Pin-up mogul rises from the dead
Copious Magazine is back from hiatus!

New York, NY – Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Andrea Grant announced today the Copious Magazine is ready to celebrate the re-launch which is now available online at www.copiousmagazine.com.
Copious has been printed intermittently since 2001 and is proud to announce a new initiative to bring the world the finest in underground art, subculture, fashion, music events, literature, photography, film and everyone’s favorite: pin-up girls! The new quarterly edition is online as of today.

Andrea Grant, Founder of Copious Magazine, explains “Our fans simply won’t wait any longer. We were reporting on Dita Von Teese before burlesque had its resurgence. We have existing relationships at all levels of the underground and an intuition for what’s gorgeous and up-and-coming. In a world that is getting more and more dangerous and thought-controlled by the minute, art is what uplifts and inspires. This is the right time to re-launch the magazine.”

Readers can be added to the mailing list by emailing underground@copiousmagazine.com. The Copious Magazine blog is updated frequently and can be read at http://copiousmagazine.com/underground.

Copious Magazine has always been about diversity and blending elements that are not traditionally thought of as going together, art meets underground.

“We do not just engage with a finished artistic product, but also the process through which work is created,” Grant states. “Copious Magazine is ultimately a dialogue between the artists, the readers, the editors, and the work itself.”

Copious Magazine is accepting poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews with artists, photographers, and musicians. If you would like to submit your work or have a story idea, please email us at underground@copiousmagazine.com

Copious Magazine - Where Art Meets Underground!

Architect David Fisher is planning to start construction on the world’s first “skyscraper in motion” in Dubai. The skyscraper will be completed by 2010, and it will take “the concept of green buildings to the next level were it will generate electricity for itself as well as other nearby buildings, making it the first skyscraper designed to be self powered.”

This week’s New Yorker featured a short profile on the project. Fisher conceptualized this idea of “Dynamic Architecture” by imagining a building in which “every floor could spin, everyone in an apartment tower would have the mixture of views…Then, to make his building more environmentally sensitive, he left a few feet of space between each floor and put wind turbines there.”

Fisher plans to build another skyscraper in Moscow, and a third in New York. To imagine a building like this in the middle of the city is simply astonishing–but to imagine an entire city made up of these “four dimension[al]” towers is the stuff of science fiction.

Although the tower is visually stunning and allows residents “to drive directly into the building were a special elevator take their car to their floor and park at the entrance”–it’s ability to function as an alternative source of energy (for itself and for surrounding buildings) transforms it into a socially and economically viable solution for urban planning.

Dynamic Architecture
New Yorker Profile

It’s only appropriate that Peter Callesen is from Denmark, the country of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.

Some his work is pure whimsy, some of it is modest wit. His art is an antidote to writer’s block: the fully-realized blank page.

Impenetrable Castle, 2005

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Looking Back, 2006

Big wave moving towards a small castle made of sand, 2005

Closet, 2006

Angel, 2006

(Detail)

White Hand, 2007