Chapbook Six - Edited by Ruela
This is the sixth chapbook edited by Ruela and features the art & words of: Josep Fábrega Agea - Jb krost - MO - CHM - Ruela - Shadow Lor - TICTAC - d_rood - Jase - Russell 'C.J.' Duffy - A.Decker - Neil R Graf - doriandra - murmurists - dodo spiessert - STICKLEBACK2 - Iryna Harpy - Mersault - undRess Béton - Jaie - I am not Kek-w - robinmosesnailart - Aaron Held - auraborus - Inconsequential - John Moore Williams.
This is the seventh chapbook edited by Ruela and features the art & words of: Scott Reeves - Jel Ena - Ruela - murmurists - Shadow Lor - CHM - Todeskino - Jase - J. D. Nelson - Robert - Russell 'C.J.' Duffy - Manina - Laurent Fièvre - Iryna Harpy - MO - Doriandra - Inconsequential - Lazare - jbkrost - Justin Lee Brown - TICTAC - Rick - A.Decker - undRess Béton - Mersault - dodo spiessert - Aaron Held - Babalith - d_rood - Coffee Messiah - Junior.
Chapbook One - Edited by Russell 'CJ' Duffy
Chapbook Two - Edited by Doriandra Serena Smith
Chapbook Three -Edited by Russell 'CJ' Duffy
Chapbook Three and a Half - Edited by Russell 'CJ' Duffy
Chapbook Four - Edited by Ruela
Chapbook Five - Edited by Tictac
There is some arcane force driving discharge, some force of nature that propels it. I am uncertain if it is anything to do with anyone individual anymore. It is almost as though the beast has taken on a life force of its own and is whipping all the various contributors, like galley slaves, into a frenzy of creativity. As Murmurists once declared, the input of the individual is only a small part of the whole and the whole is the art and not the individual contributions. This in effect means that D7 in its entirety is the art and that idea is quite liberating when you think about it. It is also a declaration of the age old principle of community, of socialism, of pack animals acting as one.
We are discharge.
We are D7
Great work so far one and all.
The current team are burning hot. So much new art being posted. I was delighted to see the quality of work produced and was especially enthralled by the posts of jbkrost, Pete Hoge, A.Decker, Cristina (CHM), Rosa and little Mo. Excellent work by all. Mustn't forget those 'old' stalwarts: Ruela, Tictac and of course Doriandra. Such shapes, colours and flavours; so rich in their eclectic mix.
Hopefully, Tictac has received everyone’s contributions for the next discharge chapbook of which I am really looking forward to.
Keep happy people and love yourselves and those you love equally.
.
CJ
The lovely Tictac has come up with a brilliant idea for the next discharge chapbook. It consists of as many of the D6 team as possible sending her their original artwork/poetry which she will then compile into a book format before sending out the completed chapbook to those who contributed.
Sadly, only a handful are able to work on this project and I hope that this does not make Tictac feel despondent in any way as I think the idea is splendid.
Contributeurs are:
Tictac
Ruela
CHM
Doriandra
Jase
Nera Batina
Auraborus
JB Rood
Josh
Shadow Lor
CJ
I know you wont but don’t let her down.
D7 is coming along but I confess to not doing much with it of late. I am, again, very busy, and have, if I am to be honest, putting it off whilst i do other stuff. No doubt Ruela will dive in, as he always does, and sort out the muddle I have created.
Keep at it guys as you are the best.
Russell 'CJ' Duffy
November. Pale and grim here in Britain. It was a welcome burst of sunlght when the sixth discharge chapbook arrived. I wrote the words but that gave me no insight into what Ruela would do with those words so that the surprise was just the same for me as for the rest of team.
It was a pleasue to view and encourages me to do more of these chapbooks even if we still haven't, as yet, produced the DVD or CD we spoke so long ago. Maybe one day.
The new intake of discharge team members is exciting as all have added a new angle on what is fast becoming an old blog. More power to them.
CJ
Words by C.J. Duffy
Designed by Ruela
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Stickleback2
CHM
dodo spiessert
undRess Béton
doriandra
A.Decker
Ruela
Aaron Held
Auraborus
Jase
Murmurists
jbkrost
TICTAC
Every once in a while discharge goes into a slump, a dry period when the spark that drives this series flickers and fades. Fortunately it never goes out but re-ignites again with some truly exciting work.
Iryna Harpy worked some magic recently with her amazing vocals. It is the sort of thing that certainly rocks this mans boat. As does the grand old dame (less of the old I her scream) Doriandra who has been sizzling of late along with Ruela and J. B Decker.
The whole team has been firing on all cylinders of late and it is when this happens that discharge goes into overdrive. It is bloody incredible when it does.
A faint wind of Autumn blew me a warning.
Summer is fading and winter waits.
Discharge grows as it always has, evolving with each new contributor.
The art flakes away the constant threat of repetition as does the poetry that flows in fractured syllables from the collective pens of the creators.
Always entertaining. Forever changing. D6 is moving where we haven't been before and D7 will undoubtedly flow to another tide.
I recently received DD Wildblood's book and was chuffed to see a dedication to us discharger’s. The book is a wonderful, surreal work with an unsettling but easy style that I found electrifying to read.
xxx
August comes with a lick of hot sun but nothing is as hot, or indeed as cool, as the art and words on discharge. Ruela and the team, both old and new, are producing some staggering stuff.
Doriandra's recent photo features, presumably one of her beautifully designed dresses as worn by an equally beautiful female.
CHM's pop art self portrait is wonderfully colourful (note the use of a U all you American's!)and A.Decker seems to have a fire burning in his pants.
Fantastic stuff.
Funtastic stoff.
The fantastic stiff.
