Do You Have
o the left of you is an ad for The City's Dream Gallery in Jersey City in the form of a slideshow thanks to the fact that this is an online magazine and many features are available to the team here at Sid's Opened Lid (SOL) that would't normally be in the print version. This does not mean we will stick to solely online issues of the magazine. We hope to add print versions available for our subscribers within the next 6 months, but will keep the online zine as an option because of all the awesome stuff it offers, like this ad to the left.
SOLcannot be marginalized into the definiton of a literary or art magazine and so would be best described as a journal for the poeple involved in visual and perofmring arts by choice.
Everyone featured in the ad to the left and in this magazine as a whole has a SOLfor you to feast your eyes, which will star-burst from all the eyecandy found in here, and ears, which will ejaculatory juices mixed with wax seeping out, on.
What does it mean to have SOL?
SOL is an intagible object which is found around people who simply create without holding back. It is that something which you can feel is present when you are hearing a piece of music or looking at a piece of art which tells you that the creator does not care what you think and simply jumped into the creative process with an idea in mind and no sense of direction. SOL is what gives that initial idea a direction.
SOL originated in the mind of sid when it was sealed closed. It was there where it was nurtured until one day sid's lid opened and along with it SOL began to seep out. The juices flowed and eventually covered Sid's eyes. This caused Sid to be able to tell who had SOL and who didn't. It was a SOL detector. From then on Sid stayed away from those he could not sense a SOL around becasue of the danger they represented to him.
Boredome, brain decay and washing, drowning in pop culture, and being attacked by waves of exagerrated emotions were all possibilites around the SOL-less, and ever since Sid strayed from their path. He has found one where he is riding a wave of SOL's which carry him towhat he is looking for, be it the shore, an exhibition, a publishing company, or this magazine.
Abe Elgindy
Editor in Chief
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An Introduction to Sid's Opened Lid As A Magazine
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