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Happy Halloween 2012

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Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love the costumes, candy, trick-or-treating, parties, haunted houses, jack-o-lanterns, and pumpkin seeds. Even when I got too old to do the neighborhood rounds, I still made sure to watch a horror movie on this most wonderful of holidays.

It was our school Halloween festival in sixth grade. Everyone wore costumes. I have always tried to wear a new costume every year. For my first Halloween I was a clown. Later on I was a wizard, a dog, and a grim reaper. This particular year I decided to do a classic. A ghost. The white sheet over the head with the eyes cut out. I figured everyone should do that at least once in their lives.

There was a costume contest, divided into categories. You know… scariest, funniest, best duo. When it was your category’s turn, you had to walk around as the entire school judged you. I decided to try out for the most original category.  After all, ghosts are one of the original characters of Halloween. You can’t get more original than vampires, witches, and ghosts. They were there from the beginning, the very “origin” of Halloween.

Needless to say, I soon realized the people were laughing at me, saying I wasn’t original. Clearly, I had misunderstood the meaning of the word. I’m not even sure if they knew it was me under that sheet, but I was traumatized by the experience. Nevertheless, All Hallow’s Eve remains my favorite holiday. That’s why in addition to this confession you also get some rather spooky art and music. Happy Halloween to all Interopians, wherever you are.



Meet the Interopia Team

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Trent, musician
Rock star and songwriter, he just wanted a place to showcase the music he was writing. He didn’t know that so many of his friends would come on board with their own contributions. But he is thankful for them. Their ideas are in line with his own, so he lets them help. Now even he doesn’t know what to expect anymore.

Liffey, lister
Viewing Interopia as a repository for the lists he is constantly creating, he particularly likes those lists related to music, movies, and art. He enjoys all sorts of statistics, records, superlatives, numbers and limits. One specific areas of interest is geography: countries, maps, populations, etc. He currently lives as a teacher and student of languages and life.

Dr. Tiwtta, researcher
A genuine PhD holder who has attended Cornell, Princeton, AND Harvard, Dr. Tiwtta acts as advisor to the group. He is most interested in subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, dinosaurs, sharks, undersea life, cats, robots, computer programming, codes, artificial intelligence, the environment, aviation, rockets, astronomy, planets, and black holes.

Ghoteman, guru
A shaman who spent decades in silent isolation, he only recently returned from his spiritual journey, one which brought him to all seven of the planet’s continents. His interests appear to be meditation, time, movement, change, God, sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, ghosts, magic, creation, dreams, light, time travel, dualities, destiny, fate, nostalgia, and synesthesia. He’s responsible for most of the artwork on the site. He creates it upon waking from hypnogogic states.

Fenix, sadist
Fenix is an evil daemon, and he’s also one of the editors over here at Interopia. He is most interested in serial killers, genocide, mass murderers, nuclear weapons, disease, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.

Barnopulis, dreamer
Even he will admit to be a connoisseur of the absurd. Barnopulis is constantly coming up with new ideas. Usually they are just random and weird, but every now and then they are genius. He’s unemployed and spends most of his time ingesting hallucinogens, marijuana, and alcohol. He’s always whispering in people’s ears.

A love of travel binds them together. Trent and Dr. Tiwtta enjoy road trips and seeing the world. Ghoteman enjoys exploring the realms of the mind. And Fenix likes to teleport between concentric dimensions. At the moment, the group is based in Saigon, Vietnam, so that’s why you’ll see a lot of Vietnam-related content on the site.

Somehow, their collaboration works. The disparate personalities making up the group are the reason why Interopia covers so much ground: lists, original music and art, travel and education-related material. Even though they are all so different from one another, they still manage to come together to create something greater than the sum of its parts, in the most unexpected of ways.

From all of us here at Interopia.com…welcome.

Pedestal

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From now on at Interopia we will be posting original music just as much as we have been posting original art. You can already hear some music on the Music page above. Our music is also posted at the Interopia SoundCloud page. Today’s new track is (as the title of this post would have you believe) called Pedestal:

P.S. Interopia now has a GoPro Hero2 camera. With it, the scope of the site expands. Expect to see lots of new videos, including those from our Streets of Saigon project, through which you will be able to experience life in Vietnam’s biggest city…and beyond.