5 ees Sil pol 85 F Ni Planet of the ‘Arts Page 2 Janus Edition For the atheist, New Year’s resolutions are the moral equivalent of Confession. Self-conscious about our apathy and vices, we convince ourselves that December 31st is the long forgotten past, mere minutes after it becomes January Ist. This is all well and good for things like smoking, exercise, over-eating, under-achieving, over-spending, and changing your underwear, for with these you can measure your progress. For an entity such as this publication however, resolutions are not so easily defined and evaluated. With this issue we find ourselves in a permanent office space, with a new light table and some renovations to help streamline production. Thanks to Ray Don for his able carpentry in this regard. Also, the possibilities of exchanging a page with the O.C.A. student publication, and of working with Richard Wegen, an art director with the N.Y. Times magazine have presented themselves. Therefore, our resolution is neither a fresh start or a self-promise, but involves the monthly confrontation with our Tabula Rasa. With improving communication, long-term ideals, and a healthier relationship with the Student Society. put- ting the first mark down is getting easier. The Editors. Janus, a Roman deity, was the porter of heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him. He is the patron of the beginning and end of things and is the guardian deity of gates, on which account he is commonly represented with two heads or two faces, because every door looks two ways. In one instant he faces the rising sun and the sunset, the future and the past. from Bulfinch’s Mythology Dear Editors and art-students, This letter concerns an incident which occurred recently in the old painting studio at the College. A number of paint- ings were kept in storage there. One of the paintings was de- liberately ruined. The painting in question had several — items fixed to its surface, among those a chess set and a model jet. Some coward attacked this painting, snapping the wings from the jet like ripping the wings off a fly stuck to flypaper. We can only wonder at the Falwellian logic which the person in question used to justify such a heinous act. The only residue left behind was an obscure statement written in pencil on the wall: “It is sad...Protester of evil — you too marvel at its designs.” Aren’t there enough problems without the self-righteous inflicting their views on us through a program of censorship involving vandalism? Sincerely, Thomas Wren /) David Steele i LETTERS to the Editors Dear Editor: The painting in the gallery show the week of November 9-15, of the nude headless woman juxtaposed with the rear view of a pig, caused a small stir among the student body. It should have caused a much larger stir. Women are not headless pieces of meat. To those who have trouble understanding that, I would like to say: “try harder.” My second point is to question how this painting came to be part of a portfolio of Emily Carr student work. It reflects badly on all of us. | am reluctant to hold the student painter entirely responsible. We come to this school from different backgrounds, with different prejudices and preconcep- tions. We are here to learn. We expect to have our assump- tions challenged. I could have explained before I arrived at Emily Carr College why this painting insults women — and men too for that matter. Had I not known that beforehand, would I have learned it here? Liz Murray Dear Editors, In the November issue of Planet of the Arts there was a notice of a meeting of the.“Emily Carr Theatrical Society” for people interested in putting on a play. I went but the meeting never materialized. I haven’t seen any notices since to do with this “Society”? I am interested. I’d like to know what’s happening with this. signed, Jennifer M’Clean Foundation Dear art students, Interested in participating in a group show? Do you have work completed or in progress that refers to landscape? The specifics of place? Adopts imagery or prac- tice particular to the West Coast? I am looking for easily-transportable works, such as small paintings, drawings, perhaps video and small sculpture, which deal with this broad notion of landscape. The exhibition is projected for the Anna Lenowens Gal- lery associated with the Nova Scotia College of Art and De- sign (NSCAD), in Halifax, sometime next year, late winter or spring. Still interested? If so I would like to hear from you as soon as possible. My address: Melanie Boyle c/o NASCAD 5163 Duke St., Halifax N.S. (902) 422-2867 (Home phone. No collect calls please.) v Articles bearing the above symbol are reprinted, with per- mission, from “Good News”, an ECCAD Administration publication managed by Susan Brain. The Editors wish to thank “Good News” for the use of these items. ee ee ee ee ee ee Dear editors, I would like to give the students at Emily Carr some safe advice. Always look both ways before crossing a street. On Sunday, January 11 I was on my way home after a pleasant evening of entertainment. The Hastings bus crossed the Granville Bridge and at the stop after the bridge, twenty- one strange beings got on. All had just come out of the bingo palace. Most were elderly or looked elderly but ev- eryone was feeling wild and crazy. Teased hair is the rage among this group. Clutching their bags filled with lucky charms and bingo chips they were ready for the bus to move on. A woman beside me began to clip her nails and collected the nails into her bingo bag while a woman of about seventy asked an equally aged man whether he was lonely now that his wife passed away. He answered yes and in response the lady replied, “Well this is your lucky night.” Another happy couple was created and all because of bingo. All the chatter on the bus was on the topic of the upcoming Mid- night Madness Bingo Night. The title is self-explanatory, and you wondered where Vancouver got the reputation as the town that never sleeps. All of a sudden a young man running across the street to catch the bus ran in front of it. The bus was almost at a standstill seeing that there was another bus in front. Nevertheless, the bus driver honked his horn at this rude in- trusion. The driver then replied, “Fool idiot almost got his. Would have been legless.” He didn’t allow the man to get on the bus. This was to educate him for the next time. Al- ways look both ways before crossing or you might get sandwiched between two buses and end up legless. Need- less to say, the bus was aflutter with talk. Could anyone be- lieve someone would cross without looking? That is why we have so many legless kids selling pens on street corners. I got off at the next stop and walked home in the stinging rain thinking about life out of balance. Jerry Stochansky Birth of The Planet Alan P. Smale In the beginning was the Big Bang. The young Universe consisted entirely of energy, too hot for matter to exist. In the expansion that followed, elementary particles were born out of the radiation soup. First, the high energy parti- cles which today we know only from experiments using giant accelerators, and later, as the primeval fireball cooled, hydrogen and helium were formed. After maybe a billion years, matter began to dominate over energy. The gravitational attraction pulled atoms to- gether into huge clouds which became clusters of galaxies. Within the clusters the individual galaxies were created, and within the galaxies, much smaller clouds of gas col- lapsed to form stars. Gravitational energy was converted into heat and the interior temperatures of the stars grew high enough for nuclear reactions to begin. The Sun came into being in the second wave of stellar formation, after the first generation of hot massive stars had burned themselves out in supernova explosions. Ten billion years after the original Bang, our Sun was formed at the centre of a swirling disk of dust and gas. In the outskirts of this disk, clumps of matter grew, compacted and cooled to become planets, sweeping up all the leftover material as they settled into their orbits around the Sun. The third of the nine planets eventually generated an atmosphere, giant primitive reptiles, and. . . us. Alan Smale obtained a B.A. in Physics from Oxford Uni- versity in 1982 and was awarded his doctorate from the De- partment of Astrophysics at Oxford in 1986 after submitting a thesis entitled “Variability in Stellar X-ray Sources” . Dr. Smale now works as a space scientist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, England. His latest accomplishment is to have been awarded the high office of London Correspon- dant for the Planet of the Arts. PLANET OF The ARte The Planet of the Arts is a student publication from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, funded by the Student Society. We welcome unsolicited contributions provided they include the contributor’ s real name. Ar- ticles should be legible. Photos and drawings should be black and white. Submissions can be placed in the blue box in the Cafeteria. The Editors reserve the right to edit submissions to increase clarity and to eliminate racism and sexism. Editors-in-Residence: Naomi Singer, lan Verchére Editor-in-Mexico: Virginia Achtem Typesetting: Martin Hunt, Rosemary Cookson, Tipper Carlyle, Kathleen Culham Layout and Paste-up: Anna-Lisa Meikle, Bob Miller, Brian Shortt, John Doyle, Ana Chang, Bill Gillespie, Naomi, Ian Cover: Geoff Carter ;monoprint for Planet of the Arts Graphic Contributions: Sean Thompson, Robert Gore, Fred Peter; Dennis Rickett, John Wertschek, Bob Miller, Lou du Hamel, Del Seagrave-Peel, Geoff Carter, Ian Articles etc.: Robert Gore, Jerry Stochansky, Sandra Lockwood, Andrew Wilson, Lowell Morris, Pamela Tagle, Jeremy Bee, Martin Hunt, Susan Brain, Adriana Ramirez Mendoza, Alan Barkley, Alan Smale, Sherann Johnson, Sandi North, Agustin Luviano- Cardero, lan, Virginia, Naomi Faculty Adviser: John Wertschek any Phanet ofthe Ans Page? For the atheist, New Yé 's resolutions are the moral equivalent of Confession. Self-conscious about our apathy and vices, we convince ourselves that December 31st is the long forgotten past, mere 1 This is all well and good for things like smoking, exercise, over-cain tes after it becomes Jan under-achieving, over-spending, and cl Ist inging your underwear, for with these you can measure your progress. For an entity such as this publication however, resolutions are not so easily defined and evaluated With this issue we find ourselves a perma streamline production. Thanks to Ray Don forhis able carpentry i and of working with Richard We blicatio have pre ‘Therefore. our resolution is neither a fresh start or a self-promise, but i Tabula Rasa, With improving communication, long-tern first mark down is getting easier nt office space, with a new light table and some renova to help ard. Also, the possibilities of exchanging a page ‘an art director with the N.Y. Times magazine this folves the monthly confrontation with our ideals, and a healthier relationship with the Student Society. put- The Editors Janus, a Roman deity, was the porter of heaven. He opens the ‘year, the first month being named after him. He is the patron of the beginning and end of things and is the guardian deity of gates, on which account he is commonly represented with two heads or wo faces, because every door looks two ways. In one instant he faces the rising sun and the sunset, the future and the past. ‘tom Buttnch's Mythology Dear Editors and artstudents, This letter concems an incident which occurred ree inthe old painting studio atthe College. A number of paint- ings were kept in storage there, One of the paintings was de- ‘The painting in question had several items fixed to its surface, among those a chess set and a model jet. Some coward attacked this painting, snapping from the jet like ripping the wings off a fly stuck to flypaper. We can only wonder at the Falwellian lo ‘hich the person in question used to justify such a heinous act. The only residue let behind was an obscure statement ct ‘onthe wall: “It is sad...Protester of evil — involving vandali Sincerely, Thomas Wren David Steele Dear Editor: ‘The painting inthe gallery show the week of November 9-15, of the nude headless woman juxtaposed with the ear View of a pig, caused a small str among the student body. It should have caused a much larg Women are not headless pieces of meat. To those who have trouble understanding that, 1 would like to say: “try harder.” badly on all of us. Lam reluctant to hold the student painter entirely responsible. We come to this school from different grounds, with different prejudices and preconcep- tions. We are here to learn. We expect to have our assump- tions challenged. 1 could have explained before 1 arrived at Emily Carr College why this painting insults women —and men too for that matter. Had I not known that beforehand, would [have learned it here? Liz Murray Dear Editors, In the November issue of Planet ofthe Arts there was @ ‘notice of a meeting of the "Emily Carr Theatrical Societ for people interested in putting on a play. I went but the ‘meeting never materialized. I haven't seen any notices since to do with this "Society? I am interested. I'd like to know what's happening with thi signed, Jennifer M’Clean Foundation Dear art students, rested in participating in a group show? Do you have work completed or in progress tha refers to landscape? The specifies of place? Adopts imagery or prac tice particular tothe West Coast? I am looking for easiy-transportable works, such as ‘imall paintings, drawings, perhaps video and small sculpture, which deal with this broad notion of landscape. The exhibition is projected for the Anna Lenowens Gal- lery associated with the Nova Scotia College of Art and De sign (NSCAD). in Halifax, sometime next year late winter oF sprit Stil imerested? If so 1 would like to hear from you as soon as possible My address: Melanie Boyle clo NASCAD. 5163 Duke St., Halifax N.S. (902) 422-2867 (Home phone. No collect Articles bearing the above symbol are reprinted, with per ‘mission, from "Good News", an ECCAD Administration publication managed by Susan Brain. The Editors wish 10 ‘thank “Good News” for the use ofthese items Dear editors, T would like to give the students at Emily Carr some safe advice. Always look both ways before crossing astreet. On Sunday. January IT was on my way home aftera pleasant 1¢ Hastings bus crossed the Granville Bridge and at the stop after the bridge, twenty ‘one strange beings got on. All had just come out of the bingo palace. Most were elderly or looked elderly but ev- exyone was feeling wild and crazy. Teased hair is the rage among this group. Clutching their bags filled with lucky charms and bingo chips they were ready for the bus to move ‘A woman beside me began to clip her nails and collected the nails into her bingo bag while a woman of about seventy asked an equally aged man whether he was lonely now th his wife passed away. He answered yes and in response the lady replied, “Well this is your lucky’night.” Another happy couple was created and all because of bingo. All the chatter on the bus was on the topie of the upcoming Mid- hight Madness Bingo Night, The title is self-explanatory and you wondered where Vancouver got the reputation as the town that neVer sleeps. All of a sudden a young man running across the street to catch the bus ran in front of it. The bus was almost at a Standstill seeing that there was another bus. in front Nevertheless, the bus driver honked his horn at this rude in trusion. The driver then replied, "Foo! idiot almost got his, Would have been legless.” He didn’t allow the man to get ‘on the bus. This was to educate him for the next time. Al- ways look both ways before crossing or you might get ‘sandwiched between two buses and end up legless. Need- less to say, the bus wasafluter with talk. Could anyone be- lieve someone would eross without looking? That is why ‘we have so many legless kids selling pens on street comers, T got off a the next stop and walked home in the stinging rain thinking about life out of balance Jerry Stochansky Birth of The Planet Alan P. Smale the beginning was the Big Bang. The young Universe ‘consisted entirely of energy, too hot for matter to exist. In the expansion that followed, elementary particles were born out ofthe radiation soup. Firs, the high energy part cles which today we know only from experiments using giant accelerators, and later, as the primeval fireball cooled, hydrogen and helium were formed. After maybe a billion years, matter began to dominate lover energy. The gravitaiional attraction pulled atoms to- gether into huge clouds which became clusters of gal individual g: and within the galaxies, much smaller clouds of gas col- lapsed to form stars. Gravitational energy was converted into heat and the interior temperatures ofthe stars grew high ‘enough for nuclear reactions to ‘The Sun came into being in the second wave of stellar formation, after the first generation of hot massive stars had ‘burned themselves out in supernova explosions. Ten billion years after the original Bang, our Sun was formed at the Centre of a swirling disk of dust and gas, In the outskirts of this disk, clumps of matter grev., compacted and cooled to become planets, sweeping up ail the leftover material. as they settled into their orbits around the Sun. The third ofthe nine planets eventually generated an atmosphere, giant primitive reptiles, and... us. Alan Smale obvained a B.A. in Physics from Osford Uni versity in 1982 and was awarded his doctorate from the De- partment of Astrophysics at Oxford in 1986 after submisting ‘ashesis entitled “Variability in Stellar X-ray Sources” . Dr ‘Smale now works as a space scientist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, England. His latest accomplishment is to have been awarded the high office of London Correspon dant for the Planet of the Art. ECCAD STUDENT Publication PLANET OF The ARTS The Planet of the Arts isa student publication from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, funded by the Student Society. We welcome unsolicited contributions provided they include the contributor's real name. Ar- ticles should be legible. Photos and drawings should be black and white. Submissions can be placed in the blue box in the Cafeteria. The Editors reserve the right to edit submissions to increase clarity and to eliminate racism and sexism, Editors-in-Residen ‘Naomi Singer, lan Verchere Euitor-in-Mexico: Virginia Achtem ‘Typesettin Martin Hunt, Rosemary Cookson, Tipper Carlyle, Kathleen Culham Layout and Paste-uy ‘Anna-Lisa Meikle, Bob Miller, Brian Shortt, John Doyle, Ana Chang, Bill Gillespie, Naomi, fan Cover Geoff Carter:monoprint for Planet ofthe Arts Graphic Contributions: Sean Thompson, Robert Gore, Fred Peter! Dennis Rickett, John Wertschek, Bob Miller, Lou du Hamel, Del Seagrave-Peel, Geoff Carter, lan Articles ete Robert Gore, Jerry Stochansky, Sandra Lockwood, Andrew Wilson, Lowell Morris, Pamela Tagle, Jeremy Bee, Martin Hunt, Susan Brain, Adriana Ramirez Mendoza, Alan’ Barkley, Alan Smale, ‘Sherann Johnson, Sandi North, Agustin Luviano- Cardero, lan, Virginia, Naomi Faculty Adviser: John Wertschek