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		<title><![CDATA[ [2008.10] SIDance ]]> </title>
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  <a href="http://www.sidance.org/">http://www.sidance.org/</a><br><br><p class="introTitle"><strong>에곤 마젠&amp; 에릭 고띠에<br></strong>독일/ 에곤 마젠 &amp; 에릭 고띠에 &lt;돈 큐&gt;<br>호암아트홀<br>2008.10.13_20:00<br>R: 60,000 <br><br><strong>갈릴리 무용단</strong><br>네덜란드 / 갈릴리 무용단<br>호암아트홀<br>2008.10.19_16:00<br>R: 70,000(40% 42,000)<br><a href="http://www.galilidance.nl/">http://www.galilidance.nl/</a><br><br><strong>몸의 학교(엘 꼴레히오 델 꾸에르뽀)</strong><br>꼴롬비아/ 몸의 학교(엘 꼴레히오 델 꾸에르뽀)<br>예술의전당 토월극장<br>2008.10.18_16:00<br>R: 50,000(40% 30,000)</p><p class="introExplan"><br></p>			 ]]> 
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		<title><![CDATA[ [2008.08.23] holic ]]> </title>
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  <p><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E4D61430F933A2575AC0A9629C8B63&amp;sec=health&amp;spon=&amp;&amp;scp=27&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E4D61430F933A2575AC0A9629C8B63&amp;sec=health&amp;spon=&amp;&amp;scp=27&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a><br></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/fashion/14nite.html?_r=1&amp;scp=31&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse&amp;oref=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/fashion/14nite.html?_r=1&amp;scp=31&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse&amp;oref=slogin</a><br></p><p><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0DC173FF930A15754C0A9659C8B63&amp;scp=32&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0DC173FF930A15754C0A9659C8B63&amp;scp=32&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a><br></p><p><a href="http://cnet.nytimes.com/digital-cameras/pentax-optio-m10/4864-6501_7-31677182.html?ctype=msgid&amp;messageSiteID=7&amp;messageID=2225781&amp;cval=2225781&amp;scp=33&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://cnet.nytimes.com/digital-cameras/pentax-optio-m10/4864-6501_7-31677182.html?ctype=msgid&amp;messageSiteID=7&amp;messageID=2225781&amp;cval=2225781&amp;scp=33&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a></p><p><br><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E4DB133DF932A05754C0A9669C8B63&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;&amp;scp=35&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E4DB133DF932A05754C0A9669C8B63&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;&amp;scp=35&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a><br></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/business/media/10adco.html?scp=36&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/business/media/10adco.html?scp=36&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a></p><p><br><a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/london-theater-journal/2007/07/23/?scp=47&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/london-theater-journal/2007/07/23/?scp=47&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a><br></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/27/business/27family.html?scp=50&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/27/business/27family.html?scp=50&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a><br></p><p><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE2D71438E334BC4B51DFB7678388649FDE">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE2D71438E334BC4B51DFB7678388649FDE</a><br></p><p><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5071FF93F5C14738DDDAE0894D1405B8588F1D3&amp;scp=83&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse">http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5071FF93F5C14738DDDAE0894D1405B8588F1D3&amp;scp=83&amp;sq=holic&amp;st=cse</a></p><p><br>&nbsp;</p><br>---<br><a href="http://neversee.egloos.com/">http://neversee.egloos.com/</a><br><br><a href="http://chungwoo.egloos.com/">http://chungwoo.egloos.com/</a><br><br><a href="http://avion.egloos.com/">http://avion.egloos.com/</a><br><br><a href="http://snowcatin.egloos.com/">http://snowcatin.egloos.com/</a><br><br><a href="http://tchoi8.egloos.com/">http://tchoi8.egloos.com/</a>			 ]]> 
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:38:34 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ [2008.08.23]명품집착증 향한 까칠한 냉소폭탄 ]]> </title>
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  <p><div style="text-align:center"><img class="image_mid" border="0" onmouseover="this.style.cursor='pointer'" alt="" src="http://pds12.egloos.com/pds/200808/24/39/f0005239_48b1368cd52c1.jpg" width="440" height="400" onclick="Control.Modal.openDialog(this, event, 'http://pds12.egloos.com/pds/200808/24/39/f0005239_48b1368cd52c1.jpg');" /></div><div style="text-align:center"><img class="image_mid" border="0" onmouseover="this.style.cursor='pointer'" alt="" src="http://pds11.egloos.com/pds/200808/24/39/f0005239_48b1368d3b624.jpg" width="440" height="549" onclick="Control.Modal.openDialog(this, event, 'http://pds11.egloos.com/pds/200808/24/39/f0005239_48b1368d3b624.jpg');" /></div><br>허구적 포만감 명품소비 사회에 일침<br></p><p>여성들에게 폭발적인 인기를 얻었던 영화 '섹스 앤더 시티'의 주인공 캐리는 명품구두만 보면 사족을 못 쓰는 '슈어 홀릭'으로 옷장가득 명품구두를 쌓아놓았지만 정작 동거하던 남자친구와 헤어진 뒤 방세 낼 돈이 없어 황당해한다.</p><p>가수 쥬얼리의 서인영은 예능프로그램에 출연해 '신상'이라는 말을 입에 달고 살며 명품구두들은 '내 아가들'이라고 부른다. 비가 오는 날에는 구두가 젖을까 밖에 나가지도 않고 파트너 크라운J가 실수로 비오는 날 여행을 준비하자 온갖 짜증을 다 부린다.</p><p>일반인들도 이렇게 '명품에 목을 매는 사치의 화신'까지는 아니더라도 프라다, 구찌, 샤넬, 크리스찬 르부탱, 마놀로 블라닉 등 한달 월급에 맞먹는 명품을 한두개쯤은 가지고 있을 것이다.</p><p>물욕이라는 것은 어쩌면 인간으로서 당연한 욕구이고 예술에 비견할 아름다운 상품들로 치장을 하고 싶은 마음은 이해한다. </p><p>하지만 몰개성적으로 명품만을 추종하는 모습은 오히려 추하기만하다. 이런 풍조를 해학적으로 비판하는 '노블레스 칠드런'전이 아이러니하게도 명품의 메카인 청담동에서 열린다.</p><p>'노블레스 칠드런'시리즈는 캐릭터화된 어린 아이들이 루이비통 가방을 어깨에 둘러매고 명품 소지품과 함께 포즈를 취하는 모습, 프라다, 페라가모 가방과 명품 구두를 놓고 보물찾기를 하는 모습, 루이비통 가방을 병에 놓고 술을 담는 모습 등을 통해 명품 선호적인 사회를 풍자하고 있다.</p><p>파야의 사진 속에 연출된 다양한 이미지에는 이 시대가 낳은 현실의 모순적 가치관이자 허무한 인간의 욕망을 꼬집는 작가만의 해학적 코드가 숨어있다.</p><p>파야의 작품 속 아이들은 자그마한 팔에 온갖 명품시계를 휘감고 바다에서 보트를 타고 노닌다. 이 아이들은 어린이답지 않게 씨니컬한 웃음을 지으며 세상을 비웃는 듯하다.</p><p>루이비통의 로고를 배경에 새기고 심지어 잘려진 사과속에서도 루이비통 특유의 무늬를 볼 수 있다. 명품에 둘러쌓인 소녀들은 세상만사에 무관심한 듯 의욕없이 늘어져 있다.</p><p>또 파야의 작품속 노블레스 칠드런들은 명품 뿐 아니라 명화까지도 통렬하게 비웃는다. 로이 리히텐슈타인의 '행복한 눈물'앞에서 어린이가 사탕을 들고 포즈를 취하자 그림 속 주인공은 먹고 싶어서 침을 주르륵 흘린다.</p><p>한편 고흐의 유명한 그림 '화가의 방'에 있는 나무의자에는 버버리 백이 걸리게 되고 루이비통의 밸트가 바닥을 장식한다.</p><p>작가는 대중매체에서 쏟아지는 다양한 이미지를 차용하거나 이용하는데 만족하지 않고 직접 대상을 연출하거나 결정적 장면을 찾아내 자신의 정체성이 잘 나타나게 한다.</p><p>파야는 모든 이미지를 표현하는 방법으로 아날로그와 디지털을 혼합하는 방식을 택했다. 디지털 이미지로 배경을 표현하고 획일화된 표정을 스케치함으로써 아날로그적인 성향을 보여준다.</p><p>작가는 "명품의 개념을 모르는 작품 속 아이들은 명품브랜드의 선구자인 구찌, 페라가모, 루이비통 등의 시계나 핸드백을 착용하고 있다"며 "캐릭터화 된 아이들의 얼굴표정은 감격과 동시에 공허를 느끼고 있다"고 설명했다.</p><p>그는 "현대인들은 명품을 가지고 싶어하고 명품이 마치 자기 자신을 귀족으로 만드는 척도 인 것처럼 생각한다"며 "하나의 증명카드인 것처럼 모두의 겉치레를 똑같이 조장하고 본모습을 과장한다"고 지적했다.</p><p>작가는 현대인들이 과장된 모습 속에서 허구적인 포만감을 느끼며 그로인해 어느 정도의 자신감을 갖게 되는 것 같다고 말했다. 하지만 그들은 과연 누구를 위한 초상을 만들고 있는 것인지 생각해 봐야 한다며 명품 소비 사회에 일침을 놓았다.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>			 ]]> 
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  <p>&nbsp;</p><p><div style="text-align:center"><img class="image_mid" border="0" onmouseover="this.style.cursor='pointer'" alt="" src="http://pds10.egloos.com/pds/200808/24/39/f0005239_48b135ce66d7b.jpg" width="500" height="359" onclick="Control.Modal.openDialog(this, event, 'http://pds10.egloos.com/pds/200808/24/39/f0005239_48b135ce66d7b.jpg');" /></div><br><span style="COLOR: #333399">1 2 3 록펠러에서 빌 클린턴, 도널드 트럼프 등까지 미국의 정·재계 인사들의 명함을 제작하는 ‘크레인’의 명함 샘플. 절제된 소재, 디자인, 글자체만을 이용해 명함 주인의 ‘격’을 표현한다. 4 5 6 유럽 디자인의 전통이 느껴지는 ‘스미스슨’의 스테이셔너리.디지털 시대에 더욱 돋보이는 클래식한 디자인이다.<br></span></p><p>뉴요커들은 세계의 트렌드세터이자 동시에 워커홀릭에 가까운 비즈니스맨들이다. 그래서 그들이 패션 이상으로 중요하게 생각하는 것이 명함이나 펜 같은 퍼스널 스테이셔너리(문구류)다. 명함 역시 자신의 표현이라고 생각하기 때문이다. </p><p>누군가를 처음 만났을 때 나를 소개하고 상대와 소통하기 위해 주고받는 명함이나, 결혼식처럼 자신과 관련된 행사를 위해 만든 초대장이나 우편봉투 등이야말로 회사와 개인이 가진 감각과 특성을 그대로 보여주는 아이템이다. </p><p>스테이셔너리 ‘패션’으로 선호 </p><p>‘킨코스(Kinkos)’ 같은 대형 출력센터에서 싸게 대량으로 제작하는 명함을 선호하는 사람도 많지만, 조금은 남들과 다르고 조금은 남들보다 정성(즉 돈과 수고)이 더해진 개인 명함이나 개인 스테이셔너리를 제작하는 뉴요커가 늘고 있다. 특히 뉴욕의 상류층 인사들과 매일 매일 계약과 발표를 두고 치열한 경쟁을 벌이는 비즈니스맨들은 고급스런 디자인의 스테이셔너리를 하나의 ‘패션’으로 선호한다. 그러다 보니 뉴욕의 스테이셔너리 전문점들이 제공하는 서비스도 특별할 수밖에 없다. </p><p>맨해튼을 상징하는 건물군인 록펠러센터 안에 자리한 ‘크레인(Crane · co.)’은 1801년 창업 이래 뉴욕을 대표하는 명함과 편지지, 봉투 등 종이류 문구 전문점으로 명성을 얻고 있다. </p><p>록펠러재단의 창업자 존 데이비슨 록펠러가 애용한 스테이셔너리로 유명세를 타기 시작했던 ‘크레인’은 역사상 미국을 대표하는 정치인, 사회 저명인사의 개인 명함과 스테이셔너리 일체를 제작해왔고, 현재 대부호 도널드 트럼프와 빌 클린턴 전 미국 대통령, 뉴욕 상원의원이자 민주당 대선후보였던 힐러리 클린턴 등 세계적 명사들의 스테이셔너리를 담당하고 있다. </p><p>‘크레인’에는 브랜드가 엄선한 종이류뿐 아니라 다양하고 유니크한 서체 등이 준비돼 있고, 숍에 상주하는 컨설턴트와의 상담을 통해 고객 취향에 맞는 명함과 편지지, 봉투 등의 스테이셔너리를 맞춤형으로 제작한다. 특히 창업 때부터 지금까지 스테이셔너리에서 사용하는 종이류에 100% 자연분해되는 면 성분의 종이를 사용함으로써 환경에도 기여하는 그린 브랜드다. </p><p>필자가 크레인을 방문했을 때 마침 가수 크리스티나 아길레라가 자신의 청첩장 제작을 위해 컨설턴트와 상담하는 모습을 본 적이 있다. 이처럼 크레인은 신부들에게 청첩장을 비롯한 웨딩 관련 스테이셔너리로도 인기가 높아, 크레인의 청첩장은 미국의 웨딩플래너들이 가장 추천하는 서비스로 뽑히기도 했다. </p><p>현재 크레인의 개인 스테이셔너리 제작 서비스는 미국 외에 일본의 유명 문구점 ‘이토야’ 긴자(銀座) 본점에서도 제공하고 있다(<a href="http://www.crane.com/">www.crane.com</a>). </p><p>크레인이 전통적인 미국 부호들의 스테이셔너리 브랜드라면, 고급 백화점과 패션 브랜드의 부티크가 즐비한 맨해튼 5번가와 57th 스트리트가 교차하는 코너에 자리한 ‘스미스슨(Smythson)’은 영국에서 온 고급 스테이셔너리 브랜드다. </p><p>특히 ‘스미스슨’은 1964년 엘리자베스 여왕에게 ‘로열 워런티(Royal Warranty)’를 수여받은 데 이어 1980년 찰스 왕세자에게, 1987년 엘리자베스 여왕의 어머니에게, 그리고 2002년 여왕의 남편인 에든버러 공에게 로열 워런티를 수여받아 왕실의 4대 로열 워런티를 보유한 세계 8대 회사 가운데 하나가 됐을 만큼 영국이 ‘밀어주는’ 이름이다. </p><p>뉴욕 매장에서 개인의 명함과 편지지, 봉투 제작이나 결혼 또는 행사를 위한 초청장 서비스를 제공하는데, 모두 런던에서 제작 공수되기 때문에 의뢰 후 최소 2~3개월이 걸린다. </p><p>상류사회로 가는 길 기꺼이 지갑 열어 </p><p>매장 안쪽에 자리한 ‘비스포크 서비스 라운지(Bespoke Ser-vice Lounge)’에 가면 ‘스미스슨’ 전문가의 안내에 따라 최상급 종이류와 브랜드 특허의 서체, 아이콘이 상세히 정리된 샘플북을 보며 개인의 취향에 맞는 스테이셔너리 제작을 의뢰할 수 있다. </p><p>‘스미스슨’이 자랑하는 또 하나의 유명 아이템은 다이어리와 책이다. 특히 그 종류만 해도 100개에 육박하는 책은 가죽으로 바인딩된 일종의 수첩으로 ‘주소와 전화번호’ ‘여행’ ‘와인’ ‘레스토랑’ ‘낚시’ ‘사냥’ 등의 일반적 주제는 물론 ‘패션 플래너(Fashion Planner)’ ‘뷰티 바이블(Beauty Bible)’ ‘꿈과 생각(Dream · Thought)’ ‘위트와 지혜(Wit · Wisdom)’ ‘쇼퍼홀릭(Shopaholic)’ ‘리틀 블랙 북(Little Black Book)’ ‘금발, 검은 머리 그리고 빨강머리(Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads)’의 위트 넘치는 제목을 선택할 수 있게 돼 있다. 그중 ‘싱크 핑크(Think Pink)’라는 이름의 핑크색 가죽책은 판매액 일부를 유방암 예방단체에 기부하는 아이템이다. </p><p>다이어리와 책의 가격대는 70~300달러이며 별도 요금을 내면 개인의 이니셜을 새겨주는 ‘퍼스널라이즈드 레터링(Person-alized Lettering)’ 서비스도 받을 수 있다. 현재 ‘스미스슨’은 영국과 유럽연합 국가, 미국, 일본 등에 진출해 있다( <a href="http://www.smythson/">www.smythson</a>. com). </p><p>세계 최고의 갑부와 상류사회 인사들을 위한 서비스에 지불해야 할 대가는 결코 만만치 않다. 크레인의 명함은 한 장에 2달러, 스미스슨의 명함은 이보다 비싸 3달러 정도이니 무심코 주거나 받기도 부담스러운 게 사실이다. 그러나 ‘경쟁의 정글’에 살면서 뉴요커들은 자신의 이미지를 높이기 위해 웬만한 책값과 맞먹는 명함 한 장을 만들기 위해 기꺼이 지갑을 열고 있다. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>			 ]]> 
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  <div class="b_black" id="GS_Title">애플의 마법에 'I'들 팍 꽂혔다<br><br>가로 103.5mm 세로 61.8mm 두께 10.5mm 무게 140g. 법랑 입힌 도자기처럼 절제된 디자인에 손바닥에 꽉 차는 단단한 중량감. 바둑돌의 부드러운 차가움과 백열전구의 따뜻한 기운이 함께 도는 입방체. 애플의 아이팟(iPod)이다. </div><div class="b_black">이 단순한 전자제품이 세상을 사로잡았다. 여기서 '사로잡았다'는 말은 판매량 같은 숫자로 치환되는 산업적 개념이 아니다. 아이팟으로 놀고 아이팟으로 자신의 세계를 구축하며 아이팟으로 타인과 소통하는 문화의 탄생을 의미한다. '애플홀릭(Appleholic)'이라 칭함이 마땅한 두터운 마니아층이 출현한 것. 아이팟은 어떤 마법을 부린 것일까.</div><div class="b_black">■ 나를 빨아들이는 단순함</div><div class="b_black">국적과 세대, 소득수준을 뛰어넘어 애플이 세계인을 사로잡은 매력은 디자인이다. 애플은 기존 전자제품 디자인의 패러다임을 정면으로 뒤집는다. 복잡한 기능을 강조하는 첨단의 이미지를 버리고 단순함과 은은함을 강조하는 미니멀리즘을 채택했다. </div><div class="b_black">심플함은 시간 지나면 장난감처럼 보이는 전자제품의 한계에서 세련됨을 추구하는 성인 고객들의 욕구를 해방시켰다. 심플(단순함)은 럭셔리(고급스러움), 그리고 유니크(독특함)의 동의어로 인식됐다.</div><div class="b_black">애플의 미니멀리즘은 동양적인 것에 심취한 CEO 스티브 잡스의 정신세계에 뿌리를 내리고 있다. 아이팟의 디자이너인 조나단 아이브는 변기나 세면대를 만들던 욕실 디자이너 출신. 잡스는 그를 과감히 발탁, 여백과 곡선이 특징인 아이팟을 탄생케 했다. </div><div class="b_black">매킨토시 PC에서 마니아층을 형성했던 애플의 미니멀리즘은 아이팟에 이르러 대중적으로 폭발했다. 아이팟 이후 미니멀리즘은 세상 모든 전자제품 디자인의 화두가 됐다.</div><div class="b_black">■ 재생목록주의 - '나'를 담는 아이팟</div><div class="b_black">아이팟을 비롯해 애플 제품의 특징은 대량 생산된 공산품이면서도 철저하게 개인화가 가능하다는 점이다. 누구나 맥북(애플의 노트북)과 아이팟을 살 수 있지만, 누가 쓰느냐에 따라 애플 제품은 세상에서 유일한 물건이 된다. </div><div class="b_black">이는 아이튠즈 등 애플 제품의 애플리케이션(응용 프로그램)이 세분화, 개인화에 초점을 맞춰 설계됐기 때문이다. 가장 단순한 시스템으로 이뤄져 있으므로 누구나 자신에 맞춰 정교하게 조직할 수 있다.</div><div class="b_black">칼럼니스트 스테플 어브리는 이를 '재생목록주의(Playlistism)'라는 개념으로 설명한다. 그는 아이팟에 담긴 재생목록(Playlist)이 옷차림이나 독서 취향보다 한 개인에 대해 더 많은 것을 알려준다고 설명한다. </div><div class="b_black">음악은 개인의 영혼 가장 깊은 곳에서 재생되는 문화 매체이기 때문이다. 그래서 아이팟 음악 라이브러리의 디렉토리 구성과 각 음악에 매긴 별점은 곧 그 사람의 인격과 정서다. 사람들은 이제 종교나 소득수준이 아니라 '재생목록'으로 서로 그룹을 짓고 또 차별한다.</div><div class="b_black">■ 진화하는 마니아를 생산하다</div><div class="b_black">맥북이나 아이팟 같은 제품을 '컬트 브랜드'라고 부른다. 단순히 제품을 구매하는 데 머무르지 않고, 그 제품이 파생하는 콘텐츠와 라이프스타일까지 적극적으로 받아들이는 마니아를 창출하는 브랜드를 일컫는 말이다. 이들은 또 제품을 열정적으로 홍보하는 선교사 역할도 자진해 맡는다. </div><div class="b_black">세련된 도시인의 상징이 된 아이팟의 하얀색 이어폰줄로, 서로 유대감을 확인하며 애플의 세계를 확장시켜 나간다. 엔터테인먼트를 기반으로 한 거대한 문화적 네트워크. 아이팟은 그 세계로 들어가기 위한 출입증 같은 것이다.</div><div class="b_black">아이팟 터치(신형 아이팟)와 아이폰(애플의 휴대전화) 등 휴대 인터넷 기술을 바탕으로 한 신제품들은 애플 마니아들을 무선으로 서로 연결하는 새로운 시대도 예고하고 있다. </div><div class="b_black">블루투스와 와이브로 기술이 접목된 애플의 세상은, 상대방의 재생목록을 자신의 기기로 검색ㆍ재생하는 문화적 매트릭스를 가능케 할 것이다. 애플은 그렇게 스스로 진화하는 마니아들의 문화적 공동체를 만들었다.</div><div class="b_black">**</div><div class="b_black">음향서 패션·디자인·車까지</div><div class="b_black"><br>아이팟을 구매한 사람 5명 중 3명 이상이 전용 스피커와 같은 액세서리를 샀다는 통계가 있을 정도로 아이팟의 확장성은 뛰어나다. 미디어간 컨버전스(융합)가 아이팟을 비롯한 애플 상품의 핵심 속성이기 때문이다. 아이팟의 액세서리 시장만 연간 10억 달러 규모에 달한다. </div><div class="b_black">액세서리 시장의 확대 뿐 아니라 아이팟 사용자가 늘면서 폐쇄적인 디지털 음원시장도 엄청난 변화를 겪고 있다. 손바닥보다 작은 이 미디어 플레이어가 라이프 스타일을 어떻게 바꾸어 가고 있을까.</div><div class="b_black">■ 음향 시스템</div><div class="b_black">기본적으로 압축파일로 변화된 음원을 이어폰으로 들으며 감상하는 플레이어인 아이팟은 몇 가지 장비만 갖추면 CD플레이어나 여타 재생장치 없이 음악과 영상을 고품격으로 감상할 수 있는 기능이 내재돼 있다. </div><div class="b_black">애플이 아이팟에 저장된 동영상을 TV로 재생할 수 있는 애플TV를 만들고, 세계적인 브랜드들도 앞다퉈 아이팟에 가장 적합한 음향장비들을 시장에 내놓고 있다.</div><div class="b_black">오직 아이팟을 위한 100여만원에 가까운 B&amp;W의 스피커, 아이팟의 저음 보강에 초점을 맞춘 20여만원의 보스 헤드폰 등이 휴대성 강한 홈오디오 시스템을 원하는 소비자들을 자극한다.</div><div class="b_black">■ 패션</div><div class="b_black">다양한 색깔의 제품을 선보인 아이팟 미니 모델 덕분에 아이팟의 확장은 미디어에서 그치지 않고 패션의 영역까지 뻗어갔다. </div><div class="b_black">아이팟과 연동해 조깅할 때 기록을 체크할 수 있는 신발을 내놓은 나이키, 아이팟 전용 주머니가 달린 청바지를 만들고 '아이팟 진'이라 명명한 리바이스, 아이팟을 위한 케이스를 내놓은 돌체 앤 가바나, 구찌, 디오르, 펜디 등 '애플홀릭'들을 위한 제품은 무궁무진하게 쏟아졌다.</div><div class="b_black">일본의 아티스트 요시모토 나라는 자신의 그림을 아이팟 스킨과 화면보호기 등으로 제공한다. 프랑스의 패션 디자이너 라거펠드는 한 인터뷰에서 "아이팟 기술이 펜디의 아이팟 전용 가방을 만드는 계기가 됐고 아이팟의 모양과 재질 역시 전반적으로 패션업계에 영감을 줬다"고 말했다.</div><div class="b_black">■ 자동차</div><div class="b_black">보수적인 산업영역으로 꼽히는 자동차 업계에도 '애플홀릭'을 위한 편의장비가 받아들여지고 있다. 이미 지난해 미국에서 판매되는 차량의 절반 가량에 카오디오 시스템으로 바로 아이팟을 움직이는 장치가 탑재됐을 정도다.</div><div class="b_black">최근 출시된 국내 준중형차 모델에도 아이팟 장치가 기본품목으로 장착됐다. GM, 혼다, BMW 등은 아이팟의 디스플레이 지원장치도 지원한다.</div><div class="b_black">■ 음악시장</div><div class="b_black">애플은 다른 아시아 국가에 비해 상대적으로 한국을 저평가하고 있는 듯하다. 국내에서 아이팟 전용 음악파일 프로그램 아이튠즈를 통한 음원 구입이 여전히 불가능하고, 불과 두달여 전에야 아이팟터치용 한글타자 프로그램을 출시한 애플은 한국의 '애플홀릭'에게 섭섭한 감정을 심어준 게 사실이다.</div><div class="b_black">아이팟을 사용하는 사람들이 가장 고민하는 것은 사실 이 같은 애플의 정책이 아니라 국내 음원사들의 폐쇄적 음원판매 방식이었다. 대부분의 음원사들은 그동안 디지털저작권관리(DRMㆍDisgital Right Management)의 일환으로 구매한 음원을 특정 플레이어에서만 재생할 수 있도록 해왔다. </div><div class="b_black">이 '특정 플레이어'에서 아이팟이 하나같이 제외되어 있었고 이로 인해 아이팟 사용자는 오히려 불법 다운로드의 유혹을 더 많이 받아온 게 사실. 하지만 최근 들어 SK텔레콤, KTF, LG텔레콤 등 이동통신사와 주요 음악 포털사이트들이 DRM을 해제한 상품을 내놓으며 아이팟 소비자들을 손짓하고 있다. DRM 해제 분위기로 디지털 음원시장은 보다 활력을 얻게 된 셈이다. <br></div>			 ]]> 
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  <p><div style="text-align:center"><img class="image_mid" border="0" onmouseover="this.style.cursor='pointer'" alt="" src="http://pds8.egloos.com/pds/200807/11/39/f0005239_48772e6665089.jpg" width="500" height="288.270377734" onclick="Control.Modal.openDialog(this, event, 'http://pds8.egloos.com/pds/200807/11/39/f0005239_48772e6665089.jpg');" /></div></p><br /><br /><br><br>자신의 머리 모형에 실제 혈액 4ℓ를 넣은 작품 '셀프' 제작,두 팔이 없는 앨리슨 래퍼의 5m짜리 임신 모형 조각을 런던 트래펄가 광장에 전시,아기의 태반으로 아들 루카스의 두상 제작….<br><br>대담하고 파격적인 상상력으로 세계 미술계에 충격을 주고 있는 영국의 마크 퀸(44)이 11일부터 8월3일까지 서울 평창동 가나아트갤러리에서 국내 첫 개인전을 갖는다. 1964년 런던에서 출생한 마크 퀸은 골드스미스대 출신인 데미안 허스트,트레이시 에민 등으로 구성된 영국 젊은 아티스트(yBa·young British artist)그룹 중 이례적으로 케임브리지대에서 역사학과 미술사를 전공했다. <br><br>그는 육체를 통해 생명과 삶의 문제를 작품에 구현한다. 인간의 육체를 소재로 다루면서 죽음과 삶,생명의 순간성과 연약함을 조형언어로 표현한 것.1991년 자신의 혈액 4ℓ를 넣어 만든 두상조각 '셀프'는 램브란트의 자화상을 보고 시도한 작품이다. <br><br>자신이 뽑은 피를 5년간 모아 1점씩 제작했으며 지금까지 4점을 완성했다. 1996년 제작된 두 번째 '셀프'는 광고업자 출신의 영국 컬렉터 찰스 사치의 관리 부주의로 전선이 뽑히는 바람에 녹아버려 화제가 되기도 했다. 그는 녹아버린 작품에 대해서는 "전기가 나가면 이 조직은 망가지고 만다. 작품이 녹아버린 다음 누군가가 '형상이 어디로 갔소?'라고 묻는다면 아무데도 가지 않았다고 대답할 수밖에 없다. 단지 존재했다가 지금 존재하지 않는 것뿐"이라고 설명했다. <br><br>2005년 9월에는 팔이 없는 구족화가 앨리슨 래퍼의 임신 모형을 조각으로 만들어 트래펄가 광장에 전시하면서 더욱 유명해졌다<br><br>이번 전시에는 꽃을 소재로 한 대형 극사실 회화 10여점과 인기 모델 케이트 모스의 요가 포즈를 따서 만든 조각 '끝없는 기둥',해골 모양으로 빚은 조각 '사느냐 죽느냐 그것이 문제로다' 등 20여점의 신작이 전시된다. <br><br>그의 꽃 작품은 인간의 욕망을 은유적으로 표현한 것.꽃 가게에서 다양한 꽃을 구입한 뒤 예쁘게 배열한 다음 사진으로 찍어 화면에 극사실 기법으로 재구성했다. 예측하지 못한 인간의 삶이 사회적인 변수들을 통해 어떻게 달라지는가를 묘사했다고 그는 설명했다. <br><br>"인간의 욕망이 시간의 흐름에 따라 어떻게 변화되는가를 보여주고 싶었습니다. 나에게 작품이란 두뇌구조와 같거든요. 작품의 모든 소재들은 신경세포처럼 연결망들로 이뤄집니다. 다른 작품에서 신경망들이 촉발되어 새로운 작업으로 승화되기도 하고요. "<br><br>퀸은 삶과 죽음의 본질을 깊게 파고 든다. 해골 모양으로 빚은 조각 '사느냐 죽느냐 그것이 문제로다'는 인간의 얼굴 형상을 향해 꿈틀거리듯 움직이는 환상을 그로테스크하게 묘사한 작품이다. 그는 "결국은 죽음을 맞이할 수밖에 없는 인간이라는 존재의 허무함을 묘사하려고 노력했다"고 설명했다. <br><br>또 영국 인기모델 케이트 모스의 요가 모습을 형상화한 '끝없는 기둥'은 인간의 마음 속에 있는 대중적인 아이콘을 다룬 작품.요가라는 동양적인 소재를 활용한 것에 대해서는 "불교적인 취향이라기보다 인간의 육체와 정신 세계를 하나로 묶는 매개체로 요가를 활용했을 뿐"이라고 강조했다. <br><br>작품 가격을 묻는 질문에 대해서도 "최근 팔린 그림은 90만파운드(약 17억8000만원)였고 조만간 완성될 '소녀상' 조형물은 800만~1000만파운드(198억5000만원)로 책정돼 있다"고 말했다.<br>			 ]]> 
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  <div style="text-align:center"><img class="image_mid" border="0" onmouseover="this.style.cursor='pointer'" alt="" src="http://pds9.egloos.com/pds/200807/10/39/f0005239_4875b945d9994.jpg" width="500" height="746.666666667" onclick="Control.Modal.openDialog(this, event, 'http://pds9.egloos.com/pds/200807/10/39/f0005239_4875b945d9994.jpg');" /></div><p>&nbsp;</p><br /><br />Sebastian Horsley + Harper's Bazaar Interview, October.<br><br><br>1. At first, to speak of one thing, the fact that you are 'dandy' quite interests me.<br>Please tell me what it means to you by the dandy way of life.<br><br>Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defence<br>against suffering and a celebration of life. It is not fashion; it is not wealth; it is not learning; it is not beauty. It is a shield and a sword and a crown - all pulled out of the dressing up box in the attic of the imagination. Of course life is nothing but a game of dressing up and make-believe. All dress is fancy dress except our natural skins. I know I am a pretend artist and a pretend writer. But I play with all my<br>heart. Play transforms us, magically. Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.<br><br>And yet, dandyism is social, human and intellectual. It is not a suit of clothes walking about by itself. Clothes are merely a part - they may even be the least important part of the personality of the dandy.<br>Dandyism isn't image encrusted with flourishes. It's a way of stripping yourself down to your true self. You can only judge the style by the content and you can only reach the content through the style.<br><br><br><br>2. I think dandy is superior to artists in some sense. What would you say about this?<br><br>Yes I agree. As a dandy I seek to be somebody rather than to do something. What I am matters more than what I produce. Why produce anything save my own carefully cultivated self? My greatest work is my personality. My life - and my death - are my art.<br><br>But art itself is worthless. It is material, earthly, impermanent. No matter how great, it still pales besides the transcending majesty of nature - or the simple beauty of my face. In his highest aspirations man is still mocked.<br>No wonder that art and psychosis have been such tender lovers for so long; that the road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and, indeed, often ends there.<br><br>You see, art is no more than a commodity - an object much like a washing machines - only rather less useful. The outstanding artists in this century - Mr Dali, Mr Warhol, Mr Bacon, Mr Hockney. What made all these men great was that their personalities touched the world's imagination even more intimately than their work. Pictures are only things, but artists are people. People buy their work so that, in a tenuous way, they may spend time with the painter - may share a fragment of that shamelessly exotic life.<br><br><br><br>3. Nevertheless there are many people who can't differentiate between a dandy and style icons such as Kate Moss. Speaking of which,<br>I would like to know what you think of Kate Moss. Would you mind?<br><br>I don't give a toss for Miss Moss. I'm not remotely interested in her or her world. Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly in time. To me her looks and her greed are both ugly.<br><br>I hate fashion. Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. A substitute for taste. Fashion can be bought. Style cannot. Style one must possess.<br><br>I refused a request from Moss's agency to have her model in my studio.<br><br>"Would you consider having Kate Moss photographed in your studio?"asked a visiting lackey from Moss's agency.<br><br>"No, I would not," I replied. "This is my inner sanctum. My holy shrine to myself. Here I close my windows, latch my shutters and build magical realms into the night. It is completely private."<br><br>Then the lackey offered me "a couple of hundred pounds... but you'd have Kate Moss in your studio for a day".<br><br>"I don't want fucking Kate Moss in my studio, thank you very much," I exploded. "Does Kate Moss want Sebastian Horsley in her lavatory? Tell her this pretty boy will do it for £10,000 and I'll throw in a 'good morning' for that price. I won't, however, get out of bed."<br><br><br><br><br>4. In fact, one should learn how to get elegantly dressed from a dandy.<br>Please tell us about your outdoor clothes. Especially the gorgeous suit hung on your wall.<br>It's said that you make your own pair of socks as well as your own suits.<br>Is that true? How do you make your own clothes?<br><br>I design everything and I have everything made. My suits, my shirts, my socks, my shoes, my ties, my scarves, my coats, my gloves, my hats.<br>When I walk in to a room I want people to say:”There is Sebastian Horsley.” I don’t want them saying “There’s Ozwald Fucking Botang“ - nothing personal against Ozwald Fucking Botang you understand. You see, I never shop. I never wear brands apart from my own.<br><br>You see, I am not wearing clothes. I am wearing my thoughts and my attitudes to life. Clothes reflect them in a very obvious way. They are accretions of personality.<br><br>To be a dandy is to aspire to the sublime. The doctrine of dandyism is spiritual doctrine. It is a fearless journey to the interior; a delving<br>into the depths of ourselves in order to see what it is that makes us extraordinary. Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the soul. My clothes are simply a document; a leaflet thrust into the hands of astonished bystanders; evidence that what I have seen is interesting.<br><br><br><br>5. I know that you appeared at Comme des Garçons stage recently...<br>I'd like to know why you did so and what you think of Comme des Garçons.<br><br>They had asked me to do it seven years ago and I refused."I can't be a Clothes horse for you. I can only be a Clothes Horsley for me.” <br>I said.<br><br>This time when they called they had a different idea. “We don't just want to invite you onto the runway. We want to design a collection based on you. It has never happened before. Sure we have had people like John Malkovich wear our clothes but we have never used someone to inspire a season.”<br><br>Well, what can I say? Flattery has got to be pretty thick before I object to it.And so I went off to take Paris by calm. I made my entrance on the Catwalk modelling for Comme des Garcon’s. My new years resolution had been to become more superficial. To stop being a man and become a mannequin. It was going quite well. Deep below the glitter, it was all solid tinsel.<br><br>I knew that the projection of style could be effected by three principal means - speech, movement and appearance. I was denied one so determined to push the others. I had a clear plan.<br><br>With “Dandy In The Underworld” on my whistling lips and a fold of Rachel's silk underpants trapped between my well-powdered buttocks, I waltzed onto the catwalk caked in make up, and knew deep in my artificial heart as I approached the blazing arc lights and the wall of Paparazzi flashes at the end of the runway that life simply didn't get any better. Let me tell you it was a spiritual moment. Jesus was wrong. It is better to go to Hell well tailored than to Heaven in rags.<br><br>I executed my three point pan. Seduction. Playfulness. Defiance. I blew a kiss. I winked. Then I flicked the V's. I was done. I have to say posing was the first job I had ever had in which I understood what I was doing. On stage I am natural, simple, affecting. It is only when I am off that I am acting.<br><br><br><br>6. I know that you attended St. Martin's School of Art.<br>Why did you drop out? Why did you enter it if you were going to quit in the first place?<br>What were your expectations and disappointments?<br><br>The chance to study anything without paying fees, even if it is something that can never be the slightest use, cannot be allowed to pass by.<br><br>From day one the whole thing was a problem. It was ironic that the Sex Pistols had played their first concert at St Martin’s college of Art in November 1975. As far as I was concerned they had shown that great art comes from the complete refusal of all authority. True artistic success arises from refusing to do what promoters want, by refusing to perform what the public wants ... in fact, by refusing to do anything to order. And now here I was at the college in which the authorities had taken it upon themselves to pull the plug on them three numbers in.<br><br>My problem was that, although all my heroes were completely self taught, I knew that going solo was difficult enough - even for the working class rebel. For the person with no talent it would be positively hazardous. I went to college. I had to compensate instead by becoming a complete twat. I was one of those middle-class malcontents who blame the professional classes for all my own shortcomings. Nothing worth knowing could be taught, I fumed. Students had a herd mentality - they had to have or they wouldn’t be in college in the first place. Art school kids were spoilt brats who had too much of everything. It was official : St Martins was the enemy.<br>It was a place where pebbles were polished and diamonds were dimmed. I - the great nobody - would not be dimmed. I was an electric eel in a goldfish pond.<br><br>My expectations were fame. My disappointments were lack of it. As you can see, I was young and stupid. Now I am old and stupid. If you are sure you understand anything that is going on in life, you are hopelessly confused<br><br><br><br>7. A few years ago, you were crucified.<br>I don't think you did such a thing just to become famous as an artist.<br>I believe you wanted to go somewhere unbeaten.Tell me about that 'somewhere' that you wanted to reach.<br><br>The whole image of the crucifixion for me was about death and rebirth.<br>I had got to a place in my life that in order to save Sebastian it had become necessary to destroy him. That must be the aim of all true subversion : In the end you must be prepared to subvert yourself. A man sometimes shows in his self-destruction that he is worthy of self-creation.<br><br>I also wanted to attempt to change the nature of reality. To break the limits of life and test the boundaries of reality. Life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. Frightened of finding ourselves face to face with this terrible reality we try to cover it over with a curtain of fantasy.<br>These fantasies become an armour that hold the person prisoner. Getting crucified would be an attempt to push my personality off the rails. To loosen the rivets and tackle that bound my identity.To hack off the ball and chain of the self.<br><br>If I erased or made a fool of myself in the process then so be it. The real test of an art form and a human being is whether it will stand laughter and test itself to destruction. We can only know love by what is beyond love. We can only know pain by what is beyond pain. For me, it was important to experiment with things that took me into dark places in my heart. All my life, I had been sublimely cursed by discontent, and to me happiness came only when I pushed my brain and heart to the farthest reaches of which I was capable.<br><br>I am a romantic nihilist. I want to transcend reality. A true dandy will never abandon his mind to the grossness of reality.<br><br><br><br><br>8. People say you have come to be known as 'Jesus Christ Superstar' in the art world. Is that true?<br><br>No. I am not known in the art world or if I am I am certainly not taken seriously by them. I think my greatest achievement as an artist is convincing the world I have no talent.<br><br>But you see, I want to go totally outside the art world. My idea is to create my own, total alternative to what is going on in the art world.I don’t want to be taken seriously by the art world. I want to be taken seriously by the world. There’s is a difference.<br><br>I hate art. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. The key to the art world is the skill of selling things before they become worthless.<br><br>What, you may ask, have I got against painting? What have you got against the wall? Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.What have I got against sculpture? What have you got against the sofa?<br>Let’s face it, there is no furniture quite so dull as art. Worse still, producing art is essentially conservative. Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something.<br>Art in a capitalist society is only available in commodity form.<br><br>Because of this I never go to galleries. Art Galleries to me are the cemeteries of the arts. Where art goes when it is dead. A public urinal is more interesting to me than a public gallery. And the comments of prostitutes as valuable as the comments of artists.<br><br><br><br>9. As I came to know you and your works, I began to feel unbearable resentment towards the guys who exhibited his own excrement, put chopped corpses in the water tank, and hanged a child-looking mock model on a tree. Your performance seems to be some sort of expression of the despair of modern art. Is it?<br><br>At the time of writing I am 45, old enough to know that I can count on no one but myself for a solution, but unfortunately not old enough to abandon hope altogether. Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs all of our torment. I am appalled that I am 45. I hold myself personally responsible. I don’t feel 45. In fact, because of heroin, I don’t feel anything at all. But like Monsieur Cocteau, every day in the mirror,I see death at work. And I am afraid. Afraid to watch over my own decay, afraid of losing my looks, my loves, my life. Afraid that everything I love I shall lose.<br><br>This is the tragedy of life. We get washed up on a certain shore, spend our lives building sand castles, enclosing our wilderness within a wall of words, lured from the first to the last by phantoms. The tide turns, comes crashing in and washes our pathetic lives away. At the end we find ourselves in a desert weeping alone in an empty church, surviving only to be aware of all that we have lost. Remember me, whispers the dust. It is an emptiness beyond emptiness.<br><br>This is how I feel. It has nothing ton do with art. Life divides between mad laughter and sobbing tears. Terrifying passion and eternal despair. That is it. You could say I am at a crossroad. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. But one has to despair of life in order to grasp its real value.<br><br>You see it is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in despair than to put out on the troubled seas of hope.<br><br>Besides, misery, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as happiness. I have turned my anger, darkness and despair into a kind of celebration.<br><br><br><br>10. Despite that, and there are so many freaks in the art world, but nobody has ever tried showing their own death like you did. When and how did you come up with such a thing?<br><br>My masochism was an experiment. Real life was never enough for me. It is too slow and unrevealing. But the whole point of masochism is not really about pain, it’s about surrendering. By being crucified I had done that - surrendered. I lay on a cross and someone who I’d never met before banged nails into me. The masochist doesn't want pain, he wants to be able to identify its source, localize it, and so control it.<br>You take suffering and pain - the symbols of death -and turn them into pleasure and the experience of more life. At this level sacrifice affirms reality, bows to it, and attempts to conciliate it. Shedding blood is a way of affirming power over life, and therefore over death.<br>Of course, what I had done was symbolic, because I didn't die, but the principle and motivation was the same - one buys oneself free from the penalty of dying, of being killed. It was as though I had said to God "If this is what you want, here, take it! - but leave me alone.” If I was bloodthirsty it was to ward off the flow of my own blood.<br><br><br><br>11. What is the actual way of your suicide?<br>Would that involve a pistol shot? Shakespeare said, "Although coward dies many times before death,<br>a brave man dies only once." That leads us to the shot at the temple, doesn't it?<br><br>I’d read recently of a gentleman in Newton, North Carolina, who shot himself dead when he was awoken by the telephone ringing on his bedside table. Reaching for the phone, he grabbed by mistake a Smith &amp; Wesson.38 which discharged when he drew it to his ear.<br><br>As all self- respecting dandies know, suicides are the aristocrats of death. The divine act is a final, stylish grace note to a life devoted to high style. That said, as far as I am concerned, Mr North Carolina came a close second; in fact, I declare, a photo finish. I often think of shooting myself out of curiosity; to die so senselessly, to leave a senseless world, insensibly; an act like this prepared within the silence of the heart is a great work of art. Unprepared, it is a masterpiece.<br><br>You see, living is fine. But the way you die often defines you for ever. How a man dies shows his true character as much as how he lives.<br><br><br><br>12. People wouldn't believe unless they see you die with their bare eyes. They wouldn't be able to get away from the suspicion that Horsley would be living just the way they thought that Elvis Presley. So let me ask you, don't you think there needs to be witnesses like Dennis Morris and Tracey Emin ?<br><br>Well, it is true, Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.<br><br>But I don't know. Suicide has always been the thing I keep in the back of my mind, like a precious stone, a special cure, as the only cure for a pain that would not go away. I can continue to function efficiently and even happily provided I know I have my own, specially chosen means of escape always ready : a hidden syringe under my bed and a loaded gun beside it.<br><br>I don’t think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sunday when there’s a little boredom, you should always carry a loaded gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you’re always making a choice.<br><br>The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night. Guns are the best method of suicide. Drugs are too chancy - you might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.<br><br>I have always know that I was a suicide. Not if but when. But its a little bit worrying. I may have a problem. I seem to be losing my will to die. I do keep on trying to go on being miserable; but somehow a cheerfulness keeps spoiling it. I have even become indecisive about committing suicide. Maybe I shall hang myself with a bungee rope?<br><br><br><br>13. The 'venue' is also important. In my opinion, it should take place in Soho and especially your studio which is like your own sanctuary..If so, please tell us what Soho and this sanctuary mean to you.<br><br>I love Soho. In a beautiful area I would be superfluous. In an ugly one I am a narcotic.<br><br>I am a God in the body of a man living happily in the Soho zoo.<br><br>And what a zoo it is. If you cram rats into a small room they will attack, sexually assault and even cannibalise each other.<br>Yet even rats know where their tails are - the humans here do not. Men impersonating women, women impersonating men, human beings impersonating human beings. Millions of people being lonely together.<br><br>It was life at ground zero - a kind of jubilant wasteland which showed us the state of our decay. This is what I loved about it. It was the naked jaws of hunger; the naked jaws of need. Soho, to me, was nothing but a stomach and a penis.<br><br>I have never loved a place more. Living here is like coming all the time. Following the yellow sick road, I pass by the brothels as though passing the houses of my beloved. This is my home. I walk, sleek with significance, beautifying the streets, smiling and tipping my boater to all and sundry. I am kind to Soho. I have slept with most of it. The hookers in turn show me respect. They know my stimulation of their private sector kept Soho going. Put the tart before the Horsley...Without me the vice business would be on its knees. <br>I do a lap of dishonour and returned home.<br><br>Soho shows us society in the process of committing suicide. It is a cesspit working under an agreed general theory of human unhappiness. It is this that makes me inhumanly happy.<br><br>And my studio is my inner sanctum. I have no need to go beyond my studio. The great adventure is work- to see something unknown appear is worth all the trips around the world.<br><br><br><br>14. I at least believe that anyone may choose death by their free will. However, once dead we would no longer be able to reject others' criticisms, and prove their judgements to be wrong by your acts. Are you not scared of these?<br><br>No.Committing suicide is the most superb literary criticism.<br><br><br><br>15. Is it only death that would suit the dandy way which forever seeks to be sublime?<br>Or are you dying for the sake of art? What does art mean to you?<br><br>As all self-respecting dandies know, suicides are the aristocrats of death. They represent a triumph of style over life. My existence is a work of art. It deserves a frame - if only to distinguish it from the wallpaper. Suicide will look nice. It will match the home furnishings.<br><br><br><br>16. Charles-Pierre Baudelaire defined art as prostitution.<br>What is the relationship between your visits to brothels and your art?<br>For instance, the reason for which you needed 1000 prostitutes.<br><br>Indeed, the condition of an artist is much like that of a prostitute; both exposing ourselves and our reputations to feed our greedy appetites. Careering and whoring and pamphleteering and selling something sacred which should be free. Both are scandalous professions. What is art? Prostitution. What is prostitution? Art. Prostitution is a successful attempt to flog sex at bargain basement prices; - you ejaculate without the sticky mess of emotional or financial entanglements. Art is a successful attempt to purvey wallpaper for more than its worth. Voila tout.<br><br>I just like whores. They are my muses. I love prostitution. I relish the sheer idea of it. Is it the fact that with prostitution a host of ideas are seen to meet at that site. Its the whole idea of prostitution which thrills me : So complex a point of intersection - lust, bitterness, nullity of human relations, muscular frenzy and the ringing of gold. Looking to the bottom of it makes one dizzy.<br><br>In a dandy, whores soon cease to be what they are for most bores - a substitute for regular women. It is regular women that are a substitute - and a poor one - for prostitutes.<br><br><br><br>17. Men get aroused simply because prostitutes are there spreading there legs for them.<br>Can you differentiate your cock with so may others?<br><br>I have a magnificent cock. By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. “Put your hand bitch round my penis. Don’t you know it’s a stroke of genius."<br><br>The Great Wall of China is the only human erection which is visible from the moon. Apart from mine.<br><br><br><br>18.As far as I am aware, after dissipation one always feel even more deserted. What about your own case?<br><br>To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily<br>pleasant prison. It is more fearful than the prison of the convict or the desert of the hyena. But that is life. You see, life is just a dance party for cripples and spastics. We are miserable, deformed animals whose bodies decay, who will die, who will pass into dust and oblivion, disappear forever not only in this world but in all the possible dimensions of the universe, whose paralysed lives serve no conceivable purpose, who may as well not have been born. And this, of course, is the best fate for man - not to be born, to be as nothing. The second best is to die early. Fancy a fuck?<br><br><br><br>19. You paid a huge amount of money to over 1000 prostitutes.<br>What did the three Rachels that you say you loved think of your impulsive spending of money?<br><br>Rachel is the finest woman to ever walk the streets. She understands.<br>She knows that whores are for men, and marriage, like life-boats, are for women and children.<br><br>They like prostitutes for the same reason I do. The reason I rate prostitutes is because they obviously rate themselves. They obviously rate themselves because they charge for their services. Normal girls give themselves to you for nothing and then wonder why you piss all over them.I ask you!<br><br>The worst things in life are free. If they are free they are rightly abused or simply not taken into account. Value seems to need a price tag.People will pay thousands for a Faberge egg and then tread on a beetle. Quite right. The Faberge egg is simply more beautiful and valuable.How can we respect a woman or a cockroach who doesn’t value herself?<br>Talk about low self worth. No respect insect - you had it coming. Next time charge cockroach.<br><br>I like spending money in excess - capital erosion is another way to waste my substance, to become as thin and hollow as I feel and send and spend myself away. I like to commit symbolic suicide while I still dither about the real one.<br><br><br><br>20. The three Rachels- what things did they have in common other than their names?<br>I am also curious about what they think of your suicide plan.<br><br>Their shared interests are : Yves St Laurent smudge proof mascara, oxygen and mutual adoration of me.<br><br>They worship me. They think I am a God. They know that if I kill myself I will not be committing suicide, I will be committing deicide.<br><br><br><br><br>21. I cannot believe you quit heroin and cocaine.<br>Why on earth would a hedonist who wants to kill himself want to quit those things?<br><br>I had to quit them. They were making me too happy. I am not a hedonist.<br>The hedonist is pathetic. The amateur nihilist. Nihilism is the belief in nothing and the wish to become nothing : Oblivion is its ruling<br>passion. Nihilism is a more radical experience, a more manly confrontation of potential meaninglessness.<br><br><br><br>22. Can you show us at least part of your will (or the name of your epitaph)?<br><br>"Here lies Sebastian, Oh so brave. Stop here traveller and shit on his grave.”<br><br>Or :<br><br>"Here lies Sebastian, gone to the abyss. Stop here traveller and have a piss.”<br><br><br>The beautiful need no tombstone; my knob is my monument.<br><br><br><br>23. The last question. What would you like people to remember about you?<br>(Since only when we close the top of your coffin would we evaluate on your real quality..)<br><br>How would I like to be remembered? In somebody's will.<br><br><br><br>Thank you very much for your sincere answers to my questions.<br>Whether it's a suicide or a martyrdom, I would like to wish you a 'happy journey' on your long, long road.<br><br><br><br>Kyung Kim<br>Harper's Bazaar Korea + Photograph by hyperjh, Choi Hwanik<br>			 ]]> 
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