put a new spin on a current sweet, or redesign a favorite from the past.

Winter Confections art show

With two issues under its belt, we at Cool International hope to see more good things from these guys. If you are looking for that new subscription to jump start your creative team, UPPERCASE is worth checking out.

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The Most Interesting Man in the World (on Careers)

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Save the plastic from earth’s ravages

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Much concern is expressed about the immortality and ubiquity of plastic. Somewhere in the oceans is a giant floating glob of plastic debris. Around the third world plastic bottles, bags and bins litter the landscape. And it’s not going away. But artists, not to be perturbed by ordinary thinking, looked at plastic and thought – artistic medium. Now it turns out plastic isn’t durable like marble – especially in the case of art.
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Museums around the world are in a race with scientists to save the art done in plastic. From the Smithsonian to the Museum of Modern Art to toy museums with historically significant dolls, the plastic is becoming undone. Who knew Barbie could be on the endangered species list? Decades ago museum curators noticed foul odors emanating from the art. Then came flaking and peeling. Then plastic eating molds and bacteria evolved. Then came Plexiglass eating beetles. A cautionary tale for owners of Michael Jackson’s sequined gloves. Imagine a sequin eating insect finding those.
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While parents imagine that plastic toys last forever, what really happens is that kids outgrow the toys and it just seems they’re around forever. In museums where the works are expected to last forever, it’s a struggle for them to preserve plastic pieces. Even in controlled display cases, the chemicals evaporate then cause the equivalent of acid rain on nearby objects, leading scientists and curators to tear their hair out. Long ago, it was the chemicals in plastic film that caused movie theaters to go up in flames.
In historical museums, the best solution is digital. Forget about trying to save say, old flight suits with plastic gloves and just take digital photographs for eternity. And while it seems like a good idea for historical museums, it isn’t clear how the works of artists such as Jeff Koons would fare if the public could only view them as digital photographs or video rather than as sculptures. Let’s hope the scientists stay ahead in this game.

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