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Trevor Blake
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Trevor Blake: At Every Turn in Its Thought...
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In March 2008 I listed a number of times I copied a link from somewhere or another that was then copied by boingboing a few days later. The trend continues!
Labels: blog, ovo, trevorblake Trevor Blake: On the Anniversary of September 11th, 2001.
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Labels: blog, comics, islam, ovo, theocracy, trevorblake, video Trevor Blake: Happy Birthday
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On August 26 2008, ovo blog turned one year old. Thank you to all my readers, thank you to the fine resources I use to gather information here. I had advertisements here at first but as far as I could tell I was making more money finding pennies on the sidewalk each month so I stopped. I've had to edit many posts for spelling and formatting but only a few for content error. I'm satisfied that the time I put into it is worth the enjoyment I and others get out of it. Thanks again.
Labels: blog, ovo, trevorblake OVO at esozone.com
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 "The new issue of Trevor Blake's OVO Magazine features many Esozone participants: Anonymous, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Vincent Al Ken, Wes Unruh, and Edward Wilson. Plus many other fine contributors. For those not in the know, OVO has been published by Trevor Blake since 1987." Labels: blog, magick, ovo, periodical, portland, trevorblake, zine Trevor Blake: Legal Torrents
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legaltorrents.com has long been a mirror of OVO, for which we give thanks. I am shocked and pleased to see that they have distributed 300+ gigabytes of OVO. Recently the site celebrated a re-launch and issued the following...
"We're happy to announce that we have launched the new and improved beta for LegalTorrents. The site is now designed to make top quality open-license content available and to provide a support system to content creators (you) through financial sponsorship by site members and visitors. "The re-launch of the site includes two important new features: "(1) An Online Community. We are building an online community to discover, evaluate and publish content, for networking and information exchange, and to promote the site. "(2) Sponsorship for Content Creators. We now accept voluntary financial contributions towards your work. We distribute 100% of payments to you if they come from members of the community, and 85% if they come from visitors to the site." Visit legaltorrents.com today, won't you? Labels: ovo, periodical, trevorblake, zine
Trevor Blake: OVO 18 Money
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 OVO 18 Money has been published. Featuring the work of Anonymous, Dmitry Babenko, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Witta Kelssling-Jensen, Vincent Al Ken, Ruggero Maggi, Mail Art Paul, Willi Melnikov, Thom Metzger, Emilio Morandi, No Institute, Wes Unruh, Carlos Valdez and Edward Wilson. Download as PDF here. Using OVO (public domain since 1987) in your own projects is encouraged, thus each page of each issue is available as a separate downloadable free image file here. Labels: art, money, ovo, periodical, trevorblake, zine Trevor Blake: Books By or About Me
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Also appearing in periodicals such as ReadyMade, Whole Earth Review, semiotext(e) and Maximum Rocknroll among many others. Labels: books, ovo, trevorblake Trevor Blake: Marriage
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The Salt Lake Tribune reports: " The LDS Church has joined with several California religious groups to file a friend-of-the-court brief in defense of Proposition 22, a law passed in 1999 that defined marriage as between a man and a woman."
The Church of Jesus Christ, Later-Day Saints (The Mormons) has tried for decades to play down the most obviously strange or cruel or foolish aspects of their superstition and build up a new reputation of being just like any other cult in town. The above is another example of this public image campaign. While the Mormons will forever be associated with polygamy, they are now also advocating traditional limit-one-per-customer marriage. I do not think the increased number of men and women who want same-sex marriages has ever or will ever constitute a threat to marriage. What has caused harm to this institution (disclosure: I have presided over several marriages and will do so again next month) are easy access to divorce, easy access to safe and effective birth control and less social opprobrium for having children out of wedlock. Easier access to divorce and birth control were good changes, and if the institution of marriage suffered for them then individual human beings prospered for them. Having children out of wedlock seems to generally co-occur with poverty and crime, but of course any generalized claim breaks down for individual human beings. The cause of changes to the institution of marriage are clear. Bt many would prefer to keep what has caused harm to marriage, shifting the blame for that harm to homosexuals and simultaneously keeping homosexuals from the rights and responsibilities found in marriage. Superstition is, of course, to be found in nearly every example of this hypocrisy. Several times I have asked religionists what legal rights they specifically do not want same-sex couples to have. They have never been able to answer that question. Every legal right of marriage (inheritance, making medical decisions, etc.) that I mention to them, they think same-sex couples should have. Over time I realized that what they are imagining about same-sex marriage is that the sheriff will show up at their church and force their pastor to conduct a homo wedding at gunpoint. I think if we disabuse them of that fantasy then progress can be made. Disabusing the superstitious of fantasies (or, at least, mean spirited and stupid fantasies) is part of what OVO is all about. Labels: christianity, mormon, ovo, religion, theocracy Trevor Blake: ID This Art
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Trevor Blake: Sleep Chamber Wishes You a Merry XXX-Mas
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Brad Miller is documenting the work of John Zewizz, aka Sleep Chamber. This is much-needed archival work, as Sleep Chamber was a band deserving of far more positive attention than it got. Anyone interested in the sort of sex-heavy occult electronic music of earlier Coil or Psychic TV would do well to see what America had to offer in that genre. I corresponded with John in the late 1980s, trading my zine for his videotapes. Sleep Chamber spawned Women of the SS, who became Women of Sodom. Here is a digitalization of a remarkably rare holiday compilation cassette edited by John Zewizz. John, wherever you are, take care and thank you.
Trevor Blake: OVO 1987 - 1992
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 High quality scans of each individual page of OVO issues 1-14 (1987-1992) are now online. These images were used to make the PDF and OpenOffice editions of OVO. Additionally, there are more than sixty images now online for the first time. Some are color scans of original art to compliment the previously available monochrome scans of multiple-generation photocopies. Some are previously unpublished collages made during those years. Some are relevant photographs.When I started publishing OVO I was just a self-important hayseed living in a small town making a dumb little zine among thousands of others. But OVO did accomplish a few things in the first fourteen issues. OVO was the first to publish several essays by Hakim Bey that later appeared in his book T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone. OVO published work by Mike Diana long before his work drew the attention of State and Federal employees. Photographs of body piercing appeared in OVO two years before the Modern Primitives issue of Re/Search. The phrase 'phone tag' appears in print for the first time in the first issue of OVO. 'Liberating Wednesday' by PM, author of bolo'bolo, appears in OVO for the first (and only) time; this is nearly a decade before and fifty-two times more radical a suggestion than 'Buy Nothing Day.' Crop circles and the Men in Black are referenced at a time when they were still obscure. The first appearance of Ride Theory in print occurs in Ignatz Topolino's contribution to OVO. And OVO was aware enough of the outer edges of scientific ethics to mention gene patents in the same year they first were granted. OVO has a second life in the 21st Century. The contacts and content that informed the original photocopied editions remain active. At the same time, new issues are available that take advantage of the distribution capabilities of home computers, the Internet and print-on-demand services. Hundreds of thousands of pages of OVO have been distributed and new issues are in production. Labels: ovo, periodical, zine
OVO blog at technoccult.com
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 "My 5 favorite blogs, right now: OVO blog - a new blog, from Trevor Blake. Trevor's been publishing the OVO zine for something like 2 decades, and has been blogging on American Samizdat for a few years as well. The OVO blog features extensive coverage of the damage done by religion, and the occasional old school fringe culture gem." - Klintron Trevor Blake: Sen. Charles Grassley
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Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) has asked six non-profit agencies to account for their earnings. These six agencies are led by Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn. Sen. Grassley has no legal means to compel these six to account for their earnings. That is because these agencies serve an invisible monster that lives in the sky.
Secular non-profit agencies are accountable for how much money they take in and what they used that money for. By providing social services in the private sector they lessen the burden of the government to provide those services. By reducing the burden of the government to provide those services they reduce the amount of tax the government can justify taking in. By reducing the amount of tax the government can justify taking in the secular non-profit agencies are awarded with tax exempt status. Secular non-profit agencies are accountable for how much money they take in (to determine how much tax they can be exempt from) and what they used that money for (to demonstrate they relieved the burden of the state). Superstitious non-profit agencies are also tax exempt, but they are not accountable for how much money they take in nor are they accountable for what they spend the money on. Some superstitious non-profit agencies must surely do good work with every penny they can find. But others surely do not. The ideal and simple solution would be to get the government out of the superstition business (as suggested by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America). Hold superstitious non-profit agencies accountable to the same standards as secular non-profit agencies. Require superstitious non-profit agencies to account for how much money they take in and what they spend it on. Where they do good work, let them be rewarded. Leave magic spells offered to an invisible monster that lives in the sky up to individuals and families. I welcome Sen. Grassley's inquiry. He and those like him might benefit from my January 2006 essay The Case Against Tax Exemption for Religious Organizations in Oregon in OVO 16 Anti-Christ. "At every turn in its thought, society will find us - waiting." Labels: christianity, ovo, theocracy Trevor Blake: OVO blog October 2007
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Christ @ Work. The Bible does contain some fine moral advice in it. It also contains some inhumanly evil moral advice. It also contains some foolish nonsense that dresses itself up as moral advice. That doesn't make it much different from any number of other books, ancient and modern.
Extremophiles. What might humanity be able to engineer for ourselves to become extremophiles? What dangers do exremophiles present to humanity? Interfaith Dialog. In some places, disagreements are resolved by discussion. In other places, disagreements are resolved by flogging. Islam is Peace. Islam, like Christianity and all religions, is a collection of mean-spirited superstitions invented by illiterate pre-scientific nobodies that we have no reason to heed. Krankheit. Sometimes sickness is a benefit. The Latter-Day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America. Maybe it wouldn't be such a terrible thing if the Mormons got out of the Scouting business. More Sperm. February 2005 saw the return of OVO after 13 years of hibernation. The theme for that issue was 'sperm.' Sperm remains in the news, and here are some of the top sperm stories from the past two years. Peaceable Protests After Amsterdam Attacks. Police in the Dutch city of Amsterdam say several peaceful protests were held in the sixth night of memorials after officers shot a Moroccan man dead. Priorities. It seems that other people being free to celebrate or have their own superstitions is intolerable to Muslims, while public whippings and stoning are just fine as long as they occur in-house. Publius Enigma. It has something to do with Pink Floyd and the Internet and a treasure hunt. Saturn Return. Saturn Return is when Universe picks you up from under the Christmas tree and shakes you to see if it can figure out what you are. SB777. SB777 protects religious belief against discrimination. It also protects discrimination in religious belief. Only religion can distort the rule of law to this degree. Sharia in the United States of America. It is illegal to non-surgically amputate people's hands as a punishment for a crime. Illegal under United States law, but legal under sharia law. Superstitious Exemption from the Rule of Law. For better and for worse, it is not the case that we can all happily get along. But where there is the rule of law and not force, fiat or superstition we can at least get along peaceably. Two Articles from All Africa. Replacing witch doctors with Christians is not going to help the situation. Two Links via God is for Suckers. All money spent on religion is money wasted, wasted more thoroughly than money spent on weapons or torture. At least when someone is killed or tortured, something happened. Workplace Religious Freedom Act (S. 893). If this bill becomes law, then religious employees will have rights and privileges that no atheist employee can have. Labels: christianity, extremophiles, islam, krankheit, music, ovo, periodical, sperm, theocracy, zine Trevor Blake: OVO 18 MONEY
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ownership / jobs / theft / economics / capitalism / libertarianism / socialism / gambling / doing without / consumer culture / do-it-yourself / black market / free market / alternative currencies / free / barter / strikes / banks / gold / class / blackmail / sex work / wealth / mercenaries / poverty / lotteries / open source / intellectual property / stocks / wages / counterfeit / sabotage / etc.
Deadline: Noon Pacific Standard Time, 31 October 2007 Publication Date: January 2008 Trevor Blake P. O. Box 2321 Portland OR 97208-2321 USA Labels: ovo, periodical, zine Trevor Blake: OVO comments and forum
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Many have requested some sort of comments feature or forum area for OVO. After much technical work behind the scenes, the comments / forum section of OVO is now open for business. Post your feedback about OVO at boing boing, digg, myspace, metafilter, youtube, yahoo, google, or anywhere else you like. No special software required, no new logins and passwords to remember. A link back to OVO [www.ovo127.com] is always appreciated.
Labels: communication, ovo, periodical, zine Trevor Blake: More Sperm
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February 2005 saw the return of OVO after 13 years of hibernation. The theme for that issue was 'sperm.' Sperm remains in the news, and here are some of the top sperm stories from the past two years. Court in the United States and in Israel have ruled that sperm can be harvested from dead men for use in artificial insemination. Competition between males in the race to impregnate females has caused evolutionary changes in male sexual physiology and behavior. A woman named Holly Marie Adams had sex with identical twins. The DNA tests administered to determine who is the father of her child are a 99.999-percent match to either man. OVO 15 SPERM included information about the mood-altering effects of sperm, but there is also some evidence sperm is addictive. Crossing the trail of destruction left by OVO 16 ANTICHRIST comes Ezekiel 23. To quote the Skeptics Annotated Bible, this is a tale of two sisters: "Two sisters were guilty of 'committing whoredoms' by pressing their breasts and bruising 'the teats of their virginity.' As a punishment, one sister's nakedness was discovered, her children were taken from her, and she was killed by the sword. And the fate of the surviving sister was even worse. Her nose and ears were cut off, she was made to 'pluck off' her own breasts, and then after being raped and mutilated, she is stoned to death." We place emphasis here on the lusts of one of the sisters, who preferred a man with a penis like a donkey and who came like a horse. If you'd like to have the inspirational Ezekiel 23:20 on a t-shirt or a thong, Landover Baptist Church can provide. The Quran claims that sperm comes from somewhere 'between the loins and the ribs.' Islam also forbids the oral stimulation of men, lest such include the consumption of sperm, but does not prohibit the oral stimulation of women. And if all that isn't enough sperm for you, here's a few hundred more articles...
Labels: christianity, islam, ovo, periodical, science, sex, sperm, zine Trevor Blake: Twenty Recommended Art Links
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When I worked in used and rare bookstores I would sometimes buy art books. That occurs less often now that I do not have an employee's discount. Here are twenty wonderful art links that compensate for that loss, grouped by general themes...
Books and Paper: BibliOdyssey, I Love Typography, Joseph Wu's Origami Page, notebookism, Paper Forest and Stains on Paper. Old: Art Deco, Beautiful Century, The Boat Lullabies, Modern Mechanix, Posters of Cuba, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, Shorpy, and A Soviet Poster A Day. Random: A Best Truth, Dark Roasted Blend, Everlasting Blort, FFFFound!, flickr and riot rite right clit clip click.
OVO at Grey Lodge
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 [Thank you to the ever delightful Grey Lodge for this review. I can only claim to have published some of Hakim Bey's earlier published works, probably not his first. Among those works were essays that later appeared in the book TAZ The Temporary Autonomous Zone. See these works in an earlier form in OVO 2, OVO 7 Information, OVO 10 Mayhem and OVO 11 Control. See the more recent OVO 16 AntiChrist for another exclusive piece by Bey. - Trevor Blake] Labels: ovo, periodical, zine ovo tags
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