JULY THE EIGHTH -TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN

REVIEWS

Something Real: Carl Marin at FLUXspace
By J. MAKARY
"The photograph, like the scene it depicts, is as crisp as autumn, and it draws the viewer into its slick, iridescent inkiness. "

Department of Alternative Affairs at City Hall
By NICOLE WILSON
"Micro-film→Flux→Validated→"

Introspective/Retrospective at Fleisher/Ollman
By EMILY ROONEY
"I feel about some of these drawings the way I imagine you would feel about The Knife’s first album or your first tiger print tee—you wore them both out. "

America is Proud of All of You: Wawa's Celebrate America
By EMILY DAVIDSON
"It is important to note that, despite these factors, despite a steady diet of NPR skepticism, I feel my own real impulse to parade. "



THE CENTERFOLD


ESSAYS

THE GOOD SEARCH:
 Iggy Donnelly and the Eternal Philadelphia Return
By SUZANNE SEESMAN

"He lived in an era with an ethos of hope and change that would make even Obama’s most earnest speechwriter uneasy today."



COMIC CON:
The Experiences
By MATT KALASKY and KENDALL GRADY

"Batman is everybody’s favorite."

"Video games have a nagging reputation as the mimesis of Plato’s Republic, obscuring reality and generating serial killers, acne, and Mountain Dew sales."



PHOTO: AP Photo/John Raoux

The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center Friday, July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA.

T
oday a spaceship blasted off for the final time. It was/is an impossible machine (maybe the most impossible we have ever built) that will soon garnish a Smithsonian past more hopeful and cavaliering then a frugal present.  But as one quantum booster powers down, another begins to blush with fiery ignition.

In this, the second installment of The Nicola Midnight St.Claire, we offer a super-charged array of exploration material.  The splash page is now THE CENTERFOLD, and this month an M squared dream-team collaboration, between Mike Treffehn and Mike Mullin, broadcasts an empty undertaking of the vacuum between.  Hyper-space reports from J. Makary, Nicole Wilson, Emily Rooney, and Emily Davidson provide new data on events from our local Philadelphia universe.  And finally, two essays by three authors (Suzanne Seesman, Matt Kalasky, and Kendall Grady)  bend our perception of the Experience-Place-Person Continuum.  Get ready. 3.2.1.

-Matt Kalasky
 Editor in Chief
 THE NICOLA MIDNIGHT ST.CLAIRE
  07.08.2011