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OVO 2

Test print. One copy. July 1987. 16 pages. 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches. Black and white photocopy.

First edition. One hundred copies. July 1987. 16 pages with eight-page insert. 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches (insert 4.25 inches by 3.6 inches). Black and white photocopy. Includes Mike Film.

“At every turn in its thought, society will find us waiting.”

Publisher/Editor: Trevor Blake

About OVO

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Annotations

OVO 2 was first published in 1987. The information on page two is accurate but it is unlikely that any of the addresses seen elsewhere in this issue are still valid.

ovo0201 – Cover. Copy art, photocopier, prosthetic eyes and pen.

ovo0202 – Introduction. I was no more than 21 years old in this photograh.

ovo0203 through ovo0205 – Becoming More Free. Ernest Mann. It took a special effort to find somewhere to print this essay with a laser printer. Ernest Mann advocated refusing to take pay for one's work, with the idea that if everyone worked for free then the need to charge for goods and services (and scarcity of goods and services) would vanish, bringing universal prosperity. After decades of publishing his own newsletter and two books, Ernest Mann was murdered by his grandson in the 1990s.

ovo0206 – Mike Film. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE. Actual cells of Mike Film were taped to pages in this issue of OVO. I still have a few hundred pieces of Mike Film, and every few years tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE distributes an update as to where Mike Film has been distributed.

ovo0207 – OCCUPANT booklet. Booklet not shown in this scan. Collage elements drawn from album cover art by The Residents. OCCUPANT was the first band I was in.

ovo0208 – Death Car. Top left background by Trevor Blake using an Amiga computer. Top right background is the burgler image used many times in OVO. Bottom left background unknown, tape deck same as ovo0105 (see OVO 1). Bottom right background from 'teenage' collage by Trevor Blake (including surrealist photography and David Merrik). The hundreds of tapes I was making and receiving seldom had labels. These j-cards were designed for any cassette; any tape could be 'Death Car.' 'Death Car' and the skull are from a police museum in Pidgeon Forge, Tennessee – the same museum I'm standing in front of on page 88 of Pagan Kennedy's book Zine.

ovo0209 and ovo0210 – Salon Apocalypse. Hakim Bey. First appearance of this essay. Published four years later in T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone.

ovo0211 and ovo0212 – Body art. These photographs of a nipple pierced in 1985 were published in 1987, two years before the Modern Primitives issue of Re/Search.

ovo0213 – Collage.

ovo0214 – Collage. Elements drawn from album cover art by The Residents. Stencil graphitti by Trevor Blake from the mid-1980s in Knoxville, Tennessee.

ovo0215 – Collage. Background is a photocopy image a plastic fork spinning on the scanning glass while being copied.

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