Present! Issue # 2.,.,.,., ::-- Table of IntroDUCKtion Contents.
The Theme of this issue is: BEAT!
[[[of course, this is only loosely defined and was meant to inspire rather than to limit so we have lots of stuff that is non- or semi- beat/beet related too.]]]
Inside: BEATS, beets, also beasts, Music, Images, Poems, Proses, Poetry, Prosetry, Videos, Dances, REVOLUTION, kindness, LOTS of (purposefull | accidental | porpoisefull) atypography a type o'graphie tipeohgraffy, bread and cheese and trees, giant ROBOTS and strange beasts, and Comic books, and also music+videos, and interviews with famouse peoples who also may or may not have given us music, beets, Beats, Beatification, in the form of a three dimensional infinite castle, a maze or labrinth or labrynth or so, some folded boxes, SEAMUS HEANEY, music by PHIL ELVRUM as well as an interview and and interview about CALVIN JOHNSON where he talks about beats and so does MF DOOM. We have the reports of events we have done throughout the year as well as evidence of them, and sometimes also the byproducts of them when [non-]art or something like it spontaneously generated from them.
Present! Magazine number 2, as you can see, is on a cd. We couldn't decide whether or not we wanted to have a table of contents, or have people find all of the pieces by exploring some sort of strange video-gamesque radioheadwebsiteinspired-, image-mapped etc. etc. interface, so we decided to do both: you can access all of the pieces through this table of contents, or you can jump into the world of the magazine thorough one of the gateways and explore through there, but preferably you'll do both, because the goal is for you to have fun. And because some things can only be seen through the table of contents, and others only though exploring things.
((( notice: PRESENT! is a gift, a cube, a happening, sharing, for nerds, a DIY obliterary magazine, a manifesto party, alove, a cd, for you, an array of happy tire swings in the yard, letter-writing to the future, color field trips, thanking you now, a silent dance party, beat, made at the bow and arrow press, being, everyone, a lot of meeties, an object, making noises!, not art, a poem about a robot, a 24-hour comics festival, hiding something (or someone) somewhere, broke, not another one, it's an other one, content with just this, right here, now, here )))
....//(a letter from one of the designers).txt
Gateways:
These are different ways to get around the magazine. They are not pieces themselves, well, sometimes they are pieces, but for the most part they link to other pieces. Hint: Click on everything because there are a lot of hidden links! Very few pages link to nothing (but some do, as in have no links, and also as in have dead links to play tricks with you). If it is no longer fun for you to move around in the magazine through a gateway, then it is not cheating to go back to the table of contents and go-start somewhere else.Girl Sitting with a Painted Face, a Gateway.
The Scary Cave Mouth, a Gateway.
Digital Age, a Gateway.
Cubeville, a Gateway and Crossroads
The Comics Labyrinth
The INFINITE Castle of art
The Folded Box Forest: Entrance 1, 2, 3
The Gate Gateway
The Present! Vidset
The Remote Control
The Present! Playset
The PRESENT!!! Bestiary
A SUGGESTED PATH through the MAGAZINE:
This is an example of a path that takes you through all of the gateways. There are many of these, and lots of loops, and so on:
.***/- Start in the .infinite castle of art. Find the exit to the .comics labyrinth. find your way to the middle circle of the labyrinth, find the crackduck comic, and pull the lever beneath it to be transported to .cubeville. Take a jaunt to the scary cave mouth and back by pressing 1, then when you're done follow the road back to cubeville. Follow X to the girl with the coffee. Click on the left eye, then the left arrows to go to the .folded box forest. Find your way to folded4 and click on the box that is in the middle, one from the bottom to get to the Present! playset. Click on the bottle to take you to the .Besti(scaaaa)ary. After looking at all the beasts, say you are a controlling beast to get to the .remote control. Click on the arrow down to get to the .Gate Gateway. Click on the tower on your left to get to the .Present Vidset. The TV will then take you to the .Digital Age.
Make up your own path!!!!