Artstrada magazine has been alive for as long as men and women have peered into the darkness and wondered about WTF is out there. Because if we shed our fear of the darkness and ignorance, we can make it outside this cave. This prison of the mind. We want to learn from all of our human ancestors and all of our great thinkers and creators now. This is why, with the help of many others along the way, we started putting forth this artistic and reflective magazine of sights, sounds, tastes and smells. Roll with us to our new destinations. See how people live on the other side. See how they think. What they do. How do they escape slavery and create new realities. We believe in answers to these questions. We believe we will gain new insights. We believe that there are levers to pull to create a greater America and world. A world of uncertain times. A world of great bravery. A world of our choosing. -Trinity
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Artstrada magazine has always been an iconoclast in Austin Texas. Whether we are in our familiar play grounds or out in the hills of the Texas Hill Country: We depend on self-sufficiency and creativity to survive. We know how important it is for the human race to seek peace and evolution. Humanity’s own demise hangs in the balance in proportion to its ignorance and apathy. We hope through artistic commentary and creation and collaboration we can help ourselves and others gain their freedom from the abusive and retarding powers of a world gone insane. We love you. You are valued. You will do something amazing. We just know it!. We will make it to the mountaintop!
– Trinity
Artstrada magazine is a Cyber-Punk Vampire Lifestyle magazine
The metaphor of the human race as a vampire. Well, it fits doesn’t it? We want to give, but we take. We want to love, but we destroy. We want to live forever, but we self destruct. Humans are vampires. And now humans are surrounded by the mechanics of our construct. Will we build ourselves out of our self-made prisons? What purchase can we possibly make that will set us free? Let’s talk about this! Let’s create our new reality!
-Trinity
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a “combination of lowlife and high tech” featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
Cyberpunk – Wikipedia
You can change the world. It’s easy. How? The scientist Gregg Braden explains how the universal Law of Attraction works: There is a field around us, a collective consciousness, in which we all participate. This collective consciousness creates our reality. It can be influenced by us through our DNA, by using the power of our thoughts and our heart.
We can use this law on an individual base, but also collectively, to change our world. There’s even a formula of how many participants are needed to achieve a certain effect for a bigger group (for instance peace). This has been proven scientifically, through experiments. For changing the whole world population this would only take 8,000 participants.
The power of visualization is a gift from God for mankind to take fate into our own hands, and not having to stand by and watch powerlessly. So, let’s accept this gift gratefully, and use it!
Primary figures in the cyberpunk movement include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Bethke, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley. Philip K. Dick(author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, from which the film Blade Runner was adapted) is also seen by some as prefiguring the movement.[21]
Blade Runner can be seen as a quintessential example of the cyberpunk style and theme.[7] Video games, board games, and tabletop role-playing games, such as Cyberpunk 2020 and Shadowrun, often feature storylines that are heavily influenced by cyberpunk writing and movies. Beginning in the early 1990s, some trends in fashion and music were also labeled as cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime and manga:[22] Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop being among the most notable.[22]
“Cyberspace.
A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
“We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
“We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
Vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today’s gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century.
Vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures; the term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism.[1] Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania.
In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body’s process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited.[2][3]
The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of “The Vampyre” by the English writer John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century.[1] Bram Stoker‘s 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu‘s 1872 novel Carmilla. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, television shows, and video games. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre. #WIKI
Dracula, Prince of Many Faces reveals the extraordinary life and times of the infamous Vlad Dracula of Romania (1431 – 1476), nicknamed the Impaler. Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even today, Vlad Dracula was surely one of the most intriguing figures to have stalked the corridors of European and Asian capitals in the fifteenth century.
by Radu R. Florescu,
Raymond T. McNally
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-Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
“None of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.”