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OVO 4

First Edition. May 1988. 16 pages. 8.5 inches by 7 inches. Black and white photocopy, color photocopy.

Second edition. One hundred copies. May 1988. 16 pages. 8.5 inches by 7 inches. Black and white photocopy, color photocopy. Included cassette, two posters (each 11 inches by 8.5 inches), survey (11 inches by 4.25 inches), six postcards (each 5.5 inches by 4.25 inches, one including hand-carved rubber stamp), two sheets of stickers (11 inches by 8.5 inches when combined).

Third edition. Five copies. May 1988. Identical to Second Edition.

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

Publisher/Editor: Trevor Blake

About OVO

OVO is a magazine published on an irregular basis introducing new works to the public domain. Issues are available in electronic form free of charge, printed editions at a nominal fee. Complete information on subscriptions, back issues, limited editions, errata, books and more is available on the Internet or by sending a send a self-addressed stamped envelope. See below for address.

Inquiries

Send a self-addressed stamped envelope for contributor's guidelines. Unsolicited manuscripts not accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope will not be returned. Unsolicited manuscripts addressed to OVO will be considered submissions for publication unless expressly stated otherwise. Publication in OVO does not necessarily constitute an endorsement by Trevor Blake or other contributors; the opinions expressed by contributors are those of the contributors alone. All inquiries should be sent to OVO at address listed below. No one besides editor and publisher Trevor Blake speaks on behalf of OVO.

Public Domain

The person or persons who have associated their work with this document (the "Dedicators") hereby dedicate the entire copyright in the work of authorship identified below (the "Work") to the public domain. Dedicators make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of the Dedicators' heirs and successors. Dedicators intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights under copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the Work. Dedicators understand that such relinquishment of all rights includes the relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) those copyrights in the Work. Dedicators recognize that, once placed in the public domain, the Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.

Contact

Trevor Blake

P. O. Box 2321

Portland OR 97208-2321 USA

http://www.ovo127.com/

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Annotations

OVO 4 was first published in 1988. The information on page two is accurate but it is unlikely that any of the addresses seen elsewhere in this issue are still valid.

ovo0401 and ovo0402 – Fountain of Brains. Color photocopy. Collage elements from National Geographic. Most of my early collages were made from National Geographic, flight magazines and The Plain Truth.

ovo0403 – Statement. OVO is mentioned as being available in a digital form.

ovo0404 through ovo0412 and ovo0418 through ovo0422 – Interview. Elements include surrealist photographs, advertisements, true crime magazines and toy rubber skeletons. The interview is a monologue in two voices. The surrealist zine Quality Darkness described here did exist but no copies remain. In keeping with the unearned self-importance of this issue, I disavow being a mail artist. I was a mail artist and now know enough to be proud of it, but at the time I thought if I didn't invent it myself it was just copying someone else. All very age appropriate behavior, fortunately now superseded.

ovo0413 through ovo0414 – Photographs. The skin of a plastic anatomical model used as a filter for sunlight in an abandoned drive-in theater.

ovo0415 – Catalogue. Announcement of a computer edition of OVO.

ovo0416 – Spray paint stencil.

ovo0417 – The Book of Epso. Describes my first collage, my first zine, and the type of experiences I was having in school that made me drop out of high school in 1984 and stay away from college for the next fifteen years.

ovo0423 – Eros Erosion. Collage.

ovo0424 – Untitled collage. Divine aid is given to those offering the right symbolic object.

ovo0425 – Back Page. Collage, photograph, paper and glue. I was around 21 years old in this photograph.

ovo0426 – Back cover. Collage. The upper rectangle was designed to be cut out and used as a j-card for the cassette that accompanied this issue. The collage is a section of the 'teenage collage' also seen in ovo0208.

ovo0427 – Poster.

ovo0428 – Drawing. Typical of my doodling style, then and now. Postcard.

ovo0429 – Satellite Finder. Postcard. Collage elements from National Geographic. Like The Mouth Men, this collage later appeared in the Knoxville newspaper The Lame Monkey Manifesto.

ovo0430 – The TV Says This is a Girl. Postcard.

ovo0431 – The Mouth Men. Postcard.

ovo0432 – Survey. Background image is Mr. Everedge. Out of all the copies of OVO Cassette Engine that were distributed, perhaps three people completed this survey. Even more disappointing, I never sent them whatever it was I thought I was going to send them.

ovo0433 – Postcard. Image taken from the first edition of The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan. This image appears again in ovo0525 and another image from this book, the audience of a 3-D movie, can be seen in ovo0104.

ovo0434 - Postcard. Hand carved rubber stamp seen also on the back of ovo0433.

ovo0435 – Poster.

ovo0436 and ovo 0437– Stickers.

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