Disgustingly long post, I know.

Before you go scrolling through the pictures and dismissing the text, I encourage you to stay a while, and get to know the people behind the internet’s hottest upgrade, DIS Magazine.

Originally conceived for print, David Toro and Solomon Chase were interested in creating a fashion-based publication that was actually critical. Friends and cerebral comrades Patrik Sandberg, Lauren Boyle, Marco Roso, S. Adrian Massey III, and Nick Scholl hopped on board, and together they developed DIS Magazine, a platform for inventive, reappropriated, and repurposed methods, concepts, and functions.

DIS launched March of 2010, but without a proper budget they emerged as a website instead of a zine—and appropriately so! Online publishing allows for instant world-wide outreach and rapid viral disbursement. And for these reasons DIS found themselves exactly where they needed to be. With their interest in style and fashion as a virtual experience as well as lived, via web they are both real time and ahead of time, all the time.  

I now bring you DIS in two installments: a photo shoot with DIS at their Chinatown headquarters, and a transcript of our online interview, set in a chatroom powered by dump.fm.

PARTICIPANTS:

AdrianIII – S. Adrian Massey, III / Angela Basset
aluren – Lauren Boyle
dbow – Dannielle Bowman
erikhaspresence – Erik Stinson
khaki-chase – Solomon Chase
P4TR1K – Patrik Sandberg
PLTFRM_timbs – Christelle de Castro
toromix – David Toro
yethhh – Nick Scholl
marcorevised – Marco Roso

*Chatroom interview powered by dump, a site specially designed for image shares. All images/gifs within this interview are described in parenthesis.
 

PLTFRM_timbs: HI GUYS!

PLTFRM_timbs: (image of cloudy blue haze thing)

yethhh: HAAAAAY[ze]

PLTFRM_timbs: this is christelle

yethhh: this is DIS

PLTFRM_timbs: is everyone here?

P4TR1K: (image of girl dressed up as star trek character, taking a bathroom mirror photo of herself)

PLTFRM_timbs: LOL

yethhh: DIS offices, DIS speaking, how can I DIS u

erikhaspresence: (image of a guy from the band Creed with a flaming, blue “lol” superimposed over his face)

khaki-chase:ok we’re all here?

yethhh: yup

PLTFRM_timbs: for the sake of transcription, state your names

yethhh: Nick

PLTFRM_timbs: I know khaki-chase is Solomon!

aluren: Lauren Boyle

erikhaspresence: Erik Stinson [Dis intern]

AdrianIII: Angela Basset

PLTFRM_timbs: haha

toromix: haha

PLTFRM_timbs: I wish

marcorevised: (image of silhouetted man in chair holding his head in his hand)

PLTFRM_timbs: (image of color changing hands in peace sign)

AdrianIII: (moving image of woman’s butt in thong)

erikhaspresence: (moving image of the word “ART” on a platter being covered and uncovered with “Buy Now” button next to it)

toromix: (image of Angela Basset in “Waiting to Exhale” walking away from cheating husbands flaming car, snapping and neck-rolling)

PLTFRM_timbs: ok!

marcorevised: (image of a giant, gold M)

PLTFRM_timbs: so… lets get down to biznass

yethhh: yes, let us have an in(n/t)erview.

PLTFRM_timbs: how did you guys start? I know that’s a tough question

aluren: ok, go

aluren: Sundays

P4TR1K: Solomon and David wanted to make a zine. So we made a conceptual website instead

khaki-chase:yeah basically

khaki-chase:It began with a rejection…

PLTFRM_timbs: so you figured doing an online magazine was more practical?
khaki-chase:and reaches way more people.

toromix: it was just where we all ended up

yethhh: Maybe its just as easy to go backwards:

PLTFRM_timbs: sure, I agree

khaki-chase:with so many more possibilities

AdrianIII: (image that had a glitch, could not appear)

P4TR1K: We always ultimately set our sights on a printed object.

marcorevised: the real $ factor help us with our decision

aluren: Most of our content was so integrally linked to the internet, it made sense

PLTFRM_timbs: it makes so much sense

AdrianIII: (image of a fake magazine cover “LIFESTYLE” with picture of a woman’s face)

PLTFRM_timbs: I think you’re very rooted in web

P4TR1K: But, along the way after facing certain realities, we kind of had a “DUH” scenario in regard to the internet being a lot more relevant

PLTFRM_timbs: for sure

PLTFRM_timbs: plus, you have videos and mixtapes on your site that you couldn’t throw into a zine

yethhh: and of course, the publishing cycle is a lot more rapid.

PLTFRM_timbs: most definitely

P4TR1K: We really hate when magazines take a while to come out and by the time they do the content has expired in terms of relevancy

marcorevised: And not wanting to be onemoremagazine in the self

PLTFRM_timbs: right

toromix: We love ephemera, don’t get us wrong. And we have some great ideas for

marcorevised: Its also about instant gratification

PLTFRM_timbs: In a few sentences, can you explain what DIS aims to do?

PLTFRM_timbs: I think a lot of people are confused by what you do

aluren: and the collective changing mental space brought on by the internet.

yethhh: I really wonder if we have aims.

marcorevised: We create primary material that can be manipulated by others and also we can redo or appropriate works done by others.

P4TR1K: DIS aims to construct new viral concepts.

PLTFRM_timbs: uh huh

aluren: Cross-Disciplinary-cultural-laboratory

erikhaspresence: P4TR1K (heart) DIS aims to construct new viral concepts.

PLTFRM_timbs: (side by side image of Guy Fieri and Christelle)

khaki-chase:!

yethhh: One thing that we want to clarify is

PLTFRM_timbs: yes, please

yethhh: that while we do use cultural commentary,

yethhh: we are not a satire magazine.

erikhaspresence: key point

marcorevised: maybe The magazine is not and end point it’s just a path for casual encounters that…

P4TR1K: We’re pretty dismayed so many people use that as a cath-all

yethhh: I understand what they’re getting at, but

yethhh: that word is overused along with the word irony.

P4TR1K: Satire is like, MAD Magazine or something?

P4TR1K: We’re not a comedy troupe.

yethhh: exactly.

PLTFRM_timbs: for sure

P4TR1K: Go get your laughs somewhere else

toromix: unless we get ad revenue then maybe we be the onion of fashion

PLTFRM_timbs: how did your team come together?

yethhh: let’s go backwards for that question:

yethhh: I came in last

aluren: We’re friends

marcorevised: I like how this sounds: We participate of the extreme heterogeneity of image making practices but it always goes through a subjective prism or visual interests that we share. Uff it took a while to write this

P4TR1K: haha

PLTFRM_timbs: thanks marco!

khaki-chase: it started with long readings and meetings and a lot of shit talking

PLTFRM_timbs: uh huh

khaki-chase: bohemian highway

aluren: We had time

toromix: the wine

P4TR1K: A lot of browsing and wincing, sighing, and eye rolling, screaming and DRINKING…

khaki-chase: STOP

erikhaspresence: (changing images of various small business magazine covers)

P4TR1K: We were inspired by bold magazines like STOP and NEST

toromix: We were and still are bummed about how no one is critical about fashion anymore

adrianIII: Unearthing New Reality Tunnels

PLTFRM_timbs: right

P4TR1K: our ideas about style and fashion became more of an interest in lifestyle

aluren: (image of STOP magazine cover)

P4TR1K: virtual lifestyle

marcorevised: Does any one want’s to finish this sentence? : The magazine is not and end point it’s just a path for casual encounters that generate…

yethhh: I think that’s the end.

PLTFRM_timbs: new ideas?

yethhh: “that generate.”

AdrianIII: Actualized Lifestyles

P4TR1K: A path for casual encounters that generate confusion and contagion?

PLTFRM_timbs: Lauren, you were telling me about the name dis a long time ago

erikhaspresence: (image of a search engine box with “virtual lifestyle” typed in it)

P4TR1K: The name came from our original concept of being very negative

yethhh: “It’s not a read; it’s just a fact.”

aluren: was I ?

toromix: distaste

PLTFRM_timbs: like, the first time I met u

toromix: display

yethhh: DISpose

khaki-chase: the best prefix

toromix: disrobe

yethhh: DISrobe

P4TR1K: Distaste was our jumping off point

toromix: It was supposed

erikhasprensece: (image of female avatar, blonde, wearing rose colored glasses)

toromix: to be the first issue

aluren: that was going to be our first “issue”

P4TR1K: we realized things that are considered to be distasteful are almost always the more preferable

P4TR1K: option

PLTFRM_timbs: (screen shot of the definition of “disassemble”)

toromix: new style options

yethhh: the DIS prefix became a pandora’s box.

khaki-chase: everything on DIS is optional

P4TR1K: I like that 2^nd definition, Christelle

erikhaspresence: There’s that pesky Marxist deconstruction that some of us learned in college (image of the definition of “disassemble”)

P4TR1K: We resent the mandated nature of mainstream cultural magazines, which consider themselves to be, as an example, “the bible of fashion”

erikhaspresence: but it’s whatever

PLTFRM_timbs: right right

P4TR1K: In case anybody’s forgotten, the bible has no mandate.

P4TR1K: The bible is a laughingstock

yethhh: and look where the bible has gotten us, besides.

P4TR1K: GET REAL

PRTR1K: Aiming to be the bible is like aiming to be a cancelled television series

PLTFRM_timbs: so initially “DIS” was the theme you were basing your first “issue” on

yethhh: no mandates. Just set it and forget it.

PLTFRM_timbs: and it became an all encompassing thing

erikhaspresence: (image of sunlight coming through a cloudy grey sky and shining onto mountains/hills)

marcorevised: New world disorder:

P4TR1K: Which, actually, is what our own series Hooper Place strives to be… so I really shouldn’t talk

PLTFRM_timbs: or you realized that it was that.

yethhh: FAITH_BASED_GIVING

AdrianIII: (image of a giant green button with the “Now!” on it)

khaki-chase: No the first issue was to be DISTASTE, followed by DIS…

aluren: DIS whatever

khaki-chase: [dis]robe, displace…

khaki-chase: but they all work together

P4TR1K: I think it was disfigure

PLTFRM_timbs: oh ok I see

khaki-chase: encompassing different ideas

yethhh: instead of disassembling, DIS-became a unifying factor

PLTFRM_timbs: right

PLTFRM_timbs: got you

erikhaspresence: dis, as a common prefix, is linguistically flexible

P4TR1K: Do you know how hard it is to juggle this chat room with sexting? I almost just told you all something really offensive.

PLTFRM_timbs: (ooh, that always sucks..)

PLTFRM_timbs: So the content on your site just keeps growing

AdrianIII: A unifying pre-fix to transform the concept of now

P4TR1K: gotta go bye guys

[P4TR1K leaves chatroom]

marcorevised: always poetic and reflective

aluren: bye

yethhh: I’m even surprised by how much content we have

AdrianIII: A unifying pre-fix to transform now

toromix: bi

PLTFRM_timbs: was video and music always part of your magazine concept?

aluren: yes

toromix: yes

adrianlll: yes

marcorevised: yes

yethhh: yes

khaki-chase:we embrace entertainment…

aluren: and tv

khaki-chase: DISTV

yethhh: in practical terms, music drives internet traffic

yethhh: in ways that text doesn’t.

aluren: or images

yethhh: it’s a great portal for entry into the DIS world

PLTFRM_timbs: yes

PLTFRM_timbs: and as for all the editorials on dis, Marco, are you shooting all of those?

marcorevised: no

PLTFRM_timbs: do you get content from contributors who aren’t in-house?

marcorevised: we ask for collaborations

yethhh: nearly all of them, though

PLTFRM_timbs: uh huh

marcorevised: and david shoots too

PLTFRM_timbs: oh cool

khaki-chase: much of the work is very collaborative on many levels

marcorevised: Is just that sometimes is practical to shoot it once we have the idea

PLTFRM_timbs: so you and david sort of hold down the photography aspect… and the editorials are always collaborative

khaki-chase:from conception to production, to post

marcorevised: for now

aluren: We’re all involved

toromix: We welcome submissions

erikhaspresence: LIFE OF POSTPRODUCTION

marcorevised: but everything is morphing

toromix: 4 sure, well actually collaborations

yethhh: “Submission Statement”

toromix: is what we prefer

PLTFRM_timbs: so there’s always a DIS touch

aluren: There is

khaki-chase: yes

PLTFRM_timbs: got it

aluren: we’re actually very focused and specific

khaki-chase: Sometimes we pass on a concept to be realized

PLTFRM_timbs: absolutely

aluren: about what we want

khaki-chase: outsource

PLTFRM_timbs: regardless, the work runs through a DIS portal

khaki-chase: yes

yethhh: outsourced by Linkedin

PLTFRM_timbs: HAHAHA

aluren: yeah, we have ideas about outsourcing to Bangledesh

PLTFRM_timbs: so who are some artists that inspire you?

PLTFRM_timbs: beginning with image makers, photographers

khaki-chase: AC2000

aluren: that’s Art Club 2000

marcorevised: In my case I’m interested in commercial photography that has mistakes, usually the rejects. I also like catalog and stock photography where the anxiety for having a style is put aside but you can find an awkwardness that is very human.

aluren: and Bernadate Corporation

yethhh: UGH, marco. Wonderfully, said.

PLTFRM_timbs: dope

aluren: Bernadette, sorry

marcorevised: Paul outerbridge, James Coleman

yethhh: I’m personally inspired wholly and totally by the other members of DIS.

PLTFRM_timbs: I totally feel you on the awkwardness marco

marcorevised: and a lot of the commercial photographers that published in playboy during the 70’s and 80’s

khaki-chase: also those who blur lines with their intent and refuse to be restricted by genre

PLTFRM_timbs: who else guys…

toromix: ann sofie back

erikhaspresence: Microsoft, starbucks, ikea, apple, gap, target

PLTFRM_timbs: ann sofie back!

aluren: ana mendiata

toromix: bless

aluren: (image of ana mendieta with moustache in red turtleneck)

yethhh: bless

khaki-chase: Lucy Orta

PLTFRM_timbs: (photo of paula poundstone)

toromix: yes lucy!

khaki-chase: (upside down exclamations point) Ryan Trecartin!

aluren: (photo of a large group of people in denim suits with red bandanas)

aluren: (photo of people lounging around an apartment with copious bags from GAP)

PLTFRM_timbs: Lauren where’s that from? art club?

aluren: (photo of guy stealing television from a room with an accomplice. Phrase “KEEPT IT REAL” in bottom left corner)

PLTFRM_timbs: HAHAHAAA

erikhaspresence: lulz

aluren: Gap is from AC200

aluren: Keep it Real is BC

PLTFRM_timbs: what about the denim?

aluren: AC2000

khaki-chase: denim is everything

aluren: no Khaki!

PLTFRM_timbs: how about musicians?

khaki-chase: #1 fiber, iconic substance

khaki-chase: NO DENIM!

aluren: NOOO

aluren: KHAKI

marcorevised: (image of an article with the header “QUALITY = NO!”)

yethhh: Fatima al qadiri

PLTFRM_timbs: fatima’s dope

yethhh: all the stuff on the night slugs label

marcorevised: (image of an article with the header “ENERGY = YES”)

AdrianIII: Kathleen Daniels

yethhh: Kathleen is a Renaissance woman.

PLTFRM_timbs: you interviewed her, correct?

marcorevised: Thomas Hirschhorn

AdrianIII: Yes

khaki-chase: Adrian did!

PLTFRM_timbs: I loved that interview

yethhh: Alexis Penney’s been putting out some demos that are quite good.

marcorevised: salem

yethhh: They’re produced by Nick from Teengirl Fantasy.

marcorevised: teen girl fantasy
toromix: Ciara

aluren: Aaliyah

PLTFRM_timbs: most def

yethhh: oh, and if reader’s don’t know this already,

yethhh: besides the mixes we put up, Fatima has a sort of column in our blog, called Global.WAV

yethhh: Where she showcases music and videos from around the world.

AdrianIII: (upside down exclamation point) YAY!

khaki-chase: deep forest has guided much of my practice

PLTFRM_timbs: I’ve been hitting up her column

yethhh: A lot of Arabic language stuff.

PLTFRM_timbs: shit is real kookoo/hilarious/amazing

yethhh: So much of what she finds and shows us has

yethhh: elements of infantalism or use of children as ideals.

khaki-chase: Inspiring!

AdrianIII: (image of colorful static going through a black plane)

marcorevised: (photo of 2 men on a yellow background)

PLTFRM_timbs: what are some new projects you guys are excited to get into?

khaki-chase: DIS Lecture Series 2010

PLTFRM_timbs: FOR SURE SOL!

yethhh: teenGRILL

PLTFRM_timbs: DIS WORLD CONFERENCE

aluren: DIS commissioned David Riley of Mirror Mirror to consider the Scrunchie deeply and seriously. It will be a PowerPoint presentation on the origins, history and spread of the Scrunchie.

PLTFRM_timbs: David is making a power point on the scrunchie?

khaki-chase: YES power point

PLTFRM_timbs: dope

yethhh: DIS Webinar

yethhh: DIS conference Call

khaki-chase: performance artist Xavier Cha will be doing a lecture following

aluren: The following lecture will be by Xavier Cha. The topic of her choice is the nature of lectures themselves. More deconstructing the form and conventions of lectures into abstract gestures and awkward empty repeated phrases

khaki-chase: David found evidence of Scrunchie wearing at the fall of the Berlin wall

khaki-chase: (shhh)

aluren: it’s true

khaki-chase: and DISH

toromix: DISh

khaki-chase: our new daytime Talk Show

PLTFRM_timbs: hahaha

PLTFRM_timbs: I love

khaki-chase: vital social issues

aluren: (photo riot around the berlin wall, with someone straddling the wall)

toromix: hosted by akeem

PLTFRM_timbs: STOP!

PLTFRM_timbs: LOLLL

toromix: and other celebrity status

marcorevised: (glamour shot of akeem)

PLTFRM_timbs: <<<33333

marcorevised: With great guest stars

PLTFRM_timbs: he’s like Wendy Williams realized in a boy’s body

PLTFRM_timbs: I’m into this

yethhh: he’s got better hair.

toromix: true

PLTFRM_timbs: and longer

PLTFRM_timbs: Adrian, are you still here?

PLTFRM_timbs: you are in Chicago, no?

AdrianIII: I am

AdrianIII: I am in Cambridge

PLTFRM_timbs: what are you doing there?

PLTFRM_timbs: when I asked everyone what you did, they all said, “Adrian is really REALLY smart..”

AdrianIII: LOL

AdrianIII: I am working on a news report for the mag

khaki-chase: its all true

PLTFRM_timbs: So you do a lot of writing

AdrianIII: And we have a couple interviews in the works

AdrianIII: as well as a materials research project

PLTFRM_timbs: external hunter gatherer

khaki-chase: we’re working on an analysis of microfiber as a lifestyle

AdrianIII: Specifically working with research groups in Cambridge that can experiment with intervening on the construction of microfiber materials

yethhh: external hard drive.

toromix: (image of girl in clear bathing suit by Lisa Katnic from DIS LA pool party)

khaki-chase: beautiful

PLTFRM_timbs: so good

yethhh: god, I could cry at that.

yethhh: so beautiful.

PLTFRM_timbs: and nick, you’re an opera singer?

PLTFRM_timbs: in this a secret?

yethhh: haha. Everyone says that. My degree is in opera, and I used to sing in the Seattle opera

PLTFRM_timbs: that’s bonkers nick!

yethhh: anyway, I’m singing in Telfar’s next show

yethhh: collabo with Fatima, Khalid, and Ryan Trecartin

khaki-chase: so exciting!

yethhh: and Kamau

PLTFRM_timbs: that’s what I heard!

AdrianIII: And hear the angels voices!

PLTFRM_timbs: while we’re on this… what’s everyone’s day job?

toromix: retired

PLTFRM_timbs: … when not slaving over DIS

yethhh: i’m a web developer, designer, and producer.

yethhh: full time.

PLTFRM_timbs: (image of DIS crew member taking bong hit)

yethhh: all the time.

yethhh: in and away from my day job.

yethhh: it is the only thing I do.

khaki-chase: full time diversity

PLTFRM_timbs: nick, did you develop dis online?

yethhh: yes I did, but of course with weeks of consulting with the others.

yethhh: I still manage all the technical aspects of DIS

yethhh: which I like a lot because it leaves the others free to explore and produce.

marcorevised: (photo of DIS member)

yethhh: produce the content, I mean.

PLTFRM_timbs: right

aluren: Nick’s amazing at what he does

AdrianIII: Indeed

yethhh: I’m constantly playing devil’s advocate with the others.

khaki-chase: haha

PLTFRM_timbs: hhhaha oh yeah?

yethhh: it’s a really interesting dynamic to be thinking from the perspective of

yethhh: other users who are not us.

AdrianIII: (photo of a lady with braids with beads interweaved into them)

PLTFRM_timbs: that looks like [the singer] Anastasia with braids

yethhh: that is what I do in my job-job.

yethhh: luckily everyone in DIS is really smart, so it’s not ever

yethhh: Dramatic to bring up a conflicting point of view.

aluren: (image of guy pulling faxes out of a fax machine)

yethhh: I’m really about usuability more than anything.

yethhh: Something I like about the DIS website is

yethhh: how it does exactly what marco said about commercial photos

yethhh: it removes the anxiety of style

yethhh: and it simply a platform for creative gestures.

PLTFRM_timbs: I like that

aluren: Nick’s a poet

yethhh: because if there’s one thing I can’t stand,

PLTFRM_timbs: ~SLAM POETRY CHATROOM~

yethhh: it’s Signifying Art.

aluren: YEAH

yethhh: rather than creating it.

marcorevised: always poetic and reflective

yethhh: no one should be forced into thinking they are looking at art

PLTFRM_timbs: yesss

toromix: (DIS photo of girl wearing her piercings outside of her clothes)

[P4TR1K re-enters chatroom]

P4TR1K: Sorry I got pulled into a meeting

AdrianIII: Apologies, I have to go now. Thank you Christelle! Bye team.

PLTFRM_timbs: bye Adrian!!!

toromix: bi boo

aluren: bye bye

khaki-chase: bye!!!!

yethhh: It’s a horrible affront.

khaki-chase: bai

marcorevised: corporate meeting?

yethhh: there is a lot of that going on in the net art right now.

PLTFRM_timbs: there is

P4TR1K: (image of someone projectile vomiting computer illustrated vomit with a frog puppet staring at them)

PLTFRM_timbs: some people don’t understand net art / don’t agree with it

toromix: lol

PLTFRM_timbs: but same with photography when it first broke out

yethhh: but, on the other hand

toromix: (Video of guy dancing crazy)

aluren: but we don’t make net art

yethhh: a lot of net artists think they’re doing something esoteric

P4TR1K: I think we fit into that group actually the more we get to know the artists

PLTFRM_timbs: uh huh

P4TR1K: Some of them are horrible individuals

marcorevised: No we don’t have anything to do with net art

toromix: stop!

marcorevised: but we support it

P4TR1K: LOL I’m just kidding

yethhh: for sure.

aluren: I think there is a certain refusal to fit into neat categories or modes of production.

PLTFRM_timbs: well said, Lauren

P4TR1K: oh shit g2g again

PLTFRM_timbs: l8r

toromix: bye pat

[P4TR1K leaves chatroom again.]

toromix: the net should really get rid of these old boxes

toromix: that people tend to us

marcorevised: maybe we are an arrangement of multiple practices

PLTFRM_timbs: uh huh

yethhh: I like to use a phrase from the new testament:

PLTFRM_timbs: HAHA

aluren: go on

marcorevised: maybe we are an arrangement of multiple practices under the umbrella of DIS

yethhh: everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial

khaki-chase: I think we are growing in terms of our modes of production and involvement in web and real time

PLTFRM_timbs: ..preach

khaki-chase: like our collaboration with DUMP.FM

khaki-chase: is really exciting!

PLTFRM_timbs: super exciting

khaki-chase: it starts this Monday August 9th

khaki-chase: and will be 24/7 realtime in this roooom!

PLTFRM_timbs: let’s talk about that

PLTFRM_timbs: how long will your room be around for?

aluren: one week

PLTFRM_timbs: and the theme is

toromix: NEW STYLE OPTIONS

toromix: (gif of naked lady walking on beach with censor blur over her chest, vag. Removes censor blur as if it was a bikini, and is actually naked (no censor))

khaki-chase: yeah, so we have been working with Ryder Ripps to establish a DIS DUMP embedded on DIS

yethhh: WHOA

toromix: new style options video of naked lady walking on beach with censor blur over her chest, vag. Removes censor blur as if it was a bikini, and is actually naked (no censor))

yethhh: david that is amazing

khaki-chase: yes!

PLTFRM_timbs: AHHH

khaki-chase: great representation of what will be going on in here

marcorevised: In this case we are going to create material that can be manipulated by others and also we’ll redo or appropriate works done by others.

PLTFRM_timbs: so dope

khaki-chase: and all are welcome to partake, collaborate…

toromix: or just post what we’re wearing that day

toromix: or what we wish we could wear

PLTFRM_timbs: and I’m sure all of you will be weaving in and out of this room throughout the week

khaki-chase: its really exciting to have a project that is interactive and communicative

PLTFRM_timbs: I love that

toromix: for sure

yethhh: I’m going to install a chat box to represent me for the entire week,

PLTFRM_timbs: what are you guys wearing now?

toromix: or lifestyle options too

yethhh: you guys, let’s take web cam photos

aluren: webcam!!

PLTFRM_timbs: does that mean we’re cybering?

toromix: (horizontally split webcam photo of toromix/David Toro)

toromix: too hot for a shirt

PLTFRM_timbs: dannielle my intern has been present, capturing this whole chat! say hi in a photo too danny!

aluren: (webcam photo of aluren/ Lauren Boyle)

toromix: cute!

aluren: (webcam photo of marcorevised /Marco wearing a long, white beard a la santa clause)

aluren: (webcam photo of marcorevised /Marco with the beard again, standing further away from camera than in previous photo)

yethhh: (webcam photo of yethhh/ Nick)

marcorevised: looks like chat roulette

aluren: these images are kind of sad

toromix: (horizontally split webcam photo of toromix/ david toro, wearing a shirt)

toromix: better now

aluren: SMILE

marcorevised: men infront of the computer, sad

toromix: future

khaki-chase: (webcam photo of khaki-chase/Solomon in happy face PJ top)

aluren: jesus

PLTFRM_timbs: (webcam photo of PLTFRM_timbs/Christelle w/ “REAL TIME” sign)

marcorevised: doesn’t matter the smiles

yethhh: (webcam photo of torso of yethhh/Nick)

yethhh: (webcam photo of yethhh/nick’s shape-up sneakers)

PLTFRM_timbs: marco! LOL!

marcorevised: lol the solitude and the sadness of the webcam

PLTFRM_timbs: DOPE. Sketchers?

yethhh: yes, shape-ups.

yethhh: They have been a staple this summer.

aluren: YES

toromix: ( distorted webcam photo of toromix/David Toro)

dbow: (webcam photo of dbow/Dannielle Bowman)

PLTFRM_timbs: d bowman everybody! Everyone say hi!

khaki-chase: (distorted webcam mirror image of denim)

aluren: hi

toromix: hi

dbow: hi everyone!

khaki-chase: hi!

PLTFRM_timbs: (gif of guy waving glow sticks at a rave, looking directly at camera)

toromix: ohh nice party gif

khaki-chase: looks fun!

yethhh: (image of piercing accessories with “so, it’s my body” on bottom right corner)

PLTFRM_timbs: im really into this picture share, you guys just became really REAL

aluren: (webcam photo of marcorevised/Marco reading a book)

aluren: (webcam photo of marcorevised/Marco looking into webcam)

PLTFRM_timbs: cuuute marco is always with a book

khaki-chase: we did?

marcorevised: just pretending

yethhh: (photo of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen post-getting slimed)

PLTFRM_timbs: (photo of Marco holding a portrait photography book in left hand and making an “ok” sign with his right hand over his right eye)

PLTFRM_timbs: ok you guys I could go on forever

PLTFRM_timbs: but I think we’ve been chatting an hour now! It’s been really fun

yethhh: wow

yethhh: haha

khaki-chase: yes it has!

yethhh: thanks, christelle! It’s been a blast.

aluren: we love you it flew by

PLTFRM_timbs: any final words you wanna say? Or put out there?

yethhh: THERE IS NO FINAL WORD

marcorevised: yes one second I’m slow writing

PLTFRM_timbs: how about this…

yethhh: THERE IS NO FINAL WORD.

marcorevised: We are a platform that deals with the creation of identity and how its inseparable of the daily influences that surround us, like fashion, media, art, politics or architecture

marcorevised: there is no final word

PLTFRM_timbs: for the next 5 minutes

PLTFRM_timbs: I’ll give you one work, and you type the first thing that comes to mind

PLTFRM_timbs: word association

toromix: (photo of lady in crazy costume)

PLTFRM_timbs: cheesecake

marcorevised: discake

yethhh: DIStaste

PLTFRM_timbs: distaste for discake

yethhh: DISgustible

PLTFRM_timbs: yup!

marcorevised: yop!

PLTFRM_timbs: DISolve

toromix: (5 images (same) of back of naked avatar with “dis” superimposed on back)

khaki-chase: DISH

yethhh: DIS SIGNING OFF

PLTFRM_timbs: yes, good stopping point!

khaki-chase:THANKS GIRL!

PLTFRM_timbs: I love you guys

toromix: (2 photos of billboard with image of hands clasping wrists in blue sleeves or no sleeves in circular formation, with image of back of naked avatar with “dis” superimposed on back in between 2 billboard photos)

aluren: l8r!

toromix: l8

marcorevised: lol

aluren: cya

toromix: its tricky

PLTFRM_timbs: bye bye thank you for your time!

toromix: thank u

marcorevised: l8r

PLTFRM_timbs: (gif of Mariah Carey giving a man cornrows)

toromix: (gif of a lady falling asleep on the train, then falls off seat)

toromix: classy

toromix: BAI BAI

PLTFRM_timbs: ~~~~<~~<~@ tHnX 4 stOppiN’ bYeE~~*

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