Our Meeting with Graham from Marketing Magazine At 10am I (Chloe) and Franky made our way to 3media to meet Graham Medcalf, Editor of NZ Marketing Magazine, feeling rather hungover from our first meeting with Looksy in a month, who ever suggested the black Russian shots has a lot to answer for *cough* Franky *cough*. So we meet, we soared, we impressed (well we like to think so anyway). We started off by discussing how I and Franky joined the glory which is Looksy.org and more interestingly why we believe we where picked; what made us stand apart from the other 4o candidates? I and Franky almost came to a consensus of, we had what was needed; a passion which already existed for people and inspiring them to speak – sometimes life is as simple as that (well, it is, perhaps a little more complicated than this but life’s a bit short really). We firstly discussed our many ambitious projects we had developed and created such as our Launch Party and Art project/prank which is, at the moment a little bit ‘secret squirrel’ so I am for once going to stay silent on the matter. We outlined our Postcard project, which was developed out of the need to create many ways, not just one, for people to have their say and discussed our installation of the project on a wall so people where able to see the project grow and take off. Graham asked us why we wanted to be apart of creating a voice for Generation C, and although I will not speak for Franky and I cannot remember exactly what I said (I blame the hungover for this lapse) this is near as damn it: There are many things worth fighting for but I’ve always felt to me, one of the most important things in life is a persons right to freedom of speech and a persons right to feel safe to say what they want or at least if they can not feel safe they feel brave enough. In my own art practice I make art about the importance of being fearless, of storytelling and of having a voice. This project offers people regardless of their race, their religion or gender a chance to tell the world what it is like to be them; a chance to tell people their dreams and how they would improve this world if they had a magic wand. I cannot truly think of anything else I would rather be doing with my life than creating channels, spaces, reasons and a chance for people to have a voice and be heard. So thus, I ended up working with Looksy on a project of ever growing epic proportions whose grand design centers around giving Generation C a way another way to express who they are. We then moved on to discussing the importance of creating a sense of community for Generation C; a way to activate an ever growing global posse of internet bloggers, myspace self promoters, amateur youtube film makers, armchair critics, internet communities… the list goes on and just how we intended to do this. We outlined we had set up a facebook, website and of course the before mentioned projects directed at creating a sense of community and collaboration. We also outlined this project is yet to completely grow wings but we had set up stable foundations for these ideas to turn into actions and results – it is simply a matter of time. We lastly discussed future endeavors, ideas and sponsorship (admin isn’t overly that interesting to write about so I doubt it would be that interesting to read about!) so I will leave this part out. Overall we managed to cover a great deal of the work I and Franky had produced and the ideas and projects we had implemented. It was an absolute pleasure to meet Mr. Medcalf and I look forward to telling him on our next meeting how our launch party went. Peace and vodka kisses from your ever glowing friend and GEN C partner in crime… Chloe (AKA Phunkin Phuturistik)
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